Input: Tel Rifaat Two doctors and an activist from Tel Rifaat who left two days before the People’s Protection Unit (YPG), part of the Syrian Democratic Forces, took control of the town on 15 February told Amnesty International that all three health facilities, including a field hospital, a rehabilitation centre and a kidney dialysis centre were directly targeted by missiles during the week beginning on 8 February, just as the ground offensive on the town began. The attacks injured six members of the medical team and three civilian patients and left the population with no working medical facility. Doctor “Faraj” (his real name has been withheld for security reasons), who manages the field hospital, rehabilitation and kidney dialysis centre, told Amnesty International: “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.

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Input: He proposed banning all foreign Muslims from entering the United States until we “figure out what is going on” with terrorism. Or maybe just people from certain countries. After two events last weekend — a bombing in New York that involved a suspect who praised the Islamic State and stabbings in Minnesota for which the Islamic State has claimed credit — Trump has revived his tough talk on obliterating the terrorist group — vowing to “utterly destroy ISIS.” But for more than a year, Trump has declined to lay out a coherent strategy for doing so. Whenever pressed for specifics, Trump insists that he has a plan but says it must remain secret to avoid tipping off the enemy.

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Input: Warheads and missiles would be put together and handed over to the navy, allowing a nuclear weapon to be launched much faster if such a decision was taken. The start of Chinese missile patrols could further destabilise the already tense strategic standoff with the US in the South China Sea. Last Tuesday, a US spy plane and two Chinese fighter jets came close to colliding 50 miles of Hainan island, where China’s four Jin-Class ballistic missile submarines are based. A fifth is under construction. The two countries’ navies have also come uncomfortably close around disputed islands in the same region, and the chance of a clash will be heightened by cat-and-mouse submarine operations, according to Wu Riqiang, an associate professor at the School of International Studies at the Renmin University in Beijing.

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Input: Ukrainian general prosecutor has confirmed that Pavel Sheremet was murdered — an explosive device was found in the car. Ukraine's police chief Khatia Dekanoidze (pictured) says investigation into Sheremet's murder is her point of honour pic.twitter.com/xZiNEd45Vy — Myroslava Petsa (@myroslavapetsa) 20 July 2016 According to the reports, the car belonged to his employer, the head of Ukrainskaya Pravda newspaper. Journalist for @ukr_pravda Pavel Sheremet killed in car explosion in Kyiv.

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Input: The only officially sanctioned stores of the smallpox virus are held at heavily secured facilities at the CDC in Atlanta and at a Russian facility in Siberia. Some researchers contend that the samples should be preserved for use in the development of future vaccines or treatments. Dr. Henderson strenuously argued that the samples should be destroyed because, in his view, any amount of smallpox was too dangerous to tolerate. A side effect of the eradication program — and one of the “horrendous ironies of history,” said “Hot Zone” author Preston — is that since no one in generations has been exposed to the virus, most of the world’s population would be vulnerable to it in the event of an outbreak. “I feel very — what should we say?

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Input: Aleppo's citizens would have been better off living under occupation than living under ruins," Koteich wrote. Israel took the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six Day War, and in 1981 extended Israeli law to the region, thereby de facto annexing it. Koteich's comment came shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel would never renounce the Golan, infuriating Syrian politicians. Thus, many Syrian social media activists began wrangling with Koteich for voicing pro-Israel opinion. A Twitter user affiliated with the Syrian opposition said:" the carnage in Aleppo increases our hatred for Zionists, because without Israel, Assad would have gone." Many other users cursed Koteich, claiming that he should be incarcerated for being an Israeli agent. Koteich anchors DNA, a daily show broadcast on the Lebanese Future Television Network. On his show, he tends to criticize Iran and its involvement in Lebanon, calling Lebanon "a mafia state" controlled by Hezbollah. The northern Syrian city of Aleppo has been witnessing endless bombardments by the Syrian air force in the last week, in a bid to oust rebel factions from the city's outskirts. Since the city was excluded from the truce forged by the American administration and Russia on Friday, airstrikes continue hitting the city, causing hundreds of civilian causalities.

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Input: Since it declared a caliphate the group has increasingly been delivering services such as healthcare, and distributing aid and free fuel 14/74 Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces detain men suspected of being militants of the Isis group in Diyala province 15/74 Iraq crisis Mourners carry the coffin of a Shi'ite volunteer from the brigades of peace, who joined the Iraqi army and was killed during clashes with militants of the Isis group in Samarra, during his funeral in Najaf 16/74 Iraqi refugees An Iraqi Shiite Turkmen family fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, arrives at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region 17/74 Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi A photograph made from a video by the jihadist affiliated group Furqan Media via their twitter account allegedly showing Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivering a sermon during Friday prayers at a mosque in Mosul.

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

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Input: The panel reported in harrowing detail the acute trauma experienced by women and girls as young as 9 who were sold off as spoils of war to become sex slaves of Islamic State fighters, routinely raped and punished with extreme violence if they resisted or tried to escape. Islamic State fighters often targeted younger Yazidi children as a means of punishing their mothers, the report said. It cited an account of a fighter who killed several children after their mother’s effort to escape failed: The mother was then beaten and raped because she cried over their deaths. “No other religious group present in ISIS-controlled areas of Syria and Iraq has been subjected to the destruction that the Yazidis have suffered,” the report said.

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Input: North Korea's worst human rights abuses 11 show all North Korea's worst human rights abuses 1/11 Starvation A UN report said that policies leading to mass starvation in North Korea amounted to crimes against humanity. Deaths peaked during the 1990s North Korean famine. Al Jazeera

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Input: "There’s a 27-year -old who works for the DNC and who was shot in the back, murdered, just a few weeks ago, for unknown reasons as he was walking down the streets in Washington." Seth Rich, a DNC employee who did voter outreach, was shot to death last month early in the morning in Washington, D.C. The case is unsolved and police have speculated it was an attempted robbery. On Reddit, Rich's death has become the source of theories about whether he was involved in the leaks of emails and files from the Democratic National Committee last month. US intelligence officials have linked the leak to a Russian hack, though there has been no official conclusion on the matter.

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Input: The resignation and fear expressed by the Senior Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) is similar to that of diplomats, intelligence analysts and police officials also interviewed by CBS News. Facing distinct concerns over immigration, a poorly equipped police force and the simultaneous threats of unsecured nuclear material and porous borders, German cities are bracing for a terror attack." We are as vulnerable as Brussels," said Kaim, of the SWP, a think tank that advises the government and Germany's parliament in Berlin." We are as vulnerable as Paris. We are as vulnerable as London."

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Input: Louisiana itself has the highest rate of new HIV diagnoses in the country for any state, at 36.6 persons diagnosed with the disease for every 100,000 living in the state. The state is second to Washington DC, which has a diagnosis rate nearly double that, at 66.9 diagnoses per 100,000 people. But Louisiana also tops the world with its incarceration rate of 816 people incarcerated for every 100,000 adults in the state, according to the National Institute of Corrections. The national average in the US is 392 persons per 100,000. Louisiana’s incarceration rate tops countries such as Turkmenistan (with a rate of 583 per 100,000) and Russia (with 442 per 100,000), according to the World Prison Brief.

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Input: ‘Eyewash’: How the CIA deceives its own workforce about operations This is where American Special Operations forces are helping advise U.S. allies He was fired from the CIA and jailed for a leak. Now he’s trying to hang on.

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Input: 9. He condoned violence against protesters at his rallies After a Black Lives Matter protester was shoved, tackled, punched and kicked when he disrupted a Trump rally last fall, the GOP nominee offered this response "Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing," Trump said reacting to the incident. Trump has also said in February of a protester that he would "like to punch him in the face" and fondly recalled the "old days" when protesters would be "carried out on stretchers."

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Input: Dyn said Friday evening a third cyber attack ' has been resolved '. It was not immediately clear who was responsible and Gillian Christensen of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the agency was ' investigating all potential causes. ' The Department of Homeland Security has already launched an urgent investigation into the crash, amid claims it could be a precursor to an attempt to disrupt the US Presidential election further. Political commentor Keith Olbermann even raised the possibility it could be a precursor to an attack on election day. ' Say, not to panic anybody, but what if the (attacks) today were practice for 11/8? '

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Input: He added," I want a president who has empathy; who realizes the struggles of everyday man. He is someone you can relate to." He said unless Clinton vowed to get money out of politics, he wasn't sure he could vote for her in November. Alvin Singh, 24, a Rutgers graduate who was also among the group, said unless Clinton somehow involved Sanders with her campaign, if she ended up winning the nomination, he couldn't see himself voting for her either. Spencer Kent may be reached at skent@njadvancemedia.com.

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Input: “Let them come here,” said Putin. “They emigrated from here under Soviet Union, but now they can come back.” Marseille anti-semitic stabbing Last week, a Jewish teacher in the French city of Marseille was the target of an anti-Semitic machete attack. The victim escaped serious injury: protecting himself with a Torah he was carrying.

