Input: The Department of Commerce is set to hand off the final vestiges of American control over the Internet to international authorities in less than two months, officials have confirmed. The department will finalize the transition effective Oct. 1, Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling wrote on Tuesday, barring what he called "any significant impediment." The move means the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority, which is responsible for interpreting numerical addresses on the Web to a readable language, will move from U.S. control to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, a multistakeholder body based in Los Angeles that includes countries such as China and Russia. Critics of the move, most prominently Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, have pointed out the agency could be used by totalitarian governments to shut down the Web around the globe, either in whole or in part." The proposal will significantly increase the power of foreign governments over the Internet, expand ICANN's historical core mission by creating a gateway to content regulation, and embolden [its] leadership to act without any real accountability," Cruz wrote in a letter sent to Commerce and signed by two fellow Republicans, Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma and Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.

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Input: He said the increasing frequency of meetings with German Chancellor Angela Merkel was a positive development, adding that he would be meeting with her when she arrives on Monday." The main topic of discussion is probably refugees. The EU pledged to provide a 3-billion -euro fund for Syrians in Turkey. We haven't seen a single euro yet. This will also be raised."

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Input: In April, while visiting Mr. Cameron in London and celebrating the 90th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II at Windsor Castle, he implored Britons not to vote in favor of leaving. Britain, he warned, risked going “to the back of the queue” in negotiating trade deals with the United States. The “Brexit” vote runs counter to Mr. Obama’s vision of open, interconnected societies, and it illustrates the frustrating cycle of his engagement with the world: “America’s first Pacific president,” as Mr. Obama has called himself, who tried to pull the United States out of the Middle East, now finds himself, near the end of his presidency, confronting a crisis in Europe fueled in part by the refugees attempting to flee the Middle East. As a practical matter, the terms of the divorce vote will consume Britain and Europe for at least two years, making both less valuable as trading partners and less reliable as allies in dealing with a dangerous world. It will also deal a blow to Mr. Obama’s ambitious European trade deal, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which was already losing momentum on both sides because of growing anti-trade sentiment.

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Input: Ever. Ever.” Put aside how utterly absurd this claim is (rent Roots if you do n’t know what I mean) and how understandably offensive it is to a lot of black people, it was never intended to win black votes. The campaign had this idea that white suburban women would be swayed by Trump’s “concern” for blacks. He failed — which should have been obvious from the start.

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Input: And widespread homophobia culminated in the 1969 Stonewall riots. 1970s America After president Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal and subsequent coverup was exposed, he became the first chief to resign in office. The Vietnam War dragged on. The US invaded Cambodia in 1970.

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Input: Danish planes have conducted strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq since voting to join the U.S.-led coalition in Sept. 2014, but Friday’s announcement marks the nation’s first declaration of activity in Syria. In April, Denmark said it would increase its involvement in the coalition’s effort by sending seven F-16 jets, a transport aircraft and military personnel to assist the Syria campaign. The multi-sided war in Syria raged on as Denmark announced its increased activity, with Aleppo surrounded by pro-government forces and bombarded by Russian airstrikes. On Friday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called for the resumption of peace talks.

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

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Input: In August, Moscow hosted a gathering of nationalist and separatist activists from all over Europe and the U.S .— part of an ongoing effort to encourage anti-EU and anti-NATO political groups, including Greece’s Golden Dawn, Bulgaria’s Ataka and Hungary’s Jobbik. As Vice President Joe Biden warned in a speech in Washington last year, “Putin sees such political forces as useful tools to be manipulated, to create cracks in the European body politic which he can then exploit.” To Putin’s mind, the campaign is a way of pushing back against what he sees as meddling by Washington and Brussels in his backyard, from allegedly encouraging anti-Putin protests in Moscow in 2011 to fomenting the pro-European Maidan uprising in Kiev in 2013 that led to the ousting of President Yanukovych (and put Paul Manafort temporarily out of a job). Putin “honestly believes that the U.S. is trying to overthrow him,” says Kremlin-connected political technologist Gleb Pavlovsky, who advised Putin until 2011. “In the eyes of Russian elites, Western aggression must be met with a response,” argues Eugene Rumer, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace's Russia and Eurasia Program and a former national intelligence officer for Russia and Eurasia at the U.S. National Intelligence Council.

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Input: MOSCOW (Web Desk) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his country faces a greater threat of war from Hillary Clinton becoming US President, as opposed to Donald Trump. Hillary’s image as a war hawk is lost on mainstream American voters, but Russia, Europe, and other nations saw a not-so-warm-and-fuzzy side of Hillary when she was Secretary of State, and the contents of Mrs. Clinton’s intercepted emails have not served to soothe their fears. Vladimir Putin’s open concerns about Hillary Clinton have put Russians and Romanians under a lot of stress.

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Input: Last Friday, audio leaked of you making incredibly demeaning comments about women and bragging about sexual assault. When asked to justify your statements, you claimed that this was "locker room talk," and it's just how guys speak about women. You're wrong, and only the type of wrong an over-tanned ham hock like yourself can accomplish, plummeting past the morass of gross incivility into the abyss of depraved sociopathy. How do I know this? Simple.

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Input: ISIS likely seeks to reduce Egyptian security force positions in the Sinai in order to increase its freedom of maneuver as it escalates to more aggressive campaigns, potentially involving international targets such as the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) based in Sinai," the Institute for the Study of War reported. The attack is believed to have been conducted by ISIS or one of its affiliates. July 11, 2015 -- A -- A car bomb explodes outside the Italian Consulate in Cairo, killing at least one person and injuring nine others. Various social media accounts belonging to ISIS supporters share a statement they say is from the terror group, claiming responsibility. The attack is believed to have been conducted by ISIS or one of its affiliates.

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Input: Obama was unsure of his motive and cautioned Americans against "jumping to conclusions." Until late 2015, the administration declined to call Fort Hood a terrorist attack, preferring the Newspeakish "workplace violence." When ISIS-linked terrorists decapitated their American captive James Foley and released the video on the internet, Obama went golfing. He later said he regretted this, but that couldn't erase the signal of indifference. After Islamic extremists in Paris attacked the Charlie Hebdo offices and a Jewish supermarket in January 2015, Obama spoke of vicious killers who "randomly shoot a bunch of folks at a deli in Paris."

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Input: “As of now, there is no single diagnosis of the dangerous infection,” said a spokesman for the governor of Yamalo-Nenets, Dmitry Kobylkin. Those in hospital are all from a dozen nomadic families who herd reindeer in the far north of Russia. RELATED STORIES ' DAD DIED IN MY ARMS ' Daughter, 26, cradled her dying dad after he was mowed down by Finsbury Park terror van ROBERT COLVILE Following its recent purchase of Whole Foods, Amazon has become a monster we should be afraid of ' Pics ' dad suicide Dad-of-two, 50, shoots himself in US after he was wrongly accused of possessing indecent images TOT, SKIP AND JUMP Bizarre festival in Spain sees men dressed as The Devil leap over babies to rid the tots of bad spirits HE 'S IN THE BAG Iraqi illegal immigrant is discovered being smuggled into Britain on the back seat of a car ... in a SUITCASE ' IT 'S CLEAR AS DAY ' Cops confirm stabbed dad took photo just as killer who knifed him to death in his car pounced ' YOU JUST HAVE TO RUN ' Couple doused themselves in water and dashed through 16 floors of fire to safety-after sobbing 999 operator said ' nobody could save them ' Will Stewart 9 1,200 reindeer have died in recent days Medics were taking precautions to hospitalise any of the ‘at risk’ group who showed any symptoms of ill health.

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Input: In Paris, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Saturday that he and other officials-including representatives of Paris Aeroport, the French prosecutor, EgyptAir, and the Egyptian ambassador to Paris-had met with about 100 family members to express "our profound compassion" over the crash. In a statement delivered to reporters following the meeting, he said:" All the hypotheses are being examined-none are being favored." "In the name of France, once more, I am expressing my solidarity, but also our affection ... for all those people who learned that a loved one, or even an entire family, have drowned in the sea-and who want to know, to know to be able to grieve. It's a difficult moment, a painful moment. I wanted to say it again: We're on their side."

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Input: the US escalates the war with an invasion of ground troops. The latest leaks out of NATO sources in Europe suggest that the current plan is to invade with troops by the end of May. Remember Vietnam!

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Input: Jody Avirgan: More and more from Donald Trump, as he’s dropping in the polls — which I suspect is not much of a coincidence — we’re hearing talk of a rigged election. Trump has suggested that the election will be rigged. He’s urged his supporters to monitor polling sites; he’s suggested even that the polls are rigged. This morning, Monday morning, he tweeted, “Of course there is widespread voter fraud happening on and before election day.” There’s a lot to tease out here about the specific charges and about the long-term corrosive effect of sowing distrust in our electoral system. And I’ve got some data and some facts that will hopefully give us some context, but I also want to start with a basic question of definitions because I think there are some different definitions floating around of what the word rigged means.

