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		<title>Trump has become the victim of his own conspiracy theories</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (21st July, 2025)]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The FOREVER prisoners still shackled in Guantanamo 14 years after Obama said it would be shut</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th August, 2023) On his second day as US President, Barack Obama signed an order directing that the Guantanamo detention camp should [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (9th August, 2021) Twenty years after lethal attacks turned aircraft into weapons and sparked the so-called war on terror, the US has slunk [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Capitol riots reach beyond Trump</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (11th January, 2011) John McCain was one of the most decent Republican leaders this century. He was a man who proved his strength [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A light shining through darkness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (14th October, 2019) History is a harsher judge than people appointed by Norway’s parliament, but there have been some terrible picks over 118 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Does Donald Trump deserve the Nobel Peace Prize?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2018 09:46:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th May, 2018) When Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office 16 months ago, he promised ‘the hour of action’ had arrived. For [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Air strikes only expose the West&#8217;s weakness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2018 14:56:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (16th April, 2018) One year ago the newly-elected president of the United States was watching cable news when it showed distressing images of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by CapX (12th April, 2018) There is one fact that everyone can agree: the war in Syria is utterly appalling, an eruption of hell that stains humanity. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A president guided by television news and emotional whims</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 17:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The ipaper (10th April, 2017) Even in the whirlwind world of Donald Trump, last week’s events were mind-blowing. It began with the 45th president of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Theresa May must make a lonely stand against Putin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2017 13:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The ipaper (2nd January, 2017) Thirty months ago I stood in a cornfield amid rolling hills of eastern Ukraine, surrounded by shattered human bodies. Men, women, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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