Input: Michael McFaul tweet The founder of Ukrainian Pravda, the investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze, was murdered 16 years ago. His body was found decapitated in a forest outside Kiev. The incident helped to precipitate Ukraine’s Orange revolution. In his last blogpost for Ukrainian Pravda, Sheremet had warned about how some militia commanders and veterans of the conflict in eastern Ukraine have escaped responsibility for other crimes.

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Input: It is the first time Russia has deployed the SA-23 system outside its borders, according to one Western official citing a recent intelligence assessment. The missiles and associated components are still in their crates and are not yet operational, according to the officials. The U.S. intelligence community has been observing the shipment of the SA-23 inside Russia in recent weeks, according to one official. While the purpose is not clear, one US official asked sarcastically, “Nusra does n’t have an air force do they?” speaking about the Al Qaeda-linked group in Syria. The Islamic State also does not fly any manned aircraft or possess cruise missiles, in a sign that Russia is directing its actions to protect itself against any potential attack from the United States or its allies.

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Input: The coalition "is about to cut off, by gunfire, the supply route into regime-controlled districts" of the city, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said. The road, which passes through a southwestern suburb of Aleppo city called Ramussa, is the last open route into Aleppo city. If the rebels capture it, they would simultaneously cut off regime forces and open up a new road for their own besieged forces in the city's east. The former Al-Nusra Front -- renamed Jabhat Fateh al-Sham after breaking from Al-Qaeda -- on Saturday announced having captured the two military academies and a third military position. State television, meanwhile, reported fighting in the three locations.

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Input: AP: Associated Press 13 Innocents … terrified children pulled to safety by an adult after the strikes that killed 22 children Getty Images 13 A wounded Syrian man receiving treatment in a makeshift hospital in Douma, which was also hit by raids A Member of the Syrian Civil Defence, known as the White Helmets, evacuates a child following reported government shelling Boris Johnson and John Kerry on sanctions for Russia and Syria over Aleppo shelling But a Whitehall source pointed the finger of blame at the Kremlin, saying: “After Russia’s past history of murdering civilians in this conflict it would be difficult to believe they were not involved.

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Input: Pressure is mounting on Governor McCrory to rescind HB2, or at least excise parts of it that have caused the most uproar, including the trans bathroom provisions. Last week, more than 50 opponents of the law were arrested after descending on the grounds of state legislature to protest it. Some city mayors are warning the boycott could spread. “We have rumours of other companies looking at not coming here, putting jobs on hold in the future, and that’s the biggest concern,” Harold Weinbrecht, the mayor of Cary, just outside Raleigh, told PBS TV. And the normally Republican-friendly Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce has joined in demanding a reconsideration of the law.

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Input: It was downhill from there: a wild descent into acid accusations of unfitness for office, threats of prosecution and denunciations of all kinds in a 100-minute town hall debate that was the most contentious ― and juvenile ― in modern history. Roaming the stage like an aging orange tiger, Trump told Clinton she should be in jail, repeatedly called her a liar to her face, accused her husband of sexual predations and the former secretary of state of having sought to silence and punish the women involved. Bloomberg via Getty Images Donald Trump roamed the stage as Hillary Clinton spoke Sunday. Clinton, smiling tartly, called “Donald” unqualified for the office, dangerously ignorant, a congenital liar, a tax cheat, a racist and a bully. In what was surely the most chilling moment of the night, Trump said that Clinton had criminally mishandled her State Department emails, should be “in jail,” and vowed, if elected, to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate her conduct in office.

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Input: Jill Stein, who is seeking the Green Party nomination for President, said that President Obama should apologize during his trip to Hiroshima for the use of nuclear weapons against Japan by pledging nuclear disarmament. Dr. Stein also urged Obama to listen to the testimony of the survivors of the nuclear attack, who have dedicated their lives to the elimination of nuclear weapons so that no one else should ever experience the hell on earth they survived." The existence of nuclear weapons threatens the survival of humanity. I pledge to eliminate all such weapons as an urgent priority," stated Stein.

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Input: The "very small loan" Trump was referring to was $ 1 million from Trump’s father, Fred, to finance his Grand Hyatt hotel in 1978. (At this point, Donald Trump was already president of his father’s real estate company.) But Fred Trump made out many other loans to his son until his death in 1999, including a $ 70 million construction loan for the Grand Hyatt and a $ 3.5 million casino chip loan to bail out Trump’s struggling gaming empire, the Washington Post Fact-Checker reported. Clinton:" In fact, Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, ‘Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money.’ Well, it did collapse."

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Input: Vladimir Putin is known to detest Clinton and all but openly prefer the victory of his kindred spirit Trump. Why would he not? Trump has said that he may end sanctions against Russia, that he would n’t necessarily defend the Baltic states or other NATO members in the event of an attack, and that he was certain that Putin “is not gon na go into Ukraine, all right? You can mark it down.” Russian troops, of course, are in Ukraine now, which Putin even admitted last December. And so left and right link arms, as they often do, in an attempt to smash bourgeois liberalism.

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Input: By the time President Wilson finished reading his appeal to Congress, many of his listeners were in tears but not for the reason the grass roots population of the United States today will be in tears when they finish reading this manuscript. When President Wilson asked Congress to declare war against Germany, President Wilson was in effect and in fact conspiring to pay the debt he obligated himself to pay to the Zionists. Congress only declared war against Germany because President Wilson informed Congress that a German submarine had sunk the S.S. Sussex in the English Channel in violation of international law and that United States citizens aboard the S.S. Sussex had perished with the ship. After General Pershing's troops were fighting in Europe, the hoax was exposed. The alleged sinking of the S.S. Sussex was used as the "pretext" to justify a declaration of war against Germany by the United States.

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Input: Russia lawmakers are to debate a bill which would see those found guilty of insulting the Russian president imprisoned for up to six years. The draft bill, entitled ' On the Protection of the Honour and Dignity of the President of the Russian Federation ' was developed by MP Roman Khudyakov, of the nationalist Liberal Democrat Party, and modelled on Soviet legislation. Khudyakov told Izvestiya that he was inspired to act after watching YouTube videos containing satirical references to Putin.

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Input: She does not know what the feds know about her. She faces a damned-if-she-does and damned-if-she-doesn’t choice here. Any lie and any materially misleading statement -- and she is prone to both -- made to the FBI can form the basis for an independent criminal charge against her. This is the environment that trapped Martha Stewart. Hence the standard practice among experienced counsel is to decline interviews by the folks investigating their clients.

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Input: The PLA continued a major build up of military forces across the range of weapons and troops, including large numbers of new missiles, warships, aircraft, along with cyber warfare capabilities and space weaponry. The report said among the challenges for the Chinese military is widespread corruption that ensnared more than 40 senior PLA officers in illegal activities since 2012, including the PLA’s most senior officer. Chinese leader Xi Jinping has told the PLA to prepare to “fight and win” battles, and the Pentagon said the slogan is an indication Chinese leaders are concerned the military, which has not fought a war in more than 30 years, may not fare well in modern combat. The Chinese military restructuring was announced late last year when China set up five new regional “theaters” out of seven military regions and restructured its military command system and services. The separate nuclear and conventional missile service, Second Artillery Corps, was renamed the Rocket Force.

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Input: (James McAuley) A federal appeals court ruled that Texas’s strict voter-ID law has a “disproportionately” discriminatory effect against minorities, requiring key provisions of the legislation to be altered while declining to strike down the measure completely. (Robert Barnes) Miami police shot an unarmed black caretaker as he tried to retrieve his patient, a young autistic man who had wandered from his assisted living facility, from the street. Cellphone footage shows the therapist laying on the ground with his hands in the air, trying to soothe his patient seconds before he is shot. (Michael E. Miller) Rep. Mark Takai (D-Hawaii), 49, died from pancreatic cancer. The Iraq war veteran had served in Hawaii's state house for 20 years before winning election to Congress in 2014.

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Input: Nov. 7, 2016 Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event at SNHU Arena in Manchester, N.H. Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post Buy Photo Wait 1 second to continue. People from other corners weighed in, too. “As the daughter of a leader who was assassinated, I find # Trump’s comments distasteful, disturbing, dangerous,” tweeted Bernice King, daughter of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. “His words do n’t # LiveUp. # MLK.” The Secret Service acknowledged Tuesday in a tweet that agents were “aware” of the episode.

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Input: Russia, and the regime, owe the world more than an explanation about why they keep hitting hospitals and medical facilities and children and women," Kerry told reporters in Washington." These are acts that beg for an appropriate investigation of war crimes and those who commit these would and should be held accountable for these actions." Russia said the call for an investigation was an attempt to distract from the failure of a U.S.-Russia brokered ceasefire, according to Tass news agency." It is very dangerous to play with such words because war crimes also weigh on the shoulders of American officials," said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, according to RIA news agency. Russia and Syria accuse the United States of supporting terrorists by backing rebel groups.

