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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (6th May, 2024) The mood was very tense as the votes were recounted in Coventry, then totted up in Sandwell. Then came the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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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 (26th February, 2024) Adam Kinzinger used to be a mainstream Republican. He is an evangelical Christian and former US Air Force colonel who [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (20th November, 2023) From the moment Hamas terrorists went on their murderous rampage in Israel, Joe Biden sought to tie together two seismic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[Published by The i paper (14th November, 2023) David Cameron is back in frontline politics. These are words I never expected to write. His return as Foreign Secretary [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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