Input: Litvinenko gives his own name and address. Hoar then says: “Thank you very much for that, Edwin. Edwin, we’re here investigating an allegation that somebody has poisoned you in an attempt to kill you.” Hoar says that doctors have told him Edwin is suffering from “extremely high levels of thallium” and “that is the cause of this illness”. He continues: “Can I ask you to tell us what you think has happened to you and why?” Medical staff had pre-briefed Hoar that Litvinenko spoke good English.

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Input: Photograph by Rémi Bénali, National Geographic One of the oldest cemeteries in Europe has recently been discovered, with graves dating back almost 8,500 years. Two of the most intriguing finds are the skeleton of a six-month-old child and a mysterious upright burial of a man in his early 20s. The German cemetery, called Gross Fredenwalde after a nearby village, belongs to a time known as the Mesolithic, when Europe was populated by hunter-gatherers. At a press conference Thursday morning in Berlin, excavators announced that nine skeletons have been uncovered on the hilltop burial site so far, five of them children younger than 6 years old.

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Input: It asks the "carbon majors" to take remedial actions on behalf of typhoon survivors in the islands, which suffer devastating storms that may have worsened as a result of climate change." Heede's report is one of the bedrock pieces of science and research that helped form our campaign," says Kristin Casper, litigation counsel for Greenpeace's Global Climate Justice and Liability Project in Toronto, Canada. In late July, the commission sent orders to 47 of the world's largest investor-owned fossil fuel companies, asking them to respond to the human rights charges in the petition. Similar actions and lawsuits are proceeding in several other countries. Now, Heede is extending his carbon accounting into the future, quantifying the potential carbon release from future fossil fuel exploration.

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Input: * * * The Soviet Union had a long tradition of bumping off its enemies. They included Leon Trotsky (ice-pick in the head), Ukrainian nationalists (poisons, exploding cakes) and the Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov (ricin pellet fired from an umbrella, on London’s Waterloo Bridge). There was a spectrum. It went from killings that were demonstrative, to those where the KGB’s fingerprints were nowhere to be found, however hard you looked.

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Input: "You can do both of them at the same time by doing the things that work." Maryland's Uniform Crime Report data for 2014 found that the state's violent crime rate stood at 441.3 victims per 100,000 inhabitants. This number is consistent with a long-term trend of declining violent crime in Maryland during O'Malley's time in office, from 2007-2015. But Maryland's drop in the number of violent crimes reported also coincided with a national drop in violent crime reported by the FBI in the same period. Meanwhile, O'Malley argued that his state-level policies helped reduce the rate of those imprisoned to a 20-year low.

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Input: U.S. officials estimate about $ 100 billion (69 billion pound) of Iranian assets were frozen abroad, around half of which Tehran could access as a result of sanctions relief. It is not clear how much of those funds are oil dues that Iran would want back in euros. India owes Tehran about $ 6 billion for oil delivered during the sanctions years. Last month, NIOC's director general for international affairs told Reuters that Iran "would prefer to receive (oil money owed) in some foreign currency, which for the time being is going to be euro." Indian government sources confirmed Iran is looking to be paid in euros.

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Input: The U.S. said earlier this month it was suspending talks with Russia because of its role in Aleppo, where Russia has been accused of helping Syria in the aerial bombardment of the city. Relations with Europe have withered, too. Mr. Putin canceled a trip to Paris after calls by the French foreign minister to investigate Moscow for war crimes for its role in the Aleppo bombings, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government would consider new sanctions against Moscow. Over objections from Italy, European Union leaders backed off immediate threats of sanctions against Russia. Mr. Putin on Thursday placed the blame for the breakdown of the Syrian cease-fire squarely on the U.S., where he said political forces had worked to undermine the deal.

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Input: Asian-American — and voting for Trump During a campaign stop in Iowa last summer, Trump employed broken English in a jaw-dropping punchline mocking Asians." Negotiating with Japan, negotiating with China," he said." When these people walk in the room, they don't say, ' Oh, hello! How's the weather?

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Input: Deputy Moskalkova, who is a member of the A Just Russia party, was also supported by the ruling United Russia party for the post. The newly elected Human Rights Commissioner has distinguished herself in the State Duma for advocating particularly draconian legislation. In her post-election interview, Commissioner Moskalkova said she had to take a stand against human rights being used as a tool by the West to blackmail Russia.

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Input: The United Kingdom has been by far the biggest purchaser of US weapons in Europe of late, with more than $ 6 billion in deals struck over the past two years alone — more, that is, than the US has sold to all other European countries combined. The British defense behemoth BAE is Lockheed Martin’s principal foreign partner on the F-35 combat aircraft, which at a projected cost of $ 1.4 trillion over its lifetime already qualifies as the most expensive weapons program in history. If Brexit-driven austerity were to lead to a delay in, or the cancellation of, the F-35 deal (or any other major weapons shipments), it would be a blow to American arms makers. But count on one thing: Were there to be even a hint that this might happen to the F-35, lobbyists for BAE will mobilize to get the deal privileged status, whatever other budget cuts may be in the works. On the bright side (if you happen to be a weapons maker), any British reductions will certainly be more than offset by opportunities in Eastern and Central Europe, where a new Cold War seems to be gaining traction.

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Input: FBI agents met senior Clinton officials in Brooklyn in March to warn them it was the target of cyber attack. It was weeks before the attack on the Democratic National Committee came to light. Buy Yahoo News ' Michael Isikoff reported Friday that agents asked the campaign to hand over internal computer logs and senior officials ' email addresses. Through lawyers, the campaign refused to give over the information because ' the FBI’s request for sensitive personal and campaign information data was too broad and intrusive ', Yahoo News said. The involvement of the Justice Department's national security division is a sign that the Obama administration has concluded that the hacking was state sponsored, individuals with knowledge of the investigation said.

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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: Trump! Trump!" until security can arrive (and presumably do the touching and/or harming). I'd seen this ritual several times, and the crowd always loves it. At one event, a dead ringer for John Oliver ripped off his shirt in the middle of a Trump speech to reveal body paint that read "Eminent Domain This!"

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Input: For the sake of finding Seth's killer, and for the sake of giving the family the space they need at this terrible time, they are asking for the public to refrain from pushing unproven and harmful theories about Seth's murder,” Bauman said. Asked about the reward, WikiLeaks said in a statement, “We treat threats toward any suspected source of WikiLeaks with extreme gravity. This should not be taken to imply that Seth Rich was a source to WikiLeaks or to imply that that his murder is connected to our publications.” A spokesperson for WikiLeaks did not respond to follow up questions about whether the website was concerned about fanning conspiracy theorists. The DNC also declined to comment.

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Input: “We're not fans of data localization — the last thing the world needs is 193 members of the United Nations demanding that data only be stored within their own borders,” he said. “This is really a set of issues where the tech sector tends to be pretty united.” RECENTLY ON PRO CYBERSECURITY — The Democrats’ platform formally endorses a encryption commission that includes outside experts … Researchers say ISIL militants are shunning WhatsApp in favor of Telegram for encrypted communications … “A federal judge ordered a suspect in a sex trafficking case to unlock his iPhone using his fingerprint, but for unknown reasons the process did not work” … Three men were charged in what the Justice Department called a “sophisticated” cell phone hijacking scheme … A court denied Matthew Keys’ attempt to remain out of prison while he appeals. QUICK BYTES — Russia is worried about Pokemon Go.

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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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Input: Tests on the clump showed it contained 390,000 becquerels of polonium. The levels were so high that they could only have come from polonium itself. After laying the poison in Litvinenko’s teapot, Kovtun had gone back upstairs to his room. There, in the privacy of the bathroom, he had tipped the rest of the liquid solution down the sink. No one else – other than Lugovoi and Sokolenko – had access to the room.

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Input: A spokesperson for Mr Trump said the businessman "has personally donated.tens of millions of dollars ... to charitable causes". The Independent has contacted the Trump Foundation for further comment. The Foundation is currently under investigation by the New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, over alleged legal breaches and possible “self-dealing” – the illegal act of charity leaders using donations to further their own interests. Sources also described to the Post how Mr Trump allegedly gate-crashed a charity event at a school for children with HIV, despite never having donated a penny to the charity. Organisers said he had turned up unannounced and sat in the seat of another businessman, Steven Fisher, who had been a prominent donor to the charity.

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Input: His statement provoked a sharp reaction from the broadcaster, which denounced Gulen’s attempt to pressure the channel to cancel its broadcast, and aired the documentary. “We can never accept this. We will protest against any attempt to exert pressure that threatens freedom of expression,” said TV4’s program director, Viveka Hansson, in a statement on the company’s website. Speaking to Expressen, Gulen said that he had “full respect for freedom of expression and for the channel,” but refused to retract his plea to TV4 to withdraw the documentary piece. “These are my feelings.

