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May 2022
30m 34s

Worlds apart: 24 hours with two refugees...

Al Jazeera
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An Iraqi Kurd and a Ukrainian, part of families with young children, take us through a day in their lives as refugees.

This story is written by Amandas Ong and Nils Adler.

 

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