Input: November 13, 2015-A series of terror attacks in Paris kills at least 130 people and wounds more than 350 others. The attackers, armed with assault rifles and explosives, A series of terror attacks in Paris kills at least 130 people and wounds more than 350 others. The attackers, armed with assault rifles and explosives, target six locations across the city -- including a soccer match as France plays world champion Germany and the Bataclan concert hall, where most of the fatalities occur. In an online statement distributed by supporters, ISIS said eight militants wearing explosive belts and armed with machine guns attacked precisely selected areas in the French capital. The Institute for the Study of War described the attacks as the terror group's "most sophisticated assault in the West to date."

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Input: Enact fair trade laws that benefits local workers and communities. Repeal the Taft-Hartley Act which banned secondary boycotts and permitted state "right-to-work" laws. Enact a federal just cause law (to prohibit firing without just cause,) and outlaw scabbing on striking workers. End Poverty: Guarantee economic human rights, including access to food, water, housing, and utilities, with effective anti-poverty programs to ensure every American a life of dignity.

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Input: What made the litigation threat credible was Trump’s refusal to pay more than 150 illegal immigrants who demolished the Bonwit Teller department store to make way for Trump Tower. A federal judge ruled that Trump conspired to cheat the workers, who never did collect all of their $ 4-an -hour wages despite an 18-year struggle. The bankers realized that a man who would endure almost two decades of litigation to avoid paying such meager wages might tie them up for eternity over the billions of dollars owed to them. When the New Jersey Casino Control Commission took Trump’s side against his bankers, they gave in. The banks canceled close to a billion dollars of Trump’s debts and extended new loans on favorable terms.

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Input: When the University of Texas released a report last week detailing where it plans to allow guns on its Austin campus, Nora Dolliver’s choice of graduate schools narrowed by one. The languages student at the University of Chicago sent an email to staff with the subject “Declining Offer of Admission Due to Campus Carry Guidelines”, and will now pursue a dual masters in Russian and Eastern European studies and library sciences elsewhere. Someplace where she can feel confident that the person she is sitting next to is not packing a concealed pistol. Students and academics have warned of a chilling effect on freedom of expression ever since Texas became the latest state to pass a “campus carry” law last year. It compels public universities to allow license holders aged 21 and over to bring concealed handguns on to most areas of campus.

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Input: Republicans are confident Georgia will remain red in 2016 and say the media is overplaying Clinton’s chances there. While Trump has suffered high-profile defections from within his own party elsewhere, the entirety of the Georgia Congressional delegation is standing behind him. Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) is a state chairman for Trump and has been an outspoken advocate and active fundraiser for the campaign in the state. Trump officials say the campaign is fully integrated with the party’s robust state organization, and the Republican National Committee does not count Georgia on its map of 11 battleground states. And demographics have not yet abandoned Republicans in the state.

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Input: Now, so there are some Democrats, and these are the Democrats who wanted Elizabeth Warren to be her running mate, said, look, there are more Democrats and liberals than Republicans and conservatives. Let's united the Democrats and we win that way. The problem for Republicans is the day after the convention, the government released the statistic you cited in your interview with Mrs. Clinton 1.2 percent growth in the second quarter. If Mr. Trump -- WALLACE: Slowest recovery since 1949.

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Input: Or some tissues. Donald Trump has erupted and the Grand Old Party may never be the same. A steady stream of Republicans have called on their presidential nominee to exit the race after a 2005 recording showed Trump making comments about women that many have characterized as sexual assault. On Monday, House Speaker Paul Ryan told House Republicans he would no longer defend Trump or campaign with him. Trump blasted Ryan and continued the attacks on Tuesday, effectively declaring war on the Republican establishment:" Disloyal R's are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary.

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Input: But all the concessions made by the military weren't enough for Khomeini. On 15 February four senior military generals were summarily executed on the rooftop of a high school. It was just the beginning of a slew of executions. Many have come to believe that that the Carter administration-plagued by intelligence failures and internal division-was by and large a passive observer to the rapid demise of the Shah. But it's now clear that, in the final stages of the crisis, America had in effect hedged its bet by keeping a firm foot in both camps in the hopes of a soft landing after the fall of the Shah's regime.

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Input: Livesey is now writing for a little-known West Coast blog. In his recent piece, Livesey started by attacking me (though we are in part on the same side in the issue disputed) and says that Random House, his publisher and mine, has spent a lot of money defending my libel suit against him, “which has gone nowhere.” I had to wait for more important litigation to be resolved to get all the way down to Livesey’s tawdry malignancies, and if Random House has paid more than $ 5,000 on this account, it has been fleeced. But I can assure Livesey that his day of reckoning will come: a long and intense session under oath in penetrating cross-examination over his malicious falsehoods. He will be less chipper after that character-building experience. National Post

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

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Input: State-run Anadolu Agency says Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has called all legislators for an emergency meeting on Saturday. Parliament Speaker Ismail Kahraman earlier said that a bomb hit one corner of a public relations building inside the parliament complex, injuring some police officers. He said there were no fatalities and that all legislators were safe at a parliamentary shelter. Troops loyal to the government are moving to crush the coup attempt, arresting some 130 anti-government forces. A helicopter was flying over the area where the parliament is located and shots were being fired.

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Input: Russia is one of the few countries that has relatively friendly ties with North Korea. Read more on North Korea: The yacht Elfin was on its way from South Korea's port city of Busan to Vladivostok in Russia's far east when it was detained 130 km (80 miles) off the coast on Friday, the foreign ministry said. The vessel was taken into the North Korean port of Kimchaek and the crew were not in any danger, the ministry added. The Russian consul-general was waiting for permission to visit them, it said.

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Input: Among the list of targets were more than 100 email addresses associated with Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, including Mr. Podesta’s. By June, 20 staff members for the campaign had clicked on the short links sent by Russian spies. In June, SecureWorks disclosed that among those whose email accounts had been targeted were staff members who advised Mrs. Clinton on policy and managed her travel, communications and campaign finances. Newsletter Sign Up Continue reading the main story Please verify you're not a robot by clicking the box. Invalid email address.

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Input: Russia has defied this Administration at every turn. Putin has no respect for President Obama or Hillary Clinton. Sometimes it has seemed like there was n’t a country in the Middle East that Hillary Clinton did n’t want to invade, intervene or topple. She is trigger-happy and unstable when it comes to war. Clinton’s “reckless” actions, Trump said, fit a pattern of conduct that is “simply disqualifying” and and render her “unfit to be Commander-in-Chief.” He went on:

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

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Input: The party’s 2012 filing indicates outlays for expenses other than advertising of just under $ 2 million, at the exchange rate at the time. This is less than a single payment in the black ledger designated for “Paul Manafort contract” in June of that year for $ 3.4 million. Ukrainian investigators say they consider any under-the-table payments illegal, and that the ledger also describes disbursements to members of the central election committee, the group that counts votes.

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Input: The vote had been scheduled to take place over a year ago, on the 100th anniversary of the massacre. However, Merkel’s allies in parliament postponed it repeatedly out of concern that it could harm relations with Turkish government. Turkey, a majority of whose population is Muslim, accepts that many Christian Armenians died in clashes with Ottoman soldiers beginning in 1915, when Armenia was part of the empire ruled from İstanbul, but denies hundreds of thousands were killed and that this amounted to genocide. Turkey and Armenia have a century-long conflict due to the events of 1915, which are highly disputed in both nations. Turks accept that many Armenians died in 1915 in Anatolia under the Ottoman Empire, but they deny that this number is as high as 1.5 million and instead have an official death toll of about 500,000.

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Input: But there were some problems, some unintended consequences. Too many young African-American and Latino men ended up in jail for nonviolent offenses. And it's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man, you are more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated. So we've got to address the systemic racism in our criminal justice system. We can not just say law and order.

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Input: Germany did not understand the reason for Poland's sudden change of mind and decided to proceed with the terms of the arrangement agreed upon with Poland. That was the start of World War II. Great Britain knowingly deceived Poland when Great Britain actually promised military assistance to Poland if Poland were attacked by Germany. Great Britain could not come to Poland's assistance and Great Britain knew it when Great Britain's offer of military assistance to Poland was made. Poland fell into Great Britain's trap and discontinued negotiations with the Germans.

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Input: It is worth remembering that many wealthy allies spend a lot more of their national wealth on development aid and refugee resettlement than does the United States — on average, in the range of 0.5 percent of GDP more than we do, which is real money even measured against the sizes of our military budgets. NATO allies also commit much more to United Nations peacekeeping missions than we do — roughly 10,000 troops, plus or minus, in recent decades. While they did not match us in Afghanistan, they collectively suffered more than 1,000 fatalities and have stuck with the mission for 15 long, hard years. Those who question the basic value of our alliances or engagement overseas go too far. Nor is it all about military power.

