Input: We are ashamed of them." However, Mutko stopped short of admitting the doping scandal was state sponsored." We are very sorry that athletes who tried to deceive us, and the world, were not caught sooner. We are very sorry because Russia is committed to upholding the highest standards in sport and is opposed to anything that threatens the Olympic values," he said. English former heptathlete and Athens 2004 bronze medallist Kelly Sotherton was unhappy with Mutko's plea for Russia's ban to be lifted for Rio

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Input: I thought, wow, it must be a replica,” he said. The man says he heard the perpetrator shouting: “Allahu Akbar … The Russians will be hanged like this. The Russians will be slaughtered.” The woman was dressed in black “like Muslims,” but her face was open, Manzhesov recalled. “I thought she just went mad … When I saw the head I started shaking … I saw the child’s face and blood coming from it.

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Input: They all fly the Maltese flag. In addition to Russian accusations, Syrian Information Minister Omran Zoabi also recently alleged that Turkey downed the Russian bomber over Syria in November in response to the destruction of hundreds of truck oil tankers sent to Turkey from Syria by the ISIS. The information minister alleged that oil smuggled into Turkey was bought by the Turkish president’s son, who owns an oil company. Mr al-Zoubi said in an interview, “All of the oil was delivered to a company that belongs to the son of Recep [Tayyip] Erdogan. This is why Turkey became anxious when Russia began delivering airstrikes against the IS infrastructure and destroyed more than 500 trucks with oil already.

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Input: "This could mean a three-party alliance, rather than two-sided alliances [of the US and Japan, and the US and South Korea], and this would pose a damaging threat to the stability of Northeast Asia," Song said. If South Korea drifts into the orbit of the US and Japan, China's influence on the Korean peninsula could be badly compromised. At a military parade in Beijing to mark the 70th anniversary of the surrender of Japan last September, South Korean President Park Geun-hye was the only American ally present, standing with President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin. A few months later, the US and Seoul announced they would deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, system. Its stated purpose is to counter North Korea's missile threat, but it could also be used to watch China.

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Input: On Saturday 15 October (2016), this report notes, the SVR reported to the MoF that Hillary Clinton and John Podesta met with JP Morgan Chase & Company CEO Jamie Dimon at Clinton’s Chappaqua Compound outside of New York City — and who, in 2009, both President Obama and Hillary Clinton allowed to break US laws by his, Dimon’s, being able to buy millions-of-dollars of his company’s stocks prior to the public being told his JP Morgan bank was receiving a Federal Reserve $ 80 billion credit line — and that caused JP Morgan’s stocks to soar and that have had an astonishing 920% dividend growth since 2010. Within 12 hours of the Hillary Clinton-John Podesta-Jamie Dimon meeting at the Chappaqua Compound, this report continues, the BIS registered the transfer of $ 1.8 billion from the Clinton Foundation to the Qatar Central Bank. To why the Clinton Foundation transferred this enormous sum of money to Qatar, this report explains, is due to the longstanding ties between this Islamic neo-patrimonial absolute monarchy and then US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who “oversaw / managed” the “massive bribery scheme” that allowed this Gulf State nation to secure the 2022 World Cup — and that the Qataris were so appreciative of they donated millions to the Clinton Foundation, and incredibly, in 2011, gave former US President Bill Clinton $ 1 million for a birthday present — bringing Hillary Clinton’s total “cash grab” from these Persian Gulf sheiks of $ 100 million — all occurring as recently released secret emails revealed Hillary Clinton’s knowledge that both Qatar and Saudi Arabia were, and still are, funding ISIS. To what Jamie Dimon “related / said to” Hillary Clinton that caused her to suddenly transfer $ 1.8 billion to Qatar, this report notes, revolves around his JP Morgan bank being told by the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in April (2016) that this “megabanks” master plan to save itself had “serious deficiencies” that could “pose serious adverse effects to the financial stability of the United States”. Two months after the FDIC’s warning letter to Jamie Dimon, in June (2016), this report says, he cryptically “sounded a warning” that the United States sub-prime auto loan bubble was nearing collapse and stated that “someone is going to get hurt”.

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Input: Assad’s recent military advances around Aleppo – Syria’s second city – have largely been enabled by the ferocity of Russian airstrikes against opposition positions. There is scepticism that the ceasefire will hold due to the difficulties in marking out what territory is covered, and the way in which some opposition groups are interwoven with al-Nusra Front. The Syrian government stressed the importance of sealing the borders, halting foreign support to armed groups and “preventing these organisations from strengthening their capabilities or changing their positions”, in order to avoid wrecking the agreement. Assad believes Turkey has acted as a supply line for foreign fighters supporting both the “moderate” opposition and Isis. Turkey has welcomed the ceasefire plan, but is under pressure from the UN to allow entry to tens of thousands more refugees massed on the Syrian border.

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Input: The text of the code makes it clear that, unless you are receiving money for your work from a campaign or a political committee, you are n’t subject to regulation. Moreover, material I obtained from a Freedom of Information Act request I made via MuckRock for the documentation and discussion surrounding code § 18215.2 suggests that the rule was kept narrow in scope by design. Bloggers and social media users in California do not have to register with the FPPC in order to write about politics, and so far, no team of government regulators has been employed to police writing online. The only practical outcome is that a writer online who is being paid by a California super PAC is required to disclose that relationship to his or her readers. A federal regulation similar to the one adopted by the FPPC would make the technique that Correct the Record is apparently employing far more innocuous by requiring disclosure.

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Input: ARA News TEHRAN – The Iranian regime has executed dozens of opposition activists across the country by hanging them to death in public squares, local sources reported on Sunday. Iranian security forces last week arrested over 40 young activists, and executed at least 27 of them. “The authorities did not announce the real reason behind the execution of those people. It said they were a group of drug dealers, but this is a baseless charge fabricated to misguide international rights organisations.

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Input: “This is all very calculated,” one of her advisers told me. “Ivana is very shrewd. She’s playing it to the hilt.” Many floors beneath the Trumps, Japanese tourists roamed the Trump Tower lobby with their cameras. Inevitably, they took pictures of the display of Trump’s familiar portrait from the cover of his book Trump: The Art of the Deal, which was propped on an easel outside the Trump Tower real-estate office. The Japanese still took Donald Trump to be the very image of power and money, and seemed to believe, as Trump once had, that this red-marble-and-brass monument was the center of the world.

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Input: Republicans frequently trace the birth of Islamic State to the Obama administration’s decision to withdraw the last U.S. forces from Iraq by the end of 2011. But many analysts argue its roots lie in the decision of George W. Bush’s Republican administration to invade Iraq in 2003 without a plan to fill the vacuum created by Saddam Hussein’s ouster. It was Bush’s administration, not Obama’s, that negotiated the 2009 agreement that called for the withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Iraq by Dec. 31, 2011. Clinton posted on Twitter that Trump's comments are disqualifying." Anyone willing to sink so low, so often should never be allowed to serve as our commander-in-chief," she wrote.

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Input: “It’s a tool for Russia to maintain its influence when it’s much more difficult to do it via ordinary economic tools,” Kreko said. The efforts to pull Europe toward Russia go far beyond courting individual political parties, officials and analysts say, although those tools remain important. In Eastern Europe, leaders suspect the Kremlin of funding environmental groups that oppose measures that would make their countries less dependent on Russian energy. Across Europe, Kremlin-backed media outlets Russia Today and Sputnik News have made aggressive expansions into local-language European media markets in the past two years, pushing an aggressively pro-Russian line that sometimes has only a loose relationship to the truth. In January, for example, Russia’s state-run First Channel reported that a 13-year -old Russian-German girl had been gang-raped by migrants in Berlin.

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Input: Defense Secretary Ash Carter has repeatedly stated U.S. military freedom of navigation operations would continue in the South China Sea. President Obama met with Chinese President Xi on the sidelines of the 50-nation nuclear summit in Washington on the last day of March. In a statement provided by the White House, President Obama “urged China to address differences with its neighbors on maritime issues peacefully.” In the last two years, China has created 3,000 acres of artificial islands atop reefs hundreds of miles south of Woody Island in the Spratly chain of islands. One runway was tested in January, when two commercial airliners landed at Fiery Cross Reef.

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Input: Investigators say nanny killed young girl and set flat on fire before being detained at metro station Police have detained a nanny on suspicion of murder after she was found at a Moscow metro station holding the severed head of a child. The woman, believed to be from central Asia, can be seen in video footage holding up what appears to be a severed head near Oktyabrskoye Pole station in north-western Moscow. In the video she is covered in black except for her face and she can be heard shouting “for a terrorist, for your death”.

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Input: The overwhelming gravitational force of the American two-party system delivered to Trump an endorsement from a former rival he had once called “Liddle Marco,” taking care to spell out the insult to his jeering supporters. (“ L-I-D-D-L-E. Liddle, Liddle, Liddle Marco.”) And it brought the endorsement of another whose wife he labeled ugly and whose father he insinuated may have conspired to assassinate JFK. A party that can contain, on the one hand, a presidential nominee who denounces shadowy global financiers and media elites and, on the other, Sheldon Adelson (who has donated millions toward his election) can withstand enormous internal tension. Trump will probably lose. That loss will provide little more than a temporary reprieve.

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Input: The new study says that since 2008, 221 to 450 snow leopards have been poached every year, maybe even higher. James Compton, an author of the study, says, We think that what most observations, seizure records and expert opinion shows is that the majority is still happening because of retaliatory killing. He adds, “One of the major interventions to stop that is better protection for livestock, in some of these very remote areas where you have nomad communities and herds of livestock, because that’s where the friction takes place.” More than 90% of the poaching was recorded in China, Mongolia, India, Pakistan and Tajikistan.

