Input: Donald Trump said of a protester at one of his rallies, “in the good old days they would have carried him out on a stretcher.” His world reveres this brand of toughness. This toughness is not about the strength it takes to use restraint or to make really hard decisions. It is about “punching that guy in the face,” or at a minimum, saving face ― his. I will resist the temptation to belabor the nuclear codes point again, and rather just query do we really want a thin-skinned president who, as he suggested, if a government leader (Castro) was not on the tarmac to meet his plane, “would turn around Air Force One and come home.” Or one who when confronted with the fact that whether or not his careless re-tweet of a white supremacist-created Jewish star and dollar bill-backed attack of Hillary Clinton was anti-Semitic, ca n’t even just give one of those non-apology-apologies, “I am sorry if I offended anyone.” A “tough-guy” who instead declares major newscasters stupid and sick and makes it all about the media who dare to criticize him, with never a word to David Duke and the ugly element high-fiving him and resending his initial offensive post. Whether or not the post was intended to even more firmly entrench this segment of support, Trump demonstrates his version of tough, one that glorifies his opinion and his being right over all else.

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Input: That’s why they come to us, so we can protect their anonymity.” The Metropolitan Police Department in Washington have not established a motive for the killing but reportedly told the young man’s family that he died during a robbery attempt turned tragic. His father, however, told Omaha CBS-affiliate KMTV he did not think it was a robbery because nothing was stolen: his watch, money, credit cards and phone were still with him. The WikiLeaks founder said that others have suggested that Rich was killed for political reasons and that his organization is investigating the incident. “I think it is a concerning situation.

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Input: Vladimir Putin hit back today, saying he would not cave in to western pressure." We see what is happening (with these) completely baseless accusations of all the deadly sins, of all crimes," the Russian President told an investment forum." Such methods on the international stage are called pressure and blackmail." Video: Boris Johnson urges protests outside Russian Embassy over Syrian crisis The lines of communication still seem to be open however.

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Input: But that step -- unprecedented for a candidate loathe to ever admit a mistake -- may not be enough to rescue a campaign that is now in a full-fledged crisis. And Trump quickly attempted to pivot, criticizing Bill and Hillary Clinton in the video and suggesting he would take that argument to Sunday's debate." Bill Clinton has actually abused women and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed and intimidated his victims," Trump said." We will discuss this more in the coming days. See you at the debate on Sunday."

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Input: “We had one staffer who has to and it has been her cell number for a million years,” the Democratic aide said. Noted Pelosi: “This incident has been widely reported as part of a Russian cyberattack. As reported, the DCCC has hired a respected cybersecurity technology firm to conduct a full investigation of the breach.” The chief administrative officer said the House’s information technology systems have not been compromised. But the CAO warned staffers not to click on any leaked Excel spreadsheet containing their information.

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Input: Most recently, the personal email account of Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta was hacked and his messages published by WikiLeaks, creating further controversy and headache for a White House bid already weighed down by another email scandal. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said that particular attack could not be specifically attributed to Russia because Podesta’s emails were not part of the government’s investigation into cyberattacks launched by the Kremlin. But Earnest added that WikiLeaks’ daily releases of Podesta’s emails bears a striking resemblance to other attacks that have been officially blamed on Russia. Still, Trump told Stephanopoulos that despite the assurances of House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Mike McCaul (R-Texas), he’s not certain that Russia is behind the hacking attempts. “Hacking is very untrusting.

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Input: For the record, I despise Donald Trump and I will vote for almost any Republican (well, OK, not Ben Carson) rather than Trump. I’m a conservative independent and a former Republican. I quit the party in 2012 because of exactly the kind of coarse ignorance that Trump represents. The night Newt Gingrich won the South Carolina primary on the thoughtful platform of colonizing the moon, I was out. If in the end God turns his back on America and we’re left with only the choice of Trump or Hillary Clinton, I will vote for a third candidate out of protest — even if it means accepting what I consider the ghastly prospect of a Clinton 45 administration.

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Input: They’re just being siphoned off someplace else. And if, thanks to the Left, the only places where that can happen now is the wilderness to which everyone else outside the Leftist fold has been banished, that’s where they’re going to be held. Perhaps some of those people will be critical of some of the details they’ve been taught about the Holocaust — with more or with less “noble” motivations behind their skepticism. Perhaps some of them actually do dislike other people for no other reason than their race, nationality, or religion. Most likely, these groups never would have had any reason to interact with each other at all — but now, it’s the Left’s fault that they’ve been pushed into one space and are therefore beginning to cross-fertilize into new movements.

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Input: Hillary Clinton’s Damning Emails Before the Democrats lock in their choice for President, they might want to know if Hillary Clinton broke the law with her unsecure emails and may be indicted, a question that ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern addresses. By Ray McGovern May 01, 2016 "Information Clearing House" - "Consortium News" -A few weeks after leaving office, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may have breathed a sigh of relief and reassurance when Director of National Intelligence James Clapper denied reports of the National Security Agency eavesdropping on Americans.

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Input: He previewed a substantial shift toward two of America's most important global rivals, China and Russia. He vowed to reverse China's "assault on America's jobs and wealth" and to use America's "economic power" over China to bring Beijing into line. But he also pledged to fix relations with the rising Asian giant, saying that a stronger America would win more respect from its Communist leaders. But if that didn't work, Trump said he would be prepared to walk away, without offering specifics on the economic and national security consequences that would entail." We can both benefit or we can both go our separate ways.

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Input: Joe Raedle / Getty Images If elected president, Donald Trump’s global business empire would represent one sprawling mess of conflicts of interest and ethical morasses for himself and, by extension, the United States. That’s the big takeaway from a lengthy investigation by Newsweek’s Kurt Eichenwald published Wednesday. Eichenwald documents what he describes as a “web of contractual entanglements” between the Trump Organization and foreign corporations with close ties to their own respective governments.

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Input: Trump has defended Putin who has presided at a time in which journalists and opposition figures conspicuously wind up dead. “I think our country does plenty of killing,” Trump told Joe Scarborough. He has said NATO is “obsolete,” and flirted with the prospect of ignoring Baltic nations if they invoke the treaty’s mutual defense provisions following a Russian attack. Trump has contended implicitly that Russia should have free reign in the Middle East and has said as much explicitly about Europe. Trump has given the appearance that he’s working on Moscow’s behalf for some time, but only after Moscow began to repay the favor did Democrats express their disfavor.

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Input: In 2014: 33,599. Who's doing all the shooting and where are they getting all those guns and how many do they have and can't we get control over this clusterfuck? Wouldn't a national gun registry give us a tool to stop some of the killing? No, says the gun lobby. It would give the government a tool to confiscate our guns.

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Input: The legislation will now head to Gov. Nikki Haley’s desk, who has indicated she will “almost certainly” sign the measure. (AP) A former St. Louis police officer was charged with murder in the fatal 2011 shooting of Anthony Lamar. The ex-officer allegedly threatened “to kill this mother-[expletive]” and instructing a fellow officer to hit Smith’s car as it slowed. (Sarah Larimer) Twin brothers were arrested for multiple Pennsylvania bombings that destroyed several buildings in two counties.

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Input: This is the latest development in a week-long offensive that one health official has described as “catastrophic and unprecedented in modern history”. The latest assault on Syria’s doctors was only the most recent outrage in a campaign NGOs describe as systematic and deliberate. It came on the heels of a violent week in Aleppo, during which nearly 400 people have been killed and hundreds more injured, as forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad’s regime prepare a ground offensive to reclaim the opposition-held east of the city. People here now consider themselves dead and are just counting the days Anwar Shehade, anesthesiologist In New York, as the UN security council gathered on Wednesday to discuss the protection of medical workers in times of conflict, the outgoing UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon made his most direct accusation of war crimes so far against Russia and the Syrian regime.

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Input: "Maybe he should have been roughed up because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing," Trump said reacting to the incident. Trump has also said in February of a protester that he would "like to punch him in the face" and fondly recalled the "old days" when protesters would be "carried out on stretchers." And during another February rally, he urged his supporters:" If you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you?" 10. He said women should be punished for getting abortions

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Input: artist. Harry Frankfurt, an eminent moral philosopher and former professor at Princeton, wrote a brilliant essay in 1986 called “On Bullshit.” (Frankfurt himself wrote about Trump in this vein, as have Jeet Heer and Eldar Sarajlic.) In the essay, Frankfurt distinguishes crucially between lies and B.S.: “Telling a lie is an act with a sharp focus. It is designed to insert a particular falsehood at a specific point.

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Input: The family hasn't been together in years. A senior South Korean Foreign Ministry official told CNN the South Korean government didn't think it was "appropriate" to weigh in on a U.S. presidential candidate's campaign trail comments, but added:" Both the Republic of Korea and the United States are firm in their position that the issue of North Korean denuclearization should be the priority in any dialogue with North Korea." North Korea should stop making threats and provocations and show sincere willingness to denuclearize," the spokesperson, who was not named, said. China is one of the few countries that engages with North Korea and is its only major backer.

