Input: Facing ruin, he met with his bankers, who had almost no recourse — they had been as reckless as Trump. By lending him billions — with loans for his real estate, his casinos, his airline and other businesses — they could fail if Trump went down. So the banks agreed to lend him tens of millions more in exchange for Trump temporarily ceding control over his multibillion-dollar empire and accepting a budget of $ 450,000 a month for personal expenditures. In August, New Jersey regulators prepared a report totaling Trump’s debt at $ 3.4 billion, writing that “a complete financial collapse of the Trump Organization was not out of the question.” In September, Trump informed his bankers that he would not be paying the $ 1.1 million in interest due and asked that they defer $ 245 million of future loan payments.

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Input: We have all of these security guarantees and alliances, and they're very important for the American allies who rely on them. Trump, as he says repeatedly, thinks the United States could and should get "better deals" on these, by which he typically means those countries should pay cash directly to the United States. Trump, for example, decried that the US is "protecting Saudi Arabia and not being properly reimbursed for every penny that we spend, when they’re sitting with trillions of dollars. ... And we were paying leases for bases?" Trump's plan for how to get those allies to pay up is to threaten to withdraw from the alliance or security guarantee altogether.

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Input: THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA September 20 or 21, 2014-French citizen-French citizen Herve Gourdel is abducted in the Tizi Ouzou region of Algeria, east of Algiers. An online video days later shows militants beheading him and pledging loyalty to ISIS. In the video, armed men claim to belong to Islamist militant group Jund al-Khilafah -- or Soldiers of the Caliphate -- in Algeria. They pledge allegiance to Baghdadi.

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Input: Normally, atmospheric explosions are recorded by seismic monitors, microphones and/or satellite observations. As Plait pointed out, as the impact was in open ocean, it's not likely that seismic monitors would have been used to record the impact energy. As the military has pretty obvious reasons for monitoring atmospheric explosions, it seems likely the data came from a classified source, probably satellites. Though an interesting energetic event, Feb. 6 isn't the only time the Earth has been hit by space rocks since Chelyabinsk. Every single day Earth is peppered with around 100 tons of space debris.

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Input: This laughable "explanation" wouldn't have helped much if a foreign power had intercepted the explicit calls." I'm just horrified to think the commander-in-chief is conducting himself with such reckless disregard for his responsibilities, making himself part and parcel of every blackmail threat that one can imagine," retired Marine Lt. Gen. Charles Cooper told the Washington Times in 1998. The Code of Federal Regulations (Title 32, Chapter 1, Part 147) makes clear that a person may lose a security clearance for "concealment of information that may increase an individual's vulnerability to coercion, exploitation, or duress, such as engaging in activities which, if known, may affect the person's personal, professional, or community standing or render the person susceptible to blackmail.” Presidents have enforced such laws by issuing edicts such as Executive Order No. 12968 in August 1995.

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Input: We will not share your email with anyone for any reason. Last May, Trump revealed that he took on debt with no intention of paying it all back, which strikes me as fraud. “I’ve borrowed knowing you can pay back with discounts,” he told CNBC in May, boasting “I’ve done well with debt.” Back then Trump threatened endless litigation unless 70 banks he owed money gave him millions more in new loans at low interest rates and provided him with $ 5.4 million a year for personal spending, the equivalent of $ 10 million in today’s money. Back then, one billionaire told The New York Times he did n’t know how to spend that much on himself and his family.

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Input: He does n’t maybe react in ways that might cause people to think, Wow, this guy might be a little crazy.” “The ‘crazy Nixon’ approach,” I said: Confuse and frighten your enemies by making them think you’re capable of committing irrational acts. “But let’s examine the Nixon theory,” he said. “So we dropped more ordnance on Cambodia and Laos than on Europe in World War II, and yet, ultimately, Nixon withdrew, Kissinger went to Paris, and all we left behind was chaos, slaughter, and authoritarian governments that finally, over time, have emerged from that hell. When I go to visit those countries, I’m going to be trying to figure out how we can, today, help them remove bombs that are still blowing off the legs of little kids. In what way did that strategy promote our interests?” But what if Putin were threatening to move against, say, Moldova — another vulnerable post-Soviet state?

