Input: Most of the IS leaders are working with intelligence services, and it’s now clear for us. We, the Jabhat Al-Nusra, have our own way,” Al Ezz said. The interview with Jabhat al-Nusra’s commander was taken at a stone quarry in Aleppo on September 17 by Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger journalist Jurgen Todenhofer on his seventh trip to war-torn Syria.

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Input: ISIS appointed an emir for its followers in the Philippines. The attack is believed to have been carried out by an ISIS affiliate. May 18, 2016-The ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan and Pakistan, known as Wilayat Khorasan, claimed it had detonated two IEDs in Peshawar, Pakistan. There was no confirmation from Pakistani authorities. The attack is believed to have been carried out by an ISIS affiliate.

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Input: Despite that, it’s not clear that these missteps render Johnson “unfit” to run for president, as many have suggested. It’s easy to forget that former presidents and candidates alike have made similar mistakes. President Gerald Ford’s insistence that there was “no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe” ranks high among the most memorable blunders of past presidential debates, while Sarah Palin’s short-lived stint as John McCain’s running mate saw a plethora of errors, including the improbable assertion that Vladimir Putin might want to singlehandedly invade Alaska. This year’s election has seen foreign policy gaffes from both Republican and Democratic candidates, most notably Donald Trump’s highly questionable statement that there are no Russian troops in Ukraine. His campaign has been riddled with implausible plans and inaccurate assertions, from his belief that the United States should simply “take all the oil” in Iraq and Syria, to his contention that Hillary Clinton has spent her entire adult life fighting the Islamic State.

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Input: Last November, Bogdanov issued a statement making clear that Russia does not consider the organization a terrorist group. “We maintain contacts and relations with them because we do not consider them a terrorist organization,” Bogdanov said at the time, according to the Interfax news agency. “Assir,” a Hezbollah recruiter and trainer in Lebanon who also commands a Special Forces unit that fights across Syria, says the Russians are increasingly impressed with Hezbollah and rely on it, rather than the Syrian military, to guard Russian arms depots inside Syria. And to hear Assir tell the story, Hezbollah has extensive access to what’s inside those depots. “Hezbollah is teaching the Syrian army how to use many of these new weapons,” says Assir.

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Input: And the saddest thing I see is these students are leveraged debt up to their -- up to their neck. They can't breathe, they're scared, they're so scared they have leveraged their entire life. They have loans. And I have to tell you, the colleges are viewing the students as just a con to it. Because the students get government money, passes through but the number gets higher and higher.

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Input: While Russia Today, a source widely respected for their objectivity and journalistic integrity, initially reported Ammon to be accompanied by 150 bristling citizen revolutionaries -- this is likely a bit of literary flourish. Journalists on the ground are reporting no more than 15 heavily armed "militiamen" to be camping in the quaint, one story red-brick bastion of Federal oppression. Supposedly, Ammon and company are following in his father's felonious footsteps by seizing this federal property in protest of the arrest of two Oregon ranchers -- Dwight and Steven Hammond, who were convicted of arson for setting fire to 127 acres of Federal land so as to protect their own property from uncontrollable forest fires. The Hammond's argue that the Federal government was negligent in the managing of this land, and that their negligence presented a threat to their own property and livelihood. It's worth noting that the Hammond family, through their attorney, has steadfastly denied any association with Mr. Bundy and has vowed to report to Federal prison despite their potentially compelling disagreement with the government.

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Input: Democratic Republic of Congo (383,100) Chad (369,500) The UK has said its policy is to provide aid money to neighbouring countries so that they can support refugees closer to home. But Amnesty criticised the approach in its report, saying rich countries should not "pay to keep people ' over there '". Refugees and migrants continue to risk their lives attempting to reach Europe.

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Input: It warned the operation is still being monitored. “Our surveillance spacecraft have been retargeted [at Mosul]. Over a dozen of our surveillance aircraft, including drones, are working in the vicinity,” Army General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia’s General Staff, said. The general said that the Russian military are particularly concerned with a scenario, in which militants from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS / ISIL), who are currently holding the Iraqi city, would “try to escape Mosul or be granted safe passage out of it towards Syria.” “We hope that our partners from the international coalition realize, what would be the consequences of having bands freely roaming around the Middle East.

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Input: They negotiated so badly. They were being mocked, they were being scorned, they were being harassed, our negotiators, including Kerry, back in Iran, by the various representatives and the leaders of Iran at the highest level. And they never walked. They should’ve walked, doubled up the sanctions, and made a good deal. Gotten the prisoners out long before, not just after they gave the $ 150 billion.

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Input: In 1914, at the beginning of World War I, around 2 million Armenians were living in the Ottoman Empire, but that number decreased to less than half a million over the next eight years. READ MORE: ‘Death to Armenian dogs:’ Turkish leader in Sweden steps down after call for killings The mass killings began on April 24, 1915, when 250 Armenian intellectuals were detained by Ottoman authorities and later executed in their capital, Constantinople, which is now present-day Istanbul. Most of the Ottoman Empire’s Armenians were subsequently displaced, deported, or placed in concentration camps, ostensibly for rebelling against the Ottomans and siding with the Russians during World War I. READ MORE: California city 1st to mark Armenian Genocide with school holiday

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Input: John McAfee -- in an email exchange and follow up phone call just moments ago -- said sources within the Dark Web suggest it was Iran, and he absolutely agrees. While Russian hackers get more media attention nowadays, Iranian hackers have had their share. A computer hacker briefly hijacked Twitter.com in 2009, redirecting users to a website and claiming to represent a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army. Earlier this year, Iranian hackers were charged by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) over cyber attacks. Why Iran?

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Input: For Spain Tatarstan, hunting camp, April 26, 1992: 9 killed and 1 wounded. The 1992 Tatarstan shooting was a mass murder. On 26 April 1992, 23-year -old Andrey Shpagonov, former huntsman went to a hunting camp. He went to steal firearms.

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Input: It’s convinced many of us that, for better or worse, the only question that is truly in the asking at all is, “whose tribalism?” And, at the same time as it’s done so, it’s pushed us into halls of conversation whereeveryone who has been on the receiving end of those tactics for any reason has been forced to gather together. Now, thanks to the Left, when the person who (let’s say) has been disaffected by the lies of the Black Lives Matter movement or the Cologne immigrant mass rapes looks over and sees a Holocaust denier, he may only now think to himself, “You know, both of us have been tarnished, labeled, and cast out of the mainstream conversation in just exactly the same way. I used to assume that the slanders of racism against him were valid, but now I ca n’t assume that anymore, because I see clearly now that the process by which people are deemed worthy of that kind of censorship is illegitimate. What if what he’s actually trying to say has been just as distorted by people trying to silence him as what I’ve been trying to say has?

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Input: What good did Secretary of State Clinton’s knowledge do? It was enough for her to know that Gaddafi’s Libya, for several reasons, would never be a properly obedient client state of Washington. Thus it was that the United States, along with NATO, bombed the people of Libya almost daily for more than six months, giving as an excuse that Gaddafi was about to invade Benghazi, the Libyan center of his opponents, and so the United States was thus saving the people of that city from a massacre. The American people and the American media of course swallowed this story, though no convincing evidence of the alleged impending massacre has ever been presented. (The nearest thing to an official US government account of the matter – a Congressional Research Service report on events in Libya for the period – makes no mention at all of the threatened massacre.)

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Input: “Doing the job that MSM WON'T! # ASSANGE # wikileaks.” That post came in the middle of a series of tweets from Duncan, who earlier remarked that it was “crazy that public opinion is being driven this election cycle by an accused rapist hiding out in the Embassy of foreign country # wikileaks.” Julian Assange, WikiLeaks’ founder, has been inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012, avoiding extradition to Sweden in relation to a rape allegation. “Not praise for Assange. Thankful info is out there for sure, but never have condoned illegal activity.

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Input: ANNOUNCE: WikiLeaks has decided to issue a US$ 20k reward for information leading to conviction for the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich. — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 9, 2016 “There’s a 27-year -old who works for the DNC who was shot in the back, murdered, just a few weeks ago, for unknown reasons as he was walking down the streets in Washington.” Wikileaks founder says site plans to release Trump's tax returns Host Eelco Bosch van Rosenthal immediately took issue with Assange’s interpretation of events.

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Input: She's pledged to grant mass amnesty and, in her first 100 days, end virtually all immigration enforcement and ... [Depends on your definition of amnesty. From the Clinton website:" she will focus enforcement resources on detaining and deporting those individuals who pose a violent threat to public safety, and work to ensure refugees who seek asylum in the U.S. have a fair chance to tell their stories." — Tamara Keith] ... thus create totally open borders for the United States.

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Input: The first U.S. LNG shipment will soon arrive in Europe, marking a new era for energy on the continent. Cheniere Energy’s newly completed Sabine Pass facility on the U.S. Gulf Coast recently sent a shipment of American liquefied natural gas, which should arrive in Portugal within a few days. “LNG coming out of the U.S. is probably the single most important thing that will transform the future LNG market,” Melissa Stark, energy managing director at Accenture, told Bloomberg. “It heralds the arrival of a global market.”

