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International cooperation vital to fight terrorism

  Four people were killed when a knife-wielding man went on a killing spree, driving car into the pedestrians before stabbing a police officer on the parliament compound. The assailant was shot dead by police just yards from entrances to the building itself. People from 11 countries were among the victims and more than 40 people inflicted catastrophic injuries. The ...

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An oasis of liberty in the Arizona sun

  As a boy, Barry Goldwater Jr., son of the former senator and 1964 Republican presidential nominee, would step out of his father’s house and shoot at tin cans 50 yards away. Now 78, he says he could fire in any direction and not endanger “anything but a cactus.” His father, born in 1909 in Arizona territory, three years before ...

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Europe’s murky path to normal monetary policy

  Much like a father holding the hand of his anxious son through a dark alleyway, the European Central Bank is striving to give markets guidance over how it will normalize its monetary policy. The ECB has told investors that it intends quantitative easing to continue at a pace of 60 billion euros a month from April until the end ...

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