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Input: Video taken inside the terror group's Syrian stronghold shows armed guards patrolling deserted streets and landmark buildings reduced to rubble after years of civil war. The women describe gruesome public executions with extremists shooting their victims, decapitating them and putting their heads on sticks and leaving their bodies in the road to be run over. The women describe gruesome public executions with extremists shooting their victims, decapitating them and putting their heads on sticks and leaving their bodies in the road to be run over (file picture) In one scene, video shows how the faces of female models used to advertise hair products have been scribbled out with black marker pens by shopkeepers terrified of their hard line ISIS rulers. One of the women in the video, which was commissioned by CNN's Swedish affiliate Expressen TV, told how ' everyone's left ' the city and foreign ISIS fighters are stealing ID cards from Syrians in an attempt to flee to Turkey.

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Input: Lavrov said Russia was ready to consider more ways to "normalise" the situation in Aleppo. However, he criticised what he called the US failure to separate moderate rebel groups from those Russia calls "terrorists". He argued that this allowed forces led by Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, formerly known as al-Nusra Front, to violate the US-Russian ceasefire agreed on September 9. Diplomatic stalemate Russia and the US have traded blame for the collapse of the truce, with Kerry admitting on Thursday that months of diplomacy to end the war had reached a stalemate.

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Input: They will want to see how far they can bend the rules," she said in the speech." That wo n’t work if I’m in the White House." To show her seriousness, the former secretary of state suggested deploying additional U.S. forces to the Persian Gulf region and recommended that Congress “close any gaps” in the existing sanctions to punish Iran for any current or future instances of human rights abuses and support for terror. Although the nuclear agreement allows for additional sanctions that are unrelated to Iran’s nuclear program, it also requires parties to avoid action “inconsistent with the letter, spirit and intent” of the deal. Since July, a handful of senators from both parties have said they are drafting new sanctions laws.

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Input: The Presidential Advisor went on to note that what has been announced by head of the government of the Zionist entity Benjamin Netanyahu is conclusive evidence that Israel is the biggest beneficiary of the so-called “Arab Spring” and that Israel seeks to drive the Arabs apart. Shaaban added that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are supporting and financing terrorists in Syria and sending terrorists through Turkey, and they continue to pursue this track without any change regarding their relations with the terrorist organizations in Syria. She considered that assassinating the Jordanian writer Nahed Hatar is a part of the attempts to silence voices that is taking place in the region, addressing the killers by saying “where is the freedom, democracy, and human rights if we are not able to disagree?”

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Input: Hopeful, exciting, but ultimately deflating and disappointing. When Hillary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee, I was distraught. Months before I had written about her on Huffington Post, explaining that I despised her not for her gender -- as some of her supporters accused -- but for her hawkishness, her center-left policies, her husband's crime bill that incarcerated so many people of color, her support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and her inability to get progressive on climate change policy. I've spent almost every waking hour of every day following this election, reading about Hillary, Donald Trump, both parties ' platforms, and the under-qualified Libertarian and Green Party candidates running. During these months of obsessing over my choice, I've watched my position slowly shift.

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Input: I think new media is a great way to get out the truth.” WORKING VISAS Trump was asked about abuse of H-1B visas, which allow US companies to sponsor and temporarily employ foreign workers in certain occupations. “America has a proud tradition of stealing the most brilliant and talented people from countries around the world for ourselves,” yiannopoulos — m posted. “In recent years, however, H-1B visa abuse has become rampant.

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Input: Excluding personal correspondence with family and close friends, Abedin, Mills and Sullivan together accounted for 68 percent of Hillary Clinton’s total email traffic as secretary of state. (Clinton also used her device to text staff and send BlackBerry messages.) While “at least a hundred, if not several hundred” State employees had her clintonemail.com address — emails from Hillary often arrived with just an “H” in the “from” field — and many of those employees, like Kennedy, were aware she used a personal email account, most did n’t understand she had a private server. Nor was Kennedy aware that the personal email account was her sole one. In part, her email flew below the State Department radar both because of her tight circle of correspondents but also because, simply, as one aide said: “Clinton was not an email person.” And those who wanted to reach her knew it was better to email her top aides directly, anyway.

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Input: The report continued: “The lobbying included attempts to gain positive press coverage of Ukrainian officials in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Associated Press. Another goal: undercutting American public sympathy for the imprisoned rival of Ukraine’s then-president. At the time, European and American leaders were pressuring Ukraine to free her.” This email controversy, coming from the same campaign trying to make hay of Hillary Clinton’s email controversy.

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Input: Ransacked: French police raided a apartment Bouhlel was renting close to his estranged wife and ransacked the property, looking for clues Lair: He lived in the shabby one bedroom flat in Abattoirs a northern suburb in Nice after he separated from his wife two years ago, whom he beat, a close family friend claims Named: Bouhlel, who has three children aged five, three and 18 months, was forced to move out of the family home into this flat after his marriage broke down two years ago-it is believed the divorce proceedings were being carried out over the past few months Left behind: A glove lies on the floor after being discarded by forensic investigation officers and police who launched a raid on the flat where Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel lived in a poor neighbourhood of Nice TRUCK TERRORIST LAHOUAIEJ BOUHLEL KNOWN TO POLICE FOR ABUSE, THEFT AND ' USE OF WEAPONS ' Killer Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel was known to police for violent abuse, theft and ' use of weapons ' before he embarked on a rampage that would leave 84 dead.

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Input: "Those are extremely interesting. We will see what will come of them." Assange spoke from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he faces extradition over sexual assault allegations.

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Input: Clinton, who turns 69 in late October, is younger than the 70-year -old Trump. But her health has remained front-and-center. Much of the speculation stems from a concussion Clinton sustained in December 2012 after fainting in her final weeks as secretary of state, an episode her doctor has attributed to a stomach virus and dehydration. During the course of her treatment, she was found to have a blood clot in a vein in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear. To recover, Clinton spent a few days at a hospital and took a month-long absence from the State Department for treatment.

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Input: The state-run Anadolu Agency says a bomb has hit the Turkish parliament in Ankara. CNN-Turk television reported some police officers and parliament workers were hurt in the bomb attack. A resident living not far from the area told the AP he heard a massive explosion that shook buildings and saw a column of smoke but could not confirm if it was coming from parliament itself. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity for security reasons, also said fighter jets were flying low in the area. _ _ _

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Input: Why? Why?’” Ilona Bogen, a 38-year -old nurse who immigrated from Lithuania about 15 years ago and who is one of the few likely to support Hillary Clinton, said she has no idea why Trump is currying favor with Putin. “Those two are like dictators,” she added. “I’m really scared.

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Input: I submit to you it’s not the world you’re looking for. The temptation among some folks is strong to swim against the tide and thumb one’s nose at the establishment, and obviously I’ll grant that no one is more establishment than Clinton. It’s a vote that is chiefly against something — in this case, her pro-corporate sail-trimming and all the rest. But a protest vote is never solely a protest vote. You’re also voting for something.

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Input: The group WikiLeaks on Tuesday said it is offering $ 20,000 for information leading to a conviction in the case involving the death of a former Democratic National Committee staffer earlier this year. “ANNOUNCE: WikiLeaks has decided to issue a US $ 20k reward for information leading to conviction for the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich,” the website tweeted. Police have said it is possible that Rich’s death was the result of an attempted robbery in the Bloomingdale neighbourhood of Washington, DC, last month. The case remains under investigation, and police and the victim’s mother appealed last week for tips on Rich’s murder. Rich’s case has gained an inordinate amount of attention from some right-leaning outlets, which have posited without factual evidence that Rich’s death was part of a larger conspiracy.

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Input: "I do not know which Donald Trump will show up." She added:" Maybe he will try to be presidential and try to convey a gravity that he hasn't done before or will he come in and try to insult and try to score some points." Last week, the Commission on Presidential Debates announced on Friday the lineup to moderate this year's presidential debates: Lester Holt, Martha Raddatz, Anderson Cooper and Chris Wallace. Holt, the anchor of the "NBC Nightly News," will moderate the first debate on Sept. 26; Raddatz of ABC News and Cooper of CNN will moderate the town hall debate on Oct. 9; and Wallace of Fox News will moderate the Oct. 19 debate. Photo credit: Jim Greenhill via Wikimedia Commons

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Input: Yuriy Hrabovsky had been kidnapped and brutally beaten. Prisoner swap? Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has proposed swapping the two Russians for Nadiya Savchenko, convicted by a Russian court last month on charges relating to the deaths of two Russian journalists. A pilot by training, she was captured by separatists in 2015 and accused of directing artillery fire that killed the journalists. Image copyright AP Image caption The men could be swapped for Nadiya Savchenko, a Ukrainian woman jailed in Russia

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Input: In back-to-back interviews with Fox News, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange criticized the U.S. media for "incredible politicization" in its coverage of the presidential election, and vowed there are more shoes to drop before the Nov. 8 vote. Assange appeared Friday morning on "Fox & Friends," where he said "significant" information would be published on the site regarding Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, but did not specify what it would be." I know you guys would love it if we scooped ourselves on ' Fox & Friends, ' but we’re not going to do that,” Assange said from the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he has lived for nearly five years as he fights extradition to Sweden where he is wanted on charges relating to sexual assault that his supporters say are politically driven. Assange said information regarding Clinton's health is fair game, and noted that in an email already disclosed by the organization, Clinton refers to her own "cracked head." He said he had information about GOP nominee Donald Trump as well, but indicated it may not be as revelatory as critics might hope.

