Input: If you want to cross-dress, smoke marijuana, drink lots of alcohol, have lots of sex, and, yes, even go to school for gender studies, then by all means, go for it. Government should not be allowed to legislate people’s behavior as long as it does n’t infringe upon someone else’s rights, but that does n’t mean society is n’t allowed to have an opinion. You do n’t have the right to demand people keep their opinions about your lifestyle to themselves, especially if you’re open and public about it. I have as much of a right to comment on the way you live your life as you do to actually live it. Your feelings are not a protected right, but my speech is.

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Input: Goldwater, by contrast, was considered an extreme conservative, much like Ted Cruz. Unlike Trump, he made no serious attempt to appeal to moderates. He opposed social programs and wanted to abolish Social Security. He favored a dramatic escalation of the Vietnam War. His VP even recommended “bombing the Vietnamese back to the Stone Age.”

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

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Input: This is True. According to media reports and gun violence experts, there have been more than 3,000 shooting victims in Chicago so far this year. Clinton:" It's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man, you are more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated." The research suggests that when you compare what happens to black and whites who are engaging in the same illegal activity and have the same criminal history, African Americans are more likely to be arrested, more likely to face tougher charges, and more likely to receive longer sentences than their caucasian counterparts. This claim is True.

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Input: The provision was added after gunman Omar Mateen — previously on a federal watchlist — killed 49 people and injured 53 others in a packed gay nightclub in Orlando. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Mitch McConnellSanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? ' Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill MORE (R-Ky.) urged senators to support Cornyn’s measure, saying Democrats should resist pushing “a partisan agenda or [crafting] the next 30-second campaign ad.” “We’ve offered proposals to help connect the dots with respect to terrorist communications. We’ve offered proposals to help address the threat of lone wolf attacks like the one we saw in Orlando,” he said.

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Input: He painted a dark picture of the future awaiting Americans, and the world, if the forces of "aggressive nationalism" or "crude populism" win out. And he specifically inveighed against building a wall -- a centerpiece of Trump's proposal on border security." A nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself," Obama declared to the assembled representatives of the UN's member states. Gone were Obama's idealistic appeals to bring about a world free of nuclear weapons and an agenda focused on peace, as were his previous UN addresses. The "hope and change" of his argument as a presidential candidate himself was also replaced by exhortations against a future filled with chaos.

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Input: -- The selection process keeps becoming nastier: Delegates in both parties are now getting threats. On the Republican side: Colorado chairman Steve House said his office received 3,000 phone calls “with many being the trashiest you can imagine” after a state party convention last weekend awarded all 34 delegates to Cruz. “When they reference burials and your family in the same email, and telling you that you’re being watched, that’s concerning,” Craig Dunn, a Trump critic who was elected this past weekend as a Republican delegate from Indiana’s 4th Congressional District. (Ed O’Keefe) On the Democratic side: “The Sanders campaign says it has no connection to the efforts of outside supporters to lean on superdelegates … Among those efforts is a website created last week under the name Superdelegate Hit List, providing phone numbers and addresses for superdelegates and encouraging users to submit further contact information … Site creator Spencer Thayer, a Chicago activist, described the goal this way in a Twitter message: ‘So who wants to help start.

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Input: But shock waves rippled through the region earlier this month as Armenia became embroiled in deadly fighting with its neighbor Azerbaijan over the disputed enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. Photo: Howard Amos The explosion took place near the center of Yerevan, less than half a mile from the site of a memorial to the Armenian genocide and a conference hall complex where Hollywood A-lister George Clooney awarded a new humanitarian prize just 24 hours earlier. A bomb was placed under one of the seats and the blast was caught on CCTV cameras, Armenian media reported the country’s chief of police as saying several hours after the incident. All 10 people on the bus at the moment of the blast were reportedly either injured or killed.

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Input: Contrary to her claim to have learned “humility” and “skepticism” from her Iraq War vote, Clinton treats American foreign policy like it’s a goddamn sit-in at Wellesley. A more effective relationship would start with recognizing China’s system of government, but Clinton refuses to do that. All politics, of course; China steals our jobs, and no one, let alone a woman, wants to stand with people who drowned baby girls in buckets. And so the pivot to Asia keeps going, despite those kooks in the Middle East. Some 2,500 U.S. Marines are now stationed in Australia, and we’re conducting joint military exercises with Thailand.

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Input: Currently there are around 1,000 in Moscow alone. Sergey Vdovin, from the Russia Evangelical Alliance, said he'd considered leaving the country because of the new law. Speaking on Premier's News Hour he said:" I thought of it and I prayed for three days and I said: ' well, who live and pray and preach here? ' "So I'm staying here no matter what and the Lord is greater than anything people can do, so if you're under His protection what can be people do to you?" What can this law do against real Christians?

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Input: Many European leaders made no secret of their dislike of George W. Bush. Israel lobbies Congress, as do the Arab allies. China offers sweet deals to retiring officials. What’s different about the Trump-Putin relationship? Rob Glaser: Two fundamental differences, and perhaps a third.

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Input: Trump says what China has done to the United States is the “greatest theft” in the history of the world. Trump’s says he wishes our leaders were doing to China what they are doing to us. He says he wo n’t buy Carrier air conditioners after the company moved to Mexico. 6:05: Trump says “little Marco” and Cruz said they would build a border wall after Trump first made the promise. He says Sheriff Joe Arpaio has endorsed him, which means he is the strongest on the border.

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Input: Last May, Trump revealed that he took on debt with no intention of paying it all back, which strikes me as fraud. “I’ve borrowed knowing you can pay back with discounts,” he told CNBC in May, boasting “I’ve done well with debt.” Back then Trump threatened endless litigation unless 70 banks he owed money gave him millions more in new loans at low interest rates and provided him with $ 5.4 million a year for personal spending, the equivalent of $ 10 million in today’s money. Back then, one billionaire told The New York Times he did n’t know how to spend that much on himself and his family. What made the litigation threat credible was Trump’s refusal to pay more than 150 illegal immigrants who demolished the Bonwit Teller department store to make way for Trump Tower.

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Input: MORE FROM CLEVELAND: -- Trump’s campaign had its best fundraising month yet in June, Matea Gold reports: The campaign pulled in $ 26 million after beginning to raise funds in earnest for the first time, including $ 2.2 million it brought in through a joint fundraising committee with the Republican National Committee." Trump personally contributed $ 3.8 million and forgave another $ 45.7 million he had previously loaned the committee. … Together with the RNC, Trump pulled in $ 52 million in June ... still less than the $ 68.5 million that Clinton and the Democratic Party collected in June, which included $ 40.5 million she raised directly for her campaign.” -- Two police officers suffered minor injuries and 17 protestors were arrested after activists set fire to the American flag outside the Quicken Loans Arena.

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Input: Gen. Mohammad al-Dahabi, who ran the service from 2005 to 2008, was later convicted of stealing millions of dollars that G.I.D. officers had seized from Iraqi citizens crossing into Jordan in the years after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. His trial showed that he had also arranged for money to be smuggled in private cars from Iraq into Jordan and had been involved in sellingJordanian citizenship to Iraqi businessmen. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison and fined tens of millions of dollars. Advertisement Continue reading the main story

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Input: . a force!” On the evidence, Trump is reaching that point of intoxication. We have seen the lengths to which Trump will go to threaten and intimidate his enemies, armed mainly with social media. It seems reckless beyond reason — reckless with the republic itself — to arm him with the immense power of the executive branch. Consider the inherently threatening quality of the words “Trump’s military” or “Trump’s FBI” or “Trump’s IRS.” The grant of vast influence to a leader of such vindictive temperament is utterly frightening.

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Input: Putin is despised by millions of Polish Americans, as well as Czech, Slovak, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian Americans, who either escaped to this country from behind the Iron Curtain or whose parents or grandparents did. These voters know what it is like to live in a police state. Thus, many were appalled when, at NBC’s Commander-in-Chief Forum last month, Trump stated with apparent admiration how Putin “has very strong control over a country” and declared him “a leader, far more than our president has been.” When host Matt Lauer pointed out that Putin “annexed Crimea, invaded Ukraine, supports Assad in Syria, supports Iran” and asked, “Do you want to be complimented by that former KGB officer?” Trump was unfazed. “I’ll take the compliment, okay?” he replied, pointing out that Putin “does have an 82 percent approval rating.” Not with Americans of Eastern European heritage, he does n’t.

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Input: yelled one T-shirt vendor, who told me he'd sold almost 500 shirts in Cleveland with that catchphrase." Trump that bitch!" Related Hillary's New Deal: How a Clinton Presidency Could Transform America While Trump's rise wrecks the GOP, Clinton's success marks the resilience of the Democratic center A San Diego lawyer I met in July wore a lapel pin depicting Hillary Clinton as Lucifer." She's an evil person," he told me.

