Now Israel's airport authority is trying to explain how the knife got through what is vaunted as a fail-safe security system.

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Mr Johnson is often vaunted as a possible successor to the Conservative leader, although he is not currently a Member of Parliament.

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The Catalans, for instance, seem set to stay in Spain, but hope to use their vaunted status as a European region to play Madrid off against Brussels.

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