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In Germany, the government must clear up a legal limbo to allow the police to shoot down threatening drones.

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The victims, all between 16 and 18 years old, suffered non-life threatening wounds and were taken to hospitals.

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Maybe this is part of why the prospect of someone else cutting off a family member seems so threatening or upsetting.

It is claimed that the boy was "threatening and abusive" to Amen three days earlier, by brandishing a sword and metal barrier and shouting and swearing.

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Beijing tightened its control over sectors crucial to making high-tech products including electric vehicles and jet fighters, threatening to reignite trade tensions with the U.S.

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

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