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Input: (Andreas Rinke and Tatiana Jancarikova) The DNC rolled back its restrictions on taking donations from federal lobbyists and PACs. (Tom Hamburger and Paul Kane) DHS has expanded its screening of social media. Secretary Jeh Johnson declined to be specific but said the department is now monitoring the social media use of people who apply for various immigration benefits, along with those seeking asylum under the Obama administration’s controversial program to accept refugees from Syria. (Jerry Markon) A snow squall caused more than 50 vehicles to pile up on a Pennsylvania interstate, killing three and sending scores to hospitals. (AP) West Virginia became the 26th Right To Work state.

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Input: In March, the Podesta Group registered with the U.S. government as a lobbyist for Sberbank. The bank plays an enormous role in the Russian economy. It controls almost 30 percent of Russia’s aggregate banking assets, employs a quarter-million people and “is functionally an arm of the Kremlin, although it’s ostensibly a private institution,” The Observer notes. Many right-wing publications and neoconservative figures have jumped on this story in hopes of trying to tie the Clintons to Russian President Vladimir Putin, the preferred trumped up bogeyman in the U.S. establishment today. Hillary Clinton herself is not directly implicated, just one of her biggest campaign bundlers.

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Input: Scott Walker and Brad Courtney, the state GOP chairman. Ryan has had an uneasy relationship with his party’s presidential nominee. The Wisconsin Republican has rebuked Trump multiple times over the last year for, among other things, proposing a ban on allowing Muslims into the U.S. and failing to promptly disavow support from a white supremacist. The Speaker withheld from formally endorsing Trump for weeks after the real estate mogul effectively clinched the GOP presidential nomination. Trump later returned the favor after the Republican National Convention by withholding an endorsement of Ryan over a long-shot primary challenger, Paul Nehlen.

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Input: "We look to Russia to end such (government) violations, which includes strikes that have hit civilians and civilian facilities," he said. While Russia supports the Assad government, the United States and its allies support rebels trying to overthrow him in a civil war that has burned for more than five years and killed at least 250,000 people. However, both sides oppose the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front, which was not included in a ceasefire deal which has failed to prevent widespread violence. A U.S. military strike killed Nusra Front's leader, Abu Firas al-Suri, in April. White House spokesman Eric Schultz said the U.S. aim remains for Russia to persuade Assad to abide by the cessation of hostilities in Syria, saying it was not the first time Russia had made such a proposal.

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Input: Indian officials say a meteorite struck the campus of a private engineering college on Saturday, killing one person. If scientists confirm the explosion was due to a meteorite, it would be the first recorded human fatality due to a falling space rock. According to local reports, a bus driver was killed on Saturday when a meteorite landed in the area where he was walking, damaging the window panes of nearby buses and buildings. Three other people were injured.

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Input: As reported here, 37-year -old Vladimir Luzgin was convicted in July this year by the Perm District Court and fined 200 thousand roubles. The charge was under Article 354.1 of Russia’s criminal code (‘ rehabilitation of Nazism’) and concerned Luzgin’s repost of a text on his VKontakte social network page entitled ’15 facts about Bandera supporters, or what the Kremlin is silent about’. It is probably no accident that the ‘offending text’ should be Ukrainian, and fairly nationalist, however it was specifically over the following paragraph in the repost that the criminal proceedings against Luzgin were initiated: “The communists and Germany jointly invaded Poland, sparking off the Second World War. That is, communism and Nazism closely collaborated, yet for some reason they blame Bandera who was in a German concentration camp for declaring Ukrainian independence”.

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Input: Several surgeries forced him to relinquish his duties temporarily to younger brother Raul in July 2006. Hide Caption 31 of 37 Photos: Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies In footage from state-owned Cuban television, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez visits an ailing Castro in September 2006. That July, it was announced that Castro was undergoing intestinal surgery. Castro resigned as President in February 2008, and his brother Raul took over permanently. Hide Caption 32 of 37 Photos: Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies Castro smiles before delivering a speech in Havana in September 2010.

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Input: Kerry said the U.S. wants to close a loophole in the current U.N. sanctions allowing coal exports from North Korea to support the livelihood of its people. Kerry said that provision was being abused and the "greatest amount" of coal and revenue has just passed between China and North Korea. The U.S. hopes that tighter sanctions can force impoverished North Korea to return to long-stalled negotiations on providing aid in exchange for denuclearization, but there appears to be little prospect of their resumption because of Pyongyang's determination to have nuclear weapons. North Korea's state-run Rodong Sinmun newspaper on Wednesday said the North would strengthen its nuclear capabilities in quantity and quality in response to the threat from its enemies." We have warned that South Korea will be engulfed in a sea of fire and the U.S. military units in the Pacific region and the mainland will be in chaos if the U.S. wages nuclear strikes against us," the newspaper said.

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Input: Two blasts tore through the departures area of Zaventem airport shortly after 08:00 local time (07:00 GMT). A suicide bomber was "probably" involved, the Belgian prosecutor said. Eleven people were killed and 81 wounded in the blasts, Belgian Health Minister Maggie de Block said. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption James Firkin was at Brussels airport when the blast happened More about the attacks

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Input: He said: “In a world with many regional conflicts and the waning influence of the great powers, the world is unpredictable. “But despite all the frustration, disappointment and deep suspicion on both sides it is important to continue to look for ways to put an end to the madness in Syria.” He urged world leaders to “leave no stone unturned” in finding a solution to the Syrian conflict. The “first step” would be getting vital humanitarian aid and medicine to Aleppo”. On Saturday Russia vetoed a motion put to the UN Security Council by France which called for an immediate end to the bombing campaign.

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Input: VLADIMIR Putin is on the brink of leaking top secret satellite images of the 9/11 attack that could topple the US government, it has been claimed. GETTY REVELATION: Truth seekers believe Putin's evidence proves the 9/11 attack was an inside job Conspiracy theorists claim the Russian president has collected a body of evidence which proves the US government and intelligence services were involved in plotting the atrocity.

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Input: The book," 2017 War with Russia," is clearly labeled as a work of fiction. But it portrays a fairly convincing manufactured incident that the fictional president of Russia uses as a causus belli for a clash with NATO. In his account, Russia rapidly expands its war aims by invading the Baltic states, which are NATO members, and world war ensues. Perhaps more worryingly, the author has since told BBC Radio 4's Today program that such a conflict is "entirely plausible." Fact versus fiction

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Input: Targeting civilians? “We didn't take any decision to attack any area that doesn't include terrorists.” Widespread allegations his forces are using starvation as a weapon of war in sieges on rebel-held areas? “How do we prevent them from having food and we don't prevent them from having armaments to kill us ... This is not logic,” he laughed.

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Input: Since 1994, mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh – officially part of Azerbaijan – has been under the control of local ethnic Armenian forces and the Armenian military. Armenian forces also occupy several areas outside Nagorno-Karabakh proper. The sides are separated by a demilitarised buffer zone, but small clashes have broken out frequently. Each side blamed the other for Saturday’s escalation. In a statement, Azerbaijan’s defence ministry said that 12 of its soldiers “became shahids” – Muslim martyrs – and that one of its helicopters had been shot down.

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Input: to train rebels trying to oust Mr. Assad. The decision was made in part to try to gain control of a chaotic situation in which Arab countries were funneling arms into Syria for various rebel groups with little coordination. The Qataris had paid to smuggle shipments of Chinese-made FN-6 shoulder-fired weapons over the border from Turkey, and Saudi Arabia sent thousands of Kalashnikovs and millions of rounds of ammunition it had bought, sometimes with the C.I.A.’s help. By late 2013, the C.I.A. was working directly with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other nations to arm and train small groups of rebels and send them across the border into Syria.

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Input: President Barack Obama authorised the covert arming programme in April 2013, after more than a year of debate inside the administration about the wisdom of using the CIA to train rebels trying to oust Assad. The decision was made in part to try to gain control of a chaotic situation in which Arab countries were funnelling arms into Syria for various rebel groups with little coordination. The Qataris had paid to smuggle shipments of Chinese-made FN-6 shoulder-fired weapons over the border from Turkey, and Saudi Arabia sent thousands of Kalashnikovs and millions of rounds of ammunition it had bought, sometimes with the CIA's help. By late 2013, the CIA was working directly with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other nations to arm and train small groups of rebels and send them across the border into Syria. The specific motives behind the November shooting at the Amman police training facility remain uncertain, and it is unclear when the FBI will officially conclude its investigation.

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Input: Trump maintains that the U.S. is being exploited by its trading partners -- reserving the worst of his wrath for China. He told the New York Times he plans to impose a crushing 45% tariff on Chinese imports. Trump later denied saying this, but the Times had taped the interview and released the recording. Regime change Now a vocal critic of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Trump couldn't explain supportive comments that he'd made about it beforehand.