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Input: (CNN) The former head of Russia's anti-doping agency RUSADA has died less than two months after resigning from his post. Nikita Kamaev suffered a "massive heart attack," according to a statement on the organization's official website The 52-year -old stepped down in December following a doping scandal that saw Russia banned from international athletics

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Input: Nakamura and Russia's Natalia Kuziutina won bronze. Tensions persist between Kosovo and Serbia, which has not recognised Kosovo's declaration of independence. Serbia has reportedly advised its athletes in Rio to withdraw from any medal ceremonies if they have to share the podium with athletes from Kosovo, although there were no Serbian judokas participating on Sunday. Kosovo won further sporting recognition in May when it was accepted as a member of soccer's world governing body FIFA.

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Input: Bush were making war fun again – Grenada, Afghanistan, Panama and the Persian Gulf, all relatively low-cost conflicts with victorious conclusions. By the 1990s, Bill Clinton (along with Hillary Clinton) saw militarism as just another issue to be triangulated. With the Soviet Union’s collapse, the Clinton-42 administration saw the opportunity for more low-cost tough-guy / gal-ism – continuing a harsh embargo and periodic air strikes against Iraq (causing the deaths of a U.N.-estimated half million children); blasting Serbia into submission over Kosovo; and expanding NATO to the east toward Russia’s borders. But Bill Clinton did balk at the more extreme neocon ideas, such as the one from the Project for the New American Century for a militarily enforced “regime change” in Iraq. That had to wait for George W. Bush in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

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Input: And if not, who else is out there? Coming out against wars that benefit the US and global 1 percent provides a whole new 21st-century way of understanding both President Eisenhower’s warning about the power of the military-industrial complex and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s warning about the deadly triplets of militarism, racism, and extreme materialism. No Wars for the Billionaire Class means standing up to the overarching influence of the arms-producing companies, especially their overpaid CEOs (perhaps recalling an earlier era of US history, when war profiteering was actually deemed illegal as well as immoral). It requires saying no to dictators who want to buy more expensive weapons, no matter how close their alliance with the United States. It means facing down the oil industry and its demand for US military protection — often including military occupation of other countries — of its pipelines, oilfields, and other facilities abroad.

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Input: The board criticized Ukraine's government for leaving its airspace open to civilian traffic. At the time of the incident, pro-Russian separatists were fighting Ukrainian government forces in the region. The Boeing 777 (BA.N) broke apart in mid-air, flinging wreckage over several kilometers (miles) of fields in rebel-held territory. Harun Calehr, uncle of two boys killed in the crash, said he was not holding out hope for a swift resolution." I think there will never be a judicial conclusion to this nightmare," he said.

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Input: G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ TEHRAN (FNA)- The General Command of the Syrian army said the US-led coalition has bombed the Syrian army positions in Deir Ezzur, killing some 80 soldiers and injuring dozens more. According to Syria’s official SANA news agency, the bombing took place on al-Tharda Mountain in the region of Deir ez-Zor and caused casualties and destruction on the ground. Eighty Syrian soldiers were killed and over 100 injured in the airstrike by the US-led coalition, Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman, Major-General Igor Konashenkov, said, citing information received from the Syrian General Command.

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Input: (Jerusalem) – Israeli security forces are abusing Palestinian children detained in the West Bank. The number of Palestinian children arrested by Israeli forces has more than doubled since October 2015. Expand Israeli border police arresting Ahmad Abu Sbitan, 11, in front of his school in East Jerusalem. The police accused him of throwing a stone at them.

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Input: Russia is investing a lot in these war preparations. And we are not getting any explanations for this," Poroshenko said. The president added that Russia had failed to implement any aspect of 2015's Minsk Agreement, a ceasefire pact between Kiev and Moscow in Belarus. This came a year after Russia sent troops to annex Ukraine's Crimea region. Today, fighting continues in the east of Ukraine between government forces and pro-Russian rebels, despite the ceasefire.

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Input: Further evidence of Putin’s gathering of power into his own hands is an ongoing purge launched over the summer that has already claimed the heads of the Federal Narcotics Service, Federal Protection Service (Putin’s bodyguard), the Federal Migration Service and Russian Railways, as well as the president’s Chief of Staff and personal confidant Sergei Ivanov. The aim in all cases seems to be to replace old-guard Putin allies with younger, more loyal and less independent figures. The same pattern has been repeated among regional governors — four of whom have recently been sacked, and two replaced by Putin’s personal bodyguards. Protect the regime The creation of the Ministry of State Security is part of a “project aimed at replacing old allies with new ones,” said independent Moscow-based analyst Stanislav Belkovsky.

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Input: “I’ve never voted for a Democrat in my life,” said the former aide, Doug Elmets, a California-based Republican consultant who worked as a speechwriter for President Reagan. “What you see is really no longer the Republican Party, but the party of Donald Trump.” For some Republicans, the two weeks of back-to-back party conventions presented a head-spinning inversion of iconography and professed values, one they feared could provoke a more permanent departure from Republican ranks by middle of the road voters faced with a choice between the Democrats and Mr. Trump. In interviews and online, they voiced frustrations that Mr. Trump had let the Democrats steal some of their best material. Advertisement Continue reading the main story

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Input: Under Duterte's predecessor, Benigno Aquino III, the U.S. and Philippine militaries twice staged naval exercises near the disputed waters. While taking a critical stance on U.S. security policies, Duterte has reached out to China and Russia. Lorenzana said he has been ordered by Duterte to travel to Beijing and Moscow to discuss what defense equipment the Philippines can acquire from them. _ _ _ Associated Press writer Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, and Matthew Pennington in Washington contributed to this report.

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Input: The Affordable Care Act, which created a subsidized health insurance alternative for millions of Americans who do n’t have insurance through their employers, made an enormous difference in ensuring health security. We must consider more ways in which the government can build the next era safety net in other areas. Hillary will convene a high level working group of experts, business and labor leaders to recommend how best to ensure that people have the benefits and security they need no matter how they work. INVESTING IN WORLD-CLASS DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE Hillary believes that high-speed internet connectivity is not a luxury; it is a necessity for economic success and social mobility in a 21st century economy.

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Input: Russia has announced a game-changing move in the fight against Monsanto’s GMOs, completely banning the use of genetically modified ingredients in any and all food production. In other words, Russia just blazed way past the issue of GMO labeling and shut down the use of any and all GMOs that would have otherwise entered the food supply through the creation of packaged foods (and the cultivation of GMO crops). “As far as genetically-modified organisms are concerned, we have made decision not to use any GMO in food productions,” Deputy PM Arkady Dvorkovich revealed during an international conference on biotechnology. This is a bold move by the Russian government, and it sits in unison with the newly-ignited global debate on GMOs and the presence of Monsanto in the food supply.

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Input: For two days, he and other prisoners in the hangar tried to soothe the boy’s injuries as he was dying. When the guards came to retrieve the corpse, Hamada yelled at them. In response, they hung him by his wrists for several hours. He told me, “You want them to kill you anyway, so you can be done with this. You’re sick of the torture.

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Input: After the meeting, Erdogan approved the council's decisions to keep armed forces chief Hulusi Akar and the army, navy and air force commanders in their posts, making few changes to the top brass, Erdogan's spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told reporters. Erdogan, who narrowly escaped capture and possible death on the night of the coup, told Reuters in an interview last week that the military, NATO 'S second biggest, needed "fresh blood". The dishonorable discharges included around 40 percent of Turkey's admirals and generals. Turkey accuses U.S .- based Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen of masterminding the coup and has suspended or placed under investigation tens of thousands of his suspected followers, including soldiers, judges and academics. In the aftermath of the coup, media outlets, schools and universities have also been closed down.

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Input: "Our work was to kill criminals like drug pushers, rapists, snatchers. Those were the people we killed every day," Matobato said. Duterte's office denied the claims made by Matobato on Thursday, and said the President was "unfazed" by the Senate investigation." The Duterte administration is committed to a platform of a peaceful, crime-free, corruption-free nation that is not affected by any controversy," presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said. Unreliable witness?

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Input: Disaster zone: Bodies lie along the promenade showing the devastating route the lorry took as it went through huge crowds Heartbroken men and women refused to leave the bodies of their loved ones and the dead remain strewn across the famous Promenade des Anglais today. Hundreds have now laid flowers in their memory as President Hollande said ' many foreigners have died ' and at least 50 more people are ' between life and death '. French citizens, two Americans, one Armenian and one Ukrainian are among the dead with several Britons among the injured while dozens of panicked people have posted images of loved ones still missing using the hashtags # Nice06 and # recherchenice. At least 10 of the victims were children, with young girls and boys lying dead covered in a blankets with their dolls and buggies still next to them.

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

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Input: The threat is openly aggressive on its own turf but operates by stealth in the West. A president may not have to be good with names to oppose it effectively, but he has to grasp the animating ideology, the power relations, and the goals of the players — and how weakening one by strengthening another can degrade rather than promote our security. Donald Trump does not have a clue about any of this, careening wildly from vows to stay out of the fray (leaving it in Vladimir Putin’s nefarious hands) to promises that the earth will be indiscriminately scorched. The threat against us has metastasized in our eighth year under a president who quite consciously appeases the enemy. But the remedy is not a president oblivious of the enemy.