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Input: In November of 2015, terrorists went on a shooting rampage in Paris that slaughtered 130 people, and wounded another 368. France is suffering gravely, and the tourism industry is being massively affected in a most negative way. In March of this year, terrorists detonated a bomb in the Brussels airport, killing 32 and injuring 340. This July, in the South of France, an Islamic terrorist turned his truck into an instrument of mass murder, plowing down and killing 85 men, women and children – and wounding another 308. Among the dead were 2 Americans – a Texas father, and his 11-year -old son.

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Input: "He was adamant that he had not committed a single crime when building his business empire," the cable says, and he "argued that outsiders still failed to understand the period of lawlessness that reigned in Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union." At one point during the meeting, Firtash began to talk about "mistakes he might have made," the cable says, but was waved off by an accompanying adviser. Mogilevich was once on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list, has an Interpol Red Notice out for his arrest, and the FBI says publicly he is "involved in weapons trafficking, contract murders, extortion, drug trafficking, and prostitution on an international scale." In a posting on the FBI’s website, the man who ran the investigation that eventually led to an indictment against Mogilevich said," What makes him so dangerous is that he operates without borders." In 2014, Firtash was charged by the Justice Department with paying $ 18.5 million in bribes in India to expand his business empire.

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Input: He's the only one that gets it." Trump repeated the sentiment at a rally hosted in Cedar Rapids several hours later, and expressed his desire to "hit this [little] guy so bad." He said that he was urged to think of his fight against "Crooked Hillary" instead, and that he was advised "don't punch down." The trip to Iowa was his first return to the state since losing it during the Iowa caucus which took place in February.

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Input: But the prosecutors did not provide the content of those communications even though the FBI was listening in on some of them. Risen has claimed that he had multiple sources on Operation Merlin, and Sterling has always denied being involved. Jeffrey Sterling was not permitted to testify in the trial on his own behalf because he would have had to discuss Operation Merlin, which was and is still classified. 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.”

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Input: That bloody insurrection began amid claims that Yanukovych was a corrupt Kremlin stooge. In interviews with the Ukrainian media, Groysman spoke of his grandfather Isaac’s survival during the Holocaust, when he pretended to be dead after being dropped by Nazis into a mass grave. On January 27, International Holocaust Memorial Day, when Groysman was the chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, the parliament, he asked other lawmakers to stand for a minute’s silence in honor of the victims of the Jewish genocide. It was the first time such a gesture took place in parliament. “Unlike many who either try to hide their Judaism or just not talk about it, Groysman is a warm and open Jew because he’s part of a new generation in a new country,” Horowitz said.

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Input: This is my read of our moment in a single sentence. The expansion phase is over, as the Russians, Chinese and others are in the process of telling us. The aggressions are not, surely, but it grows more difficult to aggress, and when we do it is defensive in character now, if this is not too much a paradox. It is all about denying where we are in history, and this is mostly what we hear and see when we consider our words as actions. *

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Input: In two other instances, Clinton had asked Sullivan to send sensitive information. In early January, the State Department released a June 2011 email exchange where Clinton asked Sullivan to send her a talking points document on an unsecured network for convenience. The document was scheduled to be forwarded over to Clinton over State’s secured network, but the secure fax machine appears to have been broken. “If they can't, turn into nonpaper [with] no identifying heading and send nonsecure," Clinton wrote when they were having problems." Non-paper "is a diplomatic term for a discussion draft or memo that does not represent the official position of a government or negotiator.

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Input: Embed Trump Campaign Chair Denies Influencing Ukraine Section of GOP Platform 0:38 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog Around the same time, companies controlled by another Russian billionaire, Oleg Deripaska, paid $ 7.35 million toward management fees for Manafort and his partners in connection with an investment fund, according to a court filing in the Cayman Islands. Deripaska once was denied entry to the United States because of alleged mafia ties, current and former officials told NBC News. Deripaska is considered by U.S. officials to be among Putin’s inner circle. The Drake deal did n’t go through, and the Deripaska investment arrangement ended in a dispute.

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Input: The train will travel 16 days and run 11,300 kilometers before arriving at Lyons. (Xinhua / Xiao Yijiu) WUHAN, April 6 (Xinhua) -- A direct freight train linking Wuhan in central China and Lyons in France began operation on Wednesday. The train, loaded with mechanical, electronic and chemical products, will exit China through Alataw Pass in Xinjiang, the westmost Chinese region, and pass through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland and Germany before reaching its destination. It will take 16 days to complete the 11,300-kilometer journey, slashing the usual 50 to 60 days to transport from Wuhan to France by sea.

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Input: House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Jason Chaffetz Jason ChaffetzThe Hill's 12:30 Report Chaffetz: Trump administration ' almost worse ' than Obama's on transparency Utah GOP narrows field for Chaffetz seat MORE (R-Utah) has called Comey to testify before his panel on Thursday, saying," Individuals who intentionally skirt the law must be held accountable." The GOP-led House Judiciary Committee also said that Attorney General Loretta Lynch had agreed to testify about the Clinton probe before the committee next Tuesday. Comey announced on Tuesday that while Clinton and her aides were "extremely careless" in handling classified data, the FBI would not recommend charges against her over her. Republicans expressed shock at the decision, with Speaker Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (R-Wis.) later the same day announcing that Republicans would hold hearings over the FBI's decision not to pursue criminal charges. Clinton's campaign on Wednesday released a video of Chaffetz from just last month, in which he says Republicans would "probably" accept a decision by Comey, even one recommending no charges against Clinton.

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Input: Remarkably, ISIS fighters might become trapped in just hours as government forces continue to advance. Just a small escape route, largely made up of desert sand, links ISIS troops with the ar-Raqqah motherland which represents the capital of the self-proclaimed caliphate. Therefore, fighters of the Islamic State must either retreat while time is due or face persistent airstrikes of the Russian Airforce as well as seasoned government troops. Currently, Tiger Forces (an elite specialized SAA offensive branch) are leading the efforts to recapture the road; however, their soldiers are also backed by hundreds of troops from the Syrian Arab Army’s 47th Regiment of the 11th Tank Division, the Republican Guard, the Liwaa Al-Quds Brigade, National Defence Forces and Al-Ba’ath Battalion. Earlier this month, the very same Tiger Forces unit captured more than a dozen villages from ISIS in eastern Aleppo and thus secured a steady supply route to Kuweiris Airbase.

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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: By doing so, ISIS commanders intend to prevent the Syrian Arab Army from capturing Deir Hader, Tabqa Airbase and Jirah Airbase. If the aforementioned sites are lost to the Syrian Government, ISIS will be expelled from northern Syria and will be forced to set up a desperate last stance defence at ar-Raqqah city itself. Ar-Raqqah is the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State and as such, its loss will prove an intolerable blow to the moral of ISIS fighters across the Middle East.

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Input: Ukraine, which accuses Moscow of continuing to stir violence, has its part to play too. But despite numerous rounds of talks, there is little progress on either side. The violence, albeit at a much lower intensity, continues; elections haven't been held in the breakaway eastern regions, Kiev has not granted them special status, and both sides accuse each other of using heavy weaponry meant to have been withdrawn. The Kremlin's tactic internationally is to say Kiev is the chief cause of the impasse. With no sign of a breakthrough, friendly EU member states might start to do the same, say some diplomats.

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Input: He questioned the value of massive military investments in Asia and wondered aloud whether the United States still was capable of being an effective peacekeeping force there. “South Korea is very rich, great industrial country, and yet we’re not reimbursed fairly for what we do," Trump said." We’re constantly sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games — we’re reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing." Asked whether the United States benefits from its involvement in the region, Trump replied," Personally, I do n’t think so." He added," I think we were a very powerful, very wealthy country, and we are a poor country now.

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Input: If Clinton’s case does n’t clear that bar, it would be difficult for the Obama Justice Department to explain why she merits prosecution. This is n’t to excuse her conduct; it’s just a diagnosis of the way the law works. In political terms, a bigger danger to Clinton may be the counterintelligence question: Did spies from China, Russia or some other country penetrate her server? If so, some voters might conclude that poor judgment should disqualify Clinton for the presidency. Clinton may want that part of the investigation to take as long as possible.

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Input: (Photo: AP) A coalition of Italian consumer groups, with backing from the American Service Employees International Union, said Tuesday that it has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against McDonald's (MCD), alleging that the hamburger giant has used its dominant position in the market to gouge consumers and its franchisees. In the complaint, the consumer groups (Codacons, Movimento Difesa del Cittadino and Cittadinanzattiva) allege that McDonald's is violating European Union rules by abusing its position as a landlord by charging rents to franchisees with prices up to 10 times above market rates. The group says McDonald's has set 20-year franchise contracts followed by one- to two-year non-competitive clauses that limit the ability of franchisees to switch to other brands. The high rents and the contract terms leads to the franchisees charging inflated prices to consumers, the consumer groups say.

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Input: Image Vladimir Putin's official car is involved in a head-on crash in Moscow 0:23 CCTV footage of Vladimir Putin's official car in a head-on crash which took the life of Russian president's chauffeur Staff Writer News Corp Australia Network RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin’s personal chauffeur has been killed in Moscow after a Mercedes collided head-on with the presidential BMW. CCTV footage from September 2 on Kutuzovsky Avenue shows Mr Putin’s presidential vehicle being hit by another car, instantly killing the chauffeur. The Russian President was not in the car at the time of the accident.

