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For some time now, officials have been warning about so-called “burglary tourism,” in which theft rings from South America have traveled to the United States to target homes in affluent neighborhoods.

Assuming the hostage and prisoner exchange is completed, the officials said the intention was for a so-called International Stabilisation Force to be built, although this was yet to be agreed between the sides.

And that means all of us investors need to stress test our so-called risk tolerance sooner rather than later.

However, the viewer should also bear in mind that real boot camps aren’t likely to have such sympathetic superiors — and maybe even fewer of them henceforth, if our so-called Secretary of War has his way.

Made up of thousands of islands, the Philippines sits in the so-called Ring of Fire, a seismic arc of volcanoes and fault lines around the Pacific basin that also includes Indonesia and Japan.