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Input: :: History Of Deadly Attacks In France One, Laurence Olding, was with his fiance and jumped over a promenade wall onto the concrete below to avoid the truck. Emerging from hospital in bandages he said:" There was debris in the streets, people lying injured or dead in the road." Video: Hollande On ' Horror ' Of Attack Two Americans-Sean Copeland and his 11-year -old son Brodie from Texas-have been confirmed among the dead, a US official said.

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Input: The company allegedly recruits men online through military-themed chatrooms. In a record of one such conversation obtained by Sky News, a man reaches out to Wagner and answers a few basic questions about his physical fitness and any potential legal issues before being asked to "come to Molkino," a small town that's home to a special forces base. According to Alexander, Wagner isn't highly selective when it comes to recruits, but the training, which lasts for a month or two, is intense, and how the men end up serving depends on their level of military experience. The two men said authorities are covering up the deaths by reporting the men as missing, or having their records say they died elsewhere. Dmitry, who is now back in Moscow and says he's one of about 50 former Wagner troops in the city, gave up his personal identification when he signed up to serve.

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Input: She hammered away at Pakistan’s “persistent ‘hate India’ campaign,” which she blamed for the two previous India-Pakistan wars. Then she gave an expansive denunciation of Pakistan. Since its creation, it had jailed or exiled rival politicians. Many of its regions, like Baluchistan and the North-West Frontier Province, sought autonomy. (India, she claimed, had always shown some forbearance toward its own separatists – something that might have come as news to the Nagas and Mizos.)

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Input: As I started looking into Page, I began getting calls from two separate “corporate investigators” digging into what they claim are all kinds of shady connections Page has to all kinds of shady Russians. One is working on behalf of various unnamed Democratic donors; the other wo n’t say who turned him on to Page’s scent. Both claimed to me that the FBI was investigating Page for allegedly meeting with Igor Sechin and Sergei Ivanov, who was until recently Putin’s chief of staff — both of whom are on the sanctions list — when Page was in Moscow in July for that speech. So the question continued to linger: Who is Carter Page? * * *

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Input: Where the London-based activist group said that at least 42 ISIS fighters had died. In the onslaughts ISIS committed killings of whole families for their cooperation with Syrian Army troops, according to Reuters, with some of those killed being beheaded. The residents in the area of the massacre called al-Bagilya, had received Russian humanitarian aid earlier. Sputnik news quoted a local in the area as saying: “The horrific massacre carried out today by ISIL militants in al-Bagilya in Deir ez-Zor.

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Input: NATO member Turkey hosts American troops and warplanes at its Incirlik Air Base, an important staging area for the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State militants in neighboring Iraq and Syria. The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Joseph Dunford tried to soothe strained ties with Turkey during a visit to Incirlik and Ankara just over a week ago. In Ankara he inspected the damage inflicted by the plotters’ fighter jets on the Turkish parliament building. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to visit Turkey on Aug. 24. Turkish authorities have said the country’s intelligence service has cracked into several smartphone messaging apps that Gulen’s followers used to communicate with each other in the years ahead of the coup attempt and was able to trace tens of thousands of people from the group.

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Input: The chances of intentional conflict are real, as is the possibility of an unintended clash escalating. At the same time, Syria is not essential to the national security of Russia or the United States. It is not without importance, but a defeat or capitulation there will not change the balance of power between them at all. It would of course affect psychological and political perception, but in the long run, perception ultimately comes down to substantial military and economic power. The United States can afford to back off.

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Input: 17 show all In pictures: Turkey coup attempt 1/17 Turkish President Erdogan attends the funeral service for victims of the thwarted coup in Istanbul at Fatih mosque on July 17, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey Burak Kara / Getty Images 2/17 Soldiers involved in the coup attempt surrender on Bosphorus bridge with their hands raised in Istanbul on 16 July, 2016 Gokhan Tan / Getty 3/17 A civilian beats a soldier after troops involved in the coup surrendered on the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey, 16 July, 2016 REUTERS / Murad Sezer 4/17 Surrendered Turkish soldiers who were involved in the coup are beaten by a civilian Reuters

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Input: In the immediate aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing that ripped apart a federal building and killed 168 people, he was dispatched to the city to set up the early stages of the prosecution case, winning plaudits for gathering large amounts of evidence that led to the convictions of both McVeigh and Terry Nichols. He was also central to the prosecution of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. He acquired his passion for being a judge by sitting at the feet of the liberal supreme court justice William Brennan, who was a champion of progressive policies such as opposition to the death penalty and support of abortion rights. Garland has had plenty of opportunity to wield similar progressive influence as chief judge of the DC appeals circuit which, given its location, frequently acts as arbiter in major cases concerning the federal government. Among those were the 2008 judgment from the appeals court, led by Garland, that punched a hole in the Bush administration’s detention of so-called “enemy combatants” in Guantánamo Bay without any oversight from the civilian courts.

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Input: The leaflets carried several messages to the citizens attempting to reassure them that the advancing army "would not target civilians," but warned them to avoid the known locations of Isis militants. The military operation is the most complex carried out in Iraq since US forces withdrew from the country in 2011. Last week, the UN said it was bracing itself for the world's biggest and most complex humanitarian effort following the battle, which it expects will displace up to one million people and see civilians used as human shields.

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Input: Russia has called for a thorough and unbiased investigation into a Saudi airstrike that killed over 140 people at a funeral in the Yemeni capital city of Sana’a, urging punitive measures against all those responsible for the attack. The Russian Foreign Ministry, in a statement released on Sunday, condemned the Saturday airstrike, saying, “It must be thoroughly and impartially investigated; and its organizers and executors must be duly punished.” The Russian statement added that “a repeat of such a tragedy can only be avoided through the cessation of violence and the resumption of a comprehensive political process, where Yemenis themselves determine their future on the basis of corresponding United Nations resolutions and national dialog without any external interference.”

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Input: This is why Turkey became anxious when Russia began delivering airstrikes against the IS infrastructure and destroyed more than 500 trucks with oil already. This really got on Erdogan and his company’s nerves. They’re importing not only oil, but wheat and historic artefacts as well.” Bilal Erdogan denies Russian allegations Bilal Erdogan this week denied continuous Russian allegations that he and his family were profiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from ISIS-held territory in Syria and Iraq, after Russia’s defence ministry said it had proof that the Erdogan family was benefiting directly from this trade.

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Input: According to investigators, police seized a sum of some $ 120 million and € 2 million ($ 2.2 million). “The final amount is unknown. [Police] confiscated a cache only in [Zakharchenko’s] house; it is not yet known how many more assets [he has], but we are working in this direction,” a source told RIA Novosti. TASS quoted police sources who said the money was found in a bag. Read more

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Input: The document, prosecutors said, contained a warning, in capital letters, that said: “This conop [concept of operations] contains information concerning extremely sensitive U.S. planning and operations that will be discussed and disseminated only on an absolute need to know basis.” Martin was not involved in the operation, the government said, and had no need to have the document or know its specifics. [Read the government argument to keep former NSA contractor Harold Martin in jail] Another document found in his car contained handwritten notes describing NSA’s classified computer systems and detailed descriptions of classified technical operations, the prosecutors said. In an interview before his arrest, Martin denied having taken classified material and only admitted to it when confronted with specific documents, prosecutors said.

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Input: In the latest response: Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim blamed a "racist Armenian lobby" for the resolution Armenia's Foreign Minister Edward Nalbandian said it was a "valuable contribution" to the "international recognition and condemnation of the Armenian genocide" German Chancellor Angela Merkel said:" There is a lot that binds Germany to Turkey and even if we have a difference of opinion on an individual matter, the breadth of our links, our friendship, our strategic ties, is great" Armenian ' genocide ' vote ignites press

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Input: Only then did the video come up. Trump offered no apology for his remarks, continuing to insist they were little more than “locker room” conversation. Cooper had to ask Trump five times whether or not he had actually sexually assaulted women before Trump denied it. Clinton pounced. “With prior Republican nominees for president, I disagreed with them, politics, policies, principles, but I never questioned their fitness to serve.

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Input: RELATED: With Disasters Everywhere, It’s Time to Take Foreign Policy Seriously Again In what mental universe other than the president’s does being raised in Hawaii and Indonesia and spending adulthood rising through the academy and U.S. political institutions grant someone a deep (or even superficial!) understanding of Zionism, of the Holocaust, of four wars for survival over 25 years, of unending terrorist violence directed toward civilians, of hijackings and kidnappings and bombings and stabbings, of SCUD attacks from Iraq, rockets from Lebanon and Gaza, incitement and de-legitimization campaigns from Tehran? Conversely, what in President Obama’s life story leads him to comprehend the Palestinians, addicted to enmity and resentment and violence, victims of institutional collapse and official corruption, awash and adrift in the worst movements of the last 100 years, from nationalism to socialism to pan-Arabism to Islamic fundamentalism? Does Obama actually believe that buried in every disagreement with him is an assumption of his inferiority?

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Input: Earlier this year, a U.S. grand jury indicted seven Iranians employed by two Iran-based computer firms on charges of hacking into the U.S. financial sector. In 2015, Obama announced sanctions against North Korea for hacking into Sony Pictures. In 2014, the United States charged five Chinese military hackers for economic espionage aimed at U.S. nuclear, metals and solar industries. A senior U.S. official said the administration is considering other retaliatory steps against Russia, but he declined to identify them. Those steps may remain covert, the official said.

