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The 150 passengers hail from a wide-range of countries, including Turkey whose foreign ministry called the intervention "a grave violation of international law" and "an act of piracy".

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Conservative MP Esther McVey told party members that Thatcher would be "spinning in her grave" at GB Energy, the new company set up by Labour to invest in green energy projects.

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“I view today’s decision as yet another grave misuse of our emergency docket,” she wrote.

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According to these records, Gein began grave digging in the aftermath of his mother’s death.

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What are the factors that have enabled him to live for so long, as the fan magazines would have it, beyond the grave?

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

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