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Input: Austria will be represented by acting President Doris Bures, former President Heiz Fischer and Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz. Australian Governor General Peter Cosgrove and Irish Foreign Minister Charles Flanagan will also attend. In addition, Turkey has announced it will send a senior representative to the funeral, undersecretary of foreign affairs, Feridun Sinirlioglu, who was the architect of the recent reconciliation agreement between the two countries on the Turkish side.

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Input: The link has not been definitively proven. Assange, for his part, has been living in the Ecuador Embassy since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden where he faces sexual misconduct charges. A United Nations panel recommended in February he should be allowed to move freely. Assange has denied the most recent leaks were intended to damage the Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, however WikiLeaks's political sympathies have been called into question. The group's Twitter account deleted a poll in September speculating about Clinton's health, and has also deleted tweets accused of being anti-Semitic.

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Input: The revelation comes days after the Government announced it would step up the level of military training it provided for the armed forces of Oman. Though Oman is not among those nations named on the FCO’s watchlist, human rights observers working for Amnesty International say they have identified widespread use of torture and detention in the country. “Methods in use in Oman include mock execution, beating, hooding, solitary confinement, subjection to extremes of temperature and to constant noise, abuse and humiliation,” the organisation said in its 2014 report. “These practices are allowed to flourish within a culture of arbitrary arrest and detention in secret institutions.” Human rights attacks around the world

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Input: Deng also registered an address in Lockhart House in Wan Chai, but no one answered when an Apple Daily reporter visited the flat. A security guard told the reporter it was occupied by a family of three. According to the government’s Land Registry, the flat is owned by a Wong Wai-ming, who bought it for HK$278,000 in 1979. See also: Hong Kong tops for secretive offshore financial services, according to leaked docs A copy of the Hong Kong passport of Li Xiaolin, Li Peng’s daughter, was found in the leaked documents as it was used to prove her identity.

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Input: “While there are certainly large parts of the 1 percent made up of entrepreneurs and innovators, the image of the U.S. as a free-market paradise is hard to square with the presence in the top income strata of people like car dealers (protected by regulations against the consolidation of car sales), doctors (protected by medical licensing and extensive educational requirements), lawyers (with a limited supply of lawyers and a government that produces outsized demand for their services), government contractors (including private prison managers, defense contractors, for-profit colleges and others whose almost exclusive dependence on government revenue raises question about whether they are “private” in any meaningful sense), and property developers (who in many urban areas can exploit government-constrained ability to build — which drives up prices — and political connections to generate oversized profits). Add in finance, licensed occupations, and sectors with lots of intellectual property, and you’re looking at a sizeable chunk of the 1 percent.” Returning to the original study, the policy conclusions we can draw from this divide between good profit and rent-seeking are debatable — the study’s authors draw the opposite conclusions from the study that free market advocates would, unfortunately (they argue that because so much billionaire wealth in the United States comes from rent-seeking, we can justify confiscatory taxation on the wealthiest people and businesses in the country without serious economic damage). Here’s a better idea: instead of allowing these businesses and individuals to profit from rent-seeking and then taxing the money back from them later, how about we protect honest profit and stop allowing people to profit from rent-seeking in the first place?

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Input: “The family welcomes any and all information that could lead to the identification of the individuals responsible and certainly welcomes contributions that could lead to new avenues of investigation,” the statement read. “That said, some are attempting to politicize this horrible tragedy, and in their attempts to do so, are actually causing more harm [than] good and impeding on the ability for law enforcement to properly do their job. For the sake of finding Seth’s killer, and for the sake of giving the family the space they need at this terrible time, they are asking for the public to refrain from pushing unproven and harmful theories about Seth’s murder.” Related video:

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Input: "The Russian Defense Ministry regards these actions of the Turkish party as a dangerous precedent and an attempt to hide the illegal military activity near the Syrian border," it said. Turkey's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that agreement on the observation flight over Turkey requested by Russia under the Treaty on Open Skies could not be reached on the mission plan, so it did not occur. In November, Turkish jets shot down a Russian plane flying in Syria, a move described by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "dastardly stab in the back." Russian jets have been striking rebel and jihadi fighters for four months in Syria, including Islamic State militants as well as fighters backed by Turkey and Gulf Arab states, angering the Turkish government. Konashenkov said Russian aircraft had carried out 237 sorties in Syria over the past three days, hitting 875 "terrorist" targets in the provinces of Aleppo, Latakia, Homs, Hama, and Deir al-Zor, Konashenkov said.

