Input: A prominent Israeli Holocaust survivor from Poland who lived through World War II as a refugee in Russia spoke out what he called “demagogues who falsely compare persecuted Jews to migrants from Syria.” Natan Rom, 87, who is among the best-known survivors of the group of refugees known as the Tehran Children, spoke out against recent analogies in international media during an interview ahead of the Russia premiere of a 2007 documentary film about the group’s trials. Relevant to your professional network?

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Input: If Clinton’s executive power grab is challenged and the issue ends up in the Supreme Court, her allies will uphold this abuse, essentially ending Congress’s ability to “check” executive branch abuses. Similar to the court’s attack on the 2nd Amendment, the destruction of congressional checking power will lead to government tyranny and Hillary’s lust for power will then have no boundaries. Congress will become a debating society with no real power. Clinton’s Supreme Court will redefine religious freedom so as to restrict it so that it only applies in the privacy of one’s own home. Her court will elevate homosexual behavior to a “right” that trumps the First Amendment with devastating consequences.

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Input: For the moment, Russia has suspended combat operations in Aleppo, Syria, to give rebel fighters and civilians a chance to escape the siege. Driving the opposition from Aleppo would pave the way for Mr. Assad to rule over some manner of rump state; there is little optimism for a permanent truce. “The deployment is mainly intended to park an 800-pound gorilla off Syria’s coast to intimidate all comers,” said Cliff Kupchan, the chairman of the Eurasia Group, a Washington-based political risk consultancy. Photo “If — or when — diplomacy fails, the will to defend eastern Aleppo will be diminished,” he said.

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Input: The drugs Kuninskaya bought are foreign-made. She expressed hope that Russia would soon be able to produce affordable medicine of the same quality. The Russian government has tried to boost self-sufficiency in drug production by limiting imports of foreign substances for pharmaceutical companies. Moscow introduced new laws last year forcing Russian companies to import less from European companies in a bid to increase the amount of Russian-made drugs on the market from 30 percent to 50 percent by 2020. While there may be more domestically produced drugs in Russian pharmacies, many prices are, in fact, rising faster than those of imported medicine.

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Input: All the main television-news outlets are now controlled by the state or by Mr Putin’s cronies. Journalists who ask awkward questions are no longer likely to be sent to labour camps, but several have been murdered. China’s leader, Xi Jinping, ordered a crackdown after he took over in 2012, toughening up censorship of social media, arresting hundreds of dissidents and replacing liberal debate in universities with extra Marxism. In the Middle East the overthrow of despots during the Arab spring let people speak freely for the first time in generations. This has lasted in Tunisia, but Syria and Libya are more dangerous for journalists than they were before the uprisings; and Egypt is ruled by a man who says, with a straight face: “Do n’t listen to anyone but me.”

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Input: In other documents, a management fee payment to Manafort, Zackson, and their partners from Firtash were discussed." Basically, DF is still totally on board and a wire will be forthcoming either the end of this week or next week as a partial payment on the 1.5," Manafort said in an email to Brad Zackson, his partner in the deal, on June 8, 2009. DF is Firtash, and 1.5 referred to a $ 1.5 million fee payment, according to court documents. In 2008, according to a State Department cable posted by WikiLeaks, Firtash told U.S. Ambassador William Taylor that he got his start in business with the permission of one of Russia’s most well-known organized crime bosses, Semion Mogilevich.

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Input: Aides believe that the president can dictate news headlines just by speaking and has the unique perspective of having served in the White House. Most of all, he feels a responsibility to counter Trump's message, the source said. In the end, though, Obama realizes that should the GOP nominee reverse the damage of his rocky political week and win the election, he will have no choice but to do his duty." If somebody wins the election and they are president, then my responsibility is to peacefully transfer power to that individual and do everything I can to help them succeed," he said on Thursday.

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Input: “I understand it went to one of his golf courses,” Israel said of the painting. The Trump Foundation paid the $ 20,000, according to the charity that held the benefit. Something similar happened in 2012, when Trump himself won an auction for a football helmet autographed by football player Tim Tebow, then a quarterback with the Denver Broncos. The winning bid was $ 12,000. As The Post reported in July, the Trump Foundation paid.

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Input: Washington’s message to Estonia would echo Moscow’s to Belarus: Pay for the superpower’s support, deliver what is demanded, or be abandoned. Like Putin, Trump would create his own global reality. Never mind that more Mexicans have returned to their country than have immigrated to the United States since 2009; in Trump’s world they flood across the border, mandating the construction of a wall. U.S. and Russian lies may well overlap — Trump and Putin concur that there are no Russian troops in Ukraine, even if they are still killing Ukrainians on a near-daily basis. Who will defend truth?

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Input: Ninety-nine percent of Russian citizens do n’t think their country was in any way responsible for downing the MH17 passenger jet in eastern Ukraine in 2014, with half inclined to believe that the Ukrainian military was the guilty party. According to a poll conducted by Russian state-owned public opinion research center VTSIOM by telephone in early October, only one in a hundred respondents believe that Russian special services had been behind the Malaysian Airlines disaster that killed 298 people. Only four percent think that one of the militias of the self-proclaimed Donetsk or Lugansk republics was to blame. READ MORE: Russia reaffirms commitment to cooperate with Dutch MH17 crash investigators Half of Russians said they believe the missile attack on the passenger plane was carried out by the Ukrainian military, while 14 percent pointed a finger at western special services, and 8 percent say a terrorist group not involved in the conflict in southeast Ukraine was probably responsible.

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Input: On July 7, Israel launched a large military operation in the Gaza Strip, dubbed Operation Protective Edge. The Israeli Defense Forces devastated Gaza. For 51 days, Israel bombarded Gaza with more than 6,000 airstrikes. The United Nations Human Rights Council subsequently convened an independent, international commission of inquiry, which concluded that Israel, and to a lesser extent Palestinian armed groups, had likely committed violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, some constituting war crimes. “The scale of the devastation was unprecedented” in Gaza, according to the commission.

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Input: Alexander Litvinenko died of radiation poisoning in 2006 three weeks after ingesting polonium in a London hotel. His death triggered an international murder investigation implicating Russian president Vladimir Putin and naming two former KGB officers. The murder is to be the subject of a public inquiry, announced by Theresa May earlier this week. But in an intervention which has outraged the Litvinenko family, the spy’s younger brother, Maxim, claims British agents were responsible. Inquiry: Russia was implicated in Alexander Litvinenko's death in 2006

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Input: “We have a protester,” Trump declared. The crowd booed. “By the way, were you paid $ 1,500 to be a thug?” he said, seemingly addressing both the crowd and the person simultaneously. “Where's the protester? Where is he?

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Input: LONDON — Britain has voted to leave the European Union, a historic decision sure to reshape the nation’s place in the world, rattle the Continent and rock political establishments throughout the West. Not long after the vote tally was completed, Prime Minister David Cameron, who led the campaign to remain in the bloc, appeared in front of 10 Downing Street on Friday morning to announce that he planned to step down by October, saying the country deserved a leader committed to carrying out the will of the people. The stunning turn of events was accompanied by a plunge in the financial markets, with the value of the British pound and stock prices plummeting. The margin of victory startled even proponents of a British exit. The “Leave” campaign won by 52 percent to 48 percent.

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Input: While the release of the Democratic Party documents appears to be the first time WikiLeaks has published material that United States officials assert was stolen by Russian intelligence, the agendas of WikiLeaks and Mr. Putin have repeatedly dovetailed since Mr. Assange fled to the embassy. Mr. Assange has at times offered mild criticisms of the Putin government. In a 2011 interview, for instance, he spoke of the “Putinization” of Russia. On Twitter, he has also called attention to Pussy Riot, the punk band whose members were jailed after taking on Mr. Putin. But for the most part, Mr. Assange has remained silent about some of the Russian president’s harshest moves.

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Input: "Not just the militants. Any civil servant, from the courts to the schools, they cut their salary by 50 percent," said a Raqqa activist now living in the Turkish city of Gaziantep, who remains in close contact with his native city. But that apparently wasn't enough close the gap for a group that needs money to replace weapons lost in airstrikes and battles, and pays its fighters first and foremost. Those two expenses account for two-thirds of its budget, according to an estimate by Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, a researcher with the Middle East Forum who sources Islamic State documents, Within the last two weeks, the extremist group started accepting only dollars for "tax" payments, water and electric bills, according to the Raqqa activist, who asked to be identified by his nom de guerre Abu Ahmad for his safety.

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Input: "Better if a guy named Sayeed Farouk was reporting that a guy named Christopher Hayes was the shooter," John Podesta wrote in a Dec. 2, 2015, email to Karen Finney, a Clinton campaign spokeswoman. Podesta was referring to MSNBC host Christopher Hayes, who had tweeted at the time that a U.S. citizen named "Sayeed Farouk" was believed to be one of the people involved in the shooting. In the attack last year, 14 people were killed and 22 were injured in a shooting at a San Bernardino social center. The incident was investigated as an act of terrorism. Syed Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, were killed in a shootout with police.

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Input: As well as the following data: Mac Donald writes in The War On Cops," The statistics on the race of criminals as reported by the crime victims match the arrest data. As long ago as 1978, a study of robbery and aggravated assault in eight cities found parity between the race of assailants in victim reports and in arrests – a finding replicated many times, among a range of crimes." She also points out that criminologist Alfred Blumstein determined in 1993 that "blacks were significantly underrepresented in prison for homicide compared with their presence in the arrest data." In other words, the notion of systemic racism oppressing blacks is nothing more than a phantom pursued by race-baiters like Clinton to pander to the Black Lives Matter crowd.