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Input: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in the Israeli occupied Golan Heights near the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria, April 17, 2016. REUTERS / Sebastian Scheiner / Pool JERUSALEM Israel formally expressed its opposition on Thursday to a French-proposed peace initiative, reaffirming its position that only direct talks with the Palestinians can resolve the decades-old conflict. A week ago, France said it would hold an international conference in Paris on May 30 in a bid to relaunch talks between Palestinians and Israelis by the end of the year. But a statement to the media issued by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office on Thursday said "Israel maintains its position that the best way to resolve the conflict ... is through direct, bilateral negotiations."

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Input: Human Rights Watch and other groups have previously accused Saudi Arabia of using cluster munitions in Yemen, including in a Jan. 6 strike in Sana, the capital, and have criticized the United States as an accomplice. Advertisement Continue reading the main story In a Jan. 12 letter to President Obama, Megan Burke, the director of the Cluster Munition Coalition, a disarmament group, urged him to “demand that Saudi-led coalition members stop using cluster munitions,” and said the United States “should investigate its own role in the recent strikes.” Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address.

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Input: The helicopter came down roughly mid-way between Aleppo and Russia's main air base at Hmeimim in the western province of Latakia, near the Mediterranean coast. Russian air power began supporting Syrian President Bashar al Assad late last year, an intervention which tipped the balance of the war in Assad's favor, eroding gains the rebels had made that year. No group has claimed responsibility for downing the Mi-8 military transport helicopter. Government and opposition forces have both denied using chemical weapons during the five-year-old civil war. Western powers say the government has been responsible for chlorine and other chemical attacks.

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Input: At the White House: No public events are scheduled. On Capitol Hill: The Senate meets at 10 a.m. to work on a sanctuary cities bill. The House meets at noon for legislative business. QUOTE OF THE DAY: Clinton praised Obama as “someone who has never forgotten where he came from”: “And Donald, if you’re out there tweeting, it’s Hawaii.” NEWS YOU CAN USE IF YOU LIVE IN D.C.:

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Input: U.S. policy for when and how nuclear arms should be deployed has been one of the rare points of bipartisan foreign policy agreement. Yet it does n’t fit neatly into Trump’s unique ideology, which is driven by challenging existing orthodoxy on everything. This is one corner of policy, though, where his vow to shake things up is not so much energizing voters as unnerving them. On the questions of national security and temperament, voter confidence in Trump lags far behind that of rival Hillary Clinton. One of Clinton’s most effective lines on the stump now is asking whether someone who can be so easily baited by a tweet should have his finger on the nuclear button.

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Input: MADRID Two Indian men arrested in Spain for smuggling Russian anti-aircraft missiles were extradited to the United States, Spanish military police said in a statement on Thursday. Spanish police detained the pair in Barcelona in 2014 along with two Pakistani men, who have already been extradited, as part of a joint operation-dubbed Operation Yoga-with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to bust a smuggling ring based in the Catalonia region. The group had offered the Russian-built Igla missiles to foreign paramilitary groups.

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Input: Syringe restrictions legislated during the 1980s war on drugs contributed to Danny Wilson's HIV infection. (CBC) The authors found the biggest factor driving higher rates of infection among drug users was that they were excessively incarcerated and excluded from HIV and hepatitis C prevention, treatment and harm-reduction programs. These include needle and syringe exchanges, safe injection facilities and opioid substitution therapies such as methadone. Russia is the opposite extreme, the authors said.

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Input: 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.” More than 140 people lost their lives and over 525 others sustained injuries on October 8 when Saudi military aircraft struck a hall in the Yemeni capital where rows of people were attending a funeral. Canada calls for probe, too Additionally, Canadian Foreign Minister Stephane Dion has also demanded a prompt investigation into the Saudi airstrike.

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Input: Oren Shur, a campaign media advisor, organized the call “following several discussions we had with Marc,” a reference to Marc Elias, to discuss even more direct coordination with Priorities USA, noting that doing so would be “breaking new ground.” Officials floated pursuing coordinated “issue advocacy ads,” campaign ads that do not mention express advocacy for a candidate but are clearly political and partisan in nature. Shur recommended a second course of action: using consultants shared with Emily’s List, a Democratic group, to shoot campaign video that would be posted online to “send public smoke signals in a more traditional way to the Priorities IE.” That way, the Priorities USA team would pick “up the signals,” and air independent expenditures that would “save the campaign anywhere from $ 2M-$4M.” The subject of Super PAC interaction was of particular concern for Elias, who emailed and met with Podesta on several occasions to discuss pro-Clinton groups. In one email on March 5, 2015, shortly before the formal launch of the campaign, Elias contacted Podesta to ask if he was “good to meet with Priorities and CTR” at his law firm. Two months later, Correct the Record formally separated from another Brock-led Super PAC, called American Bridge 21st Century, and announced it would be “allowed to coordinate with campaigns.”

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Input: If this was the only evidence of calculated racial divisiveness in Trump’s campaign, it would be one thing. It is not. Last year — in one of the many tweets by racial supremacists that he has promoted to 12 million followers of his Twitter account — Trump disseminated the falsehood that blacks kill 81% of white homicide victims. (The actual number is 15%.) In February, asked on national television whether he would reject the support of former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, Trump said “I just do n’t know anything about him.” He later blamed an earpiece — and said that he disavowed Duke.

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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: He can not raise capital in the West or hire Western sub-contractors to help his firm complete the project. Officials linked to the bridge's construction say they have all the skills, equipment and supplies required to build it without Western help." The sanctions will not affect the construction of the bridge," Crimea Bridge infocentre, the organization responsible for communications about the project, said in a statement on Thursday." The contractor has all the resources necessary for the timely completion of the project." Rotenberg and his brother Boris have denied getting help from the Russian leader for their businesses.

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Input: Putin was not in the car at the time. Russian media reports that the president’s official driver was killed in the crash. Related Stories if looks could kill Obama and Putin in tense G20 standoff as they fail to reach a breakthrough on Syria PUTIN MEETIN’ ETON Eleven Eton pupils made guests of honour by Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin … pipping Theresa May BETRAYING LABOUR ’S VALUES Corbyn is playing into Putin’s hands by refusing to defend a Nato ally, says former chief SYRIA CARNAGE Russia has killed more civilians than ISIS as Putin's jets blitz war-ravaged Syria VLAD ’S DIRTY BILLIONS Inside the murky finances of Russian president Vladimir Putin who critics claim has hundreds of billions of secret personal wealth THREAT OF WAR Fears of all-out conflict in Ukraine as Vladimir Putin places 40,000 troops along the border PUTIN 'S PURGE Shock as Vladimir Putin’s sacks his Chief-of-Staff after years in the Russian President’s inner circle Medics are said to have arrived quickly on the scene, but the unnamed victim — who had more than 40 years’ driving experience — died instantly. It is not known if the driver of the other vehicle was injured in the crash.

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Input: All of these things, they’re so false. They’re such lies.” Clinton’s campaign announced Friday it would be featuring Khizr Khan, the father of Humayun Khan, a deceased Muslim American soldier, whose family drew Trump’s ire after speaking ill of him at the Democratic National Convention, in an ad that will run in Florida and other battleground states. In the minute-long spot, Khan asks Trump: “Would my son have a place in your America?” Clinton’s campaign has also run ads highlighting Trump’s disparaging rhetoric toward women, Republicans blasting their party’s standard-bearer and Trump’s outsourcing of American jobs that make products overseas.

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Input: Now, they are the source of terrorist threats. Our goal is to prevent the same from happening in Syria.” Putin also detailed his version of the breakdown of the long-negotiated joint operation between Washington and Moscow in Syria, claiming the key turning point was the September 16 US-led coalition strike on a Syrian army unit, which the Pentagon maintains was accident. “Our American colleagues told us that this airstrike was made in error. This error cost the lives of 80 people and, also just coincidence, perhaps, ISIS took the offensive immediately afterwards.

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Input: The video lasts nine minutes and ends with a masked man addressing President Vladimir Putin and urging Daesh supporters to attack Russia. © REUTERS/ Ahmed Saad Daesh Commanders Fleeing Mosul Amid Iraqi Army's Liberation Campaign Daesh terrorist group, outlawed in the United States, Russia and numerous other countries throughout the world, has seized vast areas in Iraq and Syria, forcing thousands of people to flee their homes. The radical Sunni group has become notorious for its human rights atrocities, such as public beheadings of foreign journalists. Daesh and its affiliates have claimed responsibility for numerous terrorist attacks carried out in various parts of the world, including the July 14 Nice attack and the the March 22 Brussels attacks.