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Input: NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden could have been acting under the influence of the Russian government, the heads of Germany's foreign and domestic intelligence agencies said on Friday. “It's very remarkable that he exclusively published files about the work of the NSA with the BND [Germany's foreign intelligence service] or the British secret service GCHQ,” BND head Gerhard Schindler told Focus magazine. “Leaking the secret service files is an attempt to drive a wedge between western Europe and the USA – the biggest since the Second World War,” Hans-Georg Maaßen, head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency (Verfassungsschutz), told Focus in the double interview. German intelligence has come under particular scrutiny in the wake of Snowden's leaks about surveillance by western intelligence agencies, particularly his former employers at the National Security Agency (NSA) and their allies in friendly nations. A parliamentary committee of inquiry was set up to probe NSA activities in Germany, which has already heard evidence from Schindler about the BND's co-operation with US spies.

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Input: The president and Lewinsky had "phone sex" 10 to 15 times, so Clinton told Lewinsky that, if asked, she should say "they knew their calls were being monitored all along, and the phone sex was just a put-on." This laughable "explanation" wouldn't have helped much if a foreign power had intercepted the explicit calls." I'm just horrified to think the commander-in-chief is conducting himself with such reckless disregard for his responsibilities, making himself part and parcel of every blackmail threat that one can imagine," retired Marine Lt. Gen. Charles Cooper told the Washington Times in 1998. The Code of Federal Regulations (Title 32, Chapter 1, Part 147) makes clear that a person may lose a security clearance for "concealment of information that may increase an individual's vulnerability to coercion, exploitation, or duress, such as engaging in activities which, if known, may affect the person's personal, professional, or community standing or render the person susceptible to blackmail.” Presidents have enforced such laws by issuing edicts such as Executive Order No.

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Input: Again, the invasion was horrifying enough, and its aftermath is utterly grotesque. Nevertheless, it could have been far worse. Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and the rest of Bush’s top officials could never even contemplate the sort of measures that President Kennedy and President Lyndon Johnson adopted 40 years earlier largely without protest. Western Power Under Pressure There is far more to say, of course, about the factors in determining state policy that are put to the side when we adopt the standard convention that states are the actors in international affairs.

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Input: It’s entirely another thing if Trump’s Eliza instead decides to disregard the diction lessons, speaking entirely in barroom curses — and conservative Higginses insist that everyone at the ball acknowledge Trump as a princess anyway. Yet that self-deception has become the rule rather than the exception. The problem is that the rest of the country is n’t deceived. They see Trump for who he is; the Democratic critiques hit home. Though pretending Trump away may be effective as self-deception, it does n’t work at all when it comes to deceiving anyone else.

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Input: The former head of the Russian ministry of defence’s international treaties department added: “In other words, teetering on the brink of war, but without the mechanisms to manage the confrontation.” Russian officials have accused the US of trying to severe relations between Russia and the west. In response to the Russian bombing of Aleppo, the US has proposed sanctions that could harm Russian economy. GETTY Russia faces sanctions for bombing Aleppo Cancelling the plutonium reprocessing deal showed how angry we are Fyodor Lukyanov But deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said Moscow would take "asymmetrical and forceful measures" in return.

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Input: Roger Stone, the former Trump advisor known for his outspoken comments, has got involved in this theory." John Kerry has threatened the Ecuadorian President with ' grave consequences for Equador ' if Assange is not silenced," he tweeted, adding "Reports the Brits storm the Ecuadorian Embassy tonite while Kerry demands the UK revoke their diplomatic status so Assange can be seized." John Kerry has threatened the Ecuadorian President with ' grave consequences for Equador ' if Assange is not silenced @StoneColdTruth -Roger Stone (@RogerJStoneJr) October 17, 2016 3. The U.S. government has severed Assange's internet access

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Input: The researchers, at Arlington, Va.-based ThreatConnect, traced the self-described Romanian hacker Guccifer 2.0 back to an Internet server in Russia and to a digital address that has been linked in the past to Russian online scams. Far from being a singly, sophisticated hacker, Guccifer 2.0 is more likely a collection of people from the propaganda arm of the Russian government meant to deflect attention away from Moscow as the force behind the DNC hacks and leaks of emails, the researchers found. ThreatConnect is the first known group of experts to link the self-proclaimed hacker to a Russian operation, amidst an ongoing FBI investigation and a presidential campaign rocked by the release of DNC emails that have embarrassed senior party leaders and inflamed intraparty tensions turning the Democratic National Convention. The emails revealed that party insiders plotted ways to undermine Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid. “These are bureaucrats, not sophisticated hackers,” Rich Barger, ThreatConnect’s chief intelligence officer, told The Daily Beast.

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Input: However, the “97% consensus” is a flawed statement. Only 32.6% of the papers examined in the infamous John Cook study actually stated a position endorsing anthropogenic global warming. However, 97% of those said that “recent warming is mostly man-made.” And so what we have is a misleading statement that has become misrepresented and cited as fact. (Interestingly, there is a website called The Petition Project that lists more than 30,000 scientists who have publicly declared their disagreement with the theory of catastrophic man-made warming.) 2015 was the hottest year ever, and now 2016 is even hotter.

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Input: Then, in October, the resort’s director said at an International Ski Federation meeting that Rosa Khutor plans to double in size by building around the upper Mzymta. According to a map Greenpeace claims it obtained from a June 2015 closed meeting between resort operators and the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry, Rosa Khutor and its sister company, Ober Khutor, plan to build two resorts in the valley that would occupy territory not only in the Sochi sanctuary, but also in the UNESCO-protected Caucasus reserve. The Rosa Khutor expansion, by some accounts, has already started: A “citizens’ inspection” by activists from the group Environmental Watch on North Caucasus (EWNC) in May 2015 revealed what it says is an illegal road going from Rosa Khutor through virgin territory toward the site of one of the planned resorts. The resort expansion threatens not only the leopard program, but also Sochi’s drinking water, which comes mainly from the Mzymta River, according to EWNC. The map obtained by Greenpeace also indicates that state gas giant Gazprom, which owns the Laura ski resort in Krasnaya Polyana, plans to build its own two resorts in the Caucasus reserve.

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Input: The holdouts loudly booed presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton during the convention’s opening prayer. For a while, the jeering continued every single time Clinton’s name was mentioned. By the evening, possibly because Sanders himself emphatically urged this group of delegates to knock it the hell off, the booing largely subsided, but a handful of loud voices still remained: Despite the hecklers’ small numbers, one outlet that ignored this observation by MSNBC host Chris Hayes — and the fact that 90 percent of Sanders supporters intend to vote for Clinton in November — was MSNBC. After the speeches were over and Democrats were eager to bask in a glow of collective solidarity, MSNBC chose to focus its coverage on three delegates, all of whom were Sanders holdouts.

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Input: and here's what i think is the good news, that i think there is a consensus for serious gun control including among people who own guns. and i think that's what we have to bring about. and the fact we have folks in congress who don't even want us to get information about shootings in this country and fatalities, that's pretty crazy stuff. so i think the job is to bring people together and say yes, we've got to move forward, we've got to move forward aggressively, stop the shouting and let's work together to do something that's realistic. CHRIS HAYES: senator Bernie Sanders.

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Input: But once Isis got near oil fields, the siege of Kobani in Syria became a headline and the US sent drones to strike Isis targets,” he added. The study, published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, analysed 69 civil wars between 1945 and 1999, but did not examine foreign invasions. It noted that civil wars have made up more than 90 per cent of all armed conflicts since the Second World War and that two-thirds of these have seen a third-party intervention. Biggest oil producers (IEA figures) 10 show all Biggest oil producers (IEA figures)

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Input: Hillary and Bill Clinton’s close relations with Wall Street helped to stoke two financial bubbles (1999-2000 and 2005-8) and the Great Recession that followed the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In the 1990s they pushed financial deregulation for their campaign backers that in turn let loose the worst demons of financial manipulation, toxic assets, financial fraud and eventually collapse. In the process they won elections and got mighty rich. Yet Hillary’s connections with the military-industrial complex are also alarming. It is often believed that the Republicans are the neocons and the Democrats act as restraints on the warmongering.

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Input: And we are contemplating giving him access to the nuclear codes. Those who believe that Trump’s ugly, thuggish populism has no chance of ever making it to the White House seem to me to be missing this dynamic. Neo-fascist movements do not advance gradually by persuasion; they first transform the terms of the debate, create a new movement based on untrammeled emotion, take over existing institutions, and then ruthlessly exploit events. And so current poll numbers are only reassuring if you ignore the potential impact of sudden, external events — an economic downturn or a terror attack in a major city in the months before November. I have no doubt, for example, that Trump is sincere in his desire to “cut the head off” ISIS, whatever that can possibly mean.

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Input: In Aleppo, the M10 hospital was hit Saturday for the second time in four days The facility was struck by a "torrent" of weapons including two barrel bombs, two cluster bombs and at least one rocket, said Adham Sahloul, spokesman for the Syrian American Medical Society. One person died and 15 were wounded in the bombings, according to an activist with the opposition-aligned group Aleppo Media Center. Some patients hurt in the attack were also wounded when bombs struck the same facility Wednesday, the activist said. M10, the largest surgical hospital in Aleppo, is now out of service, the activist said.