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Input: The most relevant email from the Wikileaks cache is this one, which quotes Clinton in speeches closed to the press saying things such as the following: (Read the full email after the jump below.) As it happens, Clinton has pledged to massively increase spending and vastly expand Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, so she really is not at all convinced by Simpson-Bowles. But let's dilate a bit on those two final bullet points. It turns out that Hillary Clinton, who has been campaigning vociferously against not just the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and NAFTA (the trade deal implemented by her husband when he was president that she started attacking all the way back during the 2008 campaign) is actually a free trader.

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Input: Parasites found on its body will be analyzed, as will the contents of its stomach, which Fyodorov is particularly excited about. “When we opened it, we were very surprised. The second puppy’s stomach is mostly full of twigs and grass,” he said, wondering if perhaps the animals were not exclusively carnivorous or whether they started eating grass after they were trapped by a mudslide and began to starve. “This material is really exceptional and unique,” said Mietje Germonpre, a paleontologist from the Royal Belgian Institute who partnered with Fyodorov on the project and came to Yakutsk to oversee the autopsy of the second puppy earlier this month. “The fact that soft tissue is preserved will give much more information compared to information that can be obtained from ‘normal’ fossils,” she said, meaning bones and teeth.

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Input: MALLS HAVE BEEN TARGETED IN THE UNITED KINGDOM-BUT NONE HAVE SUCCEEDED IN RECENT YEARS Britain's shopping malls have been targeted by terrorists – although none have succeeded in recent years. In 2007 police foiled an Al Qaeda plot to detonate a fertiliser bomb at the busy Bluewater shopping centre in Kent. Last year, Mohammed Rehman was convicted of plotting a bomb attack on the anniversary of the 7/7 attacks on London. He had asked his Twitter followers whether he should attack the capital's Westfield shopping centre. Security officials have made plans for an attack.

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Input: 11/13 A demonstrator holds a sign in German that reads ' No violence against women ' during a demonstration in the wake of the sexual assaults on New Year's Eve, outside the cathedeal in Cologne, Germany, 09 January 2016. EPA 12/13 Counter demonstrators hold up a sign reading "Against sexism, against racism" as they protest against a demonstration of the islamophobic movement PEGIDA at the train station in Cologne, Germany, on January 9, 2016. AFP / Getty Images 13/13 Demonstration by a women’s group on Saturday (AP) AP

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Input: President Obama famously has tried not to use the phrase "radical Islamic terrorism" in his remarks, a position many Republicans have lambasted him for. Obama has said he believes that phrase gives a measure of legitimacy to terror groups. And as investigators look past Mateen's religious convictions, Lynch said a top goal is to build a complete profile of the gunman in order to help prevent another massacre like Orlando. “We are trying to re-create the days, the weeks, the months of this killer’s life before this attack,” Lynch said. “And we are also asking those people who had contact with him to come forward and give us that information as well.”

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Input: "There are a lot of discussions going on right now and there will be discussions with the Clinton campaign about how to ensure Senator Sanders goals for a progressive agenda are addressed," the source said. Late Thursday afternoon, Sanders met with Biden. Beyond supporting his former secretary of state, Obama has many incentives to see Democrats maintain the White House and reclaim the Senate in the fall: Republicans have vowed to unwind his signature accomplishments, including his landmark health care law, his Iran nuclear deal and his renewal of diplomatic and economic ties between the United States and Cuba. The President has also raised money for Democrats -- including a $ 10,000-and -up event in Manhattan on Wednesday.

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Input: As of the first quarter of 2016, net imports were down 55 percent. In 2015, the U.S. imported only 24 percent of the petroleum and refined products that it consumed, which was the lowest annual level of dependency on imports since 1970. However, with recent declines in U.S. production, dependency on imports has begun creeping upward once again. For the first five months of 2016, imports have accounted for an average of 27 percent of consumption. The U.S. oil boom is due mainly to advances in drilling technology rather than to any change in government policy.

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Input: Most people with the disease die within the first few years of life, but he is among the 10 per cent who survive into adulthood. With his condition worsening every day, he previously told the MailOnline that he wants the chance of having a new body before his disease kills him. He claimed his family fully support his decision to be the first human to undergo such surgery and said: ‘If you want something to be done, you need to participate in it. ' I do understand the risks of such surgery. They are multiple.

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Input: A person who can not admit a mistake can not learn from his mistakes. Such a person would make a very dangerous president, indeed. The most infamous example is Trump's continued claim – repeated in the recent debate – that he opposed President George W. Bush's 2003 decision to invade Iraq. On this issue and others, Trump either is knowingly lying or is delusional. Against that backdrop, Trump's refusal to release his tax returns raises bright red flags.

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Input: “You say careless but not intentionally. You and I both know intent is really difficult to prove. Very rarely do defendants announce, ‘On this date I intend to break this criminal code section. Just to put everyone on notice, I am going to break the law on this date.’ It never happens that way. You have to do it with circumstantial evidence … “.

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Input: The decision is expected to be appealed within days, one of the lawyers involved in the case told Reuters." We believe the court is being too formalistic," said Jon Wessel-Aas, representing three Norwegian press organizations acting as third-party interveners supporting Snowden's lawsuit. He acknowledged that there was no U.S. extradition request right now, but argued Washington was sure to make one if Snowden visited the country.

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Input: Trump also hit former President George W. Bush hard, directing some blame at him for the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks and saying he erred badly by invading Iraq in 2003. Trump clashed sharply on the issue with Jeb Bush, who came out swinging against Trump’s foreign policy. Bush accused Trump of dangerously advocating too cozy a relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Middle East. As Trump defended himself, he was booed by the crowd. He argued the people who were booing him were Bush’s “special interests and lobbyists.

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Input: Stating that Poland had always pressed for more NATO support for Ukraine's security, Macierewicz said:" Ukraine was so close to NATO membership, but it was blocked." "If Ukraine would have achieved it, the country would not have been invaded by the Kremlin," he added. In March 2014, Putin signed into law a deal, according to which Ukraine's autonomous Republic of Crimea joined the Russian Federation, following a referendum held in the peninsula. The move was strongly opposed by Ukraine, EU, and the U.S., which put in place sanctions on Moscow. The Donbass region consists of Luhansk and Donetsk, where Russian-backed separatist forces have been fighting Ukrainian soldiers since 2014.

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Input: Most troubling, researchers found a suspicious pattern in the White House email system blackouts, including periods when there were no emails available from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney." That the vice president's office, widely characterized as the most powerful vice president in history, should have no archived emails in its accounts for scores of days — especially days when there was discussion of whether to invade Iraq — beggared the imagination," says Thomas Blanton, director of the Washington-based National Security Archive. The NSA (not to be confused with the National Security Agency, the federal surveillance organization) is a nonprofit devoted to obtaining and declassifying national security documents and is one of the key players in the effort to recover the supposedly lost Bush White House emails. Advertisement-Continue Reading Below You recall the furious scrum among the elite political press over these revelations, right?

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Input: She personally negotiated an end to Hamas rockets raining down on Israel in 2012 and worked to build stronger defense programs for Israel, including upgrading the Iron Dome rocket defense system, which has saved the lives of so many Israelis. She fought to make women’s rights a priority in international relations. She stood up against sex trafficking of women and children, intervened in Saudi Arabia to stop child marriage, and led the fight for a U.N. Security Council resolution to combat sexual violence against women and children around the world that passed unanimously. She worked to ensure ratification of the New START treaty, which will make the world safer by reducing U.S. and Russian nuclear arsenals to their smallest size in 50 years. Related:

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Input: Armaments on the Spectre include 40 mm and 105 mm cannons. The Spooky adds a 25 mm Gatling gun. Hide Caption 16 of 24 Photos: In the U.S. Air Force fleet C-17 Globemaster transport – The four-engine jet joined the Air Force fleet in 1993 with a primary mission of troop and cargo transport. Each plane can carry up to 102 troops or 170,900 pounds of cargo. The Air Force has 187 C-17s on active duty, 12 in the Air National Guard and 14 in the Reserve.

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Input: 11/19 The destroyer USS Wainwright DD419 refuelling from the cruiser HMS Norfolk. The Wainwright's involvement with the Arctic theatre was limited to the spring and summer of 1942. During that period she made a major contribution to the defence of convoy PQ17, driving off a number of air attacks by German torpedo bombers. The Norfolk was a more familiar sight in the Arctic. With other cruisers she provided distant cover for a number of convoys, and was also present at the battle of the North Cape in December 1943.

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Input: "The Russian Defense Ministry regards these actions of the Turkish party as a dangerous precedent and an attempt to hide the illegal military activity near the Syrian border," it said. Turkey's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that agreement on the observation flight over Turkey requested by Russia under the Treaty on Open Skies could not be reached on the mission plan, so it did not occur. In November, Turkish jets shot down a Russian plane flying in Syria, a move described by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "dastardly stab in the back." Russian jets have been striking rebel and jihadi fighters for four months in Syria, including Islamic State militants as well as fighters backed by Turkey and Gulf Arab states, angering the Turkish government. Konashenkov said Russian aircraft had carried out 237 sorties in Syria over the past three days, hitting 875 "terrorist" targets in the provinces of Aleppo, Latakia, Homs, Hama, and Deir al-Zor, Konashenkov said.

