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Over the past year, Pakistan has dramatically stepped up its efforts to encourage the estimated 2 million Afghans living in the country to return home.

The US has dramatically stepped up airstrikes against al-Shabaab in Somalia since Donald Trump took office, carrying out at least 47 such strikes last year.

Over the last two years China has dramatically stepped up land reclamation work on reefs and atolls it claims in the Spratly Island chain in the South China Sea, also claimed by the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam and Brunei.

Since Xi Jinping took power nearly five years ago Beijing has dramatically stepped up its efforts to control Chinese academia, with the president last year calling for universities to be transformed into Communist party "strongholds".

North Korea has dramatically stepped up its production of molybdenum, a rare mineral that can be used in hi-tech industrial production, including as an alloying agent in steel and cast iron, for corrosion resistance and for radiation shielding.

It's been just days since Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. left China, but already in the last two weeks, China's government has dramatically stepped up the appreciation of its currency, allowing it on Thursday to push through an important level against the dollar for the first time.

These kinds of attacks are not new in Colombia's 38-year-old conflict, but the rebels have dramatically stepped up the pace of the aggression and their selection of targets appears increasingly audacious.

BRUSSELS — Russian submarines have dramatically stepped up ­activity around undersea data ­cables in the North Atlantic, part of a more aggressive naval posture that has driven NATO to revive a Cold War-era command, according to senior military officials.

During the past two years authorities have dramatically stepped up security and surveillance there, likened by critics to near martial law conditions, with armed police checkpoints, re-education centres and mass DNA collection.

The author of the petition, Peking University economics professor Christopher Balding, said he hoped it would serve as an alert to how China had dramatically stepped up its efforts to stifle free thinking since Xi became its top leader in 2012 and began a severe crackdown on academia and civil society.

Stung by media exposes of farmers market cheating, Los Angeles County officials have dramatically stepped up enforcement, bringing in Ed Williams, deputy director of the Los Angeles County Agricultural Commissioner's office and an experienced agricultural sleuth.