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Input: After leaving the force in 2008, he made it his mission to expose corruption within the department. He created PBSOTalk.com and encouraged visitors to air complaints. On the website, Dougan has published documents such as the probable-cause affidavit in a lieutenant's pain-pill addiction case, purchase orders showing that the sheriff's office spent more than $ 60,000 on barbecue grills, and a copy of an internal-affairs complaint filed against the sheriff. He says the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office has been retaliating against him and others who criticize the department. Now a technology consultant who regularly travels to Russia, Dougan says he made friends with hackers there and sold his website to them.

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Input: Richard L. Campbell, the man accused of sucker-punching a 69-year -old protester outside a Donald Trump rally in Asheville, NC on Monday, is vigorously denying the charge — and has video that his attorney says proves his innocence. Campbell’s attorney, Ruth Smith, spoke exclusively to Breitbart News on Wednesday morning. “She grabbed him … and he did n’t even see her,” she said.

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Input: The files posted over the weekend include two sets of files. The hackers have made one set available for free. The other remains encrypted and is the subject of an online auction, payable in bitcoin, the cryptocurrency. That set includes, according to the so-called Shadow Brokers, “the best files.” If they receive at least 1 million bitcoin — the equivalent of at least $ 550 million — they will post more documents and make them available for free. The set of files available for free contains a series of tools for penetrating network gear made by Cisco, Juniper, and other major firms.

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Input: Damascus has reacted harshly to the bombing of Kurdish militias in northern Syria on Thursday morning by Turkey’s air force, vowing to intervene next time Ankara sends its planes over its border. Read more In a statement, the Syrian Defense Ministry accused Turkey of “flagrant aggression, which targeted innocent citizens,” saying that it considers it “a dangerous development that could escalate the situation.”

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Input: I dislike the symbolism of a wall, but the status quo, where we have large swaths of a wall, death-trap gaps in parts of the desert that are particularly dangerous to cross, and armed guards on patrol, many of them corrupt, isn't exactly a symbol of welcome! It may have more costs than a barrier that decreased instances of agents and migrants meeting. Either way, so long as the War on Drugs continues, there will be drug-smuggling routes that double as human smuggling routes. I am not for totally open borders. While I can't tell you exactly how many immigrants I favor, I can say with confidence that America can easily accommodate the people already living here and the levels of both legal and illegal immigration we're seeing now.

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Input: “I really do believe that, and I believe that most health plans are in it for the long haul,” he added. Large premium increases were also common before ObamaCare. Back then, people could be denied coverage due to preexisting conditions, meaning some people could not obtain coverage for any price. ObamaCare premiums came in about 15 percent below expectations in the first year of the new coverage, in 2014. About 15 percent of ObamaCare enrollees do not receive a tax credit, so they would bear the full burden of price hikes, though they, like other enrollees, can shop around for the best deal.

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Input: The chances of intentional conflict are real, as is the possibility of an unintended clash escalating. At the same time, Syria is not essential to the national security of Russia or the United States. It is not without importance, but a defeat or capitulation there will not change the balance of power between them at all. It would of course affect psychological and political perception, but in the long run, perception ultimately comes down to substantial military and economic power. The United States can afford to back off.

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Input: With no water sources nearby, it would have been a bad place for a settlement, too. In a paper published in the journal Quartär, Thomas Terberger, the archaeologist who led the recent dig, says the burials are evidence of careful planning. “It’s not an accumulation of burials by accident, but a place where they decided to put their dead,” says Terberger, of the Lower Saxony Department of Historic Preservation. “It’s the first evidence of a true cemetery in northern Europe or Scandinavia.” That, colleagues say, makes the spot special.

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Input: Russia suspects Turkey may be secretly preparing to invade northern Syria after Ankara denied a Russian military plane access to its airspace as part of a treaty-mandated surveillance flight on Feb. 3, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement posted on its Facebook page Thursday. By denying the Russian surveillance flight access to airspace along the Turkey-Syria border, Moscow claims that Ankara has violated an international treaty known as Open Skies. The treaty aims to prevent military tensions by allowing nations to observe military deployments within a nation's border. “The Russian Defence Ministry regards these actions of the Turkish party as a dangerous precedent and an attempt to hide the illegal military activity near the Syrian border,” the statement said.

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Input: Trump lied when he said no one cared about the birther issue until recently. Trump lied when he said nobody knows it was Russia that hacked the DNC. Trump lied when he said nobody wants to call Sean Hannity to confirm he was against the Iraq war. Trump lied when he said Hillary could have defeated ISIS by never having it get going in the first place. Trump lied when he claimed Hillary was unable to produce President Obama’s birth certificate (note: she did n’t try — because she did n’t believe it was necessary).

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Input: And in Birmingham, a police officer can go up and give them a fine if one shade was high and one shade was low on the building. Oh, you're not taking care of your [property] — $ 75 fine. And these things would build up, and people would be arrested because they didn't have money to pay the fines, and they'd have a record." Have you ever been arrested?" [on job applications].

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Input: Seth Rich, a 27-year -old data analyst at the DNC, was shot and killed early one Sunday morning last month in what police say was robbery gone wrong. He was killed while walking home in a Washington, D.C. neighborhood that has seen a recent uptick in crime. Rich's murder quickly became a fascination of right-wing conspiracy theorists, including longtime informal Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone, who told NBC News that he has been in contact with WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange. Related: Why Experts Are Sure Russia Hacked the DNC Emails WikiLeaks recently published internal DNC emails that cybersecurity experts say were stolen by hackers working for the Russian government.

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Input: “I believe both those things,” replied Yudkin. “That is exactly the opposite of what my doctor told me,” said McGovern. In a 2015 paper titled Does Science Advance One Funeral at a Time?, a team of scholars at the National Bureau of Economic Research sought an empirical basis for a remark made by the physicist Max Planck: “A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.” The researchers identified more than 12,000 “elite” scientists from different fields. The criteria for elite status included funding, number of publications, and whether they were members of the National Academies of Science or the Institute of Medicine.

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Input: Mike Pence, whose son is in the Marines, said Capt. Humayun Khan died defending his country in the war on terror. He blamed Clinton and President Obama — who was an Illinois state senator when Khan died — for allowing the Middle East to be “overrun” by the Islamic State. Pence said proposals such as Trump’s plan to bar immigrants from certain countries will help reduce military deaths. “Donald Trump and I believe that Captain Humayun Khan is an American hero and his family, like all Gold Star families, should be cherished by every American,” Pence said.

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Input: Calls for Obama to reconsider his approach have been stirred anew by the latest attacks, which included homemade bombs in New York and New Jersey and stabbings in a Minnesota mall. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria took credit for the Minnesota attack on Saturday reportedly carried out by Dahir Adan, a 22-year -old Somali-American who worked at a private security firm. Nine people were wounded in the stabbings; Adan was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer. In New Jersey, Ahmad Khan Rahami, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Afghanistan, was arrested Monday in connection with bombs left in New York City and Seaside Park, N.J. The manhunt for Rahami, arrested after a shootout in New Jersey, instantly gave the GOP standard-bearer new fodder.

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Input: And never mind that Trump spent the first portion of the debate apologizing for a video leaked over the weekend in which he grotesquely bragged about his ability to commit sexual assault because he's a "star." Diving deeply into the gutter, Trump tried to turn the video into a bizarre bank shot attack on Clinton by bringing to the debate women who claim former President Bill Clinton sexually abused them. Trump, who himself faced a rape allegation from ex-wife Ivana Trump and now faces one from a woman who was 13-years old at the time the alleged act occurred (Trump has repeatedly denied the allegations) argues that Hillary Clinton is worse than he is because she attempted to smear and intimidate Bill Clinton's accusers, though the evidence for that smearing and intimidation is thin to nonexistent. Trump also spent the debate wandering around the stage and regularly crowding Clinton's space and glowering over her shoulder like a stalker. When asked by a Muslim-American in the audience how he would deal with "Islamophobia," Trump repeated the debunked claim that witnesses saw "bombs all over the apartment" of the San Bernardino terrorists and failed to report it.

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Input: Oil revenues make up 77% of the country's total revenue, and because of the severe drop in oil prices revenue is down by 23% on the previous year. As a result, for the second time in four months the ratings agency S&P has downgraded Saudi Arabia's debt rating, which makes it more expensive for Saudi Arabia to borrow money. The country is reportedly also asking banks for a loan of up to $ 10 billion (£ 6.8 billion). Lagging behind on diversifying the economy away from oil In an interview with Al Arabiya news on Monday, Prince Mohammed discussed expanding the country's Public Investment Fund to $ 2 trillion (£ 1.3 trillion), up from $ 160 billion (£ 110 billion), adding that it would "become a hub for Saudi investment abroad, partly by raising money through selling shares in Aramco."

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Input: He even suggested that one leaked email, where a Politico columnist asked Podesta to fact-check part of a story he was writing, was evidence this is “a media-rigged election.” Unlike Clinton, Trump’s polling numbers have only nosedived for the last two weeks since The Washington Post reported he once bragged about grabbing women “by the pussy” without their consent. In the last presidential debate, he promised to try to incarcerate Clinton if elected and tried to make an issue out of Bill Clinton’s past sexual misconduct. He also said he had never sexually assaulted anyone — a remark that prompted ten women to publicly accuse him of sexual misconduct. His campaign’s circumstances have only grown more dire since then, which means he’s likely to feel completely liberated on the debate stage.

