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		<title>Vital rewilding or utter insanity? Debate rages over the freed bears terrorising Italian villages</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (15th September 2024) The mountain village of Caldes, surrounded by forests below the jagged peaks of the Alps, has been officially recognised [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Daily Mail (16th July, 2023) The shock news arrived without warning in January: Michela Leidi was being officially cancelled as the mother of her daughter [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by Tortoise (17th December, 2019) Elisabetta Paci spent a year planning to take her own life after deciding her departure from the world would be best for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (13th May, 2018) First came the smell, an acrid stench of ammonia clinging to the breeze as I walked through the dark [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Times (6th March, 2018) If there is one clear message from the Italian election, it is the howl of anger against a political system seen [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2018 11:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (5th March, 2018) The temperatures are below freezing with snow falling, but how sunny the view must seem for Vladimir Putin as he [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th August, 2016) Two British teenagers orphaned in Italy&#8217;s earthquake spent all day calling the mobile phones of their parents in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by Mosaic &#38; The Daily Telegraph magazine (24th June, 2016) A few days before I visited the rather scruffy Hospital of Saint Anna and Saint Sebastian in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Independent (23rd February, 2014) The statistics and stories are so extreme they barely register any more. In just five days, 4,200 migrants were plucked from [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A sick British hostage and torture by Taser</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2014 16:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (7th September, 2014) The British aid worker threatened with beheading by Islamic militants in Syria has been so desperately ill that his [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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