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Taleb

/ ˈtælɪb /

noun

  1. (in Afghanistan) a member of the Taliban

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Nabil Taleb, an economist at PwC UK, said: "Months of high borrowing and the political challenge of cutting spending have all but wiped out the chancellor's headroom."

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Fifty-year-old Taleb al-Abdulmohsen was arrested at the scene, but the suspected attacker's motives remain unclear.

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Officials say Taleb Al-Abdulmohsen, was an "untypical" attacker.

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It is against this backdrop that Germany appears to have dropped the ball with Taleb al-Abdulmohsen.

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Part of the explanation for this may lie in the fact that Taleb al-Abdulmohsen was granted asylum by Germany in 2016, one year after the former Chancellor Angela Merkel threw open her country's borders to let in more than a million migrants from the Middle East, and 10 years after al-Abdulmohsen had taken up residence in Germany.

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