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Meet the woman who calls war zones home

Lyse Doucet is a proud Acadian woman who was born in a small town in Canada and went on to become the BBC’s chief international correspondent - having just the other week returned from reporting in Iran. She's spent her career on the ground in some of the most dangerous and infam ...  Show more

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