Railway lines and some major roads leading into the city were blocked.
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Some protesters blocked railway lines; others scuffled with police wearing riot gear.
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Yet in Europe motorways, railway lines and waterways criss-cross the continent.
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The vast majority of China's high-speed railway lines, however, are loss-making.
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Balda felled trees onto railway lines north of Prague causing two trains to derail.
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Kazakhstan has spent over 1.1trn tenge ($3.2bn) on upgrading its railway lines and rolling stock since 2011.
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Fed by two suburban railway lines and perilously close to the Mumbai airport, Dharavi has lured developers, too.
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China exploits his weakness, increasing its military presence around Scarborough Shoal without building any railway lines in Mindanao.
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Only five EU countries have happier passengers (and most of them are in countries without many railway lines).
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First, there is a lot of unused land next to railway lines, where solar panels could be placed.
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Other bauxite miners are based further inland and are constrained by a lack of railway lines to the coast.
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There are over 100 different railway lines in Tokyo, and most of them are privately held by competing companies.
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Some power had been restored to homes by Sunday while a portion of suspended railway lines resumed operations, CCTV said.
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The collapsed section fell mostly onto railway lines below and trapped vehicles beneath huge blocks of rubble, officials told AFP.
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The company also said that the start up of two new railway lines should add between eight to 10 trains.
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They built railway lines that took them just far enough out of the cities to feel they were experiencing rustic life.
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Islam said scores of people had instead camped on embankments, railway lines and highways, where traffic has come to a standstill.
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Large chunks of Israel's infrastructure projects, including ports, railway lines and tunnels, are being carried out by Chinese companies these days.
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The new rail blockade is located at a junction of three busy Canadian National Railway lines, for both freight and passengers.
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Chinese overcapacity means it needs to export some of its iron and cement by building roads, airports and railway lines, she adds.
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An estimated 3,200 flights were cancelled, state broadcaster CCTV reported, although some suspensions on high-speed railway lines were lifted on Sunday.
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An example is the Belt and Road Initiative, a scheme to connect the world with railway lines, telecommunications networks and other infrastructure.
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The track lies between two railway lines, not far from the iconic Maracana soccer stadium where the Olympic opening ceremony was held.
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Airlines canceled more than 100 flights, while demonstrators also disrupted traffic on some of the main railway lines and roads of Catalonia.
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Over 3,200 flights were cancelled since Saturday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, although some suspensions on high-speed railway lines were lifted on Sunday.
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Even before the Civil War, the North was more industrialized than the South, as you can see from this map of railway lines.
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Over 3,200 flights were canceled since Saturday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, although some suspensions on high-speed railway lines were lifted on Sunday.
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Three of rail operator Aurizon's four railway lines in the region were closed and BHP, was assessing the extent of disruption to shipments.
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Train companies have been running reduced services, as they were forced to slow down to prevent railway lines from buckling in the heat.
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Many Chinese projects in Kyrgyzstan are focused on transportation — mostly railway lines and roads — but there's another sector that may catch Beijing's eye.
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Infrastructure, like new railway lines, could be installed to link cities and create greater connection for people working or looking to expand business.
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A plan to develop new railway lines in the greater Paris region should increase demand for the commercial land that it has rights to.
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One 37-year-old suspect was sought by Spain for allegedly carrying out arson and other attacks on banks and railway lines in 2007.
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Residents were left grappling with the wreckage of days of battering, including collapsed bridges, damaged railway lines and entire beaches wiped away by waves.
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In the two years leading up to D-Day, these brave women blew up railway lines, ambushed Nazi troops and the Gestapo, and gathered information.
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It said Beijing has 22 urban railway lines and that more than 10 million passengers ride the city's subway trains on an average working day.
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Television channels showed roads and railway lines in Bihar submerged, with people wading through chest-high, brown, churning waters, carrying their belongings on their heads.
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Train and truck freight thefts have soared too as criminals employ ever more sophisticated methods to terrorize the nation's network of railway lines and highways.