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Input: He did not explicitly name Pakistan, quite like how he has been doing in the past when referring to terrorism in the region. One such example was when the prime minister, at the Aishbagh Ram Leela function in Lucknow recently, said that terrorism should be rooted out, and those supporting it should also not be spared. Earlier this month, while inaugurating the Pravasi Bharatiya Kendra, a state-of-the-art complex for services to overseas Indians, Modi had said:" India has never coveted any territory; never attacked another country. Instead, thousands of Indians gave their lives in the World War I." This was another swipe at Pakistan, which has for long hankered after Kashmir.

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Input: She has to go to jail. She’s guilty as hell.” This was followed at the convention by frequent chants of “Lock Her Up,” from Republican delegates. On Tuesday, CBS4 News asked Trump if, as president, he would instruct his Justice Department to re-open the criminal investigation into Clinton. “Well I do n’t want to comment on that right now, but what she did was very serious stuff, but I just do n’t think I should be commenting on that right now,” he said. But it’s a possibility?

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Input: You know, South Korea is very rich. Great industrial country. And yet we’re not reimbursed fairly for what we do. We’re constantly, you know, sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games, doing other. We’re reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing.

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Input: At the top of his rally in the critical Wisconsin county of Waukesha on Wednesday night, Donald Trump accused the search giant Google of both impeding and bolstering his candidacy. Speaking in Waukesha, Wis., Sept. 28, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accused Google of concealing "bad news" about his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. (The Washington Post)

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Input: Due to Russia’s backing of Syrian government forces, insurgent groups have been losing ground across the nation, and the Kurds are using the opportunity to take territory for themselves in hopes for an autonomous region. Turkey said they may send ground troops in to Syria under the guise of fighting ISIS. However, Turkey’s repeatedly-exposed direct material support for Islamist groups like al Nusra and ISIS to overthrow Assad as well as quell the Kurdish land grab suggest a wholly different reality to their intentions. The U.S. uses Turkish Airbases to strike Daesh in Syria and Iraq, but they also support Kurdish groups fighting in Syria, which is creating strife between the NATO allies. America’s blind eye toward Turkish support of Islamist radical groups is threatening to push the Kurds into the hands of the Syrian regime, and therefore Russia.

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Input: In short, we have to acknowledge the danger that Hillary Clinton could be the target of international blackmail in the White House. Consider what happened the first time the Clinton couple was there. Bill Clinton’s involvement with the intern Monica Lewinsky had national security implications and also subjected him to possible blackmail. Secret Service agent Gary Bryne reported in his book ‘Crisis of Character” that U.S. intelligence agencies had concluded that Russia, the U.K. and Israel had intercepted phone calls between Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. In 2000, Insight magazine, after a one-year investigation by a team of reporters, claimed that the Israeli government had “penetrated four White House telephone lines and was able to relay real-time conversations on those lines from a remote site outside the White House directly to Israel for listening and recording.”

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Input: Former president Nicolas Sarkozy who is running to return to office in 2017 vowed to impose a nationwide ban on the swimwear if re-elected to the post. He described burkinis as a "provocation" and said:" I refuse to let the burkini impose itself on French beaches and swimming pools ... there must be a law to ban it throughout the Republic's territory. Our identity is under threat when we accept an immigration policy that makes no sense." Front National (FN) leader Marine Le Pen vowed that the fight to outlaw the garments is not over and will now be pursued on a national legislative level: “as quickly as possible” through a ban by central government. Nice deputy Mayor Christian Estrosi echoed the sentiment, writing on Twitter: “we need a law”.

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Input: But perhaps, too, there may be some justice in the world. Maybe some voters will remember. Maybe when those who caved to Trump in 2016 begin their campaigns for 2020, some voters will recall that at a moment of national crisis, those politicians promising strong leadership were too weak, too obsessed with winning elections, too afraid of Trump’s angry faithful to have the steady moral compass, the calmness under fire, the vision in the fog of battle that real leadership demands. And maybe voters at that point will look away from those who self-servingly tried to foist Trump on the nation and will turn instead to the handful of Republican officeholders who had the courage of their convictions and tried to stop him from the beginning. Maybe there will be enough voters willing to reward that kind of genuine political courage, enough to make a difference.

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Input: “This has to be the first time that a major presidential candidate has actively encouraged a foreign power to conduct espionage against his political opponent,” Clinton’s senior policy advisor Jake Sullivan said. “This has gone from being a matter of curiosity, and a matter of politics, to being a national security issue.” The FBI investigated Clinton’s e-mail matter and concluded that she had been “extremely careless” in her use of classified material but did not recommend she face criminal charges. Clinton’s campaign has blamed Russia for a damaging leak of e-mails from the Democratic National Committee, which seemingly revealed an inside attempt to undermine the campaign of her rival Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination.

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Input: They first met at Yahoo while doing a security audit for the company. During this time, Koum was also part of a seminal security collective and think tank called w00w00 (pronounced “whoo whoo”), a tight online community that used the old IRC chat service to trade ideas related to virtually any aspect of the field. Koum grew up in the Ukraine under Soviet rule before immigrating to the US as a teenager, so he has some intimate familiarity with the challenges of maintaining privacy in the face of an intrusive government. But Koum says that the bigger force behind encrypting WhatsApp was Acton, a comparatively outgoing individual who grew up in Florida. “Brian gets a lot of credit for wanting to do it earlier,” Koum says of WhatsApp encryption.

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Input: . it’s obvious that things have been deteriorating across the board,” said Philip Gordon of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs under Obama. In a decree released by the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow would consider a resumption of the nuclear accord only if Washington agreed to several conditions, including canceling all sanctions and compensating Moscow for losses resulting from them. The plutonium agreement was once hailed as an example of successful U.S.-Russian cooperation. Signed in 2000 and updated in 2010, it required both countries to dispose of 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium, enough to make approximately 17,000 nuclear weapons, according to the State Department.

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Input: Following a coded ad in a French newspaper, a series of clandestine meetings and midnight phone calls led to our reporters obtaining hundreds of thousands of the Ahsanis’ leaked emails and documents. The trove reveals how they rub shoulders with royalty, party in style, mock anti-corruption agencies and operate a secret network of fixers and middlemen throughout the world’s oil producing nations. Corruption in oil production-one of the world's richest industries and one that touches us all through our reliance on petrol-fuels inequality, robs people of their basic needs and causes social unrest in some of the world's poorest countries. It was among the factors that prompted the Arab Spring. Fairfax Media and The Huffington Post today reveal how Unaoil carved up portions of the Middle East oil industry for the benefit of Western companies between 2002 and 2012.

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Input: Believers are forced to practise their faith in secret, and if caught, get sent to North Korea's notorious hard labour camps. One escapee told CSW that while he was detained, he met a prisoner who was sent to the camp simply because he had spent a month in China studying the Bible." A policy of guilt by association applies, meaning that the relatives of Christians are also detained regardless of whether they share the Christian belief," the report says." Even North Koreans who have escaped to China, and who are or become Christians, are often repatriated and subsequently imprisoned in a political prison camp." Despite intense persecution, there are 121 religious facilities in North Korea, the Database Center for North Korean Human Rights says, including 64 Buddhist temples, 52 Cheondoist temples, three Protestant churches, a Catholic cathedral and a Russian Orthodox church.

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Input: It is not surprising that they did not. As an illustration of how haphazard the supervision of this arms distribution often was, last week, five months after being asked by The New York Times for its own tally of small arms issued to partner forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Pentagon said it has records for fewer than half the number of firearms in the researchers’ count — about 700,000 in all. This is an amount, Overton noted, that “only accounts for 48 percent of the total small arms supplied by the U.S. government that can be found in open-source government reports.” This gap between the tallies, the Pentagon said, is partly because at first the United States military was trying to stand up to two governments that were busily fighting wars. “Speed was essential in getting those nations’ security forces armed, equipped and trained to meet these extreme challenges,” Mark Wright, a Pentagon spokesman, wrote in an email.

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Input: Swedish police issued an arrest warrant so that Assange could answer to allegations of rape and several less severe sexual crimes. He disputes that he committed rape, and the time to prosecute Assange in connection with the other allegations has now expired under Swedish statutes of limitations. Assange has characterized the investigation as part of a broader conspiracy on the part of the U.S. government to incarcerate him, extradite him, and have him killed in prison—“Jack Ruby style,” as he put it to the Guardian. A former WikiLeaks employee suggests that this scenario is a fantasy. “The way he is selling the situation is completely overblown,” says Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who worked at WikiLeaks for three years and later wrote a tell-all book about the organization, Inside WikiLeaks.

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Input: Both Kreep and Jim Lacy have provided legal help to Minutemen groups in San Diego, when they were at their violent peak terrorizing homeless illegal migrant workers and vandalizing their shanties. This summer, Jim Lacy opened up his bag of dirty tricks to get Gary Kreep get elected Superior Court judge. How he did it is instructive: On the eve of the San Diego vote, a Lacy outfit bombarded Latinos and Democrats with robocalls claiming that the sitting judge had been releasing drug dealers into their neighborhoods. Kreep won by just over 1,000 votes, and now they might have to someday face a judge who boasts of his pro bono work for the Minutemen. But Gary Kreep is just a warm-up act.

