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But experts on US media and defamation law say the president faces significant obstacles to winning such enormous damages from a lawsuit against the BBC, partly due to strong US press freedom laws.

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Swiss researchers meanwhile have enabled several paralysed people to regain significant control of their body -- including walking again -- by implanting electrodes into their spinal cords.

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Nvidia has said smuggling doesn’t occur on a significant scale and disputes figures showing a capacity crunch or need for the company’s products in China.

“It is obviously expected that a significant slowdown in the U.S. economy will become apparent once data publication resumes,” the commodity analyst adds.

Officers responding to the collision found two women “in the roadway with significant, life-threatening injuries,” a Fullerton police news release said.

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