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Freed workers from Asia, Africa and elsewhere showed AFP journalists the scars and bruises of beatings they said were inflicted by their bosses.

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"Yet even to Iran, whose regime has inflicted so much death on the Middle East, the hand of friendship and cooperation is open," he told the Knesset.

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He added that the Israeli military had deployed booby-trapped armored assault vehicles, which inflicted damage not only to structures above ground but also to water wells, underground piping and sewage pumps, not to mention roadways.

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But when they include organized-crime units assigned to sow chaos and inflict harm abroad, the risks go up.

We have been given a unique opportunity to right the wrongs inflicted by the pharmaceutical industry.

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