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Input: Hillary Clinton plans to order a full review of the United States’ strategy in Syria as one of her first priorities if elected President. One of her foreign policy advisers, Jeremy Bash, said she would seek to end Bashar al-Assad’s “murderous” regime despite waning political will to oust the autocratic Syrian President. He said dealing with Syria would be Ms Clinton’s “first key task” if elected and she would work to get President Assad “out of there”. “A Clinton administration will not shrink from making clear to the world exactly what the Assad regime is,” he told The Telegraph.

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Input: For Russia, operations in Antarctica are continuing long the lines first put in place by the Soviet Union. Building off of Soviet bases already in place, Russia is expanding its development of a global petitioning system meant as a rival to American GPS. Moscow has so far constructed a minimum of three satellite monitoring systems in the Antarctic, the Times reports, with future bases planned. Russia also has more long-term ambitions in the region. Moscow, for example, was the lone country to oppose the creation of an Antarctic sanctuary that would have protected regions around the pole from fishing.

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Input: Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Republican, had barred such voters from voting in state and local races because they did n’t provide documentary proof of citizenship when they registered. A controversial Kansas law, which Kobach pushed for, requires such proof — but a series of court decisions have punched major holes in it. “This ruling is a victory for Kansas voters and a stinging rebuke of Secretary Kobach’s repeated efforts to improperly use his authority to obstruct their access to the ballot,” said Sophia Lakin, a lawyer with the ACLU, which brought the case. “This decision recognizes that Kansans ' right to vote in state and local elections should be honored, no matter what registration form they used.” 11/4 3:05 p.m.: Judge to bar Trump campaign from intimidating Ohio voters

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Input: On the issues, there's no comparison in terms of thoughtfulness, thoroughness and practicality. Acknowledging the influence of erstwhile competitor Bernie Sanders, for example, she will focus as president on repairing an economy that has left many working people behind and struggling. She will address income inequality and wage stagnation and will work to create jobs. She'll work with Congress to end tax loopholes, noting as she did on CBS's "Sixty Minutes" last weekend that an executive shouldn't be paying the same tax rate as his secretary. She also will push for equal pay for women, increasing the minimum wage and expanding tax credits for poorer families.

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Input: While he told lawmakers he was not rescinding his endorsement of Trump, he gave them the green-light to do so if needed." You all need to do what’s best for you in your district,” Ryan said, according to a source on the call. But Trump has been resolute, proclaiming he would never quit and attacking Ryan in a tweet soon after that statement. Ryan’s remarks have angered some RNC members, who say the Speaker is actively working against them. “I would prefer that he keep his mouth shut,” said Steven Scheffler, an RNC committeeman from Iowa.

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Input: Jamala won the 61st annual Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) with the song ' 1944 ' at the Ericsson Globe Arena in Stockholm on May 14. (Photo: SERGEY DOLZHENKO, EPA) A Russian official has said his country could boycott next year’s Eurovision song contest after a Ukrainian singer claimed the top prize with a song that has been interpreted as criticizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. The winning song, by an artist called Jamala, was called "1944" and is about the deportation of Crimean Tatars by the Soviet authorities during World War II. Jamala’s family was among the Crimean Tatars who were deported to Central Asia, the Kyiv Post reported.

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Input: He has n’t accused Mexico of being a currency manipulator, so what would he like them to do? And what exactly is Canada supposedly doing wrong? Canada is our biggest export market, with $ 337 billion in goods and services exports in 2015. In that year we also ran a trade surplus with them. There are simply no details to the NAFTA plan, and this is because he has no plan.

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Input: But there’s just one last formality: He needs to pass some minimum threshold, a basic job requirement – like proving he has a drivers license. Everybody agrees he’s got the job. It’s too late for Hillary to be sucking up to the hiring committee, reminding them, but I took driver’s ed seven times — yes, there were mistakes, but I was grilled for 11 hours about that vehicular homicide. Also, the Russians hacked my GPS. Trump showed up at the debate with his driver’s license.

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Input: Her comments led to calls for her to be expelled from the Lib Dems and parliament by Jonathan Sacerdoti, of the Campaign Against Antisemtism." Baroness Tonge has yet again offended Jewish Britons," he said." Having previously suggested an investigation into supposed Israeli organ harvesting which is the modern-day incarnation of the mediaeval antisemitic blood libel, she is now suggesting that British Jews are the ones with unacceptable opinions on Israel." Dictating to Jews what their relationship should be with the Jewish state of Israel is unacceptable." By suggesting there would be Palestinian terrorists ' with a justified grudge ' against Israel, she is effectively justifying the terrorism that is aimed at Jewish people in Israel and around the world by Hamas and other terrorist organisations.

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Input: "Statements like these make the world more dangerous and the United States less safe," Graham said in a statement." The Republican nominee for President is essentially telling the Russians and other bad actors that the United States is not fully committed to supporting the NATO alliance." Graham, who last month urged Republicans to rescind their endorsements of the nominee, said he hopes Trump will "correct" his remarks in his speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night. Sen. Tom Cotton, an Arkansas Republican who is publicly supporting Trump and who spoke at the RNC earlier this week, differed with Trump's NATO comments Thursday. He told CNN's Jake Tapper that the US is in the trans-Atlantic military alliance "because it's in our national security interest."

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Input: Earlier in January public broadcaster ARD reported that there had never been as many attacks on refugee homes as in 2015, which saw a huge rise in such criminality in comparison with the previous year. Whereas in 2014, 199 acts of criminality against refugee home were recorded by the Federal Office of Criminal Investigations (BKA), in 2015 that number shot up to 924. Of the nearly 1,000 attacks, 76 were attempted arson. One of those cases went before a court in Hagen on Friday, where an ex-fireman is accused of attempted murder after setting fire to a refugee home in the west German town in October 2015.

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Input: But we found no evidence to support that claim, and experts disagree on whether such cost shifting occurs. “Clinton’s Shaky Cost-Shifting Claim,” Dec. 23 A Clinton TV ad made the misleading claim that “in the last seven years drug prices have doubled.” To support that claim, her campaign cited a report that said brand-name drug prices, on average, have more than doubled in that time. But more than 80% of filled prescriptions are for generic drugs, the prices of which have declined by nearly 63%, according to the same report. “Clinton’s Misleading Ad on Drug Prices,” Jan. 7

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Input: View photos APB correspondence with the University of Colorado. More Snowden echoed the claim during his digital talk with Suskind, telling the crowd that he planned to donate part of his fee to the press organization — a San Francisco nonprofit whose stated mission is to “support and defend journalism dedicated to transparency and accountability.” Other board members of the Freedom of the Press Foundation include Greenwald and Poitras, both of whom received the initial cache of NSA documents from Snowden. “I want to make sure journalists are able to operate,” said Snowden, explaining his decision to make the donation. Suskind, whose appearance with Snowden was also arranged by APB, said it was his “understanding” from Wizner that Snowden was going to donate half his fee to the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

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Input: “Gov. Johnson finds it to be an outrage that the U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the developed world, and announced in 2012 that, as President, he would promptly commence the process of pardoning nonviolent offenders who have done no real harm to others.” Though the fate of convicts of these computer-related crimes is hardly a focal point of any presidential candidate’s platform, all of the remaining 2016 nominees have commented on Snowden. Both Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and her former rival Bernie Sanders have stated Snowden’s disclosures broke the law and that he should face the court system. Clinton has added that Snowden is not a whistleblower, even though his actions led Congress to reform an NSA program unknown to the public before Snowden’s disclosures.

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Input: 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. A rival motion proposed by Russia was also rejected at the meeting calling for a fresh ceasefire but did not explicitly mention the bombing. Russia’s UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the vote was “a waste of time” as the Security Council met knowing neither resolution would pass.

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Input: ☰ The Americas As Matthew churns toward U.S., more than 1 million ordered evacuated in S.C. Homes destroyed and damaged by Hurricane Matthew are seen in Jeremie, Haiti. The full scale of the devastation in hurricane-hit rural Haiti became clear as the death toll surged over 400.

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Input: Nonetheless, Trump's address was a toxic combination of unprovable claims -- "excessive regulation is costing our country as much as $ 2 trillion a year" and ending it will "produce more than $ 20 trillion in job-creating economic activity" -- and outright lies -- "My opponent wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment." The Republican nominee repeated his belief that "NATO is obsolete." Hours earlier, he told The New York Times he found nothing sacred about America's decades-old pledge to defend any NATO member whose borders are threatened by Russia. That cavalier pronouncement prompted this pithy summary from Jeffrey Goldberg for The Atlantic: Trump "has chosen ... to unmask himself as a de facto agent of Russian President Vladimir Putin, a KGB-trained dictator who seeks to rebuild the Soviet empire by undermining the free nations of Europe, marginalizing NATO and ending America's reign as the world's sole superpower." In any other year, Trump's Putin-loving, Mexican-and-Muslim-bashing rhetoric would have disqualified him as a serious candidate right from the start.