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Input: In Austria a cleaning robot reportedly ' committed suicide ' by switching itself on, and climbing on to a kitchen hotplate where it was burned to death. The Irobot Roomba 760 robot had apparently rebelled against its chores and decided enough was enough. Firemen were called to the blaze at Hinterstoder in Kirchdorf, Austria, and say they found the remains of the machine on the hotplate. Fireman Helmut Kniewasser said:" The home-owner had put the small robot on the work surface to clean up some spilled cereal." Once the robot had done its job it was switched off but left on the kitchen sideboard.

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Input: Rep. Ted Yoho (R., Fla.) said that the United States should send a clear message to Palestine that "if these policies continue, we’re done." "We are funding hatred. We are funding terrorism," Yoho said, labeling it "unconscionable" to provide aid to Palestine in the name of peace while the Palestinian Authority is subsidizing terrorists. Royce said that the United States and its European allies must do more to use leverage against Palestinian Authority to halt the practice of rewarding terrorists." If the PA’s irresponsible behavior continues, the whole premise for funding the PA needs to be reconsidered.

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Input: The campaign says the additional information explains that a Clinton got a chest scan Friday that showed a "mild, non-contagious bacterial pneumonia." Clinton was treated with an antibiotic called Levaquin, which she was prescribed for 10 days. Clinton's doctor has evaluated her several times since she became dehydrated at Sunday's 9/11 memorial event in New York City. Dr. Lisa Bardack saw Clinton on Wednesday and says through the campaign that the Democratic presidential nominee "continues to improve" after a few days of rest. Clinton's aides say she'll return to the campaign trail on Thursday.

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Input: “And I’m telling you, the case for W.M.D. was n’t just stronger — it was much stronger,” he told the president. In fact, Morell recently published a book where he reiterates the aforementioned point and emphatically states that the Bush administration did not pressure the CIA whatsoever to conclude there were WMDs in Iraq. “The view that hardliners in the Bush administration forced the intelligence community into its position on WMD is just flat wrong,” he writes. “No one pushed.

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Input: From Britain to Beijing: how governments manipulate the internet Read more The Guardian spoke to two former employees of the troll enterprise, one of whom was in a department running fake blogs on the social network LiveJournal, and one who was part of a team that spammed municipal chat forums around Russia with pro-Kremlin posts. Both said they were employed unofficially and paid cash-in-hand. They painted a picture of a work environment that was humourless and draconian, with fines for being a few minutes late or not reaching the required number of posts each day. Trolls worked in rooms of about 20 people, each controlled by three editors, who would check posts and impose fines if they found the words had been cut and pasted, or were ideologically deviant.

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Input: That, Obama said, gives "us more tools that we need to work together in the event of theft of nuclear material or an attack on a nuclear facility." Leaders wrapped up the meeting with a communique that pledged to use the foundation built during the four summits to guide future work." Sustaining security improvements requires constant vigilance at all levels, and we pledge that our countries will continue to make nuclear security an enduring priority," the statement said.

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Input: "We have pledged our sacred honor, the United States of America, our sacred honor to the NATO Treaty," Joe Biden says. | AP Photo Biden reassures NATO allies: I don't think Trump ' understands what Article 5 is ' Vice President Joe Biden sought to reassure NATO allies on Tuesday of the United States ' "sacred honor" to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and specifically Article 5, in the face of continued concerns about the prospect of what a President Donald Trump would do — going so far as to suggest that Trump does not understand "what Article 5 is."

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Input: The Israeli Defense Forces devastated Gaza. For 51 days, Israel bombarded Gaza with more than 6,000 airstrikes. The United Nations Human Rights Council subsequently convened an independent, international commission of inquiry, which concluded that Israel, and to a lesser extent Palestinian armed groups, had likely committed violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, some constituting war crimes. “The scale of the devastation was unprecedented” in Gaza, according to the commission. Yet Clinton was puzzled by what she calls “this enormous international reaction against Israel,” adding, “This reaction is uncalled for and unfair.”

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Input: He was trained during a decade of studies in Tehran in the religious and political doctrines favored by the Shia-dominated Iranian government -- arch-rivals to the Saudi regime in the battle for regional power. But it is a fact, as the Intercept's Lee Fang and Zaid Jilani wrote in their examination of the U.S. media's regurgitation of Saudi propaganda about the killings, that "Nimr advocated nonviolence and encouraged his followers to protest peacefully." The claim that al-Nimr advocated violence is refuted by none other than U.S. diplomatic cables based on al-Nimr's conversations with a State Department official that were later published by WikiLeaks. After his arrest in July 2012, during which police claimed he fired a gun at them, al-Nimr was convicted in 2014 of charges of "disobeying the ruler," "inciting sectarian strife" and "encouraging, leading and participating in demonstrations," during a trial that Amnesty International referred to as "deeply flawed," and which included the use of "testimony" from witnesses not present in court. Al-Nimr was likely marked for death because of the threat he represented to Saudi rulers -- particularly in the wake of the Arab Spring uprisings of 2011, when al-Nimr gave a series of speeches in which he spoke out against the Saudi monarchy, called for free elections and supported protests by Shias within Saudi Arabia and in neighboring Bahrain.

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Input: Ties are one thing, policy and statements are another. Here is where the links get interesting. The one time Trump’s aides intervened in the drafting of the Republican National Convention’s platform, it was to push for the deletion of a passage endorsing arms shipments to Ukraine soldiers fighting to stave off incursions from Russian forces. And of course, many of Trump’s statements on foreign policy, such as his isolationist impulses and jarring statement, in a New York Times interview, that he might not come to the aid of a NATO ally in the event of an invasion, must be sweet whisperings to Putin’s ears.

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Input: Financialisation, as Andrew Sayer notes in Why We Ca n’t Afford the Rich, has had a similar impact. “Like rent,” he argues, “interest is ... unearned income that accrues without any effort”. As the poor become poorer and the rich become richer, the rich acquire increasing control over another crucial asset: money. Interest payments, overwhelmingly, are a transfer of money from the poor to the rich. As property prices and the withdrawal of state funding load people with debt (think of the switch from student grants to student loans), the banks and their executives clean up.

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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: It was once the capital of Prussia Annexed from Germany after WWII. Germans fled or were expelled Is more than 300 km away from Russia, which can only be reached through an EU country It houses the Russian Baltic Fleet and is the country's only ice-free European port

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Input: In addition to the DNC hack, which led to the resignation of chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has also been targeted. Wasserman Schultz, who won the Democratic primary for her House seat this week, stepped down after WikiLeaks posted documents that showed DNC bias in favor of Clinton over her challenger for the presidential nomination, Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? ' Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan MORE (Vt.).

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Input: Lacy’s slate order business is, he claims, the largest in the state of California, if not the entire country, and it wreaked so much havoc on California local elections that even Orange County residents revolted with a ballot requiring slate mailers disclose. Lacy fought to have the courts void the will of Orange County’s voters, and the courts agreed, saying that putting restrictions on how badly Lacy could deceive voters violated his First Amendment rights and constituted a form of tyranny. So both lawyers whose names are on Gary Johnson’s main campaign group since 2009 are not only associated with right-wing extremists and violent nativist vigilantes, but more importantly, both of them specialize in fraudulent vote schemes that help their Republican Party clients win elections by deceiving Democratic Party voters. Lacy has been poisoning American politics since his radical-right college years when he was national chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom. In recent years, Lacy has been a major backer of anti-immigrant Minutemen groups, Islamophobia, and "birther" conspiracy-theory outfits smearing Obama as a foreign-born Muslim.

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Input: We ask supporters to stop taking down the US internet,” the anti-secrecy group tweeted. “You proved your point.” Digital security researchers tracking Friday’s attacks advised against jumping to conclusions, arguing that there could be many explanations. Nick Rossmann, senior project manager at FireEye, noted that New World Hackers have a history of falsely claiming attacks against high-profile entities. He also expressed doubt that the group has the capabilities to conduct an attack on such a scale.

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Input: “When it actually happens to you, it actually reinforces how dangerous this city is and how lucky we are to live in Australia.” In 2015 British sailors Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark were robbed by two men with knives at Guanabara Bay — the venue for Olympic sailing events that has also been dogged by pollution problems. At one point last year, Rio was reported to be experiencing its highest level of street robberies in more than 20 years, while from January through to May this year, Rio de Janeiro logged more than 2000 homicides — a 13 per cent increase over the same period in 2015. Last week 10 Brazilians were arrested for allegedly planning attacks during the Olympics, while on Sunday 50,000 police officers and soldiers were deployed to protect sports venues, tourist spots and key transport areas. Increased crime is just one of many problems confronting Rio in the lead up to the Games.