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Input: The foreign officers were “directing the terrorists’ attacks in Aleppo and Idlib,” the Iranian Fars news reported, referring to the rebel groups that control the Syrian cities. The Israeli government did not immediately respond to requests for comment. More than 300,000 people have been killed since Syria’s conflict erupted in March 2011 with protests calling for the ouster of President Bashar Assad. There was meant to be a halt to the fighting around Aleppo, beginning on September 13. Despite several alleged breaches, the truce had led to calm in the city, and last week, the Syrian army announced that it would observe a freeze on fighting until midnight on September 19.

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Input: City officials have repeatedly tried to stop kiosks in Moscow selling kebabs. In 2006, the authorities instituted new health and safety regulations, and a year later inspectors vowed to put a stop the sale of shawarma all together. ‘They tore it all down ': how Moscow destroyed my business overnight Read more In 2010 Sobyanin, then the city’s new mayor, ordered the demolition of kiosks in a bid to rid the Moscow of “illegal” structures and “bring order to city planning”. Not stopping at shawarma, Nemeryuk also warned that street kiosks selling ice cream could soon disappear.

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Input: Whatever party you belong to, or if you belong to no party at all, if you share these beliefs, this is your campaign. If you believe that companies should share profits, not pad executive bonuses, join us. If you believe the minimum wage should be a living wage … and no one working full time should have to raise their children in poverty … join us. If you believe that every man, woman, and child in America has the right to affordable health care … join us. If you believe that we should say “no” to unfair trade deals ... that we should stand up to China ... that we should support our steelworkers and autoworkers and homegrown manufacturers … join us.

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Input: Turmoil in Turkey's armed forces raises questions about its ability to contain the Islamic State militant threat in neighboring Syria and the renewed Kurdish insurgency in its southeast, military analysts say. The AK Party, founded by Erdogan and in power since 2002, has long had testy relations with the military, which for decades saw itself as the ultimate guardian of Turkey's secular order and legacy of the nation's founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. The military has ousted four governments in the past 60 years. However, Erdogan says the armed forces have been infiltrated in recent years by Gulen's supporters." The army has to stop being the army of the Fethullah Gulen terrorist organization," Justice Minister Bozdag said.

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Input: They do not explain anything and just hold him at the border police. Of course, the reason is me, what I am writing and my stand against Erdogan. We are so stressed up with him being detained. As you know torture and other atrocities that I would not want to think of have become ordinary for the last two weeks in Turkey. Let me handle this crisis and speak to you later if you do n’t mind.”

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Input: Russia has said that it would continue to strike at "terrorists" in Syria even during a cease-fire." The deadline set in Munich for a cessation of hostilities has passed without response from Russia or the regime, who show disdain for the international community and disregard for the lives of Syrians," said HNC spokesman Salem Al Meslet in a statement. He said Assad and Russia have spent "yet another week annihilating defenseless Syrians" and called on the international community to implement a new approach that holds them to account. Saudi Arabia's foreign minister meanwhile said he favors equipping Syrian rebels with surface-to-air missiles to "change the balance of power on the ground." In an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel published Saturday, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said the moderate opposition could "neutralize" helicopters and aircraft that have been bombing them.

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Input: The woman who held the severed head has been identified as a 38-year -old national of Uzbekistan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia, who is accused of killing the child in whose family she worked as a nanny. She was dressed in black, proclaimed she was a “terrorist” and was shouting “Allahu Akbar,” according to media reports, although no explosives were reportedly found on the woman after her detention. Concerned about a possible backlash, Russia's Muslim leaders urged against linking the incident with Islam, the TASS news agency reported. “This is an issue of an absolutely unhinged person, so it would be completely erroneous to associate some actions with Muslims and Islam, on the basis of clothing or some slogans,” the head of Moscow's Muslim council, Ildar Alyautdinov, was quoted as saying in a statement. He also expressed condolences to the child's family, adding: “Every Muslim will feel that pain as their personal tragedy,” TASS reported.

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Input: ICRC said in its statement on Tuesday that the dead include a member of the Syrian Red Crescent. ICRC president Peter Maurer says the attack was a "flagrant violation of international humanitarian law" and "totally unacceptable." The statement says the civilians were killed as they were unloading trucks carrying vital humanitarian aid and that much of the aid was destroyed, depriving thousands of much-needed food and medical assistance. Syrian activists and paramedics had said earlier that the airstrikes killed 12 people. _ _ _ 2:15 p.m.

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Input: He will, of course, make it clear that Clinton is the friend of the earth on the great battle against climate change, while Trump stands on the wrong side of that great issue of our age. Gore is a longtime champion of civil liberties and civil rights and will add his voice to progressives making it clear that Clinton would name a Supreme Court that will defend these core values and overturn the heinous Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision that let loose the corrupting power of campaign money. Gore, whom I predict will campaign in Florida, among other states, is the most ideal person in the world to warn those who deplore Trump but are tempted to vote for Stein or Johnson that a vote for these two candidates could elect Trump, as votes for Green nominee Ralph Nader in 2000 almost certainly elected President George W. Bush, leading to all of the problems that followed. Gore has huge moral power and credibility on this subject. He has already given interviews that discreetly made this case; now he is poised for a high-profile campaigning intervention.

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Input: "Tomorrow we test this." Hospitals ' targeted ' Russia has been accused, by Turkey among others, of being responsible for the attacks on rebel-held areas. The UN said "intentionally directing attacks" at hospitals and medical units would constitute a war crime. Monday's strikes hit two hospitals-including one for mothers and babies-and a school sheltering internally displaced people in Azaz, near the border with Turkey, the UN said.

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Input: Every single day Earth is peppered with around 100 tons of space debris. The vast majority of this mass is no bigger than a grain of sand, and on a clear night you might be lucky to see these tiny specks burn up in the high atmosphere as meteors. As they slam into the upper atmosphere, these tiny pieces of space rock create a shock wave which, through rapid heating of atmospheric gases, incinerates the debris, erupting in a fast blaze of light. These are called meteors (or "shooting stars"). Larger (and rarer) pieces of space rock will hit the atmosphere as a meteor and may explode as a bolide (as the Chelyabinsk event dramatically showcased), some pieces hitting the ground as meteorites.

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Input: I think you may be the best possible candidate for our economy, but I do fear some of your international policies, I know that I am not the only 3rd party voter that feels this way. So my question to you is, what do you say to people like me who are on the fence about voting 3rd party(Johnson / Stein) or for you?” Answer: “Americans in every party are tired of our rigged system and corrupt politicians, and want to reform our government so it no longer benefits the powerful at the expense of everyone else. They know I will fix it so it works for them and their families.

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Input: “From time to time I get the questions in advance,” Brazile wrote to Clinton’s communications director Jennifer Palmieri on March 12, 2016. Brazile added, “Here’s one that worries me about [Hillary],” and gave Palmieri a question about the death penalty. The next day Hillary was asked about her stance on the death penalty during a CNN town hall. CNN has not responded to a Daily Caller inquiry about if whether they ever shared town hall questions with Brazile, if so was it typical practice, and if they had any comment regarding Brazile sharing the questions with a campaign. Brazile released a statement Tuesday about the emails and said, “As it pertains to the CNN Debates, I never had access to questions and would never have shared them with the candidates if I did.” She claimed Russia is behind Wikileaks and added, “We are in the process of verifying the authenticity of these documents.”

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Input: The only thing that could disprove the accusations are being withheld by the candidate. But, it would go a long way to explain why, a candidate for the Presidency, running for the party that spent decades whipping the population into an anti-communist frenzy, is so openly fawning of former KGB agent and proto-dictator Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump has a history of praising Putin’s leadership style of assassinating political rivals, journalists, and jailing bands named after a certain delightful part of the female anatomy for being critical of his tyranny, comparing his BFF to the imagined “weakness” of American’s sitting President. Putin, for his part, has all but endorsed Trump for President. Nor does this mutual lovefest stop there.

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Input: You avoid surprises by painstakingly planning for every possible line of questioning and attack. Debates are remembered for just one moment, and most of the time it is a moment that one of the participants was not prepared for. Michael Dukakis was ready to talk about his opposition to the death penalty, for example, but he was not ready for Bernard Shaw to ask whether he’d favor the death penalty for a man who raped and murdered his wife. -- That’s why good prep is less about mimicking Trump’s mannerisms and more about mirroring his personality. You’re not preparing for “Saturday Night Live.” Clinton needs someone in this role who can get in her head, interrupt her, throw her off her game, make her feel uncomfortable and angry, challenge assertions she’s not used to having challenged and make the best possible arguments against her.

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Input: Hide Caption 26 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Protesters march on September 4 in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Hide Caption 27 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Native Americans march to the site of a sacred burial ground on September 4. Hide Caption 28 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Native Americans ride with raised fists to the sacred burial ground on September 4 to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. Hide Caption 29 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests The Missouri River is seen beyond an encampment near Cannon Ball, where hundreds of people gathered to join the protest on September 4. Hide Caption 30 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Flags of Native American tribes from across the United States and Canada line the entrance to a protest encampment on Saturday, September 3.

