In the Parrot's Beak in West Africa, help for refugees and displaced people depends on the goodwill of at least three governments and one rebel group.

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Outside Wirathu's office at the New Ma Soe Yein monastery hangs a large poster of him gazing heavenward next to a dove with an olive branch in its beak.

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Evans continued his fine performance with two more successful penalties after the beak, with Vesty replying for Bath in between, as the second half began to get niggly with a number of flare-ups.

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He opened the coop and stuck his hand in toward the fierce creature inside, eyes yellow, beak sharp as a cat's claw, trilling a warning so low it was almost a growl.

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With two porthole windows that look like eyes set just above four small red tile awnings that look like a beak, two wings and a tail, the architecture of the nondenominational church in the city of Madeira Beach uncannily resembles a cartoon chicken.

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But after a lifeboat rescue, the endearing creature - which looks like a giant head, and has a parrot-like beak, no tail and two giant dorsal fins - is settling down to life at the Blue Planet Aquarium in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.

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