In August 2011 a joint major crime investigation team, made up of officers from the Surrey and Sussex forces, was created.

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The charge is equivalent to a hate crime under Oklahoma law, according to Partners Against Hate, a joint project of the Anti-Defamation League, the Leadership Conference Education Fund and the Center for Preventing Hate nonprofit groups.

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Mr Verhofstadt's crime, it seemed, was that he talks too much: at previous joint appearances, he had not allowed Mr Prodi to get a word in edgeways.

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In a 1999 poll conducted by the Joint Centre for Political and Economic Studies, blacks were twice as likely as whites to cite crime, violence and drugs as the most important problems facing the country.

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Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, said she was crafting a bill that would make it a federal crime to sell tickets to the historic event.

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Made up initially of one prosecutor from each member state, Eurojust is seen by pro-integrationists as the start of a joint European prosecution service - just as they regard Europol, which co-ordinates investigations of cross-border crime, as the first step towards a European police force.

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