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Input: (Times-Picayune) Four companies, including Speedo, severed ties with Ryan Lochte after he fabricated a story about being robbed in Rio. Speedo will donate $ 50,000 that would have gone to the swimmer to Save the Children. (Matt Bonesteel) A federal judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction to block Obama’s transgender bathroom policy, temporarily barring the policy from taking effect just as the public school year begins. (Dallas Morning News) Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe individually restored voting rights to 13,000 felons in Virginia after the state’s Supreme Court thwarted his previous attempt.

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

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Input: Leaked documents published by Wikileaks show that U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has advocated in private for free trade and open borders in a way that could be at variance with public pledges she has made to voters. In the latest dump of documents that appears designed to influence the November 8 election, excerpts from paid speeches Clinton made to business groups show she told bankers behind closed doors that she favored "open trade and open borders" and believes Wall Street executives themselves should help write financial reform laws. Clinton's campaign blamed the leaks on Russia, noting that U.S. intelligence agencies for the first time earlier on October 7 fingered Russia for being behind most of the recent leaks aimed at disrupting the election, including those coming from Wikileaks.

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Input: I think Donald Trump is going to places where very few people have gone and I'm not going with him." Graham's comments sparked a scathing response from Trump, who called him a "poor representative and an embarrassment to the great people of South Carolina." Graham said Trump lost his confidence when the billionaire businessman criticized Arizona Sen. John McCain for being a captured during the Vietnam War and accused former President George W. Bush of lying to Americans about the Iraq War. Graham also cited Trump's compliments of Russian President Vladimir Putin, spending thousands of dollars to find out if President Barack Obama was born in Kenya and linking Sen. Ted Cruz's dad to President John F. Kennedy's assassination as some of the front-runner's other wild ideas." I'm glad we're having the convention in Cleveland, not Area 51," Graham said, citing the Nevada military base popular among UFO enthusiasts.

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Input: "It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds." Why raise this idiotic conjecture when strong evidence points to the Kremlin? Why whitewash Putin when the Russian leader is threatening our European allies and committing war crimes in Syria? Does Trump's dream of real estate deals in Moscow blind him to Moscow's deeds? This week, a Dutch-led investigation concluded that the surface-to-air missile system used to shoot down a Malaysia Airlines civilian plane over Ukraine in 2014 came from Russia.

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Input: A woman walks through rubble after airstrikes in the rebel-held Syrian town of Dael on Friday. (Alaa Al-Faqir / Reuters) Questions about how and when a Syrian truce will be implemented deepened skepticism that the cease-fire will work, as Russian and Syrian warplanes on Friday sustained their relentless bombardment of rebel-held territory in the country.

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Input: The US State Department blamed Moscow and the Syrian regime for hampering the delivery of aid." For more than a week, we have urged Moscow to fulfill the commitments it made in Geneva to facilitate the unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid to the Syrian people," the department said in a statement." And for more than a week, the Syrian regime repeatedly denied entry to these UN convoys, preventing them from delivering urgent food, water and medical supplies to desperate Syrian citizens." The Kremlin said there was little hope for the ceasefire's renewal, state television Russia 24 reported. David Butter, associate fellow of the Middle East and North Africa program at Chatham House, called the latest development a "severe setback" and said the prospects for peace "look very poor" at this point.

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Input: (Oct. 12) AP Donald Trump did not hold back at a Florida rally on Wednesday, attacking Hillary Clinton as "corrupt," the media as "dishonest," the Republican Congress as ineffective — and the entire country as vulnerable to a takeover by the Islamic State if Clinton wins the Nov. 8 election." They are hoping and praying that Hillary Clinton becomes president of the United States, because they’ll take over not only that part of the world, they’ll take over this country," Trump told backers in Ocala, Fla. Repeatedly predicting dire consequences if he loses the election, Trump said at one point that "our country has never been so low" and "I'm ashamed with what's happened to our country, and so are you." Citing the WikiLeaks document dumps of emails from the Clinton campaign, Trump recited a litany of accusations that include double dealing and special favors for contributors to the Clinton Foundation," cashing in "on government service, and claims that the Justice Department protected the former secretary of State during the email investigation.

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Input: “From that point on, UBS’s engagement with the Clinton family’s charitable organization increased,” reported the Journal. “Total donations by UBS to the Clinton Foundation grew from less than $ 60,000 through 2008 to a cumulative total of about $ 600,000 by the end of 2014 ... The bank also joined the Clinton Foundation to launch entrepreneurship and inner-city loan programs, through which it lent $ 32 million. And it paid former president Bill Clinton $ 1.5 million.” During the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has said that “when Wall Street executives commit criminal wrongdoing, they deserve to face criminal prosecution.” An IBT analysis found that the Clinton Foundation has accepted $ 5 million worth of donations from at least nine financial institutions that reached settlement agreements with the Justice Department that required them to pay big fines but let them avoid prosecution.

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Input: Well, propaganda was an extremely powerful component. For years, Hitler inundated the German population with a stream of consistent messages that the German Aryans were the superior master race of all humans, and that Germany was under imminent threat of destruction by foreign enemies as evidenced by the Treaty of Versailles, which was the international peace treaty that ended World War I but that also imposed upon Germany the hardship of having to make enormous reparation payments to the foreign victors for having caused the war. The Nazi messaging also preached about internal threats from various segments of Germany's own population, like Jews, homosexuals, and communists. The German population began to adopt this perverse and paranoid worldview as truth, and a national war machine was born. A more contemporary example is the Bosnian War from the early 1990's that shockingly occurred in the heart of Europe right near Italy and Greece.

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Input: “The specific target is anything big,” a New World Hackers representative using the alias Prophet said in a text message exchange with POLITICO. “We were testing our power at first.” However, digital security researchers and U.S. officials preached caution, arguing there is still scant evidence to determine who is behind the attack, warning that both groups have falsely taken credit for high-profile attacks in the past. Prophet passed POLITICO screenshots of the group’s work as evidence New World Hackers was behind the incident. But security firm Flashpoint, upon reviewing the image, proclaimed the hacker group, “imposters.”

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Input: Multiple cyber forensics groups and the DNC have confirmed that the intrusion was almost unequivocally the work of two well-known groups associated with the Kremlin. U.S. intelligence officials have told the White House they have “high confidence” Russia was behind the breach but have stopped short of confirming it to be an attempt to shift the results of the 2016 election, according to The New York Times. But a growing chorus of Democrats — and some Republicans — are urging Obama to take public action in response to mounting evidence that Russia may have orchestrated Friday’s leak of the stolen emails in order to benefit GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump Donald TrumpLewandowski near ' high six-figure book deal ': report GOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Overnight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data MORE. “If true, then the episode would represent an unprecedented attempt to meddle in American domestic politics — one that would demand a response by the United States,” Schiff and Feinstein wrote in their Wednesday letter. The release of the emails — just days before Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for?

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Input: A convoy of nationalists on motorbikes passed as he spoke. Such solidarity may not last. There are already opposition concerns that the restructuring of the military lacks parliamentary oversight and is going too far, with thousands of soldiers discharged, including around 40 percent of generals. WESTERN CRITICISM The extent of the purges in Turkey, which has NATO's second largest armed forces and aspires to membership of the European Union, has drawn criticism in the West.

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Input: Wikileaks tweeted this evening: ' We can confirm Ecuador cut off Assange's internet access Saturday, 5 pm GMT, shortly after publication of Clinton's Goldman Sachs speechs. ' Revealed: Julian Assange, pictured on October 4, is alive but WikiLeaks claim his internet connection was cut by ' state ' agents this morning Visit: Rumours started that Julian Assange died after eating a poisoned vegan Pret a Manger meal that was brought to his room by Pamela Anderson on Saturday (pictured) But Wikileaks revealed this morning that Assange's internet link had been ' intentionally severed by a state party ' It is not clear why Ecuador severed the connection but a source at the Ecuadorian Ministry in Ecuador previously said it would not respond to Twitter speculation but reiterated its commitment to Assange.

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Input: Trump’s assertion, which his campaign manager insisted was irreversible, came less than one week before the kickoff Iowa caucuses. He once again defied the conventional rules of politics, and used his power and prominence to shape the campaign agenda and conversation. So far, Trump’s untraditional moves have only expanded his support, but his threatened boycott leaves him open to criticism that for all his tough talk he is ducking face-to-face confrontations with his opponents and scrutiny from the Fox moderators. Given Trump’s past flirtations with boycotting Fox, many will doubt his declaration until they see the other candidates take the debate stage on Thursday night without him. The Republican debates have become must-see television, in part because of the allure of Trump’s star power and unpredictable candidacy.

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Input: 6. Assange has already been cleared and the woman says the police made it up in order to’ get him’. On August 25 2010, Assange was cleared of the suspicion of’ rape’ by Stockholm’s Chief Prosecutor Eva Finne, who stated she “made the assessment that the evidence did not disclose any offence of rape”. On 25 of August, the prosecutor stated that “The conduct alleged disclosed no crime at all and that file (K246314-10) would be closed”. The case was only resurrected after a politician, Claes Borgstrom, intervened in the case.