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Input: The U.N. sanctions include mandatory inspections of cargo leaving and entering North Korea by land, sea or air; a ban on all sales or transfers of small arms and light weapons to the North; and the expulsion of North Korean diplomats who engage in "illicit activities." North Korean citizens in the capital, Pyongyang, interviewed by The Associated Press said Thursday, in an echo of official propaganda, they believe their country can fight off any sanctions." No kind of sanctions will ever work on us, because we've lived under U.S. sanctions for more than half a century," said Pyongyang resident Song Hyo Il." And in the future, we're going to build a powerful and prosperous country here, relying on our own development." North Korean state media earlier warned that the imposition of new sanctions would be a "grave provocation" that shows "extreme" U.S. hostility against the country.

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Input: A Syrian man walks past a bus set ablaze following a reported air strike in the rebel-held Salaheddin district of Aleppo Regime and Russian aircraft have carried out a barrage of strikes on east Aleppo since the Syrian government announced an offensive last week to retake all of the divided city. The bombardment has been some of the worst in Syria's five-year civil war, and follows the failure of a short-lived ceasefire brokered by Russia and the United States. Moscow and Washington have traded blame for last week's collapse of the ceasefire deal that would have marked the first step in a new effort to end the war that has killed 300,000 people since 2011. US Secretary of State John Kerry admitted Thursday that months of diplomacy to end the war had hit a dead-end.

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Input: Identify commonalities, downplay differences. The emergence of a left-wing politics infused with Christian spirituality would be a fine thing to happen. And the idea that a self-professed secular Jew could spearhead such a thing is rather wonderful. Only in America.

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Input: "If they could come from other planets, I think they would." The presence of all these people has become a downright nuisance to his community, he says. Given the roadblocks, residents of Cannon Ball are often forced to go more than 40 miles out of their way. Native Americans march to the site of a sacred burial ground that was disturbed by bulldozers building the Dakota Access Pipeline on September 4, 2016 near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Not long ago, he found three teenage girls from Ontario, Canada, camped out inside his storage shed.

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Input: People who conduct religious missionary work — including preaching, praying and disseminating materials — in private residences can be fined up to $ 15,000 and may be deported under the new law. Religious groups, such as the Mormon church, Jehovah's Witnesses and Muslim organizations, also must be registered to operate in the country. USCIRF worries that dissidents will be imprisoned; it said the law makes it "very difficult for religious groups to operate."

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Input: -- This is happening against the backdrop of rising public support for new laws: 61 percent of Americans now support stricter gun controls in the U.S., according to a new NBC / SurveyMonkey poll, while 38 percent remain opposed. Six in 10 said they support a nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons, while 38 percent are opposed. -- The Post’s Fact Checker gives Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) three Pinocchios for his claim that states with “reasonable” firearm limitations have less gun crimes and homicides: The data Murphy was referring to (a 2013 National Journal chart) calculates the number of gun-related deaths by including all gun deaths, including homicides, suicides, accidental gun deaths and legal intervention involving firearms, Glenn Kessler explains. “We removed suicides from the totals and reran the numbers – and in some cases, it made a huge difference. Half of the 10 states with the lowest gun-death rates turn out to be states with less-restrictive gun laws."

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Input: What if she goes down by double digits? Would the panic become hysteria? What if the FBI recommends indicting Hillary over the email scandal -- my law enforcement sources tell me this is a very real possibility. But it gets worse. Have you heard that Russia claims to have 10,000 of Hillary's hacked emails?

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Input: But the candidates’ differences on criminal justice went beyond specific policy proposals. They at times seemed to be discussing entirely different countries. Trump described urban crime in near-apocalyptic terms, singling out Chicago as resembling a “war-torn country.” As he has on the campaign trail, he argued that his focus on crime should appeal to African-Americans, who he said are disproportionately affected by the violence. “We have to protect our inner cities, because African-American communities are being decimated by crime,” Trump said. Clinton criticized Trump for painting “such a dire negative picture of black communities” and stressed that crime is still down overall.

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Input: NEW YORK — Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? ' Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan MORE will score a moral victory in New York’s Democratic primary if he can limit Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE’s winning margin to single digits, party insiders say. But they also caution that such a result would not be enough to change the overall shape of the race, in which Clinton holds a solid lead.

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Input: First, the FBI does not come calling upon her campaign or even upon her. The Department of Justice prosecutors will call upon her lawyers — and that has already been done, and Mrs. Clinton knows it. So her statements about the FBI not calling her or the campaign were profoundly misleading, and the FBI knows that. Mrs. Clinton's folks are preparing for the worst. They have leaked nonsense from "U.S. officials" that the feds have found no intent to commit espionage on the part of Mrs. Clinton.

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Input: The pretense was that this not-really-NATO operation, with the United States “supporting” it, was merely to enforce UN resolutions about protecting Libyans from Khadafy. Zenko, however, argues that the coalition “actively chose not to enforce” the resolution prohibiting arms transfers to either side in the civil war. While a senior NATO military official carefully said, “I have no information about” arms coming into Libya, and another carefully said that no violation of the arms embargo “has been reported,” Zenko writes that “Egypt and Qatar were shipping advanced weapons to rebel groups the whole time, with the blessing of the Obama administration.” On May 24, 2011, NATO released a video showing sailors from a Canadian frigate, supposedly enforcing the arms embargo, boarding a rebel tugboat laden with arms. The video’s narrator says: “NATO decides not to impede the rebels and to let the tugboat proceed.” Zenko writes, “A NATO surface vessel stationed in the Mediterranean to enforce an arms embargo did exactly the opposite.”

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Input: Thereafter she made Sevastopol the homeport for the Great Black Sea Fleet that has ever since been the fundamental bulwark of Russia’s national security. For the next 171 years, Crimea was an integral part of Russia — a span that exceeds the 166 years that have elapsed since California was annexed by a similar thrust of “Manifest Destiny” on this continent, thereby providing, incidentally, the United States Navy with its own warm-water port in San Diego. While no foreign forces subsequently invaded the California coasts, it was most definitely not Ukrainian rifles, artillery, and blood which famously annihilated The Charge Of The Light Brigade at the Crimean city of Balaclava in 1854; they were Russians patriots defending the homeland from Turks, Europeans, and Brits. Indeed, the portrait of the Russian “hero” hanging in Putin’s office is that of Czar Nicholas I. His brutal 30-year reign brought the Russian Empire to its historical zenith, but, ironically, he is revered in Russian hagiography for another reason—-namely, as the defender of Crimea, even as he lost the 1850s war to the Ottomans and Europeans.

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Input: “The Kurds started gaining control of some villages in the northern part of Aleppo Countryside at the beginning of February and they were advancing towards Tel Rifaat. As they approached, Russian and Syrian forces targeted medical facilities. As a result, the civilians injured from the indiscriminate shelling had to be transferred to the Syrian / Turkish border because the hospitals were no longer operational.” Several weeks before the current offensive, on 19 December 2015 at 2.45pm, a direct airstrike destroyed a centre in Tel Rifaat which provided medical care for children with special needs. According to the centre’s manager, it had been set up in 2014 and received 250 children per month from all over the northern part of Aleppo Countryside.

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Input: Who the candidates meet also could offer hints about their foreign policy goals — and invite backlash from critics. Clinton's teams said she plans to see Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The meeting with Poroshenko is a signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has invaded Ukraine, of Clinton's pledge to be tough on Moscow if elected. It also would be a veiled slap at Trump, who has spoken kindly of Putin and insisted he would get along with the Russian leader. (Putin is expected to skip the U.N. meeting this year.)

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Input: Aid trucks carrying non-food items such as blankets on Monday entered Mouadamiya, a suburb of Damascus under siege by government forces, the Syrian Arab Red Crescent said. The United Nations and other agencies hope to deliver aid to more than 150,000 people in besieged areas over the next five days. Kerry said he was concerned by reports the Syrian government was creating obstacles for the delivery of humanitarian aid and hoped it would stop its officials and troops from taking medicine or other supplies from the shipments. GLOOMY ASSESSMENT Asaad al-Zoubi, head of the HNC's delegation to the peace talks, gave a gloomy assessment of the truce.

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Input: “Anything that remotely resembles that, they hate it, they despise it.” Tatiana Menaker left St. Petersburg, then known as Leningrad, in 1985. She attended the same university as both Vladimir Putin and Ayn Rand. In the U.S., she built a successful tour-guide business using a fax machine she kept under her bed, all while raising three kids as a single mom. That was all she needed to become a hardcore Republican. “Why did [Soviet] Russians live in such a shit hole?