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Input: -- Maybe this is why Trump admires Vladimir Putin so much? As Barack Obama pens an op-ed for today’s Financial Times calling for a strong NATO to stand firm against Russia after its invasion of Ukraine, one of Trump’s main foreign policy advisers is in Moscow criticizing the United States government. Carter Page, a former Merrill Lynch executive who previously advised the Russian state energy giant Gazprom, just gave a lecture chiding the U.S. for an “often-hypocritical focus on democratization, inequality, corruption and regime change” in its dealings with Russia, China and Central Asia. He also complained that Washington has missed opportunities to work with leaders such as Putin and China’s Xi Jinping because it ignored principles of “respect, equality and mutual benefit.” The Post’s Andrew Roth attended the lecture and reports that, when one attendee asked Page whether he really believed the United States was a “liberal, democratic society,” Page told him to “read between the lines.” “If I’m understanding the direction you’re coming from, I tend to agree with you that it’s not always as liberal as it may seem,” he said.

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

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Input: After millions of young, Muslim, and mostly male refugees flooded into the European Union last year from the war-torn Middle East, a popular revolt arose against the so-called Schengen Area agreements, which give free rights of movement within Europe. The concurrent suspension of most E.U. external controls on immigration and asylum rendered the open-borders pact suddenly unworkable. The European masses are not racists, but they now apparently wish to accept Middle Eastern immigrants only to the degree that these newcomers arrive legally and promise to become European in values and outlook — protocols that the E.U. essentially discarded decades ago as intolerant.

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Input: He rejects a new Cold War with Russia. He supports the nuclear-weapons agreement with Iran, and he would devote new energy to dismantling nuclear arsenals and pursuing nonproliferation. He has long been an advocate for normalizing relations with Cuba and for reviving a good-neighbor policy in the hemisphere. Compare that to the New York Times’ endorsement of Hillary Clinton. The newspaper did not ignore foreign affairs.

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Input: Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko has since said he is "very sorry" cheating athletes were not caught by the country's anti-doping systems, but stopped short of admitting the scandal had been state-sponsored. A taskforce has been studying the Russian reforms but a fresh World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report, issued on Wednesday, made more damaging claims. Wada said officials in Russia were being stopped from testing athletes and threatened by security services. International Olympic Committee (IOC) vice-president John Coates said Russia's athletes should remain banned and not be allowed to take part in the Rio Games this summer. He also said Russia's anti-doping agency and athletics body were "rotten to the core".

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Input: Story Continued Below Assange has lived inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since 2012, where he has remained in order to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted in connection with a rape allegation. Assange has said he fears he would be extradited to the United States to face espionage charges if he were to step outside the Ecuadorian Embassy. WikiLeaks has taken on a greater role in the presidential election in recent days, releasing thousands of pages of allegedly hacked emails from the personal account of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. Neither the Clinton campaign nor Podesta himself has verified the authenticity of the emails, which detail the inner working of the former secretary of state’s White House bid.

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Input: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republican California Rep. Darrell Issa said that there is enough evidence to indict Hillary Clinton for mishandling national security information on her private email server. “There is more than enough for an indictment,” Issa, the former House Oversight Committee chairman, told Breitbart News Saturday on Sirius / XM Patriot Channel 125. Issa explained:

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Input: … IYF and Laureate Education are independent organizations. Laureate has never received any funds from IYF.” The spokesperson pointed to PolitiFact and Washington Post Fact Checker articles on the issue, while IYF CEO William Reese stated in an open letter that Becker was the board chairman, but the organization has received State Department funding since 1999. On another front, Uranium One Chairman Ian Telfer donated a total of $ 2.35 million to the foundation – and the New York Times reported that former President Clinton once received $ 500,000 for a speech in Moscow from a company promoting Uranium One stock. As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was among the U.S. officials that approved the Uranium One sale to Russian investors. Uranium One did not respond to phone and email inquiries.

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Input: A French hooligan hurled a bottle at the England fans sitting in a bar as violence continued in the city-the Three Lions play tonight The gang then started hurling chairs at the English supporters-who retaliated by throwing objects back at the French hooligans The French supporters prepare to hurl more objects at the the English fans congregated at the bar The disgraceful scenes came as violence flared up again in Marseille for the second night, which saw seven England fans arrested. And this afternoon fighting broke out for the third successive day as Russian and English fans were seen throwing objects at one another-prior to the match between the two nations this evening.

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Input: Maybe we'll have a relationship right in the middle." Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has appealed to anti-Russian sentiments in the US by criticising Trump, who often praises Putin, as being too cosy with the Kremlin leader and questioned the Republican's business interests in Russia. Those charges were repeated by her vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine during a debate with Pence on Tuesday. In response, Pence denounced Putin for his interference in Syria's civil war and support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad." The small and bullying leader of Russia is now dictating terms to the United States," Pence said.

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Input: RFE / RL contacted several of the people attending from nongovernmental organizations; all said they were unaware of the drugging. The U.S. government official told RFE / RL that U.S. investigators concluded that the two Americans -- a man and a woman -- were slipped a so-called date rape drug, most likely at a bar in the St. Petersburg hotel where they were staying. One of the Americans was incapacitated and brought to a Western medical clinic in the city for treatment, and to have blood and tissue samples taken in order to determine precisely what caused the sudden illness. However, while the person was at the clinic, the electricity suddenly went out and the staff was unable to obtain the necessary tissue samples, the official said. The individual was then flown out of the country for further medical treatment, but by then it was too late to gather proper samples, the official said.

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Input: The debate over the transition centers on internet freedom and the United States ' international interests." This is a solution in search of a problem that poses real risks to the liberties of Americans," Cruz said." Imagine an internet run like many Middle Eastern countries that punish what they deem to be blasphemy, or imagine an internet run like China or Russia, [which] punish and incarcerate those who engage in political dissent." However, proponents of the transition argue that such fears are unrealistic and rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the IANA function, which "is too limited in scope to be a tool for protecting internet freedom," NTIA Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling said." No one controls the internet. … To claim otherwise is simply not true, and people who really understand the internet know it is not true."

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Input: Unease over illegal immigration also has stoked today’s fear that the government no longer belongs to the people, and it’s important to understand the separate but mutually reinforcing ways that it has done so. Once again, President Obama has made a bad situation worse — this time, by his contemptuous refusal to execute the laws faithfully. His catch-and-release policy for illegal border-crossers, as well as his ban on deporting young aliens brought here by their illegal-immigrant parents, are imperial, antidemocratic edicts that might have sparked impeachment proceedings, had not Congress’s silly move to impeach Bill Clinton for lying about his sex games with an intern tainted that weapon for years to come. The result of Obama’s diktat, as contrary to the spirit of the Founders’ Constitution as is the Administrative State, is that law-abiding taxpayers must pay for the kids’ welfare support, health care, and schooling — as they already do for “anchor babies” born to mothers who have sneaked over the U.S. border for the purpose of having a child eligible for “child-only” welfare benefits, scarcely less than ordinary welfare payments and vastly more than the income of Central American peasant families. No American voted to incur these costs, which, if current trends continue, are likely to persist for several generations of such families, so they amount to taxation without representation as naked as George III’s.

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Input: Referring to the bombing of Syrian soldiers by US jets in September, an event US officials described as an unfortunate accident based on faulty information, Kislyak said "we saw statements that the week ago bombardment of the Syrian troops." He added that the strike "was based on false information." Democrats have accused Russia of coordinating the release of the emails to benefit Donald Trump's campaign. Russian media has covered the emails, with government-controlled Sputnik news misconstruing an email to make it seem that Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal had argued the Benghazi investigation was legitimate and the attack was preventable." Clinton was in charge of the State Department, and it failed to protect US personnel at an American consulate in Libya.

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Input: Trump did not leave U.S. [personnel] in Benghazi to be slaughtered and desecrated by filthy Muslims. Trump did not send the U.S. Navy to fight for Syrian al-Qaida. Trump did not arm ISIS and systematically exterminate Christians throughout the Middle East. Trump did not betray Israel. Trump did not provide financing and technology to Iran’s nuclear weapons program.

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Input: Barack Obama has commented more than once on how he is getting questions “constantly” from foreign leaders about Trump and his proposals. In the UK, “Trump” has become an epithet to be hurled back and forth in the increasingly acerbic battle over the country’s future in the European Union. Boris Johnson, the London mayor and the leading advocate of a British exit from the EU (known as Brexit), has tried to fight off comparisons with the Republican frontrunner for his populist style, bulky frame and unruly mop of hair. But that has only redoubled the determination of his critics to make the parallels stick. One British diplomat cringed at the idea of both men rising to the top of the political food chain in their respective countries.

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Input: In what was widely seen as a political prosecution, Khodorkovsky was charged with fraud and sent to prison for 10 years. An international court ruled in 2014 that Putin’s government would have to pay $ 50 billion for using tax claims to take control of and bankrupt Yukos. The court said the government was trying to silence Khodorkovsky, who was using his riches to fund opposition parties to Putin. Born in the then-U.S.S.R., Kukes immigrated to the U.S. in his twenties and became an American citizen, but has gone back and forth between Russia and the U.S. since then. Kukes served as president and CEO of Russia’s Tyumen Oil Company from 1998 to 2003.