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Input: So far Egypt has publicly said it has found no evidence that the MetroJet flight, which crashed in the Sinai Peninsula after takeoff from Sharm el-Sheikh airport, killing all 224 people on board, was brought down by terrorism. A senior security official at the airline denied that any of its employees had been arrested or were under suspicion, and an Interior Ministry official also said there had been no arrests. But the sources, who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the ongoing investigation, said the mechanic had been detained, along with two airport policemen and a baggage handler suspected of helping him put the bomb on board." After learning that one of its members had a relative that worked at the airport, Islamic State delivered a bomb in a handbag to that person," said one of the sources, adding the suspect's cousin joined Islamic State in Syria a year and a half ago." He was told to not ask any questions and get the bomb on the plane."

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Input: Stepping back, it also reinforces another point about Trump: He’s almost certainly the least transparent candidate in the era of modern media. Consider his policy proposals. Trump prides himself on the ambiguity of his positions, suggesting that one must maintain an air of unpredictability — a helpful hedge when asked how, exactly, he’s quickly going to eradicate the Islamic State. (Now that he’s back to wanting to do that, instead of suggesting that the fight in Syria be left to Russia, as he did last autumn.) On domestic issues, the mantra is “flexibility” or "negotiation.” Nothing, including his tax plan, is set in stone but is instead a point of negotiation.

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Input: In the January interview, Asiri specifically denied reports that Saudi Arabia used cluster munitions on a civilian neighborhood in the city of Sanaa." We don't use cluster bombs in Sanaa, this is clear and definite," he said. But on Thursday, the European Parliament called on the European Union to impose an arms embargo on Saudi Arabia in response to allegations of human rights violations in Yemen." Our duty is to the civilians in Yemen, and given widespread and very valid concerns over the conduct of the war by Saudi forces, our call for an E.U.-wide arms embargo is proportionate and necessary," said Alyn Smith, one of the lawmakers who spearheaded the vote." The Saudis say they are investigating what they call incidents, and I welcome that scrutiny.

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Input: advertisement “The Clinton Cash book by Peter Schweizer documents a level of corruption that may be unprecedented in American history — in fact, it almost certainly is,” Miller said on Breitbart News Sunday. The book, Miller explains, documents how under the Clintons, “the security of the American people was auctioned off to the highest bidder. You saw this, for instance, in the Uranium deal that the book documents, where U.S. uranium assets were given up to Russians while Bill [Clinton] was getting money from the interest groups affected. You’ve seen it in action relating to Iran.

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Input: No. 1, the first 100 days, I'll appoint judges who will uphold the Constitution of the United States. Hillary Clinton's radical judges will virtually abolish the Second Amendment. Can't let that happen. I will change immigration rules to give unemployed Americans an opportunity to fill good, really good-paying jobs.

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Input: [Washington’s foreign policy elite breaks with Obama over Syrian bloodshed] If so, Obama’s successor will inherit an array of unattractive options. Critics of the proposal to increase arms shipments warn that it would only worsen the violence in Syria without fundamentally changing the outcome. But inaction has its own risks — increasing the likelihood that Aleppo will fall, that tens of thousands of CIA-backed fighters will search for more-reliable allies, and that the United States will lose leverage over regional partners that until now have refrained from delivering more-dangerous arms to Assad’s opponents. The proposed expansion of the agency program — dubbed “Plan B” because it was seen as a fallback for failed diplomatic efforts — still has supporters, including CIA Director John Brennan and Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter.

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

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

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Input: On just one of the days I visited the tracing center, there were 5,000 trace requests in the hopper awaiting attention. There would be about a thousand more the next day. In 2013, recognizing how important tracing is for solving crimes, and for providing intelligence regarding patterns of illegal gun trafficking, President Obama asked for more of it: He signed a memorandum demanding that all firearms recovered in the course of criminal investigations be traced. But Congress didn't give Charlie any funds, or manpower, to accommodate an influx. In fact, his budget has been flat since 2005.

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Input: In 2010, lenders foreclosed on the $ 355 million project. Even though Trump’s name was listed on the condominium’s website as the developer, he immediately distanced himself from the project, saying he had only licensed his name. A similarly sordid tale unfolded for Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico, a 525-unit luxury vacation home complex that Trump proclaimed was going to be “very, very special.” His name and image were all over the property, and he even personally appeared in the marketing video discussing how investors would be “following” him if they bought into the building. Scores of buyers ponied up deposits in 2006, but by 2009 the project was still just a hole in the ground. That year, the developers notified condo buyers their $ 32 million in deposits had been spent, no bank financing could be obtained, and they were walking away from the project.

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Input: “The increasing trend of contractors violating the law comes as no surprise,” said Craig Holman of Public Citizen, an advocacy group that was involved in a high-profile case regarding the ban. In addition to the donations to Priorities USA, The Hill found 14 federal contractors that had contributed a total of $ 173,250 to Right to Rise. Two had also given to Conservative Solutions PAC, a group that supported Sen. Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE’s (R-Fla.) bid for president. One contractor, a Florida utility named Gulf Power Co., gave $ 44,000 to Right to Rise in March 2015. At the time, the company held more than $ 1 million in contracts with the Department of Defense.

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Input: In a rave review of his most recent book, World Order, for The Washington Post, she made clear that his "building a cooperative relationship with China" was her idea of "smart" diplomacy. A central argument of World Order-also the bottom line of Dr Kissinger's previous book, On China-is that the US should not pursue a policy of containment, much less confrontation, towards China. In his view, such a strategy risks an escalating strategic rivalry between the established power and the rising power-of the sort that throughout history has led to war. My former colleague Graham Allison calls it the "Thucydides trap", in honour of the ancient Greek historian who first identified the phenomenon, and he estimates that rival powers have fallen into it many times over the centuries. For Dr Kissinger the most troubling analogy is Britain and Germany before 1914.

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Input: SEOUL Two U.S. B-1 bombers flew over South Korea on Tuesday in a show of force and solidarity with its ally after North Korea's nuclear test last week, while a U.S. envoy called for a swift and strong response to Pyongyang from the United Nations. Speaking in the South Korean capital on Tuesday, Sung Kim, the U.S. envoy on North Korea, added that the United States remained open to meaningful dialogue with Pyongyang on ending its pursuit of nuclear weapons. MORE FROM REUTERS: North Korea's supreme (farm) leader

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Input: (Trump has been significantly behind Clinton in Pennsylvania polls since early August.) He spoke of possible voter fraud in Philadelphia. There was a case of alleged voter intimidation there in 2008 against members of the New Black Panther Party, though the charges were dropped by the Department of Justice. In addition to Trump's calls for supporters to watch the polls "in certain areas," his campaign also recruited supporters to sign up as poll watchers. Trump supporters Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, and former House speaker Newt Gingrich, both cited allegations of votes cast for Democrats on behalf of dead people in the past on Sunday.

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Input: The doctors at Russian Khmeimim airbase in Latakia province fought for Timoshenkov’s life for over 24 hours, but he passed away on Thursday, June 16, it added. The command has presented Sergeant Timoshenkov with a posthumous state award. According to the Russian media, the deceased serviceman was a marine from Russia’s exclave Kaliningrad Region. Russia has lost 11 troops since beginning its anti-terrorist operation in Syria on September 30, 2015, at the request of the country’s president, Bashar Assad. READ MORE: Russian soldier wounded in Syria dies in Moscow hospital

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Input: "Trump's attitude on Russia is not in line with most Republican foreign-policy thinking. Trump has staked out views that are really on the fringe." An FBI inquiry is a preliminary examination that falls short of a criminal investigation. But in this highly charged atmosphere, it has some arguing that Comey is applying a double standard. “Any specifics of what the FBI or intelligence agencies may be looking at are not something that the bureau should be discussing publicly,” Schiff said.

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Input: In an exchange related to his column, the Globe's Jacoby tweeted this out: America's not a ' white, European ' country. It's a nation built on ideas, not race & soil. Nativists don't grasp # AmericanExceptionalism. https://t.co/eMjQlh0DGw — Jeff Jacoby (@Jeff_Jacoby) September 19, 2016

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Input: "A meeting like this, a stunt like this, is n’t helping anybody," she said. Related: Syrian Cease-Fire Appears to Hold, But No Sign of Aid Yet Russia's representative to the U.N., Vitaly Churkin, accused the U.S. of violating the cease-fire, and questioned the timing of the U.S. airstrike in the area." She was not interested in what I have to say ... so there is no point in listening to Ambassador Power," Churkin said. The Russian ministry of defense said in a statement earlier that "In case the airstrike is caused by faulty target coordinates, it is a direct consequence of the American side's stubborn reluctance to coordinate with Russia their anti-terrorist operations in Syria."