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Input: Dorothy Narvaez-Woods (right), widow of former Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, listens to Hillary Clinton testify before the House Select Committee on Benghazi October 22 last year The suit also accuses Clinton of making defamatory statements to the media by saying the plaintiffs were lying when they said that she told them the attack was motivated by an anti-Muslim YouTube video, Mediate reports. In the complaint, Larry Klayman, an attorney for the families, wrote: ' During her campaign for President, Defendant Clinton has negligently, recklessly, and/or maliciously defamed Plaintiffs by either directly calling them liars, or by strongly implying that they are liars, in order to protect and enhance her public image and intimidate and emotionally harm and silence them not to speak up about the Benghazi attack on at least four separate occasions. ' An emotional Patricia Smith addressed the crowd at the Republican National Convention last month, where she blamed Clinton for her only child's death. ' That night, we lost sons, brothers, fathers and husbands.

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Input: Killing the people who are providing aid to your enemies is effective If you want to completely cripple your enemies and are not concerned with pesky things like basic human decency and morality, bombing hospitals and humanitarian aid convoys is a great idea. After all, they’re providing aid to your enemies. (Never mind the fact that they’re neutral and thus may also be providing aid to your own forces and innocent civilians caught up in the mix.) How are you supposed to eliminate your enemies or force them to surrender if all those meddlesome doctors keep fixing them up so they can go back out on the battlefield and fight another day?

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Input: The talks came in the wake of leaked emails that appear to show top Democratic National Committee aides strategizing about ways to harm Sanders politically in the party primary. The convention begins Monday in Philadelphia. Wasserman Schultz will not be part of the major evening speaking program as of now, though she and her aides are still negotiating that out, according to Democratic Party sources. One Democratic Party official noted that the plan was always to have a permanent chair of the convention, the role that will be filled by Rep. Marcia Fudge of Ohio, a Clinton loyalist, who, according to an internal party document obtained by ABC News, is in line to become the convention's permanent chairperson. Four years ago, that role was filled by the then-mayor of Los Angeles Antonio Villaraigosa.

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Input: Russian president Vladimir Putin has met with European Jewish leaders to discuss their concerns over rising anti-Semitism on the continent. During the meeting, Putin pointed out that many Jews emigrated from Moscow when it was part of the former Soviet Union. He said now they can come back.

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Input: Hassan Haj Ali is a rebel commander who told us his men have received weapons from the U.S. and are trying to fight off the assault." When the regime kills women and children," he said," they're telling Syrians to get out of rebel-held areas." As the regime and Russia bombard Aleppo Province, the battlefield there has become even more chaotic. Now there's evidence that groups supported by the U.S. have started to fight each other as they vie for territory. Hassan Haj Ali, along with other U.S .- backed commanders, said they're clashing with Kurdish fighters -- and the Kurdish group also receives American support.

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Input: “The only need we have for an intervention is maybe with some media types who keep saying things that are n’t true,” Manafort said. Still, party leaders are working furiously to get Trump back on message after a disastrous stretch in which he has veered wildly off course and renewed fears among Republicans that he will lead them to electoral disaster in the fall. One party source told The Hill that Priebus is “furious” with Trump for spending the last few days publicly feuding with the Muslim parents of a slain U.S. soldier and for declining to endorse Speaker Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE's (R-Wis.) reelection bid. Priebus is close friends with Ryan, a fellow Wisconsin native, and their supporters believe both men have stuck their necks out for Trump only to have him turn around and humiliate them. Priebus has communicated his anger to Manafort and other campaign officials, pushing for Trump to turn his fire on Democratic rival Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for?

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Input: A teenage model in Russia died after she was allegedly stabbed 140 times by her "jealous" older sister who was on drugs. The corpse of 17-year -old Stefania Dubrovina was found mutilated beyond recognition with her eyes gouged out and ears hacked off. Police have detained Elizaveta Dubrovina on suspicion of killing Stefania at an apartment owned by a 44-year -old male photographer in St Petersburg on 24 February. Police, however, have not disclosed the identity of the owner of the apartment.

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Input: The army was now trying to dismantle booby trap bombs in some of the city's neighbourhoods, sources told Al Jazeera." We know from previous battles that ISIL may try to plant IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and booby traps in some homes before they leave," Al Jazeera's Omar al-Saleh, reporting from the Syrian-Turkish border, said. In May, ISIL took Palmyra in a matter of days and later demolished some of its best-known monuments. The fate of the remaining artifacts is unknown. The group also destroyed the infamous Tadmur prison, where thousands of government opponents were reported to have been tortured.

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Input: This is when Trump’s hotels first became aware of the breach, and of the credit card-stealing software. It would be another four months before they told their customers and the potential victims of the theft. A final report on the hack “recommended that Trump adopt additional security precautions including “two-factor authentication” for remote access to the THC network. But Trump never did, so the interconnected hotel credit card system, as well as the payment systems at Trump condominiums, remained open to attack. September 25, 2015: Trump Hotel Collection “placed a notice on its website about the data security breach.”

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Input: Instead of condemning this, Trump called on Russia to hack some more! Trump’s praise of Putin, his apparent willingness to consider recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea and remove sanctions is also profoundly shocking given the grave deterioration in the human rights situation under Russian occupation. Since the Spring of 2014, Russia has carried out a policy of repression against all opponents of annexation; has severely curtailed all rights and freedoms and imprisoned people on politically motivated charges. It has effectively declared war against the Crimean Tatars, the main indigenous people of the peninsula and is carrying out a policy of terror and intimidation. One Crimean Tatar leader, Akhtem Chiygoz, is facing a long sentence on absurd charges relating to a pre-annexation demonstration over which Russia has no jurisdiction, while another Ilmi Umerov could also end up imprisoned for 5 years over a broadcast in which he spoke of how Crimea must be returned to Ukraine.

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Input: Friction between the U.S. and Venezuela runs deep. Last March the Obama administration slapped sanctions on several high-ranking members of President Nicolas Maduro's government. U.S. authorities also arrested and indicted two of Maduro's family members for drug trafficking late last year. Related: Christine Lagarde: Troubled oil countries keep me up at night The political tension may be weighing on economic ties.

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Input: "We are not ruled by a desire to kill everyone standing on the other side of the line. Our aim is to stabilize the situation in Maryinka," he continued. But like the troops he commands, he is growing exasperated by the daily skirmishes that don't bring the end of the war any closer." Show [the journalists] our recent work," Vlasenko said to the soldier with the Mohawk, who switched from the live feed to a video shot on July 16 that shows Ukrainian artillery pounding what is said to be separatist positions. When he closes his eyes, Vlasenko said, he daydreams about being given the order for all 69,000 Ukrainian troops Kyiv says are currently in the eastern war zone to push east to Donetsk and Luhansk -- and beyond.

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Input: Obama’s power for good. Today a friend challenged me on this point: Make a list of ten really, really bad things that President Trump could actually do. A little bit of emailing around produced the following list. I’ve divided it into two groups: the “stroke-of-the-pen” things that a President could accomplish just by ordering them, and other things that would require Congressional approval or help from state governments. But let’s not forget that Trump’s election would almost certainly mean both that he had a Republican Senate and House to work with and that the Republican members of those bodies would mostly be terrified of primary challenges should they oppose the imperial will.

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Input: Read these quotes: “My students are terrified of Donald Trump,” says one teacher from a middle school with a large population of African-American Muslims. “They think that if he’s elected, all black people will get sent back to Africa.” In Oregon, an elementary school teacher says her black students are “concerned for their safety because of what they see on TV at Trump rallies.” In Tennessee, a kindergarten teacher says a Latino child, who has been bullied by classmates telling him he will be deported, asks every day, “Is the wall here yet?” If the leaders of the Republican Party continue to support this hateful, lying demagogue, it will rightfully be pushed into irrelevance as these children grow up and America’s old, white racists die off. And why, Mr. Speaker, should you allow your party to be brought down by a man who does n’t stand for Republican beliefs? Compare Trump’s policies with the long-standing principles of the Republican Party.

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Input: The administration would also seek to include Arab members in a no-fly-zone coalition, mainly to bolster legitimacy. These would probably include Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations, even though their contribution would largely be symbolic. Syrian government forces gather in the largely deserted Palestinian refugee camp of Handarat, north of Aleppo, on September 24, 2016 after they captured the area following multiple Russian airstrikes. AFP / George Ourfalian Jordan has a small air force but could provide bases near the Syrian border.

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Input: ' There is at least one lobbyist in jail right this minute for giving public employees travel and meals worth far, far less than $ 900,000, ' Almasi said. ' He claims he didn't intend bribery; that what he did was "business as usual." But he's in jail now nonetheless. ... It seems reckless and unnecessary, even if it was not illegal. '

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Input: The Presidential Advisor stressed that Syria is a member state at the UN and the Syrian Arab Army is fighting terrorism, and the legitimacy of President Bashar al-Assad stems from the Syrian people, not from what the American administration decides. On the relation with the Democratic Union Party, she said “we do n’t differ with any component of the Syrian people on any ethnic, religious, or sectarian basis; rather we differ on political basis,” asserting that the Party represents only a small part of the Kurds, and that Syria has supported all sides which fight terrorism and deals with them according to their stances towards the Syrian sovereignty. Shaaban accused the so-called “opposition” of rejecting dialogue with the Syrian government because its members are tied to foreign agendas, noting that on the other hand, agreements were reached with armed groups more than once because these groups “have more independence than those who were entrusted with holding dialogue in Geneva.” She dismissed the existence of any guarantees or coordination among Russia, Iran, and Turkey regarding the blatant Turkish aggression on Syrian territory, asserting that Syria did n’t disregard this aggression and it does n’t believe in the Turkish allegations of fighting terrorism at the time when it send terrorists to destroy it, SANA reported, as covered by ABNA. She criticized the UN for failing to fulfil its role as a neutral international institution, noting that some UN workers attempted to dissuade some citizens from getting out of al-Waer neighbourhood in Homs and from Daraya in Damascus countryside, and by doing so they overstepped their boundaries, adding that UN Special Envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura is n’t carrying out his duties with transparency, and that UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s recent accusations which he levelled at Syria are groundless.