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Input: A search found 3,659 classified documents at Keyser’s home: 1,976 of them “Secret” and 28 “Top Secret,” as well as 28 floppy disks containing more “Secret” documents. Keyser’s wife said she alerted him to the presence of the classified materials but he apparently never sought to return them. The removal-of-records charge Keyser admitted to is one some conservative lawyers have urged be leveled at Clinton. It does not require that the documents in question be classified. However, the government’s reason for concern in Keyser’s case went beyond his storage of classified info at home: undercover FBI agents twice observed him in a car having what appeared to be intimate contact with a Taiwanese intelligence agent, Isabelle Cheng.

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Input: The police, who wore full riot gear, were seen marching towards the hundreds of supporters who ran away down the street. Later Russian fans joined the brawl, with drunken youths goading each other into fist fights. Witnesses said anyone who fell to the floor was kicked repeatedly. Hours after the initial fighting outside bars, restaurants and a tourists ' market, the front of a bar called ' the Red Eagle ' was seen engulfed in flames as fans threw missiles at each other. It appears that English fans were targeted as they drank in the bar's terrace area and the group were then seen hurling objects and chairs at rival fans as hooliganism reared its ugly head.

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Input: Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill MORE (D-Mass.), former progressive senator and current Senate candidate Russ Feingold and Sen. Sherrod Brown Sherrod BrownDems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Trump administration pushing to weaken Russia sanctions bill: report Russia sanctions deal clears key Senate hurdle MORE (D-Ohio), a leading financial reformer who would become chairman of the Senate Banking Committee if Democrats were to regain control of the upper chamber. A People’s PAC could be formally launched at the Democratic National Convention and promoted by advocates to a national audience throughout the convention and beyond. A People’s PAC could be championed by stars such as George Clooney, who supports Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE but admires Sanders and fervently believes in small-donor democracy.

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Input: He added that Moscow is ready to develop large-scale military-technical cooperation with Ankara and the sides are now studying various projects. Read more The Turkish military operation in Syria and ways to cooperate in providing aid to civilians in the city of Aleppo were discussed during the talks in Istanbul on Monday, Erdogan said. The Russian and Turkish militaries, as well as intelligence services and diplomats from the two countries, will continue to work together on the provision of humanitarian aid in Syria, he added. “We thoroughly discussed the Syrian issue.

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Input: Image copyright Getty Images Khomeini arrived at Tehran airport on the morning of 1 February, mobbed by thousands of supporters. In a few days, he had appointed a rival prime minister. By then, the military had no fundamental problems with a change in the form of government, so long as change was done "legally and gradually", a CIA report, only declassified in 2016, concluded on 5 February, 1979. At this point, the army's cohesion had significantly eroded.

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Input: Leaked emails refer to Bill's penchant for ' dicking bimbos ' 20 years since the Monica Lewinsky affair threatened to bring down his presidency-and voters won't forget easily Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)

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Input: Thus has the Syrian war touched Lebanon again. The fears are, of course, of a Sunni-Shia conflict starting in the Beqaa Valley. The Syrian war has already divided Lebanon, not least because so many Hezbollah men have perished in Syria. They are “martyrs” to the militia and many Shiites, but the source of great anger to Lebanon’s Sunnis. The Islamists up at Arsal, including the Nusra Front men, are Sunnis.

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Input: Her trusted progressive voice has been consistent for years and must now be heard during the Presidential debates as it was during the Democratic Convention last week (see videos). “It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.”: General Douglas MacArthur, Speech, May 15, 1951 I’m no Johnny come lately when it comes to voting for Jill Stein for I was impressed by her and also voted for her in 2012 ~ see VT column endorsing Jill in 2012 but I’m thrilled by the manner in which my fellow New Englander has picked up the battered Progressive grassroots banner and made her stand last week outside the rigged Democratic Convention as well as enlisted the alternative press to state her case for Progressive values, like Real News Today and the Young Turks (TYT), See video ~ Virtually 60% of the electorate rightfully does not trust Hillary Clinton and Obama’s statement in 2008 that” she’ll say anything and change nothing” has permanently infected the Democratic base after the Democratic Primaries which leads to the question ~ can Hillary ignore her base and still defeat Trump? The answer is simple to Hillary ~ YES, her super donors are jumping on board and the base be dammed, as it most certainly was in Philadelphia this past week ~ but that may be wishful thinking by the Clinton lie machine which is now in damage control.

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Input: They just walked straight through all the England fans who were standing about singing,” he said. “The Russians just started hitting anyone they could. “One went to punch me, I ducked and punched him back to defend myself. I had to. But then someone took a bat to my arm.

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Input: The treaty with Iran will remain contentious and uncertain for some time. The deal may lead to a more aggressive and threatening Iran as showcased by its expanding ballistic missile program. Yet Iran has also taken steps to abide by the treaty, including its shipment to Russia of nearly all of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium. The implementation of the treaty later this year, which appears more likely, may gradually coax Iran back into the circle of nations and lead to significant changes in U.S. diplomacy and national security in the Middle East and more broadly. Obama drew the enmity of labor for winning fast-track trade authority on the Trans-Pacific Partnership, but he may use it this year to help reestablish the U.S. as a dominant power in the Pacific at a time of growing Chinese sway.

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

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Input: Also on Thursday, Jordan's King Abdullah II sent President Reuven Rivlin a condolences letter in which the king highlighted Peres ' efforts to bring peace between Israel and the Palestinians as part of a two-states solution. A number of other major leaders will attend the funeral, including French President Francois Hollande, who has been promoting an initiative over the past year to host an international peace conference to restart the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians. Between the end of the funeral and the beginning of Shabbat, Netanyahu is expected to hold a series of diplomatic meetings with several of the visiting international leaders. Netanyahu will not meet with Obama before he returns to the U.S., but will meet with former President Bill Clinton on Thursday night. He will also meet with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.

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Input: Lukashenko endorsed a legislative ban on unemployment last fall, proposing to bring back the Soviet-era term of “social parasitism,” and pledging to design measures to punish people who “intentionally don't work,” according to media reports. Right to labor The Soviet Union made “parasitism” a criminal offense before the law was abolished in the 1990s amid the political and economic liberalization undertaken by Mikhail Gorbachev. The law mostly targeted people working in private enterprises that were illegal under the Soviet regime, as well as prostitutes and political dissidents, such as Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, who went on trial for “social parasitism” (“ tuneyadstvo”) in the 1960s before being forced to emigrate. The “right to labor” was enshrined in the Soviet Union's constitution as a basic right of its citizens.

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Input: The close ally of Clinton is trying to give clemency to 200,000 non-violent convicts so that they can get back on the voting rolls. (Laura Vozzella) FBI officials are investigating a possible ISIS-inspired knife attack in Roanoke, Va, this weekend. The suspect apparently shouted “Allah Akbar” while stabbing a man and woman. The 20-year -old Wasil Farooqui, of Roanoke County, seems to have chosen the his victims at random. (Rachel Weiner) Andrea Tantaros became the latest former Fox News host to file grievances against her former employer, naming Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly in a sexual harassment lawsuit.

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Input: There can be no reducing inequality without guaranteeing women’s rights to abortion. The right to either terminate a pregnancy or, for that matter, to have children with the guarantee of resources to support them is an absolute necessity for equal rights. Until women are granted such rights, there can be no eradicating of inequality because the lack of such rights means that women will never gain full access to everything they need. I come from a “young democracy,” where it’s considered strange to reveal for whom you’re going to vote. The secret ballot should mean something.

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Input: The new casualties came after three Ukrainian soldiers were killed by pro-Russian rebels in a mortar attack earlier this week, in the deadliest attack in nearly two months, the Kiev military said. A series of truce agreements have helped reduce the violence, although sporadic clashes continue and prevent the sides from reaching a firm political reconciliation deal. Around 9,200 people have died and more than 21,000 been injured since the revolt against Ukraine's pro-Western leadership erupted in eastern Ukraine in April 2014. Kiev and the West accuse Russia of supporting the insurgents and sending regular troops across the border, claims that Moscow denies. Earlier this week, Ukraine's defence minister Stepan Poltorak warned it may take years to end a war that plunged Moscow's relations with the West to a post-Cold War low.

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Input: Edward Snowden says his old employer was likely hacked by his new host. The National Security Agency leakmeister tweeted Tuesday that the auction of malicious software files allegedly stolen from the NSA may actually be diplomatic signaling by Russia. The software, a set of digital tools, is being auctioned by a group that says it stole the cyber weapons from another group allegedly linked to the NSA. Snowden's comments are just the latest twist in the drama of an alleged hack of the NSA. A group calling itself The Shadow Brokers posted part of the software online earlier this week to entice bids for the rest of it.

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Input: He suggested it was made to derail attempts to re-start Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. Researchers Gideon Remez and Isabella Ginor said the document, in an archive at Cambridge University, shows that Mr Abbas was a KGB spy when he lived in Damascus in Syria. The document, which the University of Cambridge's Churchill Archives Centre confirmed was authentic, was smuggled in to the UK by a defector called Vasily Mitrokhin. It is entitled "KGB developments-Year 1983" and Mr Abbas identifies him by the codename "Krotov" or "mole"." ' Krotov ' -Abbas, Mahmoud, born 1935, origin Palestine, member of the executive committee of Fatah, PLO, Damascus, agent of the KGB," says the brief entry.

