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In one message Bilel Saadaoui had sent Mr Hussein a link to a news report that a number of Jewish people had been killed in a bridge collapse, and he added the hashtag "Beloved Palestine".

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Four people have died after a six-storey building which was being refurbished partially collapsed in the centre of the Spanish capital, Madrid.

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Now, Johnson is documenting the supposed collapsing civic order in cities on behalf of the White House.

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Meaning cash-neutral for teams like the Dodgers — and the New York teams, Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs — still reeling in big bucks amid the collapse of regional sports networks outside large markets?

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The UK's most senior prosecutor has said a case involving two men accused of spying for China collapsed because he could not obtain evidence from the government referring to China as a national security threat.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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