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On Saturday morning at the United States Grand Prix, McLaren Formula 1 boss Zak Brown said he expected the climax to the world championship fight this year to be "brutal".

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The first murder of the series was all the more brutal because the pair weren’t just on-screen competitors - they are actually friends outside the show.

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu approved the ceasefire but is under pressure at home to restrict access to Gaza until the remaining bodies of the hostages taken during Hamas's brutal attacks have been returned.

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The dollar is flat, after a brutal selloff earlier in the year.

Still, every time the left breaks through, the backlash is swift and brutal.

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

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