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Input: “The world is experiencing an unprecedented crisis of international religious freedom, a crisis that continues to create millions of victims; a crisis that undermines liberty, prosperity and peace; a crisis that poses a direct challenge to the US interests in the Middle East, Russia, China and sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere,” Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., who authored the bill, said in a statement. There have been increasing calls in recent years in northern European countries for an end to circumcision and ritual slaughter, spurred in part by anti-Muslim hostility, US government and European Jewish officials have said. The bill’s tier system for how well or poorly countries protect religious freedom would be similar to the one used in the annual State Department report on human trafficking. That report is influential, and countries seeking the good graces of the United States strive to improve their ranking by cracking down on the practice. Smith is the chairman of the House subcommittee on human rights, and as a co-chairman of the Helsinki Committee, the congressional panel that monitors human rights overseas, has made the resurgence of anti-Semitism in Europe a focus.

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Input: -- "It was arguably the most remarkable collection of champions ever collected in one place," Sally Jenkins writes in a column." ‘There you go; I am the greatest,’ Usain Bolt crowed after winning his ninth gold in the 4x100-meter relay, but he had to share the claim with the dolphin-backed Michael Phelps, the epic sojourner Katie Ledecky, the human pinwheel Simon Biles and a titanic U.S. women’s basketball team that won its sixth straight gold medal.” -- U.S. Olympic Committee CEO Scott Blackmun promised “further action” will be taken against Ryan Lochte and his three U.S. swimming teammates who fabricated a story about being robbed. “We all understand they let down our athletes and they let down Americans, and they really let down our hosts in Rio,” Blackmun told reporters. “We feel very badly about that.

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Input: The group from Boston University explain that if you only use words from a dictionary or a purely numeric password, a hacker only has to try a limited list of possibilities which can be run through by a program in under one minute. At least two different hacker(s) that have been linked with the Russian government had access into the networks of the DNC for a year, with the ability to read emails, chats, and documents that were downloaded on its computers. CrowdStrike, a company hired to investigate the breach on the DNC, said groups codenamed Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear were behind the infiltrations. In the ultimate irony, the leaked DNC emails revealed that in May, a DNC staffer mocked a report that the DNC cybersecurity was ‘horrible’ stating that the article was the “dumbest thing I’ve ever read.” Fallout continues as the DNC chairwoman has been forced to resign following the hacked emails and right before its convention in Philadelphia.

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Input: Caring about overseas victims of US wars is lowest on the totem pole Why is war the one area in which liberals are willing to accept the "lesser of two evils?" Why do they accept promises of "less war" in place of guarantees of "no war?" To emphasize this point, consider the outrage in respective circles if the following were to happen: Gloria Allred donated money to the Bill Cosby rape defense fund.

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Input: "We have requested for more support." The most important consequence of the Kabul attack has been a decision by the Afghan government to engage the Taliban, Daesh and Haqqani network militarily is a significant one. It means the virtual end of the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG, including US, Pakistan, China and Afghanistan), which was set up to get Pakistan to bring the Taliban to the negotiating table. But Pakistan is the real target of Afghanistan because they believe all Taliban / Haqqani network attacks are carried out with Pakistan's support. Karzai said," The Pakistan PM's foreign policy adviser, Sartaj Aziz went to Washington recently and in front of the entire world he said the Taliban live among them. They receive treatment in their medical facilities; there is a vast support infrastructure, logistical infrastructure, all of that exists in Pakistan.

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Input: 8/15 Germany Workers carry a dummy grenade into a bunker at the GEKA facility in Munster 9/15 Germany A worker in protective clothing stands at the door of a bunker at the GEKA facility in Munster 10/15 Germany Workers unload a dummy grenade 11/15 Germany UN Security Council resolution 2118 about destroying chemical weapons was passed after a massive attack killed hundreds in several opposition areas around Damascus 12/15 Germany Workers sit in a trailer outside of the GEKA facility in Munster

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Input: Other reports speak of heavy fighting in the area at this time, but don't provide details of casualties. The attacks are believed to have been carried out by ISIS or one of its affiliates. February 28, 2016-ISIS ' affiliate in the Sinai desert in Egypt claims that a series of attacks in the cities of al-Arish and Sheikh Zuweid killed and wounded more than 10 members of the security forces, including a police captain shot outside his home. The attack is believed to have been carried out by ISIS or one of its affiliates. March 2, 2016 -- ISIS ' affiliate in the Sinai desert in Egypt claims multiple bombings against the Egyptian army and publishes photos of an IED attack against an army patrol near Sheikh Zuweid, in which it claims three soldiers were killed.

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Input: Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow at the FRC who will have a speaking slot at this weekend’s summit, has perhaps been the most clear about the organization’s views on the subject. Asked by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in 2010 if he thinks “we should outlaw gay behavior,” Sprigg replied, “Yes.” In a 2008 television interview, Sprigg mused, “I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States because we believe homosexuality is destructive to society.” The American Family Association, another sponsor of the Values Voter Summit, likewise backed Texas in the Lawrence case, writing in the amicus brief that a law like Texas’ could prevent the “injury caused to the public by same-sex sodomy” and would even protect the gay people it targeted by sparing them “illness, disease and death resulting from [their] conduct.” That same year, the AFA published an essay lamenting that the disappearance of sodomy laws showed that “Judeo-Christian views” were being abandoned in favor of “moral relativism.” In 2011, then-AFA spokesman Bryan Fischer said that homosexuality should be a “criminal offense.” First Liberty, another sponsor of the event, likewise backed Texas in the Lawrence case (under its previous incarnation as the Liberty Legal Institute), with the group’s leader Kelly Shackelford — also a speaker at this year’s VVS — declaring that there is “no constitutional right to engage in homosexual sodomy.” Other figures at the Values Voter Summit have also supported criminal bans on homosexuality.

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Input: The 30 minutes allotted to each candidate made the proceedings feel like the political equivalent of speed-dating. And like speed-dating gone wrong, there was plenty of time for the participants to bury themselves with their words. Mrs Clinton once again tripped up when discussing her use of a private email server as secretary of state. Mr Trump found new and interesting ways to show his tenuous command of policy details and shower questionable praise on a US rival. Read Anthony's analysis in full

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Input: PARIS French investigators believe a Frenchman detained in Ukraine with a cache of weapons and explosives was more likely involved in arms smuggling than tied to a militant group, the prosecutor leading the case said on Tuesday. France has requested Kiev's cooperation but is still awaiting a response more than 24 hours after Ukraine's state security service (SBU) said the suspect had planned "terrorist attacks" during the Euro 2016 soccer tournament which kicks off on Friday in France." This young man is unknown to French intelligence services, and the judicial authorities for now are leaning towards a possible arms smuggling case," Thomas Pison, the state prosecutor for Nancy, said by telephone. SBU chief Vasyl Hrytsak said on Monday the 25-year -old had made contact with armed groups in Ukraine. In a sting operation, the suspect was stopped at the Polish border with rocket launchers, Kalashnikov assault rifles and explosives.

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Input: I endorse Brother @BernieSanders because he is a long-distance runner with integrity in the struggle for justice for over 50 years. — Cornel West (@CornelWest) August 25, 2015 In an interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, West directly confronts the idea that Stein is a spoiler – a label the Green Party has struggled to shake since Ralph Nader was blamed by many on the left for spoiling the 2000 election in favor of George W. Bush over Al Gore. “I think after a magnificent campaign of Bernie Sanders, the next step is a green step. The next step is a progressive step.

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Input: However, a senior official in the Turkish prime minister’s office denies that it is preparing to send ground forces. “All these reports regarding this huge number of troops are baseless – Yes, we are talking to the Saudis and to all partners on how to support the moderate opposition. “As a coalition partner to fight Daesh [Isis], Turkey has a close dialogue and co-operation with a large number of countries.” Dramatic escalation The exact location and details of any intervention are disputed.

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Input: The KGB, Russia’s espionage organization, recruited and ran spies among Israel’s Knesset members, senior army officers and intelligence community, as well as lower-level workers on classified projects, according to an investigation by journalist Ronen Bergman. The first part of his investigation will be published by Yedioth Ahronoth on Friday. The list of agents includes, according to the report, a major general in the Israel Defense Forces, since deceased, and three Knesset members. One was Elazar Granot, secretary general of Mapam (the United Workers Party) and a member of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the 1980s. Others, Yedioth reports, include a senior engineer in the National Water Carrier project (a canal leading fresh water from the Sea of Galilee in the north to Israel’s center); a person in a classified position at the Israel Aerospace Industries who was involved in handling or planning the Lavi, Israel’s version of a fighter jet (which never left the ground); and another agent engaged in maintaining Merkava tanks.