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Input: 1/10 China Escalating crackdown against human rights activists including mass arrests of lawyers and a series of sweeping laws in the name of ‘national security’. Getty Images 2/10 Egypt The arrest of thousands, including peaceful critics, in a ruthless crackdown in the name of national security, the prolonged detention of hundreds without charge or trial and the sentencing of hundreds of others to death. Getty Images 3/10 Gambia Torture, enforced disappearances and the criminalisation of LGBTI people; and utter refusal to co-operate with the UN and regional human rights mechanisms on issues including freedom of expression, enforced disappearance and the death penalty.

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Input: News Monday that Russia had shipped the first 20 of 50 battle tanks to Nicaragua rattled Costa Rican officials and left others scratching their heads. The $ 80 million T-72B tanks are a significant purchase for the hemisphere’s second-poorest country, which spent $ 71.6 million total on its military in 2015, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, an organization that tracks global military spending. Nicaragua has significantly increased its military budget during the last five years, a move that foreign relations experts see as rooted in Nicaraguan domestic politics and Russia’s international ambitions. Carlos Cascante, director of the National University’s International Relations Department, said that the tanks are part of President Daniel Ortega’s plan to strengthen the army as a political force inside Nicaragua.

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Input: But Assange at the last minute cancelled what would have been a rare public appearance on the balcony of his 18-square -metre room in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, citing security concerns. Ten years after it was founded, the site has faced growing charges that it is manipulated by politicians-either by recycling documents provided by Moscow, or by allegedly serving the interests of Donald Trump in the US presidential election race. ' We're not going to start censoring our publications because there is a US election, ' Assange told Der Spiegel in an interview. WikiLeaks launched in January 2007, with Assange saying it would use encryption and a censorship-proof website to protect sources and publicise secret information. It first caught the world's attention when it released manuals for prison guards at Guantanamo Bay.

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Input: Manafort resigned earlier this month. Related: Why Experts are Sure Russia Hacked the DNC Emails After 20,000 emails stolen from the DNC were published by the website WikiLeaks days ahead of the convention, Trump seemed to invite the Russians to spy on Clinton, and asked the government to release any emails it may have. After days of criticism and condemnation, Trump said he was being sarcastic. Play Facebook

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Input: 1. You do not understand veterans or value our service. Do we need to hear anything more than how you described Senator John McCain, who spent almost six years as a POW in Hanoi after being shot down behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War? You said, “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured.

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Input: In a phone call with Sergei Lavrov, Mr Kerry said the US held Russia responsible for the use of incendiary and bunker bombs against the city. The US state department said it was making preparations to suspend talks. Aleppo has come under heavy aerial bombardment since the end of a ceasefire a week ago. In response to Mr Kerry's phone call, the Russian Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Evgeny Zagaynov, said the "trend" of Russia being blamed for the attacks in Syria must stop." It's become a sort of unfortunate tradition that the majority of strikes on civilian facilities in Syria, without checking it ... is blamed on Damascus or Russia, ' ' he said.

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Input: And it’s not clear that it will ever come up. After several Republican lawmakers publicly raised concerns about Abedin in 2012, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was enraged. “These sinister accusations rest solely on a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations of members of Huma’s family, none of which have been shown to harm or threaten the United States in any way,” the senator said. “These attacks on Huma have no logic, no basis and no merit. And they need to stop now.”

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Input: BRUSSELS Turkey has fired hundreds of senior military staff serving at NATO in Europe and the United States following July's coup attempt, documents show, broadening a purge to include some of the armed forces ' best-trained officials. In a classified military dispatch seen by Reuters, 149 military envoys posted to the alliance's headquarters and command centers in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Britain were ordered on Sept. 27 to return to Turkey within three days. Most were dismissed from service on their arrival, arrested and imprisoned, according to a Turkish military official at NATO and two farewell letters sent by departing Turkish officials emailed to colleagues at NATO and seen by Reuters. One of those letters wrote of a "witch-hunt" of senior air force commanders serving overseas. In total, about 400 military envoys have been fired so far, the Turkish military official said.

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Input: There is no evidence that difference has been resolved. Timing is critical for all sides. Russia proposed earlier this week the starting of a cease-fire in early March. Some American officials say privately they are concerned that Russia will use the time to help Mr. Assad’s forces, aided by the Iranian military, to seize more territory. Photo

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Input: A Palestinian rammed a vehicle into a bus stop then got out and started stabbing people before he was shot dead AP 2/10 Israeli ZAKA emergency response members carry the body of an Israeli at the scene of a shooting attack in Jerusalem. A pair of Palestinian men boarded a bus in Jerusalem and began shooting and stabbing passengers, while another assailant rammed a car into a bus station before stabbing bystanders, in near-simultaneous attacks that escalated a month long wave of violence AP 3/10 Getty Images 4/10 Palestinians throw molotov cocktail during clashes with Israeli troops near Ramallah, West Bank.

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Input: It worked! (CBC News) An American man committed suicide in a Taiwan courthouse after he was convicted of growing marijuana. When told he would receive a four-year prison sentence, the 41-year -old cried out: “I do n’t want to live anymore!” before stabbing himself with a pair of scissors. (Peter Holley) This girl was injured after an airstrike on the rebel-controlled city of Idlib, Syria, on Wednesday.

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Input: “Mike Pence Ditches Donald Trump, Starts His 2020 Run at VP Debate,” The Daily Beast declared in its post-debate analysis. What changed? Pence turned in a steady and even-tempered performance — though notably one riddled with false and misleading statements — at the vice-presidential debate. Compared to Trump’s brash and blunt tone, Pence came across as polite and soft-spoken. When asked to answer for Trump’s insults, Pence acted as though they had never happened.

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Input: But a few minutes later, Bush returned and apologized to the operator, saying: “That is not the way the president of the United States should act.” A small thing, but I remember it. The office confers an awesome power to elevate the lives of those around a president, or to destroy them. I thought of this when Trump delivered his rant earlier this month in Pensacola, Fla., at a rally where his microphone was malfunctioning. “Whoever the hell brought this mic system, do n’t pay the son of a bitch who put it in,” he told the crowd.

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Input: Iran paid forth a $ 400 million deposit for military equipment before the Islamic revolution in 1979 that was never delivered, while the White House insists the transaction was not directly related to the release of five U.S. hostages, including Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, which the administration characterized as “a goodwill gesture” by Tehran. Even NPR quoted Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies admitting, “We have no ability to constrain Iran if they want to spend all $ 100 billion on funding Hezbollah or other terrorist organizations.” The nuclear deal permits Iran access to that $ 100 billion after the International Atomic Energy Agency verifies it has implemented nuclear-related measures under the agreement — except under the agreement, they will block access from other actors to cash in on its exclusive economic cooperation with Moscow to construct as many as six reactors. Meanwhile, U.S./Iranian diplomatic relations have remained severed since 1979.

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

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Input: “Now I am saying this and I want to lay out these facts because it underscores why at this moment we just ca n’t do business as usual. We ca n’t walk out of this room and say, OK, we’re going to try to continue or we’ll have a ceasefire that everybody knows ca n’t work. “Are you supposed to sit there and have happy talk in Geneva under those circumstances when you’ve signed up to a ceasefire and you do n’t adhere to it?” Kerry asked. A western official likened the succession of Moscow’s different descriptions of the convoy bombing to the various Russian accounts of the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 by a ground to air missile over Ukraine in 2014. “It’s the same thing – throwing out chaff and hoping some of it works,” the official said.

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Input: But that's wrong," Steinmeier said, referring to politicians in Europe and the United States." The worst thing we could do is seal ourselves off," he said. In a subtle dig at Trump, who has promised to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico and make the Mexicans pay for it, the German foreign minister added:" So if you ask me: building walls is a very bad idea-no matter who pays for them." (Reporting by Noah Barkin; editing by Grant McCool)

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Input: “You’re not allowed to do that.” The law does not set forth an intent requirement for charity fraud. Prosecution may arise if a charity’s records are false and materially misleading. In addition, the burden of proof does not lie with the prosecutor, but with the charity. Should the government determine an organization was not validly operating as a charity, they will determine how much profit the organization generated, and assess a corporate tax against it.