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Input: Grimmie was transported to a local hospital where she died from her wounds on 11 June Getty 19/42 Kimbo Slice Former UFC and Bellator MMA fighter Kimbo Slice died after being admitted to hospital in Florida on 6 June, aged 42 Getty 20/42 Muhammad Ali The three-time former heavyweight world champion died after being admitted to hospital with a respiratory illness on 3 June, aged 74 Getty Images 21/42 Sally Brampton Brampton who was the launch editor of the UK edition of Elle magazine has died on 10 May, aged 60 Grant Triplow / REX / Shutterstock 22/42 Billy Paul The soul singer Billy Paul, who was best known for his single “Me and Mrs Jones”, has died on 24 April, aged 81 Noel Vasquez / Getty Images

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Input: The White House’s “force multipliers” were put to work every time the American people got too close to the truth about the Iran deal. This was most in evidence while a few intrepid reporters at the Wall Street Journal or Associated Press broke revelations of numerous radical Obama administration giveaways, especially the Parchin side deal. Iran was allowed to make a deal with the International Atomic Energy Agency to inspect itself, and the terms of this deal were never turned over to Congress as the Corker-Cardin law required. Once again, friendly media action covered illegal action. Ignorant journalists who knew nothing but what they had been fed were willing partners in shutting down the debate.

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Input: Updated | The Trump campaign denied a report in Serbian weekly magazine Nedeljnik that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has issued an apology for his country’s decision to bomb Serbia during Bill Clinton’s tenure at the White House. Jason Miller, senior communications advisor to Trump, said Trump and the campaign's Indiana state director Suzie Jaworowski never gave an interview to the magazine. “This was a hoax and we look forward to receiving a formal retraction and apology from all involved,” Miller said in an emailed statement. Nedeljnik was not immediately reachable for further comment on the Trump campaign's statement.

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Input: And we would rebuild it three times. And yet we ca n’t build a school in Brooklyn. We have no money for education, because we ca n’t build in our own country. And at what point do you say hey, we have to take care of ourselves. So, you know, I know the outer world exists and I’ll be very cognizant of that but at the same time, our country is disintegrating, large sections of it, especially in the inner cities.

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Input: The Spanish government is now reviewing the permit for refuelling at its enclave of Ceuta in north Africa. The UK said it would be "extremely concerned" if the refuelling went ahead. Nato expressed concern that the ships could be used to help bomb civilians in Aleppo, but said the final decision on resupply rested with Spain. The battle group has been sailing for the past week from Russia via the English Channel to the Mediterranean. It was expected to pass through the Strait of Gibraltar on Wednesday.

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Input: Glenn Greenwald? GLENN GREENWALD: What she’s doing there is affirming one of the most vile slanders that currently exists. There is a campaign in the United States and in Israel to literally outlaw any advocacy of a boycott movement against Israel, similar to the boycott and divestment and sanctions campaign that brought down Israel and the United States’s closest ally, which was the apartheid regime in South Africa. Now you can certainly raise objections to the tactic of boycotting Israel, and lots of people have, but to render it illegal depends upon this grotesque equating of an advocacy of a boycott of Israel with anti-Semitism and then saying that because anti-Semitism should be banned from universities or from private institutions, that it should be literally outlawed, to ban advocating the boycott of Israel, as well. And people in Europe are actually being arrested for advocating a boycott of Israel.

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Input: Dr Higley said:" It got into the river and they didn't tell the people living downstream that they were exposed." Locals suffered up to 20 times as much radiation as the Chernobyl victims, according to one documentary. It caused chronic radiation sickness, said Dr Higley, raising the risk of cancer and congenital abnormalities. NC / GETTY BACK IN ACTION: The Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre has reportedly reopened However, North Korea’s WMD factory is supposed to be the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre, 200 miles from Kilju.

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Input: He was a close adviser to Viktor Yanukovych, the disgraced Ukrainian president who was toppled in 2014. Yanukovych, who has been dogged by a criminal record and accusations of links to organised crime, is accused in Ukraine of having been in league with Putin. A popular uprising eventually ousted him from power and his flight to Russia two years ago was quickly followed by the Kremlin’s military onslaught on Ukraine, and the seizure of Crimea. Mr Manafort clearly saw nothing wrong in devoting the best part of a decade to polishing the image of Yanukovych, a man reviled by his own people, and most Western countries, as a Kremlin stooge. Even more startling is the behaviour of one of America’s top spymasters, General Michael Flynn, who now advises Donald Trump.

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Input: HOUSTON ― Three Green Party activists walked into a McDonald’s. It sounds like the start of a bad joke ― and in a way, it was ― but three Green Party activists actually did walk into a McDonald’s on Saturday; specifically the McDonald’s in the University of Houston’s student center, where the far-left party had convened to nominate physician Jill Stein and human rights activist Ajamu Baraka as its presidential and vice presidential candidates. “I try not to buy things from Walmart and eat at McDonald’s,” one said, frowning, his politics laid bare by his T-shirt: “WHAT ’S WRONG WITH THE USA? Capitalism and Greed | Racism (White Supremacy) | Religion.” However, most of the center’s dining options were closed for the weekend, meaning attendees faced the unappetizing option of going hungry or stomaching a tray full of corporatist, anti-worker, GMO-laden bile washed down with a McFlurry.

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Input: From July 2015 to July 2016, Manila has seen a 38 percent drop in total crime — but there's a twist in the numbers: drug offenses may be down, yet the data also says there's been a 57 percent rise in premeditated murder, and a staggering 125 percent increase in homicides." We're getting tired of embalming the dead, because there are so many" Drug dealers and users are surrendering to the police by the hundreds of thousands, hoping to avoid death at the hands of gun-toting vigilantes left to roam free by the cops. After all, it's the president himself who gave people license to mete out justice on their own." Please feel free to call us, the police, or do it yourself if you have the gun — you have my support," Duterte said on national TV last month.

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Input: It should not have been a surprise that American units in disaffected provinces and neighborhoods, and their partners, could encounter gunfire at every turn. Advertisement Continue reading the main story The procession of arms purchases and handouts has continued to this day, with others involved, including Iran to its allies in Iraq and various donors to Kurdish fighters. In March, Russia announced that it had given 10,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles to Afghanistan, already one of the most Kalashnikov-saturated places on earth. If an analysis from the United States’ Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or Sigar, is to be believed, Afghanistan did not even need them.

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Input: They said in October I'd be dead in six months. It’s what happens when you listen to the radio host Alex Jones, who claims that 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were inside jobs. He even said -- and this really, is just so disgusting -- he even said the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there. I don't know what happens in somebody's mind or how dark their heard must be to say things like that. But Trump did n’t challenge those lies.

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Input: That certainly does n’t mean political leaders have to agree with their critics, but it should mean that they understand criticism and dissent are part of our democracy. Donald Trump’s response to his critics suggests he does not understand or accept this cornerstone feature of American society. Rather than address the substantive points critics make (which would be entirely legitimate), Trump instead attempts to delegitimize or personally discredit those who disagree with or question him. Consider: When former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates wrote an op-ed recently setting out his conclusion that Trump is “unqualified and unfit to be commander-in-chief,” Trump resorted to ad hominem, unsubstantiated attacks, calling Gates “a nasty guy” who “[p]robably has a problem we do n’t know about.”

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Input: You are now subscribed to the Daily Digest and Cheat Sheet. We will not share your email with anyone for any reason. We asked the Trump campaign if Conway misspoke when she conflated ISIS’s actions with those countries that have donated to the Clinton Foundation. We did not hear back. Tim Kaine on the WikiLeaks emails

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Input: Washington: A Romanian hacker nicknamed "Guccifer" who helped expose the existence of private email server Hillary Clinton used when she was US secretary of state has been sentenced to more than four years in prison. Marcel Lazar, 44, who used the alias online, had pleaded guilty in May to charges including unauthorised access to a protected computer and aggravated identity theft after being extradited from Romania. SHARE Share on Facebook SHARE

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Input: Several shots failed to stop Brown, until one killed him. RELATED: Conspiracy-a-Rama: A Return to the Paranoid Style in African-American Politics Ignoring the facts, Black Lives Matter promoted the lie, invented by Brown’s robbery accomplice, that Brown had his hands up and was attempting to surrender when he was shot. “Hands Up, Do n’t Shoot” quickly became the anthem of the movement. But this lie was refuted not only by black eyewitnesses testifying before the grand jury convened for the case and by forensic evidence, but by a review conducted by former attorney general Eric Holder’s Justice Department, otherwise bent on demonstrating the existence of bigotry in the Ferguson police department.

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Input: Or maybe you did, and she just found out about it through the wonder of WikiLeaks," Trump said." We've learned so much from WikiLeaks. For example, Hillary believes that it is vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private." When the audience booed at that line, Trump said," That's OK, I don't know who they're angry at, Hillary, you or I. For example, here she is tonight, in public, pretending not to hate Catholics."

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Input: The chairman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign said that outgoing Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz had become a “distraction” and made the right move in resigning her post. “I think she had become a distraction and did the right thing by deciding to resign,” campaign chairman John Podesta told reporters Monday outside a Pennsylvania delegation breakfast in center city Philadelphia. Wasserman Schultz announced Sunday that she would leave her post after this week’s convention amid intensifying controversy over whether the committee she runs had improperly tried to undermine the candidacy of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.

