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The move was not a ban on protests but "about restrictions and conditions", Mahmood said, adding that repeated large-scale pro-Palestinian protests had caused "considerable fear" for the Jewish community.

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The group includes about 30 employees, according to one member who asked not to be identified out of fear of retribution.

Emergency workers were continuing to search for people feared trapped under rubble.

From BBC

Scenes like that don’t strike fear in anyone; they just expose the buffoonery behind the bravura.

Despite fears of deportation, his teams have continued to show up.

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

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