To begin with, state-of-the-union speeches are not as important as political types maintain.

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The United States -- along with members of the European Union and the Arab League -- have offered other types of help, though, such as communications equipment and humanitarian aid.

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Alma Roper, a leader of the union representing the city's operators, said usually the operator asks questions and types the answers where they're automatically passed along to dispatchers.

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Many European Union states (and even some non-EU countries in Europe) have various types of anti-hate speech legal mechanisms, in part to head off terrorism and far-right violence.

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In France or Germany, these types of argument touch deep insecurities about the war and the need to buttress peace by "ever closer union".

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