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Khrushchev angrily rejected Kennedy’s right to impose a quarantine, comparing Americans to lawless pirates.

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A Reform UK spokesman said the report was proof "that Britain is lawless".

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No state suffered more from the Biden team’s lawless war on fossil fuels than Alaska.

Scam compounds have flourished in Myanmar's lawless borderlands, staffed by foreigners -- many of them Chinese -- who often say they were trafficked and forced to swindle people online, part of a multibillion-dollar illicit industry.

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Experts say most of the centres, notorious for their romance scams and "pig butchering" investment cons, are run by Chinese-led crime syndicates working with Myanmar militias in the lawless badlands of the Golden Triangle.

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

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