• In fact, they were being led into an undercover operation in an attempt to catch a violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).

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  • By breaking the fragile status quo prevailing since the spring of 2012, it triggered the current French-led military operation in an attempt to avoid a complete collapse in Bamako.

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  • Bill finally got his operation at the fifth attempt - two months after surgery was first scheduled, and nearly six months after cancer was originally diagnosed.

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  • That operation expanded to an Israeli attempt to install a pro-western government that was willing to sign a peace treaty with Israel.

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  • Who now recalls Operation Lucy, the first attempt to investigate black-on-black crime, which was disbanded in 1989 against the advice of many of the detectives who worked on it?

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  • Both Mr Ramirez and Gen Angeles were investigated as part of Operation Clean-up, an attempt by former president Felipe Calderon to eradicate corruption within the Mexican security forces.

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  • He gave warning to Colombia's president that any attempt to mount a similar operation in Venezuela would lead to war and he ordered his defence minister to send ten battalions, including armoured units, to the border.

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  • Many protesters believe that Erdogan is playing to his base of culturally conservative voters, a strategy in line with his views as a pious Muslim as well as one that protestors see as an attempt to divert attention from the operation in Uludere.

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  • But history shows that minting developed not as a private-sector attempt to minimise the costs of trading, but as a government operation.

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  • Co-operation between the Bolivian and Argentine police is expected to continue, in a broad attempt both to regularise the situation of adult illegal immigrants and to repatriate minors.

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