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“But when there is overreach, when lives are threatened, when rights and freedoms are targeted, we will take action.”

In Salonga, bonobos are relatively safe from the deforestation and commercial hunting that threaten their existence elsewhere.

The court heard the 45-year-old had previously threatened to kill his partner by setting her on fire and had kept petrol at his property, but she did not believe him.

From BBC

As Dax tries to get back to his normal life, a past trauma threatens to upend more for him than MI6’s machinations.

In his first term, Trump threatened to deploy the U.S. military and National Guard in response to the Black Lives Protests across the country.

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

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