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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (24th April, 2024) The wily Rwandan leader Paul Kagame has shown great skill at fooling gullible Western politicians into supporting his dictatorship, whether [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (30th June, 2023) What a fine start to the day. First came a forceful report from the Conservative-dominated Privileges Committee condemning the Boris [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (14th March, 2022) One night last week I found myself without anywhere to stay. This was unsurprising: I was in a city in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (31st August, 2020) Hala has known nothing but conflict and chaos all her life. She was eight years old when her nation was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (17th August, 2020) Waleed Neysif was 18 years old when American forces began bombing Baghdad. He spoke perfect English, played in a heavy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (9th March 2020) The scenes of squalor and stories of despair had a sordid sense of familiarity. On Friday night I stood at [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th March, 2020) Having fled one of Syria&#8217;s many bloodstained battlegrounds, Muhammad spent years struggling as a refugee in southern Turkey. Last week, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Times (22nd January, 2019) More than 25 million people are refugees, forced to flee their homelands by conflict, drought or disaster. For all the hysterical [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th July, 2018) I drove past tavernas filled with tourists looking out over fishing boats bobbing on the blue sea, then down [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The Mail on Sunday (3rd June, 2018) When United Nations chief Antonio Guterres begged the world to help Uganda deal with &#8216;the biggest refugee exodus in Africa [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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