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Inside Britain's most segregated city: Areas where nearly half the adults can't speak English, restaurants with women eating behind curtains and deprived streets where imported religious warfare threatens to break-out... DAVID PATRIKARAKOS

His kofia, the flat cylindrical hat favoured by Somali Muslims, gleams white as he picks me up at the station. A flowing kameez tunic gathers in his lap beneath the steering wheel.

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How boy slaves are being dressed as girls and forced to dance for leering Taliban men... before being raped: DAVID PATRIKARAKOS lifts the lid on the horrifying tribal custom flourishing in Afghanistan after it was abandoned by the West

Young boys gyrate awkwardly to the music. Their faces are impassive, drained of feeling.

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Ukrainians used to spit at deserters... now they sympathise with them. With 6,000 soldiers absconding every month, brutal press gangs roam the streets seizing new 'recruits'. DAVID PATRIKARAKOS on how battle-weariness is taking its toll

It must feel strange to be hiding from your own army but that's exactly what Yuri is doing. Ever since he escaped from his Ukrainian barracks late one night, he has been too scared to go out in publi…

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