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Input: Mr Kerry and Mr Obama agree the AU is not perfect and should be reformed before America joins. Indeed, let’s suppose they have spent the past few months shuttling between the capitals of North and Central America to achieve this. The results have been disappointing and tend to show just how hard it is to get agreement to change anything as unwieldy as the AU, but no matter, we would advise the Americans to go ahead and join anyway. It’s in our interest that they do so. Perhaps you think my analogy unfair?

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Input: Despite North Korea's claims, experts are sceptical that North Korea can make a nuclear weapon small enough to fit on a missile. What do we know about the latest test? Observers agree a nuclear explosion of some kind took place and it seems to have been a bit bigger than the last test in 2013, but not nearly big enough to be a full thermonuclear explosion-an "H-bomb" -as Pyongyang claims. Why can't the world stop North Korea? North Korea has a determination to defy both world opinion and heavy sanctions to reach its nuclear goal.

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Input: While Trump has called Mexicans “rapists” and mocked people with disabilities, Clinton notoriously called Black children “super-predators” and referred to welfare recipients as “deadbeats.” Trump wants to ban Muslims. But Clinton has a solid record of advocating for bombing Muslims, not to mention her ongoing pattern of trashing Arabs and Muslims to win over pro-Israel voters and donors. Trump is riling up fascist sentiments. But he’s doing so by tapping into legitimate anger at the negative consequences of trickle-down neoliberal economics driven by establishment politicians like Clinton.

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Input: The smart money says the Clintons are too smart to allow such a freak event as Hillary’s hacked emails to deny her the nomination. Yet I have been writing about the Clintons for years and I have many memories of the Clintons’ surprisingly goof-ball scandals. In my 2007 book entitled familiarly The Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President’s Life After the White House, I revealed that in the dark of the night the Boy President would have “phone sex” with Monica Lewinsky on an unsecure White House telephone. Foreign governments were listening, their tape recorders whirring. If Bill could be so stupid, then why would we think that Hillary was any smarter in the age of the Internet?

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Input: But Trump immediately began straining against Manafort's efforts to get him to stick to scripted speeches and stop bashing other Republicans, the parents of war dead, Mexican judges and other such unsuitable targets for general-election-season abuse. Before long, the internal tensions leaked to The New York Times, which in an August 13th article detailed Manafort's fruitless efforts to get Trump to focus and stop shooting himself in the face. The article naturally infuriated the candidate, who then essentially ousted Manafort and replaced him with Bannon, chief of the far-right Breitbart media empire and perhaps the only person in America with a worse reputation than Trump for hotheadedness and choleric racism. Trump would have been better off just conceding the loss from the outset and spending the general-election season going up in flames, showing up at debates guzzling martinis and wearing a lampshade on his head, directing daily tirades at cancer kids and nuns, playing the election like an Andy Kaufman prank. Instead, he vacillated wildly, trying in one moment to look "presidential" before reversing course seconds later to purge his staff and go on politically destructive rampages.

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Input: Ann Corcoran, the author of the Refugee Resettlement Watch blog and the book “Refugee Resettlement and the Hijra to America,” said Olson’s statement is reminiscent of Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s warning the day after the San Bernardino jihad massacre in which Lynch said she would take “aggressive action” to prosecute “anti-Muslim” rhetoric that “edges toward violence.” Lynch was forced to walk back those comments after outrage from free speech advocates. “This is threatening free speech,” Corcoran said of Olson’s statement. “It’s the federal government trying to intimidate into silence those citizens who do n’t have resources or connections. This must mean we have hit a nerve with this administration.” WND was the first to report a set of facts about the Twin Falls assault based on the eyewitness account of an 89-year -old grandmother who saw “something funny” going on at the laundry room entrance.

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Input: Last year, Erdoğan ordered the shooting down of a Russian warplane that briefly entered Turkish airspace from Syria. Bilateral relations have been dreadful ever since. Security forces also intensified operations in ethnic Kurdish areas of southern and south-eastern Turkey that have killed hundreds of people and displaced tens of thousands since last year. Curfews and martial law, backed up by tanks, were imposed on Monday on Yüksekova and Şırnak, near the Iraq border, and Nusaybin, close to Syria. Turkey’s internal Kurdish problem is only one of the challenges that Erdoğan’s confrontational approach appears to exacerbate.

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Input: Marc Elias, the lead lawyer on the lawsuits, is a top lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign. Rick Hasen, a leading election law scholar, wrote Monday: “It is not clear that a court would issue a vague order to stop ' voter intimidation, ' as requested in the relief in these suits (as that term would be vague and difficult to enforce). But the suits will first bring publicity to the activities, and second get these parties on record stating that they do not plan on engaging in voter intimidation, which itself could be useful in the event of problems on election day. Update, 3:17 p.m.: Timothy La Sota, the general counsel of the Arizona GOP, called the lawsuit" outrageous."

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Input: Smallpox – a deadly disease eradicated from the world in 1977 – could return as the frozen tundra of Siberia melts and releases the virus from the corpses of people who died in a major epidemic about 120 years ago, experts have warned. The disease was once one of the most feared in the world. Up to 30 per cent of people who caught it would die, according to the World Health Organisation, after experiencing symptoms including a high fever and the characteristic pus-filled spots. Spores of potentially fatal anthrax from dead people and reindeer that had been entombed in the permafrost are already thought to have infected 24 patients currently in hospital in Salekhard near Russia’s north coast. But health experts told the Siberian Times this was a warning sign that there could be worse to come.

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Input: “What she was asking was that any information that could be transmitted on the unclassified system be transmitted,” he said. “It is wrong to suggest that she was requesting otherwise. The State Department looked into this and confirmed that no classified material was sent through a non-secure fax or email.” Security remained a constant concern. On June 28, 2011, in response to reports that Gmail accounts of government workers had been targeted by “online adversaries,” a note went out over Clinton’s name urging department employees to “avoid conducting official Department business from your personal email accounts.”

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Input: Turkey will however continue to allow Hamas offices to operate on its soil, but only for political activity. * In the agreement, Turkey waived its demand that the naval blockade of Gaza be lifted in its entirety. The Turks are thereby acknowledging that any aid they send to Gaza will have to pass through Ashdod Port for Israeli security inspection, only after which it will be taken by land to Gaza. The agreement sustains the naval blockade of Gaza, which is preventing Hamas from growing stronger, Netanyahu told the press, adding that he would not have compromised about that. * Israel for its part will enable Turkey to advance humanitarian projects in Gaza, including building a hospital, a power station and a desalination station, all subject to Israeli security considerations, Netanyahu said.

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Input: Both companies have paid tens of millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation and have greatly benefited from the government as a result. The quid pro quo is there, with evidence to prove it, but punishing the Clintons for it may be impossible. The Canadian company, UrAsia, was purchased by the Russian Atomic Energy Agency, Rosatom, in January 2005. The Uranium stakes in this purchase reached from Central Asia to Western America, making Rosatom one of the largest producers of uranium in the world. The Clinton Foundation received a donation from various leaders of the Canadian mining industry in the excess of $ 25 million.

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Input: Everyone looked away. Every asshole blinked. It's pretty fucking brilliant to use force after the fuck, as he did with most of the others I know about, intimidate them, have them threatened, destroy their reputations, say they're lying or stalkers or a little mentally unhinged, having delusions of grandeur as if being fucked or mauled or harassed by him was something one dreamed of .... Always easier to blame the woman. Are you listening, Hillary?

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Input: A giraffe in the Serengeti. (Juan Carlos / Istockphoto) “She’s removed from you,” said undecided voter Barbara Kass, a retired airline employee who is now a part-time tour guide. Kass voted for Obama twice but said she has not trusted Clinton ever since she stayed with Bill when he cheated on her. “She stayed with him for her own political agenda,” the 62-year -old said.

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Input: In its policy paper, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said her office would “give particular consideration” to crimes committed by or resulting in “the destruction of the environment, the illegal exploitation of natural resources or the illegal dispossession of land.” This would include land grabbing — in which private corporations and governments work in concert to seize large areas of land and natural resources — in the list of crimes on which it will place more of an emphasis. The court made the announcement in light of a land grabbing case filed by a group of Cambodians. Since 2002, plaintiffs say that a cadre of government, military, police, and courts have been complicit in a land grabbing scheme that has effectively forced over 300,000 people to leave their homes. In a rush for natural resources and land, activists say that these kinds of events have seen “an area the size of Germany leased to investors in developing countries since 2000,” Global Witness said in a release.

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Input: "This arrest, pursuant to an INTERPOL Red Notice, highlights the collaboration that exists between U.S. law enforcement and our international partners." Czech police said the suspect was traveling in the Czech Republic with his girlfriend and had a luxury car. Upon arrest, the man collapsed and was hospitalized, officials said. Extradition proceedings in Czech courts could see the suspect turned over to face possible charges in the United States. Josh Gerstein and Eric Geller contributed to this report.

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Input: Each tweet was matched with a string of numbers. Gizmodo noted that the 64-character codes sparked a whirlwind of rumors that the 45-year -old Assange had died. Rumors on Reddit and Twitter said the numbers triggered a so-called “dead man’s switch,” which could be enacted in case Assange did die. Gizmodo reported that such switches do exist. WikiLeaks has n’t tweeted anything else about Assange’s Internet access or how it may have been “severed.”

