The Egyptian authorities resealed their country's border with the Gaza Strip , but failed to persuade Hamas to sign up to a previous agreement whereby Egypt, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, which is run by Fatah, a rival Palestinian group, would oversee the border and crossing point.

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The immediate object of the latter is to establish "parallel societies" for Muslims whereby they would be governed, not by the laws and regulations of the Western nation in which they reside, but by Shariah.

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Reinsurance is a process whereby an insurance company spreads its risk by transferring a portion of a policy's liability to another insurer, which keeps part of the premium.

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