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Input: But don't count Snowden as a Trump fan just yet. The whistleblower has also been vocal in his criticisms of the presumptive Republican nominee." It's very difficult to respond in a serious way to any statement that’s made by Donald Trump," Snowden told Al Jazeera in an interview last fall when asked how he felt about Trump calling him "a total traitor" and implying execution was a viable punishment for the whistleblower. [Twitter Embed: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/703733273504018432] Saturday isn't the first time Snowden has sought to summarize his take on the 2016 political dog-and-pony show in 140 characters or less.

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Input: Dear Secretary Carter: On Tuesday, January 5th, U.S. Armed Forces participating in a train and assist mission alongside Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan came into heavy contact with Taliban forces. After a prolonged firefight, two U.S. service members were wounded and unfortunately Staff Sgt. Mathew McClintock was killed in action. The ultimate sacrifice by Staff Sgt.

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Input: In passing, from the public record it is not clear that Secretary Clinton was given the oath before a properly constituted committee, which would require a quorum. Chairman Trey Gowdy mentioned in his opening remarks that Secretary Clinton had already been sworn. Later (and sparse) press coverage indicates that as a courtesy to Secretary Clinton, she was given the oath privately. Whether she was properly placed under oath, as well as whether the statements the Republicans are calling into question are material, will be set aside for purposes of my discussion, for two reasons. First, these are technicalities and it is clear from the record that she did not lie to the committee, so the technicalities of perjury can be passed over, and secondly because Secretary Clinton is also charged with violation of the false statement statute, which does not require an oath, and some of the other niceties of perjury, I will keep the focus on the truthfulness of her testimony.

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Input: The specific foreign governments involved and the particular amounts they each gave were not disclosed on the document, entitled “Exhibit A” and filed to the public charity division operated by New York Attorney General Eric Schneidermann, a Democrat. The money was given between 2010 and 2013 when Clinton was America’s chief diplomat. The amended document included a line that was present in November 2015 when the foundation announced revised federal tax filings for the four years. The line added in January 2016 said: “All other government grants came from foreign governments” with a total figure for each of the four years that equalled $ 17.7 million. The foreign donations are still not listed on the financial portion of the foundation’s web site despite a claim in November by the non-profit’s president, Donna Shalala, that “there is nothing to suggest that the foundation intended to conceal the receipt of government grants, which we report on our website.”

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Input: The mining sector is a key part of North Korea's economy, which is already largely cut off from the rest of the world. Experts believe revenue from the sector helps underwrite North Korea's military expenditures. The ministry said it would also ban coal shipments from North Korea, although it made exemptions consistent with sanctions, including uses intended for "the people's well-being" and not connected to nuclear or missile programs. North Korea delivered around 20 million tonnes of coal to China last year, up 27 percent on the year, overtaking Russia and Mongolia to become China's third biggest supplier, behind Australia and Indonesia. An exception was made for coal originating in third countries and supplied via North Korea's port of Rason.

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Input: The Netherlands, Bulgaria and the Czech Republic have followed suit with bans of their own. Other European countries, such as Germany, have very strict regulations on the practice. Fracking also has strategic implications in Europe, with US and EU officials citing concerns over dependence on oil imports from Russia, which amount to a quarter of the continent’s consumption. Contrary to the State Department’s hopes, Poland never materialized as a center of the shale boom. Though there has n’t been as much regulatory pressure as in other European countries, foreign investors have pulled out due to wells not delivering as expected.

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Input: The production of hemp was halted in the US with passage of the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937, which made all variations of the cannabis plant illegal in the U.S. The U.S. is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not recognize the value of industrial hemp and permit its production. Currently, over thirty countries produce industrial hemp, including Australia, Austria, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey and Ukraine. According to The Hemp Industries Association (HIA), hemp can be grown organically. Only eight, out of about one hundred known pests, cause problems, and hemp is most often grown without herbicides, fungicides or pesticides.

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Input: Words, sticks and stones Second, a worrying number of non-state actors are enforcing censorship by assassination. Reporters in Mexico who investigate crime or corruption are often murdered, and sometimes tortured first. Jihadists slaughter those they think have insulted their faith. When authors and artists say anything that might be deemed disrespectful of Islam, they take risks.

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Input: “I think if it was Paul Manafort, he’d do the right thing and resign,” Lewandowski said. Manafort’s past work had also become increasingly problematic, especially because the optics of it were similar to the Clintons ' extensive work with foreign governments through the Clinton Foundation, which Trump has regularly attacked. The liability deepened when The New York Times reported this week that Manafort’s name appeared on a handwritten ledger in Ukraine for secret cash payments. POLITICO reported on Thursday that Manafort’s closeness to a Russian Army-trained linguist-turned-Ukrainian political operative was raising questions and concerns. Manafort’s departure came just two days after Trump’s aides tried to present the leadership changes as an expansion rather than a shakeup.

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Input: AFP PHOTO / HECTOR MATA (Photo credit should read HECTOR MATA / AFP / Getty Images) UNITED NATIONS, UNITED NATIONS: Hernando de Soto (L), founder and president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima, Peru, and Madeleine K. Albright (C), former secretary of state of the United States, listen to Ashraf Ghani (2R, facing camera), Dean of Kabul University, speak 20 January, 2006 at UN headquarters in New York, during a meeting of the High Level Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, a new independent committee that explores how nations can reduce poverty through reforms that expand access to legal protection. De Soto and Albright are co-chairs of the committee. AFP PHOTO / Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA / AFP / Getty Images) Washington, UNITED STATES: Former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright testifies during a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee 17 January, 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The hearing was to examine the current situation on the war in Iraq. AFP PHOTO / TIM SLOAN (Photo credit should read TIM SLOAN / AFP / Getty Images) WASHINGTON-JANUARY 17: Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright testifies during a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee January 17, 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

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Input: That makes it a lot easier for neoreactionaries to defend their narrative of Western decline and democratic failure. If you look at the numbers, the Whig theory of history — with some faults and starts, everything's getting better — appears to be basically right. Extreme poverty is at historic lows, hunger and infant mortality are plummeting, life expectancy is going up, war is on the decline, education is more available, homicide rates are down, etc. But what if those numbers are all lies produced by biased Cathedral sources in academia and propagated by Cathedral tools in the media like Vox? What then?

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Input: Despite the fact that millions of ordinary Muslims live unobjectionable, ordinary lives in North America and Europe, their faith gets them implicated in the terror scares and anti-immigration hysteria of the moment. Simply being Muslim, in the eyes of some Western leaders, conjures up a set of politics and intentions, in almost all cases negative. On Wednesday, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls joined the fray, lending his support to a host of mayors who have enacted local bans on the "burkini," a type of Islamic swimwear. The garment, he said, was "not compatible with the values of France and the republic." He went on to explain why:" It is the expression of a political project, a counter-society, based notably on the enslavement of women."

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Input: KIEV, UKRAINE — Nationalist demonstrators in Ukraine on Saturday attacked two offices of Russian banks in the capital amid observances of the second anniversary of the protests that brought down the Russia-friendly president. Demonstrators threw rocks through windows at the offices of Alfa Bank and Sberbank and damaged furniture and equipment inside. Protesters also vandalized the offices of the holding company of Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov. Police did not intervene. Tens of thousands of people in the Ukrainian capital came to various observances of the “Day of the Heavenly Hundred.” The term refers to those who died during the months of protests in Kyiv that culminated with President Viktor Yanukovych fleeing.

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Input: However, the wine production sector showed a different trend. The traditional New Year increase in sales of wine and champagne dragged on, with wine sales remaining at 2015 levels until May 2016. According to Burdyak, consumers first finished their previously stored wine, and then, as stocks in cabinets dried out and lovers of wine and sparkling wines made sure that nothing was happening in the economy, the ruble was not strengthening and the prices of imported alcohol were not decreasing, they began to buy these types of alcohol again. The new generation of consumers According to Burdyak, the decrease in the consumption of vodka and other alcoholic beverages has been steady since 2013.

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Input: It resembles a hamburger. But Air Koryo isn't what it used to be. Its four-plane fleet of aircraft used on international flights is surprisingly new — acquired in 2008. Lax practices, like not announcing when the plane was about to land or skipping the safety demonstrations before takeoff, were fixed long ago. The new airport terminal, a vast improvement over the temporary, warehouse-like building used until recently, provides travelers with a business-class lounge.

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Input: [12] This is not for a lack of desire — more than half of America’s millennials say they want to start a business — but barriers like student debt and a lack of access to credit are holding young people back. [13] Hillary is committed to breaking down barriers and leveling the playing field for entrepreneurs and innovators who are launching their own start-ups. Hillary will allow entrepreneurs to put their federal student loans into a special status while they get their new ventures off the ground. For millions of young Americans, this would mean deferment from having to make any payments on their student loans for up to three years — zero interest and zero principal — as they work through the critical start-up phase of new enterprises. Hillary will explore a similar deferment incentive not just to founders of enterprises, but to early joiners – such as the first 10 or 20 employees.