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Input: This shameful betrayal of humanity in the face of mass suffering must stop Another detainee recounts details of the “welcome party” – the terrifying initiation ceremony that awaited new arrivals, fresh off one of the “meat fridge” trucks used to transport prisoners, clueless to their whereabouts until the doors clanged open. Beatings with metal bars and cables were followed by so-called “security checks”, during which women in particular were subjected to rape and sexual assault by male guards. “As we waited for our turn, we heard the sounds of beating, of people falling out of the truck, we heard people scream,” says Jamal Abdou. “Everyone was screaming – the guards and the prisoners.”

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Input: Lollapolooza festival will be held in park containing memorial for Soviet soldiers killed during second world war The Russian government has hit out at authorities in Berlin for allowing a music festival to be staged near a burial site for Soviet soldiers. Berlin’s Lollapolooza festival, headlined by Radiohead and Kings of Leon, is scheduled to take place on 10-11 September at Treptower Park, which also contains a large memorial site for Soviet soldiers who died during the second world war. “We express serious concern at the plans of Berlin authorities to allow a rock festival to take place in September at this memorial site,” the Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.

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Input: The Russian military official said that terrorists in the area are hampering the efforts of locals trying to flee the embattled eastern parts of the city. Read more “Terrorists are trying to prevent the population from fleeing the eastern part of the city of Aleppo the best they can, threatening to shoot civilians or publicly execute them. There are reports that children and women are being turned into suicide bombers to carry out terrorist acts,” Chvarkov stated. According to the Russian Reconciliation Center, the situation in Aleppo “remains difficult.”

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Input: Just in Central America, Nicaragua’s military spending trails far behind its neighbors in the so-called Northern Triangle: Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. And the Dominican Republic outspent the rest of the isthmus by nearly $ 100 million in 2015, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Costa Rica’s foreign minister, Manuel González, said that tanks and weapons of war were ill-suited to the problems Central America faces: poverty, organized crime, human trafficking and drug trafficking. Instead of weapons, González said the region needs to “combat poverty with education, healthcare, technology and infrastructure.”

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Input: They first met at Yahoo while doing a security audit for the company. During this time, Koum was also part of a seminal security collective and think tank called w00w00 (pronounced “whoo whoo”), a tight online community that used the old IRC chat service to trade ideas related to virtually any aspect of the field. Koum grew up in the Ukraine under Soviet rule before immigrating to the US as a teenager, so he has some intimate familiarity with the challenges of maintaining privacy in the face of an intrusive government. But Koum says that the bigger force behind encrypting WhatsApp was Acton, a comparatively outgoing individual who grew up in Florida. “Brian gets a lot of credit for wanting to do it earlier,” Koum says of WhatsApp encryption.

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Input: Comey later explained his decision to provide Congress with the information in a letter to FBI employees." We don't ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed," Comey said." I also think it would be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record." FBI Director James Comey's letter to employees. Clinton's campaign and allies quickly decried the decision's timing, and the candidate herself on Friday forcefully called on the FBI to release the "full and complete facts" about its review.

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Input: Her father, who survived, married Schloss's mother after the war. ADVERTISEMENT Schloss wrote in Newsweek about the Syrian refugee crisis, noting the theme of this year's Holocaust Memorial Day is "Don't stand by." She said if Trump becomes the next president, it would be a "complete disaster." Trump has called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States and wants to put some mosques under surveillance following the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif.

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Input: This isn't the first time Tribe has said something stupid about a Republican. He once said that under Sen. Ted Cruz's (R-TX) originalist judicial philosophy, he wouldn't be eligible to serve in the Senate. Unsurprisingly, Tribe donated to Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. What Trump is really guilty of, of course, is forcing the media to do something it's desperate to avoid: talk about Clinton's email scandal again.

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Input: plot to assassinate Kim Jong-un, the country’s leader, no one seriously considered a movie studio to be “critical infrastructure.” Yet the attack on Sony — which melted down 70 percent of its computing power — was the only case that brought the president to the White House press room to accuse another nation of launching a deliberate cyberattack, and to promise retaliation. Mr. Obama said he was driven to go public by the fact that North Korea was trying to suppress free speech and intimidate Americans with threats if they went to the theater. Advertisement Continue reading the main story It is unclear how the United States may have retaliated against the North in secret, if it even did so.

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Input: Russian-Germans demonstrate over ' rape ' incident in Berlin. Photo: DPA Germany on Wednesday warned Russia against "exploiting" a murky case involving the alleged rape of a German-Russian teenager in Berlin after Moscow hinted at an official cover-up. Berlin police last week rejected the 13-year -old's account that she was sexually assaulted by "foreigners", but Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday lent credence to the girl's allegations and charged that her disappearance had been "hidden". Government spokesman Steffen Seibert on Wednesday hit back, saying "there is no reason, in fact it is unacceptable, for this incident to be politically exploited."

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Input: While ISIS launched its campaign of mass rapes, beheadings, slaughters, and tortures of unimaginable brutality — and gained control over enormous portions of Iraq and Syria — Clinton and President Obama did absolutely nothing to thwart it.43 Moreover, the rise of ISIS coincided with the expansion of terrorism to unprecedented levels all over the world. According to the Global Terrorism Index, fatalities caused by terrorism increased from 3,361 in 2000, to 11,133 in 2012, to 18,111 in 2013, to 32,658 in 2014. More than half of the 2014 killings were carried out by ISIS and Boko Haram, the latter of which has pledged allegiance to ISIS.44 In other words, worldwide terrorism has spiraled out of control under Obama, Clinton, and Clinton’s successor, John Kerry. But hey, who cares?

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Input: By that time, Trump had an Indian project underway in the city of Pune with a large developer called Panchshil Realty that agreed to pay millions for use of the Trump brand on two 22-floor towers. His new partner, Atul Chordia of Panchshil, appeared awed in public statements about his association with the famous Trump name and feted Trump with a special dinner attended by actors, industrialists, socialites and even a former Miss Universe. Last month, scandal erupted over the development, called Trump Towers Pune, after the state government and local police started looking into discrepancies in the land records suggesting that the land on which the building was constructed may not have been legally obtained by Panchshil. The Indian company says no rules or laws were broken, but if government officials conclude otherwise, the project’s future will be in jeopardy — and create a problem that Indian politicians eager to please an American president might have to resolve. Through the Pune deal, the Trump Organization has developed close ties to India’s Nationalist Congress Party — a centrist political organization that stands for democratic secularism and is led by Sharad Pawar, an ally of the Chordia family that owns Panchshil — but that would be of little help in this investigation.

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Input: One proposed way to get around the White House’s long-standing objection to striking the Assad regime without a U.N. Security Council resolution would be to carry out the strikes covertly and without public acknowledgment, the official said. The CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, represented in the Deputies Committee meeting by Vice Chairman Gen. Paul Selva, expressed support for such “kinetic” options, the official said. That marked an increase of support for striking Assad compared with the last time such options were considered. “There’s an increased mood in support of kinetic actions against the regime,” one senior administration official said. “The CIA and the Joint Staff have said that the fall of Aleppo would undermine America’s counterterrorism goals in Syria.”

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Input: The national police said in a statement that the violent dispersal was "unfortunate" and an investigation would try to determine if the riot policemen followed crowd-control procedures. Investigators will also evaluate criminal and civil liabilities of the protesters and their leader for an alleged illegal mass assembly. A left-wing legal group, the National Union of People's Lawyers, condemned the police violence and said it would help the injured and detained protesters file criminal complaints against the police for violating their constitutional rights to free assembly. The protesters, consisting of students, workers and tribespeople, were demanding an end to the presence of visiting U.S. troops in the Philippines and to support a call by President Rodrigo Duterte for a foreign policy not dependent on the U.S., the country's longtime treaty ally. The activists came from the largest left-wing umbrella group, Bayan (Nation), which has organized regular anti-U.S. protests in front of the embassy for decades, most of which are peaceful.

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Input: QUIZ: US Citizenship Test-Could You Pass? The disclosure of secrets found on some of the 55,000 emails from Mrs. Clinton’s unsecure private server is the focus of an FBI investigation. As part of the investigation, the FBI on Oct. 12 seized four servers used within the secretary’s office by Mrs. Clinton and her aides. According to the inspector general’s report, after the aides requested to use BlackBerry devices inside the classified areas, the assistant secretary for diplomatic security sent a classified memorandum to Mrs. Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, describing the vulnerabilities of using BlackBerry devices and emphasized that they are prohibited from being used inside sensitive areas. Mrs. Clinton contacted the assistant secretary after receiving the memo and informed him that she “gets it” regarding cellphone use in secure areas.

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Input: In July 2015, the president submitted the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) to the U.N. Security Council for approval before getting congressional support. In December 2015, the administration signed a new climate change pact, the Paris Agreement. Despite possessing all the hallmarks of a treaty that should be submitted to the Senate for its advice and consent, the administration insists that the Paris Agreement is an executive agreement. This pattern of circumventing Congress to advance the president's priorities is extremely troubling. It is fundamentally anti-democratic, flouts the separation of powers outlined in the U.S. Constitution, and contributes to an already caustic political environment.