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Input: But accompanied by that support is an underlying vow to fiercely police top government officials if Hillary Clinton wins. As a candidate, Clinton has made several nods to progressives in building out her policies, including vowing to punish bank executives and break up big banks if necessary, and opposing the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Warren on Wednesday hailed Clinton’s agenda and vowed to work “my heart out to elect Hillary Clinton.” “Hillary Clinton has put together a strong, progressive agenda, chock-full of policy proposals that will help level the playing field and grow opportunities for working families,” she said. And as she has in the past, Warren carved out ample time to go after Republican nominee Donald Trump Donald TrumpOvernight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul Republicans and the lost promise of local control in education MORE, calling him a “thin-skinned, racist bully” with no clear agenda to help working families.

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Input: Debate officials said no.] The emails show that Kendall and Podesta discussed the matter by phone that evening. The next day, Kendall forwarded Podesta a series of documents showing that Broaddrick had previously denied the rape allegation under oath. Donald Trump held a news conference ahead of the second presidential debate on Oct. 9 with four women who have made allegations in the past against Bill and Hillary Clinton. The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler explains those allegations.

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Input: Plus 20 "closed" GOP primary states where only Republicans can vote — not a good playing field for The Donald, who does better among working-class Dems and independents. 10. Sen. Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight 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 Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE (Fla.) just isn't getting it done. Thus Cruz will soon — again — be the main competition to Trump. 11.

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Input: Imagine Candy Crowley, who moderated the second presidential debate in 2012, using incorrect information to defend President Barack Obama from Gov. Mitt Romney but having no moderator challenging the president's litany of untruths regarding Obamacare. Republicans "lie," but Democrats offer imprecise or nuanced assertions that can be transformed into a truth with a couple of Vox explainers. What must have been most off-putting was Clinton's performance. For the first time, a small part of me was forced to concede that Clinton might be one of the few politicians in the country awful enough to lose a general election to Trump.

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Input: It said they were a group of drug dealers, but this is a baseless charge fabricated to misguide international rights organisations. The victims were political activists and most of them were Kurds,” Iranian Kurdish politician Enwer Mohamadi told ARA News. “We continue to witness these brutal executions in the streets of Iran, while the international community remains unable to take action against this totalitarian regime,” he said. This comes after several human rights organisations condemned brutal practices by the Iranian authorities, especially public execution of opposition figures and civil rights activities. According to reports, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has executed at least 2500 people in the past two years.

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Input: Ohio’s Michael Skindell, a Sanders delegate, said Monday he planned to “strongly support the nominee of the party.” Clinton campaigned in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday, serving up a harsh critique of Trump’s foreign policy and what she said was his “trash talk about America.” Speaking to a convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Clinton slammed many of his positions, vowing to stand by American allies, fight dictators and listen to the advice of military officials. “You will never hear me say I only listen to myself on national security,” she said. Ahead of her speech, she secured endorsement of retired Gen. John Allen, former deputy commander of U. S. Central Command and a former commander of the International Security Assistance Force, overseeing NATO troops in Afghanistan.

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Input: This fits the street rep,” he added. The State Department’s watchdog report was especially damaging, given the official nature of its source. The report claimed that Clinton never sought approval for her “homebrew” email setup, that her use of the system violated the department’s record-keeping rules and that it would have been rejected had she brought it up to department officials. Clinton’s allies attempted to paint the office as partisan in the weeks ahead of the report’s release, but the effort failed to leave a lasting impact. For months, Clinton and her team have failed to offer a convincing explanation for the use of the private server, and she has steadfastly refused to apologize.

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Input: Most synthetic drugs that end up in the United In States come from China, either directly or by way of Mexico, according to the DEA. China already has placed controls on 19 fentanyl-related compounds. Adding carfentanil to that list is likely to only diminish, not eliminate, global supply. Despite periodic crackdowns, people willing to skirt the law are easy to find in China's vast, freewheeling chemicals industry, made up of an estimated 160,000 companies operating legally and illegally. Vendors said they lie on customs forms, guaranteed delivery to countries where carfentanil is banned and volunteered strategic advice on sneaking packages past law enforcement.

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Input: Nearly three quarters of scholars believe that these missiles will somewhat or strongly increase the likelihood of violent confrontation between NATO and Russian forces. Not surprisingly, 27 percent of IR scholars believe that renewed Russian assertiveness is one of the most important foreign policy issues facing the United States today. The rhetoric of U.S. presidential candidates suggests they agree as “how would you deal with Putin” has become both a talking point and an internet meme. As we observed in the South Carolina Republican debate, we should not be surprised to see Russian foreign policy used by candidates as a cudgel to attack each other in the race for the U.S. presidency. TRIP Snap Polls are conducted with support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

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Input: What they found confirmed the truth of Planck’s maxim. Junior researchers who had worked closely with the elite scientists, authoring papers with them, published less. At the same time, there was a marked increase in papers by newcomers to the field, who were less likely to cite the work of the deceased eminence. The articles by these newcomers were substantive and influential, attracting a high number of citations. They moved the whole field along.

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Input: “They are in a way daring the authorities to arrest them. And with the publicity that the site has received, the pictures of these women are all over the world.” On Wednesday, Alinejad co-authored an opinion piece for The Washington Post about Paikidze's "morally courageous move," writing that the chess champion "should not have to boycott the tournament. ... Instead, Iran should respect her choice, make the headscarf optional and lift its ban on women who choose not to cover their hair."

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Input: Oil prices have dropped below $ 30 a barrel in recent months, a fall of 70 percent since 2014. Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith, reporting from Doha, said that the challenge would be to get other producing countries, including Iran, to freeze production as well. Iran's IRNA news agency said on Sunday the country had exported its first crude shipment to Europe since it reached a landmark deal last year with world powers. IRNA quoted Rokneddin Javadi, Iran's deputy oil minister, as saying the shipment, the first in five years, marked "a new chapter" in Iran's oil industry. Javadi said Iran had already reached an agreement to export oil to France, Russia and Spain.

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Input: Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith, reporting from Doha, said that the challenge would be to get other producing countries, including Iran, to freeze production as well. Iran's IRNA news agency said on Sunday the country had exported its first crude shipment to Europe since it reached a landmark deal last year with world powers. IRNA quoted Rokneddin Javadi, Iran's deputy oil minister, as saying the shipment, the first in five years, marked "a new chapter" in Iran's oil industry. Javadi said Iran had already reached an agreement to export oil to France, Russia and Spain. Iran said in January that it planned to add to its production, which stands at 3.1 million barrels per day (bpd) despite the drop in price, and should not be blamed for further price falls.

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Input: The encounter will be the first face-to-face contact between the two men since Washington bitterly broke off bilateral diplomatic contact with Moscow over the Syrian war earlier this month. A brief cease-fire in Syria that was brokered by Russia and the United States collapsed last month. Lavrov and Kerry will meet in the Swiss city of Lausanne, according to a Wednesday statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry. CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reported from inside Aleppo that kids are usually among the victims of the Russian and Syrian strikes, making life a hell for the few families left in the city. The U.N. and Doctors Without Borders are pushing for a ceasefire -- even a temporary one -- to allow the evacuation of seriously wounded people from besieged Aleppo.

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Input: I said, Boris, you surely don't believe that I would use an air base in Poland to bomb Western Russia. He said, of course you wouldn't. But, a lot of little old ladies in Western Russia think you would, which is why Putin got so much support when he took over Crimea. He said, look, Bill, he said countries are like individuals, they have hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares. You didn't ever have Napoleon or Hitler all the way up in your belly.

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Input: Investigators claim she murdered the girl, who is believed to have learning difficulties, after starting a fire at the child's family home in a block of flats. Scroll down for video A burka-clad babysitter has been arrested in Moscow after she walked through the streets carrying the severed head of a four-year-old girl The nanny, Gyulchehra Bobokulova, 38, from Uzbekistan, has been arrested. It is now known that the beheaded remains of the girl, identified as Anastasia (Nastya) Meshcheryakova, were discovered inside her cot.

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Input: "I don't know what the reason is – I do know what the reason is, but I don't know how they can sell it," he says." We're not allowed to negotiate drug prices. We pay $ 300 billion more than if we negotiated the price." It's actually closer to $ 16 billion a year more, but the rest of it is true enough. Trump then goes on to personalize this story.

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Input: When the interviewer pressed Assange by noting Rich’s death was “just a robbery,” Assange replied, “No. There’s no finding.” Asked what he was suggesting, Assange replied, “I’m suggesting that our sources take risks ... We are concerned about it.” The website Snopes has debunked many of the conspiracy theories surrounding Rich’s death. Brad Bauman, a spokesperson working for Rich’s family, said that while help tracking down Rich’s killers is welcome, the speculation is not.

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Input: Socialism demands that we place blind trust in whoever takes the power to distribute society’s goods and services. History shows those who have this power abuse it in horrific ways. Nikolai Bukharin was executed by shooting in Moscow on March 15, 1938.

