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A long walk to freedom

Wednesday 23 September 2015

"A little Syrian boy appears between the legs of a line of Hungarian police. He grips a dirty plastic bag of bread rolls and is clearly lost", writes AFP reporter Helen Percival. "Standing in the rain, he quietly looks up at the officers. The police gesture to a family climbing on a nearby bus headed to a migrant camp, asking if he belongs to them. They firmly shake their heads and move on."

"All the while, in the shoving and confusion, the little boy looks on as the rain falls. With barely any hesitation, the police lift the boy onto the bus, the doors close and the bus pulls away."

"That was 45 seconds at Röszke migrant collection point in Hungary."

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The long wait in Vienna

Wednesday 15 July 2015

"''You're still here?' It’s a sign you’ve been away a long time, when even the hotel receptionist is surprised to see you at breakfast," writes Helen Percival as she wraps up her coverage of the marathon Iran nuclear talks in Vienna. "That was nearly two weeks after I arrived, and several days before the talks concluded with a deal more than a decade in the making. But of course we didn’t know that at the time."

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