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Immigration / Policy / Syria / World

Open our borders to Syria’s refugees

Published in The Independent (September 12th, 2013) Azad Sino fled with his wife and two children from the Syrian city of Aleppo nearly two years ago, when the […]

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Europe / Politics / Russia / Syria / World

We must end this UN ‘paralysis’ over Syria

Published in The Guardian (September 9th, 2013) One thing was clear from the diplomatic disaster of the G20 summit in St Petersburg: western leaders are fed up with what […]

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Politics / Syria / World

We wring our hands as poison spreads

Published in The Mail on Sunday (August 25th, 2013) More than 100,000 Syrians lie dead. One-fifth of a 22 million population has been displaced. Yet even a few months […]

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Africa / Bahrain / Egypt / Libya / Politics

A coup, contortions and a confused foreign policy

Published in The Independent on Sunday (August 18th, 2013) As rivers of blood flowed in Egypt this week, the frightening crisis in a wounded nation turned even more […]

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Jordan / Syria / World

Revealed: The schoolboy who sparked the Syrian revolution

Published in The Mail on Sunday (April 28th, 2013) It was a typical day for the teenagers, with school followed by a game of football – no different […]

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Africa / China / Environment / Gabon / Policy / World

The British professor fighting to save Africa’s elephants

Published in The Mail on Sunday (March 24th, 2013) As we set off from our overnight camp in the jungle, the patrol leader turns, gesticulating with  a machete […]

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Jordan / Syria / World

Inside Syria’s cauldron of despair

Published in The Mail on Sunday (March 10th, 2013) As she sat inside a huge hangar, Nagham recalled the moment when any last vestiges of childhood innocence were […]

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Haiti / World

In Haiti the UN’s behaviour is far cry from being conscience of the world

Publish in The Guardian (March 4th, 2013) Imagine if a multinational company went to one of the world’s most impoverished countries and, while saying it was there to […]

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Arts / Books / Haiti / World

Natural disaster, man-made hell

Published in The World Today (February 8th, 2013) The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster by Jonathan […]

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Arts / Books / Italy / World

Lothario who seduced a nation

Published in The Observer (3rd February, 2013) The Pike: Gabriele D’Annunzio – Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett (Fourth Estate) When Liane de Pougy, one […]

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Afghanistan / Africa / Aid / Mali / Politics / World

Save lives Mr Cameron, but don’t imagine you need to save Africa

Published in The Independent (February 2nd, 2013) This week, the Prime Minister went to Africa.Struggling to achieve anything at home thanks to the shaky state of her coalition, […]

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Africa / China / Politics / Rwanda / World

The man who turned amorality into an art form

Published in The Daily Mail (January 12th, 2013) When Tony Blair visited Beijing a few weeks ago to open a prestigious conference on philanthropy, he showed he had […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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