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Input: In the late 1950s, the Soviet Union began to apply pressure on the WHO, which is an agency of the United Nations, to mount a campaign to wipe out smallpox. Many WHO officials were hesitant to embark on such an ambitious operation, fearing that a defeat would erode the organization’s credibility. Previous efforts to eliminate other diseases, such as yellow fever and malaria, had “failed spectacularly,” according to Jason Schwartz, a historian of medicine at the Yale School of Public Health. [The world is closer than ever to eradicating Guinea worm] D.A.

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Input: He speaks of Russia and Vladimir Putin as positive forces and allies, and would be much less likely to go to war against Moscow than Clinton would. He declares that he would be “evenhanded” when it comes to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (as opposed to Clinton’s boundless support of Israel). He’s opposed to calling Senator John McCain a “hero”, because he was captured. (What other politician would dare say a thing like that?) He calls Iraq “a complete disaster”, condemning not only George W. Bush but the neocons who surrounded him.

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

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Input: On that front, this is an agenda that Sanders can — and did — enthusiastically sign on to. This is how Clinton is responding to a resurgent left. And the promises she’s making will matter. The conventional wisdom is that the way to win over swing voters and Republicans would be to pivot to the center. A top Mitt Romney adviser famously claimed that once the primary is over, you can "shake it up" and "start all over again," like an "Etch a Sketch."

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Input: 03:09 Until then, the trust deficit between Clinton and the left of her party will grow, Kohn and other liberals predict. Activists point to Clinton's voting record in the Senate, where she voted to authorize the Iraq war and increase domestic surveillance. They say that and decisions her husband made while president, like the Defense of Marriage Act and the authorization of the North American Free Trade Agreement, give her little street cred among liberals and populists. Possibly the biggest concern among liberals is Clinton's coziness with Wall Street, their big bogeyman.

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Input: MOSCOW: A nanny accused of decapitating a young girl in her care then walking through the street brandishing the head, on Wednesday said "Allah ordered" the killing as she appeared at a Moscow court. Suspect Gyulchekhra Bobokulova from Muslim-majority Uzbekistan — whom the press have dubbed "the bloody nanny" — was detained on Monday as she was waving the child's severed head outside a Moscow metro station. She was sent for psychiatric examinations." It was what Allah ordered," the 38-year -old told journalists as she was brought into the district court to have her arrest confirmed and extended. Speaking in broken Russian from the suspect's cage, Bobokulova said:" Allah is sending a second prophet to give news of peace "and also complained that she was" hungry ", had not been fed and would" die in a week ".

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Input: Former President Bill Clinton said Monday that his family’s charitable foundation will alter how it works if Hillary Clinton wins the White House, amid mounting pressure from both critics and supporters. Bill Clinton will curtail his direct involvement in the multi-billion-dollar charity and the group will transition some programs to like-minded charities, he said in a statement on the foundation’s website Monday. “Over the last several months, members of the Foundation’s senior leadership, Chelsea, and I have evaluated how the Foundation should operate if Hillary is elected,” the former president wrote. “Throughout the process, our top priorities have been preserving our most important programs, supporting the people who work for the Foundation and its affiliated programs, and resolving legitimate conflict of interest questions.” The update from Clinton — who told supporters last week that he would also stop doing paid speeches — comes as Donald Trump blasted the nonprofit organization is “the most corrupt enterprise in political history.”

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Input: Even ordering the use of torture — which Trump infamously once said he would do, insisting the military “wo n’t refuse. They’re not gon na refuse me”—imposes more legal constraints on a president than ordering a nuclear attack. If he were president, Donald Trump — who likes to say he doesn't spend a lot of time conferring with others ("My primary consultant is myself," he declared in March)—would be free to launch a civilization-ending nuclear war on his own any time he chose. The “nuclear button” is a metaphor for a complex apparatus that has the president’s brain at its apex. The image of a commander in chief simply pressing a button captures none of the machinery, people and procedures designed to inform the president and translate his or her decisions into coherent action.