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Input: The fall of Aleppo, Syria’s biggest city, would be a major win for Assad supporters and potentially leave Syria with two major rival forces — ISIS and the Assad regime. In Iraq, the Shiite militias, known as Popular Mobilization Forces, were key to important wins against the Islamic State in Amiri and Tikrit, former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s hometown. With the help of U.S. airstrikes, the militias were able to claim those cities from ISIS and end the jihadist group’s land grab across Iraq. Fighting in Syria is a more lucrative undertaking, however. During the battle for the Iraqi cities of Amerli and Tikrit, militia members earned roughly $ 720 a month, according to Iraqi government officials.

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Input: The outbreak of violence in Germany comes in the wake of groups of Russians being deported from France for their part in some of the worst football riots seen in western Europe for many years. Uefa, football’s governing body in Europe, has already fined Russia € 150,000 and imposed a suspended disqualification as punishment for its supporters’ part in the mayhem in Marseille. What you need to know about the Russian ultras Euro 2016 The Russian hooligans, or ultras, have a fearsome reputation and have threatened to launch vicious assaults on England fans. In the run-up to Euro 2016, thugs from rival football clubs, such as Moscow's CSKA and Spartak, threatened to join forces in France against supporters from other countries. There are fears that the mobs will target black and Asian supporters of England, as well as directing racist chanting at the team members.

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

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Input: Story highlights Two officials may have been slipped a date-rape drug, according to a report The US is declining to comment on the specific incident but raising concerns of Russian harassment Washington (CNN) A top Russian official strongly denied Wednesday a report that Moscow may have been behind the alleged drugging of two US diplomats in St. Petersburg and suggested instead that the pair may simply have been drunk.

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Input: Qatar denies the claims. The BBC says the row is actually a culmination of a complex regional schism that puts Doha on the side of Saudi Arabia's rival Iran, which ironically represents a branch of Islam that is opposed to both IS and Nusra. Qatar, a member of the Opec oil cartel, relies on the Strait of Hormuz waterway, says the Daily Telegraph, and as that passes through both Iranian and UAE waters, regional shipments could be disrupted, which would have consequences for global oil supply. The oil price has long been in the thrall of supply trends: Brent crude fell below $ 50 a barrel last week over doubts that supply cuts by Opec, Russia and others would be enough to rebalance the market. Oil price drops below $ 50 as ' game of chicken ' starts again

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Input: That is the clear position not just of the Obama administration, but also of the Republican Party platform approved in Cleveland at last week’s GOP convention. While Trump officials reportedly blocked a move to add language calling for the U.S. shipment of weapons to Ukraine’s government, the platform does include a firm passage about Putin’s aggression there. “We support maintaining and, if warranted, increasing sanctions, together with our allies, against Russia unless and until Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity are fully restored,” the platform states. Trump’s comments are also at odds with some of his key allies. “There’s a sense that sanctions will not continue and that Putin will get the upper hand” in Ukraine, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Corker, told MSNBC in February.

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Input: Many criticised the Prime Minister as making an ill-advised decision in order to win an election, which was due in 2014. He also wanted to refrain from having too many foreign eyes on their economic policies, as many reforms were criticised as being undemocratic. Paying the loan back early has meant Hungary have saved € 11.7 million worth of interest expenses, but Gordan Bajnai, leader of the electoral alliance E14-PM, claimed that they had actually lost € 44.86 million by March 2014 because of the early repayment as all they did was replace the loan from the International Mafia Federation (another nickname, we’re still talking about the IMF here) with a more expensive one, labelling the stunt as Propaganda. And what made further nonsense; another loan at high interest rates was signed to finance a nuclear upgrade, which will mean not only higher repayments but also high electricity costs. But they do have economic sovereignty now.

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Input: Trump is also repeating his threat to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton's use of a private email system during her tenure as secretary of state. The Justice Department investigated and in July did not recommend criminal charges against Clinton. Trump says," We have to investigate Hillary Clinton and we have to investigate the investigation." _ _ _ 8:45 p.m.

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

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Input: After the inevitably celebratory Oliver Stone film about him appears this weekend, he may have more. Whether Mr. Snowden deserves a presidential pardon, as human rights organizations are demanding in a new national campaign timed to coincide with the film, is a complicated question, however, to which President Obama’s answer should continue to be “no.” Mr. Snowden’s defenders do n’t deny that he broke the law — not to mention oaths and contractual obligations — when he copied and kept 1.5 million classified documents. They argue, rather, that Mr. Snowden’s noble purposes, and the policy changes his “whistle-blowing” prompted, justified his actions. Specifically, he made the documents public through journalists, including reporters working for The Post, enabling the American public to learn for the first time that the NSA was collecting domestic telephone “metadata” — information about the time of a call and the parties to it, but not its content — en masse with no case-by-case court approval.

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Input: Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan have taken in most of those refugees, often in sprawling and struggling camps. The UN estimates that more than 300,000 people have tried to flee across the Mediterranean, and that thousands have died in the attempt. Last month, Nato joined regional patrols to combat human and weapons smuggling across the sea. West’s approach to Syria has its dangers | Letters Read more Only 2,647 Syrian refugees have resettled in the United States since 2011, after passing through an arduous vetting and resettlement program.

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Input: “The presence of two carrier strike groups in the Mediterranean Sea demonstrates our commitment to safety and security in the region,” the statement read. “These forces further serve to support European allies and partners, deter potential threats and are capable of conducting operations in support of the counter-ISIL [Daesh] mission.” On Monday, the US strike group with the Harry S. Truman carrier along with the guided missile cruiser USS Anzio and the destroyer USS Gonzalez, launched 68 combat sorties and delivered 52 precision guided munitions against IS targets in Iraq and Syria from the Mediterranean Sea. More than 1,500 smart bombs and pamphlets have been dropped since December when Truman carrier arrived. Read more

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Input: The Russian Defense Ministry says an airstrike in Iraq by the U.S.-led coalition has left dozens of civilians dead. The ministry's spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, said Friday's strike on a funeral procession in the town of Daquq has "all the signs of a war crime." Konashenkov said two jets of the U.S.-led coalition were involved in the raid, apparently mistaking the procession for militants of the Islamic State group. The IS on Friday launched an attack on the city of Kirkuk, about 30 km north of Daquq.

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Input: We haven't really learnt anything — I’m depressed by the current situation. The experience of the Syrian refugees is similar to what we went through. I was 11 years old when my family first immigrated to Belgium [after Hitler annexed Austria in 1938]. We were treated as if we had come from the moon. I felt as if I was n’t wanted and that I was different to everybody.

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Input: Hide Caption 23 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city A member of Iraq's special forces guards two suspected ISIS fighters found hiding in a house in Mosul on November 11. Hide Caption 24 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city An Iraqi woman displaced by war holds her cat near a checkpoint in the Iraqi village of Shaqouli, east of Mosul, on November 10. Hide Caption 25 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Iraqi troops watch a broadcast of Donald Trump's acceptance speech in a house in Arbid, on the outskirts of Mosul, on Wednesday, November 9. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi congratulated Trump on his win and said he hoped for continued support in the war on ISIS. Hide Caption 26 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city US Marines install equipment at a coalition base in Qayyara on November 9.

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Input: The blast shattered windows up to 1.6 km (one mile) away. The Associated Press quoted a police officer as saying it was one of the most powerful explosions he had ever heard, and he could not see or hear anything for 20 minutes after. It appears the initial blast cleared the way for Taliban fighters to enter the area — a commonly used tactic. Advertisement-Continue Reading Below (Interesting.

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Input: In this Aug. 19, 2004 file photo, commuters stand near a McDonald's restaurant in Marathon, Greece. (Photo: AP) A coalition of Italian consumer groups, with backing from the American Service Employees International Union, said Tuesday that it has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission against McDonald's (MCD), alleging that the hamburger giant has used its dominant position in the market to gouge consumers and its franchisees. In the complaint, the consumer groups (Codacons, Movimento Difesa del Cittadino and Cittadinanzattiva) allege that McDonald's is violating European Union rules by abusing its position as a landlord by charging rents to franchisees with prices up to 10 times above market rates. The group says McDonald's has set 20-year franchise contracts followed by one- to two-year non-competitive clauses that limit the ability of franchisees to switch to other brands.