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Input: “Because of the vision that he’s been pursuing of emphasizing military might,” Obama told reporters at the summit, “we have not seen the type of progress that I would have hoped for with Russia.” This was putting it lightly. Over the course of Obama’s presidency, Russia has managed to negotiate deep cuts to the U.S. arsenal while substantially strengthening of its own. It has allegedly violated the treaty that limits the deployment of nuclear weapons in Europe and, in the last few years, it has brought disarmament talks with the U.S. to a complete standstill for the first time since the 1960s. In its rhetoric, Moscow has also returned to a habit of nuclear threats, while in its military exercises, it has begun to practice for a nuclear strike, according to the NATO military alliance.

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Input: Plight of the Palestinians Beyond the nuclear deal with Iran, Netanyahu has exacerbated tensions with the US and the European Union with his handling of the Palestinian question. A burgeoning campaign known as BDS, for link:18506073: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions has taken root, and nowhere more so than in Europe # -which remains Israel's largest export destination. But Netanyahu was incensed when new EU guidelines came out late last year calling for labeling goods grown or manufactured in the occupied West Bank. Watch video 03:55 Share West Bank heritage site highlights tensions Send Facebook Google+ Whatsapp Tumblr linkedin stumble Digg reddit Newsvine Permalink http://p.dw.com/p/1Ioug West Bank heritage site highlights tensions

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Input: Both French and Egyptian prime ministers said they were unable to rule out any possibility, including terrorism. Thursday's incident comes less than a year after Metrojet Flight 9268 crashed in northern Sinai in Egypt, killing all 224 people on board. Russian investigators blamed the crash on a bomb claimed by the Islamic State (ISIS), and Egypt's president later acknowledged the crash as a terrorist attack. Video: James Valles reporting (Twitter: @jamesvalles) This is a breaking news alert.

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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: “You have Obama there. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama, with all the strength that you’re talking about and all of the power of NATO and all of this, in the meantime, he’s going where – he takes – takes Crimea, he’s sort of – I mean …” It was a place Trump should not have gone, because Stephanopoulos then asked about a recent suggestion that he would recognize the Crimea as Russian territory and eliminate sanctions imposed after Russia’s invasion of the Ukrainian territory. “I’m going to take a look at it,” he said. “But, you know, the people of Crimea, from what I’ve heard, would rather be with Russia than where they were.”

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Input: They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press. Some of the suspects were shot dead in front of other ISIS fighters as a lesson, the Iraqi officials said. After the Tunisian militant Abu Hayjaa was killed on the road outside Raqqa on March 30, ISIS leadership in Iraq sent Iraqi and Chechen security officials to investigate, according to Abdurrahman and al-Talawy, the Syria-based activist. Suspects were rounded up, taken to military bases around Raqqa, and the purge ensued. Within days, 21 ISIS fighters were killed, including a senior commander from North Africa, Abdurrahman said.

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Input: Story Continued Below Some of the concerns raised by the former first daughter echo attacks that have been dogging her mother, Hillary Clinton, during her presidential campaign. Clinton’s GOP rival Donald Trump and other Republicans allege that the Clintons used their foundation and private business arrangements to enrich themselves by essentially auctioning off access to the powerful family and their associates in government — including during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. Teneo, in particular, did lucrative work for foundation donors and entities with business before Clinton’s State Department. And it signed a contract reportedly worth $ 3.5 million with Bill Clinton to serve as an adviser (though the former president ultimately kept only $ 100,000 of that, according to his tax returns and a source familiar with the arrangement).

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Input: Virgins are needed for meeting very rich men. Your home country and town do not matter Advert seeking escorts Related stories Eyes on the prize Montpellier midfielder Ryad Boudebouz hilariously caught ogling at French beauty queen LAG LOVE Prisoner, 22, writes love poem to his ' black beauty ' officer, 24, after she smuggled phones into prison for him On claud nine Italian beauty Claudia Romani celebrates AC Milan win by stripping down to her skimpy underwear ' I want people to look up to me ' Beauty Queen Soheila Clifford set to take X Factor by storm with sexy selfies Dolling up with the Kardashians Inside Kim Kardashian's £ 650 A DAY beauty routine PICTURE PERFECT? This Morning beauty Holly Willoughby like you've NEVER seen her before Just like mum Cindy Crawford's 15-year -old lookalike daughter Kaia Gerber unveiled as new face of Marc Jacobs beauty She claimed Anna was no longer living in the hotel where they originally stayed but was now in a flat in Dubai with two other eastern European girls who were ready to work as escorts.

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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: A BIG STOP IN THE FIGHT AGAINST THE FIFTH COLUMN: -- A former Virginia National Guardsman was arrested for plotting a terrorist attack on behalf of the Islamic State. Rachel Weiner and Joe Heim report some very scary details:" When Mohamed Bailor Jalloh walked into the Blue Ridge Arsenal gun store and indoor target range in Chantilly, Va., on Friday to purchase a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle, he had no idea that his every move was being monitored by the FBI. Jalloh, 26, spent about 10 minutes in the shop before attempting to buy the assault weapon, but he was told that he did not have the required three forms of identification to make the purchase, said Earl Curtis, the store’s owner. Jalloh told employees that he would return.

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Blue Ridge Arsenal gun store

Mohamed Bailor Jalloh

Mohamed Bailor Jalloh

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Input: As FAIR noted two weeks ago, the Clinton campaign directly coordinates online media with its Super PAC Correct the Record which has been attacking Sanders with an online troll army, text messages, videos, infographics and talking points for months. So even if one accepts the libertarian myth that Super PACs are somehow separate from campaigns, this can not be said about this Super PAC, which freely admits it works with Clinton. Using TV appearances and social media, Clinton herself linked Sanders to the Sandy Hook massacre and the far-right Minutemen militia. The core of the argument is that Sanders has never been asked about his “socialist ties” from the ‘70s and ‘80s. From Goldberg’s May 2 polemic:

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Input: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Hillary Clinton will debate tonight in Wisconsin as both try to court minority voters who will dominate the caucuses and primaries ahead. The debate will take place hours after a Washington Post revealed that the State Department subpoenaed the Clinton Foundation. PBS’s Judy Woodruff, who will moderate the debate with Gwen Ifill, donated to the Clinton Foundation. So it will be interesting to see if Clinton is grilled on today’s report. advertisement

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Input: Advertisement “Our government refuses to hire the best people,” McAfee said, “because the best people have purple hair, tattoos and piercings, and they want to smoke weed while they work. So the Russians are hiring them.” McAfee also questions the truthfulness of the FBI’s assertion that it had no way to break into the San Bernardino shooter’s phone unless Apple weakened the security of the iPhone’s operating system. In an interview with Forbes, McAfee said the FBI could have unlocked the phone “immediately” with a device in their possession, a Cellebrite UFED Touch.

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Input: North Carolina stood out from other states only because its Republican officials made the mistake of putting their motives in writing. The other elements — the belief, against all evidence, that Democrats benefit from pervasive fraud; the support for measures designed to suppress minority voting — are points of party consensus. Mike Roman, the figure Trump has tapped to direct his “election security” operation, once whipped conservatives into a frenzy by promoting a misleading but scary video of New Black Panthers at a polling station in Philadelphia, then ran the Koch brothers’ intelligence agency. Trump’s policy of fomenting white panic and suppressing the nonwhite vote is best-practice behavior within his party. This behavior will last beyond Trump.

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Mike Roman

conservatives


Input: We’ve lost our privacy. We’ve seen, under Obama, an assault against civil liberties that has outstripped what George W. Bush carried out. We’ve seen the executive branch misinterpret the 2001 Authorization to Use Military Force Act as giving itself the right to assassinate American citizens, including children. I speak of Anwar al-Awlaki’s 16-year -old son. We have bailed out the banks, pushed through programs of austerity.

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Input: As Mr. Marczak examined the spyware further, he found that it was being deployed from 67 different servers and that the emails had baited more than 400 people into clicking its links and unknowingly loading its malware onto their machines. He also found that 24 Emiratis were being targeted with the same spyware on Twitter. At least three of those targeted were arrested shortly after the surveillance began; another was later convicted of insulting Emirate rulers in absentia. Mr. Marczak and the Citizen Lab plan to release details of the custom Emirates spyware online on Monday. He has developed a tool he called Himaya — an Arabic word that roughly means “protection” — that will allow others to see if they are being targeted as well.

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Input: They include President Xi Jinping and two more, Zhang Gaoli and Liu Yanshan, who sit on the party's powerful seven-member Standing Committee. According to several reports, posts about the leak are being scrubbed from Chinese social networks including Sina Weibo and Wechat, after the topic started to trend on those networks early Monday. The so-called papers, which were comprised of 11 million documents leaked from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca and reported on Sunday, indicate that at least 140 current or former world leaders set up offshore accounts to conceal their assets. In total, the firm has set up more than 240,000 of those accounts. Several Western countries have begun investigations into whether the information warrants prosecution.