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Input: She does not believe the situation is improving. A Battle of Values Mizulina’s bill comes on the heels of a recent amendment to the Criminal Code, introduced by the Supreme Court and signed into law by president Vladimir Putin. According to the amendment — one of the rare progressive legislative moves in fighting domestic violence — battery of family members was put on an equal footing with hooliganism and hate assaults as a criminal offense to be investigated and prosecuted by the state. It came into force in early July.

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Input: And we are not getting any explanations for this," Poroshenko said. The president added that Russia had failed to implement any aspect of 2015's Minsk Agreement, a ceasefire pact between Kiev and Moscow in Belarus. This came a year after Russia sent troops to annex Ukraine's Crimea region. Today, fighting continues in the east of Ukraine between government forces and pro-Russian rebels, despite the ceasefire. On Monday, Poroshenko met in Berlin with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who was party to the Minsk Agreement last year.

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Input: "Basically, the US took out part of the system that would allow for targeting, protecting themselves but not going after those who fired upon them," Schanzer told Business Insider. Even the limited strike places the US in a tricky situation internationally and legally. The Obama administration has desperately tried to preserve relations with Iran since negotiating and implementing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action to ensure Iran doesn't become a nuclear state. But the pivot toward Iran, a Shia power, has ruffled feathers in Saudi Arabia, a longtime US ally and the premier Sunni power in the Middle East. By taking direct military action against the Houthi rebels, a Shia group battling the internationally recognized government of Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour al-Hadi, the US has entered into — even in a limited capacity — another war in the Middle East with no end in sight.

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Input: For the first time, Ahmet Yayla’s interviews with INSURGE intelligence provide direct insider confirmation not only that Erdogan’s government had turned a blind eye to the movement of these fighters across the border into Syria — but that Turkish police had detected the role of Turkey’s state intelligence agency in the foreign fighter funnel, which had involved direct assistance to ISIS: “The MIT agency transported ISIS terrorists from Hatay to Sanliurfa in buses in 2014 and 2015. Sometimes they would be dropped off at the border, other times they would be transported across the border. When the terrorists would return to Turkey, they were often stopped for routine drug control. In the buses, Turkish border guards found Kalashnikovs and ammunition.

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Input: KIEV The body of a lawyer of two Russian servicemen on trial in Ukraine has been discovered on the grounds of a former farming collective, prosecutor Anatoly Matios said on Friday, saying two men were in custody in connection with the lawyer's death. Yuriy Grabovsky was part of the legal team representing the two Russians arrested last May on terrorism charges related to the separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine. Their case has garnered extra attention because of Ukraine's wish to exchange the servicemen for Ukrainians detained in Russia, including pilot Nadezhda Savcheko. Grabovsky went missing in early March and on Thursday evening police launched a search for his body based on information from one of two men detained over his disappearance, Matios said in a briefing. Matios said Grabovsky's body had been found at 0400 local time (0200 GMT) during a police excavation of land on a former farming collective.

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Input: Our first domestically-built aircraft carrier not only looks impressive, it is also strong and powerful inside." The carrier is being constructed at a dry dock in the port of Dalian, east of Beijing. The ship is thought to be modelled on China's first carrier, the Liaoning, which was originally made in Russia, but transferred to the Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet Union from where it was acquired by China in 1998.The Type 001A carrier is expected to carry an air arm of approximately 36 aircraft including 24 Shenyang J-15 air-superiorty fighters, Russian Ka-31 airborne warning and control helicopters and 8 multi-role helicopters. The Indian Navy is one of the most experienced operators of aircraft carriers in the world but has only one operational aircraft carrier presently, the INS Vikramaditya, which was acquired from Russia. India's own indigenous aircraft carrier, named the Vikrant (after India's first carrier), has been under development in Kochi since 2009, but completion of the warship has been repeatedly delayed with key systems, including its primary radar system and surface-to-air missiles yet to be acquired. Indian Navy officers monitoring Chinese naval shipbuilding have told NDTV in the past that learning to operate aircraft carriers efficiently takes years of experience. The pace with which China continues to produce submarines and warships, including aircraft carriers, is, however an eye-opener.