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Input: This would be perversely comical if it were n’t so dangerous: retrograde Russophobic hysterics are now being “mainstreamed” at a pace unseen in decades. Especially with Syria teetering on the brink of all-out multinational conflagration — the new U.S. commander in the region recently threatened Russia and Syria with military retaliation should they attack in areas where American special forces are located — these Hillary campaign tactics are especially worrisome. Accusing Putin of single-handedly empowering Trump via surreptitious meddling not only poisons the well for future U.S.-Russia relations under a prospective Clinton administration, it makes catastrophic military conflict between the two nations far more likely. Hillary might have accurately identified some nascent right-wing trends in the U.S. and abroad, but she also furthered us down the path of sleepwalking into Cold War 2.0. Michael Tracey is a journalist based in New York City.

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Input: A researcher in Russia has made more than 48 million journal articles-almost every single peer-reviewed paper every published-freely available online. And she's now refusing to shut the site down, despite a court injunction and a lawsuit from Elsevier, one of the world's biggest publishers. For those of you who aren't already using it, the site in question is Sci-Hub, and it's sort of like a Pirate Bay of the science world. It was established in 2011 by neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan, who was frustrated that she couldn't afford to access the articles needed for her research, and it's since gone viral, with hundreds of thousands of papers being downloaded daily.

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Input: 6. He denigrated prisoners of war -- and never apologized "He's not a war hero," Trump said in July 2015 about Sen. John McCain, who was imprisoned and tortured for more than five years in a North Vietnamese prison." He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured," Trump continued.

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Input: Later on Saturday, the Isis-operated radio station Bayan claimed that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was a soldier who had completed a “new, special operation using a truck”. It also warned western nations that no security measures would spare them “from the blows of the mujahideen”. The claim of responsibility, which came 36 hours after the attack, will increase pressure on French authorities investigating the massacre. No evidence was presented to support the claim that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had been acting in Isis’s name. Although President François Hollande has spoken of France facing “the threat of Islamist terrorism”, François Molins, the Paris prosecutor leading the investigation, said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had no obvious links to radical Islam.

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Input: “As we gather here, three evolving threats — Iran’s continued aggression, a rising tide of extremism across a wide arc of instability, and the growing effort to de-legitimize Israel on the world stage — are converging to make the U.S.-Israel alliance more indispensable than ever,” she declared. “The United States and Israel must be closer than ever, stronger than ever and more determined than ever to prevail against our common adversaries and to advance our shared values. … This is especially true at a time when Israel faces brutal terrorist stabbings, shootings and vehicle attacks at home. Parents worry about letting their children walk down the street. Families live in fear.”

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Input: Then there's Stein's running mate. After she was rebuffed by Bernie Sanders, Stein choose Ajamu Baraka, who recently wrote of Sanders ' supporters (i.e., the voters Stein is making a concerted effort to recruit)," As much as the ' Sandernistas ' attempt to disarticulate Sanders ' progressive ' domestic policies from his documented support for empire ... it should be obvious that his campaign is an ideological prop – albeit from a center / left position – of the logic and interests of the capitalist-imperialist settler state." Baraka has called President Obama an "Uncle Tom" and contributed an essay to the conspiracy theorist tome Another False Flag, edited by Holocaust denier and 9/11 truther Kevin Barrett that features pieces arguing, among other things, that the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino never happened. (Baraka's contribution focuses on the the "white supremacist ideology" that elevates events like the Paris attacks over the Beirut bombings that happened the same week; a spokeswoman for Baraka said he wasn't aware of Barrett's views.) But all of these problems with Stein's views and judgement are ancillary to the fact that her one really big idea – the one she hopes will carry her to the White House – is a farce.

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Input: I rank his stress on a shared identity high among these. “We both live in a New World, colonized by Europeans,” he said as he got under way. “Cuba, like the United States, was built in part by slaves brought from Africa.” Then to the nature of the Cuban-American relationship. “I believe my visit here demonstrates that you do not need to fear a threat from the United States,” he said when he first touched on this topic.

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Input: Russian soldiers, who according to Ukraine's state security service (SBU) are named Alexander Alexandrov (R) and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, and were detained on May 16 by Ukrainian forces, look on from a defendants ' cage as they attend a court hearing in Kiev, Ukraine, September 29, 2015. REUTERS / Valentyn Ogirenko Yevgeny Yerofeyev (R), a Russian soldier arrested last May on terrorism charges related to the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, talks to his lawyer Yuriy Grabovsky from a glass-walled cage as he attends a court hearing in Kiev, Ukraine, November 17, 2015. REUTERS / Stringer KIEV The body of a lawyer of two Russian servicemen on trial in Ukraine has been discovered on the grounds of a former farming collective, prosecutor Anatoly Matios said on Friday, saying two men were in custody in connection with the lawyer's death.

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Input: Freedom from regulation means the freedom to poison rivers, endanger workers, charge iniquitous rates of interest and design exotic financial instruments. Freedom from tax means freedom from the distribution of wealth that lifts people out of poverty. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Naomi Klein documented that neoliberals advocated the use of crises to impose unpopular policies while people were distracted. Photograph: Anya Chibis for the Guardian As Naomi Klein documents in The Shock Doctrine, neoliberal theorists advocated the use of crises to impose unpopular policies while people were distracted: for example, in the aftermath of Pinochet’s coup, the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina, which Friedman described as “an opportunity to radically reform the educational system” in New Orleans.

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Input: According to his wife, Laura, the first sign of discontent was his discovery that his salary payments were only about half of what Justo said Obaid had offered him – a slight that was compounded when he learned that the promised multimillion-pound bonus would be considerably less than that – more like six figures than seven. There were other niggles, too. He complained to Laura that he was often paid late, and sometimes not at all. He claimed that he ended up paying rent on the flat in Mayfair that was supposed to be covered by his employers. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street.

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Input: Members of Ukraine's state security service detain a French citizen who had been planning attacks in France to coincide with the Euro 2016 football championship it is hosting, on the Ukrainian-Polish border in Volyn region, Ukraine, in this undated photo released by ... REUTERS PARIS French investigators believe a Frenchman detained in Ukraine with a cache of weapons and explosives was more likely involved in arms smuggling than tied to a militant group, the prosecutor leading the case said on Tuesday. France has requested Kiev's cooperation but is still awaiting a response more than 24 hours after Ukraine's state security service (SBU) said the suspect had planned "terrorist attacks" during the Euro 2016 soccer tournament which kicks off on Friday in France.

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Input: And for the next week we need to continue this solidarity, we must keep up these meetings." The country's institutions were "back at work," he said." There are a lot of generals and colonels that were detained but those who want to set the Turkish people and the Turkish military against each other, let us not fall prey to their plot." Chaos erupted the night before when military tanks rolled onto the streets of Ankara and Istanbul and soldiers blocked the famous Bosphorus Bridge. Turkey's attempted coup: By the numbers • At least 161 people killed • 2,839 military officers were detained • At least 1,140 people wounded • 1 airfield still under military faction's control • At least 200 soldiers turned themselves in to police in Ankara • 11 years: Erdogan's reign as Prime Minister • 2014: Year that Erdogan ran for President -- and won

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Input: Then Elites runs for president. Why run for president when already control country like dictatorship? What this have do with fun Cyber Weapons Auction? We want make sure Wealthy Elite recognizes the danger cyber weapons, this message, our auction, poses to their wealth and control." If Equation Group was hacked, that doesn't mean the NSA proper has been compromised.

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Input: 5. The efforts are widespread. All of these efforts — in Ukraine, in Syria — are accompanied by a newly sophisticated disinformation campaign, primarily targeted at Europe, in order to undermine European support of anti-Russian sanctions. The main tactic is undermining the very idea that truth and objectivity are attainable — or even exist — sucking viewers and Twitter readers into an epistemological black hole in which nothing was provable, not the fact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, not the fact that a plane full of Dutch tourists was shot down by a Russian missile over the Donbas, not the fact that the European Union and NATO have been a net benefit for Europeans. Now, we’re seeing a similar water-muddying campaign from the Russians in the U.S., which dovetails smoothly with Trump and Mike Pence’s post-truth approach.

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Input: Turkish Prime Minister Yildirim reportedly said that the Turkish military was involved in an attempted coup d'etat. The Turkish military meanwhile stated it had taken over control Workers inspect and clear debris after the Grand National Assembly of Turkey was bombed by rebel jets, on Saturday in Ankara People kick and beat a Turkish soldier that participated in the attempted coup, on Istanbul's Bosporus Bridge The U.S. military has around 2,200 service members and civilian employees in Turkey, which is a NATO member and a crucial regional partner for Washington.

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Input: What happened next will not surprise you.] Some said they signed for specific policy reasons. Edward Marks, the Ronald Reagan administration’s ambassador to Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, said, “I am very upset by the fact that Trump as a candidate has formally said he will use torture [and]...

