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Nov 2015
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Paris atrocity exposes European security...

Financial Times
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The Paris terror attacks have exposed Europe's security and intelligence shortcomings and fulfilled officials' worst fears about blow back from Syria's bloody civil war. Ben Hall discusses the attacks and their implications with Sam Jones, defence and security editor, and Roula Khalaf, foreign editor.

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