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Input: You look at Ukraine. He talks about Ukraine how tough he is, right? How tough he is with Russia in the meantime they took over Crimea. I understood that and most papers covered what I said accurately and some didn't because the press is so dishonest. Crimea, I mean, the Russians took it over under Obama's very powerful leadership.

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Input: A goat at Russia's Primorsky Safari Park has been christened "Obama." Dmitry Mezentsev / Primorsky Safari Park The Primorsky Safari Park obtained the animal from a farmer in Sochi who had named it after the U.S. president. Officials first tried to take the creature to one of Vladimir Putin’s residences but were informed the Russian president “holds no meetings with goats," according to a statement from park director Dmitry Mezentsev. He added:" It took a while to prepare the paperwork for Obama's move [from Sochi to the park].

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Input: Having been burned by multiple failed attempts at brokering a successful deal with Russia, American diplomats caution that the diplomacy is in flux. After many failed attempts at convincing Russia to abandon its support for Assad, this is a last-ditch effort by the Obama administration to stop the killing and the flow of refugees from Syria. An estimated 5 million Syrians refugees have fled the country during the past six years of war while more than 400,000 Syrians have been killed. Begrudgingly, U.S. officials admit that this potential deal is a compromise that puts Russian President Vladimir Putin back at global player status. Now the question is whether he will live up to his end of the bargain.

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Input: In Piraeus, migrants said some smugglers talked of stashing people in trucks destined for Italy or Northern Europe, raising the prospect of tragedies like an episode last year when 71 migrants suffocated in a truck found abandoned by smugglers in Austria near the border with Hungary. Human rights groups said migrants moving recently through Bulgaria reported violent beatings by police officers and local vigilante groups, and being set upon by dogs in Macedonia. In Serbia, which could remain part of the migrant path if flows pick up from Albania, Bulgaria or Romania, the border closings have already revived old smuggling networks after years of police clampdowns. This week, smugglers brought 45 Kurds into Serbia using an old path from Bulgaria, said Jelena Hrnjak, the program manager at Atina, an aid group working with the International Rescue Committee. Migrants who have no money left, especially unaccompanied minors, are frequently put into a kind of “debt bondage” by the smugglers.

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Input: Violent crime overall was up 3.9%, while property crime declined by 2.6% compared with 2014. The picture is mixed in major cities this year. According to the Major Cities Chiefs Assn., there have been certain cities that have seen jumps in homicides in 2016 compared with 2015, such as Chicago and Los Angeles, but other cities have seen a decline in homicides in the same period, such as Houston and New York City. Trump has made an overt, if clumsy, appeal to African American voters in recent weeks, pitching himself as the best option to fix what he describes as the dismal state of black America." Our African American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they've ever been in before.

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Input: While Abbas two years ago ordered that these salaries not be paid by the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs but instead by the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Carmon described this as a "deliberately misleading move" to assuage concerns from donor countries worried about their money being funneled to terrorists." The source of the money remains the PA, which receives them from donor countries, and the overseeing body remains none other than the PA," Carmon told lawmakers. He said that countries who provide aid to Palestine, including the United States, are "complicit" in inciting terrorism because the Palestinian Authority uses foreign donations to subsidize terrorists and their families." By providing this support, the PA is encouraging terrorism in violation of its Oslo commitment. Furthermore, the PA has been using money granted by donor countries for this purpose, and by doing so, has made them complicit in encouraging terrorism as well," Carmon said.

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Input: But elites still matter in a democracy. They matter not because they are democracy’s enemy but because they provide the critical ingredient to save democracy from itself. The political Establishment may be battered and demoralized, deferential to the algorithms of the web and to the monosyllables of a gifted demagogue, but this is not the time to give up on America’s near-unique and stabilizing blend of democracy and elite responsibility. The country has endured far harsher times than the present without succumbing to rank demagoguery; it avoided the fascism that destroyed Europe; it has channeled extraordinary outpourings of democratic energy into constitutional order. It seems shocking to argue that we need elites in this democratic age — especially with vast inequalities of wealth and elite failures all around us.

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Input: If Assange is getting his material from Russia and sabotaging Hillary’s campaign, that takes the pending releases up a whole bunch of notches. It means a prickly and powerful adversary is trying to rig our presidential election, and that’s unaccaptable. In an interview posted on YouTube on July 27, Assange contends the next “batches of postings” will get Hillary Clinton arrested. Some of those emails have been posted on WikiLeaks and it is possible they contain some damning information. For Hillary, the “fix” appears to be in universally, but freedom of the press gives Assange more power than all other news outlets currently carrying her water.

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Input: There was no mention that on the same day, Clinton had visited the United Nations, where translation earpieces are the norm, nor that the Clinton campaign denied the allegation. When Clinton collapsed after a Sept. 11th memorial service, WikiLeaks tweeted a poll, which it later deleted, asking readers to vote on the most plausible theory for what had happened. The choices did not include the campaign’s explanation — dehydration and pneumonia — but did include three made-up ones: Parkinson’s, multiple sclerosis, and, somewhat cryptically, “Allergies and personality.” Then, on Oct. 7, WikiLeaks released about 2,000 private e-mails from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, just minutes after the leak of Trump’s vulgar remarks caught on video in 2005. Was this an effort to blunt the damage to the Republican candidate while arming him ahead of the second debate?

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Input: Jim Newell Jim Newell is a Slate staff writer. Because, to the misfortune of the West, Kaine and his preppers did appear to think that “lines” would be a wise tactic to employ — again. Just as Hillary Clinton, in her poor first segment of last week’s debate, used “Trumped-up trickle down,” Kaine inexplicably had his own: referring to Pence as Trump’s “apprentice”—just like the teevee show!—and an unclever contrast between Trump as the “you’re fired” president and Clinton as the “you’re hired” president. God, stop. Advertisement

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Input: A record-breaking 18,300 folks applied. How much longer will the space station last? Someone once smuggled a sandwich into space, which is a horrible idea How filthy is the International Space Station? An astrobiologist weighs in.

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Input: Everything noted so far leads up to one other thing that needs to be discussed on its own (you’ll see it below in the story, but it is important to note). After Voting Rights 1965 it was n’t just a matter of switching the South, it was a matter of taking that 1930’s conservative coalition to the next level and the Republicans switching themselves (again, in response to the increasing social liberalism of America and the Democratic party). No social conservative faction was strong enough on its own to win an election, not after Voting Rights, but together, under a strategically planned big tent, the social conservatives and establishment conservatives could create a siren-like Frankenstein’s monster to push for free-enterprise (classically liberal and Gilded Age business interest) and socially conservative values against the progressive state an increasingly progressive Democratic Party (the reference to Frankenstein is a political metaphor made, not an insult). This story involves: The Powell memo, the southern strategy, the John Birch Society, the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, Goldwater, Nixon, Reagan, Norquist, Roger Aisle, Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, Fox News, Reagan, Right-Wing Radio, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, and “a vast right-wing conspiracy” aimed at getting the many different social conservative and establishment conservative factions to adopt each other’s ideology (each not popular enough to win elections on their own, but in a “Big Tent” a force).

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Input: According to this report, Nadiya Savchenko is a former Ukraine Air Force pilot who in 2014 joined the neo-Nazi Aidar Battalion, which is a volunteer military detachment of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense currently fighting against Russian separatist factions in their eastern regions and has been the target of many war crimes investigations. On 6 June 2014, this report continues, Nadiya Savchenko entered into the Federation from Ukraine and presented herself before Federal Migration Service (FMS) officials stating that she was a refugee and requesting she be granted Russian identity documents — which were approved. On 17 June 2014, this report notes, while on Federation soil and in the possession of (legal) Russian identity documents, Nadiya Savchenko used her cellular phone to secretly adjust mortar fire from her Aidar Battalion terrorist allies in Ukraine onto a militia roadblock in the vicinity of Metallist village in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) killing Russian television reporter Vladimirovich Kornelyuk and his sound engineer Anton Voloshin. With the facts relating to Nadiya Savchenko’s terrorist crimes and neo-Nazi affiliations having been fully documented during her trial, FSB legal analysts in this report state, the “beyond top secret” emails belonging to former Secretary Hillary Clinton are critical for the court’s “understanding / consideration” in sentencing as they “directly relate” to the causes as to why this murderer has become the West’s latest cause célèbre against Russia. According to these FSB analysts, the specific emails obtained from former Secretary Hillary Clinton involving Nadiya Savchenko were written by US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland who masterminded what the private American intelligence firm Stratfor (known as the Shadow CIA) called the “most blatant coup in history” in toppling Ukraine’s legitimate government.