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Input: And in 2013, nearly 100 percent of the $ 4.4 million of the government donations came from overseas governments. Only $ 23,000 came from U.S. government entities, according to the exhibit. The disclosures likely will fuel charges by presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who claims Clinton turned her secretaryship into a huge “hedge fund” where “the Russians, the Saudis and the Chinese all gave money to Bill and Hillary and got favorable treatment in return.” Trump demanded that the foundation return $ 25 million it received from the Saudis. Clinton defended the foundation but admitted last week in a Politico interview that in “one or two instances” some foreign donations aiming to influence her office may have “slipped through the cracks.” A 2008 Memorandum of Understanding between the Clinton Foundation and Valerie Jarrett, then-vice-chairwoman of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team attempted to limit and in some instances to ban foreign government funds to the Clinton Foundation and its many projects.

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Input: Ambassador to Libya, Chris Stevens, and three other Americans. For weeks thereafter, Mrs. Clinton and the rest of the Obama administration continued to characterize what had occurred on September 11 in Benghazi not as a carefully orchestrated act of terrorism, but as a spontaneous uprising that evolved unexpectedly from what had begun as a low-level protest against an obscure YouTube video. For the administration, it was vital to continue putting forth this false narrative because, with the presidential election only a few weeks away, nothing could be permitted to puncture the Obama-Clinton talking points: “Al Qaeda is on the run” and “Osama bin Laden is dead. ”27 In reality, however, within mere hours after the September 11 attack, U.S. intelligence agencies had already gained more than enough evidence to conclude unequivocally that it was a planned terrorist incident, and that the YouTube video had nothing whatsoever to do with it.28 On January 23, 2013 — fully 134 days after the September 11 attack in Benghazi — Mrs. Clinton went before Congress to testify as to what she knew about the incident.

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Input: The largest leopard species in the world, the Persian leopard can grow to more than 200 pounds, with a paw print the size of a human hand. A fearsome predator, it hunts deer, wild pig, hare, and other small mammals, typically breaking the neck of its prey with a snap of its jaws. It once roamed widely in the Caucasus Mountains between the Black and Caspian seas, as well as in Iran, Turkey, and Central Asia. It even appears in Mtsyri, or The Novice, a famous poem written in 1839 about the Caucasus by Russian romantic writer Mikhail Lermontov, in which the eponymous hero battles for his life during a nighttime run-in with a leopard. But by the late 19th century, the species was under attack.

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Input: Between 2006 and 2015, it's share of exports rose 88 percent. Most were destined for other Asian countries, including Pakistan. SIPRI noted that Beijing "is increasingly capable of producing its own advanced weapons and has become less dependent on arms imports," which fell 25 percent in the recent reporting period. But China, wrote researchers," remains partly dependent on imports for some key weapons and components, including large transport aircraft and helicopters, and engines for aircraft, vehicles and ships." For the first time, China's weapons exports exceeded those of France, long one of Europe's top arms sellers.

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Input: The revelations have forced Republicans into a bind: Staying with Trump could turn of swing voters angered by his comments from the video, but breaking with him would likely dampen turnout by the party's base. More than two-dozen lawmakers, including Senate GOP Conference Chair John Thune John ThuneThis week: Senate plots path on healthcare ObamaCare: Six key parts of the Senate bill Overnight Finance: Fed raises rates for second time in 2017 | GOP weighs keeping ObamaCare taxes | Tax reform becomes Wall Street obsession MORE (S.D), have called on Trump to step aside. Vulnerable senators like Rob Portman Rob PortmanFeehery: Returning to civility Otto Warmbier, US student held in North Korea for 17 months, dies These GOP senators need to stand up to their party on healthcare MORE (Ohio), John McCain John McCainGOP defense spending battle delays Republican budget Otto Warmbier, US student held in North Korea for 17 months, dies What the next round of American military base closures will look like MORE (Ariz.) and Kelly Ayotte Kelly AyotteKelly Ayotte joins defense contractor's board of directors Week ahead: Comey firing dominates Washington GOP senators pitch Merrick Garland for FBI director MORE (N.H.) have withdrawn their support, but others in tight races — including Pat Toomey (Pa.), Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE (Fla.) and Richard Burr Richard BurrSenate GOP shifts focus to Lynch Senate Intel Committee to hold public hearing on election meddling Sessions sequel falls flat following Comey drama MORE (N.C.) — are staying the course. Speaker Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (R-Wis.) told his conference on a Monday morning conference call that he would no longer defend Trump and would solely focus on maintaining the House majority to ensure Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonWhat do Democrats stand for? THE MEMO: For Trump, danger signs in the polls McAuliffe touts buildup of cyber defenses in the states MORE does not have a "blank check" if elected.

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Input: They loathed religion, especially all Judeo- and Christian-based religions; traditional middle-class (“ bourgeois”) values; capitalism; all Western national identities (they supported anti-Western national identities); and they particularly hated Jewish religious and national identity. What, for example, do Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Noam Chomsky, and George Soros have in common? They were (or are) all radicals, were born to Jewish parents, had (or have) no Jewish identity, and do harm to both Jews and non-Jews. Karl Marx was the grandson of two Orthodox rabbis (his parents converted to Christianity), yet he wrote one of the most significant anti-Semitic essays of the 19th century, “On the Jewish Question” (1844). In it one finds such statements as:

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Input: Prime Minister Mark Rutte is against the Ukraine gaining membership to the European, he said in an interview with NU.nl one week before the referendum on the association agreement between the EU and the Ukraine. He reiterated that the association agreement and therefore the referendum is not about the Ukraine joining the EU." Opponents of the agreement say it is a step towards accession to the European Union. That is not what the agreement is about.

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Input: The presumptive GOP nominee has spent the past few weeks doing almost everything you would do if you were trying to throw an election, from attacking a federal judge over his Mexican heritage to not building a serious ground game or actively raising the money necessary to wage a credible campaign for the presidency. At the end of a day that started with Trump firing his campaign manager (much more on that below), he filed an embarrassing May fundraising report late last night with the FEC. Despite raising $ 3.1 million and loaning himself another $ 2 million, Trump began this month with less than $ 1.3 million cash on hand. Clinton, by comparison, raised $ 28 million and started off June with $ 42 million in cash. Bernie Sanders, with his campaign winding down, still brought in $ 15.6 million last month and had $ 9.2 million cash on hand.

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Input: Advertisement For one, his supporters argue that black people should want no part of Clinton because of her vigorous support of her husband’s disastrous 1994 crime bill (which Sanders voted for, by the way) and 1996 welfare reform. Sanders supporters also remind us of her assertion that “super-predators” were roaming the streets in the 1990s, comments for which she only expressed some regret this year. The senator, on the other hand, attended the March on Washington. And if you want visual proof, Sanders supporters often tweet the image of him being arrested at the University of Chicago in 1963.

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Input: Canada's battalion was expected to be based in Latvia, diplomats say, although Ottawa has yet to comment publicly. The new deployments are apart from U.S. plans to provide an armored brigade, typically around 5,000 troops, plus extra equipment in Europe." There will be a continually present armored brigade combat team, which will bring in its own equipment with each rotation," said U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter. He said that on top of that, the United States would bring "a pre-positioned set of equipment for yet an additional armored brigade combat team which troops could fall in upon in a crisis." While eastern allies welcome the deployments in NATO's biggest military build-up since the end of the Cold War, they want more support to defend against Russia's powerful arsenal.

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Input: "I'm not going to be the election-year pundit." Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was more direct in his assessment. “Other than destroying every instrument of democracy in his own country, having opposition people killed, dismembering neighbors through military force and being the benefactor of the butcher of Damascus, he’s a good guy,” Graham said of Putin on Thursday. “This calculation by Trump unnerves me to my core,” added Graham, who has been one of Trump’s most vocal critics in the Senate. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who has had an uneven track record of backing Trump, told the Guardian that he would give the Manhattan billionaire the benefit of the doubt.

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Input: Tehran is also keen to receive money owed to it since the pre-sanctions days in the European currency. The country’s crude deliveries are to be restored soon, with companies such as the French giant Total, Spanish refiner Cepsa and Litasco and the trading arm of Russia's Lukoil already holding contracts. Reuters source at state-owned National Iranian Oil Co (NIOC) told the agency that Tehran wants to receive payment in euros. Read more "In our invoices we mention a clause that buyers of our oil will have to pay in euros, considering the exchange rate versus the dollar around the time of delivery," the source said.

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Input: His new "extreme vetting" would add an ideological test to his already proposed religious test. Donald Trump wants to bar any Muslim who supports the death penalty for gays from entering the United States. That’s among a long list of reasons he outlined today that a person could be denied entry — or even ordered to leave the country after already immigrating here." I call it extreme vetting," he told a raucous crowd during a foreign policy speech delivered in Ohio. Trump began the speech by rattling off a list of terror attacks and their casualties worldwide.