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Input: In the afternoon, Amaq, a news agency affiliated with the Islamic State, issued a bulletin claiming responsibility for the attacks, calling them the work of suicide bombers. Frédéric Van Leeuw, the Belgian federal prosecutor, said at a news conference on Tuesday night that “at this stage, it is not possible to draw a formal link with the Paris attacks.” A cell of 10 operatives, a number of them from the Brussels district of Molenbeek, were implicated in the Paris attacks on Nov. 13, which left 130 people dead. The Brussels strikes came only a few days after the Belgian police captured Salah Abdeslam, the only suspect in the Paris assaults believed to have survived, who is considered a potential trove of information. The State Department on Tuesday warned Americans traveling in Europe to “exercise vigilance when in public places or using mass transportation.” Terrorist groups, the department travel alert said, “continue to plan near-term attacks throughout Europe, targeting sporting events, tourist sites, restaurants and transportation.” Video

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Input: Papa Massata Diack remains in Senegal, despite an Interpol notice issued for his arrest. In response to questions from the Guardian, aA Dentsu spokesman said it had no knowledge of any Black Tidings payment and Tan was never employed as a consultant. One of the world’s largest marketing companies, iIt has previously said that Papa Massata Diack was not employed as a consultant by Dentsu and that his contract was with the IAAF. The Black Tidings account first came to prominence when it emerged that the account was the channel for a € 300,000 refund paid to Russian marathon runner Liliya Shobukhova in March 2014 after a botched attempt to cover up a positive drugs test. The IAAF’s independent ethics commission began investigating the affair later that year and in a damning 170-page report this January banned four senior officials, including Papa Massata Diack and its former anti-doping chief Gabriel Dollé, over the corruption and extortion racket.

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Input: Maybe herein lies the identification with the lawless Vladimir Putins of the world. As Timothy Snyder wrote in the New York Review of Books, Trump’s fantasy bestie is everything Trump the law-weary aspires to be. “Thus far Trump can only verbally abuse his opponents at rallies, whereas Putin’s opponents are assassinated,” Snyder wrote. “Thus far Trump can only have his campaign manager rough up journalists he does n’t like. In Russia some of the best journalists are in fact murdered.”

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Input: Triple homicide here. Six killed here. Triple homicide there. Murder here. Boston Marathon there.

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Input: Her work also resulted in health benefits for the emergency responders who worked for weeks at Ground Zero following the attacks. As secretary of state, Clinton worked to build the support needed — including from Russia and China — to impose more stringent sanctions on Iran. Those same sanctions later offered the U.S. and its partners key leverage in negotiating last year’s Iran nuclear deal, the terms of which cut off the possibility of Iran developing a nuclear weapon using plutonium for at least 15 years. Clinton’s extensive record and her detailed campaign proposals paint the picture of someone who is committed to using government to make a positive difference in people’s lives, while doing so in a fiscally responsible way that allows the economy to flourish and lets as many people as possible share in the benefits. The former secretary of state has exhibited lapses in judgment during her career — supporting President George W. Bush’s Iraq war during her time in the Senate and using a private email server during her time as secretary of state — and her time in public life has been bedeviled by the aura of scandal.

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Input: Syria's government meanwhile described the Turkish artillery shelling inside Syria as an "outrageous violation" of international law. Turkey has been shelling Kurdish militia positions in Syria in recent days, saying it is exercising its right to self-defense and responding to fire from Syrian soil. It has also threatened to send in ground forces. The main Kurdish group in Syria, the People's Protection Units, or YPG, has denied firing at Turkey from Syria. The group has been on the offensive near the Turkish border, seizing territory from Turkey-backed Syrian rebels as well as the extremist Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS.

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Input: His first two points highlight that Trump has literally no understanding of the details of Cuba policy — an issue that matters greatly to Florida's politically influential Cuban-American community. The last part of his answer is the kind of hard line on Cuba that's popular among Cuban-American conservatives, many of whom fled the revolution and haven't forgiven the Castro regime for their dispossession. Substantively, Rubio's position — keep up the US embargo on commerce with and travel to Cuba until they democratize — is a proven failure. The US embargo has been in place for decades, in various forms, and has had no discernible effect on Cuba's human rights record. It is currently opposed by 97 percent of the world's countries as well as a majority of Americans.

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Input: The United States began its war in Afghanistan in October 2001 with the objective of destroying al-Qaeda and the Taliban government that harbored the terrorist group. The war has become the longest in U.S. history, and the Taliban remains a threat to the sovereignty of Afghanistan. The U.S. military has suffered 2,384 fatalities in the war, though the yearly count has fallen dramatically, from a high of 499 in 2010 to six so far this year, according to iCasualties.org. As the United States tries to withdraw from Afghanistan, the Obama administration has requested $ 44 billion for 2017 military operations there, which includes funding for combat and shoring up the Afghan army’s fight against the Taliban and other extremist groups. While U.S. and NATO forces have largely left Afghanistan, any hopes for a complete withdrawal have proven to be false.

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Input: Is NATO an entangling alliance? GJ: Well, we need to honor our obligations. We need to honor our treaty obligations. But that said, should they be reexamined, and do we really want to go to war with Russia over the Baltic states? And Russia did become democratic, tearing itself away from the USSR.

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Input: Even if the Russian government is not responsible for the hack on the D.N.C., Putin’s affinity for Trump is clear. Some part of it may be a matter of kindred temperament. Just as Trump talks ominously about Mexican “rapists” and tens of thousands of “illegal immigrants ... roaming free” in the land, Putin won early popularity by vowing to dispense with terrorists from the Caucasus: “We will ice them in their shithouses.” Trump is, after all, a kind of parody of Putin: the bluster, the palaces. As the historian Timothy Snyder puts it, “Putin is the real-world version of the person Trump pretends to be on television.” The fellow-feeling between the two is complex, but it is not hard to see who gets the better of whom. Trump sees strength and cynicism in Putin and hopes to emulate him.

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Input: There's real reason to fear, from this debate, that he has thus far not taken even those few minutes.” For instance, Sanders twice dodged the question of how long he would leave at least 10,000 troops in Afghanistan, shifting the conversation by saying, “our great task is to make certain that our young men and women in the military do not get sucked into never-ending, perpetual warfare within the quagmire of Syria and Iraq.” On ISIS, Sanders insisted that “the combat on the ground must be done by Muslim troops with our support. We must not get involved in perpetual warfare in the Middle East.” But he had no real rejoinder for Clinton when she cited foreign policy and military analysts’ criticism of his views, such as inviting Iranian troops into Syria to try to resolve the conflict there while at the same time enlisting the aid of Saudi Arabia.

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Input: I've balanced budgets and cut taxes. I've also spoken my mind about where the country needed to go on personal freedoms and marriage equality. In 1999, I became the only sitting governor to publicly advocate the legalization of marijuana. Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSanders slams ' unprecedented ' process on GOP health bill Sanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? ' Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill MORE came to that viewpoint — a position that most Americans support — 16 years later.

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Input: ' Outrageous ' attacks There has been strong international condemnation: US President Barack Obama called the blasts "outrageous attacks against innocent people". The 28 EU leaders said the bombings were an "attack on our open democratic society" in a joint statement." The terrorists have struck Belgium but it is Europe that was targeted," said French President Francois Hollande.

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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: Twenty-four hours after she landed, a ceasefire went into effect — and that year became Israel’s quietest in a decade. Wait just one moment. Clinton was secretary of state for President Obama’s entire first term, and her most significant accomplishment is helping negotiate the end of a week-long skirmish between Israel and Hamas? What about the war in Libya? Oh, that’s right:

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Input: # BREAKING: Today, @SYRedCrescent # Aleppo delivering aid convoy of 31 trucks will reach the western rural side of Aleppo pic.twitter.com/fqGiCUyc3t — SARC | Aleppo (@SARC_Aleppo) September 19, 2016 Eighteen of the convoy's 31 trucks were hit, the United Nations said. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, and it is unclear whether an airstrike hit the convoy or whether it was shelled. Syria Civil Defense, a volunteer emergency medical service, posted video of the attack's aftermath on social media showing a warehouse ablaze and claiming that helicopters had dropped four barrel bombs on the site, blaming the Syrian regime. Barrel bombs are commonly used by the regime, while rebel and militant groups are not known to have the capacity for air power.

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Input: Euro 2016: ' England fans are not idiots ' Who do Europe's papers blame? A number of Russia supporters appeared to kick and punch fleeing England fans, who were forced to clamber over fencing to escape. Earlier in the day, England, Russia and local fans were embroiled in ugly clashes with riot police, with a number of bloodied fans being taken to hospital. ' Utter disgust '

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Input: In August 2011, Hillary led the US into disaster with her declaration Assad must "get out of the way," backed by secret CIA operations. Five years later, no place on the planet is more ravaged by unending war, and no place poses a great threat to US security. More than 10 million Syrians are displaced, and the refugees are drowning in the Mediterranean or undermining the political stability of Greece, Turkey, and the European Union. Into the chaos created by the secret CIA-Saudi operations to overthrow Assad, ISIS has filled the vacuum, and has used Syria as the base for worldwide terrorist attacks. The list of her incompetence and warmongering goes on.