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Input: Hide Caption 4 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Dan Nanamkin of the Colville Nez Perce tribe drums a traditional song by the Cannonball River in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, on Thursday, December 1. Hide Caption 5 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests A procession makes its way down to the Cannonball River to take part in a Native American water ceremony on December 1. Hide Caption 6 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Snow covers the camp on Wednesday, November 30. Hide Caption 7 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests A person walks through snow and wind on Tuesday, November 29. Hide Caption 8 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests People against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline speak at a news conference near Cannon Ball on Saturday, November 26.

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Input: Following the collapse of a short-lived, US and Russia-brokered ceasefire, Syrian forces pounded eastern Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 85 people and wounding more than 300 others, an activist group reported. JUST WATCHED Syrian government launches "comprehensive offensive" Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Syrian government launches "comprehensive offensive" 03:26 Etaky's young son has been suffering with a fever but he says he has been unable to get him treatment with the city's resources brutally stretched. Food has become hugely expensive. The graphic designer who married a year ago says his family rely on basics such as lentils, rice and eggplants, while the local council hands out bread.

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Input: In addition to ours, the airspace is also controlled by Syrian air defenses, which have been restored during the past year,” Konashenkov said. Radar data proves Belgian F16s attacked village near # Aleppo A video posted by RT (@rt) on Oct 20, 2016 at 7:22am PDT Responding to the new accusations, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel reiterated the denial of his country’s involvement in the bombing. “Judging by the information from the Defense Ministry, we have nothing to do with it. Of course the parliament will be informed of the role played by our military in the region in the hours or days to come,” he said before an EU summit in Brussels.

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Input: Presidential candidates have long graced the white-tie affair and roasted themselves while throwing in a few jabs at their opponents. But after earning a few laughs, Trump’s remarks quickly devolved into a stinging indictment of Clinton that prompted jeers from the audience. “Hillary believes it’s vital to deceive the people by having one public policy and a totally different policy in private,” Trump said, nodding to the emails of her campaign chairman John Podesta that were published by WikiLeaks. “That’s OK,” Trump responded to the audible boos that followed. “I do n’t know who they’re angry at, Hillary, you or I?”

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Input: "If the terrorists aimed to disturb, destroy or jeopardize cooperation between partners, they achieved the opposite. Germany and Turkey are becoming even closer," he said, adding there was no link to Germany's contribution to the fight against terrorism. The guide of the German group was quoted by Turkey's Hurriyet newspaper as saying she had yelled "run" after seeing the bomber, who was standing among the tourists, pull a pin on his explosives, enabling some of them to get away. Witnesses said the square was not packed at the time of the explosion, but that several groups of tourists were there." I didn't finish the tour, you know, the tour I had bought. I suppose there is something remaining of the ticket," said Jostein Nielsen, a wounded Norwegian tourist, as he waited on a stretcher at Istanbul airport, his left leg bandaged." I still have to go to the Blue Mosque and the old Turkish Bazaar, so I have to use that ticket ... We have no hard feelings towards Turkey.

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Input: Aleppo has been divided between rebel- and government-controlled sections since 2012. In recent months, rebels have been encircled by troops and fighters loyal to Assad. Russia has also lent support to the embattled leader, sending troops and aircraft to pound rebel fighters. In October, U.S. Special Forces strafed a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, killing at least 42 patients, medical staffers and caretakers. President Obama apologized for the airstrike, which the U.S. military described as a mistake during missions to drive out Taliban fighters.

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Input: The Republican's public admiration of the Russian leader has caused consternation across the political spectrum in the US. The DNC's legal team was reviewing the "private documents" and attempting to confirm their authenticity," as it is common for Russian hackers to forge documents." Brazile took over as the DNC chairwoman in July after Debbie Wasserman Schultz resigned in the wake of an earlier Guccifer 2.0 data release. Brazile added that "We would urge anyone attempting to access these documents to proceed with extreme caution given the potential malware risks." Australia-based information security researcher Lee Johnstone also expressed concern about the possibility of malware on hacked and leaked documents.

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Input: (Aaron P. Bernstein / Reuters) -- Out of his depth -- > Filling out a questionnaire sent by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, Trump said he sees no cooperation between the federal government and local law enforcement: “Currently, there is no noticeable partnership between the federal government and state and local law enforcement.” He then added, “That will dramatically change in a Trump administration.” As our Tom Jackman notes: “The lack of partnership may come as a surprise to the numerous joint federal-local task forces currently focused on terrorism, drugs, gangs, human trafficking, Internet sex crimes and more.” He adds that Trump’s four-page response does not go into great detail, while “Clinton’s 12 pages of answers are much more detailed, and endorse concepts widely discussed by American police commanders, such as evidence-based policing, de-escalation training, focused deterrence and crisis intervention training for officers encountering those with mental illness.” -- A November surprise? -- > One of Trump's electors in Texas said he is considering voting for Clinton in November, the latest member of the Electoral College to suggest he may be faithless.

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Input: Over 200 air strikes hit the rebel-held city of Aleppo over the weekend, killing more than 100 people and injuring hundreds more, according to Ammar al-Selmo, the head of the Syria Civil Defense group, a volunteer emergency medical service. On Sunday, top UN officials described the Syrianm regime's brutal offensive against areas of the besieged northern city of Aleppo as "barbaric." Following the collapse of a short-lived, US and Russia-brokered ceasefire, Syrian forces pounded eastern Aleppo on Sunday, killing at least 85 people and wounding more than 300 others, an activist group reported. JUST WATCHED Syrian government launches "comprehensive offensive" Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Syrian government launches "comprehensive offensive" 03:26 Etaky's young son has been suffering with a fever but he says he has been unable to get him treatment with the city's resources brutally stretched.

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Input: READ MORE: Russian special forces active in Syria, give recon & targeting for warplanes, general confirms Until today, four servicemen have been killed during the Syrian deployment, including Air Force pilot Oleg Peshkov, killed airborne after ejecting from a Su-24 bomber downed by Turkey as well as a Marine soldier Aleksandr Pozynich, killed during the search operation to rescue the surviving Su-24 pilot. Names of the two other deceased Russian servicemen – Ivan Cheremisin and Fedor Zhuravlev – only became known to the public at the March ceremony in the Kremlin when President Vladimir Putin presented military awards and decorations to those involved in the Syrian operation. He stressed that the servicemen who sacrificed their lives in fight against terror “remained committed to their duty until the end.”

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Input: Before the 31st United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva, 500 human rights organizations, law professors, former UN office holders, and high-profile rights defenders including four Nobel Peace Prize laureats and a Pulitzer Prize winner, have urged the governments of Sweden and the United Kingdom to respect the United Nations’ decision to free Julian Assange. The statement was delivered to the Swedish and UK Permanent Representatives to the United Nations in Geneva. The document delivered to the Swedish and UK representatives stated:

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Input: His statement came in response to a question asking if Moscow had proposed March 1 as a possible date for the start of a ceasefire. Read more Earlier, AP and Reuters cited anonymous US officials who claimed that Russia has suggested a March 1 ceasefire in Syria. A US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to AP, said that Washington is wary of accepting Moscow’s proposal. Meanwhile, answering a reporter’s question on the issue, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said that he was not aware of Russia’s suggestion of a specific date to establish a ceasefire.

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Input: The U.S. sanctions were put in place through executive orders signed in 2014 after Crimea, a part of neighboring Ukraine, was annexed by Russia. “The actions and policies addressed in these Executive Orders continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States,” Mr. Obama wrote on Wednesday this week. In a letter to Congress, he blamed Russia for threatening the peace, security, stability, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, and said Moscow’s actions there have undermined democratic processes and institutions. On its part, Russia’s Foreign Ministry blamed the Obama administration for the ongoing unrest in mainland Ukraine, which sprouted after the nation’s pro-Putin president, Viktor Yanukovych, was driven out of office in 2014. Russia soon after reclaimed Crimea, a former Soviet Union republic, and has been accused of arming rebel forces in eastern Ukraine where tensions remain high.

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Input: The pact — which has been repeatedly condemned by the Israeli government as well as by members of Congress from both parties — drew fresh attacks Saturday from Republican presidential contenders, some of whom blasted the deal as a sellout to Iran’s clerical rulers. The nuclear pact calls on Iran to dismantle key nuclear equipment in a deal designed to ensure that Iranian officials could never accumulate enough fissile material to build a nuclear bomb. The agreement also requires unprecedented inspections and monitoring covering all aspects of Iran’s nuclear program, from uranium mining to research facilities. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif echoed Kerry’s remarks, saying on Twitter that “diplomacy requires patience, but we all know that it sure beats the alternatives.” Implementation of the deal, Zarif said, meant that “it’s now time for all — especially Muslim nations — to join hands and rid the world of violent extremism. Iran is ready.”

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Input: Trump has said he doesn't want to give details on his specific plan to defeat ISIS because he doesn't want to broadcast it to America's enemies, a strategy Clinton called "dangerous" and "disqualifying." "We would leave a certain group behind and you would take various sections where they have the oil," Trump said, to prevent groups like ISIS gaining control of the resource. Clinton on Thursday reiterated her opposition to sending a big contingent of troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria, saying it would fulfill ISIS ' wish for a ground war with America. She also called Trump's rhetoric a "gift for ISIS," in reference to the Time article," Why ISIS supports Trump." "The United States of America does not invade other countries to plunder and pillage," Clinton said.