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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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Yemen


Input: "Despite having the most powerful economy on earth, the United States too often reaches for the gun instead of the purse in its international conduct," they write. China doesn't just use punitive measures to get what it wants. It routinely gives loans and aid to countries like Venezuela that are at odds with the United States. Beijing also wields its massive sovereign wealth fund to invest -- tactically -- in parts of the world where it also wants to build political ties. The Chinese even engage in "soccer stadium diplomacy" where they fund and construct brand new stadiums, mostly in African countries with natural resources that China wants.

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Input: In a speech in January 2010, Clinton warned Beijing it risked isolating itself it it didn't sign on. Those UN sanctions were ultimately adopted in June 2010, and President Barack Obama declared them the toughest ever enacted on Tehran. But that assessment was soon outstripped by unilateral sanctions enacted by the U.S. Congress, which went beyond the U.N. punishment, and that Obama ultimately signed into law. Top Iranian officials have admitted that sanctions relief included in the Iran deal drove them to begin talks, backing up Clinton's claim that her push to enact sanctions brought Tehran to the nuclear negotiations. But while Clinton's role in pushing foreign countries to adopt the tough UN sanctions is clear, it's also evident U.S. lawmakers pushed for tough sanctions as well -- indeed, tougher sanctions than Clinton was lobbying for abroad.

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Input: The bar has now been set so low for the GOP nominee that he could do the following on stage in St. Louis and still receive passing grades: suggest that as president he would jail his opponent; defend Vladimir Putin and Russia over the hacking of the U.S. election; praise brutal Syrian tyrant Bashar Assad; admit to not paying federal income tax; and rebuke his own running mate for daring to criticize Russia over the indiscriminate bombing of Syrian civilians. That's a very partial list. Trump also lied with enthusiastic regularity, again saying he opposed the second Iraq war before it started (he didn't), claimed his opponent would jack up the tax rate on the middle class (she says she won't) and protested that he did not Tweet at 3 a.m. that people should check out a sex tape featuring a former Miss Universe (he did). 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.

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Input: "Cocaine or heroin, we know what the purpose is," said Allan Lai, an officer-in-charge at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Calgary, who is helping oversee the criminal investigation." With respect to carfentanil, we don't know why a substance of that potency is coming into our country." In August and September, high-level delegations of Chinese and U.S. drug enforcement authorities met to discuss joint efforts on synthetic opioids, but neither meeting produced any substantive announcement on carfentanil. Nonetheless, some Chinese vendors are already bracing for a new wave of controls. In an email, Wonder Synthesis wrote," If you need any chems, just hurry to buy."

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Input: Trump lied when he said the Federal Reserve is doing political things by keeping interest rates down. Trump lied when he said Hillary called TPP the finest deal she’s ever seen. Trump lied when he said Hillary treated President Obama with terrible disrespect during the debates. Trump lied when he said she wants to approve TPP. Trump lied when he said Hillary’s regulations will kill jobs.

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Input: “Someone who kills and jails his adversaries, has basically destroyed Russian democracy.” Clark, who unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004, said Trump “does n’t do his homework,” appears to be “totally consumed by self-interest” and, with business connections all over the world, wo n’t release his tax returns, raising questions about conflict of interest. “I’d like to know who invests in his properties, who controls his loans, what the business connection is with Russia,” he said. “We ca n’t have someone as our commander in chief and president who does n’t understand American values and whose character is n’t suited to the awesome responsibility of that office.” This year’s presidential campaign has garnered a lot more political involvement by former military leaders in support of the candidates, drawing criticism from former commander of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey who warned these actions could undermine the political neutrality of the military.

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Input: That will not work. Indicted by a Democratic administration, Clinton can not claim that it's the "vast right-wing conspiracy." That line has no relevance if President Obama's Justice Department indicts her. 14. The party, the donors and bundlers, the super-delegates and incumbents will not want to run alongside an indicted person.

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Input: WikiLeaks was the subject of every cable TV discussion and every newspaper front page, and press packs swarmed the gates of every address even tenuously connected to it. Commentators called for arrest, deportation, rendition, or even assassination of Assange and his associates. At the same time, WikiLeaks was having its payment accounts frozen by Visa and Mastercard, Amazon Web Services pulled hosting support, and Assange was jailed for a week in the UK (before being bailed) on unrelated charges relating to alleged sexual offences in Sweden. Inside WikiLeaks, a tiny organisation with only a few hundred thousand dollars in the bank, such pressure felt immense. Most of the handful of people within came from a left-wing activist background, many were young and inexperienced, and few had much trust of the US government – especially after months of reading cables of US mistakes and overreactions in the Afghan and Iraq war logs, often with tragic consequences.

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Input: But mainstream politicians could be far more useful to the Kremlin than extremists, analysts say, since they still control most of the levers that could lead to an easing of sanctions, and Russia has courted politicians from Germany to Hungary to Slovakia to France. Still, some see sharp limits to Kremlin influence. The interference in the false German rape case helped spark a backlash among an electorate that remained sympathetic to Russia. The E.U. sanctions have repeatedly been renewed.

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Input: So, we have had a major hand in the chaos of Syria and, indeed, the major hand instigating the chaos in the Middle East. So, being the wealthiest country in the world, it’s very important that we do our share in caring for the Syrian refugees. But, let me say, it’s also really important that we go back to this crisis in Syria and in the Middle East, and instead of continuing to pour gasoline on this fire, we need to take a stand on behalf of a weapons embargo to all parties, since our weapons are getting into the hands of all parties. We need to impose a freeze on the bank accounts of our allies that are continuing to fund terrorist enterprises, and to work with the Turks, who are our ally — in name, at least — to close down their border to the flow of terrorist militias across their border. That is the contribution that we need to make.

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Input: Forms of fentanyl are suspected in at least one known assassination attempt, and were used by Russian forces against Chechen separatists who took hundreds of hostages at a Moscow theater in 2002. The chemicals are banned from the battlefield under the Chemical Weapons Convention. In fiscal year 2014, U.S. authorities seized just 3.7 kilograms (8.1 pounds) of fentanyl. This fiscal year, through just mid-July, they have seized 134.1 kilograms (295 pounds), according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data obtained by the AP. Fentanyl is the most frequently seized synthetic opioid, U.S. Customs reports.

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Input: For a role model, the authors point to Portugal, which decriminalized not only cannabis but also possession of heroin, cocaine and methamphetamine. HIV transmission, hepatitis C and incarcerations all decreased, Beyrer said, and there was about a 15 per cent decline in substance use by young people in Portugal. Syringe restrictions legislated during the 1980s war on drugs contributed to Danny Wilson's HIV infection. (CBC) The authors found the biggest factor driving higher rates of infection among drug users was that they were excessively incarcerated and excluded from HIV and hepatitis C prevention, treatment and harm-reduction programs.

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Input: His statement provoked a sharp reaction from the broadcaster, which denounced Gulen’s attempt to pressure the channel to cancel its broadcast, and aired the documentary. “We can never accept this. We will protest against any attempt to exert pressure that threatens freedom of expression,” said TV4’s program director, Viveka Hansson, in a statement on the company’s website. Speaking to Expressen, Gulen said that he had “full respect for freedom of expression and for the channel,” but refused to retract his plea to TV4 to withdraw the documentary piece. “These are my feelings.

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Input: In addition to the highly technical process of tracing each intrusion to a specific computer, prosecutors then try to prove that a particular person executed the attack at that computer, or show that the “digital fingerprints” are unique to that individual, said Peter Toren, a cybercrime attorney and former DOJ cyber prosecutor. Presenting this evidence in court could also expose valuable secret surveillance footholds in Russian intelligence agencies. Raj De, a former National Security Agency general counsel, said spy agencies are typically “very reticent to burn sources and methods for any activity.” Revealing such tactics could even open up the NSA to lawsuits over its surveillance operations. Together, these factors mean that getting such an indictment before November “would be an impossibility,” according to one former DOJ National Security Division prosecutor. Sanctions could serve as a more expedient option.

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Input: “There’s a 27-year -old who works for the DNC and who was shot in the back, murdered, just a few weeks ago, for unknown reasons as he was walking down the streets in Washington.” Seth Rich, shown at left, a DNC employee who did voter outreach, was shot to death last month early in the morning in Washington, D.C. The case is unsolved and Washington, D.C., police have speculated it was an attempted robbery. On Reddit, his death has become the source of theories about whether he was involved in the leaks. WikiLeaks released emails and files from the Democratic National Committee last month.