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Input: REUTERS / Rodi Said HASAKA, Syria / BEIRUT Syrian Kurdish forces took near complete control of Hasaka city on Tuesday as a ceasefire ended a week of fighting with the government, consolidating the Kurds ' grip on Syria's northeast as Turkey increased its efforts to check their influence. The Kurdish YPG militia, a critical part of the U.S.-backed campaign against Islamic State, already controls swathes of northern Syria where Kurdish groups have established de facto autonomy since the start of the Syria war in 2011. Their growing sway has alarmed Turkey, which is fighting an insurgency among its own Kurdish minority. Syrian rebels backed by Turkey said they were in the final stages of preparing an assault from Turkish territory on the Islamic State-held Syrian border town of Jarablus, aiming to preempt any YPG attempt to take it.

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Input: The stunt Ve?er: Border ruling will have consequences in both countries The upcoming decision of the arbitral tribunal on the border between Slovenia and Croatia, regardless of the fact that Croatia's withdrawal from the arbitration agreement is null and void under in Special prosecutor to meet Senate committee leaders Special prosecutor Robert Mueller will hold talks this week with senior Senate Judiciary Committee members to ensure that there is no conflict between his investigation of potential collusion between � Better him than our country �: Keith Olbermann scorches Trump � s � presidency of self-destruction � GQ special correspondent Keith Olbermann on Monday excoriated Donald Trump � s � presidency of self-destruction, � arguing he is � bent on destroying himself and ending his � reign as the leader of the free El � as Has Fun At The Festival Reykjav � k Needs � Do you want this? � � What is it? � � It � s a cheeseburger, I don � t want it, you can have it. � � Oh, thanks. � ...

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Input: “And this year, they will be voting in record numbers, and it wo n’t be for Hillary Clinton, it will be for Donald Trump.” But it’s only the latest example of the unscripted candidate’s sense of humor getting him in trouble in the context of a presidential campaign. Just days ago, Trump stirred controversy at a news conference by encouraging Russia to spy on Clinton and to uncover the 33,000 emails deleted from her private server. After letting the controversy boil for more than a day, Trump and his campaign team attempted to argue that he was joking and not, in fact, nudging a foreign government — described by Trump’s predecessor as GOP nominee as America’s “greatest geopolitical foe” — to spy on his political opponent. In both cases, the carelessness with words carries broad, serious implications — in the political realm and beyond.

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Input: In recent years, they never seemed to touch each other or exchange intimate remarks in public. They had become less like man and wife and more like two ambassadors from different countries, each with a separate agenda. The Trumps had bought Mar-a-Lago only a few months earlier, but already they had become Palm Beach curiosities. Across the road was the Bath and Tennis Club, “the B and T,” as the locals called it, and it was said that the Trumps had yet to be invited to join. “Utter bullshit!

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Input: It is not clear if Ms. Abedin downloaded the emails to the laptop or if they were automatically backed up there. The emails dated back years, the officials said. Ms. Abedin has testified that she did not routinely delete her emails. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Because of the age of the emails, many could be outside the scope of the Clinton inquiry, investigators said.

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Input: July 11, 2016 National Poll with USA TODAY July 11, 2016 Poll Documents: Marginals (PDF) Tables (PDF) Press Release: Poll Shows 61 Percent Alarmed About Presidential Election Paleologos on the Poll: Voters are Deeply Divided and Fearful Statement of Methodology: This survey of 1,000 likely voters was conducted between June 26 and June 29, 2016, and is based on live telephone interviews of adults 18 years of age or older, residing in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, who intend to vote in the general election in November 2016. Quota and demographic information -- including region, race, and age -- were determined from 2010 Census data. Samples of both standard landlines and cell phones were called using a probability-proportionate-to-size method, which means that the phone numbers assigned to each state were proportional to the number of adult residents in each state.

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Input: Hillary Clinton’s Facebook page is being taken over by tens of thousands of people calling her out and up-voting criticisms to the top of her page comments. It appears to be a mix of independents (or no affiliation), green party supporters, libertarians, leftists, Trump supporters, and conservatives in what can only be described as a populist insurrection striking back at all the posts propaganda on her page. No matter what she posts, people are voting up comments wherein she is critiqued on everything from her being funded by financial elites to her desire for a war with Russia. We’ve screen captured some for you just in case. (You know, because Hillary has a tendency to delete things.)

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Input: She has many paths to 270 electoral votes, Trump at the moment has none. All the usual caveats apply. There is a final debate in nine days in Las Vegas. More damaging information could come out about Clinton. External events could shift the landscape in the GOP nominee's favor.

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Input: The U.S. military destroyed Iraq and disbanded without disarming its military. Then it divided Iraq along sectrarian lines and brutalized people for years in prison camps where they were able to organize and plot vengeance. The U.S. armed Iraq, and al Qaeda / ISIS seized those weapons. The U.S. overthrew the government of Libya, and its weapons spread all over the region. And the U.S. armed and trained fighters for Syria, playing into Saudi Arabia's desire for overthrow and now its newfound desire to fight more wars, as well as Turkey's desire to attack Kurds.

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Input: Some 1.1 million refugees settled in Germany last year. In return, Ankara will receive billions of euros from the EU, while its citizens would also be given visa free travel to the Schengen zone, which encompasses most of Europe. The parliamentary vote was originally scheduled to take place a year ago to mark the centenary of the genocide, but due to concerns over the fallout with Turkey, Merkel’s allies postponed the move. The mass killings began on April 24, 1915, when 250 Armenian intellectuals were detained by Ottoman authorities and later executed in their capital, Constantinople, present-day Istanbul. Most of the Ottoman Empire’s Armenians were subsequently displaced, deported or placed in concentration camps, ostensibly for rebelling against the Ottomans and siding with Russia during the First World War.

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Input: In the Tabqa, near Raqqa, ISIS fighters brought a civilian, Abdul-Hadi Issa, into the main square before dozens of onlookers and announced he was accused of spying. A masked militant then stabbed him in the heart and, with the knife still stuck in the man's chest, the fighter shot him in the head with a pistol. Issa's body was hanged in the square with a large piece of paper on his chest proclaiming the crime and the punishment. ISIS circulated photos of the killing on social media. According to al-Talawy, several other ISIS members were killed in the town of Sukhna near the central Syrian city of Palmyra on charges of giving information to the coalition about ISIS bases in the area as well as trying to locate places where al-Baghdadi might be.

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Input: This is about resurrecting the faded dream of a new American century. And what stands in the way of the type of the Neocon dream of global “full-spectrum dominance?” Russia’s nuclear arsenal. Russia is the only nation with an arsenal big enough to withstand the subtle nuclear blackmail of America’s trillion-dollar nuclear “upgrade.” That’s why Russia is concerned about the missile defense systems arrayed on their border. Those systems can knock down retaliatory strikes, thus making a first strike with new nuclear cruise missiles at least theoretically possible. The United States is also using NATO expansion to increasingly encircle a nation that once was America’s geopolitical equal.

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Input: Turkey is focused on preventing the YPG or its allies building on recent advances against Islamic State by capturing the town of Jarablus. The U.S .- backed Syria Democratic Forces alliance (SDF), including the YPG, captured the city of Manbij, just south of Jarablus, from Islamic State earlier this month. Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told broadcaster NTV that northern Syria should not become the domain of one group alone and that a "secure zone", an internationally policed buffer area Turkey has proposed in vain in the past, should be reconsidered. Turkey has been shelling Islamic State positions in Jarablus as part of an effort to help allied Syrian rebels secure it. Rebel sources say they have been mobilizing in Turkey, ready to cross into Jarablus.

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Input: The 62 richest people in the world have as much wealth as the bottom 50 percent of the world, roughly 3.6 billion people. The wealthiest 1 percent of the global population have as much wealth as the other 99 percent of the world's population. For decades, wages of the middle and working classes have remained stagnant in the United States while the top earners have seen their wages grow exponentially. In the United States since the 2008 recession, nearly 99 percent of all new generated income has gone to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. Current trends suggest these enormous disparities in wealth are expanding.

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Input: Advertisement Continue reading the main story Mr. Assange spoke from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has been holed up for four years. Sweden is seeking his extradition for an investigation into sexual misconduct allegations; his supporters have expressed fear that if he is arrested, he could be sent to the United States and prosecuted for publishing leaked documents. After the Democratic chairwoman, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, resigned Monday when Sanders supporters reacted angrily to revelations in the emails that party officials had privately rooted for Mrs. Clinton to win the presidential nomination, Mr. Assange told the news program “Democracy Now!” that he had timed their release to coincide with the Democratic convention. “Often it’s the case that we have to do a lot of exploration and marketing of the material we publish ourselves to get a big political impact for it,” he said.

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Input: Trump tweeted on Sunday, a sentiment he also expressed in posts and during rallies in Maine and New Hampshire on Saturday. The comments raised questions both from Republicans and Democrats about whether he would accept the outcome should he lose to Clinton. Trump said after the first presidential debate in September that he would "absolutely" accept the election outcome. But a few days afterward, he told the New York Times:" We're going to see what happens." He has also urged his supporters to keep an eye on voting locations to prevent a "stolen" election, which some critics interpreted as encouraging them to intimidate voters.

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Input: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, asked at a security conference in Munich on Saturday to assess the chances of the cessation of hostilities deal succeeding, replied:" 49 percent." Asked the same question, his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier put the odds at 51 percent. The complex, multi-sided civil war in Syria, raging since 2011, has drawn in most regional and global powers, caused the world's worst humanitarian emergency and attracted recruits to Islamist militancy from around the world. Assad, backed on the ground by Iranian combatants and Lebanon's Hezbollah in addition to big power ally Russia, is showing no appetite for a negotiated ceasefire. He said this week that the government's goal was to recapture all of Syria, though he said this could take time.

