This year, the dog days of summer proved to be more greyhound than basset hound.

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Exiled opposition leader Abdel Basset Sayda told AFP news agency that rebel fighters would halt hostilities when government forces did so.

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Then there is Deborah Basset, environmental activist and supporter of Sea Shepherd, an international NGO that hunts down whaling vessels with its very own navy.

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Scottish authorities jointly investigated the bombing with the FBI, identified Abdel Basset Megrahi, tried and convicted him, and sentenced the 48-year-old to die in jail.

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Patrick Basset of Accor says his firm's 15 hotels in Vietnam already employ 3, 000 people and he expects the staff to double in the next three years.

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The annual Trevithick's Dance leaves Basset Street at 2.30pm with almost 100 adults dressed in the traditional Cornish colours of Black and Gold, dancing behind Camborne Town Band.

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The popular Steam Parade will leave Basset Road at 3.15pm.

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"The definition of terrorism is now very broad, " says Basset.

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Project co-ordinator, and PowerSmart MD, Mike Basset-Smith said that the move represented a "milestone of huge importance" for Tokelau, as it would now be able to spend more on social welfare.

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That means no tattooing a boxer's nose to make it more black, no braces for a pointer to straighten its teeth, no removing a basset hound's inner eyelid to improve its appearance.

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