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Input: The sheer magnitude of the carnage, with at least 50 dead, is reflected in many of the headlines, which talk about "the worst mass shooting in US history." The face of the shooter, 29-year -old US citizen Omar Mateen, is splashed on many homepages. The shooter's ethnic origin — he was the son of Afghan parents — and Muslim religion, as well as the possibility that he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group before or during the massacre, have caused speculation among international media that the shooting would provoke a strong backlash against Muslims in the United States. And while most major newspapers around the world are focusing their headlines on what we know at this time, some are already looking forward to the next day, and wondering whether this might benefit the man who has been the face of anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim reaction in America — giving Donald Trump a bigger chance to win the presidential election in November. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee's extreme positions on international affairs and on immigration and Islam have captured the attention of the world's media for months now.

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Input: More generally, United States and NATO pressures upon European leaders are tainting the latter's carefully nurtured images of independence. Sweden, which has long boasted of an official position of neutrality in world affairs and close adherence to humanitarian and democratic principles under a rule of law, has already hurt its image by its pursuit of Assange. The fallout includes a ruling last month by a United Nations panel that Assange's political asylum in Ecuador's embassy in London since June 2012 to avoid extradition amounts to “arbitrary detention” under international law. The Indicter, a start-up global human rights commentary site, underscored in columns March 6 and 13 the sinister implications of the revelations, especially the seemingly odd mixture of Fredriksson's advocacy against Assange and in favor of NATO. The Indicter revealed, for example, that Fredriksson used his clout to lobby for Amnesty International opposition to Assange.

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Input: Another American, who was not a part of the exchange, also was released. Iran has various obligations under the nuclear agreement. It must reduce its level of uranium enrichment, dramatically reduce the size of its stockpile of enriched uranium, reduce the number of centrifuges, and agree to unfettered international inspections.

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Input: People inspect the damage after airstrikes by pro-Syrian government forces in the rebel held al-Sakhour neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria February 5, 2016. REUTERS / Abdalrhman Ismail Men stand near a hole in the ground as they inspect the damage after airstrikes by pro-Syrian government forces in the rebel held al-Sakhour neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria February 5, 2016. REUTERS / Abdalrhman Ismail BEIRUT Tens of thousands of Syrians fled an intensifying Russian assault around Aleppo on Friday, and aid workers said they feared the major city could soon fall under a full government siege.

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Input: Vice President Joe Biden has arrived in Ankara for talks with Turkish leaders as Turkey launched a military operation to clear a Syrian border town of Islamic State militants. Wednesday's visit comes at a difficult time for ties between the two NATO allies. Turkey is demanding that Washington quickly extradite a U.S.-based cleric blamed for orchestrating last month's failed coup. The United States is asking for evidence against the cleric and asking that Turkey allow the extradition process to take its course. In Syria, Turkey is concerned about the growing power of U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces, who it says are linked to Kurdish groups waging an insurgency in southeastern Turkey.

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Input: Mourners carry the body of a Syrian man following an airstrike by government forces in Aleppo on Jan. 16, 2016. (Photo by Ameer Alhalbi / NurPhoto) More than 1 in 10 Syrians have been wounded or killed since the beginning of the war in 2011, according to a new report that finds a staggering 470,000 deaths have been caused by the conflict, either directly or indirectly. The grim tally from the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR) represents a dramatic increase from the total of 250,000 fatalities often cited by the United Nations, which stopped independently counting Syria’s war dead early in 2014. In all, 11.5 percent of Syria’s population has been wounded or killed since 2011, according to the SCPR analysis.

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Input: Photo: DPA Turkey on Monday strongly warned the German parliament against adopting a resolution recognising the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire as genocide, saying it could have repercussions for bilateral ties. The German lower house of parliament is set to vote on Thursday on the resolution over the two years of slaughter from 1915, which carries the contested word "genocide" throughout the text." Germany is our friend and our ally where many citizens of Turkish origin live," said deputy prime minister and government spokesman Numan Kurtulmus." Germany must be careful concerning its relations with Turkey."

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Input: A question said to be sent by a 12-year -old girl quickly drew on two of the country's geopolitical conflicts, asking who Putin would save first if both Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko were drowning. While calling it a difficult question, he appeared to condemn both leaders, saying "if someone is determined to drown you can't help them." "I would say, you can not save someone who has decided to drown. But of course we are ready to lend a helping hand and friendship to any of our partners, if they want to take it," he said, according to a transcript on the Kremlin's website. Later, when probed about his personal life, he said he understood the interest but didn't want to broadcast the details, joking that he otherwise risked moving foreign exchange rates and oil prices.

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Input: Trump so reckless even Scarborough and Rather AGREE he's got ta go Trump in the last few weeks alone has repeatedly insulted Gold Star parents, encouraged Russian hackers to find Hillary Clinton’s deleted emails and proposed that the U.S. not uphold obligations to its NATO allies, prompting a steady stream of defections among the GOP establishment and a plummet in national and swing-state polls. And last week, Trump apparently suggested Second Amendment supporters might want to assassinate Clinton as a way to prevent her from nominating liberal judges if she were elected. If the disgusting and corrupt media covered me honestly and didn't put false meaning into the words I say, I would be beating Hillary by 20% — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 14, 2016 Each remark represented one more step away from the general election pivot many within the GOP had been expecting the mogul to make.

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Input: “This is making me tear up, it’s so infuriating and disgusting,” a Clinton aide wrote in an email halfway through the St. Louis debate, arguably the low-water point of a general election that has had few high-tide moments. “This is not our country.” In Trump's Mourning-in-America march to the abyss, he has rejected political norms, and his campaign has largely devolved into trashing Clinton, the women accusing him of sexual assault and harassment, the legitimacy of U.S. elections, the media, President Barack Obama, the GOP and the time-honored idea of a presidential campaign as a sunny, aspirational enterprise. Even more unnerving is the release of stolen emails popping daily, like the morning paper hitting the driveway, from WikiLeaks — part of an effort Clinton’s aides believe is geared toward dividing her supporters, sapping her team’s morale, and distracting the media’s attention from Trump’s self-immolation. All of this makes the last days of what is likely to be a winning campaign seem more like 22 weeks than 22 days.

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Input: M SCHILLER DIGITAL: A terrain model generated using airborne laser scanning Explorers have unearthed seven Polish pyramids so far-the highest being five metres – after using laser scanning technology. The tombs’ inner chambers were constructed using wooden logs instead of stones and were hidden under earth in a forested area. The tombs were built by the Funnel Beaker Culture community from the fifth to third millennium BC and those buried within them were elders of the tribe, according to arcghaelolosts. YOUTUBE ANCIENT: A number of megalithic tombs were uncovered in Poland

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Input: But the oil extracted in Venezuela is very heavy and hard to refine and then sell to other countries. Venezuela needs to first mix its heavy oil with lighter types of crude to balance out the quality, according to Nilofar Saidi, an oil market analyst at ClipperData. Saidi said Venezuela had already been importing lighter types of crude oil from Russia, Angola and Nigeria. Related: After 40-year ban, U.S. starts exporting oil "It's just cheaper to bring a tanker of light crude from the U.S. Gulf than to ship it from West Africa or North Africa," says Nilofar Saidi, an oil market analyst at ClipperData.

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Input: Several tourists were asking police what they should do now, where it was safe to go-and when the airport might reopen. The police were confused too, but offered what little information they had, telling people to head to a reception centre. An officer repeatedly shouted:" Quickly, keep moving, evacuate, this is serious." Carnage on the Metro The metro blast occurred shortly after 08:00 GMT during the rush hour at Maelbeek station.

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Input: Abbas spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said the PA leader would also travel to Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel before flying to New York to attend meetings at the United Nations, but did not provide exact dates. “France plays an important role in efforts to establish a fair, comprehensive and durable peace in accordance with international resolutions,” Abu Rudeineh said. Israel in the midst of a wave of Palestinian stabbing, car-ramming, and shooting attacks that has killed 29 Israelis and 3 foreign nationals since October of last year. At least 188 Palestinians have been killed during that time, most while carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks, according to the Israeli authorities. Ahead of his two-week foreign tour, Abbas told AFP there was an “urgent” need for a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements, and accused the US of insufficient action on the issue.

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Input: “[Trump’s] coddling of repugnant bigotry is not in the character of America,” Romney added. Duke urged listeners on his radio show last week to vote for Trump, arguing that supporting Sens. Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE (R-Fla.) or Ted Cruz Ted CruzAccess to palliative care needs to stay in new health bill Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (R-Texas) instead would be “treason to your heritage.” Trump evaded questions about Duke’s support during a Sunday interview with CNN, saying he doesn't fully understand the positions of the former KKK grand wizard. “I do n’t know anything about David Duke,” he told anchor Jake Tapper on “State of the Union.” “I do n’t know anything about what you’re talking about with white supremacy or white supremacists.

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Input: Speaker Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (R-Wis.) is refusing to definitively rule out the possibility that he would accept the Republican presidential nomination if the GOP convention is deadlocked." You know, I haven't given any thought to this stuff," Ryan told CNBC’s John Harwood in an interview published late Tuesday night." People say, ' What about the contested convention? '

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Input: But it will certainly apply to thousands of Jews who emigrated from Russia after July 1, 1991 — the date on which the Soviet Union, then in its final days, ended its policy of taking away the passports of Jews who left the country with exit visas to Israel. (The Soviet Union was formally dissolved on December 25, 1991.) In Soviet times, the only way that Jews were allowed to leave the country was with their Russian passport confiscated — if they were allowed to leave at all. Many actually moved to the United States or to Europe once they got out, despite the Israeli stamp on their exit visa. But under the late Soviet policy, which was continued by the successor Russian government following the Soviet Union’s breakup, Jews could, for the first time, like others, become dual nationals.