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Input: Though they both acknowledged deep disagreements on these issues, the two leaders found common ground on the topic of the economic embargo on Cuba, which both want lifted. Obama went so far as to declare that "the embargo's going to end," though he couldn't say when. In an extraordinary sign of the shifting attitudes, Castro was willing to answer one question on why his regime was keeping Cubans incarcerated for expressing anti-government views. But his response only underscored the schisms between himself and Obama." Did you ask if we had political prisoners?

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Input: Lazar, in a subsequent discussion, said he was working on a plea deal – he then suspended media contact earlier this month. On Monday, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia confirmed that a change of plea hearing is now scheduled for Lazar on Wednesday morning. He originally had pleaded not guilty to the nine-count indictment when he was extradited to the U.S. He is now expected to plead guilty to some charges. It is not publicly known whether the deal being worked out has a provision for cooperating with federal authorities – and whether that has anything to do with the investigation into Clinton’s exclusive use of a private email server for government business while secretary of state.

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Input: Mr. Miller added that the episode would create opportunities for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia “to blast the U.S. on the eve of the U.N. General Assembly,” the global meeting in New York starting this week. In a statement from its foreign office, the Russian government reacted harshly to the U.S. attack, saying the airstrikes were "on the boundary between criminal negligence and direct connivance with Islamic State terrorists." The statement continued," If this air strike was the result of a targeting error, it is a direct consequence of the U.S. side's stubborn unwillingness to coordinate its action against terrorist groups on Syrian territory with Russia. The accusation that the U.S. was intentionally helping ISIS by targeting Syrian Army troops received fierce rebuke from Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who emerged from an emergency Security Council meeting late Saturday night, one demanded by Moscow, by calling Russia's stance on the incident "uniquely cynical and hypocritical."

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Input: “If only you knew her like I do” they proclaim, at once signaling loyalty to the matriarch and boasting of their own access. But no one ever thinks these testimonials through. For we are also told, sometimes in the same breath, that her problem is that she’s just not a great politician or “performer”; “she’s a workhorse not a show horse” virtually every flack and lackey proclaims as if they can get people to stop believing their lying eyes. Well, think about that. The key attribute of many great politicians is their ability to hide their true selves.

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Input: — ELSEWHERE ON DEFENSE SPENDING: Another amendment to the defense bill would add $ 5 million to a scholarship program for military cyber personnel. The amendment, from Rep. Pete Aguilar, would bolster the Information Assurance Scholarship Program, which is seen as an important part of the military’s effort to retain highly skilled cyber warriors who often leave the government to pursue higher-paying jobs in the private sector. CIA CHIEF OUT IN THE OPEN — CIA Director John Brennan is set to testify during an open hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee today. In his brief testimony, the nation’s top spy walks lawmakers through a range of threats including “the cyber domain, where states and sub-national actors are threatening financial systems, transportation networks, and organizations of every stripe, inside government and out.” He pays special heed to ISIL’s “expansive propaganda machine,” including online where the group “primarily uses Twitter, Telegram, and Tumblr, and it relies on a global network of sympathizers to further spread its messages.” GOT SIX BUCKS?

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Input: Last year, Islamic State troops moved into the ancient city of Palmyra and began waging war on what the terrorist group labeled as "false idolatry." More likely, ISIS aimed to erase a large part of Syria's rich cultural history, which was remembered by monuments of Christian, Sufi, and Shiite origin. The desert oasis was once known as a melting pot of faiths and ethnicities, and by demolishing its artifacts, the jihadists also hoped to eradicate knowledge of its diverse legacy. Now, more than one year after the occupation of Palmyra began, the group has released previously unseen video footage of ISIS fighters looting and smashing artifacts, and even crushing Syrian mummies under the wheels of bulldozers. Soldiers are shown entering one of the city's museums and smashing limestone busts resembling classic Syrian funerary reliefs.

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Input: The U.S.’s most popular third-party presidential candidate says he would “consider” pardoning the highest profile convicts of computer-related crimes in the country, including Chelsea Manning, Ross Ulbricht, and Jeremy Hammond. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, a former governor of New Mexico, also reiterated his possible willingness to pardon Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency analyst who gave a cache of agency documents to journalists in 2013. Snowden currently resides in Russia, which granted him temporary asylum after the U.S. charged him with violating the Espionage Act.

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Input: In their silence, they condone Trump and stand with him. They should be standing with the Khans. Do these congressional “leaders” actually have nothing to say about the cruel attack on two parents who now go to other military funerals to honor their son? Republicans’ refusal to un-endorse Trump puts their own character and judgment in doubt. It is fair to say that the Republicans who cheer him on — not Sen. Ted Cruz (Tex.

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Input: A ceasefire deal brokered by Russia and the United States saw Syria's government and non-jihadist opposition agree to halt attacks while pursuing peace talks. Violence dropped across the country, including in Aleppo city, where residents cautiously began shopping in open-air markets and taking their children to parks. But a surge in violence in recent weeks has left the ceasefire all but collapsed. In the rebel-held town of Douma, 13 people -- including three women and two children -- were killed in government shelling on the city. Douma lies in the Eastern Ghouta opposition bastion, where the Jaish al-Islam rebel group -- also party to the truce deal -- is dominant.

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Input: TRUMP: And then she says, oh, look, at my arm. (CROSSTALK) COOPER: Did he mislead you at all? TRUMP: Not at all. No, not at all.

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Input: )” Blumenthal then quoted from a blog piece that Johnson wrote after hearing what happened during Secretary Clinton’s speech at GWU on Feb. 15: “During a speech by Hillary earlier this week at George Washington University retired CIA analyst, Ray McGovern, was physically accosted and arrested for disorderly conduct for the simple act of standing up and turning his back to Hillary. Ray ended his career at the CIA as one of the senior officers who provided George H.W. Bush his daily intelligence brief.

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Input: Humayun Khan, who was killed in Iraq in 2004. | AP Photo Trump steers clear of the Khans, but finds other distractions The GOP nominee attacks Hillary Clinton at a rally but interrupts himself with seemingly random thoughts and grudges. Donald Trump appears finished with his four-day feud with the parents of a slain U.S. soldier, but he's showing no sign of shifting his full focus to Hillary Clinton. At a rally in Virginia on Tuesday, Trump riffed about collecting a Purple Heart medal, claimed that polls are rigged against him and resurrected his ongoing beef with cable news channels. Story Continued Below

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Input: Ankara said it had killed 25 Kurdish "terrorists" and insisted the army was doing everything possible to avoid civilian casualties. But the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 40 civilians were killed in Turkish shelling and air strikes on two areas held by pro-Kurdish forces in northern Syria, the first report of significant civilian casualties in Turkey's operation. The bombardments came after Ankara suffered its first military fatality in the two-pronged offensive against IS and the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia. Addressing a rally in the southern city of Gaziantep, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to combat the jihadists and the US-backed Kurdish fighters "with the same determination." "We will make any kind of contribution to the work to clear Daesh (IS) from Syria," Erdogan told thousands of flag-waving supporters in the city where a suicide bomber suspected of IS links blew himself up at a wedding party last weekend.

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Input: That trio of oil conglomerates have delivered between between $ 2.5 million and $ 3 million to the Clinton Foundation. Lobbying: A 2015 analysis by Vox found that “at least 181 companies, individuals, and foreign governments that have given to the Clinton Foundation also lobbied the State Department when Hillary Clinton ran the place.” IBT reported that Bill Clinton was paid more than $ 2.5 million by firms that were lobbying Hillary Clinton’s department. Colombia: A 2015 IBT investigative report found that as a Clinton Foundation-linked project accepted contributions from a Colombian oil firm and its founder, Hillary Clinton did not respond to calls for her State Department to use its power to combat alleged labor abuses at the company. Clinton also switched her position to support the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, actively pushing Congress to ratify a pact she had previously pledged to oppose. Banking: In 2015, the Wall Street Journal reported that in “an unusual intervention” by a top U.S. diplomat, Secretary of State Clinton announced a legal settlement that allowed the Swiss financial behemoth UBS to turn over far fewer tax documents than were sought by the IRS in its probe of the bank.

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Input: Workers unload products made in Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) after returning from KIC near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, February 11, 2016. REUTERS / Kim Hong-Ji South Korean vehicles transporting employees working at the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) arrive at the South's CIQ (Customs, Immigration and Quarantine), just south of the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, South Korea, February 11, 2016. REUTERS / Lim Byong-sik / Yonhap A South Korean security guard stands guard on an empty road which leads to the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) at the South's CIQ (Customs, Immigration and Quarantine), just south of the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, South Korea, February 11, 2016.