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Input: More than 822 wounded were also taken in, including at least 221 children, it said. ' All intensive care units are full. Patients have to wait for others to die so they can be moved to an available bed in intensive care, ' Abu Waseem, manager of an MSF-supported trauma hospital in east Aleppo, warned in the statement. ' We only have three operating theatres and yesterday alone we had to do more than 20 major abdominal surgeries, ' he said, pointing out that ' hospital staff is working up to 20 hours a day. They can not just go home and let people die. '

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Input: There’s no sign that Trump has spent even a minute weighing the consequences of such a shift. “Words matter when you run for president,” Clinton responded. “I want to reassure our allies in Japan and South Korea and elsewhere that we have mutual defense treaties and we will honor them.” Trump has every right to criticize Clinton’s foreign policy positions, of course. Her support for Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran, her decisions in Libya and her fruitless efforts to increase aid to rebels in Syria are all fair game.

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Input: But Obama, wanting to be remembered most of all as the president who ended wars rather than fought them, left no forces behind. Beaming with pride, he frequently took credit for bringing American military involvement in Iraq to a formal close.45 Of course, when ISIS later grew into a genocidal monster, Obama tried to claim that his withdrawal from Iraq had been forced upon him by a December 2008 deal in which President Bush and Iraqi president Maliki signed a “status-of-forces” agreement stipulating that all U.S. troops must leave Iraq by December 2011.46 But status-of-forces agreements are often amended and renegotiated, based on evolving security concerns. Obama left no U.S. forces in Iraq for one very simple and obvious reason: he did n’t want to.

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Input: No, you ca n’t. One can argue about whether to call him a fascist or an authoritarian populist or a grotesque joke made in a nightmare shared between Philip K. Dick and Tom Wolfe, but under any label Trump is a declared enemy of the liberal constitutional order of the United States — the order that has made it, in fact, the great and plural country that it already is. He announces his enmity to America by word and action every day. It is articulated in his insistence on the rightness of torture and the acceptable murder of noncombatants. It is self-evident in the threats he makes daily to destroy his political enemies, made only worse by the frivolity and transience of the tone of those threats.

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Input: The alt-right is drenched in racism, anti-Semitism, xenophobia and misogyny. But that didn't stop Bannon from calling his outlet "the platform for the alt-right." While avowed white nationalists have always had a place in the conservative movement -- most recently, Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa proudly detailed his white supremacist views to a cable TV audience -- Trump has thrown such forces into the mainstream. Trump's view of America as a weak, crime-ridden and chaotic place would resonate with any regular reader of Breitbart's news coverage. Breitbart News depicts an America where white people are under attack from the Obama administration, anti-Christian feminists and LGBT rights activists, African Americans who seek to discriminate against white people, Latino immigrants obsessed with rape and violence, and Muslim refugees who support terrorism.

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Input: SEOUL South Korea and the United States are expected to begin talks next week on possible deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system following North Korea's recent rocket launch, officials said on Friday, as Seoul cut power to a factory park run jointly with the North. The discussions would focus on placing one Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system with the U.S. military in South Korea, a South Korean defense official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. Pentagon spokesman Commander Bill Urban said in an email that a joint working group would "review all aspects regarding the potential of deployment of a THAAD system to South Korea." "We expect the first meeting to occur next week," he said. North Korea launched a long-range rocket on Feb. 7 carrying what it called a satellite, drawing renewed international condemnation just weeks after it carried out a nuclear bomb test.

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Input: But as amplified below, there has been none. The whole demonization of Putin is based on a false narrative arising from one single event. To wit, the February 2014 coup in Kiev against Ukraine’s constitutionally elected government was organized, funded and catalyzed by the Washington / NATO apparatus. Putin took defensive action in response because this supremely stupid and illegal provocation threatened vital interests in his own backyard. The openly hostile government installed in Kiev the very next day by the State Department threatened to join NATO, persecute the Russian-speaking minority in eastern Ukraine, renounce its multi-billion financial obligations to Moscow and imperil Russia’s rental arrangement for the homeport of its the Black Sea naval fleet in Sevastopol (Crimea).

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Input: does n’t make a whole lot of sense.” Fallon said the email showed that the secretary’s staff “opposed the idea of her identity being masked.” Last month, in a hearing about a Judicial Watch lawsuit, U.S. District Judge Sullivan cited that email as part of the reason he ordered the State Department produce records related to its initial failures in the FOIA searches for Clinton’s records. Speaking in open court, Sullivan said legitimate questions have been raised about whether Clinton’s staff was trying to help her to sidestep FOIA. “We’re talking about a Cabinet-level official who was accommodated by the government for reasons unknown to the public.

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Input: In recent months, Trump has taken a position of appeasement toward aggressive and illegal actions by Russia under Vladimir Putin to annex Crimea and destabilize Ukraine. On most of these issues, Pence — to his great credit — has already publicly stated his opposition to Trump's views, often with clarity and strength as matters of high principle and national security. Can Pence be a party to the election of a president who has had kind word for current-day dictators like North Korea's Kim Jong-un and retweets the words of Italian fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, whose actions promoted the crimes that gave rise to the treaty that formed NATO in the first place — a treaty which Trump would violate so casually today? Does Pence want to be part of an administration whose president has repeatedly supported policies that violate core principles of American security, from endangering our allies to committing war crimes in ways that strike horror in the hearts of American commanders — even after a growing number of former intelligence officials and commanders have publicly stated that if a President Trump gave the order to commit torture, they would flat-out refuse to execute orders they consider illegal and dangerous to American troops? Throughout this campaign, Trump has tried to fan the flames of fear and bigotry against Muslims — using rhetoric so destructive to American interests and so dangerous to the safety of American troops that retired Gen. and former CIA Director David Petraeus has risen to publicly condemn politicians who promote such views.

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Input: Shirley is apparently a lifelong protester. She told local reporters she participated in Civil Rights and anti-war protests in the 1960s. And now Donald Trump is among her list of people she’s protested against. As she describes it, the early part of the protest was relatively good natured: Trumpers shouting, Trump, Trump, Trump; her crew would respond Dump, Dump, Dump. Then this happened.

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Input: "These relatively small-scale but horrific and deadly terrorist attacks that have come with a degree of frequency as of late, in the wake of [ISIS’s] rise … understandably have people very uneasy and unnerved," Rice says." What happens in any corner of the world is on the iPhone of any individual in any other part of the world, so we have much greater awareness of all that is happening in various different places that may be upsetting or disconcerting or downright scary." "The threat to Americans from terrorism is less than the threat to die in car accidents" Economics plays a similar role. While the world may have gotten better for a lot of people, particularly in the developing world, many Americans just have n’t seen similar gains.

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

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Input: Manafort said on ABC. Clinton, 68, a former secretary of state, and Sanders, 74, an independent U.S. senator from Vermont who ran for president as a Democrat, waged a bruising months-long battle for the nomination. Branding himself a democratic socialist, Sanders galvanized young and liberal voters with his calls to rein in Wall Street and eradicate income inequality. But Sanders repeatedly voiced frustration with a DNC and party establishment he felt was stacked against him, and the resentment from Sanders and his supporters threatened to disrupt the convention." I'm not shocked but I'm disappointed," Sanders said of the emails earlier on Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

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Input: 23/74 Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces arrest a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi at his home after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad 24/74 Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces arrest a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad 25/74 Iraq crisis A vehicle burns in front of a home of a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad 26/74 Iraqi refugees An Iraqi woman holds her exhausted son as over 1000 Iraqis who have fled fighting in and around the city of Mosul and Tal Afar wait at a Kurdish checkpoint in the hopes of entering a temporary displacement camp in Khazair 27/74 Iraqi refugees Displaced Iraqi women hold pots as they queue to receive food during the first day of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, at an encampment for displaced Iraqis who fled from Mosul and other towns, in the Khazer area outside Irbil, north Iraq

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Input: For the second time in its entire history, the Indian Army has moved over 100 tanks to the frontline in Ladakh, a geostrategically important region located along the so-called Line of Actual Control (LOC) in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Almost five decades ago, in a desperate attempt to use tanks against the invading Chinese army, the Indian Mechanized Division had airdropped five tanks in Ladhak, which has witnessed frequent incursion attempts by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in recent years. A calculated strategic maneuver by the Indian Armed Forces, the deployment of tanks in the disputed region is aimed at reinforcing the Indian position in the valley overlooking China’s Tibet Autonomous Region. Much to New Delhi’s displeasure, China has undertaken massive reconstruction and development projects on its western border with India in the recent years.