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Input: Scientists have identified an extremely remote chance that this small asteroid could impact on September 28, 2017, with odds of no more than 1-in-250-million. Flybys in 2046 and 2097 have an even lower probability of impact. ' The possibilities of collision on any of the three future flyby dates are far too small to be of any real concern, ' said Paul Chodas, manager of CNEOS. ' I fully expect any future observations to reduce the probability even more. ' Asteroid 2013 TX68 is estimated to be about 100 ft (30 meters) in diameter.

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Input: The French foreign minister has said he will ask the International Court of Justice to investigate possible war crimes in Syria." We do not agree with what Russia is doing, bombarding Aleppo. France is committed as never before to saving the population of Aleppo," Jean-Marc Ayrault said. France and Spain drafted a resolution on resurrecting an agreement on cessation of hostilities in the Syrian conflict which was put before a vote at the UN Security Council on Friday.

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Input: ' You have become so hardened, you have eliminated so many of us. Look I am a suicide bomber, I will die, doomsday will come in a second. ' She pulled the severed head out of a bag and walked near the metro station entrance in north-west Moscow. Video of the dead girl's mother, Ekaterina Meshcheryakova, collapsing in the street upon hearing the horrific news has emerged. She was taken to hospital in an unconscious condition.

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Input: MORE warned that he would order the Navy to open fire on Iranian boats that provoke American ships, days after a high-seas incident that ended peacefully. When the GOP presidential nominee laid out his plan to modernize the military during a Friday night rally in Pensacola, Fla., he took an off-script aside to address his posture toward Iran. ADVERTISEMENT "With Iran, when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats and they make gestures at our people that they shouldn't be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water," Trump said to loud cheers. Rally-goers could be heard shouting "shoot them" as Trump wound up. This week, the Pentagon said seven Iranian attack boats harassed an American destroyer in the Persian Gulf.

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Input: But to the Assad regime, the strike today was no accident. Damascus called it a "serious and blatant aggression.” On Monday, the U.S. and Russia entered a ceasefire agreement in Syria, in part to get humanitarian aid to cities like Aleppo. The ceasefire does not apply to strikes targeting ISIS. How this attack will impact the ceasefire is so far unclear.

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Input: First, her “progressive” base roundly rejected her vice presidential nominee, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia. Then, the chairwoman of her party resigned in disgrace after getting busted colluding against her former rival, independent socialist U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Finally, there’s a new documentary out there exposing Clinton as the mother of all special interest whores.

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Input: It’s all the same to him. Just like aggrieved and aggressive Muslims were all the same to the Kagans on 9/11. Does n’t that make Trump’s persistent suspicion of Muslims a perfect match for the Neoconservative wrecking crew? And then there’s the Iran nuclear deal, which Trump has relentlessly criticized as being so bad that it’s downright suspicious. He said he wants to “renegotiate” immediately after taking office.

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Input: "It has no legitimate use today," said Weber at the Arms Control Association conference." We do n’t need nuclear weapons in the megaton plus range of yield." Senators McCain and Corker disagree with this assessment, calling for a flood of new taxpayer dollars to acquire more nuclear weapons with greater yield. A recent poll shows John McCain losing his reelection bid for a sixth term in the US Senate to upstart Democratic Congresswoman Ann Kirkpatrick by two points, signaling that Arizona voters no longer care for the war hawk’s apocalyptic foreign policy agenda.

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Input: Ukraine has four special-forces regiments and a further unit of its Defence Intelligence Department – a total of 7,000 troops. It also has highly capable airborne troops, part of a mobilised army numbering 200,000, of which 40,000 are always on the country’s eastern front facing pro-Russian rebels. Russian air forces annihilate ISIS oil tankers in Aleppo province In terms of Russian language skills and combating Russian tactics, Ukrainians are world leaders. However, any troop deployment into Syria would be controversial in Kiev, and require a parliamentary vote, with some arguing that Ukraine needs to focus on the rebels who pose a continuing threat in its east, despite the current military deadlock.

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Input: About its properties he knew little. The poison was polonium-210, a rare radioactive isotope, tiny, invisible, undetectable. Ingested, it was fatal. The polonium had originated at a nuclear reactor in the Urals and a production line in the Russian town of Sarov. A secret FSB laboratory, the agency’s “research institute”, then converted it into a dinkily portable weapon.

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Input: In 2011, Clinton joined with “liberal interventionists” in again pushing Obama into a “regime change” war in Libya that led to the overthrow and torture-murder of Muammar Gaddafi – which she gleefully welcomed with the quip, “We came, we saw, he died” – but has since turned the once relatively prosperous North African country into a failed state with the Islamic State gaining another foothold. Both as Secretary of State and since her departure in 2013, Clinton has pressed to escalate the “regime change” war in Syria, seeking a “no-fly zone” that would require the U.S. military to destroy the Syrian government’s air force and air defenses, apparently without regard to the risk that the U.S. intervention could pave the way for Al Qaeda’s Nusra Front and/or the Islamic State to march into Damascus. Though the Syrian “regime change” strategy that Clinton has advocated has failed to oust President Bashar al-Assad, it has transformed another reasonably functional Mideast state into a bloody killing field and driven millions of refugees into what is now a destabilized Europe. In 2014, Clinton also has embraced the neocon-backed coup in Ukraine that has touched off a new and costly Cold War with Russia. Again showing her “tough-gal” side, Clinton likened Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler.

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Input: ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkey and Russia signed an agreement on Monday for the construction of a major undersea gas pipeline and vowed to seek common ground on the war in Syria, accelerating a normalization in ties nearly a year after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan hosted Russia's Vladimir Putin at an Ottoman-era villa in Istanbul for talks which touched on energy deals, trade and tourism ties, defense and the conflict in Syria, where the two leaders back opposing sides." Today has been a full day with President Putin of discussing Russia-Turkish relations ...

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Input: Poll: Clinton Ahead in North Carolina; Virtual Tie in Ohio Other co-conspirators named by Trump earlier in the week included “crooked” public pollsters who showed Trump losing, election officials and “other communities” in swing states threatening to rig ballots, and a “sinister deal” involving Speaker Paul Ryan that Trump did not elaborate upon. It seems everyone is in the dark secret society out to wreck Trump, with the exception of the person caught on tape saying he uses his celebrity status to “grab ‘em by the p --- y.” Or the person who told Howard Stern that his visits to young women’s dressing rooms were a side benefit of owning beauty pageants. Play Facebook

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Input: The AP visited its published address in Beijing and found a beauty parlor. The problem with carfentanil is not limited to the United States. In late June, Canadian authorities seized a kilogram of carfentanil shipped from China in a box labelled printer accessories. The powder contained 50 million lethal doses, according to the Canada Border Services Agency — more than enough to wipe out the entire population of the country. It was hidden inside bright blue cartridges labeled as ink for HP LaserJet printers.

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Input: “I saw her coming out with the head in her hands. I thought, wow, it must be a replica,” he said. The man says he heard the perpetrator shouting: “Allahu Akbar … The Russians will be hanged like this. The Russians will be slaughtered.” The woman was dressed in black “like Muslims,” but her face was open, Manzhesov recalled.

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Input: A square near Amsterdam city hall that had been earmarked for the PEGIDA demonstration had to be shut down shortly before the gathering as police and explosives experts examined what police called a “suspect package.” Only about 200 PEGIDA supporters were present, outnumbered by police and left-wing demonstrators who shouted, “Refugees are welcome, fascists are not!” Dutch riot police detained several people as officers on horseback intervened to separate the two groups of demonstrators. _ _ _ 2:30 p.m.

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Input: Sanders America will not have more people in jail than any other country when he is president. 9:34: Sanders says issues concerning the broken criminal justice system can not be swept under the rug. He says an African-American baby being born today has a one-in-four chance of being incarcerated. He says blacks and whites smoke marijuana equally but four times as many blacks get arrested for it. He says sentencing for blacks re: traffic offenses is four times as high for blacks than whites.

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Input: The settlement was to settle a failed 1979 arms deal in which Iran paid for weapons that were not delivered after the Shah was overthrown. Obama emphasized that the United States does “not pay ransom for hostages” and that the payoff in question was not a ransom for the four detainees, echoing comments from Secretary of State John Kerry. He pointed out that the payment, which will include an additional $ 1.3 billion in interest to be paid later, was announced by the administration when the agreement was concluded in January, a day after the implementation of a landmark nuclear agreement with Iran. “It was n’t a secret. We were completely open about it,” he said.

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Input: On Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily, Sirius XM host Alex Marlow discussed leaked Hillary Clinton emails with former Navy SEAL and Blackwater CEO Erik Prince. Prince saw a disturbing threat about Clinton’s appetite for centralized power running through several of these emails. Prince found an exchange in which Clinton applauded Chinese President Xi Jinping’s consolidation of authoritarian power more evidence that “her analysis of all things foreign, foreign governments, is about as goofed-up as her supposed reset with Russia, where they did n’t even get the translation right on the event.”