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Input: On Monday, a hacking group calling itself the “ShadowBrokers” announced an auction for what it claimed were “cyber weapons” made by the NSA. Based on never-before-published documents provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Intercept can confirm that the arsenal contains authentic NSA software, part of a powerful constellation of tools used to covertly infect computers worldwide. The provenance of the code has been a matter of heated debate this week among cybersecurity experts, and while it remains unclear how the software leaked, one thing is now beyond speculation: The malware is covered with the NSA’s virtual fingerprints and clearly originates from the agency.

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Input: With all of the new found evidence coming to light, it is possible and even likely that not only did Hitler escape from Germany; he had the help of the international intelligence community. Released FBI documents prove that they were not only aware of Hitler’s presence in Argentina; they were also helping to cover it up. It would not be the first time the OSS helped a high ranking Nazi official to escape punishment and capture. Look at the story of Adolf Eichmann who was located in Argentina in the 1960’s. Did Hitler escape to Argentina?

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Input: Todd asked about defending a NATO member if Russia invades, and Trump just said “I feel differently. I feel very differently.” Trump broadened his comments to other allies like Japan and South Korea, saying “we lose on everything.” Trump concluded that if the countries pay, he’s “a big believer in NATO” — but “We have to be reimbursed. We can no longer be the stupid country.” Trump bragged that WWE CEO Vince McMahon liked his entrance at the Republican convention

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Input: 41/42 1 June 2017 Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi react while walking near the Constantine (Konstantinovsky) Palace during their meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia REUTERS / Mikhail Metzel / TASS / Host Photo Agency / Pool 42/42 1 June 2017 French riot police signal to a migrant who is on his knees as French authorites block their access to a food distribution point in Calais, France REUTERS / Pascal Rossignol The Coffee Berry Borer, originally found in the Congo, is a major pest that has spread to many coffee producing nations. In countries such as Tanzania, where 2.4 million livelihoods depend on coffee, the beetle has expanded its territory, leaving detroyed coffee plants in its wake. After being attracted by hotter and wetter conditions, the beetle-previously only found below the threshold of 1,500 metres above sea level-has spread uphill.

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Input: However, Badreddine had also been accused of leading a cell that was allegedly responsible for the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri on the Beirut waterfront in February 2005. He was indicted in 2011 by the special tribunal for Lebanon, an international court established in the Hague, in connection with the massive 2005 bombing, which led Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad to withdraw his forces from Lebanon in the face of a civic uprising. Badreddine and four other alleged members of Hezbollah remain on trial in absentia at the Hague. Prosecutors have offered one of the few publicly available glimpses of the shadowy Hezbollah operative, describing him as the “apex” of the cell that allegedly killed Hariri, and a figure akin to an “untraceable ghost” who assumed multiple identities. ' Nobody wants to stay in Lebanon.

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Input: Richard Drew / AP Buy Photo Wait 1 second to continue. Clinton told the FBI that she used the private server for convenience, not to evade public record laws. But the documents show that former secretary of state Colin Powell appeared to advise her early in her term that private email could give her more control over her communications in the face of public inquiries. In January 2009, according to the FBI, Clinton contacted Powell, who also used a personal email account during his time in office, to ask about his use of a BlackBerry. According to the FBI, Powell “warned Clinton that if it became ‘public’ that Clinton had a BlackBerry, and she used it to ‘do business,’ her e-mails could become ‘official record[s] and subject to the law.’”

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Input: Media playback is not supported on this device Footage appears to show Russian fans charging at England supporters The British government has said it will send more British police officers trained in football disorder to France before England face Wales. England manager Roy Hodgson and captain Wayne Rooney have urged fans to "stay out of trouble". And the FA says it has contacted the families of players to give them advice after the wife of striker Jamie Vardy was caught up in the violence in Marseille. England midfielder Adam Lallana, who has friends and family coming to the match against Wales, said:" We've just got to hope the security is there."

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Input: Syrian military source: Offensive would be a "comprehensive one", with a ground assault following air and artillery bombardment." With respect to the air or artillery strikes, they may continue for some time.” (BEIRUT, LEBANON) Warplanes launched some of the heaviest air strikes yet on rebel-held areas of Aleppo on Friday after the Russian-backed Syrian army declared an offensive to fully capture Syria's biggest city, killing off any hope of reviving a ceasefire. Residents said the streets were deserted as the 250,000 people still trapped in the besieged opposition-held sector of Aleppo sought shelter from jets. The army said the operation would include a ground attack, and could last "for some time".

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Input: Hillary Clinton expressly voted for it on the floor of the Senate, which I think was one of her finest moments in foreign policy. She now regrets it,” he observed. “But the key point is, the current instability in Iraq and Syria, and really around the Middle East, stems in substantial part from the Obama administration decision in 2011, when she was secretary of state, to withdraw all American forces from Iraq. That’s what gave al-Qaeda, and then its manifestation as ISIS, the opportunity to bring about the chaos that we see today. That’s a direct result of their policy – not George W. Bush – their policy,” Bolton stated.

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Input: Falluja was a key hotbed in the insurgency that raged in Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and saw two separate large-scale offensives by the US military in 2004 that destroyed much of the city. Isis may face Falluja bloodbath, but new offensive shows power to spread terror Read more This time, an estimated 50,000 civilians remain trapped and besieged, facing starvation. At the weekend, a local police chief told the media that Isis had been using residents of villages on the outskirts of the city as human shields, raising fears that the militant group could do the same again to slow the Iraqi military’s offensive. The UN high commissioner for refugees said 800 civilians had so far fled Falluja, often travelling on foot and escaping through disused irrigation pipes.

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Input: “This is why reaching a two-state solution should remain a priority for us all,” he said. Abdullah also met with Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon on the sidelines of the conference, for talks that focused in part on tensions surrounding Jerusalem’s contested Temple Mount. In his address, Abdullah also called for international unity to combat Islamic State and its ilk, saying that battling Islamist extremists was a “third world war by other means.” “Let us recognize that, here and now, we are all fighting the next war: a new and complex struggle for the future,” he said. “I’ve called this struggle a ‘third world war by other means’.

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Input: “It took the Superman T-shirt from every one of us who thought we were invincible.” Read more: ‘Eyewash’: How the CIA deceives its own workforce about operations This is where American Special Operations forces are helping advise U.S. allies He was fired from the CIA and jailed for a leak.

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Input: And America’s increasingly bitter and divided political landscape produced an exceedingly hostile presidential campaign that maximized the impact of strategic leaks and other “active measures” — as the Russian spooks call political operations. The opportunist in Putin spotted the weaknesses within the U.S. political system this election and seized the moment with glee, and American democracy has indeed suffered. But Putin has also managed to make Russia’s role so evident that it demands some kind of U.S. response. The Kremlin’s problem, among others, is that Putin the Opportunist is consumed by the moment. He is focused on what he can accomplish tomorrow, without necessarily thinking through to what the consequences may be the day after.

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Input: Russia could overrun Nato’s current military force in the Baltic states in a matter of hours, according to a US think-tank, leaving the Western alliance with few options but to concede the loss of some of its most vulnerable members. In a damning report, the US Army-linked Rand Corporation said Nato’s military assets in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were so mismatched with Russia as to be “inviting a devastating war, rather than deterring it”. The think-tank said it carried out a series of war games exploring a scenario in which Russia tried to annex the capitals of either Estonia, Latvia, or both, similarly to how it seized the peninsula of Crimea in 2014. “The outcome was, bluntly, a disaster for Nato,” the report found, with every playthrough of events ending with Russian forces in or at the gates of Tallinn and Riga within 60 hours. With Russia outnumbering Nato ground battalions by almost two to one, and possessing much heavier weaponry than the Baltic defence forces, some simulations had the capitals falling in as little as 36 hours from the start of hostilities.

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Input: Bulgaria has refused to take part in a joint ‘common NATO’ fleet of Romania Ukraine and Turkey, aimed at deterring Russia in the Black Sea, the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov announced today (16 June). The Bulgarian Prime Minister said that he had refused the proposal for such a fleet made by Romanian President Klaus Iohannis over his visit today. Bulgaria, Romania and Turkey are NATO members, while Ukraine wants to join the naval alliance.

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Input: What this means for the Trump campaign This controversy highlights the questionable nature of international consulting that has been a tenet of Manafort’s work since the ‘80s, when he worked with Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos (who implemented martial law and then ousted by the People Power Revolution) and later with other dictatorial leaders in the Dominican Republic, Kenya, Somalia, and more. According to the Times, Manafort continued working after Yanukovych’s removal from office," helping allies of the ousted president and others form a political bloc that opposed the new pro-Western administration." While none of Manafort's credentials are ones that an American presidential candidate should be eager to be associated with, Trump has been far from shy about his positive feelings for the Kremlin over the years. Do you think Putin will be going to The Miss Universe Pageant in November in Moscow-if so, will he become my new best friend?

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Input: No matter who wins in November, the next president will bring enormous potential conflicts of interest to the Oval Office — and watchdogs say Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are n’t planning to do nearly enough to remove themselves from the entanglements that come with the two global brands stamped with their names. Americans could see a leader regulating the same banks that lend the Trump Organization millions of dollars, or one negotiating with foreign governments contributing millions to the Clinton Foundation. Story Continued Below Trump’s empire includes over 500 business entities, with hotels, real estate and branding deals scattered across five continents.