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Input: They were quickly released and pardoned following international pressure. But Mr. Mansoor’s real troubles began shortly after his release. He was beaten and robbed of his car, and $ 140,000 was stolen from his bank account. He did not learn that he was being monitored until a year later, when Mr. Marczak found the spyware on his devices. “It was as bad as someone encroaching in your living room, a total invasion of privacy, and you begin to learn that maybe you should n’t trust anyone anymore,” Mr. Mansoor recalled.

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Input: In nine debates, Sanders has been asked questions about his socialism a total of ten times (roughly the amount of questions asked about Russia). In the very first debate, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, after bringing up Sanders “honeymooning in the Soviet Union” and support for the Sandinistas, pushed Sanders to pledge his loyalty to capitalism with three consecutive follow-up questions. Keep in mind these were the first four questions in the very first debate — the first impression millions of Americans had of the largely unknown senator: COOPER: Senator Sanders. A Gallup poll says half the country would not put a socialist in the White House.

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Input: It was everything we hate about scripted mannequin candidates captured in a brief crack in the political façade. Charles Ommanney / Getty Rubio plummeted in the polls, and Kasich, already mentally checked out, was the surprise second-place finisher in New Hampshire, with 15.8 percent of the vote." Something big happened tonight," Kasich said vaguely, not seeming sure what that thing was exactly. Even worse from a Republican point of view, Dinkley McBush somehow finished fourth, above Rubio and in a virtual tie with Iowa winner Ted Cruz.

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Input: The hacked DNC emails, which included some that disparaged Hillary Clinton's opponent, Bernie Sanders, were released by the organization called WikiLeaks on the eve of the Democratic National Convention and forced the resignation of national committee chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has said he intended to harm Hillary Clinton's campaign with the release. Assange, who has lived for years in Ecuador's embassy in London, avoiding extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual misconduct, said that "no one knows who our source is." The one source mentioned most often by Clinton aides, pundits including conservative George Will, and U.S. intelligence services, is the Russian government led by Vladimir Putin. (The best evidence for the link was discovered by a British professor who revealed it earlier this month.)

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Input: As for Ailes, the Trump campaign denies that he is playing any official role. (It hasn't denied the New York Times revelation that Ailes met with Trump on Sunday in New Jersey.) Does this official explanation withstand inspection? Hardly. Trump's got a core group of supporters who love his nativist, outsider shtick and pack his rallies.

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Input: The Russian embassy in Pyongyang made the announcement this week that 2,394 tons of flour and other food items have been sent to the North Korean port city of Chongjin, Sputnik news agency reported Thursday. The flour was sent through the United Nations World Food Program and was made possible with a Russian donation, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap. This is the second time in 2016 Russia has delivered a shipment. In March, Moscow provided funds for the delivery of 2,500 tons of flour to North Korea. The flour is to be used to produce nutritious biscuits and cereals that can be distributed to child daycare centers in North Hamgyong and Kangwon provinces, according to the report.

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Input: The rest is “analysis” by various “experts,” claiming that the whole thing is a diversion – oddly, the same line peddled by Ambassador Pyatt – to which are added the author’s own description of Putin’s reaction as “menacing.” The BBC helpfully adds that, while Panov may have been a “volunteer” fighter, he was “more recently” associated with “a charitable organization.” Since when do members of “charitable” organizations wear camouflage while sneaking over heavily-guarded borders in the dead of night? So there’s an effective embargo on reliable news from this dark corner of the battlefield between East and West. Yet it’s possible, if we glean facts from disparate sources, to outline how the incident unfolded. CNN, after shilly-shallying for four or five paragraphs – reporting Poroshenko’s denials and Ukrainian military measures to counteract a long-touted and entirely mythical Russian “invasion” – finally coughs up some facts, citing Tass:

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Input: All four girls married fighters approved by Isis – including an Australian and a US national – and two became widows within months of arriving in Syria, their families were told. In March last year, the Metropolitan police commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, said the teenagers could return home without fear of being prosecuted for terrorism, as long as no evidence emerged of them being engaged in violence. Akunjee told ITV: “Leaving Isis is like trying to escape from Alcatraz, with a shoot-to-kill order added in ... Perhaps the only benefit out of this is as a tombstone and a testimony for others of the risks of actually going to a war zone, to dissuade people from ever making that choice.”

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Input: Oil prices have dropped below $ 30 a barrel in recent months, a fall of 70 percent since 2014. Al Jazeera's Bernard Smith, reporting from Doha, said that the challenge would be to get other producing countries, including Iran, to freeze production as well. Iran's IRNA news agency said on Sunday the country had exported its first crude shipment to Europe since it reached a landmark deal last year with world powers. IRNA quoted Rokneddin Javadi, Iran's deputy oil minister, as saying the shipment, the first in five years, marked "a new chapter" in Iran's oil industry. Javadi said Iran had already reached an agreement to export oil to France, Russia and Spain.

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Iran

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Input: 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. China was so infuriated that Beijing told its television stations to suspend any new shows with South Korean stars, sources said earlier this week.

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Input: The 2010 ban sent prices skyrocketing in key markets like Egypt, fueling unrest that contributed to a revolution. But exports have been growing since Russia first returned in volume to the global wheat market in 2002. Over the first seven months of this year, farm and food exports were 5.5 percent of Russia’s total, still far behind top-ranked oil and gas but the highest share in at least 15 years and more than big earners like weapons, according to official data. “With our nature and climate, it’s our destiny to be an exporter,” said Arkady Zlochevsky, president of the Russian Grain Union, an industry group. The price of Russian wheat for export from Black Sea ports dropped to the lowest in at least six years in July and was last at $ 169 a metric ton as of Sept. 30, according to the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies.

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Input: Should the accusations continue to grow in this respect, Transport Malta would eventually be called in to investigate since the ships fly the Maltese maritime flag. Last September, the BMZ Group purchased two oil tankers from the Malta-based Oil Transportation & Shipping Services Co Ltd, which is owned by Azerbaijani billionaire Mubariz Mansimov and which is reported to be an affiliate of the BMZ Group. Another three oil tankers purchased by BMZ were acquired from Palmali Shipping and Transportation Agency, which is also owned by Mansimov and which shares the same Istanbul address, according to the International Maritime Organization registry, with Oil Transportation & Shipping Services Co Ltd, which is owned by Mansimov’s Palmali Group, along with dozens of other companies set up in Malta. These include a number of the group’s holding companies, shipping companies, and offshore services companies. The Palmali Group is based in Istanbul but the lion’s share of its holdings and businesses appear to be registered in Malta through dozens of offshore companies.

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Input: In a typical sale, the US government is involved every step of the way. The Pentagon often does assessments of an allied nation’s armed forces in order to tell them what they “need”—and of course what they always need is billions of dollars in new US-supplied equipment. Then the Pentagon helps negotiate the terms of the deal, notifies Congress of its details, and collects the funds from the foreign buyer, which it then gives to the US supplier in the form of a defense contract. In most deals, the Pentagon is also the point of contact for maintenance and spare parts for any US-supplied system. The bureaucracy that helps make all of this happen, the Defense Security Cooperation Agency, is funded from a 3.5 percent surcharge on the deals it negotiates.

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Input: New Delhi, Aug 14: Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Friday voiced his support for the ex-servicemen protesting at the Jantar Mantar here and challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come out with a date bringing in the One Rank, One Pension (OROP) scheme. The Gandhi scion, who interacted with the ex-servicemen here, told the media that they should not be removed from the protest venue as they are not doing anything wrong." People from the army and jawans spend their lives on the border, they are protesting now and they shouldn't be removed. These people are just protesting and not doing anything wrong. They shouldn't be hurt and removed, they're protesting for their right.

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Input: A mysterious online group calling itself “The Shadow Brokers” is claiming to have penetrated the National Security Agency, stolen some of its malware, and is auctioning off the files to the highest bidder. The authenticity of the files can not be confirmed but appear to be legitimate, according to security researchers who have studied their content. Their release comes on the heels of a series of disclosures of emails and documents belonging mostly to Democratic officials, but also to Republicans.

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Input: -- Meanwhile, John Kasich tells Dan Balz that the delegates should “search their own consciences” and decide whether to support Trump in Cleveland. “They have to weigh their responsibilities against their consciences and then make a decision about what they want to do,” the Ohio governor said yesterday. Kasich, who pledged during the primaries to support the eventual nominee, has not lived up to his commitment and shows no signs of doing so. Asked directly if he is likely to back Trump before the convention, he said, “Probably not. Unless I see a Saul-to-Paul transformation on the road to Damascus, I do n’t see it happening.

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Input: This number is consistent with a long-term trend of declining violent crime in Maryland during O'Malley's time in office, from 2007-2015. But Maryland's drop in the number of violent crimes reported also coincided with a national drop in violent crime reported by the FBI in the same period. Meanwhile, O'Malley argued that his state-level policies helped reduce the rate of those imprisoned to a 20-year low. The Bureau of Justice Statistics listed Maryland's imprisoned population at 19,977 in 1992. By 2002, that number had jumped to 24,162, but by 2012, the number imprisoned had dropped to 22,558.

