"She was very bold, " said Ensler, who at Merlet's insistence brought her play "The Vagina Monologues" to Haiti and helped establish safe houses for women in Port-au-Prince and Cap Haitien.

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Neritan Ceka, the energetic interior minister, has made road travel along main routes relatively safe by daylight and captured a bunch of criminal leaders in the southern port of Vlora, the hub of Albania's mafia.

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The government also invested heavily to fight cybercrime, in an attempt to make the U.K. a safe port.

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"We believe we have a strong case - the Port of Ramsgate is inadequate for the safe and humane handling of live animal exports, " it said in a statement.

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Giel Mans, a diamond-dealer suspected of luring investors with the promise of riches from profiting from diamond investments, pleaded with a Port Elizabeth Magistrate judge to release him on bail, telling the judge that a safe-deposit box in London contained diamonds worth millions of dollars that could be used to repay his investors.

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