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China's state broadcaster said on Sunday more than 3,200 flights had been canceled but that some suspensions on high-speed railway lines had been lifted.
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Television channels showed roads and railway lines in Bihar submerged, with people wading through chest-high, churning brown waters, carrying their belongings on their heads.
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Under the Silk Road plan, China and Pakistan are planning to build $57 billion worth of power plants, port facilities, railway lines and roads in Pakistan.
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Seine-Saint-Denis is popular with immigrants because of its location and efficient transport links, including the railway lines heading toward the North coast, and Britain.
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China has about 121,000 km (75,186 miles) of railway lines in operation, Xinhua said, more than 19,000 kilometres (12,000 miles) of which are high-speed railways.
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She runs on a 400-metre track, marked out by her brother in an unused field by the railway lines near her home in N Puthur village.
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OBOR will span 65 countries (see map), and China has so far invested over $900bn in projects ranging from highways in Pakistan to railway lines in Thailand.
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Seven metropolitan railway lines have been planned but only three have been built since work began in the early 1980s, and the connections between them are poor.
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On Monday protesters tried to enforce a "general strike" in response to Mr Chow's death by blocking streets and railway lines and throwing petrol-bombs at trains.
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A footbridge, weakened by the rain, partially collapsed in the western suburb of Andheri, blocking train services on one of three main railway lines into the city.
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Demonstrators from the Jat caste blocked roads and railway lines, torched buses, shops and homes, and switched off the water supply to the capital's 18 million residents.
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Annual growth in the volume of freight delivered over China's more than 100,000 kilometres of railway lines has tapered each month since end-2017 as domestic demand has softened.
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And yet, across the United States, coal executives are pushing forward on more than a handful of new coal projects, including mines, export terminals, railway lines, and power plants.
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On Wednesday, demonstrators blocked dozens of roads and railway lines across Catalonia as part of a general strike protesting the recent jailing of former members of the regional government.
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Canada's Liberal government said it was deeply concerned about protests by aboriginal activists that are blocking some key railway lines but rejected a call to send in the police.
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His replacement, Simon Wright, is a former director of Arup, a pioneering engineering firm; Howard Smith, the operations director, was responsible for knitting suburban railway lines into the London Overground.
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In north Denver Lexington watched young activists hit gritty streets bounded by railway lines and a roaring highway, bearing Spanish brochures hailing Mr Sanders as a son of poor immigrants.
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China is running out of useful places to build shiny airports and high-speed railway lines at home, and wants its own global brands to vie with Boeing or Apple.
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As the project has advanced, protesters have engaged in acts of civil disobedience, including suspending themselves above railway lines or chaining themselves to cement-filled drums to block rail lines.
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WITH its forbidding bulk and high walls, the former hostel for immigrants stands out amid the abandoned factories and jumble of railway lines of Brás, in the heart of São Paulo.
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There, in halls and sheds situated along railway lines, people dance to reggae, punk rock, dancehall, hardcore, metal, rap, hip-hop and techno in clubs with names like Cassiopeia and Suicide Circus.
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Beijing is pushing ahead with plans to invest in 6,800 kilometers (4,225 miles) worth of new railway lines in 2019, a 40 percent jump from the length of tracks laid last year.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Commuters facing a summer of disruption on New York City-area railway lines took to social media Monday to ask for prayers, gripe about delays and bemoan sluggish service.
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The attack is likely to raise concern about a planned China Pakistan economic corridor (CPEC), involving $46 billion in Chinese investment in roads, power plants, railway lines and a new port in Pakistan.
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Automatic systems are used on most of Italy's railway lines, but have not yet been installed in some areas, especially in southern Italy, which is less developed and less prosperous than the north.
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MADRID — A powerful winter storm in Spain has killed at least 10 people after battering the country for days, destroying bridges, cutting off roads and railway lines and flooding vast swaths of farmland.