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Input: On Sunday, it reported that after lengthy deliberation, it had acquired new evidence that substantiated the claim. Among the documents published by Denfri.dk are permission for the overflight and landing of the plane, which warns that it should be operated exclusively for “state purposes of [a] non-commercial nature,” and talking points for the Transport Ministry should journalists ask about the plane. There is also a batch of heavily redacted emails indicating communications between senior officials in Denmark’s police, Foreign Ministry and Justice Ministry, including Anders Herping Nielsen, a chief consultant of the Justice Ministry’s international office and its former deputy head, whose responsibility it is to decide on the extradition of people for trial in other countries. USA sendte fly til Danmark for at hapse Snowden. https://t.co/dKIRnyKmSw via @denfri#dkpol — DENFRI (@denfri) 24 января 2016

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Input: "It's up to Turkey, the Turkish government, the Turkish leadership, to decide whether they want to be part of any kind of cooperation to fight terrorism. This is not the case so far," he said. Turkey has denied permitting oil smuggling by the Islamist militant group, which holds swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. The United States last month rejected Russian allegations that the Turkish government and President Erdogan's family were in league with Islamic State to smuggle oil. However, US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said last month that ISIS was selling oil to middlemen who in turn were involved in smuggling the oil across the frontier to Turkey.

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Input: Marshall wrote the most explosive email, questioning Sanders’ Jewish faith and suggesting he could be portrayed as an atheist. He has apologized for the missive. Earlier, party chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned her position and, after being booed at a pre-convention appearance last week in Philadelphia, chose not to speak from the convention stage. Longtime Democratic operative Donna Brazile is serving as the party’s interim chair. Brazile said Tuesday that she has created a “transition team” to help prepare the party for its post-election mission.

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Input: Investigators believe the hackers behind the attacks were connected to the Russian government, two of Reuters’ sources say. In July, WikiLeaks published thousands of hacked Democratic National Committee emails just before the party’s national convention, some of which showed senior committee officials mocking Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) campaign. The leak prompted Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) to resign as committee chairwoman. Days later, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee confirmed that it had been hacked. According to an August report from Reuters, U.S. intelligence officials told leaders in Congress that Russian hackers were behind the attack on the DNC and other Democratic Party entities a year before the hack came to light.

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Input: And other communities need to come together to do what will work, as well. Trump is correct on this and Clinton is not. Heather Mac Donald has noted that as the stop-and-frisk practice came to a halt in New York City," homicides rose 20 percent "in 2015 and" gun crime was experiencing its first two-year consecutive increase in nearly two decades." There's also this: New York murders in 2014: 328.

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Input: That's not really going to be Hillary Clinton's M.O., but somehow you've got to deal with that." Clinton, though, has lately indicated she’s not above provoking Trump into a social media clash. “We all know the tools Donald Trump brings to the table: bragging, mocking, composing nasty tweets,” she said in her California speech on the Republican’s qualifications in global statecraft. She added, grinning, “I’m willing to bet he’s writing a few right now.” Authors:

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Input: -- “Simply replacing Lewandowski wo n’t do anything to help the Trump campaign stop the slide if Trump does not have some kind of epiphany and come to realize that he is the root of his problems," writes Republican fixer Ed Rogers, on the PostPartisan blog." So far, there is still no sign that Trump sees himself, what he thinks and how he expresses himself as the real problem.” -- Lewandowski himself, however, painted a rosy portrait of the campaign during several surreal TV interviews after he was escorted out of Trump Tower, denying the campaign was beset by internal skirmishes and refusing to criticize Trump. -- The Stop Trump movement now counts 400 delegates as allies, quickly transforming what began as an idea tossed around on social media into a force that could derail a national campaign,” Ed O'Keefe reports. “While organizers concede their plan could worsen internal party strife, they believe they are responding to deep-rooted concerns among conservatives about Trump.

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Input: Children said they were “subjected to physical violence” in 171 cases. The Youth Law applicable in Israel and military orders applicable in the West Bank all require police to notify parents of their child’s arrest and to allow the child to consult with a lawyer before the interrogation. The Youth Law entitles children to have a parent present during their interrogations, except in cases of alleged “security offenses.” The Youth Law also requires officials to conduct interrogations during the day, to conduct proceedings in a language the child understands, and to take into consideration the well-being of the child in determining whether arrest is absolutely necessary. Although the Youth Law does not formally apply to the West Bank, except East Jerusalem, the Israeli military has told Human Rights Watch that it implements the provisions of the Youth Law, including the right to have a parent present during interrogation, to law enforcement in the West Bank. As the number of arrests of children has grown amid the escalation of violence in recent months, so has the number of cases in which international norms protecting children are violated, Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations have reported.

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Input: Hillary Clinton forcefully defended her support for a no-fly zone in Syria at the third presidential debate on Wednesday night. It was the first time she was pressed by a debate moderator about risks the controversial policy would pose. The moderator, Fox News’ Chris Wallace, asked Clinton to explain how she would avoid getting into a larger war with either Russia or Syria. He noted that President Barack Obama has cited fears of escalation in rejecting the idea.

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Input: German butch lesbians have been critical, many of them have denied they still play that game." As "proof" of the so-called lesbian game, the publication has a dozen photos of Merkel with her hands together in a triangle shape. The story then goes on to detail how she’s been blackmailed into sanctions with Russia by the Edward Snowden’s NSA leaks. Why are women in power rumored to be lesbians? Myriad other women politicians have faced the same rumors: Golda Meir in Israel, Indira Gandhi in India, Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, Ayn Sun Syu Kyi in Burma / Myanmar.

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Input: Florida we gon na landslide TRUMP .... wear'n red at polls ... We gon na be watch'n fer shenanigans ... & haul ya away .. pic.twitter.com/YbSJTZvRWp — Harry Miller (@jackbgoode1) August 20, 2016 Those concerns have been heightened by last month’s announcement by the U.S. Justice Department that it will reduce the number of its own election observers deployed to polling places this fall. The DOJ said the pull-back was required by the Supreme Court’s 2013 ruling in Shelby County v. Holder, which significantly weakened the Voting Rights Act, though some voting rights advocates have called that an unnecessarily conservative reading of the ruling. The OSCE is perhaps best known as an international security organization, but its human-rights arm sends election monitors at the request of member states. The U.S. government has invited OSCE monitors to observe the last three presidential elections, as well as the upcoming one.

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Input: Trump tried to raise money for the Trump Organization from the regime of Muammar Qaddafi, the Libyan dictator who provided support for the 1988 Pan Am flight bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, that killed 189 Americans, Buzzfeed News reported in June. A company owned by Trump violated the embargo against Cuba with a business trip to the island in 1998, shortly before he gave a speech in Miami expressing his support for the embargo, Newsweek reported in September. In addition, Bloomberg News has reported that Trump Organization executives may have also violated the Cuban embargo by scouting out a possible investment in a golf course near Havana in late 2012 or early 2013. The deal ultimately fell through, according to the report. The Trump Organization has also made millions selling apartments to the government of Saudi Arabia, the New York Daily News reported in September.

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Input: In a 2014 interview, as is well known, he called the group a “jayvee team.” More recently, he has come up with a new analogy. ISIS, the president has explained to his advisers, is like the Joker in the Batman movie The Dark Knight. When the Joker started decapitating American citizens, the president abandoned his policy of non-intervention in Syria. But his low-intensity air campaign against ISIS has conspicuously failed to destroy the organization. “One of the top goals of the American national-security apparatus in Obama’s last year,” we learn, is to assassinate the “so-called caliph of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.” Well, the strategy worked with bin Laden, right?

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Input: "He appeared to be referring to the Fatah al-Sham Front, an al-Qaida-linked group previously known as the Nusra Front, which is deeply embedded in rebel-held areas and fights alongside more moderate groups. Abu Mohammed al-Golani, the leader of the group, condemned the cease-fire agreement in an interview with Al-Jazeera TV aired Saturday. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov echoed Putin's remarks during a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry. Lavrov noted the" refusal by an array of illegal armed groups to join the cease-fire," and Washington's obligation to "separate units of the moderate opposition from terrorist groupings," according to a Foreign Ministry statement. Under the cease-fire agreement, the U.S. and Russia would work together to target the Fatah al-Sham Front, as well as IS, while Assad's forces refrain from striking opposition-held areas. But Washington has warned Russia that unless aid is delivered to Aleppo, it will not move ahead with the formation of the joint coordination center. The U.N. has accused Assad's government of obstructing aid access to the contested city. The Russian military says insurgents have held up the delivery by firing on government positions along the main route leading into besieged, rebel-held districts, in violation of the cease-fire. The Syrian government said it has done all that is necessary to facilitate the entry of aid convoys to Aleppo, but that armed groups have failed to withdraw from the supply routes and are committing "dangerous, provocative acts." Russia's military said Syrian rebels violated the cease-fire dozens of times over the past day, including with strikes on military and civilian targets in Aleppo.

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Input: MOSCOW (Sputnik)Russia and China are prepared to invest in the Bolivian economy and it demonstrates stability, Bolivian President Evo Morales told Sputnik in an interview." Now China and Russia know that we have stability in our economy and they want to invest, while the United States are standing against our brothers, hampering them, asking questions, keeping watch over the investments from China and Russia," Morales said. The president pointed out that Russia and China never imposed conditions for their investments, as opposed to the United States that offered loans in exchange for privatization of Bolivian companies and natural resources. Morales noted that Bolivia rejected the US proposal and chose nationalization of economy as a development model." For me nationalization is a synonym to economic liberation … That is our model.

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Input: Image copyright EPA Image caption Russia started withdrawing most of its forces from Syria last week Last week, Russia started pulling out most of its forces from Syria, saying it had largely achieved the goals of the air campaign it launched in September to bolster President Bashar al-Assad. But it vowed to continue targeting the jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and al-Nusra Front, which are excluded from the truce. Russians ' misinformed ' As part of the deal between the warring parties they brokered last month, the US and Russia agreed to chair a ceasefire taskforce that would "develop effective mechanisms to promote and monitor compliance with the ceasefire".