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Input: The Republicans’ creation will soon be let loose on the land, leaving to others the job the party failed to carry out.” Then referring to himself, he added, “For this former Republican, and perhaps for others, the only choice will be to vote for Hillary Clinton.” [See Consortiumnews.com’s “Neocon Kagan Endorses Hillary Clinton.”] Kagan, whom Clinton appointed to a State Department advisory panel, is married to Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, a former senior aide to Vice President Dick Cheney who rose under Clinton and helped orchestrate the Ukraine coup which sabotaged Obama’s behind-the-scenes cooperation with Putin on touchy issues such as Iran and Syria. The Ukraine coup also opened the U.S. military-spending spigot even wider to pay for a new Cold War. [See Consortiumnews.com’s “A Family Business of Perpetual War.”] Unpopular Warmongering

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Input: > > > > The name itself is a play on Ready for Hillary, a group organizing for Clinton. > > > > Warren has repeatedly said she is not running for president, telling multiple outlets the same present tense phrase:" I am not running for president." > > > > Her disavowal of the super PAC urging her to run sets her apart from Clinton. Ready for Hillary has received tacit support from people close to Clinton and the former secretary of state has not told the group to stop. > > > > > > > > > > CNN: “Democrat Jim Webb: One show not enough to fully criticize Clinton's record” > > > > By Dan Merica > > August 22, 2014, 4:35 p.m. EDT > > > > Democrat Jim Webb needs more than one show if you want him to critique Hillary Clinton's record as secretary of state.

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Input: American presidents face crises like this on a regular basis. President Ronald Reagan faced a similar situation in 1988 when the US accidentally shot down an Iranian civilian aircraft. In 2001, in one of George W. Bush’s first foreign policy tests, a US spy plane crashed in China after colliding with a Chinese fighter jet that had been following it. Bush apologized to the Chinese. Reagan never formally apologized to the Iranians, but the two nations ultimately reached a settlement.

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Input: A former New York Times reporter, Johnston won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for revealing inequities and loopholes in the U.S. tax code." Many of the retail stores you walk into, especially big box retailers and in some cases entire shopping centers, legally keep the sales taxes you pay at the cash register," he said." That's because government bought the land, often after condemning it through eminent domain and had the buildings erected to the specifications of the company, but the land and building are actually owned by a government entity, and the cost of buying the land and putting up the building are paid for with your taxpayer dollars. That's not capitalism. That's not market economics.

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Input: So far, it’s unclear whether Trump or Clinton will benefit most from a strong third-party vote. There are voters in each party who feel spurned by their party's ticket — Republicans who refuse to side with Trump, and Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? ' Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan MORE supporters who feel their candidate did not get a fair shake in the Democratic primary. Conventional wisdom has held that votes for the Libertarian ticket would hurt Republicans, while Green Party votes would do damage to the Democrats. That dynamic is borne out by recent polling.

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Input: GETTY Experts warn Vladimir Putin is ' mobilising for war ' and could demolish Eastern Europe RUSSIA “is mobilising for war” and could demolish the Baltic states “within 60 hours”, according to terrifying a new security report. Hundreds more troops could be pumped into Eastern Europe to bolster NATO forces amid fears that Russia is gearing-up for a large-scale attack. The shocking report, published by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), warns the Kremlin is not simply “modernising its military”, it is preparing for war.

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Input: The deal requires Iran to give up any ambitions it may have harbored of building a nuclear weapon. In exchange The agreement hinges on what the Obama administration describes as the most comprehensive inspection and monitoring system ever imposed, plus the threat of sanctions "snapping back" if Iran is found in breach of the deal's terms. Assurances from Obama and some nuclear experts have done little to sway Netanyahu. David Makovsky, a Middle East expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said Netanyahu and Putin may have legitimate security issues to discuss, but he added:" They clearly have a good rapport.

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Input: Saudi Arabia has repeatedly been condemned for its indiscriminate targeting of the Yemeni population. In the war the Riyadh regime has launched on Yemen, at least 10,000 people have been killed, with many of them being civilians, according to the United Nations (UN). 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.

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Input: The Koch-funded technology firm i360 manages all that data and produces those apps AFP canvassers rely on when they’re knocking on doors. Its database is a vault of voting records, consumer data, census information and social media profiles on more than 250 million adults, i360 says, 190 million of whom are registered to vote. In today’s high-tech politics, this kind of granular data is crucial for conducting the kind of targeted campaigns that win elections. “They’ve been very transparent about what they’re trying to do, and I think a lot of people do n’t believe them,” Wilson muses. “They want to replace political parties.”

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Input: He also became the largest contributor to Governor Hugh Carey of New York, except for Carey’s brother. Trump and his father gave $ 135,000. He was moving quickly now; he had set himself up in a Fifth Avenue office and a Fifth Avenue apartment and had hired Louise Sunshine, Carey’s chief of fund-raising, as his “director of special projects.” “I knew Donald better than anyone,” she told me. “We’re a team, Sunshine and Trump, and when people shove us, we shove harder.” Sunshine had raised millions of dollars for Carey, and she had one of the greatest address books in the city. She took Donald to meet every city and state power broker and worked on the sale of the Trump Tower apartments.

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Input: Trump has tried to downplay any potential issues involving his own business empire and the Russian government by insisting, among other things, “I do n’t know Putin. ’’ But his two aides were unable to distance themselves. Manafort resigned from the campaign in August amid growing heat over his ties to Ukraine’s pro-Russian government. Gates hung on a bit longer — till last month — before he also stepped down. Through Manafort’s consulting company, David Manafort & Freeman, the pair had helped elect Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine’s pro-Putin president.

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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: “As to whether they assimilate or not, you make the decision,” Mr. Trump said. “But assimilation has not been exactly a positive factor.” Mr. Trump, who last month said he would be open to negotiating directly with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, went further on Wednesday in his commitment to being open to talk to anyone. “I would n’t go there, that I can tell you,” Mr. Trump said of North Korea. “If he came here, I’d accept him, but we would n’t have a state dinner like we do for China and all these other people who rip us off.”

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Input: As one now-former Democrat wrote in a blog titled, “Dear Democratic Party, I’m Leaving You and I’m Taking the Kids”: “When my party decides to build A WALL (!!!) around their convention, in fear that perhaps democracy might find a way in, then they are no longer my party … When my party crowns an Empress, before the first vote is even cast, then they are no longer my party … When my party colludes with corporate media heads to falsify ‘the news’ and deceive the American people into not voting, then they are no longer my party.” The blogger vowed to “spend the remainder of [their] years fighting against them,” and is joined by prominent liberals equally offended by the primary process and party corruption. Growing disdain for the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton is matched only by the Republicans vowing # NeverTrump.

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Input: Clinton, nevertheless, is by no means the only one to have accused Snowden of failing to raise concerns inside the NSA and enjoying the ostensible concomitant whisteblower protections. Many other politicians have used the same argument to criticize Snowden, including President Obama himself. Yet, as The New Yorker noted at the time, “From a civil-liberties perspective — and a factual perspective — Clinton’s answers were disturbing enough that they warrant parsing.” The argument “does n’t withstand inspection.” At the time, it was already known that this argument was flawed. In its fact check of the October debate, The Washington Post noted, “Clinton is likely wrong that Snowden would have received the protections of a whistleblower.”

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Input: Unless this is reopened, you will see Aleppo falling day by day into a similar situation as in Madaya and Ghouta and you will see a deepening humanitarian crisis," he said." They are hitting any vehicles that are on the move, they are hitting aid trucks," he added." We really urge that the Russian attacks on Azaz and Aleppo should stop, because if there is such a policy to clear this area of all human beings ... then we may not be able to cope with the influx." SUPPLY LINE The Syrian army's success in opening a route to the Shi'ite towns of Nubul and Zahraa enabled it to cut a highway that linked rebel held areas in the northern countryside with the eastern part of Aleppo held by insurgents since 2012.

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Input: Weddings and funerals have been banned and Pyongyang is in lockdown as preparations for a once-in-a-generation party congress get underway in North Korea. The ruling Worker’s Party of Korea, headed by the country's leader, Kim Jong-un, is due to stage the first gathering of its kind for 36 years on Friday. Free movement in and out of the capital has also been forbidden and there has been an increase in inspections and property searches, according to Daily NK, which claims to have sources in the country.

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Input: Image copyright AFP Image caption Persecuted Armenian intellectuals were remembered at a ceremony in Istanbul in April The German parliament has approved a resolution declaring that the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks during World War One was a "genocide". Armenians say up to 1.5 million of their people died in the atrocities of 1915. Turkey says the toll was much lower and rejects the term "genocide".