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Input: Those contributions were not publicly disclosed by the Clintons. Soon after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Bill Clinton received $ 500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock. We now know that Egyptian Companies and Government Entities gave money to the Clinton Foundation while Her State Department cleared Egypt to continue purchasing arms the U.S. government classified as toxicological agents, a broad designation that included chemical and biological weapons. Once in 2010, Mubarak government paid Bill Clinton a $ 250,000 speaking, less than 4 months before the Egyptian revolution began, And again in 2012, a firm with an ownership stake in the company that manufactured the tear gas reportedly used by Egyptian security forces against the protesters paid $ 100,000 to $ 250,000 for another Bill Clinton speech. Clinton’s massive campaign machine is built and fueled from the very thing — super PACs, secret cash, unlimited contributions — she says she’ll attack once she wins the White House.

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Input: According to the Rand Corp., the United States provided $ 441 million in security funding to the Philippines from 2002 to 2013. That security relationship has benefited both countries, but whether it will continue under Duterte is at least an open question. 6) Duterte has demanded that the United States apologize for the Bud Dajo “massacre” in 1906, which his spokesman has ludicrously likened to the Holocaust. The Battle of Bud Dajo was part of the larger American war against Moro extremists, as Philippine Muslims were then known. Hundreds of Moros, including women and children, died in this extinct volcano.

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Input: Western politicians and intellectuals have been among those calling for her release, echoing her lawyers ' descriptions of the process as a show trial and a farce. Human Rights Watch condemned the trial as unfair, complaining that the court had "refused to admit crucial defence evidence and consistently rejected important defence motions, making it impossible for her legal team to effectively challenge the allegations against her as fair trial standards require." Image copyright AP Image caption Savchenko's supporters once again protested outside the Russian embassy in Kiev Image copyright Reuters Image caption Savchenko adopted an attitude of defiance throughout her trial The hearing took place in the southern Russian town of Donetsk, not far from the Ukrainian border.

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Input: Meanwhile, after a key provision in the Voting Rights Act protecting minority voters from discrimination was unceremoniously declared defective by a right-wing majority on the Supreme Court in 2013, those same Republican leaders who seem so concerned about threats to the integrity of our elections have largely remained on the sidelines. Trump also did n’t invent ominous appeals for partisans to patrol “certain areas” and “go and watch these polling places” where citizens often vote for Democrats. More than three decades ago, the Republican National Committee was caught orchestrating expansive efforts to intimidate individuals at polling places in minority neighborhoods. Federal courts have barred the RNC from engaging in poll-watching activities relating to “ballot integrity, ballot security or other efforts to prevent or remedy vote fraud” in minority areas ever since. It’s not just voters, either.

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Input: Smoke could be seen rising from some parts of the modern, residential city of Palmyra, which lies next to the 2,000-year -old ruins, during a visit by journalists on Friday. But few people were to be seen and no shops were open. Residential areas had been damaged and traces of explosions could be seen on the ground. GRAFFITI ON RUINS As well as a network of bombs, Islamic State left traces of their 10-month rule in Palmyra.

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Input: I want the people's support. (APPLAUSE) COOPER: Do you continue to pledge whoever the Republican nominee is? TRUMP: No. I don't anymore.

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Input: The United Nations said that only Washington and Moscow could declare it over, as they were the ones who originally forged the deal. The air strikes appeared particularly heavy in insurgent-held areas west of Aleppo, near the rebel stronghold of Idlib province. And in eastern Aleppo, a resident reached by Reuters said there had been dozens of blasts." It started with an hour of extremely fierce bombing," said Besher Hawi, the former spokesman for the opposition's Aleppo city council." Now I can hear the sound of helicopters overhead.

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Input: Referring specifically to The Post, he added: “If I become president, oh, do they have problems. They’re going to have such problems.” Trump has attempted to smear and intimidate a district judge, Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a lawsuit for fraud against Trump University, with its distinguished faculty of cardboard cutouts and allegedly bankrupt real estate investors. Trump accuses Curiel of hostility against him because “I’m very, very strong on the border.” Another shrill pipe of the ethnic dog whistle. This is more than a personality disorder talking.

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Input: “The evidence raises serious questions about compliance with U.S. cluster munition policy and export rules,” said Steve Goose, arms director at Human Rights Watch. The group has investigated at least five attacks in Yemen involving CBU-105s in four governorates since the war began. In December, the group documented an attack on the Yemeni port of Hodaida that injured a woman and two children in their homes. Two other civilians were wounded in a CBU-105 attack near Amar village, according to local residents and medical staff interviewed by Human Rights Watch. The Obama administration has issued several statements of “concern” about the violence in Yemen, but has yet to formally announce any reduction in military or tactical support for the coalition.

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Input: But this is Omalu, whose credentials and tenacity are well known. He was n’t giving up on Twitter, adding that his reasoning is that he does not trust Russian President Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee who has expressed admiration for Putin. Video of Clinton's departure seemed to show her buckling and stumbling as she got into her van. (Thomas Johnson / The Washington Post) Putin, as The Washington Post reported, was implicated by a British inquiry in January in the poisoning death of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB operative, in London in 2006.

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Input: Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson spoke to his counterpart in the Kremlin today as the first step toward increasing ' political dialogue ' between Britain and Russia British-Russian relations have been in a deep freeze for several years amid concern over Russian aggression in Ukraine and the conclusions of the inquiry into the assassination of Alexander Litvinenko, which blamed Mr Putin. The Russian foreign ministry said: ' Both sides expressed hope for a normalisation in Russian-British ties and underscored the desire to step up political dialogue. ' The intent to increase political dialogue was underlined despite the remaining problems in bilateral relations, in order to realise their considerable potential in areas such as the economy, humanitarian ties and foreign policy cooperation. ' The call also touched on the on-going civil war in Syria, in which Russian forces have been involved, and the wider threat from terrorism.

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Input: She lied about having destroyed government emails, about having exposed classified U.S. government secrets to Russia, China and other hostile nations through an unsecured server in her own basement that, according to U.S. intelligence experts, almost certainly led to the outing of covert CIA operatives. She lied to the parents of murdered Americans in the terror attack at Benghazi, Libya, about the cause of their death, and her role in their death. She lied under oath when testifying to Congress, and she lied about FBI Director James Comey’s public indictment of her lies, which he delivered to the nation. Her lies are nothing new and they are legion. Hillary Clinton is a “congenital liar,” in the words of famed New York Times columnist William Safire, whose 1996 essay, “Blizzard of Lies,” explains that she lies “for good reason: To admit otherwise would be to confess taking, and paying taxes on, what some think amounted to a $ 100,000 bribe” allegedly arranged through some very suspicious-looking cattle-futures trades.

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Input: -- REALITY CHECK: The effort to pass new gun legislation after Orlando is poised to fail. No one expects any of the four measures coming up for a vote in the Senate Monday to pass. From Karoun Demirjian and Ed O'Keefe: “Trump said this week that lawmakers should find a way to bar terrorism suspects from obtaining guns and that he planned to meet with the nation’s top gun lobby to build support. At the same time, some Republicans and Democrats jumped at the chance to renew their efforts to reach compromise. But the effort did n’t go far."

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Input: Sanders is also right to keep open the possibility of a Green Party run. Dr. Jill Stein opened the door to Sanders on April 22 when she wrote him about how they could work together to advance his political revolution. This was not the first timeshe sought to open a dialogue with Sanders on how they could work together. On Acronym TV, Stein told Dennis Trainor, Jr. that everything would be on the table, including her running as the vice presidential nominee and Sanders running as the presidential nominee. Sanders leaving the door open to a Sanders-Stein ticket comes at a time when polls show unprecedented support for a candidate to challenge Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

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Input: That's also why the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's argument positing," It is a brave person who contradicts the wisdom of the Founding Fathers," fails. The Founding Fathers were wrong about all kinds of things. Most of them thought it was acceptable to kidnap people on another continent, ship them across an ocean on boats with outrageously high mortality rates, and then compel them through torture and beatings to perform agricultural labor. It should not surprise us that people who got that wrong also were wrong about the dangers wily foreigners posed to America decades onward — if, indeed, the Founders even thought the provision deserved to last that long. The natural-born citizen clause may have served some purpose in 1787.

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Input: 6/6 Ruby Rose Australian born Rose was one of the very first celebrities to come out as genderfluid. She was hailed for giving it a public platform a the MTV Europe Music Awards in October when she welcomed “ladies and gentlemen, and everyone in-between” in her introduction. Up to one in every three Russian women suffers physical abuse at the hands of her partner, and 40 per cent of all violent crimes or murders take place in the home, according to statistics cited by the Anna centre. The Russian government’s health committee has estimated close to 14,000 women a year are killed by their husbands or partner. But intensifying pressure on the government from campaigners calling to improve Russia's poor domestic violence record has led to some change.