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Input: These are extremely capable systems that can track dozens of targets up to 400 kilometers (249 miles) away but are vulnerable in that they ca n’t be easily dispersed and hidden. The United States has at its disposal stealth fighters and bombers – the F-22 and the B-2 – electronic-warfare EF-18Gs, large numbers of Predator and Reaper drones and special-forces teams all trained and equipped to swiftly locate, suppress and destroy missile batteries. A man cries over the body of his child after she was pulled out from the rubble of a building following airstrikes in the rebel-held neighborhood of Al-Shaar in Aleppo, Syria, September 27, 2016. Karam Al-Masri, AFP A confrontation between a U.S.-led coalition and the Russia-Assad alliance would almost certainly be a one-sided affair with America and its allies losing at worst a handful of aircraft.

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Input: Months ago, a politician of name Jörgen Olsen and belonging of the same organization as Carl Bildt and Ulf Adelsohn wrote in Facebook, “Palme was a repulsive person.” That is the terms used by former Social Minister Göran Haglund when referring to Assange. Martin Klepke, a reporter formerly working at the Swedish newspaper Expressen, told in 2014 that he heard colleagues at his working place in Expressen discussing in serious terms whether Olof Palme “should go voluntarily or forced out by means of military power.” That was the time when Olof Palme had in unambiguous terms denounced the bombing of Hanoi civilian population by the U.S. and criticized the occupation war in Vietnam. Nevertheless, the Swedish police disregarded eyewitness reports from the very same evening of the murder of Palme which identified a U.S. agent at the time working for Pinochet’s infamous DINA – the secret security agency set up to assassinate opposition leaders abroad. Olof Palme was the only foreign dignitary who was listed in the death list of Operation Condor. The Indicter, Paid agent of Swedish security services implicated in second disinformation campaign against Assange, Marcello Ferrada de Noli (shown in a file photo), March 13, 2016.

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Input: The two convoys carrying necessary supplies of food have been stranded in a “no man’s land” since the start of the Syrian ceasefire, unable to proceed due to hostilities and a lack of permits from the Assad regime. UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland discussed the reasons behind the delay. “The reason we’re not in eastern Aleppo has again been a combination of very difficult and detailed discussions around security monitoring and passage of roadblocks, which is both opposition and government,” he said. The ongoing civil war, which has lasted five years and shows little sign of ending, has left some 300,000 people dead and 11 million displaced from their homes. The latest Syrian ceasefire has given little reason to hope for an end to hostilities, while the people of Aleppo are caught in the crossfire.

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Input: But the minor indignities paled in comparison to what happened to her grandfather: He had the chance to come to America in 1929, but he opted to stay, sensing an economic thaw. Seven years later, Sundeyeva says, he was arrested and never heard from again. Sundeyeva immigrated to San Francisco from Moldova in 1994, and now she and her husband run a Russian-language newspaper here called Kstati. Her Soviet experience colors how she sees U.S. politics to this day. Profiles of America’s immigrant communities

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Input: Image copyright Reuters Image caption These German Russians held up a placard saying:" We have the right to doubt the objectivity of the police" The demonstrators were angry after reports on the popular Russian television station Channel One that a 13-year -old girl from a Russian-immigrant family had been abducted on her way to school and gang-raped by "southern-looking" asylum-seekers. But German police say that after questioning and examination it was clear that Lisa F was not abducted and not raped. Sexual contact was not forced, say officers. Because the girl is only 13 years old prosecutors are investigating two men for child abuse.

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Input: Russia is one of the few countries that has relatively friendly ties with North Korea. Read more on North Korea: The yacht Elfin was on its way from South Korea's port city of Busan to Vladivostok in Russia's far east when it was detained 130 km (80 miles) off the coast on Friday, the foreign ministry said. The vessel was taken into the North Korean port of Kimchaek and the crew were not in any danger, the ministry added. The Russian consul-general was waiting for permission to visit them, it said.

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Input: Karam al-Masri / AFP / Getty Images The Syria cease-fire always seemed like it was destined for failure. And on Sunday the truce seemed to start to fall apart amid an airstrike on rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo. Rebels said a total of four airstrikes hit Aleppo on Sunday, marking the first raids in the city since the cease-fire officially began on Monday. The strike came shortly after Russia warned that the future of the truce was in doubt after the U.S .- led coalition killed more than 60 Syrian soldiers.

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Input: would raid his family’s home so that he could “martyr” himself. The F.B.I. opened an investigation, putting Mr. Mateen on a terrorist watchlist for nearly a year. F.B.I. agents in Florida used multiple investigative tools, including an undercover informant who made contact with the suspect, wiretapping his conversations, and pulling personal and financial records on him.

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Input: They’ll still have an office, but they will have to vote the way of their states and will have to be apportioned as their states were apportioned. It’s a big deal. You know, it’s the same thing we went through, quite frankly, in the movement to abolish the death penalty. We had one victory in ' 72. It got turned around on us in ’76.

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Input: He choked.” After a few exchanges, Clinton once again moved in: “Donald knows a lot about this. He used undocumented labor to build Trump Tower.” She would later hit Trump for building a hotel, “here in Las Vegas,” with Chinese steel. Later, when he referenced the “beautiful” hotel, she could n’t resist a Trumpian interruption: “made with Chinese steel …” Over three debates, you could almost see new programs being loaded onto Clinton’s internal hard drive.

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Input: German Chancellor Angela Merkel became the latest Western leader on Thursday to urge restraint, while underlining Turkey's need to take action against the rebels." In a constitutional state-and this is what worries me and what I am following closely-the principle of proportionality must be ensured by all," she told a news conference in Berlin. Cavusoglu told broadcaster CNN Turk that some prosecutors with links to Gulen had fled to Germany and he urged Berlin to extradite them. He also said he saw "positive change" in the attitude of the United States towards Ankara's request to extradite Gulen to Turkey. Even before the failed coup, Turkey was struggling with major security challenges including attacks by Kurdish militants and Islamic State, a grim reality underscored by tourism data on Thursday showing a 40 percent fall in foreign visitors in June.

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Input: Moreover, Trump’s proposal would assure the enmity of all Muslims, including those whose support we need if we are to prevail. Even assuming an infallible way to identify who is Muslim, the proposal is both under- and over-inclusive. It is under-inclusive because it does not address potential terrorists who have U.S. passports or residence permits, or are already here, or may threaten us abroad; it is over-inclusive because it bars the huge majority of Muslims who are not potential terrorists. Trump says he would order the military to kill the families of terrorists. That would be a direct violation of the most basic laws of armed conflict, which require that deadly force be used only when required by military necessity, under circumstances that allow distinction between military and civilian targets, and when incidental damage to non-military targets is proportional to the military advantage gained.

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Input: “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. Sayer argues that the past four decades have been characterised by a transfer of wealth not only from the poor to the rich, but within the ranks of the wealthy: from those who make their money by producing new goods or services to those who make their money by controlling existing assets and harvesting rent, interest or capital gains.

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Input: “They are in such a defensive mode right now, it’s sad,” said Randa Slim, a scholar of post-conflict reconciliation at the Middle East Institute. “They are more trying to spin the positive of their inaction than confront the true inaction.” Obama issued his “red line” warning to Assad in 2012, which was widely seen as a pledge that the U.S. would be ready to launch airstrikes targeting the Syrian government. After it became clear that Assad had used sarin gas to kill hundreds of Syrians in 2013, Obama openly debated such strikes. Ultimately, he backed off the idea, and his administration instead pursued the diplomatic route – working with Assad’s ally, Russia — to try to purge Assad’s stockpiles of chemical weapons.

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Input: But since 2013, when violent threats against gay activists in Tbilisi forced them to cancel a gay-pride parade in the Georgian capital, the slogan has appeared as spray-painted graffiti near Heroes Square in the city center alongside Nazi swastikas and racist slogans. Kiwi Cafe said on May 30 that it was continuing to work and was "ready to accept all customers regardless of their nationality, race, appearance, age, gender, sexual orientation, or religious views." For now, it remains unclear whether the premeditated meat assault against the vegan cafe was merely a prank against an alternative culture hangout that turned violent. But some Tbilisi residents are concerned that the xenophobic overtones of the violence at Kiwi Cafe, taken together with the march by right-wing nationalists in Tbilisi just three days earlier, could mark the emergence of organized political actions by Georgian ultranationalists. With reporting by RFE / RL's Georgian Service

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Input: Walter Palmer (pictured left with a bear and right with a leopard) is a specialist bow and arrow hunter who has admitted killing Cecil the lion He added: ' I think there's been too much diplomacy. I think we're so politically correct in our country that people are sick and tired of it. ' I certainly don't want to be diplomatic. I mean we're diplomatic in our country and everybody hates us all over the world.