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Input: Trump’s supporters may imagine that the United States will start “winning” again, post-TPP, but I have yet to meet a global business leader who does n’t think that the demise of the trade deal would be a huge victory for China that would undermine U.S. power in Asia for years. And yes, folks, the TPP’s demise would also hurt American workers by reducing U.S. access to the world’s fastest-growing markets. Clinton’s capitulation to misguided critics of the TPP has been sad to watch. Maybe she really believes that it’s possible to reopen negotiations and get a better deal, but if so, she’s nearly alone. More likely, she’s willing for U.S. economic power and prestige to take a hit, if it will help her get elected.

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Input: Even as Mayor de Blasio publicly refused to endorse Hillary Clinton last year, he privately conferred with her campaign and assured them he would not be supporting her opponent, newly released emails show. In an email to Clinton campaign manager Robbie Mook and campaign chairman John Podesta, de Blasio said he had a meeting scheduled with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders where he would break the bad news, and reviewed his talking points for an upcoming TV interview. “I accepted Bernie Sanders ' request for a mtg today.

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Input: Prior to Wednesday night, the Trump campaign clearly had handed over the whole effort to the unquiet ghosts of Bedlam past. There were the four ladies in St. Louis. Now, for the last debate of the campaign, the Trump campaign trotted out the president's crank of a half-brother, who actually is from Kenya; the angry mother of a man killed during the firefight in Benghazi; and Deney Williams, whose paternity claim against the former president was settled rather definitively by a DNA test in 1999. Getty George Frey Meanwhile, Trump political advisor Alex Jones hosted a segment with Larry Nichols, one of the all-purpose Arkansas con-men on whom so many influential reporters relied during the Great Penis Hunt of the 1990s.

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Input: I guess this isn'tsurprising, but as the big legal fight heated up this week between Apple and the Justice Department over whether or not Apple can be forced to create a backdoor to let the FBI access the contents of Syed Farook's iPhone, all of the major Presidential candidates have weighed in ... and they're all wrong. Donald Trump is getting the most attention. Starting earlier this week he kept saying that Apple should just do what the FBI wants, and then he kicked it up a notch this afternoon saying that everyone should boycott Apple until it gives in to the FBI. Apparently, Trump doesn't even have the first clue about the actual issue at stake, in terms of what a court can compel a company to do, and what it means for our overall security. Meanwhile, most of the other candidates didn't go as far, but tried to stupidly pretend there was some sort of compromise between the two positions. Bernie Sanders did the "on the one hand / on the other hand / I won't actually take a stand" thing: If you think there's a "middle ground" you don't understand the issue. Hillary Clinton did the same thing, trying to straddle the line by admitting a backdoor sounds problematic, but really, if the nerds just nerd harder, can't they figure something out: Again, the thing that they don't get is that the "nerd problem" here is: How can you make a security vulnerability that only can be used by the good guys?

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Input: An image taken from video provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center shows 5-year -old Omran Daqneesh sitting in an ambulance after being pulled out or a building hit by an airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, on Aug. 17. (Photo: AP) Ali Daqneesh, the older brother of a Syrian boy whose face has become a symbol of the horror of the country's civil war, died Saturday of injuries sustained in the same airstrike that destroyed the family's home, according to the Aleppo Media Center.

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airstrike

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Input: "People want change and they will get it one way or the other," Stein wrote." The challenge is now to expand the political movement in the United States." When her progressive supporters (including members of the UK Green Party, the official position of which was to support remaining in the EU) balked at Stein's interpretation of the results, she quickly overhauled the statement, stripping out words like "victory" and adding a line that claimed "before the Brexit vote I agreed with Jeremy Corbyn, Caroline Lukas, and the UK Greens who supported staying in the EU." Stein didn't acknowledge these changes, though, responding to indignant supporters on Facebook by saying only," You may not be seeing the actual text of this statement. Try clearing your cache."

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Input: In 2014, Firtash was charged by the Justice Department with paying $ 18.5 million in bribes in India to expand his business empire. Court papers say it was a racketeering conspiracy to sell titanium materials to Boeing for their newest jet, the 787. Last year, an Austrian judge refused to extradite him to the U.S. Manafort’s business ties to Deripaska were detailed in a 2014 legal action in the Cayman Islands. Deripaska had been repeatedly denied a visa to enter the United States over his alleged ties to organized crime, current and former officials tell NBC News.

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Austrian judge

him

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U.S.


Input: On being appointed, he told Mr Putin:" Thank you for your trust. I think the administration's most important task is to support your activity as head of state in terms of drafting laws and control over how your instructions are implemented." Mr Putin told a Russian TV station on Friday that Mr Ivanov had asked to leave the post, and recommended that Mr Vaino should replace him. Do the smiles convince? By the BBC's Sarah Rainsford in Moscow

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Mr Putin

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Input: People gather at the temple after Tuesday's clashes between security forces and protesters in Wukan, Guangdong province, China, September 14, 2016. REUTERS / Damir Sagolj A woman who claimed injured during the violence on Tuesday rides a scooter in Wukan, Guangdong province, China, September 14, 2016. REUTERS / Damir Sagolj A woman displays footage on a mobile phone which she says shows residents detained by police in Wukan, Guangdong province, China, September 14, 2016.

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Wukan, Guangdong province, China


Input: Then Hillary will suppress the military vote which is largely Republican. It is believed that the majority of overseas military voters were disenfranchised during the 2012 reelection because their ballots were received by the various states too late to be counted. What most Americans do n’t realize is that a few years before Obama’s re-election, a Federal law called the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act (MOVE) was signed into law. This law required states to make an extra effort to collect and accept overseas military absentee ballots, but Obama simply granted waivers to a number of states so they would not have to comply with it. As a result, tens of thousands of military votes were thrown out.

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Input: Russia wants to build a gas pipeline to the south through North Korea. That’s not likely to happen soon with tensions rising on the peninsula, but there is scope for other cooperation between South Korea and Russia, including development of an Arctic sea route to Europe, he said. South Korea has n’t recognized Russia’s annexation of Crimea, but it also has n’t joined the U.S.-backed sanctions, Ko said. “Korea is a divided country. We want Russian cooperation in solving the problem.

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Russia


Input: Trump claimed that immigrants from Muslim-majority countries in the Middle East are bringing support for Islamic law, including “honor killings” for women accused of shaming their families, and the death penalty for gays. There’s no question that Islamic law is used in countries to prosecute men and boys accused of gay sex. Iran executed a gay teen just last month, according to Amnesty International. And there are 11 other countries where a person can be put to death by their country for gay sex, often citing Sharia law. Trump said we must “screen out any who have hostile attitudes toward our country or its principles or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law.

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gay sex

Iran


Input: Jill Stein: Sure. Nicholas Goldberg: You’ve been very critical of Israel, with whom the U.S. has had a close alliance for decades. You’ve accused the Israeli government of apartheid, assassinations, illegal settlements, blockades, defiance of international law, and you’ve been a supporter of BDS [the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement]. Two-pronged question: One is, how would you recalibrate the U.S. relationship with Israel? Second is, do you support a two-state solution, or would you prefer to see a one-state solution where Jews and Arabs live side by side?

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Input: 52/74 Iraq crisis A van carrying volunteers joining Iraqi security forces against Jihadist militants. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced the Iraqi government would arm and equip civilians who volunteered to fight AFP / Getty 53/74 Iraq Fighters of the Isis group parade in a commandeered Iraqi security forces armored vehicle down a main road at the northern city of Mosul 54/74 Iraq An Islamist fighter, identified as Abu Muthanna al-Yemeni from Britain (R), speaks in this still image taken undated video shot at an unknown location and uploaded to a social media website. Five Islamist fighters identified as Australian and British nationals have called on Muslims to join the wars in Syria and Iraq, in the new video released by the Isis

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Input: Information on all of these ventures is limited because Trump has not released his tax returns. He is poised to become the first major party candidate not to do so by Election Day since Richard Nixon in 1972. Trump pledged on Sept. 15 that he would “absolutely sever” his connections with the Trump Organization if he is elected president. “I will sever connections, and I’ll have my children and my executives run the company and I wo n’t discuss it with them,” he said on the television program "Fox and Friends." Dave Levinthal is senior political reporter at the Center for Public Integrity.

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Fox and Friends


Input: Manafort’s work for Yanukovych is not a revelation, but the $ 12.7 million figure is. The ledgers reportedly do not offer explanations for the payments, simply numbers. While Manafort declined to answer the newspaper’s questions, he gave a statement to CBS’s Major Garrett in which he said, “The simplest answer is the truth: I am a campaign professional.” * He said he had never worked for the governments of either Ukraine or Russia, that all of his payments had been above board, and that money went to compensate his large team of employees. Being associated with unsavory leaders whose interests run counter to U.S. policy, or who have been involved in repression against citizens, is a professional risk of Manafort’s brand of political consulting. His company formerly worked for Filipino dictator Feridinand Marcos, among others.

