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"We're the laughing stock of the rest of the world, because I don't know a single other country where this would be allowed to happen."

"God is the greatest, glory to God, Lord of worlds," echoed through mosques at roughly the same time Friday, one week after a ceasefire took place in the devoutly Muslim coastal Palestinian territory.

The trio hatched their plans online and are not believed to have met in the real world before they appeared together in the dock at Sheffield Crown Court in central England.

The International Chamber of Shipping, representing more than 80 percent of the world's fleet, expressed disappointment.

However, their vantage point on the health of the world economy has been clouded since the start of the month by the lack of available official data due to the ongoing US government shutdown.