But a local expert, Yahya Ould el-Bara, says these incidents do not make a concerted threat.

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Joe O'Bara had just returned from a fishing outing when he went into his daughter's room.

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Kathryn McCloskey and Joe O'Bara married in 1948, a promising young couple eager to start a family.

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The protesters shouted anti-military slogans and called on the army to end its operations in the Bara area.

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For Bara, this new world of social dynamism is all about context and the experience a brand like GoldieBlox can deliver.

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In the village of Bara, about 40 miles south-west of the state capital Patna, families sit listlessly in the shade of their mud-walled homes.

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"They entered our houses and killed our relatives to avenge the killing of six security personnel in the same area of Bara on Monday night, " Shabbir, a former Frontier Corps paramilitary, told the AFP news agency.

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To find out more about these problems, and the European Commission's forthcoming proposals on changing the rules, the Record:Europe spoke to Glenis Willmott MEP from the UK Labour Party and Luiza Bara , director of policy and strategy for the European Public Health Alliance.

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Using Victorian machinery means the flour produced has to be wholemeal (to make brown or white, for example, would involve sifting out the bran, a process beyond traditional watermill technology), which goes into such products as the home-baked bara brith, a Welsh fruitcake made with dried fruit soaked in tea.

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