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Manafort

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U.S.


Input: Donald Trump Surrogate discusses battling NYC Terror then desperate Hillary Clinton Surro pulls Russian Ghost Card???? pic.twitter.com/qpNEbwkzn2 — DEPLORABLE TRUMPCAT (@Darren32895836) September 18, 2016 ADVERTISEMENT Which Candidate Is Better To Combat Terrorism Within The USA? Which candidate do you think has the best policy to combat terror within the United States? Donald Trump Hillary Clinton

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Input: In the past 15 years, Nubani, a Springfield, Va., lawyer, has represented either in the media or legally at least 21 people accused of terrorist ties. He defended Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law. He defended a 23-year -old man accused of plotting to assassinate then-President George W. Bush. He defended another man said to be a Hamas operative. One of the unexpected byproducts of the war on terrorism has been the emergence of a small fraternity of lawyers who have a specialty in defending suspected terrorists."

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President George W. Bush


Input: Kevin Ives and Don Henry, both 17, crushed by a train, August 23, 1987. Their deaths were ruled accidental, with the medical examiner saying they had fallen asleep on a railroad line after smoking marijuana, but a grand jury found they had been murdered before being placed on the tracks. They had allegedly stumbled on a plot to smuggle drugs and guns from an airport in Mena, Arkansas that Bill Clinton was said to be involved in as state governor. Victor Raiser, 53, small plane crash, July 30, 1992. The second finance co-chair of Bill Clinton's presidential campaign was killed along with his son during a fishing vacation in Alaska.

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an airport in Mena, Arkansas


Input: As Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's verbal gaffes have mounted and his penchant for lashing out at his political opponents has continued to escalate, it's become in vogue for critics to earnestly raise questions about Trump's temperament and his mental stability. Terms like "narcissist" and "sociopath" have been attached to his name as routinely as Trump attaches that name to his buildings. Many of Trump's GOP allies have been publicly apoplectic about his unorthodox (some have argued virtually non-existent) campaign, his contradictory statements regarding Russian President Vladimir Putin and his critical remarks about the Muslim-American parents of a slain Iraq War hero. The Washington Post's Eugene Robinson even wrote a column this week asking:" Is Donald Trump just plain crazy?" Play Facebook

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Input: The human rights record of a Saddam or a Gaddafi was irrelevant. They did not obey orders and surrender control of their country. The same fate awaited Slobodan Milosevic once he had refused to sign an “agreement” that demanded the occupation of Serbia and its conversion to a market economy. His people were bombed, and he was prosecuted in The Hague. Independence of this kind is intolerable.

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Input: Not likely, but he is what Lenin would have called a ' useful idiot ' His carefree ways with other people’s money — including numerous near-bankruptcies in past decades — mean that American banks shun him. Yet his debts have grown over the past year, from £ 270 million to £ 485 million; which suggests he may have borrowed heavily. His cash assets, meanwhile, have shrivelled. So where is the money coming from?

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Input: Daily Emails and Alerts- Get the best of Newsweek delivered to your inbox Poroshenko was elected president in 2014, after hundreds of thousands of pro-EU demonstrators in Ukraine turned out in central Kiev for months calling for his predecessor Viktor Yanukovych’s resignation. The pro-Russian leader Yanukovych fled Ukraine after police in Kiev clashed with protesters. In the immediate aftermath, Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula and in Ukraine’s eastern border regions, Donetsk and Luhansk, Russian-backed militants declared independence. On Wednesday Poroshenko suggested the resurgence of fighting in the east was part of a much bigger Kremlin strategy.

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Input: If it was a joke, nobody laughed very loudly. In comments that once again placed him at the centre of fresh controversy, Donald Trump appeared on Tuesday to suggest that if Hillary Clinton was elected president, the only way to stop her choosing liberal Supreme Court justices would be to shoot her. “Hillary wants to abolish, essentially abolish the Second Amendment,” he said, referring to the piece of legislation that gun rights activists claim gives them the right to bear weapons. “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is.”

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Supreme Court


Input: As the president has famously said," My job is to execute laws that are passed." The Supreme Court has heard arguments. A 4-4 tie vote lets the Fifth Circuit's approval of the district court's injunction against Obama stand. That would be satisfactory. It would be better if Justice Stephen Breyer votes with the four conservatives and the court decides 5-3 to stop the president from ruling like a king.

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Input: The United Nations has called on Moscow and Washington to help restore the ceasefire to prevent the complete collapse of talks aimed at ending the five-year conflict in which more than 250,000 people have been killed and millions displaced. Agencies have continued to deliver aid in the west of the country, but say that access is not regular enough and that many Syrians in need still can not be reached. The International Committee for the Red Cross said aid had begun to enter the towns of Zabadani and Madaya, where there were reports of starvation earlier this year due to a siege by government forces and their allies. Trucks simultaneously entered al-Foua and Kefraya in the northwest province of Idlib, which are surrounded by insurgents. (Additional reporting by Omar Fahmy in Cairo and Tim Ahmann in Washington; Editing by Robin Pomeroy, Marguerita Choy and Bernard Orr)

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Input: Turkish authorities are angry over the failure to grant citizens visa-free travel to the EU and Germany is worried by the worsening rights situation in Turkey. Turkish authorities have long lobbied Western allies not to recognise the killings as genocide and stepped up efforts last year on the 100th anniversary of the tragedy. Armenians say up to 1.5 million were killed between 1915 and 1917 in a targeted campaign of genocide by top Ottoman officials to wipe out their people from Anatolia. Modern Turkey insists comparable numbers of Armenians and Turks died in a collective tragedy when Armenians sided with invading Russian troops in World War I.

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Input: He has said repeatedly that he would use the awesome power of the American armed forces to kill terrorists’ families. The American warrior is trained to protect innocent women and children from the world’s most evil men. Seal Team Six is not a mafia hit squad, primed to assassinate eight-year-olds and their mothers at schools and playgrounds. He knows absolutely nothing about military strategy. He openly admires strongmen such as Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and he even complimented Saddam Hussein as a man who “killed terrorists.” Hussein was a terrorist.

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Input: If you control the media and you've taken away everybody's civil liberties, and you jail dissidents, that's what happens," Obama said. Throughout the campaign, the real-estate magnate and his campaign haven't shied away from their closer relationship with Russia than many past Republican nominees. Former campaign chair Paul Manafort was a longtime consultant for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, a Putin ally who sought asylum in Russia after civil unrest in his own country forced him to flee. Last week, Trump lauded Putin's ability to exert "very strong control over his country," and both Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, declared that Putin was a "stronger leader" than Obama.

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civil unrest

his own country

Russia


Input: Was there ever any request for air support? At any time was the use of air support not authorized out of concerns for collateral damage? How long did the firefight last? What was the distance between the location of the firefight and the nearest QRF? Why did it take so long for a QRF to reach the engaged US and Afghan personnel?

firefight

firefight


Input: Video shows the crowd outside Donald Trump's Asheville, N.C, rally, reacting after a man allegedly punched a 69-year -old woman who was protesting the candidate on Sept. 12. Protesters chased the man they say hit the woman, who wears an oxygen tank, and confronted police officers while others helped the woman as she lay on the ground. (YouTube / Morgan Stafford via Storyful)

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69-year -old woman

Asheville, N.C


Input: Clinton, too, acknowledged the negative effects of trade on some communities. But her overall tone was far different than Trump’s — and even different from her own tone during the primaries, when Bernie Sanders pushed her to the left on trade. Clinton reaffirmed her opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal negotiated under Obama that she supported as secretary of state. But she defended trade in general, saying that as a senator she supported some deals and opposed others. “I held them all to the same test,” she said.

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Obama


Input: Polar bears are not uncommon in the area, which is surrounded by pack ice in the winter, but the local population has more than doubled this year to around a dozen. And the stranded meteorologists have run out of the flares they use to scare off the beasts." The bears live in the Arctic, you know — we ca n’t ban them from hanging around," station supervisor Vasily Shevchenko told NBC News by telephone from the northern city of Arkhangelsk." Worst case, the station chief has a gun." Some of the bears have taken to sleeping right outside the windows of the remote outpost, according to Russian news agency TASS, which spoke to some of the meteorologists via satellite phone.

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Vasily Shevchenko

NBC News

Arkhangelsk


Input: But it is far from clear that all the major players with a stake in what the North does are willing to take the kind of risks, and impose the kind of sanctions, that might prompt Pyongyang to back down or, alternatively, to lash out. Breaking News Alerts Sign up to receive an email from The New York Times as soon as important news breaks around the world. Kelsey Davenport, director for nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association in Washington, argued that stiffening existing sanctions, while sending a political message, would be insufficient. “Ratcheting up sanctions pressure demonstrates that there is a cost to violating Security Council resolutions,” she said in an email. “However, sanctions alone are not going to change Pyongyang’s behavior.