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Input: One cable named a male teenager who was raped by a man while abroad; a second identified another male teenager who was so violently raped his legs were broken; a third outlined the details of a Saudi man detained for "sexual deviation" — a derogatory term for homosexuality. Scott Long, an LGBT rights activist who has worked in the Middle East, said the names of rape victims were off-limits. And he worried that releasing the names of people persecuted for their sexuality only risked magnifying the harm caused by oppressive officials." You're legitimizing their surveillance, not combating it," Long said. _ _ _

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Input: In Arizona, a state that has voted Democratic once in nearly 70 years but has a growing Hispanic population, his lead has slipped to 44% to 42%. Marco Rubio: women with Zika should not be allowed abortions Read more Trump’s broader polling numbers have plummeted in a period during which, among other controversies, he again refused to release his taxes, insulted the family of a war hero, claimed that Russia had not invaded Ukraine – two years after it had, said his daughter should “find another company” if sexually harassed and briefly claimed to have seen a nonexistent video of cash shipments to Iran. Republicans have tried to tie Clinton’s foreign policy to that money, $ 400 m owed to pre-revolutionary Iran for a failed arms deal in the 1970s, describing it as “ransom” for hostages who were freed in January, around the time of delivery and sanctions relief for a nuclear arms deal. Clinton began tentative nuclear talks with Iran but the money dispute predated her and was concluded by her successor as secretary of state, John Kerry, who also oversaw the hostage release.

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Input: "Based on the criminal investigation, we have concluded that flight MH17 was downed by a Buk missile of the series 9M83 that came from the territory of the Russian Federation," chief Dutch police investigator Wilbert Paulissen told a news conference on Wednesday. MH17 Malaysia plane crash: What we know MH17 crash: The 298 who perished The missile had been taken from Russia to rebel-held Ukraine in the morning of 17 July, when the plane was shot down, and the launcher was taken back to Russia the next day, he said. The Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT) has also narrowed the missile launch site down to a specific field near the village of Pervomaiskyi, which was then in rebel hands.

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Input: As a result of Reuters reporting, the Clinton Foundation admitted that its IRS filings from 2010 through 2012 and those of its Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) from 2012 and 2013 are not accurate. The foundation does not rule out the possibility of revisiting its IRS filings going back 15 years. According to Reuters, “[f]or three years in a row beginning in 2010, the Clinton Foundation reported to the IRS that it received zero in funds from foreign and U.S. governments, a dramatic fall-off from the tens of millions of dollars in foreign government contributions reported in preceding years.” It’s suspicious to say the least. Shortly after the recent revelations of foreign money pouring into the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation came reports of the e-mail flap. Are the matters linked?

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Input: Those are very rich documents. There’s one spreadsheet called "Spreadsheet of All Things," and it includes all the major U.S.—all the major DNC donors, where the donations were brought in, who they are, identifiers, the total amounts they’ve donated, how much at a noted or particular event, whether that event was being pushed by the president or by someone else. That effectively maps out the influence structure in the United States for the Democratic Party, but more broadly, because the — with few exceptions, billionaires in the United States make sure they donate to both parties. That’s going to provide a scaffold for future investigative journalism about influence within the United States, in general. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Julian, on that issue, clearly, a lot of the emails talk about the actual amounts of money that were being offered to donors for the opportunity to — I mean, asked of donors for the opportunity to sit at different events next to President Obama, especially, the use of President Obama as a fundraiser.

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Input: Coulter grew up in cossetted suburban Connecticut (her father was a Joe McCarthy-loving lawyer) but she tilted toward New York, and she’s most comfortable around liberals. When I ask Coulter how she first became addicted to infuriating the left, she summons a tale from kindergarten in which she convinces her teacher to remove her black, anti-Vietnam armband by arguing, “No one would ever trust America's word again if we don't defend the South Vietnamese here.” She honed her iconoclastic skills at Cornell University, where she poked at the administration for its affirmative action policies — and she still loves the rush of campus protest, for or against her, but especially against her. To be un-hated is to be unnoticed. “I was sad when I'd show up at some college campus and there would be, like, one lonely protester,” she said of one uneventful book tour.