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Input: The ice maiden often sniffed cannabis, it is thought, and her altered state of mind gave her a special status in her society. This would explain the care her people took to care for her and not leave her to die, or hasten death. It also helps to understand the way her burial was conducted in a style similar-but different-to royalty. She had been buried on the 8,200 feet high Ukok Plateau with six horses and many treasures. But the decision to put her on public display at a museum in Gorno-Altaisk, close to where her grave was found, has caused outrage among native ethnic groups in the Altai Republic, a Russian region bordering Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan.

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Input: “There are no craters, while the vehicles have their chassis intact and they have not been severely damaged, which would have been the case from an airstrike,” Konashenkov said. On Tuesday, the UN also retreated from its claims that the convoy was hit by military planes." We are not in a position to determine whether these were in fact airstrikes. We are in a position to say that the convoy was attacked," UN humanitarian spokesman Jens Laerke said.

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Input: But the road goes through the desert and takes five days. They know that it is a journey that could cost them their lives. ISIS sets up temporary roadblocks. The smugglers charge high fees for helping. There are two ways out of Raqqa.

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Input: Clinton’s instructions effectively meant no high-level administration official took the call. The following day, on March 19, the U.S. began participating in airstrikes over Libya – Muammar Qaddafi himself would be killed seven months later. While it is not possible to independently assess the credibility of Saif's offer, his father did follow through on a 2003 pledge to come clean on Libya's weapons of mass destruction program, after the U.S. invaded Iraq, and Qaddafi met with then-deputy director of the CIA Steve Kappes. A review of Clinton's public schedule shows March 18, 2011, was indeed a pivotal day during her tenure as secretary of state. Clinton was in Washington, D.C., that day and made three trips to the White House.

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Input: In recent conversations with military and other government personnel, we were startled at how startled they seemed at this prospect. Here’s the analysis they should be working through. Understood one way, the Saudi king is CEO of a family business that converts oil into payoffs that buy political loyalty. They take two forms: cash handouts or commercial concessions for the increasingly numerous scions of the royal clan, and a modicum of public goods and employment opportunities for commoners. The coercive “stick” is supplied by brutal internal security services lavishly equipped with American equipment.

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Input: Only in partnership with Russia will we be able to settle the crisis in Syria," Erdogan said. Russia and Turkey have been on different sides in Syria, with Moscow backing President Bashar al-Assad while Ankara wants him ousted. Erdogan's meeting with Putin coincides with renewed strains in Ankara's ties with the West after a failed military coup in Turkey in which more than 230 people were killed. Turkey accuses the West of showing more concern over a post-coup crackdown than over the bloody events themselves. However, Turkish officials say Erdogan's visit to Russia does not mean Turkey, a NATO ally and an aspiring member of the European Union, is turning its back on the West.

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Input: The information contained in the more than 800 pages of documents paints a deceptive picture of those within the government handling the Snowden revelations. From the White House press secretary to various leaders within the National Security Agency, there has been an effort to deceive the people about the handling of the entire situation. It’s not only disturbing the things Snowden revealed in the last few years, but also the lengths that various levels of power have gone to to protect power and deceive the people.

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Input: The resolution calls for talks to be held twice next year — the first round from March 27 to 31 and the second from June 15 through July 7 in New York — to negotiate a treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons. Despite the U.S. and other nuclear powers’ objection to the motion, Robert Zuber, director of Global Action to Prevent War, a nongovernmental organization, is upbeat about its prospects. “We believe that a ban treaty could help contribute to a robust international framework to which the nuclear weapon states could eventually accede,” he said. But the decision by Japan, the only country to have ever suffered a nuclear attack, to vote against the draft disappointed some anti-nuclear campaigners. The government is “still captured by a very old-fashioned idea on security.

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Input: (Zohra Bensemra / Reuters) -- BARBARIANS: Islamic State forces continue to round up thousands of villagers at gunpoint to use as human shields as they retreat towards Mosul. From Loveday Morris:" Military officials and witnesses said the ' vast majority ' of people in more than half a dozen villages were forced to walk north toward the city as the army advanced from the south, and that those who refused were shot. Some ran and hid in the desert to avoid being captured, sleeping out in the open for days. Villagers also described mass executions of former policemen and army officers as the militants become increasingly paranoid about spies and collaborators.

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Input: The Syrian Air Force then bombed YPG targets, killing several Kurdish civilians while others fled the city. For over a year the Syrian Army had been co-operating in Aleppo and elsewhere against Isis and the Syrian armed opposition, but both sides now swiftly emphasised their deep-felt and undying hostility. Mr Dibo says the Kurds simply want a decentralised federal system giving them autonomy while the government is a “traditional dictatorship” that has carried out dozens of massacres. He says the two sides can never be allies, though both are fighting Isis. The war in Syria has been full of “decisive moments” and “game changing events” which turn out to be of much less significance than had been supposed.

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Input: 3:20 p.m. Bill Clinton says "road rage" is dominating this election cycle. He's urging supporters to choose "answers over anger." The former president told a crowd of several hundred people at the College of Southern Nevada in North Las Vegas that he understands the frustration in the electorate, saying that most people haven't seen a raise since the recession. He also conceded that nobody has done enough to help coal country build a new economy.

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Input: Their site was unreachable for hours. Talking Points Memo reports: The editor-in-chief of Newsweek confirmed Friday that the magazine’s website was on the receiving end of a denial-of-service attack Thursday night, following the publication of a story accusing one of Donald Trump’s companies of violating the Cuban trade embargo. Editor-In-Chief Jim Impoco noted that the attack came as the story earned national attention. Later Friday afternoon, Impoco emailed TPM that in an initial investigation, the “main” IP addresses linked to the attack were found to be Russian.

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Input: The five-day war saw Russia strengthen its grip over largely pro-Russian South Ossetia, which had effectively been beyond Tbilisi's control since 1990. Russian troops pushed through South Ossetia deep into Georgia before withdrawing. In a statement on Wednesday, judges said there was reason to believe crimes against humanity, including murder and the driving of Georgians from their homes, had been committed during the conflict, as well as war crimes including attacks on peacekeepers by Russian-backed South Ossetian and by Georgian forces. The ICC, which has handed down just two convictions, of little-known Congolese warlords, has been criticized for bringing investigations only in Africa since being set up 13 years ago. Last October, ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda asked to open an investigation after finding that up to 113 ethnic Georgian civilians had been killed and 18,500 driven from their homes as part of a "forcible displacement campaign" run by the authorities in mainly Russian-speaking South Ossetia.

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Input: “While we are aware that the persons holding such passports are not to be blamed for the existing situation, we must now, nonetheless, put things in order. We can not issue passports to those whose Russian citizenship is not properly registered.” The consulate suggested that those caught in this situation apply for a visa to visit Russia as American citizens instead. Michael Drob, director of a new documentary, “Stateless,” which tells the story of Jewish immigrants from the Soviet Union, said that not having a Russian passport would not only make travel to Russia more difficult, it might also prevent elderly people from receiving their Russian government pensions when they reach retirement age. Moreover, he said, those caught up in this change, who came to America and became permanent residents but who never applied for citizenship, would now effectively be rendered stateless; so would those who came on more limited visas and stayed in America illegally.

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Input: In sum, Trump believes in a foreign policy of theft. He believes that a candidate for the presidency should n’t tell voters what he would do in office. He admires authoritarianism because it establishes “strong control over a country.” He advocates retributive torture and the targeting of innocent family members of terrorists. He believes that the diversity of opinions in the United States weakens us. And while stipulating that he does n’t “happen to like” Russia’s system of government — as though it were a flavor of ice cream — Trump insists we’re in no position to criticize Putin’s invasions and his attacks on us, because our president is worse.

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Input: He could not mention any details about it even if they were already publicly known through the Risen book. No evidence was ever produced in court demonstrating that any classified information ever passed between the two men, but Sterling, an African American, was nevertheless convicted by an all-white jury in Virginia based on “suspicion” and the presumption that “it had to be him.” The contrast between the copious evidence – some of it self-admitted – of Secretary Clinton’s demonstrable infractions, on the one hand, and the very sketchy, circumstantial evidence used to convict and imprison Jeffrey Sterling, on the other, lend weight to the suspicion that there is one law for the rich and powerful in the United States and another for the rest of us. Failing to take steps against a politically powerful presidential candidate and letting her off unscathed for crimes of her own making, while an institutionally unprotected Jeffrey Sterling sits in prison would be a travesty of justice not dissimilar to the gentle wrist-slap given Gen. David Petraeus for giving his mistress extremely sensitive information and then lying to the FBI about it. Your order to then-Attorney General Eric Holder to let Gen. David Petraeus off easy created a noxious – and demoralizing – precedent in the national security community indicating that, whatever the pains taken at lower levels to prevent compromise of duly classified information, top officials are almost never held accountable for disregarding well-established rules.

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Input: They had something very concrete at stake, in the shape of an international nuclear deal with Iran concluded in the Austrian capital last July after years of negotiations. Under the agreement, Tehran will abstain from a broad range of nuclear activities and limit others in return for relief from sanctions. Trump has portrayed as it as an Obama authored American capitulation to the Islamic Republic. “My big concern is that he has said he will tear up the nuclear deal with Iran. That would be catastrophic,” said a senior diplomat in Vienna.