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Security Council

Pyongyang

Pyongyang


Input: Insiders said the Russians left when the US F-18s arrived but when they paused to refuel the Russian jets returned to resume bombing. Related Stories CAR BOMB MURDER Award-winning journalist killed by IED in horror blast ' which may have been meant for his partner ' Pure evil US-backed Syrian rebels film themselves beheading 11-year -old boy for being a spy COUP 'S TERROR RISK Turkey's instability threatens UK and US airbases used to fight ISIS in Syria RUSSIA ' BOMBS ' REFUGEES Putin's jets ' blitz makeshift camp ' in Syria killing 12 people and injuring dozens more RESURGENCE OF AL QAEDA How terror fanatics are becoming a more formidable force than the ISIS ' TV terrorists ' in Syria Reports in the US revealed the second attack killed Syrian rebels giving first aid to those hurt in the first attack. At the time the Pentagon said in a statement: “Russia’s continued strikes at At-Tanf, even after U.S. attempts to inform Russian forces through proper channels of ongoing coalition air support to the counter-ISIS forces, created safety concerns for U.S. and coalition forces.” 4 The Pentagon responded as US forces had also been at the base

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At-Tanf


Input: In July, U.S. District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer jailed Kapur for contempt until he pays the judgment. Engelmayer said the SEC “has developed compelling evidence that Kapur possesses and has access to significant assets” and ordered that he be “incarcerated until he purges the contempt.” Kapur is locked up in a federal detention center in Brooklyn. According to court records, Kapur testified that he did not purchase the companies for himself, but did so on behalf of ThinkStrategy clients so “they could avoid Know Your Customer requirements,” governing information financial firms must collect about their customers. Kapur’s lawyer did not respond to emails or phone messages on Tuesday. The SEC declined to comment on the case.

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Kapur

ThinkStrategy clients


Input: Dear Secretary Carter: On Tuesday, January 5th, U.S. Armed Forces participating in a train and assist mission alongside Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan came into heavy contact with Taliban forces. After a prolonged firefight, two U.S. service members were wounded and unfortunately Staff Sgt. Mathew McClintock was killed in action. The ultimate sacrifice by Staff Sgt.

firefight

Taliban forces

two U.S. service members

Helmand Province of Afghanistan


Input: It also may be due to Assad’s confidence since Russia began pouring in massive military aid last September. With Russian backing, the Assad regime has been carrying out more conventional massacres as well. In the past week, hundreds of people were killed in the heavy bombing of Aleppo, including more than 50 people killed in a hospital run by Doctors Without Borders. Eyewitnesses said the hospital was deliberately hit in several rounds of bombing. Damascus and Moscow denied involvement, despite the regime’s clear responsibility.

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Doctors

50 people

Aleppo


Input: The Islamic State (Isis) has threatened to destroy the Sphinx and the Egyptian pyramids in its latest pledge, made on video, to step up their attacks on ancient cultures. It follows Isis (Daesh)'s recent destruction of other ' heretical ' sites in Nimrud, Mosul and Palmyra and is part of their hard-line interpretation that pre-Islamic culture is ' blasphemous '. The video affirmed that Isis (Daesh) believe that it is their religious duty to destroy the Egyptian pyramids and Sphinx. The extremists currently have a presence in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, which they have claimed as the territory "Wilayat Sayna". The group also said they were responsible for downing the Russian A321 airliner, above the Sinai desert in October 2015, killing all 224 people on board.

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Daesh

Egyptian pyramids and Sphinx

attacks

Egypt


Input: “We need to have a third Maidan,” said Nikolai Kokhanovsky, a leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, using the common term of the protests of 2014 and those of the 2004 Orange Revolution. New protests would “sweep away this corrupt government and pro-Russian oligarchs who have betrayed our revolution of dignity.” “Russia and the oligarchs are guilty for life in Ukraine becoming worse and worse,” said 21-year -old protester Ruslan Tymchuk, who was dressed in camouflage and wielding a bat. In recent weeks, political tensions have risen and President Petro Poroshenko this week urged Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a key figure of the 2014 protests, to resign along with his government. But Yatsenyuk survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote. At the observances for those who died in the protests, Poroshenko vowed that efforts would continue to bring to justice the snipers who killed demonstrators and asserted that despite the eastern conflict and severe economic difficulties “nonetheless, the country is changing and moving forward.”

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President Petro Poroshenko

Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk


Input: Amman: Russian air strikes on Syria have killed nearly 1,400 civilians since Moscow started its aerial campaign nearly four months ago, a group monitoring the war said on Saturday. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which collects information from a network of sources on the ground, said the Russian strikes had also killed 965 Islamic State fighters as well as 1,233 fighters from various other insurgent groups. The main Syrian opposition group heading to Geneva peace talks on Saturday has demanded a halt to a joint Russian and Syrian bombing campaign they say targets mostly civilians in rebel held areas as a pre-condition for engaging in talks with the Syrian government.

strikes

Moscow

Syria

strikes

Syria


Input: The trial and sentencing took 15 minutes. Justo got three years in a Thai jail for attempting to blackmail a UK company out of $ 2 m. Life behind bars in Klong Prem Central prison, where Justo is incarcerated, is not for the fainthearted. In a city where temperatures rarely drop below 26C, Justo shares a cramped “VIP” cell with 25 other prisoners. Breakfast is at 7 am.

incarcerated

Justo

attempting to blackmail a UK company

Klong Prem Central prison


Input: "I am deeply disappointed with Pakistan's continued and direct support to terrorism and terrorist groups. Pakistan is a terrorist state and it should be identified and isolated as such," Rajnath Singh tweeted. Heavily-armed terrorists sneaked into an army camp in Uri and slaughtered the 17 soldiers before all four attackers were killed. The minister said there were "definite and conclusive indications that the perpetrators of (the) Uri attack were highly trained, heavily armed and specially equipped". I am deeply disappointed with Pakistan's continued and direct support to terrorism and terrorist groups.

slaughtered

Heavily-armed terrorists

17 soldiers

Pakistan


Input: Sometimes, it's something so minor — like repeatedly saying he was endorsed "last week" by the union representing immigration enforcement agents, even a month after the endorsement actually happened — that his insistence on lying is all the more infuriating. It almost seems like it would be easier for Trump to tell the truth. But of all the character flaws that have damaged Trump's candidacy in the final stretch of the campaign, his insistent lying hasn't hurt him much. Even though fact-checkers deploy their forces on Trump regularly, he never apologizes or retracts. Calling out his lies does n’t make his supporters any less loyal to him.

lying

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supporters


Input: KCNA said Kim made the comments on a visit to the country's Ministry of the People's Armed Forces. South Korea continued to conduct high-decibel propaganda broadcasts across the border into the North on Sunday. The broadcasts, which include "K-pop" music and statements critical of the Kim government, began on Friday and are considered an insult by Pyongyang. A top North Korean official told a rally on Friday that the broadcasts had pushed the rival Koreas to the "brink of war." Daily life was mostly as normal on the South Korean side of the border on Sunday.

broadcasts

South Korea

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Input: That comment came after an event with supportive Republican activists. The Tribune sit-down — held on the campus of the University of Texas — was something entirely different. Smith, who has covered Cruz throughout his career, read back the harshest things Cruz had said about Trump and recalled the morning of the Indiana primary, when Cruz unloaded on Trump over months of personal attacks culminating in a false accusation that Cruz's father was linked to John F. Kennedy's assassin." You looked like your head was going to blow off your neck," Smith said. Cruz admitted that he had taken the family attacks personally, and "struggled" to get over them, but that Trump's targets were not as angry as he had been.

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Input: “You can quote them on that,” he said, speaking for the U.N. Less than two weeks after the news conference, Saudi-coalition jets killed more than 100 civilians in a market in northwest Yemen, according to U.N. investigators. “It would seem the coalition is responsible for twice as many civilian casualties as all other forces put together, virtually all as a result of airstrikes,” said U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, in the aftermath of that attack. In September, as the civilian toll in Yemen continued mounting, Zeid had called for an independent, international inquiry into the conflict. At the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Dutch representatives introduced a resolution that would have created such a body, only to see their support melt away in the face of intense pressure from the Saudis and their allies.

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Input: A strong majority of black, Asian and Hispanic young adults were already on board. (CBS News) Bill Cosby’s felony sexual assault trial could begin to take shape today, as lawyers for the disgraced ex-comedian fight to suppress hundreds of pages of key evidence from a 2005 lawsuit. (USA Today) San Francisco 49ers player Bruce Miller was cut from the team after he punched a 70-year -old man and his son outside their hotel room. Security footage shows the heavily intoxicated tight end stumbling around outside the room, with his face and tank top covered in blood. (Travis M. Andrews) Former Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel is reenrolling at Texas A&M, trying to earn his college degree after a short and disastrous NFL career.

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Input: This new type of power plant is part of China’s strategy to develop innovative energy technologies, and is outlined in their 13th Five-Year Plan. Also included in that Plan are more than 100 nuclear power reactors over the next decade. The Chinese government plans to invest over US$ 100 billion to construct about seven new reactors annually between now and 2030. By 2050, nuclear power should exceed 350 GW in that country, should include about 400 new nuclear reactors, and should result in over a trillion dollars in nuclear investment. But unlike the United States, China is experimenting with many types of reactors, this floating design being just one.