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Input: * DOES CLINTON HAVE ‘WALKING PNEUMONIA’? NBC News speculates that Clinton could be suffering from a “near-textbook case” of “walking pneumonia,” which entails this: Patients do n’t feel great, but they’re not sick enough to stay home in bed or to be hospitalized … .People often feel well enough to go about their business, especially once they start taking antibiotics … But the infection can take a toll, making patients prone to getting tired and dehydrated. Meanwhile, experts see no reason to think this will be debilitating for Clinton. * DEMOCRATS WORRY ABOUT HILLARY ’S PNEUMONIA: Reuters reports that Democrats are worried about Clinton’s Pneumonia for two reasons, beyond her well-being: First, does her campaign’s failure to divulge the illness for two days signal again that her penchant for secrecy is working against her?

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Input: He cited the use of barrel bombs-unguided weapons-against civilians in Syria. The only purpose of these indiscriminate attacks was to terrorise Syrian citizens and "get them on the road" to create problems for other countries, Gen Breedlove said. Gen Breedlove added that violent extremists, fighters and criminals-including elements from the extremist Islamic State group-were in the mix of migrants. He said he had requested that more US forces be permanently based in Europe. Their numbers have dropped from a Cold War high of half a million to about 62,000.

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Input: 4/14 Bombing in Aleppo The damage of the airstrikes in the rebel-held area of Aleppo on April 28 Reuters 5/14 Bombing in Aleppo The damaged the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)-backed al-Quds hospital after it was hit by airstrikes, in a rebel-held area of Syria's Aleppo Reuters 6/14 Bombing in Aleppo Syrians evacuate an injured man amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following an air strike on a rebel-held of Aleppo on April 29, 2016. AFP / Getty Images 7/14 Bombing in Aleppo People inspect the damage at a site hit by airstrikes, in the rebel-held area of Aleppo's Bustan al-Qasr AP

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Input: The next day, the underlying Energy Department spending bill collapsed on the House floor because many conservatives with concerns about religious freedom exemptions would n’t vote for it with Maloney’s amendment attached. Most Democrats also opposed the bill’s spending levels and other GOP amendments to counter Maloney’s proposal. After those two incidents, Speaker Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (R-Wis.) decided to limit which amendments to spending bills get votes in order to prevent the entire appropriations process from being jeopardized. Most bills considered in the House are typically done so under a limited amendment process, but appropriations bills have been the exception until recently. In an appearance before the House Rules Committee to make the case for his amendment, Maloney compared his proposal to last year’s racially motivated shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, S.C., that led to restrictions on displaying the Confederate flag.

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Input: “He’s not a war hero,” Trump declared of McCain, before modifying his venom to say: “He’s a war hero ’cause he was captured. I like people that were n’t captured, OK?” Trump’s need for unqualified approval — and the high he gets from a whooping throng — are so powerful that he has chased after cheers by musing about violence against peaceful protesters. “I’d like to punch him in the face,” Trump said of one. About another, he said, “I’ll beat the crap out of you,” adding, “Part of the problem ... is nobody wants to hurt each other anymore.” 4. Trump the fake philanthropist While living gaudily, Trump puffed out his chest as a man of great generosity.

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Input: Wasserman Schultz resigned Sunday and will serve as an honorary chair on presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE's campaign instead. According to CNN, U.S. officials briefed on the investigation into the compromised DNC emails now suspect Russian hackers are part of a bigger effort targeting political organizations and Washington, D.C., think tanks. On ABC's "This Week," Clinton’s campaign manager, Robby Mook, said the emails were leaked right before the Democratic National Convention “by the Russians for the purpose of helping Donald Trump,” citing “experts." Mook could not offer any evidence for the claim.

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Input: It’s not all bad. Kaine was n’t arrested for protesting like Sanders, but he fought for civil rights through legal channels. He achieved a multi-million dollar settlement from big insurance for discriminatory practices, and after he fell under criticism for using $ 6000 in public funds as Mayor of Richmond to support bussing for the Million Mom March, he raised the funds privately and reimbursed the city. Kaine left Harvard law school for a year to teach carpentry and welding — his father’s trade — to impoverished Hondurans as a missionary. Kaine signed an executive order to ban smoking in Virginia federal buildings and cars, in stark contrast to cigarette truther Mike Pence Mike (Michael) Richard PenceDems threaten to gum up Senate over ' secret ' ObamaCare bill This week: Senate plots path on healthcare Pence family adopts new kitten, puppy MORE.

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Input: The Trump Wall, the past shows, does not promise a solution to the forces driving migration along the U.S.-Mexico border. But it does offer the illusion of a solution. So if the Trump Wall is ever built, no one should be surprised when it is bypassed, breached or bombarded, just like those that came before it.

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Input: Arms-length, independent boards also are considered the essential first step in good governance. The Independent Sector, a non-partisan good governance organization for nonprofits and foundations urge the creation of independent boards and said they should be in the majority. “A substantial majority of the board of a public charity, usually meaning at least two-thirds of its members, should be independent,” the group recommended. That is not the case with the Clinton Foundation. The board consists of Bill Clinton’s tightest inner circle, including Democratic mega-fundraiser and now Virginia Gov.

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Input: Hillary Clinton reiterated her unreserved support for both a “no-fly zone” and “safe zones” in Syria during Sunday’s presidential debate — but in a partial transcript of private remarks she made at a Goldman Sachs event in 2013, she acknowledged some of the complications involved. Her comments were included in an 80-page report prepared by the Clinton campaign listing the most politically damaging quotes from Clinton’s paid speeches, which she has refused to make public. Among the recipients of that report was Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta, whose hacked emails were posted by WikiLeaks on Friday.

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Input: On Friday, the Middle East "Quartet" -the United States, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations-published a report calling on Israel to stop building settlements. Israel's policy of usurping Palestinian land in order to expand existing settlements and build new ones "is steadily eroding the viability of the two-state solution", the Quartet said in the report. Yet, at the girl's funeral in Kiryat Arba on Friday afternoon, several Israeli politicians vowed to expand Jewish-only settlements across the occupied Palestinian territory, Israeli media reported. READ MORE: ' There's always an Intifada inside the Israeli prisons ' Referring to areas in the West Bank and present-day Israel, Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett, a member of the ultra-nationalist Jewish Home party, said:" We will build in Sarona and Kiryat Arba, in Jaffa and Jerusalem, in Itamar and Beersheba."

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Input: Merkel says Germany “considers its support for Iraq against the so-called IS not just as military but also as humanitarian, such as by taking in refugees.” Merkel has faced growing criticism in her country for allowing an unprecedented number of asylum seekers — almost 1.1 million last year — to enter Germany. In her weekly video podcast Saturday, she urged refugees from Iraq and Syria to integrate in the country and learn German. But she also says refugees are being taught transferable skills that will help them rebuild their home countries when peace returns. Merkel backed calls for better protection of the European Union’s external borders.

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Input: News broke Monday that Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's top aide, would separate from her husband, former Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner. Weiner made headlines, once again, for "sexting" a woman who is not his wife. Evidently having suffered enough humiliation, Abedin called it quits. Within hours, Maggie Haberman, a superb The New York Times reporter and frequent target of Donald Trump's media gripes, wondered if Weiner's dalliances were fair game, given the scrutiny of Trump's new campaign chief, Steve Bannon. On Twitter, Haberman said:" The problem for Clinton team – after Democrats repeatedly pointed to Bannon's personal past, going to be hard to argue Weiner is off limits."

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Input: Attempted to assassinate Cuban president Fidel Castro on numerous occasions, not only in Cuba, but in Panama, Dominican Republic and Venezuela. In one scheme after another in recent years, Washington’s Agency for International Development (AID) endeavored to cause dissension in Cuba and/or stir up rebellion, the ultimate goal being regime change. In 1999 a Cuban lawsuit demanded $ 181.1 billion in US compensation for death and injury suffered by Cuban citizens in four decades “war” by Washington against Cuba. Cuba asked for $ 30 million in direct compensation for each of the 3,478 people it said were killed by US actions and $ 15 million each for the 2,099 injured. It also asked for $ 10 million each for the people killed, and $ 5 million each for the injured, to repay Cuban society for the costs it has had to assume on their behalf.

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Input: The congressman suspected a conspiracy between the attorneys general and environmental advocates, and he wanted to see all the communications among them. Predictably, his targets included advocacy organizations such as Greenpeace, 350.org, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. They also included Heede, who works on his own aboard a rented houseboat on San Francisco Bay in California. Heede is less well known than his fellow recipients, but his work is no less threatening to the fossil fuel industry. Heede (pronounced "Heedie") has compiled a massive database quantifying who has been responsible for taking carbon out of the ground and putting it into the atmosphere.

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Greenpeace, 350.org, and the Union of Concerned Scientists

Heede

Heede

San Francisco Bay


Input: The deterrence against conventional war in Europe, as opposed to proxy wars elsewhere such as Vietnam or Afghanistan, was nuclear war. Wars that did not involve primary and overwhelming interests did not involve the risk of nuclear war. There was no military target worth a nuclear strike in either country, nor would either country risk immolation over Vietnam or Afghanistan. Therefore, these wars could take place. I think this is Steinmeier's point.

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no military target

nuclear strike

either country


Input: On Sunday evening, the leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement condemned the Saudi funeral attack, saying the assault points to the frustration of the United States and the Saudi regime in the war on the impoverished Arab country. The US has been supporting the Saudi regime in the war on Yemen. Abdul Malik al-Houthi said Saudi Arabia and its regional allies would not have carried out the Saturday airstrike if they had not received the green light from Washington. This photo provided by the media bureau of Yemen’s operations command shows a Scud-type Borkan-1 (Volcano-1) missile. Meanwhile, Yemeni army forces have launched a locally-designed and -manufactured Borkan-1 (Volcano-1) ballistic missile toward an area deep inside Saudi Arabia in response to Riyadh’s atrocious aerial attacks against the country.