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Input: There, the alliance agreed to deploy a multinational force to the Baltics and Poland and to take over a U.S.-built missile shield that Russia sees as hostile. Putin agreed to Wednesday's meeting of the NATO-Russia Council, only the second since mid-2014, while also recently allowing a U.N. resolution authorizing the EU to intercept arms shipments to Libya in the Mediterranean. Putin has talked by telephone U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Holland in recent days." BACK TO THE COLD WAR" The transponders plan, which was raised by Putin during a visit to Finland this month, was put to NATO ambassadors both by Russia's envoy and generals at the meeting at NATO headquarters.

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Input: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is pictured during a test-fire of strategic submarine-launched ballistic missile in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang August 25, 2016. REUTERS / KCNA A test-fire of strategic submarine-launched ballistic missile is seen in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang August 25, 2016. REUTERS / KCNA North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is pictured during a test-fire of strategic submarine-launched ballistic missile in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang August 25, 2016.

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Input: Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine Tim KaineLive coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan Trump supporter who lost tight Va. governor primary weighs Senate run Northam defeats Sanders-backed candidate in Va. gov primary MORE has emerged as the clear favorite a day before Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE is expected to announce her running mate. Clinton confidants and allies believe Kaine is the leading contender.

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Input: Sign up for 30 days ' free trial, no obligation. Full subscription only 15 € / month or 150 € / year. Settlement expansion seen as obstacle to peace by EU, but the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement unwelcome (Photo: ISM-NC) The EU recently tightened up rules on grants and trade perks for settler firms as well as on retail labels for settler-made food, wine, and cosmetics. Faaberg-Anderson said, according to Israeli media: “The settlements are not part of Israel, and for that reason products from the settlements, although they are welcomed in the European market, they are not given the same preferential treatment.”

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Input: Image copyright Getty Images Image caption A bloodied England fan was among a number detained by police Image copyright Reuters Image caption Police used tear gas for a third day, as well as water cannon, in an attempt to disperse fans As many as 20 England fans were injured, with a number taken to hospital, and at least one Briton is understood to be in a critical condition. There were also clashes in the city of Nice between police and fans from Northern Ireland and Poland, who are due to play their opening match later on Sunday. Six people were reportedly injured, before order was restored.

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Input: (Sean Sullivan, Abby Phillip and Ed O'Keefe) -- The GOP nominee is not telling the truth when he says he has put $ 100 million into his campaign. He gave about $ 31,000 in in-kind contributions in the first 19 days of the month — down from the $ 2 million a month in cash he had been donating. His personal contributions to his campaign now total a little more than $ 56 million. But he continues to insist that he's putting in $ 100 million during interviews.

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Input: TESTING TIME Biden's visit comes at a testing time for Turkish-U.S. relations. Erdogan wants the United States to extradite Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish cleric who has lived in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania for 17 years and whose religious movement he blames for staging last month's failed coup. Washington says it needs clear evidence of Gulen's involvement and that it is a matter for the courts, a position that has sparked an outpouring of anti-Americanism from Turkey's pro-government media. Gulen denies any role in the coup attempt.

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Input: It’s all there in Trump’s commentary on U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over lawsuits against Trump University. Curiel was born in Indiana; previously, as a prosecutor, he risked his life while pursuing Mexican drug cartels. But Curiel's parents immigrated from Mexico and that, Trump stated, means the judge can not rule in the Trump University lawsuits fairly. When CNN's Tapper asked Trump whether such arguments were racist, Trump responded by saying, “This judge is of Mexican heritage. I'm building a wall.” Tapper pressed him on this a few times, and Trump kept giving versions of the same response.

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Input: But a pro-Russian president, Viktor F. Yanukovych, was democratically elected in 2010 and remained in power until he was ousted in 2014, ultimately taking up exile in Russia. Mr. Yanukovych had hired a lobbying firm co-founded by Paul Manafort, now Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, to improve his image in the West and avoid punishment for veering toward Russia. The annexation of Crimea in 2014 was seen as both a power grab and a land grab by Mr. Putin. It was condemned by the United States and its European allies, which all issued sanctions. Since then, Russian troops, often out of uniform, have been seen, and sometimes killed, in Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine where a pro-Russia insurgency has fought the current Ukrainian government.

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Input: They will not be radical ideologues of the left. They will be judges with long standing court experience, solid legal credentials, and the highest ratings from the ABA and other legal groups. They will deliver safe and predictable votes on everything from women's and civil rights to stemming environmental abuses. Clinton can't and won't try to avoid the problem that has been perennially the single biggest tormenting lightening rod for black-white discord, namely, wanton police violence against blacks and minorities, and the astronomical numbers of blacks in America's jails and prisons. Her Oval Office to-do list is a mix of old and new proposals on police and criminal justice reform.

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Input: A Russian Mi-8 helicopter has been shot down by ground fire in Syria following delivery of humanitarian supplies to Aleppo, the Defense Ministry said. Three crew and two officers from Russia's Reconciliation Center died, according to a Kremlin statement. The Russian military transport Mi-8 helicopter was shot down in Syria on Monday over an area controlled by Al-Nusra Front, Russia’s General Staff said. “The helicopter was hit from the ground in an area under control of the armed units of Al-Nusra Front terrorist group and the troops of the so-called ‘moderate opposition’ who joined them,” General Sergey Rudskoy, chief of the main operations department of the Russian General Staff, said.

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Input: He'll be remembered for not getting a lot of American soldiers killed. We don't know how relations with Iran will go. If last week's brief hostage-taking at sea is any indication, 2016 could bring skirmishing between U.S. and Iranian forces. But Obama's historic nuclear deal has unquestionably made the world safer. Just this month, Iran began fulfilling it end of the bargain, mothballing nuclear facilities and shipping its enriched uranium to Russia in exchange for the lifting of sanctions.

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Input: It is well known that I do work in the United States and have done work on overseas campaigns as well. I have never received a single ‘off-the-books cash payment’ as falsely ‘reported’ by The New York Times, nor have I ever done work for the governments of Ukraine or Russia. Further, all of the political payments directed to me were for my entire political team: campaign staff (local and international), polling and research, election integrity and television advertising. The suggestion that I accepted cash payments is unfounded, silly and nonsensical.” Previewing Trump’s National-Security Speech

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Input: Under the rules of non-proliferation, no U.S. or Japanese firm could engage in nuclear trade with a non-signatory, but since Washington made an exception for India, Tokyo has also signaled its assent. The nuclear agreement crafted by the George W. Bush administration was seen initially as an attempt to build India into a military and economic power to counter China, but has since become linked to Washington's effort to wean major economies such as India off fossil fuels to cleaner forms of energy. India is also in talks with Russia to build four more reactors on top of the two already completed in Kudankulam in southern Tamil Nadu state, as well as with France's EDF for the construction of six reactors of 1650 MW each in western India, which would be the world's biggest nuclear power complex. But talks with Westinghouse are more advanced than those with the French, with the two sides aiming to sign an early works agreement next month, sources familiar with their progress said. A delegation from the U.S .- based firm visited New Delhi earlier this month to finalize the pact that would include the timeline and up-front costs such as land acquisition and site preparation, said a source familiar with the matter.

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Input: Omar Mateen allegedly killed more than 50 people and injured 53 others in what is the deadliest mass shootings in the country's history. (Photo by Hagen Hopkins / Getty Images) ORLANDO, FL-JUNE 12: Candles sit on the edge of Lake Eola, June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. The shooting at Pulse Nightclub, which killed 50 people and injured 53, is the worst mass-shooting event in American history. (Photo by Drew Angerer / Getty Images) Brett Morian, from Daytona Beach, hugs an attendee during the candlelight vigil at Ember in Orlando, Fla., on Sunday, June 12, 2016. (Joshua Lim / Orlando Sentinel / TNS via Getty Images) People sit by the water with candles during a vigil in a park following a mass shooting at the Pulse gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, U.S. June 12, 2016.

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Input: Venezuela has more oil than any other country on the planet. But it just bought a bunch of American crude. A ship carrying half a million barrels of oil that was pumped in the U.S. docked at a terminal owned by Venezuela last week, according to oil data research firm ClipperData. The shipment was sent to a facility located on the Dutch island of Curacao in the Caribbean.

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Input: Even discounting some of the rhetoric as due to the heat of a campaign, the diplomat said, Trump’s success in the primary must be understood as a measure of changing American attitudes and his own intentions. “That feeling about burden-sharing is probably relatively deep in his gut: There’s something wrong here — the U.S. is getting robbed.” In some cases, Trump’s language has had the opposite effect of what he intends. He professes a hard line on China (“ We ca n’t continue to allow China to rape our country,” he said in May), but, in China, Trump’s “America First” policy has been understood as the lament of a permissive, exhausted America. A recent article in Guancha, a nationalist news site, was headlined “Trump: America Will Stop Talking About Human Rights and No Longer Protect NATO Unconditionally.” Shen Dingli, an influential foreign-policy scholar at Fudan University, in Shanghai, told me that Chinese officials would be concerned about Trump’s unpredictability but, he thinks, have concluded that, ultimately, he is a novice who makes hollow threats and would be easy to handle. They would worry about the policies of a President Hillary Clinton, who, as Secretary of State, oversaw Obama’s “pivot” to Asia, intended to balance China’s expansion.