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Input: Until now, it's a line the White House has not crossed with respect to Putin. Obama has been asked several times in interviews and news conferences to give his take on Putin but has preferred to critique his counterpart's policies and actions as opposed to making broader assessments of his leadership style. At a G7 summit last year, Obama offered perhaps his most pointed criticism of Putin, saying the leader has a choice to make:" Does he continue to wreck his country's economy and continue Russia's isolation in pursuit of a wrong-headed desire to recreate the glories of the Soviet Empire? Or does he recognize that Russia's greatness does not depend on violating the territorial integrity and sovereignty of other countries?" "I don't want to psychoanalyze Mr. Putin," Obama told a Buzzfeed reporter a few months earlier.

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Input: “The optimistic view would be that if you look at the pattern of American history, there have been lots of ugly episodes. We had anti-immigration sentiment that was quite nasty at the beginning of the twentieth century, there was McCarthy, Japanese internment and Vietnam,” Osgood said. “That suggests that there is a capacity for healing in the American spirit. We can kind of recognize that we have been doing things that are unsightly and adjust. There is this capacity for reflection and sobering up.

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Input: To no one’s great surprise, he neglected to tell CNN who his sources were. Nevertheless, liberal-media elites have joined with the Clinton campaign in promoting the narrative of a devious Russian cyber-attack, which Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting’s Adam Johnson correctly points out “is being used to outweigh the damning substance of the leak itself.” Yes, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned over the scandal, but a fuller accounting is required — and so is reforming the rules governing the party’s primary elections. The Nation calls on liberals to focus on these issues, to undertake a serious conversation about US-Russia relations, and to reject the cheap neo-McCarthyism that undermines these efforts. No one wishes to defeat Donald Trump more than The Nation.

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Input: Obama retaliates against Putin by prohibiting unionized federal employees from dating hot Russian girls online during work hours Russian separatists in Ukraine riot over an offensive YouTube video showing the toppling of Lenin statues "Free Speech Zones" confuse Obamaphone owners who roam streets in search of additional air minutes Obamacare bolsters employment for professionals with skills to convert meth back into sudafed Gloves finally off: Obama uses pen and phone to cancel Putin's Netflix account

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Input: Tomorrow it could be us,” he said. Speaking in Tampa later on Wednesday, Rubio warned that giving credence to foreign hacks against U.S. officials could be “an invitation to chaos and havoc.” “Just think about this: Do we really want to be a country where foreign leaders or foreign intelligence agencies can blackmail our elected officials and say to them that unless you do what we want you to do, we’re gon na release emails from your campaign manager, your wife, your daughter, your son, and we’re gon na embarrass you. So unless you wanna be embarrassed you better do what we want you to do. Is that what we want?” Rubio asked.

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Input: With stores from near the Arctic to the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains, Magnit PJSC would be the first to know when the Russian consumer is back. Instead, the nation’s largest supermarket chain has just come across something it’s never seen. Billionaire Sergey Galitskiy’s retailer, which operates almost 13,000 outlets in Russia, said the average purchase has fallen for the first time since it began disclosing the figures a decade ago, dropping 1.5 percent in the first half of 2016 from a year earlier. Retail sales in June shrank for a record 18th month, plunging 5.9 percent from a year earlier, the Federal Statistics Service in Moscow said on Tuesday. “It’s not possible for consumption to expand,” said Dmitry Polevoy, chief economist for Russia at ING Groep NV in Moscow.

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Input: Trump presidency could cost U.S. economy $ 1 trillion: Oxford Economics Israeli aircraft attack Syrian army position "Our intention is to secure the strongest possible (U.N. Security Council) resolution that includes new sanctions as quickly as possible," Kim told a news briefing after meeting his South Korean counterpart. He said the United States would work with China, North Korea's major diplomatic ally, to close loopholes in existing resolutions, which were tightened with Beijing's backing in March." China has been very clear that they understand the need for a new U.N. security council resolution in response to the latest North Korean nuclear test," Kim said.

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Input: Tensions are also constant at NATO-Russian borders, including military maneuvers on both sides. Shortly after the Doomsday Clock was moved ominously close to midnight, the national press reported that “U.S. military combat vehicles paraded Wednesday through an Estonian city that juts into Russia, a symbolic act that highlighted the stakes for both sides amid the worst tensions between the West and Russia since the Cold War.” Shortly before, a Russian warplane came within seconds of colliding with a Danish civilian airliner. Both sides are practicing rapid mobilization and redeployment of forces to the Russia-NATO border, and “both believe a war is no longer unthinkable.” Prospects for survival

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Input: Burns “is loyal, knows the department, is someone whom the Foreign Service trusts, whom she trusts, who is low key," said Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East negotiator under Bill Clinton and a friend of Burns. Clinton might also turn to another senior State Department colleague: Wendy Sherman, who served as under secretary of state for political affairs until last summer. Now at a global consulting firm, Sherman advises Clinton’s campaign and oversaw the Democratic Party platform’s foreign policy language for the Clinton team. She was also the lead U.S. negotiator with Iran from 2013 to 2015, and the hundreds of hours she spent dueling with Iranian diplomats won her admirers in Democratic foreign policy circles. But she has few fans among Republican critics of the nuclear deal.

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Input: “This has got to be about defending a constitutional process, not a party.” Last week, two California Democrats who specialize in intelligence issues, Representative Adam B. Schiff and Senator Dianne Feinstein, sent Mr. Obama a letter urging him to make public the intelligence assessments on the Democratic National Committee hacking. Mr. Obama often says the world of cyberconflict is still “the Wild West.” There are no treaties, no international laws, just a patchwork set of emerging “norms” of what constitutes acceptable behavior. For example, Mr. Obama has pressed President Xi Jinping of China to work with the United States and other nations to develop rules about the theft of intellectual property, and about not interfering with a nation’s efforts to bring attacked systems back online. Attacking another nation’s power grid in peacetime is considered out of bounds.

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Input: At a ceremony in Jerusalem, the hard-line ultranationalist party Yisrael Beiteinu officially joined Mr Netanyahu's coalition, with Mr Lieberman declared as the country's new Defence Minister. But the appointment is causing deep concern among Palestinians who are wary of Mr Lieberman's past. The new Defence Minister is one of Israel's most polarising politicians, being famous for making wild threats like bombing Egypt and assassinating Hamas's political leader in Gaza. His polices on Palestinians have been labelled "racist", with critics saying he has little experience in security affairs, leaving some alarmed that he is now in charge of forces in a country regularly on the brink of conflict." He has a history of inciting against Palestinians," Jamal Dajani, spokesperson for the Palestinian Prime Minister's office, said.

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Input: (Reuters) Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was officially removed from office. She was technically impeached for violating budget laws, but most believe her ouster has more to do with her unpopularity and the fact that the economy in Latin America's largest country is in deep trouble. (Marina Lopes and Dom Phillips) North Korea's Kim Jong-un executed his deputy premier of education and sent other top aides to re-education camps. Jong-un apparently blamed the education premier for a “disrespectful posture” toward him at a June meeting. (Anna Fifield) Scientists believe they have discovered the oldest fossils ever ... on a formerly snow-cropped mountain in Greenland.

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Input: It was an illiberal excuse to virtue signal, and some MPs appeared to forget that Trump has invested generously in our country. A lone, brave MP admitted that many of his constituents share Trump's views. No one pointed out that Britain might just as easily ban President Barack Obama on the grounds that his administration has deported record numbers of illegal immigrants, or that UK citizens have been denied entry to the United States apparently on the basis that they are Muslim. The ideal president for the Brits would be religiously agnostic, Keynesian and wary of intervention in foreign wars. In other words, we'd like America to elect a Brit.

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Input: Relevant to your professional network? Please share on Linkedin The intelligence information was corroborated by reports from Russian pilots flying their fighter jets over Lebanon and Syria. The Russian air force anti-missile radars were able to detect SA-22 systems stashed in regions of Lebanon that are under the control of the Shi’ite militia. During his speech before the United Nations General Assembly this past fall, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed a number of new details regarding Hezbollah’s re-stocking of its weapons arsenal with the help of Iran and Syria. The premier said that Hezbollah had managed to smuggle advanced SA-22 missiles into Lebanon as well as Yakhont surface-to-sea precision missiles. Foreign media reports from April of last year indicate that Israel’s air force attacked Hezbollah bases in Lebanon that were outfitted with SA-22.The Israeli military is hardly concerned about the older SA-5 model surface-to-air missile that is currently rusting in Hezbollah’s stockpiles, for these are considered unreliable and ineffective. SA-22 missiles, however, could pose a threat to Israeli fighter jets who enjoy relative freedom of operation in the skies over Lebanon. The senior source told the Kuwaiti newspaper that the Kremlin has been adamant that Iran withdraw its forces backing President Bashar Assad from Syria. According to the report, Moscow has told the Iranians that it has no need for their support given its interest in reaching a political settlement that would put an end to the five-year civil war in Syria. The Russians have reportedly told Iran that their interests are not identical when it comes to Syria. Russia canceled a contract to deliver the S-300 advanced anti-missile rocket system to Iran in 2010 under pressure from the West following UN sanctions imposed on Iran over its nuclear program. Tehran agreed to the deal on curbing its nuclear work in July last year and international sanctions were lifted in January. But tensions with Washington have remained high as Tehran continues to develop its military capabilities.

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