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Speaking to the BBC, presidential spokesman Sunday Dare would not say whether money had been paid to free the minority of abductees who were recently released, simply stating: "Whatever processes are involved - kinetic, non-kinetic, negotiations, etc - have been successful."

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Much of the price of oil, however, is “out of the president’s hands — outside of enforcement of sanctions and potential kinetic military actions that could escalate supply risks,” he said.

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Except when the air force uses the combative kinetic security approach, details of the circumstances under which hostages are released are rare.

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According to the authors, the kinetic energy associated with earthquakes can influence both the chemistry and the biological makeup of aquifer fluids.

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In “Task”—a kinetic journey into a disregarded America, low-rent organized crime and justice wrested from madness—Mark Ruffalo was an ex-priest turned FBI agent, which was not even close to preposterous as handled by creator-writer Brad Ingelsby.

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