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Input: The Democratic nominee made roughly $ 3 million off her books — the latest of which is 2014’s Hard Choices — and more than $ 1.4 million in speaking fees. Her husband made money in a similar fashion: about $ 29,000 from his books, about $ 5.25 million from speaking engagements, and more than $ 1.5 million in consulting fees. Together, the Clintons donated a little over $ 1 million to charity, the bulk of which went to their family’s Clinton Foundation. Her running mate, Tim Kaine, and his wife, Anne Holton, reported over $ 300,000 in income. The way the Clintons made their money last year translates to their high tax rate, Gale said: They are “paying a much higher rate than, say, Mitt Romney did in 2012 or Warren Buffett does, because those people’s income is all in the form of capital gains.” Capital gains are generally taxed at a lower rate.

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Input: The infection has resurfaced in western Siberia 75 years after the previous outbreak. The child died in hospital in the city of Salekhard, the capital of the Yamalo-Nenetsk Autonomous Area, where quarantine over the anthrax outbreak was declared last week. The boy was among several dozen indigenous people evacuated from the contaminated area. “We are 90 percent sure that he died from anthrax. He had the intestinal form of the disease, which is harder to diagnose,” the office of Yamal Governor Dmitry Kobylkin told TASS.

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Input: This module, known as Schiaparelli, will carry a number of scientific instruments, but its primary purpose is to test systems needed to get the rover down safely in 2019 or 2021, whichever date is chosen for that endeavour. These critical landing systems include a radar, computers and their algorithms. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The second ExoMars mission is a UK-assembled rover Image copyright MOLA Image caption Schiaparelli is being targeted at Meridiani Planum-the same place as Nasa's Opportunity rover Image copyright TAS Image caption The Trace Gas Orbiter was assembled by European manufacturer Thales Alenia Space

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Input: But Putin’s comments are at odds with how the network operates in practice, according to interviews with people who closely watch or have worked at RT, and my own hours of monitoring the network and its website. One former RT staffer in Washington told me that she left her job, along with others who have also spoken to the media, after seeing the network’s Moscow-based editors instruct journalists to make their coverage hew to the Moscow-approved political line. Such concerns erupted into full view a couple years ago when Russia marched into neighboring Ukraine to annex the Crimean Peninsula, leading a 28-year -old RT presenter named Liz Wahl to quit on-air, declaring, “I can not be a part of a network funded by the Russian government that whitewashes the actions of Putin.” Just under the surface is a bought-and-paid-for propaganda vehicle trying to nudge viewers toward Russia’s side of the story at a time when Moscow has increasingly become an international pariah. Today, it’s clear RT operates less as the free and independent news source Putin touted, and more as a vehicle that increasingly uses the available tools of the digital revolution — from viral videos (“ Animated Genitals,” “Lawnmower Explodes”) to entertainingly snarky tweets — to promote Russia’s message.

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Input: And once you have fallen foul of Assange — challenged him too openly, criticised him in public, not toed the line loyally enough — you are done. There is no such thing as honest disagreement, no such thing as a loyal opposition differing on a policy or political stance. To criticise Assange is to be a careerist, to sell your soul for power or advantage, to be a spy or an informer. To save readers a Google search or two, he would tell you I was in WikiLeaks as an “intern” for a period of “weeks”, and during that time acted as a mole for The Guardian, stole documents, and had potential ties to MI5. Compared to some who’ve criticised Assange, I got off fairly lightly.

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Input: Every president and first lady face vicious criticism; most of them, however, have not had to explain it to small children. “That is what Barack and I think about every day,” Obama said, “as we try to guide and protect our girls through the challenges of this unusual life in the spotlight. “How we urge them to ignore those who question their father’s citizenship or faith. How we insist that the hateful language that they hear from public figures on TV does not represent the true spirit of this country. How we explain that when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do n’t stoop to their level.

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Input: Nixon first emphasised US aid to the refugees, but then sharply warned that launching a war was unacceptable. He said that the United States needed to maintain some influence with Pakistan, which explained a “most limited” continuation of military supply. Hitting his talking points, he recited the ways that the United States had ameliorated Pakistan’s positions: preventing a famine in East Pakistan, naming a civilian governor of East Pakistan, welcoming back refugees, talking to acceptable Awami League leaders, not executing Mujib, and now withdrawing some troops from India’s border. The United States could go no further. Gandhi listened, Kissinger later wrote, with “aloof indifference.”

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Input: A few days after that statement, the world got a more colorful reminder of Putin’s position on nuclear disarmament. During a meeting at the Kremlin with his top generals on Nov. 10, he accused the U.S. of trying to “neutralize” Russia’s nuclear arsenal by building a missile shield over Europe, one that could knock Russian rockets out of the sky. In response, he said, Russia would have to “strengthen the potential of its strategic nuclear forces,” including the deployment of “attack systems” capable of piercing any missile shield. As if on cue, a state television camera then zoomed in on a piece of paper that one of the generals was holding in his hand. It showed the plans for a nuclear device codenamed Status-6, complete with a curt definition of its purpose: “to create an extensive zone of radioactive contamination” along the enemy’s coast, rendering it uninhabitable “for a long time.”

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Input: Hillary Clinton’s main new supporter, Muhammad Tahir Javed, this report continues, has long been identified by the FSB as a “suspected” terror supporter and ISI “agent” since he arrived in the United States in 1989 during the President Bill Clinton regime and over the past quarter century has amassed a fortune through his “convenience store empire” located in Texas and the American south which he has vastly expanded into other business areas making him one of the most powerful Islamic businessmen in both the US and Pakistan. FSB intelligence on the “true” business practices of Muhammad Tahir Javed though, this report notes, appear to show that his fortune was made through his involvement with the ISI and Mexican drug cartels utilizing the “complicity / support” of American government officials. To the exact working of the ISI’s and Muhammad Tahir Javed’s “scheme” to support global Islamic terrorists, this report says, was recently detailed in news reports from the US State of Alabama where 11 of Javed’s affiliated convenience stores were confiscated this past summer, and as we can, partly, read about: “A couple of steaks shoplifted at a Gardendale Walmart three months ago led to the biggest food stamp fraud investigation in Alabama history, and launched 11 simultaneous raids this morning at convenience stores countywide. Led by the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office, teams of law enforcement officers met at 5 a.m. for a briefing and then fanned out across the county beginning at 6:50 a.m.

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Input: “Must be a pretty picture, you dropping to your knees,” he smirked to a contestant on “The Apprentice” as she described how she had pleaded not to be fired from the show. At his California golf course, Trump told managers, according to a lawsuit, to fire women who were “not pretty enough” — ordering, “I want you to get some good-looking hostesses here.” For women sexually harassed in the workplace, Trump suggested they take the advice he would give his daughter — quit and get another job. Those who threaten Trump’s alpha-male status are met with vicious treatment. After Fox News’ Megyn Kelly asked Trump about calling women “fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals,’ Trump said of Kelly: “You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever” — the unmistakable message being that Kelly must have been menstruating as an explanation for her demanding a straight answer. When Carly Fiorina was gaining on Trump in Republican primary polls, Trump mocked not her business credentials but her appearance: “Look at that face!” “Would anyone vote for that?” he asked.

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Input: In the three years since Edward Snowden landed in Moscow, his relationship with his hosts has been a source of much speculation and controversy. The American IT contractor, who worked for the CIA and NSA until he fled Hawaii with more than a million purloined secret files, has not left Russia since he arrived at Sheremetyevo airport on 23 June 2013, on a flight from Hong Kong. Snowden landed in Moscow with the permission of the Russian government, whose representatives he met during his sojourn in Hong Kong that lasted more than three weeks. He became so friendly with them that he actually celebrated his 30th birthday at the Russian consulate!

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Input: Investors from local farmers to billionaire tycoons are pumping money into the business. Russian wheat has crowded out U.S. supplies in Egypt, the world’s biggest buyer, and is gaining footholds in some other countries, such as Nigeria, Bangladesh and Indonesia. That’s four decades after the Soviet Union turned to U.S. shipments of wheat and corn to offset shortfalls in its own harvests. Over the last decade, Russia has been the biggest single source of growth in wheat exports, vital to meeting surging global demand. “Russia will be among the top exporters for a long time, especially given the potential advances in productivity there,” said Tom Basnett, general manager at Market Check, a Sydney-based commodity consultant.

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Input: She has done nothing remotely illegal, and her paranoia may be largely explained by the baseless charges of her overheated critics. After several investigations into the deaths in Benghazi, Republicans hunting for Hillary's scalp came away with a whole lot of nothing. Trump's vow to throw her in prison is an unnerving reminder of his scorn for Constitutional restraint. In fact, we endorse Hillary Clinton not just because Trump is such a scary alternative, but because she is ready for this job, in experience and temperament. Her flaws are outweighed by her virtues, and it's not a close call.

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