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Input: In fact, the proceeds of later investors were being used to pay off the investments of earlier investors, according to the Justice Department. Between September 2004 and October 2007, Miracle took in more than $ 65.3 million and paid out $ 36.7 million in the dividends. “The bulk of the remaining funds were used to develop oil and gas fields in Indonesia, as well as to pay for a lavish lifestyle for Miracle,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Western District of Washington said in a statement at time of his guilty plea. John Michael “Red" Crim was convicted in Philadelphia in 2008, along with two associates, for being part of a plot in which he recruited investors to use phony trusts to cheat the IRS out of $ 10 million in revenue. Crim, co-founder of the Texas-based Commonwealth Trust Company, “encouraged investors to place income and assets into trusts for the purpose of evading federal income taxes,” according the office of the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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Input: “There’s been a tendency for decent liberal people to capitulate. I talked to a woman who was a schools inspector. She said she knew for a fact that there were many girls being sent to the north of England to be mutilated, that the police were turning a blind eye.” The failure to prosecute some “honour killings” is “deeply wrong”. And allowing segregated seating at political meetings or university events is simply “pandering”, he says.

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Input: JUAN GONZÁLEZ: They’ve been able to win some local elections, but at the national level, the percentage support for the party has barely grown at all. And I’m just wondering, as you’re putting forth your perspective, why you feel that has not caught the kind of support here in this country that Greens have in Europe? DR. JILL STEIN: Well, you know, there is no doubt we have a voting system, as well as a system of press and debates and so on, which essentially removes any knowledge that there — and, you know, the reason people do n’t hear about what the Green Party is doing is because there’s a complete corporate media blackout on what we’re doing. You can look at Mayor Gayle McLaughlin in Richmond, California, who did incredibly innovative things as an eight-year mayor, using — turning eminent domain on its head and actually using it against the banks in order to seize underwater mortgages and preserve the homes of families who were threatened with eviction and foreclosure; or with suing the — Chevron, which was extremely dangerous, blew up, sent 5,000 people to the hospital; massively reduced police violence and deaths at the hands of police — an exemplary mayor. You do n’t hear about that.

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Input: She will be reelected and, after eight years, she will turn the presidency over to someone she handpicks. With a powerful coalition composed of leftists, immigrants, welfare recipients, illegal aliens, millennials, prisoners, and inner city voters, she will ensure that the Democrat Party will be in power for generations. Moreover, Hillary will use the power of the federal government to harass and intimidate anyone who stands in the way of her agenda. Voters have forgotten that during Bill Clinton’s presidency, enemies of the regime were audited by the IRS and harassed by numerous other agencies, all instigated by First Lady Hillary Clinton. This time around, it will be worse; Hillary will use the IRS, DOJ, DHS, EPA, EEOC, BLM, OSHA and numerous other agencies to harass churches, property owners, small business owners, Christian schools, gun owners, tea party members, ranchers, cattle farmers, and other groups that refuse to cooperate with her big government, socialist agenda.

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Input: Turkish president Erdogan has threatened to “leave” Europe to deal with its migrant crisis alone, saying that Germany “blackmailed” Ankara by recognizing the Armenian Genocide. He also called out the Germans over their “history” of mass killings. Speaking before students at Sebahattin Zaim University on Sunday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that Germany has no moral right to blame Turkey for mass killings, given the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany and a genocide in Namibia perpetrated by the German Empire.

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Input: “Show the world we still believe in the promise of a great nation,” the president urged both delegates and a national audience which is in real danger of voting for someone he dubbed a “home-grown demagogue”. The departing president was joined on stage by Hillary Clinton, making her first surprise appearance of the convention before an electrified crowd, which seems more than ready to embrace her. The biggest cheer of the week in Philadelphia came as Obama and Clinton walked off, arms wrapped around each other. An evening which began with the raw emotion of people touched by gun violence from Sandy Hook to Orlando became an overt mission by a succession of big Democratic names to reach those independent voters outside of the room tempted by Trump’s appeal to struggling middle-class families in an anti-establishment mood. Earlier, vice-president Joe Biden stole the show with a blunt retort aimed at Trump.

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Input: THE FACTS: On Tuesday at their convention, the Democrats featured Pittsburgh's chief of police. And in his primetime speech, Bill Clinton specifically praised the police." If you’re a young African American disillusioned and afraid, we saw in Dallas how great our police officers can be, help us build a future where nobody is afraid to walk outside, including the people that wear blue to protect our future." TRUMP 'S CLAIM:" If I would've used language like they used about religion, about race, about everything else that they discuss in those e-mails I would've had to run and hide and probably drop out of the race." THE FACTS: Trump was referring to an email exchange where top Democratic National Committee aides were questioning Bernie Sanders ' Jewish faith.

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Input: One of the headlines to come out of the new budget was a quadrupling of spending on US military preparations to defend allies in Europe. When Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, says the alliance is facing its "most challenging security environment in a generation", he is thinking principally of the challenge posed by a "newly assertive Russia"." The US is doing what they've always done-bail out Europeans unprepared to fund defence properly," says General Sir Richard Shirreff, Nato's number two soldier until two years ago," but more than that, it's recognition that Europe is strategically vital for the US and that the withdrawal of the last of the US heavy brigades a couple of years ago went too far in the face of the very real threat posed by [Russian President Vladimir] Putin." Image copyright NATO Image caption General Sir Richard Shirreff said the US was having to bail out the European allies Yet the line item in the Pentagon's budget shows an increase from $ 789 m to $ 3.4bn on measures to improve readiness in Europe.

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Input: "I still have to go to the Blue Mosque and the old Turkish Bazaar, so I have to use that ticket ... We have no hard feelings towards Turkey. We know there are some mad people out there," he said. RUSSIAN DETENTIONSAla said nine other Germans were wounded in the blast, along with the Norwegian and one Peruvian. He vowed to work closely with Germany in investigating the attack. One person was detained late on Tuesday as part of the investigation, Ala said, but gave no details. He defended Turkey's record in fighting Islamic State, saying 200 suspects had been detained just a week before the blast. Turkey has rounded up hundreds of suspected Islamic State members since launching what it called a "synchronized war on terror" last July, raids which continued on Wednesday. Since the attack, police have detained a total of 65 people including 16 foreign nationals in six Turkish cities, the Dogan news agency reported. The Russian foreign ministry confirmed three of those detained were Russian nationals, but it was not immediately clear whether there was any connection to the Istanbul attack, for which there has been no claim of responsibility. Ala said Turkey had detained 3,318 people for suspected links to Islamic State and other radical groups since Syria's conflict began. Of that number, 847 were subsequently arrested, most of them foreigners.

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Input: Hide Caption 27 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Smoke rises from Bashiqa after a coalition airstrike targeted ISIS positions on Tuesday, November 8. Hide Caption 28 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter races to take a position on a street in Bashiqa as coalition forces battled to reclaim the town from ISIS control on November 8. Hide Caption 29 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city An Iraqi forces member investigates a mass grave that was discovered after coalition forces recaptured the area of Hamam al-Alil on Monday, November 7. Hide Caption 30 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Smoke rises from ISIS positions after an attack by Kurdish Peshmerga forces in Bashiqa on November 7. Hide Caption 31 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Iraqi children witness a man being interrogated by a member of the Iraqi army at a base next to the Al-Intissar neighborhood of Mosul on November 7.

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Input: The gun used to shoot Ms Nosova was found by police, it was later reported. Gunned down: The killing of Anna Nosova (pictured) stunned her co-workers and people on the crowded pavement Keen sportsman Galakhov (right) confessed to gunning Nosova (left) down with an unspecified weapon after being detained by police on suspicion of murder Married Galakhov told police he had been drunk after he was fired from his job the previous day. In an online profile, Galakhov described himself as ' fair, just, able to listen to people, admit mistakes-and be responsible for them '.

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Input: (APPLAUSE) And we've done it in good times and bad, through joy and heartbreak. We cried together this morning on the news that our good friend and a lot of your good friend, Mark Weiner, passed away early this morning. We've built up a lifetime of memories. After the first month and that first walk, I actually drove her home to Park Ridge, Illinois ...

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Mark Weiner


Input: The bedroom-sized pod offers a new way of living in space and on other planets A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivered the first inflatable room for astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday, two days after launching from Cape Canaveral. Astronauts, including the UK’s Tim Peake, orbiting 250 miles above Earth used a robotic arm to capture the Dragon, which holds three tonnes of freight and had as part of its payload a soft-sided compartment built by Bigelow Aerospace. The pioneering pod, packed tightly for launch, should swell to the size of a small bedroom once filled with air. It has been attached to the space station but wo n’t be inflated until May.

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SpaceX

the first inflatable room for astronauts

the Dragon

the International Space Station


Input: "Today the bombardment is more violent, with a larger number of planes." The U.S.-Russian agreement marked their second attempt this year to halt the war. It was supposed to bring about a nationwide ceasefire, improved humanitarian aid access, and a joint U.S.-Russian effort against jihadist groups including Islamic State and the Nusra Front, long al Qaeda's Syrian wing." LONG, PAINFUL, DIFFICULT" But the ceasefire collapsed into renewed bombardments on Monday, including an attack on an aid convoy that Washington has blamed on Moscow, which denies involvement.