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Input: There is also the issue of what President Obama meant by “mass violence.” If you include bombings, many countries face many more bombings than the US does. On March 22nd, 2016, Belgium had a bombing attacks at an airport and subway that killed 31 people and wounded 180. That is worse than any mass public shooting in the US in terms of fatalities and woundings. Or take just the bombing cases in Russia. Russia had few mass public shootings, but it suffered from numerous bomb attacks, with 1.31 mass bombing murders per million people.

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Input: Her dad has some impressive credits as well. Born in the rural Afghanistan village of Shullana, Millatmal graduated from medical school in Kabul in 1976 but was forced to flee his country after spending a year jailed and tortured by the communist government, said one account. “He joined the Mujahadim to fight the Russian invasion, but his opposition to Islamic extremism within the freedom fighter movement compelled him to flee to Pakistan in 1980 where he worked with other Afghan refugees,” it said. A U.S. citizen since 1996, he became a founding member of the Afghan Doctors Society, Medical Education and Training for Afghan Women in Pakistan, and the Afghans Health and Social Assistance Organization. He worked to elect President Ashraf Ghani in 2014.

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Input: The speakers also expressed gratitude to His Holiness for encouraging the development of Ladakh and its culture since he came into exile. In his address, His Holiness referred to the historic cultural and spiritual ties between Ladakh and Tibet and expressed his appreciation of the convening of the conference." Although Thonmi Sambhota is known to have composed eight texts on Tibetan language and grammar ", he remarked," only two, dealing with grammar, the Sumchupa and Takyi Jugpa, survive. Whether you call it Bhoti or Tibetan, this written language is important because it preserves the profound Buddhist culture we share. In today's rational world the epistemological texts of Dignaga and Dharmakirti, only available in Tibetan, provide us with tools for analyzing the nature of reality.

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Thonmi Sambhota

eight texts on Tibetan language and grammar


Input: Area C comprises more than 60 percent of the West Bank and is under complete Israeli military control, both for security and civil affairs. Estimates of the Palestinian population in Area C are a subject of mystery and debate. The U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinians reported that there were 297,500 Palestinians in Area C in 2014. An Israeli human rights group, Bimkom, estimates that 150,000 to 180,000 Palestinians live there. The Israeli military division that controls Area C gives an estimate of 50,000 Palestinians.

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U.N. agency

Palestinians

Area C


Input: Geographically vast, Brooklyn is separated into discrete neighborhoods which can feel like islands unto themselves. Sunset Park is a poor and working class Latino and Chinese enclave located just two miles away from Park Slope. For the outsider venturing into the area, one may almost feel transported to Guadalajara or Shanghai. Many Latinos in the neighborhood are illegal aliens and can't vote, let alone speak English. When local residents are engaged in a daily battle for economic survival, it can be difficult to make political inroads within the community.

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Input: Such a process would not dilute the evil of ISIS’s civilian-targeting violence, but it would enable a more honest and complete understanding of the role Western governments’ policies play and the inevitable costs they entail. Perhaps those costs are worth enduring, but that question can only be rationally answered if the costs are openly discussed. But whatever else is true, if we are constantly bombarded with images and stories and dramatic narratives highlighting our own side’s victims, while the victims of our side’s violence are rendered invisible, it’s only natural that large numbers of us will conclude that only They, but not We, are committing civilian-killing violence. That’s a really pleasing thing to believe, no matter how false it is. Having media outlets perpetrate self-pleasing and tribal-affirming — but utterly false — narratives is the very definition of propaganda.

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Input: Between 1980 and 2008, the foreign-born Hispanic population quadrupled — from about 4.2 million to 17.8 million. Democrats, the immigrant-friendly center-left party, were better positioned to take advantage of the growing Latino vote. The white Americans most hostile to Latino immigration, by contrast, switched to the GOP — driven in part by negative media coverage of immigration like stories about violent crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants." When media coverage of immigration uses the Latino threat narrative, the likelihood of whites identifying with the Democratic Party decreases and the probability of favoring Republicans increase," political scientists Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan Hajnal write in their book White Backlash." As immigration’s impact on the United States has grown, whites have fled to the Republican Party in ever-larger numbers."

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Input: In July, Cruz told the Texas delegation at the convention in Ohio that his pledge to support the eventual GOP nominee was "abrogated" when the nasty primary fight between he and Trump's campaigns became personal." Neither he nor his campaign has taken back a word of what they said about my family,” Cruz said as he faced backlash over his convention speech telling Republicans to "vote your conscience." Trump and Cruz clashed heatedly as they battled for the GOP presidential nomination, with attacks often getting personal. Trump fanned rumors that Cruz's father was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and he disparaged the Texas senator's wife Heidi in a retweet comparing an unflattering image of her to a glamor shot of his own wife Melania, a former model. Cruz responded by calling Trump “a sniveling coward” and "a narcissist at a level I don't think this country's ever seen.” He also called Trump “amoral” and a “pathological liar.”

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Input: WND was the first to report a set of facts about the Twin Falls assault based on the eyewitness account of an 89-year -old grandmother who saw “something funny” going on at the laundry room entrance. It was there, on the afternoon of June 2, that Jolene Payne said she saw a 14-year -old boy filming something through a crack in the laundry room door. She flung open the door and was shocked at what she found. She said she saw two younger boys, ages 10 and 7, both naked, along with the little girl, who the boys had also allegedly stripped of her clothing. The girl was covered in urine, Payne told WND.

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Input: Both Germany and Poland were satisfied the formula agreed upon served both governments. Shortly before the agreement with Germany was to be signed, Poland secretly signed a treaty with Great Britain dated August 25, l939. Great Britain agreed in that treaty to hasten the military assistance of Poland "with all the support and assistance in its power" if Poland were attacked by Germany. With that assurance from Great Britain, Poland broke off negotiations with Germany. Germany did not understand the reason for Poland's sudden change of mind and decided to proceed with the terms of the arrangement agreed upon with Poland.

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Poland


Input: "We feel that is not any longer a viable position," he said. One of the starting points for rescheduling cannabis would be for the the World Health Organization (WHO) to undertake a formal review of cannabis ' placement in the convention system. The WHO could then recommend to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs that cannabis be rescheduled. But such an official review has never happened, in large part due to continued political pressure by countries with hardline drug policies. Related: How Russia Became the New Global Leader in the War on Drugs

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Commission on Narcotic Drugs


Input: Children play with water from a burst water pipe at a site hit yesterday by an air strike in Aleppo's rebel-controlled al-Mashad neighbourhood, Syria, September 30, 2016. REUTERS / Abdalrhman Ismail People walk on the rubble of damaged buildings in the rebel held area of al-Kalaseh neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria, September 29, 2016. REUTERS / Abdalrhman Ismail MOSCOW / BEIRUT Russia is sending more warplanes to Syria to ramp up its air campaign, a Russian newspaper reported on Friday, as the United States said diplomacy to halt the violence was "on life support" but not dead yet.

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Input: Poland was receptive to Chechens during Chechnya's war against Russian forces, which ended in 2009. Sienicki said that 6,000 Russian citizens, mostly Chechens, have been admitted to Poland so far this year, a 150-percent increase from the same period last year. During the same time, some 30,000 people have been denied entry. Blaszczak: a minister with form Blaszczak said in July that multiculturalism, political correctness and mass migration were responsible for terror attacks in Europe.

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Poland

some 30,000 people

Chechnya

Poland


Input: Future cyber attacks could alter the integrity of data so the truth will be hard to know. Today, when a breach occurs, we assume the information released must be true. In the future, we need to assume that anything leaked could be false, designed to deceive and manipulate. Because increasingly, it will. Finally, the US government needs to start attributing election-related breaches as quickly as possible unless there is a compelling intelligence reason not to.

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Input: In the email, Aboussie said “It should go without saying that the Peabody folks came to Dick and I because of our relationship with the Clinton’s.” Morocco: In May of 2015, Politico, ABC News and Yahoo reported that Morocco’s state-owned phosphate company OCP donated $ 1 million to the Clinton Foundation for a conference in Marrakech. The Politico story said “Hillary Clinton’s relationship with Morocco’s government was pivotal” in brokering the meeting and noted that “not long after stepping down in 2013, Clinton joined her family foundation’s board, and that same year OCP donated between $ 1 million and $ 5 million to the philanthropy.” Politico also noted that prior to the donations, “as protests raged on Moroccan streets, Hillary Clinton in a joint 2011 appearance with Morocco’s foreign minister praised the king for introducing constitutional reforms and said his country was ‘well-positioned to lead in this area because it is on the road to achieving democratic change.’” Additionally, Politico reported, in 2012 “even as the State Department continued to include Morocco in human rights reports and to flag concerns about government corruption, Clinton launched an ongoing U.S.-Morocco strategic dialogue, praising the country as “a leader and a model.” Algeria: A 2015 Washington Post investigation found that the Clinton Foundation accepted $ 500,000 from the Algerian government at a time when that country “was spending heavily to lobby the State Department on human rights issues.” The Post reported that Clinton Foundation “officials acknowledged they should have sought approval in 2010 from the State Department ethics office, as required by the agreement for new government donors, before accepting” the money, which was earmarked for Haiti earthquake relief.