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Input: Bannon and other prominent alt-right advocates have downplayed enthusiasm for their cause from white nationalists, calling them uninvited extremists who have glommed on to the movement. But Democratic lawmakers have picked up on the line of attack, with top members of the Congressional Black Caucus this week citing Trump’s ties to Bannon as evidence the GOP nominee is a racist who is explicitly courting white supremacists. “He’s trying to appeal to David Duke and the racists of the world,” Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) said on a conference call convened by the Clinton campaign. “He’s trying to appeal to the worst of the white supremacists and others he’s been catering to in the campaign to try and help them with turnout.” Clinton is unlikely to use such strong language in her remarks in Nevada.

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Input: Dozens of Republicans to urge RNC to cut off funds for Trump The open letter pushes the RNC to shift resources to Senate and House races. More than 70 Republicans have signed an open letter to Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus urging him to stop spending any money to help Donald Trump win in November and shift those contributions to Senate and House races. The letter comes as a number of Republican senators and high-profile GOP national security officials have come forward saying they can not vote for Trump.

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Input: 55 percent of Democrats say the Republican Party makes them feel afraid, while 49 percent of Republicans said the same about the Democratic Party. “And among those highly engaged in politics – who vote regularly and either volunteer for or donate to campaigns – fully 70 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of Republicans say they are afraid of the other party.” “And among those highly engaged in politics – who vote regularly and either volunteer for or donate to campaigns – fully 70 percent of Democrats and 62 percent of Republicans say they are afraid of the other party.” Negative feelings towards opposing parties are often more powerful than positive feelings about one’s own: 16 percent of Republicans and 20 percent of Democrats say they “almost always” agree with their party’s policy stances. Meanwhile, 44 percent of both Republicans and Democrats say they “almost never” agree with the other party’s positions. 16 percent of Republicans and 20 percent of Democrats say they “almost always” agree with their party’s policy stances.

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Input: Lewandowski was charged with simple battery Tuesday after allegedly grabbing former Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields after a Trump campaign speech earlier this month. The Jupiter, Fla., Police Department said that the charge stemmed from Lewandowski “intentionally” touching Fields. Trump questioned Fields's explanation and questioned the legitimacy of the bruises on her arm in a photo she tweeted after the incident." How do you know those bruises were n’t there before?" he said.

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Input: 3/10 Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian (C, R) and US actor George Clooney (C) attend a ceremony at the Genocide Memorial in Yerevan Getty Images 4/10 People hold a flag during the laying of the flowers at the Genocide Memorial in Yerevan Getty Images 5/10 A general view of attendees and mount Ararat during the laying of the flowers at the Genocide Memorial in Yerevan Getty Images 6/10 Armenian people take part in a march in commemoration of the 101th anniversary of the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman forces in 1915 Getty Images 7/10 Armenian people carry torches during a march to commemorate the mass killings of Armenians Getty Images

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Input: "The attack was an inflection in ISIS's Libya campaign, aimed at securing the cooperation of Islamist rebel groups in western Libya while slowly expanding ISIS's stronghold in the east," the Institute for the Study of War reported. The attack is believed to have been conducted by ISIS or one of its affiliates. January 29, 2015-Car bombs and mortar rounds target army and police positions in-Car bombs and mortar rounds target army and police positions in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 26 and wounding nearly 40 others. Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, a militant group that has pledged allegiance to ISIS, said via Twitter that it was behind the attacks. The attack is believed to have been conducted by ISIS or one of its affiliates.

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40 others

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Input: Security officials have made plans for an attack. Staff at The Mall at Cribbs Causeway, near Bristol, were advised to round up members of the public and barricade themselves in a shop. An exercise in May involved a fake suicide bomber ' detonating ' explosives inside Manchester's sprawling Trafford centre, sending 800 ' victims ' running for cover. A major police operation is ongoing in Munich, around the city's Olympic Park, with the force warning people to stay in their homes and avoid public spaces as they admitted they don't know where the gunmen Police officers respond to a shooting at the Olympia Einkaufzentrum (OEZ) at July 22, 2016 in Munich, Germany

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Input: This policy of pristine — and preening — disengagement from the grubby imperatives of realpolitik yielded Crimea, the South China Sea, the rise of the Islamic State, the return of Iran. And now the horror and the shame of Aleppo. After endless concessions to Russian demands meant to protect and preserve the genocidal regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, last month we finally capitulated to a deal in which we essentially joined Russia in that objective. But such is Vladimir Putin’s contempt for our president that he would n’t stop there. He blatantly violated his own cease-fire with an air campaign of such spectacular savagery — targeting hospitals, water-pumping stations and a humanitarian aid convoy — that even Barack Obama and John Kerry could no longer deny that Putin is seeking not compromise but conquest.

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Input: Sārts, who has access to intelligence briefings, added: “In general terms, you can trace Russian funding to the extreme forces in Europe. Either left or right – as long as they are extreme, they are good to come into the Russian picture as of possible use in their tactics.” More than 1 million refugees – many from war-torn Syria – have arrived in Germany over the past year, many attracted by Merkel’s claim that she would not put a limit on the number who could settle in the country. The movement of people has fed the rise of the rightwing populist party Alternative für Deutschland, with a recent poll suggesting 81% of German citizens believe Merkel has lost control of the situation. Voter sentiment will be tested for the first time since the crisis on 13 March, when elections are held in three of Germany’s 16 regions – Sachsen-Anhalt, Rheinland-Pfalz and Baden-Württemberg.

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Input: (CNN) A former U.S. Army officer who was part of a Vanderbilt University tour group was stabbed to death in a terror attack that left 10 others wounded in an old section of Tel Aviv, officials said Tuesday. Taylor Force, a first-year student in the graduate school of management, was killed, Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos announced "This horrific act of violence has robbed our Vanderbilt family of a young hopeful life and all of the bright promise that he held for bettering our greater world," Zeppos said.

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Input: WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – Earlier this week, US Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control Frank Rose expressed concern over Moscow and Beijing allegedly developing anti-satellite weapons, local media reported. “There were more than 20 years of effort by Russia and China to get the United States to agree to a treaty that would ban all kinds of anti-satellite activities,” Postol, emeritus professor of science, technology and security policy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argued. Throughout that time period, the US posture has been simply to “stick a thumb in the eye of both the Chinese and the Russians” with regard to this matter, Postol maintained. “Whether or not this was the right response by China and Russia, it is absolutely no surprise that both are now demonstrating that they have the ability to attack US satellites if they choose to do so.

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Input: When the FBI first contacted Hanley in November, 2015, to schedule an interview, she reached out to Clinton’s current aide to ask for the whereabouts of the laptop, but the assistant told Hanley “she did not recall receiving it from Platte River Network.” Also missing were all of Clinton’s emails sent and received between January and March 2009, the FBI report showed. The entire Clinton team used unsecured BlackBerry phones to communicate and Clinton also used her iPad to review email and news reports. Several of Clinton’s old BlackBerry phones that Hanley purchased also were not turned over to the FBI. Justin Cooper, a longtime aide to Bill Clinton who also played a key role in setting up Hillary Clinton's email system, told FBI agents that he took Clinton’s discarded phones and would either break them in half or smash them with a hammer but there was no accounting of the number of phones discarded or where they were located. While critics note Clinton’s hardware was n’t safeguarded, neither were her emails.

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Input: Moderator Chris Wallace of Fox News asked the candidates about the ongoing siege of Aleppo in Syrian. The regime of President Bashar al-Assad, along with its Russian allies, are bombing the rebel stronghold where an estimated 400,000 people -- 100,000 of them children -- are trapped." They're being slaughtered because of bad decisions," Trump said. When Wallace asked Trump about Russian responsibility for large-scale deaths in bombings there, the Republican candidate didn't respond, saying instead that "Aleppo is a disaster," and adding that "a lot of this has happened because of Hillary Clinton." Later, discussing Syria, Trump predicted greater upheaval in future and turned to Clinton, saying "wait ' til you see what happens in the coming years," and blaming her.

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Input: The regime has made no effort, on the other hand, to hide its practice of barrel bombing civilian targets such as schools, marketplaces, and hospitals. Whereas roughly 10% of civilian fatalities in Syria last year were at the hands of ISIS, the regime was responsible for at least 75% of all civilian deaths in Syria in 2015, according to humanitarian news group IRIN. Meanwhile, the regime's detention program — a squalid prison system where, according to the UN report, torture and summary executions are deliberate and commonplace — is ongoing. View photos A Syrian refugee child looks on, moments after arriving on a raft with other Syrian refugees on a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos, January 4, 2016. REUTERS / Giorgos Moutafis More

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Input: READ MORE: In Raqqa, support ISIL or die About 2,000 people had managed to leave Marea and Sheikh Issa before the closure of a main road between Marea and Azaz, two main rebel bastions in the province. The airdrops come as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) -a US-backed coalition of armed groups led by the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) -mobilises in Aleppo around the border town of Manbij, a suspected supply route for ISIL. The US sees the SDF-which was founded in Syria's mainly Kurdish northeastern region in October 2015, and is made up of at least 15 armed factions, mostly fighters from the YPG and the Free Syrian Army-as the most effective group challenging ISIL in Syria. Meanwhile, there is speculation that Russia might deploy ground forces in Syria.