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Input: The tactic worked when Clinton noted Trump’s stated desire to expand the nuclear club, which Trump denied, insisting, “You wo n’t find a quote.” The quote exists, but Clinton could not summon it on the spot. His confidence perhaps bolstered, Trump tried to use the same method again. When pressed by the moderator with his own quoted remarks boasting about his habit of committing sexual assault, a boast later corroborated by nine victims, Trump issued a blanket denial. Clinton effectively picked it apart. She mentioned that he insulted the accusers for being too ugly for him to bother assaulting.

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Input: At last week’s presidential debate, Clinton recalled Alicia Machado, who was crowned Miss Universe in 1996 and who Trump called “Miss Piggy,” because of her supposed weight gain, and “Miss Housekeeping,” referencing her Hispanic heritage. In his Friday flurry of Twitter posts, Trump went on to charge that Clinton had been “duped and used” by Machado. He urged his followers to “check out [Machado’s] sex tape and past,” references to a 1998 murder investigation in which she was never charged and rumors that she has appeared in pornographic films, of which there is no evidence. After Clinton brought her up at the debate, Machado quickly vaulted into the political spotlight, doing interviews with NBC’s “Today” show and Cosmopolitan Magazine. She told the latter that Trump’s name-calling had triggered a return of her bulimia that took her years to recover from and that she had become a U.S. citizen this summer specifically so that she could vote against the real estate mogul.

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Input: Due to Russia’s backing of Syrian government forces, insurgent groups have been losing ground across the nation, and the Kurds are using the opportunity to take territory for themselves in hopes for an autonomous region. Turkey said they may send ground troops in to Syria under the guise of fighting ISIS. However, Turkey’s repeatedly-exposed direct material support for Islamist groups like al Nusra and ISIS to overthrow Assad as well as quell the Kurdish land grab suggest a wholly different reality to their intentions. The U.S. uses Turkish Airbases to strike Daesh in Syria and Iraq, but they also support Kurdish groups fighting in Syria, which is creating strife between the NATO allies. America’s blind eye toward Turkish support of Islamist radical groups is threatening to push the Kurds into the hands of the Syrian regime, and therefore Russia.

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Input: Qatar hosts two massive American military bases and the US Central Command’s Mid-East headquarters ». Furthermore, as Seymour Hersh and others have reported, the Obama regime has been strongly backing and arming al-Qaeda in Syria, which is called al-Nusra there, and Obama thus had long insisted that Russia not be allowed to include al-Nusra along with ISIS as targets to be bombed by Russia in Syria while the peace talks go on, but Russia refused to allow the US to protect al-Nusra, as if that group were anything other than jihadist, and so the only way that Obama could allow these talks to take place was by accepting Russia’s condition, that al-Qaeda was beyond the pale, just like ISIS. Otherwise, Russia would not negotiate terms for a cessation of hostilities there. So, when Kerry in that press conference on May 17th said, « we call on all parties to the cessation of hostilities to disassociate themselves physically and politically from Daesh and al-Nusrah », this inclusion of al-Nusra along with Daesh constituted a major concession to Russia. Finally, Kerry made another major concession to Russia there by saying that « we pledged our support for transforming the cessation of hostilities into a comprehensive ceasefire ».

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Input: A month after the law was signed, the state was sued by the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the food-industry trade group that had been leading the charge against state labeling efforts. The suit argued that the law violates its First Amendment rights and interferes with interstate commerce, and pushed the court to stop the measure from taking effect. A federal district court rejected the industry’s request for an injunction, and a ruling on an appeal is still pending. Meanwhile, companies and farm groups took their concerns to Capitol Hill and were successful, in July 2015, in getting a bill passed in the House. The bill reads like an industry wish list: In addition to pre-empting states, it required the Agriculture Department to set up a voluntary GMO-free certification and defines the word “natural,” when used on food labels, to include GMOs.

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Input: Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas was a Soviet spy in Damascus in the 1980s, Israel’s Channel 1 reports, blowing the lid off information uncovered in an archive smuggled out of the USSR. According to reporter Oren Nahari, the famed Mitrokhin archive, kept by KGB defector Vasily Mitrokhin, reveals that Abbas was a KGB spy in Damascus in 1983. The documents, obtained by Israeli researchers and scholars Isabela Ginor and Gideon Remez, are said to show that Abbas, who was code-named Krotov (mole), worked under Mikhail Bodganov, who was then station posted in Damascus and is now a top Russian diplomat in the Middle East.

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Input: They also threw in a dig at Cornel West because he dared to criticize Barack Obama. The Huffington Post chose to deride Green Party convention delegates because they ate at McDonald’s. Gawker tried to link Ajamu Baraka to holocaust denial. His unassailable human rights credentials did n’t mean much when the media decided to go into attack mode. “Liberals have sided with the ruling classes and resist anyone pointing out the truth.”

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Input: BBC 4/11 He has Turkish, German, French, Russian and Jewish heritage. His great grandfather (pictured) was a Turkish journalist and politician assassinated by a nationalist mob. BBC 5/11 He flirted with the Social Democratic Party at university to broaden his political appeal, helping him to become elected as president of the Oxford Union.

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Input: The mainstream media, with a few exceptions such as the New York Times, have failed to see the foundation as a target for investigative reporting. But Peter Schweizer, in his 2015 book Clinton Cash, examined the foundation and discovered how it allowed the Clintons to make foreign policy pay. Donate to the foundation or give Bill Clinton an exorbitant fee for a speech and good things often happened. According to Forbes, Bill and Hillary Clinton made $ 229,319,855 between 2001 and 2014. The Clintons created a structure whereby foreign governments, businesses, and financiers could buy access to American politicians, Schweizer says.

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Input: Hillary Clinton and Vice President Biden at an Aug. 15 campaign rally in Scranton, Pa. (Melina Mara / The Washington Post) Vice President Biden said Hillary Clinton has been “battered” by decades of Republican campaigns to undermine her credibility. But he said that she will have to be “more open” with the public if she becomes president. Biden offered a candid view of the Democratic presidential nominee's approach to public life in an interview Sunday with CBS's “Face the Nation,” less than two weeks before a presidential election roiled by news that the FBI has renewed its investigation of Clinton's private email server.

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Input: And they don't tell us what we actually want to know: How much Trump gave to charity (and if it's more than $ 10,000), how much he has earned in recent years (and if it links to Russia) and what income tax he has paid (if any). We can answer these questions about every other Republican and Democratic candidate for president back to Gerald Ford — and we can say it for him, too, since he released a summary of what he'd earned. The last Republican presidential candidate who didn't release his tax returns to the public was Ford, who never once won election to the executive branch. Ford had been a politician since leaving the Navy after World War II, so his returns lacked the sort of complexity or surprises that one might find in, say, the returns of a guy who has owned a huge, complex, multinational business for three decades. Clinton has now, like all recent candidates, released both prior-year and past returns to the public.

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Input: I want to reassure our NATO allies that if any of them get attacked, we'll be there to defend them." Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, speaking during a POLITICO panel event at the convention, said Trump's remarks made it harder for him to vote for the real estate mogul come November." You have allies right now, I mean I have friends that, you know, serve in parliament in places like Estonia, that every day worry about the Russians deciding that this is the time to re-annex and take them back,” said Kinzinger, a former Air Force pilot. “And comments like this are not only ill-informed, they’re dangerous.” Trump has long offered a radically different view of U.S. engagement with the world than many in his own party hold — one that is defined primarily in economic terms and which does not hold treaties sacrosanct.

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Input: The statement added that one of the attackers had been killed and the second was in custody. Egypt has been battling an insurgency by Islamic militants led by the Islamic State's affiliate. The insurgency has been focused in the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula but has frequently spilled over into the mainland since the ousting in 2013 of the Islamist president Mohammed Morsi. The Hurghada attack is a dangerous precedent since Egypt's Red Sea resorts have done better than elsewhere in the country in withering the slump suffered by the vital tourism sector in the five years of turmoil since a popular uprising toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak. Egyptian media Youm7 reports this is one of the attackers killed by security forces

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Input: ' Yats is the guy ', Nuland said, referring to Arseniy Yatsenyuk, who indeed would become the new prime minister. Nuland and Pyatt then exchanged ideas how to ' glue this thing ' and how to ' midwife this thing '. This ' thing ' became the bloody Feb. 22, 2014 coup ousting elected President Yanukovych and touching off a civil war between Ukrainian ' nationalists ' from the west and Ukraine's ethnic Russians in the east." Crucially, Parry notes," when citizen Clinton weighed in on the Ukraine crisis, she compared Russian President Putin to Hitler." With neocons vowing "to ignore Russia's warnings against what it views as military threats to its existence," and proposing that NATO "incorporate Ukrainian army units into its expansion of military operations along Russia's border," it will be up to the next president to test whether the current downturn in Russia-US relations can get any worse.