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Input: On Saturday, the Pentagon said U.S. officials were working with Turkey to resume air operations at Incirlik Air Base." In the meantime, U.S. Central Command is adjusting flight operations in the counter-ISIL campaign to minimize any effects on the campaign," Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said. Clothes and weapons beloging to soldiers involved in the coup attempt lie on the ground abandoned on Bosphorus Bridge. Key air base closed For now, American airstrike missions from the base have been halted.

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Input: Over the weekend, he had hit the slopes around Camp David. In the morning of Sunday, 11 February, Mr Carter and his Secretary of State were at a church, temporarily out of reach. In their absence, the President's National Security Advisor convened an emergency meeting at the White House Situation Room. The once-powerful Iranian armed forces had disintegrated, but Brzezinski, who had been among the most pro-Shah voices in the Carter administration, was thinking of Option C, but he was told it wouldn't be possible, given the state of the military. Image copyright National Archives Image caption Zbignew Brzezinski was among the staunchest Shah supporters in the Carter administration

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Input: Trump brought this renewed scrutiny on himself by harping on the idea that his 68-year -old opponent, Hillary Clinton, is not physically or mentally fit to be president. He and his surrogates have sought to make health a big issue lately, claiming the Democratic nominee lacks "stamina" and looks "sick." Trump ally Matt Drudge seems obsessed with Clinton's medical condition these days, and others in the conservative media have made wild diagnoses ranging from Parkinson's disease to radiation poisoning. It was inevitable then that journalists would return to questions about Trump's own constitution. [A guide to Hillary Clinton's many ' illnesses, ' as diagnosed in the conservative media]

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Input: Image copyright AP Image caption The Arak facility will be reconfigured to make it incapable of producing material for a nuclear weapon Iran has removed the core of its Arak heavy-water nuclear reactor and filled it with cement, according to the country's Fars news agency. The fate of the reactor was one of the toughest sticking points in Iran's long nuclear negotiations last year.

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Input: "I grew up in the era of mass incarceration," Garza said." In particular, we had being demonized and being seen as a drain on government resources, and, you know, former Secretary Clinton and her husband, former President Clinton, really removed this very robust agenda around criminalizing Black people and they did that in a couple of different ways." "One was by passing and championing this landmark three strikes legislation, which actually incarcerated more Black people than any other time in history, right," she continued." They also did something which was overwhelming, which was to dismantle states supports for families to be able to thrive or just at the very least survive, right. And they did that under this notion, right, that people were taking advantage of the system and that people are not redeemable."

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Input: At least 23 civilians were killed in renewed government airstrikes on the contested city of Aleppo, Syrian activists said Sunday, as the United Nations Security Council convened an emergency meeting on the spiraling violence in Syria. Earlier on Sunday, rebels seized Handarat, a largely uninhabited former Palestinian refugee camp — a day after it was lost to government forces, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The camp has changed hands multiple times and is largely devastated and abandoned.

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Input: American officials have said fighters are more constricted in their movements and spending than they have been in months. But the group still controls a vast amount of territory, and they say the Syrian government has made few gains against the extremists themselves. Islamic State, meanwhile, keeps up its deadly combination of threats and payments for anyone wavering in their support. The Soufan Group, in a Jan. 27 analysis, said the group is looking for alternative funding streams in Libya, where it is under less pressure — and doesn't face airstrikes. And fighters still get their food baskets and free electricity — even if, as one of the Raqqa exiles said, they no longer get Snickers bars and energy drinks.

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Input: 6:45 p.m. Russia has expressed deep concern about Turkey's ground incursion into Syria, saying it raises the risk of civilian casualties and the worsening of ethnic tensions between Kurds and Arabs. The Russian Foreign Ministry statement issued Wednesday says Moscow believes the Syrian crisis can be resolved only on the basis of international law through dialogue involving all ethnic groups, including the Kurds. While Moscow has supported Syrian President Bashar Assad in Syria's civil war, carrying out air strikes in support of government troops, Ankara has backed the rebels fighting Assad. Turkey's operation on Wednesday targeted the Islamic State-held border town of Jarablus, but also appears aimed at preventing Syrian Kurdish forces — who have been among the most effective opponents of IS — from expanding further across northern Syria.

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Input: Specific parts of the brain do show sex differences, but individual brains rarely have all “male” traits or all “female” traits. Some characteristics are more common in women, while some are more common in men, and some are common in both men and women, according to the study 8/20 Dog-sized horned dinosaur fossil found shows east-west evolutionary divide in North America A British scientist has uncovered the fossil of a dog-sized horned dinosaur that roamed eastern North America up to 100 million years ago. The fragment of jaw bone provides evidence of an east-west divide in the evolution of dinosaurs on the North American continent. During the Late Cretaceous period, 66 to 100 million years ago, the land mass was split into two continents by a shallow sea.

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Input: A similarly sordid tale unfolded for Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico, a 525-unit luxury vacation home complex that Trump proclaimed was going to be “very, very special.” His name and image were all over the property, and he even personally appeared in the marketing video discussing how investors would be “following” him if they bought into the building. Scores of buyers ponied up deposits in 2006, but by 2009 the project was still just a hole in the ground. That year, the developers notified condo buyers their $ 32 million in deposits had been spent, no bank financing could be obtained, and they were walking away from the project. Scores of lawsuits claimed the buyers were deceived into believing Trump was the developer. Trump walked away from the deal, saying that if the condo buyers had any questions, they needed to contact the developer — and that was n’t him, contrary to what the marketing material implied.

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Input: "I have a plan ... Look, I have a very substantial chance of winning," Trump said." If I win, I don't want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is." But he also said he would confer with US generals on his ISIS plan, although he criticized Pentagon brass, alleging generals have not stood up to Obama." I think under the leadership Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble." With less than three weeks until the debate, Trump seemed at ease with the freewheeling style he has often demonstrated on the campaign trail.

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Input: The national backlash was swift and fierce. In the week that followed, groups withdrew events from the state in protest, and Angie’s List — an Indianapolis-based business run by a former Republican staffer — canceled a planned $ 40 million expansion of its headquarters. Businesses, including Apple and Marriott, condemned the law, and some states and localities signed orders boycotting Indiana. The state even had to hire a public relations firm to the tune of $ 2 million to help repair its image in the wake of Pence’s law. Pence eventually signed a revised version of the law in response to the criticism, explicitly barring a business from denying services to someone on the basis of categories that include sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Input: The three candidates who led in the polls at the time — Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Ben Carson — adopted the stand of the largely evangelical base: humans have no impact on global warming, if it is happening at all. The other candidates reject government action to deal with the matter. Immediately after Obama spoke in Paris, pledging that the United States would be in the vanguard seeking global action, the Republican-dominated Congress voted to scuttle his recent Environmental Protection Agency rules to cut carbon emissions. As the press reported, this was “a provocative message to more than 100 [world] leaders that the American president does not have the full support of his government on climate policy”—a bit of an understatement. Meanwhile Lamar Smith, Republican head of the House’s Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, carried forward his jihad against government scientists who dare to report the facts.

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Input: CLOSE TO DEAL WITH ISRAEL Efforts to re-establish ties with Israel was close to bearing fruit, implied Erdoğan, adding that the process was clear cut from the very beginning." We have three conditions: Apology, compensation and lifting of the embargo on the Gaza Strip. Through President Obama's intermediation, the apology was received. We have made serious progress on the compensation issue."

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Input: Splayed out on the ground, this gruesome picture shows half a tonne of severed bear paws seized from a Russian boat bound for China. The 525 bear paws were discovered in an anti-smuggling operation by Russian customs and secret services. They are among the most expensive items in east Asian cuisine-where they are considered a delicacy-and are much sought after in Chinese restaurants. The value of the bear paws was estimated at £ 370,000.

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Input: She says that for the past decade, tiger breeding has been a fast-expanding and lucrative industry, often masquerading as conservation. The existence of the farms is stoking demand for luxury products and traditional Chinese medicines, and endangering the few tigers left in the wild. Thai police charge 22 with wildlife trafficking from tiger temple Read more “These places are stockpiling dead parts in freezers. This [raid in Thailand] was just the tip of a trade that spans south-east Asia and sees so-called tiger sanctuaries and farms secretly selling tiger parts and products on the black market for enormous profit,” she said.