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Saudi Arabia and its regional allies

Yemen

Scud-type Borkan-1 (Volcano-1) missile

Yemen


Input: Humans can be exposed to anthrax by eating contaminated meat, breathing in spores or getting the bacteria on broken skin while handling animal products or carcasses. READ MORE: Anthrax infection found in Wiltshire cow Biological warfare troops and civilian emergencies specialists were deployed to the epidemic area to dispose of dead animals and eradicate pests such as rats, which can spread anthrax. A mass vaccination of the population was conducted over the last week. Livestock vaccination is currently underway with a total of 41,000 animals expected to be given anthrax vaccine doses.

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Biological warfare troops and civilian emergencies specialists

pests such as rats


Input: Their problem was not getting investors, but figuring out how to spend money in a non-efficient way if you read between the lines. He was probably aware of that. He would have known how inefficient and wasteful the company is.” Page became an investor in the company, and has, according to filings, advised other companies he’s worked for to invest in them. After Merrill Lynch, Page tried to set up his own fund to invest in energy projects and called it Global Energy Capital. But he tried to do this in 2008, and we know what happened to the markets in 2008.

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Input: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said, “The Cuban revolution is a paradigm of dignity for all the people of Latin America and the Caribbean, waging anti-imperialist struggles for justice, independence and self-determination of the people.” IN DEPTH: Cuba's Revolution Enters New Phase In the 57 years of its revolutionary process, Cuba has managed to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, achieve universal primary education, promote gender equality and women's empowerment, as well as reducing the mortality rate of children under five. WATCH: Cuban Revolution The Venezuelan government praised the “admirable struggle of resistance” in Cuba, which over more than five decades has fought to liberate Cubans from “the largest empire known to humanity,” without falling victim to U.S.-backed attempts to sabotage the process with the more than 50-year blockade and “constant conspiring.”

eradicate

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poverty and hunger

Cuba


Input: Among the 150 posters up for grabs are three thought never to have made it into production featuring Adolf Hitler, Nazi spin doctor Joseph Goebbels and Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goerring. It is thought the designs were blocked from print because Brits might not have recognised the enemy leaders and might have taken the messages to "take time off" literally. Play slideshow PenzanceAuctionHouse / BNPS 1 of 16 A fascinating archive of iconic World War Two recruiting posters, some which have never been seen before has emerged for sale for £ 10,000. The team can be seen examining bullets, scraps of tents and personal items such as shoes; many of which appear to be dated and marked with the swastika. In a statement, Evgeny Ermolov, a senior researcher at the Russian Arctic National Park said: “Before it was only known from written sources, but now we also have real proof.” All the objects found will now be taken back to the Russian mainland, where the researchers hope they can be archived, studied, and eventually put on display for the public.

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Input: In early 2013, Warren along with the rest of the Democratic women in the Senate signed a letter urging Clinton to run for president, but she has since clarified that it did not signify an endorsement. Warren and Clinton have disagreed most pointedly on issues affecting Wall Street, which Clinton used to represent when she served as New York’s junior senator from 2001 to 2008. Warren told journalist Bill Moyers in a 2004 interview that Clinton flip-flopped on key bankruptcy legislation after winning election to the Senate. As first lady in the late 1990s, Clinton helped persuade President Clinton to veto the bill, which Warren argued at the time would hurt single mothers. But once Clinton was representing New York’s financial services industry in Congress, she voted for it.

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Input: Image copyright AFP Image caption Antonio Guterres led the UNHCR through the major crises in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan Portugal's former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is poised to become the next UN secretary general, UN diplomats say. Mr Guterres, 67, was the "clear favourite", Russia's UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin announced on Wednesday. A formal vote will take place in the UN Security Council on Thursday to confirm the choice of nominee. Mr Guterres, who led the UN refugee agency for 10 years, will take over from Ban Ki-moon early next year.

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Input: Last week, WikiLeaks published other hacked emails from Podesta’s account, which included alleged excerpts of Clinton’s paid speeches to Wall Street. Clinton’s campaign has neither confirmed nor denied the authenticity of the emails, but in recent days escalated its charge that the hack was conducted by Russian state actors. Brian Fallon, a spokesman for Clinton’s campaign, fired off a tweet storm late on Monday in which he assailed WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, for working on behalf of the Russian government. “You are no media organization,” Fallon tweeted at WikiLeaks. “You are a propaganda arm of the Russian government, running interference for their pet candidate, Trump.

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Input: A file photo showing Iranians while reacting to a public execution in Tehran. (AP) Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)

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Input: WATCH: Get a glimpse of the well-preserved, 8,400-year -old skeleton of a baby found in Germany. One possible explanation comes from hundreds of miles to the northeast. Standing burials similar to the one at Gross Fredenwalde have been found in a cemetery called Olenij Ostrov in modern-day Russia, from about the same time. Researchers have long assumed culture flowed into ancient Europe from the south, but these odd burials suggest that there was active migration or communication across northern Europe as well. “This man is an indication of such eastern influences,” Terberger says; DNA results from his bones might be able to tease out the connections.

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Input: “For the last 30 or 40 years, every candidate for president has released their tax returns, and I think Donald Trump should as well,” Senate majority leader and Trump endorser Mitch McConnell says in a clip. It also quotes Trump himself, from a 2012 interview about former candidate Mitt Romney’s returns: “If you did n’t see the tax returns, you would think there is almost, like, something wrong. What’s wrong?” The “something wrong” with Trump’s own returns could be anything, his critics allege: that he does n’t make that much money; that he has n’t donated much to charity, despite his claims of generosity; that his businesses could link him with unsavory actors, though CNN recently debunked a claim his returns could reveal ties to Russian oligarchs; or that he has n’t paid very much in taxes at all — something he’s hinted at in the past. Based on their 2015 returns, the Clintons do n’t have that last problem, which may be partially why they feel comfortable using them as a political weapon. “They earn a lot of income and they paid a lot of taxes, that’s the way the system is supposed to work,” William Gale, a co-director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center in Washington, D.C., told me.

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Input: 280 victims, including women, children and old people. Reason – cooperation with the Syrian army,” The massacre is considered as one of the worst mass killings committed in Syria ever since the conflict began. Syrian news agency SANA reported that the massacre was committed in the contexts of daylong attacks on Deir el-zour since ISIS had gained advances in this region. ISIS controls most of the province, while the Syrian government controls a few neighborhoods in the northern part of the city.

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280 victims, including women, children and old people

Syria


Input: "We are also concerned that groups like ISIS could order it commercially." Weber considered a range of alarming scenarios, including the use of carfentanil to knock out and take troops hostage, or to kill civilians in a closed environment like a train station. He added that it is important to raise awareness about the threat from carfentanil trafficking." Shining sunlight on this black market activity should encourage Chinese authorities to shut it down," he said. Fentanyls also have been described as ideal tools for assassination — lethal and metabolized quickly so they leave little trace.

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carfentanil

Chinese


Input: The president will outline his vision during remarks at a refugee summit on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, a city struck by terrorism on Saturday. ADVERTISEMENT Calls for Obama to reconsider his approach have been stirred anew by the latest attacks, which included homemade bombs in New York and New Jersey and stabbings in a Minnesota mall. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria took credit for the Minnesota attack on Saturday reportedly carried out by Dahir Adan, a 22-year -old Somali-American who worked at a private security firm. Nine people were wounded in the stabbings; Adan was shot and killed by an off-duty police officer.

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Minnesota mall


Input: During the TV interview he explained how a hardware and software engineer could go about retrieving the data on the phone. As Ars Technicha pointed out, a similar technique to the one described by McAfee could potentially prove successful, but would be immensely risky. By manually inspecting the handset’s processor using acid and lasers, hackers could figure out the device’s unique hardware ID and try to combine it with the each of the PIN numbers to try and find the right one. In addition to being incredibly complex and expensive, if such a technique was done incorrectly the data on the phone could be permanently destroyed. For McAfee, how the iPhone is hacked is beyond the point.

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Input: She was shouting, ' I am a terrorist, ' and reportedly threatened to blow herself up. Posted by RT Play on Monday, February 29, 2016 Eyewitness Artur Manzhesov told RT he could n’t believe that the decapitated child’s head being carried by the woman was real. “I saw her coming out with the head in her hands. I thought, wow, it must be a replica,” he said.

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Input: Moreover, at least one of dozens of companies set up in Malta by Azerbaijani billionaire Mubariz Mansimov – which over the last year sold oil tankers to Bilal Erdogan, the son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan – is also at the centre of the accusations. Russia’s allegations of Turkish involvement in ISIS’ oil trade have focused primarily on the Turkish president’s son, Bilal Erdogan. The 34-year -old is one of three equal partners in the BMZ group, a major Turkish oil and marine shipping company, which both the Russian and Syrian governments have accused of purchasing oil from ISIS. Russian and Syrian officials and media reports from those countries suggest that Bilal Erdogan has been directly involved in the oil trade with ISIS, and that Turkey downed a Russian jet on 24 November specifically to protect his oil smuggling business. Regional politics, propaganda and the Russia-Turkey sabre-rattling aside, the crux of the matter as far as Malta is concerned is that the fleet of five tankers owned by Erdogan’s son, which are being linked to the illegal trade, are all registered in Malta.

