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Interview'No new New York': How France aims to support a postwar Gaza

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Lindsey Graham, US senator from South Carolina, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. EPA

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A Syrian Kurdish fighter rides in a vehicle near a frontline position in Hasakah on Saturday. Getty

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British-born Shamima Begum, from Bethnal Green in London, was persuaded to join ISIS in Syria aged 15 in 2015, and is detained at Al Roj camp. Getty Images

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Barham Salih, a former president of Iraq, took up his post as UN refugee chief this month. Photo: World Economic Forum

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