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Input: After months of retreat under pressure from government forces and Russian airstrikes, they have not only broken the siege, but overrun a key base the regime had used to enforce it and apparently taken possession of a large cache of weapons and artillery. Days earlier, the area’s future had appeared grimly settled, its civilian population facing slow weeks of deprivation and fear, as aid groups warned of a humanitarian catastrophe. More than a quarter of a million people were hemmed into the battered remains of streets by the guns of Assad’s conscripts, elite Iranian troops and a spectrum of Shia militias, patrolled from above by Russian planes. The rebels had fewer men, fewer weapons and, most crucially, no air force. The opposition groups called a temporary truce to their own disputes, summoned hundreds of their most battle-hardened troops away from other fronts, and used tunnel bombs and suicide attackers to hit the military base to try to set a counter-siege of western Aleppo.

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Russian airstrikes

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western Aleppo


Input: Sanders lost the primary race, but after he endorsed Clinton – and with the party desperate to present a show of unity – he has been offered a prime speaking slot on Monday, along with popular liberal senator Elizabeth Warren. The Democratic confab was to formally open at 4:00 pm (2000 GMT), but even before it began, the party was scrambling to contain the damage caused by thousands of leaked emails that showed its leaders had sought to undermine Sanders during his primary battle with Clinton. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said it was investigating the “cyber intrusion” at the Democratic National Committee (DNC), which the Clinton campaign blamed on Russian hackers bent on helping Trump. The agency said in a statement it was “working to determine the nature and scope of the matter.” – ‘Shame!’ –

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation

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Democratic National Committee


Input: And they’re particularly virulent when it comes to his opponent. Bumper stickers that read, “Trump that bitch,” and T-shirts that say, “Hillary sucks, but not like Monica,” are available outside his rallies, and when Jezebel’s Anna Merlan told one vendor she was n’t comfortable with women being called bitches, he replied, “This one it’s alright; she’s done more dirty than any normal woman.” “I think you do n’t realize the emotional cost of every single day, twice a day, being in rooms where the norm has become people shouting out, ‘Hang the bitch,’ ‘Kill her,’ ‘Cunt,’” the second reporter said. “You should n’t be at the point where you hear ‘Cunt’ and you think, Oh, they’re angry at Hillary, or you hear ‘Bitch,’ and you’re like, Oh, they’re talking about our former secretary of State.” She went on, “I do wonder what it does to you as a woman, walking into rallies where people are wearing these shirts, saying these things, and speaking about women in these ways, and either having to hear it or getting to the point where you do n’t hear it.

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Input: Hammond said all of the alternatives – full or limited access to the single market on the Norwegian or Swiss models or a clean break, dubbed the World Trade Organisation option – were flawed. He said: “The out campaign has to make the difficult choices. Yes, we would be able to negotiate a free trade agreement with the European Union. That is possible. But that agreement would come with a price tag.

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Input: On Wednesday, GQ published a profile of Melania Trump penned by the journalist Julia Ioffe. Since then, Ioffe has been harassed by Trump supporters sending her anti-Semitic threats like photoshopped images of her wearing a Jude star, and others referencing the Holocaust. Soon after it was published, Melania Trump released a statement on Facebook expressing her displeasure over the piece." The article published in GQ today is yet another example of the dishonest media and their disingenuous reporting," she wrote, adding," Julia Ioffe, a journalist who is looking to make a name for herself, clearly had an agenda when going after my family."

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Input: The UK was the EU’s second-largest economy and largest military power. It will embark on the process of leaving as the union grapples with multiple crises: huge numbers of migrants, economic weakness and a nationalist Russia seeking to overturn the post-cold war order. The UK has to negotiate two exit agreements: a divorce treaty to wind down British contributions to the EU budget and settle the status of the 1.2 million Britons living in the EU and 3 million EU citizens in the UK; and an agreement to govern future trade and other ties with its European neighbours. Tusk has estimated that both agreements could take seven years to settle “without any guarantee of success”. Most Brussels insiders think this sounds optimistic.

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Input: Police and organisers estimated the crowd at up to 2,000 people for Sunday's march, which ended outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office." Stop the suffering, stop the discrimination, stop the racism," demonstrators chanted, holding signs with similar slogans as well as pictures of relatives left behind in Ethiopia. Antaihe Cheol, a 30-year -old resident of northern Israel, said his father and brother have been waiting to immigrate for 20 years." This is simply discrimination," Cheol told the AFP news agency. His friend Ashebo noted that the government actively encourages immigration of Jews from France, the United States and Russia.

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Ethiopia


Input: In one instance in April, Russia sent a fighter plane to intercept a U.S. aircraft approaching its border over the Baltic Sea, accusing the plane of turning off its transponders. It was not immediately clear if U.S. reconnaissance jets have flown with their transponders off in the region. In a sign of the continued strains between Russia and the West, Grushko reiterated Moscow's position that NATO's biggest modernization since the end of the Cold War is putting Europe's security at risk. NATO denies that, saying its military build-up is a proportionate response to Russia's actions in Ukraine." The message was very clear.

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Grushko

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Russia


Input: The incident seems certain to prompt further scrutiny of Clinton's health and her campaign's transparency -- though Republican rival Donald Trump was uncharacteristically silent throughout a solemn day marking the 15th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Clinton, 68, was diagnosed on Friday with pneumonia, and "was put on antibiotics, and advised to rest and modify her schedule," Dr. Lisa Bardack said in a statement." While at this morning's event, she became overheated and dehydrated. I have just examined her and she is now re-hydrated and recovering nicely," said Bardack, chairman of internal medicine at the Mount Kisco Medical Group. Bardack attended to Clinton at her Chappaqua home Sunday.

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Input: Forget the long-term connections to New York politichiens, into which scores of opposition researchers and Pulitzer-seeking media moles are undoubtedly tunneling at this very moment. Forget his former wife’s claim that he kept a book of Hitler’s speeches at his bedside. Forget even his raging egomania, matched only by Obama’s, which the president sometimes tries to conceal beneath a laughably transparent gossamer of false modesty. And forget trying to determine whether he’s a conservative. Given that, at the suggestion of Bill Clinton, he has like a tapeworm invaded the schismatically weakened body of the Republican party, it’s a pointless question, because, like Allah in Islamic theology, he is whatever he pleases to be at the moment, the only principle being the triumph of his will.

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Input: Proposing this new immigration policy builds on statements Trump has made before. After the Orlando mass shooting that left 49 dead at an LGBT nightclub, Trump used a major speech the next day to claim Hillary Clinton is n’t a real LGBT supporter. He made the case that his proposed ban on Muslims entering the country is what’s really needed to stop massacres like Orlando. Trump pointed out that the killer, Omar Mateen — who was born in the Unites States — has parents who immigrated here from Afghanistan. “The bottom line is that the only reason the killer was in America in the first place, was because we allowed his family to come here,” said Trump at the time.

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Input: Maradona has visited the island and met with Castro multiple times. The two have even exchanged letters. In 2015, it was a letter to Maradona that quelled rumors the Cuban leader had passed away. Hide Caption 13 of 15 Photos: Illustrious visitors to Cuba In 2001, American actor Kevin Costner went to Cuba to give Fidel Castro a private screening of Costner's movie "Thirteen Days." The movie dealt with the subject of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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Input: He had been arrested following a brawl in a pub on January 27 and his last appearance in a criminal court was as recent as March, when he was found guilty of violent contact. Delivery driver Bouhlel had also recently been put under probation after he fell asleep at the wheel and crashed into four vehicles on a highway, it is claimed in Spanish newspaper El Mundo. However, the man had never been associated with any acts of terrorism before the Bastille Day slaughter, and he was not under surveillance. Several of his relatives and close friends have been taken into police custody for questioning and simultaneous raids are continuing in the Abattoirs area of Nice. Neighbours of Bouhlel described him as a ' lonely ' and ' silent ' man, with one saying he never returned their greetings.

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the man


Input: (June 29) 5 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT Raw: Suspects Detained After Istanbul Raids | 0:49 Turkish state media reports 13 suspects were detained in connection with the Istanbul Airport attack. Police in Istanbul conducted raids on Thursday, targeting Islamic State group suspects. (June 30) AP 6 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT Obama, Pena Nieto talk Turkey, immigration | 2:25 The leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico convened a summit Wednesday intended to reaffirm their close cooperation at a time of rising extremist threats around the globe and isolationist calls in the American presidential campaign. (June 2 AP 7 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT Increased airport security coming this holiday weekend | 1:41 After the bombing at an Instabul airport, expect increased security across the United States heading into one of the busiest travel seasons of the year. 8 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT Raw: Video shows moments after Turkey blast | 0:40 Video filmed in the immediate aftermath of the suicide attack on Turkey's Ataturk Airport shows bodies lying on the floor and emergency workers at the scene.

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leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico

leaders of the United States, Canada and Mexico


Input: "I think the world has reached a dangerous point," Gorbachev warned, according to Agence France-Presse." This needs to stop. We need to renew dialogue," Gorbachev said, commenting on the US decision to call off Syria talks." Indeed, it's not a Cold War," said Igor Zevelev, former director of the MacArthur Foundation's Russia office." It's a much more dangerous and unpredictable situation."