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Input: Hide Caption 75 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Spent bullet cartridges litter the street around the Jihad Hotel, where ISIS militants battled Iraqi security forces in Kirkuk on Friday, October 21. Hide Caption 76 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Gen. Abdel Ghani al-Asadi, who leads Iraq's counterterrorism forces, sits in Bartella on October 21 after the town was reclaimed. Hide Caption 77 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Peshmerga fighters look over a village during an assault near Bashiqa on Thursday, October 20. Hide Caption 78 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city A Peshmerga fighter takes aim near Naveran on October 20. Hide Caption 79 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Iraqi soldiers travel along a road near Qayyara as clouds of black smoke rise in the sky on Wednesday, October 19.

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Input: The Russian Orthodox Church issued a statement saying that “if reasonable and carried out with love, corporal punishment is an essential right given to parents by God.” The All-Russian Parents’ Resistance, a movement fighting against the juvenile justice system, has warned that criminalization of familial battery will lead to prosecution of parents who were acting in their children’s best interests. “A mother spanked her son for watching porn ... but his teachers in school noticed bruises, complained, and the court made the mother pay a 8,000-ruble ($ 120) fine ... Parents no longer have the right to choose methods of up-bringing,” a statement on their website says. “Traditional, or rather archaic values have become popular again,” says Alyona Popova, activist and women’s rights advocate. High-profile stories of abuse — movie stars beating their wives into a coma, female journalists posting pictures of bruised faces after fighting with their significant others — have done little to change the situation.

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Input: What’s in Project Trump for Putin is clear. But the more puzzling question is how Trump became Putin’s man in Washington. Former CIA Director Mike Morell wrote in The New York Times that Putin “recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation” with flattery. But the truth is more nuanced. Trump’s pro-Putinism goes back to at least 2007, when he told CNN that the Russian strongman was doing “a great job” rebuilding Russia.

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Input: Bush responded:" No, just wish him well and [we'll] meet again in the South." Brokaw then asked Dole if he had anything to say to Bush. Dole was inflamed by an advertisement the Bush campaign was running accusing him of "straddling on taxes." Dole responded:" Yeah, tell him to stop lying about my record." However, Dole became Bush's chief defender in the Senate and was instrumental in supporting Bush on foreign and domestic affairs.

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Input: Ali, 10, had been in critical condition since Wednesday, when the blast hit the apartment in the Qaterji neighborhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, the anti-government opposition group confirmed to USA TODAY by email. Ali Daqneesh, Omran's 10 y.o. brother, passed away today due to injuries from that Russian airstrike. # HowManyMore? pic.twitter.com/ynp7oJFxxq — Kenan كنان (@KenanRahmani) August 20, 2016

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Input: 47/74 Iraqi refugees An Iraqi woman, who fled with her family from the northern city of Mosul, prays with a copy of the Quran AP 48/74 Isis fighters in Iraq The body of an Isis militant killed during clashes with Iraqi security forces on the outskirts of the city of Samarra Reuters 49/74 Iraq crisis Iraqi civilians inspect the damage at a market after an air strike by the Iraqi army in central Mosul EPA 50/74 Iraq crisis Members of the Al-Abbas brigades, who volunteered to protect the Shiite Muslim holy sites in Karbala against Sunni militants fighting the Baghdad government, parade in the streets of the city AP 51/74 Iraq crisis Shia tribesmen gather in Baghdad to take up arms against Sunni insurgents marching on the capital.

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Input: The Obama administration does have more drastic options. If the U.S. wanted to truly damage Russia’s economy, it could bar American banks from buying Russian ruble bonds, or cut the country off from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT. The “nuclear option” would be an embargo on Russian energy exports. The U.S. official said that option was n’t on the table. Europe gets about one-third of its energy supplies from Russia, so any such embargo would deal a severe blow to already struggling European economies.

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Input: The number of hate groups peaked in 2011 with 1,018 identified groups, before decreasing and reaching its lowest point of 784 groups in 2014. However, that number is back on the rise, with 892 groups identified in 2015. Take a look at scenes from the Aug. 21 protest in the gallery above.

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Input: Stunned, Clinton stood up and walked out. According to people with knowledge of the meeting, Lavrov tried to get her to stay and talk, but Clinton was n’t having any of it. She dropped her notes and said he could read those if he wanted to talk, and walked out. But nothing angered Putin as much as Clinton’s statement about Russia’s December 2011 parliamentary elections, which produced widespread allegations of fraud and vote-rigging on behalf of Putin allies. At a conference in Lithuania, Clinton issued a biting statement saying that the Russian people “deserve to have their voices heard and their votes counted, and that means they deserve fair, free transparent elections and leaders who are accountable to them.” Some Obama officials felt the provocative statement went too far.

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Input: If Trump was going to think strategically, the time to do it was from the very beginning, before he insulted menstruating women, the pope, Muslims, Mexicans, Whoopi Goldberg, Ronda Rousey, Carly Fiorina's face, Germany, and hundreds of other groups and individuals. You do it before you do schlock impersonations of Chinese businesspeople (" We want deal! "), before you retweet a bogus meme claiming 81 percent of white homicide victims were killed by blacks (the real number is 15 percent), before you mimic people with neurological disorders, and before you suggest that gun enthusiasts might take a shot at your opponent. And you definitely do it before you destroy the modern Republican Party by birthing into the mainstream an aggressive white-nationalist movement, whose entire identity is centered around walling itself off from America's future multicultural majority. In other words, you do it before you tear down a 162-year -old political organization to replace it with a smaller, more radicalized, more automatically-losing coalition – not after.

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Input: Clinton will never recognize Crimea as part of Russia, seeks to strengthen relations with our allies and speaks out about human rights. Putin and his government already know Clinton from her four years as secretary of state. They remember the tough line she took in seeking to negotiate a political transition in Syria; her efforts — though failed — to get Russia to support even modest U.N. Security Council resolutions regarding this humanitarian tragedy; and her early advocacy for arming Syria opponents of Bashar al-Assad, Moscow’s ally. They remember her public criticism of irregularities in Russia’s December 2011 parliamentary election, which Putin lambasted as a “signal” to Russian protesters to take to the streets against him. And they remember her portrayal of Putin’s prized foreign policy project — the creation of the Eurasia Economic Union — as a “a move to re-Sovietize the region.” No one should be surprised that Putin and his government would rather see Trump in the White House.

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Input: The UN has urged all sides to respect the cease-fire provisions, to remove combatants and weapons from civilian areas, and to scrupulously implement the Minsk agreements -- successive cease-fire and settlement deals signed in September 2014 and February 2015. But there are signs of both sides going back to a war footing: Kyiv is on high alert and has deployed special-forces units and battle-hardened battalions to the front, while Russia has reportedly amassed large amounts of military hardware in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula it seized from Ukraine in March 2014. After the leader of separatists in the Luhansk region, Igor Plotnitsky, was injured in an apparent assassination attempt on August 6, separatists were ordered to be on full combat readiness. Peace Deal In Jeopardy "The Minsk agreements have met their end," Vyacheslav Vlasenko, a commander of government forces who is known as "the Owl," told RFE / RL.

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Input: Trump has repeatedly tried to do business in Russia, and Russian investors have been important to his real estate empire, particularly in recent years. According to litigation filed in Florida, Trump’s partners on a Panama project traveled to Moscow in 2006 to sell condos to Russian investors. Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $ 95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev; he had purchased the home at a bankruptcy auction four years earlier for $ 41.4 million. Trump has also sought to build a tower in Moscow numerous times since the late 1980s, when he said he had a deal to explore a Trump project in partnership with the Soviet government. His most recent effort came after a Putin ally, Aras Agalarov, known as the Trump of Russia, paid Trump millions to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013.

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Input: (NOTE: Dr. Noel made this observation more than a week before Hillary was "diagnosed" with pneumonia.) After Clinton "overheated" on September 11, Dr. Noel made a follow-up video: Hillary's doctor claims that Clinton's behavior on September 11 was due to "dehydration", the excuse used every time Clinton has a "medical episode". Here you really have to watch the video to fully appreciate how unbelievable this claim is — and how often it's been used. Clinton is wearing blue-tinted glasses, which are used to help stabilize motor functions in those suffering from Parkinson's.

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Input: Trump ally Matt Drudge seems obsessed with Clinton's medical condition these days, and others in the conservative media have made wild diagnoses ranging from Parkinson's disease to radiation poisoning. It was inevitable then that journalists would return to questions about Trump's own constitution. [A guide to Hillary Clinton's many ' illnesses, ' as diagnosed in the conservative media] Trump has a bad habit of reviving negative stories through his own antics. He seemingly put the ugly Megyn Kelly feud behind him in May and weathered criticism for mocking a reporter with a physical disability last fall, then needlessly re-litigated both controversies during a news conference in July.

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