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In recent weeks, protesters have blocked railway lines in Ontario, Quebec and Alberta in solidarity with a British Columbia aboriginal band seeking to stop the construction of a gas pipeline over its land.
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Railway sector-linked stocks such as Kalindee Rail and Alstom jumped on media reports which said India's Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs had approved the construction of six railway lines and a railway bridge.
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President Muhammadu Buhari, on Saturday in a speech marking Nigeria's independence day, said GE was "investing $2.2 billion in a concession to revamp, provide rolling stock, and manage" some of the country's railway lines.
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Soon after the sanctions were lifted, India said its firms could spend as much as $20 billion on not just the port but also petrochemical plants, railway lines and other industries in the areas.
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A third complained of a brief period of gridlock around the railway lines in the northeastern Chinese city of Jinzhou as police shut off roads, likely to ensure security as Kim's train passed through.
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Ukrainian nationalist groups have blocked three of the seven railway lines that are used for trade between the two breakaway regions and the rest of Ukraine, in what the nationalist groups called a blockade.
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The weather delayed or halted traffic on several railway lines and slowed road traffic, with a fallen tree blocking one highway just outside of the capital, Prague, the website of newspaper Mlada Fronta Dnes reported.
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Not only is it physically impossible to replicate the amount of infrastructure built over the last 10 years - there are, after all, only so many airports and high-speed railway lines that even China needs.
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One of the big uncertainties, however, facing all Balkan countries, is the flood of refugees at border crossings, railway lines and roads as they quit Syria, Iraq and troubled parts of north Africa and Afghanistan.
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It has already signed two deals worth around $5 billion with China Civil Engineering Construction Corp (CCECC), part of China's state-owned railway construction firm, to modernize several railway lines, the Nigerian Transport Ministry has said.
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Today, more than 25,000 families live in 10 urban poor settlements around Phnom Penh - perched over swamps and sewage canals, squeezed alongside railway lines or, in the case of Smor San, sharing space with the dead.
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L>, the world's biggest exporter of coal used to make steel, declared force majeure on Wednesday for coal deliveries from its mines in Australia's Bowen Basin after a cyclone damaged railway lines, disrupting delivery to ports.
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Pakistan views CPEC, a combination of infrastructure projects ranging from road networks, a fiber optic cable project, railway lines, a deep-sea port, coal mines and solar farms, as a huge opportunity to develop its economy.
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Transnet, which operates gas pipelines, railway lines and ports in South Africa, will lead the project after the World Bank's International Finance Corp pledged $2 million to help finalise the design, finance, construction and operation plans.
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I loved wilderness; I loved the riverbanks and the disused railway lines that in summer became green tunnels; I loved the nearby beaches in Northumberland, where you could walk for miles and not meet a living soul.
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The Maps being developed for self-driving cars get ever better; that said, in Britain we found that the Train has not only kept a-rollin', but is rollin' anew on railway lines unused for half a century.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's QCoal on Tuesday became the second miner to declare force majeure in the wake of Cyclone Debbie, as the deadly storm's damage to railway lines in the country's northeast disrupts exports and pushes coal prices higher.
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The corridor includes a range of infrastructure projects -- road networks, a fiber optic cable project, railway lines, a deep-sea port, coal mines and solar farms, and it's seen as a huge opportunity by Pakistan to develop its economy.
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Ajay Dixit, Chief Executive of Vedanta's aluminium business, told Reuters that protesters disrupted production at the 1.9 million tonnes per annum refinery by blocking railway lines supplying bauxite and burning the front gate and other parts of the premises.
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The railway lines that rush, or chug, into the world's cities all give you that universal: the constant intermingling, and disentangling, of rich and poor, local and visitor, native and migrant, young and old; the enriching diversity and grating inequality.
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MUMBAI, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Many businesses in the Indian financial hub of Mumbai closed on Wednesday as protesters from a low-caste community blocked traffic and shopping malls and staged sit-ins on railway lines after clashes with right-wing Hindus.