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Input: “I have spent almost all my savings,” he said. “Last year, $ 500 a month was enough for a family to live on, but now even $ 1,000 is not enough because prices are twice or even five times what they used to be.” Refugees speak of starvation spreading throughout the city under the impact of this economic siege. “For me, I could stand the bad treatment and lack of food, but when my toddler of 11 months began to starve it became impossible to stay,” said Fatima. Baby milk has not been available for six months and other foodstuffs are prohibitively expensive.

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Input: The drills, known as Foal Eagle and Key Resolve, routinely generate tension. Claims questioned The claim from Mr Kim was made as he inspected a nuclear facility on Wednesday." The nuclear warheads have been standardised to be fit for ballistic missiles by miniaturising them," state news agency KCNA quoted him as saying." This can be called true nuclear deterrent," he added.

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

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Input: I'm under audit, when the audits complete I'll release them ... And as far as the tax returns, as soon as the audits complete, like any lawyer would tell you, Greta Van Susteren she was going over it a while ago, she's a lawyer. She said well no lawyer would let somebody release a tax return when they're under audit.” THE FACTS: While Trump is correct that lawyers might not recommend it, former President Richard Nixon released his tax returns while under audit. And he was a lawyer. TRUMP 'S CLAIM:" [Tim Kaine is] not popular because he asked for tax increases.

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Input: But one Trump fan in Portland was willing to overlook that behavior. “As he has more experience, he will be groomed better,” said April Panosian, 62, who shouted “Benghazi” when Trump mentioned his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton. A former Democrat, Panosian said misleading and insensitive handling of the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, by Clinton “overshadows” Trump’s treatment of the Khan family. The boisterous crowd erupted in hearty boos whenever Trump mentioned Clinton, whom Trump and Maine Governor Paul LePage dubbed the “Queen of Corruption.” Portland is a liberal city in what is usually a blue state, but the state splits its Electoral College votes by congressional district.

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Input: The tidal wave of Democrat lawyers which will descend on Red States prior to the election in attempts to stymie valid election processes and results will make all previous actions pale in comparison. The Republican Party needs to mobilize, now, the assets needed to counteract these people. State and local law enforcement agents need to be trained in how to specifically deal with the thugs that will be unleashed to effect voter intimidation. These hooligans will be trained to promote confrontation with Law Enforcement in such a way as to milk the most propaganda from these events. Be assured that the Mainstream Media will put the most negative spin on efforts to control the intimidation.

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Input: For its part of the deal, Iran was required not merely to freeze its nuclear program but to substantially roll it back. Specifically, it had to dismantle two-thirds of its centrifuges and 98 percent of its enriched uranium, to fill its Arak plutonium reactor with concrete, and, for verification, to allow international inspectors unprecedented access to its facilities. The big news this weekend, in this regard, is that the International Atomic Energy Agency — which monitors compliance with the deal — announced that, at this stage of the deal, Iran has fulfilled its end of the bargain, ahead of schedule. That’s what triggered the lifting of economic sanctions. (Rubio wrote that the release “rewards bad behavior,” but in fact it rewards good behavior.)

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Input: If true, these are criminal acts far more serious than anything in Clinton’s emails. What Trump is doing to our democracy is also a serious offense. He vows to lock up his political opponent, calls the election “rigged” without evidence, and wo n’t promise to respect the result if he loses. This is an unprecedented and disqualifying assault on our political system. Another disqualification: Trump is the first candidate in decades not to release his tax returns.

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Input: Asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton answered, “It’s where the money is.” His answer remains a classic example of clarity through simplicity. This contrasts with politicians’ obfuscations that are accepted and repeated by the media – or just ignored. The New York Times did not bother to mention Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for?

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Input: The Hyperloop concept originated in a 2013 paper by the Tesla Motors CEO, Elon Musk, who envisioned it whisking passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes. There are currently no functioning Hyperloops anywhere in the world, and skeptics wonder if the technology can ever make the leap from science fiction to reality. To successfully transport passengers, designers will have to overcome challenges including motion sickness and fear of travelling at high speeds in a sealed tube. Despite the challenges, Hyperloop One’s Lloyd said last month the company would build a system capable of transporting cargo by 2019 and passengers by 2021. It is unclear where the first Hyperloop One project will be built.

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

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Stefania Dubrovina


Input: Image copyright Facebook Image caption Coca-Cola republished the map to include Crimea following complaints from Russians Ukrainian social media users have called for a boycott of Coca-Cola after it posted a festive map of Russia that included Crimea. The company originally posted a map that excluded the annexed peninsula, but backtracked when it received protest from Russians. It quickly republished the photo to include Crimea, only for Ukrainians to threaten to boycott the company. Coca-Cola has now removed the image altogether and apologised.

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Input: At the beginning of World War II, the small Baltic country of Lithuania saw two major shocks. First, in 1940, it was invaded and conquered by the Soviet Union. Just the next year, in June 1941, it was invaded and conquered by the Nazis. In the city of Kaunas, the Nazi invasion triggered a spontaneous wave of attacks against Jewish residents, who had gained an unusual amount of power under the Soviets. The perpetrators were n’t the Nazis, who had n’t yet had time to set up.

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Input: What information could have been captured by a foreign power that could be used if / when Hillary Clinton came to office as President to gain leverage over her? “Undoubtedly, if she wins election, her first priority will be re-election. So, my concern is not just for information that she could have compromised as Secretary of State that would have harmed the U.S. from 2009-2013, but what information has been compromised that could be used against her as blackmail if she is in the Oval Office?” Clinton’s Judgment So whether Sen. Sanders is right or not – that “the American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails” – Hillary Clinton’s carelessness and entitlement in brushing aside the lawful security rules that apply to other government officials is an issue that bears on whether she has the character and judgment to be President.

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Input: "Her message is that things can't change," Trump said." My message is that things have to change -- and this is our one chance to do it and may be our only chance to do that change." In delivering the fiery speech against Clinton, firing campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and actively working to rebut Clinton's remarks Tuesday in real time, Trump's campaign is working to reassure Republicans the billionaire is up to the job. Republicans have expressed concern about and distanced themselves from his controversial comments of late and some GOP delegates are actively exploring ways to block Trump at the convention in Cleveland next month. Clinton, who spent Tuesday firing off her own assault on Trump, hit back at his counter-attack during a visit to North Carolina, interrupting a speech on her economic policy to accuse the presumptive Republican nominee of attacking her because he lacks substance.

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Input: Utter disgrace,” she tweeted. Earlier this week, a German reporter was detained at an Istanbul airport and sent back to Cairo where he is based. A day later, authorities denied entry into Turkey for Russian news agency Sputnik’s Istanbul-based general manager.

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Turkey


Input: The Ft. Hood Shooter delivered a presentation to a room full of mental health experts before the attacks in which he threw out one red flag after another. He even proclaimed that “we love death more than you love life!” These warnings signs were ignored because political correctness has replaced common sense in our society. That is why one of my first acts as President will be to establish a Commission on Radical Islam – which will include reformist voices in the Muslim community who will hopefully work with us.

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Input: State-run Anadolu Agency says Turkish Air Force planes are flying above Ankara to strike at helicopters that are being used by those attempting the coup. Private NTV television reported that F-16 jets have brought down a Sikorsky helicopter, but didn't provide any details. NTV also showed what it said were images from a police station in Istanbul, showing military officers allegedly detained by police. Meanwhile, the commander of Turkey's military special forces, Gen. Zekai Aksakalli, said "those who are attempting a coup will not succeed." He told NTV television by telephone:" Our people should know that we will overcome this ... We are in control of the situation."

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Input: "There are a lot of generals and colonels that were detained but those who want to set the Turkish people and the Turkish military against each other, let us not fall prey to their plot." Chaos erupted the night before when military tanks rolled onto the streets of Ankara and Istanbul and soldiers blocked the famous Bosphorus Bridge. Turkey's attempted coup: By the numbers • At least 161 people killed • 2,839 military officers were detained • At least 1,140 people wounded • 1 airfield still under military faction's control • At least 200 soldiers turned themselves in to police in Ankara • 11 years: Erdogan's reign as Prime Minister • 2014: Year that Erdogan ran for President -- and won The military's claim of a takeover was read on state broadcaster TRT. The anchor said the military imposed martial law.

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Input: Trump’s response references reports claiming that Warren potentially benefited from a housing crisis herself. Reports emerged during Warren’s Senate campaign in 2012 that she profited off her native Oklahoma City’s volatile market in the 1990s. Warren reportedly loaned money at high interest rates to relatives and purchased foreclosed properties at bargain prices. The Boston Herald reported that Warren took part in about 12 Oklahoma real estate deals. Warren's office on Wednesday said there was nothing wrong with those transactions.

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Input: Appearance of corruption? This is the woman who” lost” the Rose Law Firm billing records that were under subpoena for two years. The records proved that she lied when she denied participation in a sham land deal. This is the woman who fired seven White House travel office employees and ruined some of their lives by charging financial improprieties, just in order to give patronage jobs to her friends. Her corrupt approach to power has been further unmasked this year.

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