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Input: He donates no — or very little — money to charity. Again, this is a theory with some meat on the bone. The Washington Post's David Fahrenthold spent weeks contacting charities in hopes of tracking down the “millions” Trump says he has donated to various organizations over the past seven years. The total amount of charitable giving Fahrenthold found? Less than $ 10,000.

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Input: Syrian government forces patrol near Aleppo's thermal power plant after they took control of the area on the eastern outskirts of Syria's northern embattled city from Islamic State. Trump has said that getting Assad to leave power was less important than defeating Islamic State Trump has said Clinton could drag the United States into a world war with a more aggressive posture toward resolving the conflict Trump also blamed Barack Obama for a downturn in US relations with the Philippines under its new president, Rodrigo Duterte, saying the president ' wants to focus on his golf game ' rather than engage with world leaders. Since assuming office, Duterte has expressed open hostility toward the United States, rejecting criticism of his violent anti-drug clampdown, calling Obama ' son of a b * * * * ' and telling the United States not to treat his country ' like a dog with a leash. '

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Input: We do have to deal with Russia in a lot of different ways. There are areas we can cooperate." Kaine noted that Clinton "worked with Russia on the new START treaty to reduce their nuclear weapons stockpile." He also noted that Clinton worked on the Iran nuclear deal — and "she knows how to sit down at a table and negotiate tough deals." Leading up to the Putin comments, Kaine attacked Pence for Donald Trump's praise of the Russian leader and his call for other nations to have nuclear weapons.

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Input: Share on Facebook SHARE Share on Twitter TWEET Link The bullet pierced the roof of the media centre at Rio's equestrian centre. Photo: Getty Images Brazilian media reported the Brazilian man had committed robberies in the area and was killed when one of his victims reacted.

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Input: Experts suggest using eight mixed types of characters, with seemingly random combinations if possible. They say that passphrases – short words with spaces or other characters separating them – are easy to recall and are relatively secure if seemingly random words are used. Experts also advise having different passwords for different sites, instead of relying on one, which if hacked, could prove particularly serious. However, he gave up the dataset after Holdresearchers agreed to post favourable comments about him inhacker forums, Holden said. He said his company's policy is torefuse to pay for stolen data.

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Input: This policy of pristine — and preening — disengagement from the grubby imperatives of realpolitik yielded Crimea, the South China Sea, the rise of the Islamic State, the return of Iran. And now the horror and the shame of Aleppo. After endless concessions to Russian demands meant to protect and preserve the genocidal regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, last month we finally capitulated to a deal in which we essentially joined Russia in that objective. But such is Vladimir Putin’s contempt for our president that he would n’t stop there. He blatantly violated his own cease-fire with an air campaign of such spectacular savagery — targeting hospitals, water-pumping stations and a humanitarian aid convoy — that even Barack Obama and John Kerry could no longer deny that Putin is seeking not compromise but conquest.

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Input: Some of the earliest organized challenges to the dire social, economic and political consequences of industrial capitalism in the late 19th century originated with the disgruntled agrarian forces of the Midwest and South. These revolutionary tides mobilized the Populist movement and eventually led to the short-lived People’s Party, a national organization with radical economic and political ideas but reactionary cultural ones (including xenophobia, anti-Semitism and anti-intellectualism). At their formative convention in Omaha in 1892, party officials issued demands that came to be known as the Omaha Platform. “We seek to restore the government of the Republic to the hands of ‘the plain people,’” it stated. At that time, according to Populist movement historian Lawrence Goodwyn, “millions of people” thought that “a wholesale overhauling of their society was going to happen in their lifetimes.

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Input: Simple answer -- because it met their foreign policy objectives, to weaken the U.S. in the eyes of our allies and adversaries,” said Conlon, now CEO of Vahna Inc., a cyber security firm in Washington. Publishing the DNC report on Trump “weakens both candidates -- lists out all the weaknesses of Trump specifically while highlighting weaknesses of Clinton’s security issues. The end result is a weaker president once elected.” Russia Link Russia has an expansive cyber force that it has deployed in complex disinformation campaigns throughout Europe, according to intelligence officials.

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Input: Domestic violence is currently punishable by fines of up to 40,000 rubles (£ 457) or two years in jail, but women's rights groups point out this is rarely enforced. Ms Mizulina introduced the 2013 law which bans the “promotion of non-traditional sexual relations” to minors. The law was widely condemned and campaigners have called for a boycott of Russia during the Sochi Winter Olympics. Since the “propaganda” bill was introduced, LGBT rights groups in Russia have reported a rise in the number of anti-LGBT incidents including violence. Last year, Russian lawmakers drafted a bill that would criminalise any “demonstration of one’s distorted sexual preferences in public places”.

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Input: Broad did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Lawyers for Busson said he had been a Swiss resident for most of his life until 1996, and retains business interest in the country. Another client of HSBC Geneva to donate to the Clinton foundation is Denise Rich, the ex-wife of the late billionaire and commodities trader Marc Rich, who fled to Switzerland in 1983 after being indicted by US authorities for tax evasion, fraud and racketeering. Mark Rich was was controversially granted a presidential pardon by Bill Clinton just hours before the former president left office in 2001. Denise Rich contributed as much as $ 500,000 to the Clinton foundation.

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Input: Johnson replied, “What is Aleppo?” Here's what he needs to know. (Jason Aldag / The Washington Post) “He is really very much of a leader,” Mr. Trump said of a man who has overseen the murder of his domestic political opponents and critical journalists, the rigging of elections, a global campaign of disinformation and a foreign policy whose first aim is to increase Russian influence at U.S. expense. Mr. Johnson may not know what Aleppo is. But in the contest between the United States and an autocratic and increasingly belligerent Russia, Mr. Trump appears not to be sure which side he is on.

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Input: Polar bear hunting is illegal in Russia, so shooting the bears wasn't an option." We had to stop some of the meteorological observations," he said. He appealed for a new shipment of flares to be sent, somehow, to the distant outpost. The next supply ship wasn't scheduled to visit the island for another month. The head of the Sevgidromet State Monitoring Network, which owns the station, told TASS it would make sure the supply ship is stocked with new dogs as well as flares, but that it wasn't sure if it would be possible to send any supplies sooner.

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Input: It turns out we get so much healthier when we convert to a green energy economy that our health savings alone are enough to pay for the cost of the energy transition. JUDY WOODRUFF: So, it would n’t require, say, a tax hike, maybe even a tax hike for those in the middle class? JILL STEIN: So, the other piece of this is that moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil, which, mind you, have cost us $ 6 trillion since 2001, when you include the cost of caring for our wounded soldiers, $ 6 trillion. JUDY WOODRUFF: You said wars for oil. JILL STEIN: That’s right, wars for oils, because we have been fighting these regime change wars, which are not making us safer.

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Input: (From L-R), Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, Iraq's Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Turkey's Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Jordan's Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, speak together around a table during a bilateral meeting where they discussed the crisis in Syria, in Lausanne, Switzerland, October 15, 2016. REUTERS / Jean-Christophe Bott / Pool LAUSANNE, Switzerland Syria talks convened by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the Swiss city of Lausanne on Saturday evening failed to agree on a common strategy with Russia to end the conflict in Syria, now in its sixth year. Kerry was seeking a new path to peace after failing to secure a ceasefire in direct talks with Moscow, one of Syria's key backers, amid mounting international outrage over the Russian and Syrian bombardment of rebel-held eastern Aleppo. Kerry hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and seven foreign ministers from the region-from Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, Jordan and Egypt-weeks after the collapse of a painstakingly crafted U.S.-Russian ceasefire plan that many saw as the last hope for peace this year.

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Lausanne


Input: Two dozen videos posted online showed alleged and sometimes comical evidence of vote rigging at polling stations, mostly public schools, where election officials were seen stuffing ballots or allowing people to vote without proper documents. While turnout was low across the board, some polling stations in Russia-annexed Crimea were almost empty. Crimean Tatars, an indigenous Muslim minority, largely boycotted the vote, activists and independent media reports said. The city of Bakhchisaray, Crimea’s onetime capital, and adjacent villages with a Tatar majority, ignored the vote, they said." I am not going to the election, because this is not my government and not my country," Nariman Dzhelyalov, deputy chairman of the Mejlis, an informal Tatar parliament that was outlawed by Moscow, said in a statement.

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Input: The Russian military says it hopes the US-led coalition will not allow Islamic State terrorists holding Mosul to flee the city and go to Syria. It warned the operation is still being monitored. “Our surveillance spacecraft have been retargeted [at Mosul].

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