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the Russian and Syrian governments

ISIS


Input: _ _ _ 7 p.m. Police in Calais have dispersed a rowdy anti-migrant protest with tear gas after clashes with protesters and detained several far-right demonstrators. Around 150 militants from the anti-Islam, anti-immigration group PEDIGA gathered Saturday at the northern French city chanting slogans like: “We must not let Calais die!” Calais has been a focal point for migrants who want to slip into Britain via the Channel Tunnel.

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a rowdy anti-migrant protest

Calais


Input: "Russia has invested very seriously in this crisis, politically, diplomatically and now also militarily," Vitaly Churkin told Kommersant daily, referring to an international agreement to cease hostilities sealed in Munich last week." Therefore we would like Assad also to respond to this," he said, adding that the Syrian leader's stance "is not in accord with the diplomatic efforts that Russia is making." At their meeting in Munich, the 17-nation group backing Syria's peace process agreed to work for a ceasefire, the lifting of starvation sieges and the resumption of talks. In an interview with AFP last week, Assad defiantly pledged to retake the whole of the country, speaking before the plan for a nationwide "cessation of hostilities" in Syria was announced. Asked to comment to journalists on the unusually outspoken criticism of Assad, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday said President Vladimir Putin backed the Syrian peace process but stressed that the ceasefire had not yet been implemented.

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Input: But while the Trump Wall (as he has called it) is the most provocative proposal of the election season, it is not particularly original. Over the past five millennia, politicians have repeatedly turned to large walls to solve problems. We should look carefully at the track record of this ancient technology before we invest what some estimates suggest could be $ 25 billion in construction costs for a 2,000-mile -long wall, plus millions more in annual maintenance. One of the earliest examples of a large-scale barrier wall was constructed by the rulers of the city of Ur, in what is now southern Iraq, at the end of the third millennium B.C. The kings of Ur faced a considerable challenge along their northwestern border from a semi-nomadic people known as the Amorites.

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Input: Trump has been using this talking point for more than a year, and it’s never been quite clear exactly what he meant. On its face, this claim does n’t make much sense: People in the country illegally, by definition, are not given the basic rights that people here legally — veterans or civilians — have. We examined the evidence assembled by the campaign and it’s clear that these are apples-to-oranges comparisons that do n’t make much sense. Trump is citing a figure from the Bureau of Labor Statistics concerning Americans who are “not in labor force.” But the BLS data shows 93 percent of these people do not want a job at all. The picture that emerges from a study of the data is that the number consists mostly of people who are retired, students, parents or disabled.

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Input: Revelations about the origins of the DNC hack and Manafort's cash ties to pro-Russian interests in Ukraine also follow the Trump campaign's decision to alter the GOP's policy on Ukraine, which has long called for arming Ukrainian soldiers against pro-Russian rebels. The report, moreover, emerges in light of Trump's own perceived friendliness toward Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. Trump has threatened more than once to pull out of NATO — an organization Russia views as a threat — and has spoken highly of Putin more than once." He's running his country, and at least he's a leader, unlike what we have in this country," Trump told MSNBC in December. On Thursday, Trump told CNBC that during his administration, he would "be friendly with Putin."

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Input: Trump refused to admit his campaign manager grabbed a reporter On March 8, Trump’s then-campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, grabbed Breitbart News reporter Michelle Fields as she was walking next to Donald Trump. He pulled her hard enough that she had bruises two days later. While there was some initial dispute about what happened, video evidence soon left no doubt that Lewandowski had, in fact, grabbed Fields. If he had simply admitted to grabbing Fields and apologized, it might have been a one-day story.

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Input: However, hundreds of pages of court records, including reports from police and FBI agents, reviewed by FoxNews.com, show Epstein was under law enforcement scrutiny for more than a year. Police in Palm Beach, Fla., launched a year-long investigation in 2005 into Epstein after parents of a 14-year -old girl said their daughter was sexually abused by him. Police interviewed dozens of witnesses, confiscated his trash, performed surveillance and searched his Palm Beach mansion, ultimately identifying 20 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 who they said were sexually abused by Epstein. In 2006, at the request of Palm Beach Police, the FBI launched a federal probe into allegations that Epstein and his personal assistants had “used facilities of interstate commerce to induce girls between the ages of 14 and 17 to engage in illegal sexual activities.” According to court documents, police investigators found a “clear indication that Epstein’s staff was frequently working to schedule multiple young girls between the ages of 12 and 16 years old literally every day, often two or three times per day.”

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Palm Beach mansion


Input: Speaking in English to Russia's state-backed Rossiya 24 channel, Asma Assad, a London-born former investment banker, did not say who made the offers. But she said the people trying to get her to flee had not been Syrian and that their offers were "stupid." "I've been here since the beginning and I never thought of being anywhere else at all," the 41-year -old mother of three told Rossiya 24 in an interview broadcast on Tuesday." Yes I was offered the opportunity to leave Syria or rather to run from Syria. These offers included guarantees of safety and protection for my children and even financial security.

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41-year -old mother of three told Rossiya 24

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Input: Gates noted in the emails that the official, Ukraine's foreign minister, did not want to use his own embassy in the United States to help coordinate the visits. Gates also directed the firms to gather information in the U.S. on a rival lobbying operation, including a review of its public lobbying disclosures, to determine who was behind that effort, the emails show. And Gates directed efforts to undercut sympathy for Yulia Tymoshenko, an imprisoned rival of then-President Viktor Yanukovych. The Ukrainian leader eventually fled the country in February 2014 during a popular revolt prompted in part by his government's crackdown on protesters and close ties to Russia. The emails do not describe details about the role of Manafort, who was Gates ' boss at the firm, DMP International LLC.

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Yulia Tymoshenko


Input: We salute them. We know they are going to rescue the values and the principles of America against Obama. Obama is misled. Obama is bylined by Saudi dirty money. Saudi dirty money is destroying the principles of American values of America.

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Input: Hillary Clinton (while Secretary of State) tried the ‘reset’ and it failed, and we need to see what we can do in the future.” After numerous questions about Mr. Trump’s comments to the media, Sen. Sessions finally shot back that at least “Trump takes these interviews all the time, unlike Hillary Clinton, who hides from the press.” Prior to a brief media availability on Sunday, Mrs. Clinton had gone 239 days without speaking to the press.

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Input: In Trump’s eyes, that may be a good thing. The story is familiar by now: Trump, a self-described real estate mogul, found his calling in reality TV. He cut his teeth in the ‘90s by purchasing and producing the Miss Universe pageant, then made his onscreen debut in 2004 as the host of NBC’s The Apprentice, where he honed the craft of spinning publicity out of nothing and marketed his own pointed bluster as a cornerstone of his burgeoning new career. There’s no doubt that Trump leveraged his media savvy — by keeping the spotlight on himself and making his opponents look foolish — to level up from a candidate few people took seriously to the official Republican nominee. But in the past couple weeks, it’s become abundantly clear that Trump has no interest in actually leading the country.

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Miss Universe pageant

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Input: "The people are really friendly, and I really think I'll come back and spend some more time here." -' Afraid to work here ' -In May, Turkey suffered its worst drop-off in visits in 22 years -- down 35 percent from a year ago -- as an industry which ordinarily brings in 30 billion euros ($ 33.2 billion) went into free fall. This was partly a result of a Russian ban on Turkish package holidays that Moscow had slapped on Ankara over a bitter diplomatic row. That ban was lifted last week as the two countries made up -- cause for celebration in the resort province of Antalya, where Russians traditionally come to sun themselves in their droves.

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30 billion euros

Turkey


Input: Enlarge this image toggle caption Taylor Hill / WireImage / Getty Images Taylor Hill / WireImage / Getty Images A newly revealed memo from a former aide to Bill Clinton details substantial overlap between donors to the nonprofit Clinton Foundation and the former president's personal financial activities, a $ 30 million-plus enterprise described in the memo as "Bill Clinton, Inc." Money managers UBS and Barclays, mining giant BHP, and the for-profit educational company Laureate International Universities each made substantial payments to Bill Clinton for speeches or "advisory services," while also contributing to the Clinton Foundation. Most of these payments were brokered by Doug Band, who served as a personal aide to Bill Clinton during his White House years, and later as a chief fundraiser for the Clinton Foundation. In 2011, Band formed his own corporate consulting firm, Teneo Strategies, along with another Clinton ally, Declan Kelley.

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UBS and Barclays, mining giant BHP, and the for-profit educational company Laureate International Universities

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Bill Clinton


Input: Gabbard, an Army soldier and veteran, called her decision “incredibly personal and it’s incredibly important because I think this is the most important job of a president is to be our commander in chief.” “There’s a very clear contrast and clear difference when it comes to our two Democratic candidates and who will exercise good judgment, who will stop us from continuing these interventionist regime change wars that we’ve seen in Iraq and Libya and now in Syria that have cost our country so much in terms of American lives, trillions and trillions of dollars, what to speak of the hundreds of thousands of lives in the Middle East that have been lost to this and the impact on our economy here at home,” Gabbard said, roughly four weeks until her state votes in its primary, to Politico. “Bernie Sanders is that candidate who will not take us, service members and our country, into these interventionist wars and Hillary Clinton, through her record, has proven that she will continue that and that’s what’s important to me and I think it’s important for our voters to know before they go and head to the pollstomorrow and into the coming weeks.” Gabbard and DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz clashed over the party’s debate schedule last October, with the Hawaii Democrat saying last year that she was disinvited from the party’s first debate for demanding more of them. Wasserman Schultz blasted Gabbard’s complaints at the time, affirming that she would have been a distraction to the Las Vegas debate.

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Iraq and Libya and now in Syria