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Input: American airstrikes may have mistakenly killed Syrian government forces instead of ISIS fighters, U.S. officials said on Saturday." We are still gathering information at this time but we have been able to confirm that earlier today, the United States struck what we believe to be an [ISIS] target," said Samantha Power, the U.S.'s ambassador to the United Nations." If we determine that we did indeed strike Syrian military personnel, that was not our intention and we, of course, regret the loss of life." The Russian Defense Ministry said the American strikes south of Deir el-Zour killed 62 Syrian soldiers and wounded 100 in four separate airstrikes. U.S. officials could still not confirm those numbers or whether Syrian armed forces had actually been killed in the strike.

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Input: Loans that his diminished reputation and sketchy repayment history has made difficult to obtain. For the last twenty years, Trump’s go-to has been German-based Deutsche Bank, but even that relationship has soured as Trump has burned them on several occasions and the bank has faced its own pressures and troubles from outside their relationship. So where does a cash-poor billionaire go when they need a quick payday loan? Well, if you’re ultra-conservative George Will, you’d guess Russian oligarchs. If you live in New York City, you might guess the Mafia.

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Input: She’s just too quick to intervene, invade, or to push for regime change," he said at the summit. Meanwhile in New York, Clinton met with national security and foreign policy experts who are supporting her campaign to discuss terrorism. She touted the bipartisan nature of the meeting and vowed to work across the aisle as president to tackle national security challenges." The nominee on the other side promises to do things that will make us less safe," Clinton told reporters at a news conference on Friday afternoon." National security experts on both sides of the aisle are chilled by what they’re hearing from the Republican nominee."

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Input: Hide Caption 2 of 25 Photos: The second presidential debate Clinton responds to a question during the event, which used a town-hall format that included questions from undecided voters. Hide Caption 3 of 25 Photos: The second presidential debate Trump greets Clinton before the start of the debate. Hide Caption 4 of 25 Photos: The second presidential debate The event in St. Louis was the second of three scheduled debates. Election Day is less than a month away. Hide Caption 5 of 25 Photos: The second presidential debate Trump looks on as Clinton answers a question.

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Input: Turkey's top Muslim cleric and chief rabbi also attended. But the pro-Kurdish HDP, the third-largest party in parliament, was not invited due to its alleged links to Kurdish militants, prompting anger on social media from its supporters. The brutality of July 15, in which rogue soldiers commandeered fighter jets, helicopters and tanks, shocked a nation that last saw a violent military power grab in 1980. Even Erdogan's opponents saw his leadership as preferable to a successful coup renewing the cycle of military interventions that dogged Turkey in the second half of the 20th century." Erdogan has been brutal and unfair to us in the past, but I believe he has now understood the real importance of the republic's values," said Ilhan Girit, 44, a musician and CHP supporter, carrying a flag of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the modern secular republic.

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Input: Absolutely right." The back-and-forth comes amid debate about how to confront China's increasingly aggressive behavior in the South and East China seas. China's land reclamation projects in the vicinity of the Spratly Islands have been the focus of rising tensions between China and the United States and its regional allies like the Philippines. In July, an international tribunal dealt a legal blow to China. The panel in The Hague, Netherlands, dismissed China’s attempt to create legal rights for features in the Spratly Islands chain by constructing air strips and bases there. The ruling states that piling dirt and sand on rocky outcroppings and reefs doesn't confer additional resource rights to the waters around it. Despite the ruling, China has not vacated its islands and is currently threatening to expand its claims with a new island-building project near Scarborough Shoal, less than 140 miles from the Philippines’ capital and well within the Philippines’ 200-mile exclusive economic zone. A military base on Scarborough would threaten U.S. troops and aircraft in that country. China has also edged in on Japanese claims in the East China Sea, which has prompted the pacifist nation to increase its military activities and spending.

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Input: MR. EARNEST: You’ll recall the President did have an opportunity to speak to one of the leaders of that organization shortly after this incident occurred. I know that the Department of Defense, including General Votel, the newly installed commander of Central Command, has been in touch with senior officials at MSF to discuss the report. At this point, I’m not sure and I do n’t know of any planned phone calls from the President to MSF officials at this point. Q And then on one other topic, the Supreme Court this morning declined to block Texas’s voter ID law.

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Input: What about running our economy into the ground is leadership? What about persecuting LGBT Russians is leadership? What about setting up journalists and imprisoning them and killing them is leadership? There is a difference between dictatorship and leadership,” Kaine said, appearing on CBS This Morning. “If you did n’t understand that you would n’t get out of a fifth grade civics exam.”

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Input: How ironic it would be if the repayment for the Party Men’s devotion was as much contempt from Trump as they’ve drawn from # NeverTrump conservatives — or worse, if after giving one-way fealty to their party’s nominee, they lost their elections anyway. The ethno-authoritarian movement that is the Trump campaign has treaded so deeply into uncharted waters, it now expresses Russian nationalism more forcefully than American exceptionalism, with Trump’s followers eagerly going along. That includes the leaders of the “religious right”—the self-proclaimed defenders of the Christian faith and of old-fashioned family values, who have decided to fully back the thrice-married Lothario whose mantra is that women should be “treated like shit,” in the hopes that he will appoint anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion Puritans to the Supreme Court. Trump’s brash Putinism; his ignorance of global affairs, complete with the candidate denying the plain fact of Russia’s incursion into Ukraine days after calling on Russian intelligence to commit cyber espionage against his political opponent; and Trump and his team’s deep financial and business ties to Russia, have done nothing to dissuade Trump’s sturdiest supporters, including his men and women on Capitol Hill. Few could have anticipated that we would see the day Republicans cheer heartily for the Russians, while booing the declaration that America is great.

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Input: His remarks gained national attention, and he lost his race. The controversy also comes with the Trump campaign already under fire for an incident involving his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski. He was charged with battery Tuesday for allegedly grabbing the arm of a former Breitbart reporter, Michelle Fields, in an incident captured on tape. Trump and his campaign have said they "wholeheartedly" support Lewandowski and pushed back on Fields's claims. Trump has also faced charges of sexism on the campaign trail after a high-profile spat with Fox News host Megyn Kelly and for remarks critical of former GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina.

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Input: . Regardless of the issues of some in the intelligence neighborhood, Trump is almost particular to obtain the rundowns beginning later on today. & ldquo; I do not plan to keep instructions from any formally chosen, “qualified prospect, & rdquo; James Clapper, the director of nationwide intelligence, composed to Speaker of your home Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) in a letter dated July 11...

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Input: The Kremlin Saturday slammed Washington’s plans for a retaliatory cyberattack against Russia, vowing to protect itself from Uncle Sam’s “unpredictably and aggressiveness.” “The threats directed against Moscow and our state’s leadership are unprecedented, because they are voiced at the level of the US vice president,” a Kremlin spokesman said. Moscow’s remarks came in response to Vice President Joe Biden promising a “clandestine” cyber-operation in retaliation for Russia’s alleged hacking interference in the US presidential election.

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Input: Assange sought refuge at the Ecuadorian embassy in June 2012 after the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom denied his application to reconsider his appeal of an earlier decision by that court. The case brought before the Supreme Court of the U.K. concerned whether a European Arrest Warrant (EAW) issued by Sweden for Julian Assange was valid. In its ruling of May 30, 2012, the seven-member panel of judges held that the EAW was valid, and as a result Assange now may be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sexual assault. The events that led to Assange’s initial arrest (without charge or due process) are well known. In late July 2010, WikiLeaks released the so-called Afghan War Diary.

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Input: Vladimir Putin is ready and willing to host peace talks aimed at resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to Egypt’s president. President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said the Russian leader pledged to directly intervene in the crisis and hold talks between Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Abbas in Moscow in the near future, with Mr al-Sisi also present. “Putin has told me that he is ready to receive [Abbas] and Netanyahu in Moscow to carry out direct talks to find a solution,” Mr Sisi told Egyptian newspaper Al Aharam. “I see that the conviction of the importance of peace is rising among the Israeli side, and the conviction about finding an exit to the issue is a positive sign.

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Input: We hope that as president she resists the progressive currents she had to navigate in her primary with Sen. Bernie Sanders and that she tacks back to the centrist positions of her husband’s presidency. But a President Hillary Clinton on her worst day would be so superior to a President Donald Trump on any day that we marvel this race was ever competitive. We urge voters to dump Trump and choose the clearly qualified candidate in this race: Hillary Clinton. To send a letter to the editor about this article, submit online or check out our guidelines for how to submit by e-mail or mail.