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Input: Turkey blackmailed EU: either € 3bn per year & EU accession or we send buses full with refugees to Europe In internal EU memo obtained by Greek media reveals the blatant Turkish blackmail on the refugee crisis. The memo contains a summary of the dialogue between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with European Commissioner Jean Claude Juncker and President of the European Council Donald Tusk on 16th November 2015 during the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey. The three Presidents were discussing the Action Plan to tackle the Refugees and Migrants Crisis.

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Input: This is clear from her response to ABC reporter Martha Raddatz’s painfully loaded question about the Syrian conflict. With Raddatz going on about the hundreds killed by the evil twins, Bashar al-Assad and Putin and even tossing in the Holocaust for good measure, Clinton saw no reason to hold back: “Well, the situation in Syria is catastrophic and every day that goes by we see the results of the regime – by Assad in partnership with the Iranians on the ground, the Russians in the air – bombarding places, in particular Aleppo where there are hundreds of thousands of people, probably about 250,000 still left, and there is a determined effort by the Russian air force to destroy Aleppo in order to eliminate the last of the Syrian rebels who are really holding out against the Assad regime. “Russia has n’t paid any attention to ISIS. They’re interested in keeping Assad in power.

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Input: The memo contains a summary of the dialogue between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with European Commissioner Jean Claude Juncker and President of the European Council Donald Tusk on 16th November 2015 during the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey. The three Presidents were discussing the Action Plan to tackle the Refugees and Migrants Crisis. According to the memo, the bargain was hard and Turkey demanded 30 billion euro from the European Union in order to refrain from sending refugees and migrants to Europe through Greece. EU’s offer was 3 billion euro in two years, but Erdogan demanded 3 billion euro per year. In addition, Ankara threatened, that if the EU does not link the refugee issue to Turkey’s EU accession then it would:

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Input: "The Clinton's left the White House broke. The Clinton foundation made them wealthy." Smug or indicted? You decide He says he doesn't know whether any government agency has investigated this, but that it probably constitutes a violation of American law.

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Input: Navalny said the man later had to be hospitalized. Five others, including Navalny himself, also suffered injuries. Cossack paramilitaries, who style themselves as conservative patriots, helped Russia annex Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. Cossack militia members also attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with whips and teargas at the Winter Olympics host city of Sochi in 2014 as they tried to perform a song mocking Vladimir Putin. Navalny, 39, who has accused top government officials from the president downwards of graft, is one of the most high profile leaders of the country's small liberal opposition and the founder of Russia's Anti-corruption Foundation.

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

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Input: North Korea has previously warned of a nuclear war in the region and threatened to bolster its armed forces if the THAAD deployment occurs. In Munich, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Chinese and South Korean counterparts to discuss the response to North Korea's actions, including the missile system. In talks with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, Kerry expressed support for Seoul's decision to shut down the factory park in the North Korean border town of Kaesong and discussed a broad range of potential sanctions against the North, South Korea's Foreign Ministry said. Seoul and Washington want to deploy the system at an early date and the upcoming talks will discuss where and exactly when the deployment can be made, a South Korean defense official said, requesting anonymity because of department rules. Fox News’ Lucas Tomlinson and the Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Input: the Vermont Police Chief’s Assn. Sanders also voted to extradite Assata Shakur from Cuba in violation of the existing treaties with Cuba. Recently, Bernie championed in Congress the dumping of Vermont’s nuclear waste near Sierra Blanca, Texas, a low income

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Input: "This is a man who said that more countries should have nuclear weapons, including Saudi Arabia." 7." This is someone who has threatened to abandon our allies in NATO -- the countries that work with us to root out terrorists abroad before they strike us at home." 8." He believes we can treat the U.S. economy like one of his casinos and default on our debts to the rest of the world, which would cause an economic catastrophe far worse than anything we experienced in 2008."

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Input: Meanwhile, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz Jason ChaffetzThe Hill's 12:30 Report Chaffetz: Trump administration ' almost worse ' than Obama's on transparency Utah GOP narrows field for Chaffetz seat MORE (R-Utah) vowed to send a criminal referral to the FBI demanding that the agency investigate whether Clinton perjured herself when discussing the server during her 11-hour testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi. Even Comey — carefully apolitical in his public statements — has hinted that Clinton and her aides could face repercussions beyond the judicial system. “To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences,” Comey said during a summary of his findings that concluded with his decision not to recommend charges. “To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions.”

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Input: Third, China likely is responding to the G7’s adoption of a special statement on maritime security. This statement declared: We express our strong opposition to any intimidating, coercive or provocative unilateral actions that could alter the status quo and increase tensions, and urge all states to refrain from such actions as land reclamations including large scale ones, building of outposts, as well as their use for military purposes and to act in accordance with international law including the principles of freedoms of navigation and overflight. China strongly condemned the G-7 statement. In the longer term, China’s deployment of fighter aircraft and fire control radar to the Paracels demonstrates its capability to deploy small numbers of modern jet aircraft, surface-to-air missiles, and fire control radar at short notice to airstrips elsewhere in the South China Sea and that the United States can take no action to prevent it from doing so.

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Input: A shuttered retailer's forms go to the tracing center (almost 2 million monthly). So tracers comb their files To find the gun owner, they hunt by hand for the form he signed back when he first bought the gun. “And then I say, ‘Okay, your trace is done; I got the buyer,’” Hester tells me. “And they say, ‘Oh, who is it?’” Maybe it's one of the suspects.

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Input: If this compromise, and it was a compromise, took place in 2012, then more than three years have passed since the compromise. That’s really a mess.” This veteran thinks that Hillary Clinton can not have it both ways: She’s either too brilliant to be as innocent as she asserts or too innocent to be as brilliant as she professes. RELATED: How the FBI Could Force DOJ to Prosecute Hillary Clinton “Secretary Clinton has been seeing this kind of thing for a long time,” he says.

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Input: I have all the beautiful new girls for me," she said of Trump’s frequent comments about her weight and appearance. “These are totally baseless and unsubstantiated claims by Ms. Machado, who lobbed a public smear campaign in order to gain notoriety at the expense of Mr. Trump’s name and reputation," Trump campaign’s Deputy Communications Director Jessica Ditto said in an emailed statement to Cosmopolitan.com." Hillary Clinton will continue to use these false distractions like Ms. Machado and Mark Cuban to easily deceive the biased media, but will have no impact on Mr. Trump or the voters who are concerned with real issues.” On Fox & Friends Tuesday morning, Trump characterized Machado as the “absolute worst” they ever had at the Miss Universe pageant. “She gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem.”

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Input: Lopez-Sanchez, who is in the U.S. illegally, has a history of felony convictions and has been deported five times. ADVERTISEMENT Critics of the sanctuary laws say such policies encourage people to immigrate to the U.S. illegally at the expense of citizens. “A refuge for whom? A sanctuary for whom?” Rep. Trey Gowdy Trey GowdyHouse Dems: ' Does not appear ' Flynn disclosed trip to Middle East Chaffetz: Trump administration ' almost worse ' than Obama's on transparency Gowdy: Mueller a ' quintessential straight arrow ' MORE (R-S.C.) said.

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Input: The International Criminal Court announced Thursday it will now hold corporate executives and governments legally responsible for environmental crimes. The Hague court made explicit references to widening its approach to include land grabbing, which has allowed private corporations, with the help of governments, to take over large areas of foreign land to exploit natural resources. It will also prosecute for environmental destruction. “Chasing communities off their land and trashing the environment has become an accepted way of doing business in many resource-rich yet cash-poor countries,” said Gillian Caldwell, executive director at Global Witness.

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Input: If General Patton were alive, he’d shoot her as a traitor. Her “intent” is irrelevant. Boeing and other contractors also played a role, donating almost a million dollars to the Clinton Foundation before then, becoming the primary supplier of jet fighters included in the $ 30 billion Saudi arms deal. They are now involved in this Iran deal. In late 2011, Hillary Clinton’s State Department was formally clearing the sale of arms to Saudi Arabia with the department’s assistant secretary declaring it a personal “top priority” of Hillary’s.

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Input: And where they see weakness, they seek to fill it, like water finding a level. This new approach to China invites aggression. Following a “big bang” of restructuring and investment, the Chinese military is lean, mean, and ready to prove China is, in Xi Jinping’s words, not just a large country but a “large and powerful one.” Carriers in Pearl Harbor and selling arms to Vietnam wo n’t stop China from land grabs in the South China Sea; it only increases the level of response. Money ties us together now, but our relationship with China was built on security. When I met Mao Zedong in 1972, it was the only topic.

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South China Sea