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• truthdigAn investigation has found that British police or security forces supplied personal information to major construction companies.
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An investigation has found that British police or security forces supplied personal information to major construction companies.
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China usually holds its military hand very close to the vest-things “mysteriously” leak that it doesn’t (does) want the world to know about--so we wonder why the People’s Republic has decided to publish this in the journal Advanced Materials Research
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