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Input: That’s very difficult to see,” Winnie Wong, a founder of People for Bernie, a group of Sanders supporters, said of Mrs. Clinton. “The people really have to get together and make sure some of these agenda items on the platform become a reality.” Ms. DeMoro, of the nurses’ union, expressed outrage over an email sent to Mr. Podesta by Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, who vowed to combat the nurses’ “high and mighty sanctimonious conduct.” (Mr. Podesta replied, “Thanks.”) “We are going to have to fight and organize like we would against a Republican, if the emails ring true,” Ms. DeMoro said. And Nina Turner, a former state senator from Ohio who campaigned for Mr. Sanders — and who has not endorsed Mrs. Clinton — said she was especially troubled by an email that she said seemed filled with vindictiveness.

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Input: Rio a city of humiliation apparently 👎🏻 # rio2016 pic.twitter.com/Xd1nT4ayya — Jason Lee (@jasonleejitsu) July 5, 2016 Last year it was reported extra security forces — more than double what was used in London in 2012 — would flood the city in an effort to combat the significant crime level. Aussie Paralympian Liesl Tesch experienced Rio’s dangerous underbelly first hand in June when her and her physio were robbed by two men, one of whom was armed with a gun. “It was absolutely horrific,” Tesch said afterwards. “I can see it clear as day in my own head ... it was a pistol.”

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Input: "The lead we have is shrinking as our near peer adversaries, and countries with which they proliferate, have developed, likely stolen, and fielded state-of-the-art systems.” Carlisle cited numerous factors, such as limited resources, in the stagnating state of combat readiness. According to the Air Force, examples include six consecutive years of cuts that would reduce the number of F-35 combat squadrons by 50% by 2028, the divestment of 3,000 aircraft and 200,000 Airmen since Operation Desert Storm, and a reduction of $ 24 billion in funding for precision attack weapons — about 45% less weapons capacity. Furthermore, Carlisle pinpointed outdated equipment, such as the AIM-120 medium-range missile, as a disturbing factor. As the Air Force’s primary air-to-air missile, it originally entered service with the F-15C in 1991.

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Input: The unanimous assessment of all experts: The paper in the hands of BILD is genuine. The commission's work is already bearing fruit. The Donbass Commission, or de facto government of the Russian-occupied areas in eastern Ukraine, was established in December 2014. Officially: on account of "the urgent need and critical humanitarian situation" in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Yet directly after its foundation, the Commission disappeared from the scene, officially never meeting again. The founding document from December 2014 contains the Russian name of the commission, dedicated to deal only with “humanitarian aid “.

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Input: An Iranian nuclear weapons capability would not only end that nuclear monopoly but could also prompt other adversaries, like Saudi Arabia and Egypt, to go nuclear as well. The result would be a precarious nuclear balance in which Israel could not respond to provocations with conventional military strikes on Syria and Lebanon, as it can today. If Iran were to reach the threshold of a nuclear weapons state, Tehran would find it much easier to call on its allies in Syria and Hezbollah to strike Israel, knowing that its nuclear weapons would serve as a deterrent to Israel responding against Iran itself. It is, Clinton continues, the “strategic relationship between Iran and the regime of Bashar Assad in Syria” that makes it possible for Iran to undermine Israel’s security. This would not come about through a “direct attack,” Clinton admits, because “in the thirty years of hostility between Iran and Israel” this has never occurred, but through its alleged “proxies.”

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Input: He now insists that was a joke and denies having anything to do with Putin, but U.S. officials have determined the Russian government may have been involved in hacking Democratic emails, fueling speculation Russia is indeed meddling in the election process. The Clinton campaign, including the candidate herself, has called on the FBI to release all "relevant facts" they have on the emails. In an internal memo obtained by Fox News on Friday, Comey explained to staffers he chose to break with normal procedure because he felt "an obligation" to tell Congress because he recently testified that the investigation had ended and that he recommended no charges be brought against the former secretary of state.

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Input: It’s about punishing them legally, morally, spiritually and physically. That's what it has always been about, in every cultural and religious costume it has adopted over the past two centuries and more. The movement stuffed with people who believe that sex is dirty and women who have it willingly should pay the price. Ideally by being forced to carry a pregnancy to term. If not, then by means of trans-vaginal ultrasounds, pointless enforced waiting periods, targeted domestic and professional harassment, and the real threat of jail if anything goes wrong.

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Input: The following article is entirely the opinion of Mohit Priyadarshi and does not reflect the views of the Inquisitr. Hillary Clinton’s email troubles continue to mount even as she increases her attacks on Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump. Last week, the State Department’s internal audit found Clinton guilty of violating federal protocols, with Inspector General Steve Linick noting that Clinton had never sought approval for her contentious private server, something that directly contradicted her oft-used “convenience” argument. Hillary has repeatedly claimed that the State Department “allowed” her to use her private server to conduct official business, but with the IG report proving otherwise, the Democratic front-runner has found herself cornered into a tough spot. And yet, when confronted with the findings of the report, Hillary Clinton maintained that all the hullabaloo surrounding her email probe is simply the result of a “mistake” that she committed during her time as the Secretary of State.

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Input: fell under rebel control during the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. At the entrance to Madaya, Abu Shadi said, pro-Assad fighters have hung a sign proclaiming “Kneel or starve,” a slogan intended to capture the stark choice confronting rebels in the besieged communities. He said most of the fighters surrounding the town belong to the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, which supports Assad and has been leading the battle to recapture Syrian towns in the vicinity of the nearby Lebanese border. Hezbollah denied the allegations, saying that rebels were preventing residents from leaving.

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Input: (CNN) When comparing yourself to world leaders or historical figures, there are perhaps less controversial choices than Adolf Hitler. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday likened himself to the Nazi leader, saying he wants to kill millions of drug addicts, just as Hitler killed Jews during the Holocaust." Hitler massacred 3 million Jews. Now there is 3 million, what is it, 3 million drug addicts (in the Philippines), there are," he said in a speech in his hometown of Davao City." I'd be happy to slaughter them.

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Input: Hide Caption 28 of 29 Photos: San Bernardino shooting SWAT teams and a bomb squad were working to clear the buildings where the shootings took place. Hide Caption 29 of 29 January 8, 2016 -- A man identified as Edward Archer is arrested after a Philadelphia police officer is shot and wounded. Officer Jesse Hartnett was hit three times and suffered "some very serious injuries that will require multiple surgeries," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross said. Despite being seriously injured, Hartnett got out of his patrol car and shot the assailant, who later was apprehended by other officers, Ross said.

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Input: Obama is still suffering the consequences of saying in a White House news conference in 2012 that Syria's use of chemical weapons would be a "red line" for him. Obama's decision not to attack the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for its use of such arms was seen by critics as a disastrous blow to not just his own credibility but that of the United States itself. The fallout from the episode raised questions about whether the US word on its security guarantees elsewhere -- for example with treaty allies in Europe and Asia -- was as absolute as many nations had assumed. Trump's comments during the campaign about NATO and musings on whether US allies Japan and South Korea should consider nuclear weapons have similarly concerned those countries. Though just a candidate, the policies would have major implications for their security should he be the next occupant, causing consternation in foreign ministries around the world.

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Input: Monitors and activists on the ground put the figure much higher. Residents in the besieged part of the city allege that the recent bombing has deliberately targeted civilian infrastructure, including two hospitals, two civil defence service rescue centres and several ambulances which have been left completely unserviceable. Dr Al-Awad has worked at east Aleppo’s Al Quds hospital, which-like many of the area’s remaining medical facilities-now operates from an undisclosed location to shield it from bombing after the original site was destroyed by an air strike in April 2016. Video shows amazing rescue of child as shelling resumes in Aleppo There are only around 30 doctors in east Aleppo left to care for thousands of people in need of emergency and other medical care.

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Input: Related: John Kerry to Russia: Stop ' Grandstanding ' Over Syria The powerful ultraconservative Ahrar al-Sham militant group said rebels regained control Saturday of several positions they lost in Aleppo in the Bustan al-Basha neighborhood. People inspect a damaged site after airstrikes on the rebel held Sheikh Fares neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Saturday. ABDALRHMAN ISMAIL / Reuters State media said 13 people were wounded when rebels shelled the central government-held neighborhood of Midan.

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Input: The Newsweek attack comes about a week after KrebsOnSecurity, arguably the world’s most intrepid source of security news, was briefly silenced. That attack was presumably the work of a handful of individuals who did n’t like a recent series of exposés written by reporter Brian Krebs. Ars described the incident and the record-breaking data assault that brought it on as “a troubling new chapter in the short history of the Internet.” In recent weeks, security experts have uncovered botnets made up of network-connected cameras and other “Internet of Things” devices capable of bombarding a target with more than a terabit per second of junk traffic. That’s three times bigger than records set just three months ago. So far, there’s no indication that the attacks on Newsweek are related to previous attacks or contained the same staggering amount of firepower.

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Input: Americans should not be surprised that the former secretary of state would put America at risk, he said. Working with President Barack Obama, Clinton oversaw a foreign policy that treated allies as troublemakers and our enemies as victims with legitimate complaints about the United States. Chief among the enemies is the Islamic Republic of Iran, which Obama-Clinton empowered by lifting sanctions, thawing frozen assets, and ignoring Iran’s support of violent terrorism.

