The government also invested heavily to fight cybercrime, in an attempt to make the U.K. a safe port.

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They would like to see it flow from Baku, on the coast of Azerbaijan, west to the safe Turkish port of Ceyhan.

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With 1, 800 security personnel and three police stations at the port, officials maintained the port was safe.

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"She was very bold, " said Ensler, who at Merlet's insistence brought her play "The Vagina Monologues" to Haiti and helped establish safe houses for women in Port-au-Prince and Cap Haitien.

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"We believe we have a strong case - the Port of Ramsgate is inadequate for the safe and humane handling of live animal exports, " it said in a statement.

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"Really, the safe thing to do was to tow the vessel back into port rather than re-energize the power system that was damaged by fire, " he said.

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Neritan Ceka, the energetic interior minister, has made road travel along main routes relatively safe by daylight and captured a bunch of criminal leaders in the southern port of Vlora, the hub of Albania's mafia.

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Every port and airport was placed on full alert, and it seemed safe to assume that if Harling left the country he did not do so by any means of public transportation, unless under a convincing and ingenious disguise.

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Giel Mans, a diamond-dealer suspected of luring investors with the promise of riches from profiting from diamond investments, pleaded with a Port Elizabeth Magistrate judge to release him on bail, telling the judge that a safe-deposit box in London contained diamonds worth millions of dollars that could be used to repay his investors.

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