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Since 2020, an extreme and exceptional agricultural drought has gripped north-east Syria and parts of Iraq.

Magistrate Judge A. Joel Richlin, he had one hand cuffed in front of him while the other gripped a cane.

The mood around England seems increasingly gripped by a sense of drift, a holding operation with Carsley as the front man while Tuchel strangely waits in the wings before taking charge.

He gripped the handlebars, closed his eyes and “got zen,” as he says.

Australian scientists have solved a mystery which has gripped Sydney: what were the sticky dark blobs which washed up on some of the city's famed beaches last month?