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Wuhan is a hub for several major high-speed railway lines that link it to China's major cities; Beijing is four hours away by train, while it takes 4½ hours to reach Hong Kong, and Shanghai is almost six hours away.
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Third-rail systems tend to be employed in urban railways because they are easier and cheaper than making tunnels and bridges large enough to accommodate overhead cables—and the railway lines of southern Britain have plenty of low bridges and tunnels.
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Grade crossings are particularly dangerous because the railway lines are at the same level as the road, and all it takes is a split-second mistake for a driver to make a bad turn and get stuck on the tracks.
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Indigenous communities across Canada have been blocking some key railway lines for nearly two weeks in protest against the Coastal GasLink pipeline in British Columbia, which has forced Canada's biggest railroad, Canadian National Railway Co , to shut operations in eastern Canada.
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BANGKOK, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Thailand's cabinet approved construction on Tuesday of three dual-track railway lines worth a combined 55 billion baht ($1.57 billion), part of a larger infrastructure push by the military government as it seeks to boost sluggish economic growth.
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Suhail Shaheen, spokesman for the Taliban&aposs political office in Qatar, said in a statement to The Associated Press that discussions covered everything from international troop withdrawal to peace prospects to possible Uzbek-funded development projects that could include railway lines and electricity.
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Lufthansa has set up a new division within its consulting unit, Lufthansa Aerial Services, in order to enter the growing market for commercial drones for tasks such as inspecting runways, planes and installations such as wind farms, railway lines and construction sites.
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It then laid out several steps to help prevent train-elephant accidents, including building underpasses beneath railway lines for the animals, and telling passengers not to throw food out of the windows, as that encourages hungry animals to linger along the tracks.
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CAPE TOWN, Oct 4 (Reuters) - South Africa's state-owned freight logistics group Transnet will invest an additional 84 billion rand ($6 billion) over the next three years to increase capacity at ports and railway lines, the Department of Public Enterprises (DPE) said on Wednesday.
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In a letter to India's railways minister this year, a group of wildlife activists urged the government to take action in areas with large elephant populations, for instance by building underpasses beneath railway lines for the animals, and instructing passengers not to throw food out of windows.
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Both, as it happened, were to be found under his nose at a druggie, clothing-optional motel complex blocks away from Sunset Tower in West Hollywood, a cluster of bungalows erected in the late 19th century as housing for workers laying railway lines to the coast.
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The Tories also controlled spending, so the likelihood of the other alternative — big fiscal stimulus in the form of heavy borrowing, and investment in infrastructure projects like railway lines, hospitals, tech ventures, and schools — is still pretty low, even if it is an idea gaining traction in economic circles.
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Yet the war was also a tale of forces beyond the power of any leader, however well-read; of nations and continents not as trains on history's railway lines, run by drivers and switchmen, but as rafts tossed about on history's ocean, dipping at most an occasional oar into the waves.
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Priorities, according to Mr Dominguez, include better airports and railway lines around the country, notably in Mr Duterte's underdeveloped home island of Mindanao, and between Manila, Subic Bay and Clark—raising the possibility of a new international airport at Clark to relieve congestion at the abysmal one that serves Manila.
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"The railway operator warns users of the game that searching for Pokemon in railway areas is not a safe endeavor," BDZ said in a statement, adding that trains cannot stop quickly to avoid people or vehicles on railway lines Pokemon themselves are in no danger because they don't actually exist.
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You move your character, Yarny, who's made from a single (extendable) thread of yarn, from left to right across a range of terrain, from an overgrown backyard to a seashore, onto a mountainside and across railway lines, through a scrapyard and thick snow, on a quest to basically collect memories.
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Dodge past the cigarette hawkers and camera crews on the entry road, swing a right before crossing the railway lines, follow a mildly malodorous line of port-a-potties until they peter out, and that's where you'll find Tamer: frying chicken, mixing yoghurt-tahini sauce, and barking orders to his eager cohort of line chefs.
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