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Input: The United States was slammed over its rights record Monday at the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, with member nations criticizing the country for police violence and racial discrimination, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility and the continued use of the death penalty. The issue of racism and police brutality dominated the discussion on Monday during the country’s second universal periodic review (UPR). Country after country recommended that the U.S. strengthen legislation and expand training to eliminate racism and excessive use of force by law enforcement.

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Input: He anticipates opening the community gymnasium for people without beds come winter, and a growing pile of sleeping bags and blankets sits in his office. Those protesters from Arizona, Georgia and California won't know what hit them when the cold rushes in, he says. Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Fireworks lit the sky at the Oceti Sakowin Camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota on December 4, 2016, after the Army Corps of Engineers halted the Dakota Access Pipeline route. An executive order by President Donald Trump in January allowed work to resume. Hide Caption 1 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Activists embrace after the December halt of the Dakota Access Pipeline route.

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Oceti Sakowin Camp near Cannon Ball, North Dakota


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: The “nuclear option” would be an embargo on Russian energy exports. The U.S. official said that option was n’t on the table. Europe gets about one-third of its energy supplies from Russia, so any such embargo would deal a severe blow to already struggling European economies. “What really hurts the Russians is the U.S. control over the international banking system,” retired General James Jones Jr., Obama’s former national security adviser, said in an interview. “if you want to change Russian behavior this is one way to do it.”

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Europe

energy


Input: “They’re friendly … but even friendlies can get aggressive on spying on each other,” he said. Clinton also accessed her private email “extensively” while traveling, Comey said, “including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries.” This practice considerably heightened the risk of compromise, particularly if Clinton used unencrypted pathways to access her email while abroad, said Jason Straight, chief privacy officer of UnitedLex, which advises corporations on cybersecurity practices. Comey also said FBI investigators determined that hackers had infiltrated the private commercial email accounts of people that regularly emailed Clinton’s personal account, opening up another potential entry point for digital snoops. The FBI chief did n’t name these outside contacts, leading some, including Wright, to wonder if there would be further investigation into the emails of top aides, like Cheryl Mills or Huma Abedin.

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

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Input: “It is an enormous challenge,” said Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, who described the clashes between U.S.-supported groups as “a fairly new phenomenon.” “It is part of the three-dimensional chess that is the Syrian battlefield,” he said. The area in northern Syria around Aleppo, the country's second-largest city, features not only a war between the Assad government and its opponents, but also periodic battles against Islamic State militants, who control much of eastern Syria and also some territory to the northwest of the city, and long-standing tensions among the ethnic groups that inhabit the area, Arabs, Kurds and Turkmen. “This is a complicated, multi-sided war where our options are severely limited,” said a U.S. official, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly on the matter. “We know we need a partner on the ground.

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Islamic State militants

Syria


Input: (The two countries have been negotiating for membership but talks have been suspended with Russia because of the Crimea crisis.) The OECD says the average homicide rate among the 36 countries is 4.1 per 100,000 people. According to the 2014 data, at the top of the list is Brazil, with a homicide rate 25.5, or six times the average. Next on the list is Mexico, with a homicide rate of 23.4, followed by Russia at 12.8. Then comes a tie for fourth place — Chile and the United States both have a homicide rate of 5.2.

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Brazil


Input: George H.W. Bush governed in a time of transition to a world where the Soviet Union broke apart, a world in which the United States would become the lone superpower. When Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, he assembled an international coalition to repel the Iraqi forces, using U.S. military air power and a huge ground army to drive them back, a war financed heavily with the bankrolls of U.S. allies. George W. Bush led the United States into Afghanistan after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and, later, into what became a disastrous war in Iraq. In his second inaugural address, in the midst of the Iraq adventure, he offered an expansive vision for the United States around the globe, setting out a goal of ending tyranny by helping to spread democracy into parts of the world where it had never taken root.

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Kuwait


Input: A woman promoting a fur fashion shop in Moscow was shot dead by a resident of the same block who was irate about her constant loudspeaker announcements. Anna Nosova, 25, was gunned down from a third floor window by nuclear engineer Sergei Galakhov, 58, as she tried to lure customers into her store near Lyublino metro station. Her killing stunned her co-workers and people on the crowded pavement.

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Input: Photos: The ISIS terror threat Alleged ISIS militants stand next to an ISIS flag atop a hill in Kobani on Monday, October 6. Hide Caption 56 of 68 Photos: The ISIS terror threat A Kurdish Peshmerga soldier who was wounded in a battle with ISIS is wheeled to the Zakho Emergency Hospital in Duhuk, Iraq, on Tuesday, September 30. Hide Caption 57 of 68 Photos: The ISIS terror threat Syrian Kurds wait near a border crossing in Suruc as they wait to return to their homes in Kobani on Sunday, September 28.

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Input: It turned out, however, that Gaddafi was right that many of his adversaries in the east were radical jihadists and terrorists, a truth that Clinton learned when U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other U.S. personnel were slain by attackers in Benghazi on Sept. 11, 2012. Clinton’s deception around the Libyan “no-fly zone” – as a gateway to yet another brutal U.S.-backed “regime change” – also helped poison U.S. relations with Russia and China, which balked at similar U.S. demands for a “safe zone” inside Syria, an idea that Clinton has advocated both as Secretary of State and as a presidential candidate. In other words, Clinton is no more honest about big things than small, just as the Bible passage foretold, except now the fate of the world may hang in the balance. Ray McGovern works with Tell the Word, a publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in inner-city Washington.

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Input: The tapes reveal her discussing the case of Thomas Alfred Taylor, then 41, who was accused of raping a 12-year -old in Springdale, Arkansas, on May 10, 1975. “It was a fascinating case, it was a very interesting case,” Clinton said on the tape. “This guy was accused of raping a 12-year -old. Course he claimed that he did n’t, and all this stuff. … I had him take a polygraph, which he passed – which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs.” She laughed at the statement.

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Springdale


Input: Police have arrested a man on suspicion of trying to assassinate the chief expert witness in the investigation into the downing of the Malaysia Airlines jet MH17. Ukraine’s most senior forensic scientist, Oleksandr Ruvin, was shot in the leg late last year in an attack that the authorities suspect was linked to his role in the crash probe. In a short statement, the Ukrainian prosecutor’s office said the country’s chief military prosecutor, Anatoliy Matios, would hold a briefing later on Monday “regarding the arrest of the killer who attempted to murder the chief expert on the case of the downed Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777”.

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Input: Drone strikes will remain part of our strategy, but we will also seek to capture high-value targets to gain needed information to dismantle their organizations. Foreign combatants will be tried in military commissions. Finally, we will pursue aggressive criminal or immigration charges against anyone who lends material support to terrorism. Similar to the effort to take down the mafia, this will be the understood mission of every federal investigator and prosecutor in the country. To accomplish a goal, you must state a mission: the support networks for Radical Islam in this country will be stripped out and removed one by one.

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terrorism


Input: President Barack Obama warned pointedly of “homegrown demagogues” this week in the same breath as “fascists” and “jihadists.” Clinton and the Democrats are selling the fear of what America would look like under a President Donald Trump to gin up turnout, just as Trump is selling fear of a dangerous, diminished and diversifying America under Obama, and himself as the lone man who can “make America great again.” In her acceptance speech Thursday, Clinton urged the public to “imagine, imagine” the idea of a Trump presidency, calling him temperamentally unfit. “A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons,” she said “I alone can fix it,” Trump said a week ago.

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Input: The meeting, which was set up by Cruz during the Conservative Review convention, lasted about 20 to 25 minutes as Carson's Secret Service detail waited outside the closet. Carson’s campaign confirmed the secret meeting to The Daily Beast, but blasted Cruz’s team for leaking the news, accusing him of trying to improve his image. Carson has slammed Cruz's campaign for wrongly telling Iowa voters that the retired neurosurgeon was dropping out of the race on the night of the caucuses. “We were n’t going to comment to the press on it, but it seems pretty clear that the other party involved had a different agenda,” Jason Osborne, a senior communications strategist for Carson’s campaign, told The Daily Beast. “How else could we perceive that to be?”

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Input: Western powers have said the Syrian government has been responsible for chlorine and other chemical attacks, while the government and Russia have accused rebel forces of using poison gas. Both government and opposition forces have denied using chemical weapons during the five-year civil war. But that did not stop the accusations from flying on Tuesday – with the opposition Syrian National Coalition (SNC) accusing President Bashar al-Assad of being behind the attack. Later, state news agency SANA said rebels had fired rockets armed with toxic gas on the government-held old quarter of Aleppo city, killing five people and causing eight breathing difficulties. It gave no further details.

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poison gas