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Bid to target 'vulture funds'

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MPs have backed a private member's bill designed to curb so-called "vulture funds", which buy and sell loans made to some of the world's poorest nations, and then claim the money back from international debt relief financed by taxpayers. Parliamentary correspondent Mark D'Arcy reports on how the funds were denounced as repugnant.

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