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US


Input: Kilimnik “was always smart enough to get close to the money, and there was good money working for Akhmetov,” said a fellow Russian who was a longtime acquaintance. At the time, Akhmetov was assembling a team of consultants to burnish the reputation of his business. It was facing regulatory action from a new government that had taken over when Yanukovych, who had been prime minister, lost his hold on power after his party tried to rig an October 2004 election to make him president. Kilimnik was recruited to join Manafort’s team by a former IRI official named Philip M. Griffin, who had worked with Kilimnik at the institute. When IRI officials found out, they asked Kilimnik to resign for violating the nonprofit’s moonlighting prohibition.

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Input: The emails were hacked from Podesta’s account by WikiLeaks, but Clinton’s campaign — and Brazile — have all but claimed their contents have been falsified. But a check of the DKIM signature by the Daily Caller News Foundation against HillaryClinton.com’s key shows that Palmieri did, in fact, send the exact email to Podesta that WikiLeaks says she did. The email from Brazile had a subject line of “From time to time I get the questions in advance” and said “Here’s one that worries me about HRC,” followed by the full text of a question about the death penalty. Clinton was indeed asked the question at a debate by moderator Roland Martin. Do You Think All Emails Released By WikiLeaks Are Real?

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Input: The failure to abide by international norms and protections under Israeli law concerning child detainees is particularly worrying given the spike in the number of children arrested during the recent violence involving children. Since October, protests in the West Bank and Gaza have escalated, as has the use of live fire against demonstrators by Israeli forces. There has also been a wave of stabbings and attempted stabbings by Palestinians against Israeli civilians and security forces both in the West Bank and in Israel. As of February 29, 2016, 172 Palestinians and 24 Israelis had been killed, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Of 21 Palestinians suspected of carrying out attacks and killed in 2016, nine were children, according to the UN.

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Palestinians

Israeli civilians and security forces

West Bank and in Israel


Input: Japanese banks have shown some public concern on lending on weapons, as indicated in a ban by Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ on lending to builders of cluster bombs, but there is greater pressure on European lenders. “European banks are under tight regulatory control on credit risk and deeper scrutiny under corporate social responsibility,” Audrand said. That may have made it hard for French banks to lend to Qatar for the Rafale as there is geopolitical risk, with tension rising with Iran and the Islamic State, he said. US banks were unlikely to have funded the Qatari order as that would likely displease Boeing, a competitor to Dassault in the fighter market, the financial specialist said. Qatar seeks acquisition of 73 F-15E Strike Eagle fighters, with 36 in a first tranche, US Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker has said.

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French banks

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Qatar


Input: But the decision has upset environmental groups, who said the new blocks were too close to ice floes. “We can not risk another Deepwater Horizon in the Barents Sea,” an area with a rich but fragile ecosystem, said Truls Gulowsen, the head of the Norwegian branch of Greenpeace. The US government estimated that 4.9 m gallons of oil spilled from the seabed after the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico suffered an explosion on 20 April 2010 that killed 11 people. The spill is widely viewed as one of the worst environmental disasters in history. Gulowsen noted that at the COP21 climate change conference in Paris in December, “leaders from the whole world committed to maintaining the rise in temperatures to under 1.5 degrees.

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the BP-leased Deepwater Horizon oil platform

4.9 m gallons of oil

the Gulf of Mexico


Input: 8. He called on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton Trump appeared to urge Russian intelligence agencies to unearth and release the 33,000 emails Clinton deleted from her private email server." Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press," Trump said in July

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Russian intelligence agencies


Input: He’s refused to answer questions about who paid him for the appearance. In March, Trump hired veteran Republican political operative Paul Manafort to lead his delegate-recruitment efforts. Manafort quickly rose to become Trump’s campaign manager, but left that position last month amid reports Ukrainian authorities were investigating him for allegedly receiving $ 12.7 million in illegal payments from Ukraine’s former pro-Russia ruling party. During a news conference a month before Manafort stepped down, Trump brazenly encouraged Russian hackers to obtain emails deleted from Hillary Clinton’s private server. Those comments came in the wake of a massive hack of the Democratic National Committee’s emails that sparked controversy about how the party treated Bernie Sanders days ahead of the Democratic National Convention.

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Ukraine’s former pro-Russia ruling party

$ 12.7 million

him

$ 12.7 million


Input: Cyprus ' deputy government spokesman says the ethnically divided island's conscript army is stepping up its readiness in light of the turmoil in neighboring Turkey. Viktoras Papadopoulos told The Associated Press Saturday that the Greek Cypriot National Guard is "taking all appropriate measures" in the wake of the military uprising against Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. In a separate statement, Papadopoulos said top government officials had convened a meeting at National Guard headquarters on the orders of Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades who's on an official visit to Mongolia. The statement said Cyprus ' Parliamentary Speaker and acting President Demetris Syllouris and Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides are monitoring developments in Turkey and are in contact with European and other governments. Turkey maintains more than 35,000 troops in the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of Cyprus since the island was split in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup aiming at union with Greece.

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government officials

National Guard headquarters


Input: At a rally in Turkey, Erdoğan described MPs who backed the Armenia motion as "the long arm of the separatist terrorists in [Turkey]", in remarks broadcast on state television. According to the motion, the Armenian Genocide "is exemplary for the history of mass destruction, ethnic cleansing, expulsions and genocides which marks the 20th century in such a terrible way." It also acknowleges that Germany stood by and allowed the massacre to occur. Armenians mark 101 years since genocide 10 show all Armenians mark 101 years since genocide

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Turkey

Armenians

mass destruction, ethnic cleansing, expulsions and genocides

Turkey


Input: She described her victory as “historic” and said it promotes equality. She will represent Israel at the Miss Trans Star International pageant in Spain in August — the first time an Israeli will participate. She also will receive $ 15,000 worth of plastic surgery treatments from a hospital in Thailand, plus airfare and a hotel stay during the treatments and recovery. Israel is generally tolerant of gay people, and Tel Aviv has emerged as one of the world’s most gay-friendly destinations. The Israeli city stands in sharp contrast to many parts of the Middle East, where gay people are often persecuted.

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Input: 22/38 JULY 2013: British Prime Minister David Cameron and First Minister of Scotland Alex Salmond celebrate during the Gentlemen's Singles Final match between Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon Anja Niedringhaus-Pool / Getty Images 23/38 FEBRUARY 2013: British Prime Minister David Cameron arrives to pay his respects at a memorial for police and uniformed personnel who lost their lives in the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai AFP / Getty Images 24/38 NOVEMBER 2012: Prime Minister David Cameron talking to US President Barack Obama on the telephone from his office in Downing Street Peter Macdiarmid / PA 25/38 AUG 2012: Prime Minister David Cameron stands with London Mayor Boris Johnson as the Olympic cauldron is lit for the Paralympic Games in Trafalgar Square Peter Macdiarmid / Getty Images 26/38 MARCH 2012: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) and British Prime Minister David Cameron (R) eat a hot dog as they watch the first half at UD Arena as the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers take on the Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils in the first round of the 2011 NCAA men's basketball tournament Gregory Shamus / Getty Images

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Prime Minister David Cameron

US President Barack Obama

Downing Street


Input: I think John Kerry has this right. I think perhaps secretly he wished the coups had succeeded, but he’ll never say that. And in fact, if the coups had succeeded, it would have just created another host of problems for us. There’s really no place in a modern Turkey for military coups anymore. We can only hope that enough of the democracy in Turkey will be preserved so that this guy can be voted out at some point.

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military

Turkey

Turkey


Input: She was probably the second-place finisher the last time that President Obama chose a Defense Department chief, when he chose Ash Carter. She’s sort of this prototypical Pentagon technocrat, who has been integrated into bipartisan military policy for a long time, so very much along the lines of how Hillary Clinton views foreign policy and military policy. And one of the most notable parts of Clinton’s approach to foreign policy that has gotten relatively little attention is that one of the few areas where she has been openly critical of President Obama has been by complaining that he’s been insufficiently militaristic or belligerent or aggressive in a number of areas, in particular, in Syria, where she criticized him in her book and then also in various interviews for not doing enough in Syria to stop the Syrian dictator, Assad, from brutalizing the Syrian people. She has advocated — Secretary Clinton has — a no-fly zone, which could lead to military confrontation with Russia, who’s flying over Syria. And then Michèle Flournoy, in an interview, made clear that she not only believes in a no-fly zone, but also more active boots on the ground in Syria, American boots on the ground.

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Syrian people

Assad

Syria


Input: Video The United Nations said on Thursday that the Islamic State has committed genocide against the Yazidi minority in Iraq and Syria. GENEVA — Islamic State forces have committed genocide and other war crimes in a continuing effort to exterminate the Yazidi religious minority in Syria and Iraq, United Nations investigators said on Thursday, urging stronger international action to halt the killing and to prosecute the terrorist group. The investigators detailed mass killings of Yazidi men and boys who refused to convert to Islam, saying they were shot in the head or their throats were slit, often in front of their families, littering roadsides with corpses. Dozens of mass graves have been uncovered in areas recaptured from Islamic State and are being investigated.

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Islamic State forces

Yazidi religious minority

shot in the head or their throats were slit

Syria and Iraq