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Input: A Russian foreign ministry statement said Finland decided "a few days ago" to extradite both men." We maintain our principled view that the practice of detaining Russian citizens following US requests to third countries all over the world is a legal abuse and violation of internationally recognised proceedings," it said." We confirm our categorical objections to the extradition of the Russians to the USA. We hope that the Finnish authorities will take into account our position, which has been repeatedly explained to them." Finland, however, argues that its Justice Ministry's decision to deport Mr Senakh can not be appealed against because the High Court decided in December to endorse his extradition.

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Input: One was about the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, and the need for lawmakers to be seen as being on top of the financial market meltdown that hurt many of their constituents. ‘Political Reasons’ “There was a lot of complaining about Dodd-Frank, but there was also a need to do something because for political reasons, if you were an elected member of Congress and people in your constituency were losing jobs and shutting businesses and everybody in the press is saying it’s all the fault of Wall Street, you ca n’t sit idly by and do nothing,” Clinton said in the New York speech. In one speech, according to the transcript, Clinton said there’s “nothing magic about regulations” and that people in the industry should be involved to get the right balance. “How do you get to the golden key, how do we figure out what works?” she asked.

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Input: 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." If the Shadow Brokers actually hacked something, it wasn't ' the NSA '.

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Input: 5/10 Women cry during the funeral of Palestinian teenager Ahmad Sharaka, 13, who was shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes at a checkpoint near Ramallah, at the family house in the Palestinian West Bank refugee camp of Jalazoun, Ramallah AP 6/10 A wounded Palestinian boy and his father hold hands at a hospital after their house was brought down by an Israeli air strike in Gaza Reuters 7/10 Palestinians look on after a protester is shot by Israelis soldiers during clashes at the Howara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus EPA 8/10 A lawyer wearing his official robes kicks a tear gas canister back toward Israeli soldiers during a demonstration by scores of Palestinian lawyers called for by the Palestinian Bar Association in solidarity with protesters at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, near Ramallah, West Bank AP 9/10 Undercover Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian in Ramallah Reuters

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Input: Pence told CNN's Dana Bash last month that it was "inarguable" that Putin is a stronger leader than President Barack Obama. He also suggested the United States "should be prepared to use military force" against the Syrian government if Russia doesn't stop supporting President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Pence also said that "what America ought to do right now is to immediately establish safe zones" to protect Syrian refugees -- a departure from Trump, who has praised the idea of safe zones but put the burden on Middle Eastern countries to establish and maintain them. The major policy splits between Trump and Pence pose a series of new questions about their foreign policy that could dominate the next week -- and become the most important result of the vice presidential debate. Pence didn't take the bait

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Input: Unfortunately for Ibarguen and the Herald, the next opportunity had come knocking. * * * By the time Matt Storin retired from The Boston Globe after more than eight years as editor, there were four insiders with their eyes on his job. That’s why it was a big surprise to staff when, in a hastily assembled meeting on July 2, 2001, they were informed that their next boss was not a well-known internal candidate whom Storin had recommended to the Globe’s publisher, but rather … some guy named Marty Baron? It was seen as one of the most seismic shifts in the history of the Globe, as well as a clear break from tradition in a parochial newsroom.

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Input: More than 100 countries have signed a treaty to ban their use. Human Rights Watch, as well as many US and other officials, have accused Russia of using cluster bombs as it supports the Syrian regime. The regime -- backed by Russian air power -- has intensified its airstrikes on Aleppo in recent days and appears to be deliberately targeting hospitals. JUST WATCHED Syrian girl tweets from inside Aleppo Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Syrian girl tweets from inside Aleppo 02:48 Now there are only five hospitals left in the area, and they're swamped with casualties.

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Input: Patients have to wait for others to die so they can be moved to an available bed in intensive care, ' Abu Waseem, manager of an MSF-supported trauma hospital in east Aleppo, warned in the statement. ' We only have three operating theatres and yesterday alone we had to do more than 20 major abdominal surgeries, ' he said, pointing out that ' hospital staff is working up to 20 hours a day. They can not just go home and let people die. ' MSF said it had last been able to deliver medical supplies to east Aleppo in August, and warned that the huge number of wounded was rapidly depleting the stocks in the remaining hospitals. Innocent: Wounded Syrian children await to receive treatment at a hospital following the air strike on the rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib on Thursday

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Input: But without that, I wo n’t be involved.” Kasich said he could n’t even see voting for the guy, though he was quick to add he would n’t vote for Hillary Clinton, either. I asked him why he thought Republican leaders in Washington continued to profess their support for Trump, even as they denounced his comments. “Look, I think in either political party, there’s always a tug between party loyalty, being part of the team, and your conscience,” Kasich said. “And there’s a lot of people that are really torn.

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Input: Tenet later said he was taken out of context, but that does n’t seem to be the case and, in any event, Tenet does n’t deny he was fundamentally confident that Iraq possessed W.M.D.s. 3.) General Tommy Franks, who led the invasion of Iraq in 2003, writes in his book that he was not only told by Egyptian and Jordanian leaders that Iraq possessed W.M.D.s, he was also told that Saddam would use them against invading American troops. 4.) Former CIA agent Kenneth Pollock has noted that the world’s most vaunted intelligence agencies, including some of those who opposed the war in Iraq, all believed Saddam Hussein possessed W.M.D.s.

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Input: 0 0 If the American presidential election winds up with Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump, and my passport is confiscated, and I’m somehow FORCED to choose one or the other, or I’m PAID to do so, paid well … I would vote for Trump. My main concern is foreign policy. American foreign policy is the greatest threat to world peace, prosperity, and the environment.

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Input: — Mollie (@MZHemingway) September 27, 2016 7. Clinton portrayed herself as a leading figure in slapping sanctions on Iran. This couldn't be further from the truth." I voted for every sanction against Iran when I was in the Senate, but it wasn't enough," Clinton said.

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Input: Donald Trump's proposed border wall with Mexico may be ridiculed in North America. But in some parts of Europe, in some circles, it is lauded as towering brilliance. Granted, it was a European country — Hungary — that inaugurated the idea of keeping out asylum-seekers by erecting, in record time, a three-and-a-half-metre-high fence along the border. That's admired in those circles too. But as hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers continue to land on Europe's shores, and as an opposing sentiment rises, for some, Trump's sturdy wall can't be built here quickly enough.

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Input: She is the establishment, the status quo. The best argument in her favor is that she’s not Donald Trump. Voting for her lets us survive as a nation for four more years. Things will be bad but manageable. As a public school teacher, under Clinton I can expect more support for charter schools, more standardized tests, more corporate school reform.

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Input: Now it's not just carpetbagging visitors to the Third World pushing this line of thought. Just as frequently, the argument is aimed at "low-information" voters at home. Maybe the slide started with 9/11, after which huge pluralities of people were suddenly OK with summary executions, torture, warrantless surveillance and the blithe disposal of concepts like habeas corpus. A decade and a half later, we're gripped by a broader mania for banning and censoring things that would have been unthinkable a generation ago. It seems equally to have taken over campus speech controversies (expanding the "fighting words" exception to the First Amendment is suddenly a popular idea) and the immigration debate (where Trump swept to the nomination riding a bluntly unconstitutional call for a religious test for immigrants).

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Input: When people eat these infected shellfish, they usually experience mild side effects, but in extreme cases people have died. Snails – Can spread several diseases, one such family of diseases is related to “rat lung” or “roundworm.” This disease is spread back and forth when rats and snails eat each other’s feces. There is one confirmed case in the United States that happened when a boy ate a snail “on a dare”. The boy suffered flue-like symptoms for about two weeks. This family of parasites is more common in Asia and the Pacific Islands and usually is contracted when people eat undercooked snails, but also undercooked crabs and freshwater shrimp. Katayama’s Fever is another disease spread by snails in tropical countries. Some locals call this infection “swimmer’s itch,” you may have seen movies where people in the jungle were told not to urinate while swimming, because “the bugs will swim up your ding-dong.” Katayama’s Fever usually results in severe urinary tract infections, but some forms of the disease enter the nerves system where they lay eggs in the brain. While this disease has a low mortality rate, life for the infected human host is usually extremely uncomfortable.

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Input: He tried to humiliate Mrs Clinton by again bringing up Bill’s accusers, whom he had brought into the hall. And then Mr Trump said that, as president, he would appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Mrs Clinton’s infamous e-mail habits as secretary of state, and other putative offences. When she expressed relief that someone with a temperament like his was not in charge of the law, he said, “Because you’d be in jail.” If that exchange took place in a foreign country, American diplomats would be denouncing it. It ought to be regarded as the evening’s most important moment, and its most shameful: the violation of a democratic principle that distinguishes free polities from authoritarian ones.

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Input: Advertisement Continue reading the main story In 1995, a Russian banker, Ivan K. Kivelidi, died after coming in contact with cadmium, which is deadly to the touch. His secretary died of the same symptoms, apparently because the poison had been spread on an office telephone handset. In 2008, Karinna Moskalenko, a Russian lawyer specializing in taking cases to the European Court of Human Rights, fell ill in Strasbourg, France, from mercury found in her car. Photo

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