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Old 18th July 2014 | 12:13
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barit1
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Bueno Hombre:

Is it that Malaysia completely ditched UK law and now everything no matter how serious is only to be called an incident ?
INCIDENT - noun

1.an individual occurrence or event.
2.a distinct piece of action, or an episode, as in a story or play.
3.something that occurs casually in connection with something else.
4.something appertaining or attaching to something else.
5.an occurrence of seemingly minor importance, especially involving nations or factions between which relations are strained and sensitive, that can lead to serious consequences, as an outbreak of hostilities or a war: border incident; international incident.
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