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Input: The national police said in a statement that the violent dispersal was "unfortunate" and an investigation would try to determine if the riot policemen followed crowd-control procedures. Investigators will also evaluate criminal and civil liabilities of the protesters and their leader for an alleged illegal mass assembly. A left-wing legal group, the National Union of People's Lawyers, condemned the police violence and said it would help the injured and detained protesters file criminal complaints against the police for violating their constitutional rights to free assembly. The protesters, consisting of students, workers and tribespeople, were demanding an end to the presence of visiting U.S. troops in the Philippines and to support a call by President Rodrigo Duterte for a foreign policy not dependent on the U.S., the country's longtime treaty ally. The activists came from the largest left-wing umbrella group, Bayan (Nation), which has organized regular anti-U.S. protests in front of the embassy for decades, most of which are peaceful.

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Input: He is promising to bring back American manufacturing, but his actual plan to do is a combination of no plan and a bad plan. In addition to trade, I’d like to close with a few quick thought experiments. What would you think if President Obama said that the U.S. did n’t have a right to lecture Russia about civil rights given how violent our country is? I think many would complain that Obama was on a U.S. apology tour, and many in fact have said this already. What would you think if President Obama said of the problems facing the US “I alone can fix it”?

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Input: But Trump would not need to take any of those steps to have an abrupt effect on the economy. His belief in the power of the threat, which he has used in private business, takes on another meaning if he is the leader of a country with national-debt obligations. In May, Trump, whose businesses have declared bankruptcy four times, said, “I’ve borrowed knowing that you can pay back with discounts,” and “if the economy crashed you could make a deal.” The notion that he might try to make creditors accept less than full payment on U.S. government debt caused an outcry. Under criticism, he clarified, to the Wall Street Journal, that U.S. “bonds are absolutely sacred,” but the incident left an enduring impression on the financial community. Anthony Karydakis, the chief economic strategist at Miller Tabak, an asset manager, told me that a Trump victory is now generally regarded as “a major destabilizing development for financial markets.” He went on, “If he ever even alludes to renegotiating the debt, we will have a downgrade of U.S. debt, and that event will cause a massive exodus of foreign investors from the U.S. Treasury market.” In 2011, when feuding in Congress delayed raising the debt limit, the stock market fell seventeen per cent.

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Input: The newly released emails are the latest set of internal correspondence from Democratic campaign officials. Both Guccifer 2.0 and WikiLeaks have continued to release a stream of emails from DNC and Clinton campaign officials. Democrats, in response, have accused Russia of being behind the hacks and multiple digital security firms have found ties between Russia and the hackers releasing the documents. Authors:

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Input: Isis and the Syrian government used chemical weapons in Syria during 2014 and 2015, an international team has concluded. The Syrian government used chlorine gas in two attacks and Isis militants used mustard gas in one attack, the team from the United Nations and the world body's chemical weapons watchdog said. Samantha Power, US ambassador to the UN, called the use of chemical weapons "a barbaric tool, repugnant to the conscience of mankind," and urged the Security Council to take "strong and swift action" against the perpetrators. She accused the Syrian government of violating a September 2013 resolution which orders the council "to impose measures" under Chapter 7 of the UN Charter for "any use of chemical weapons by anyone in the Syrian Arab Republic". Those measures usually mean sanctions, and Chapter 7 can be militarily enforced.

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Input: The rest of this Overview explores some sources of both unity and division in Israeli society, as revealed by the survey. While the major subgroups of Israeli Jews are united in their support of Israel as a Jewish homeland, they are deeply at odds over the role that religion should play in their country’s public life. And although Jews, Muslims, Christians and Druze in Israel share many life goals – placing great emphasis on maintaining strong families and obtaining a good education for their children, for example – they live religiously balkanized lives. Israeli Jews united on need for Jewish homeland Israel is no longer a predominantly immigrant society; at present, roughly three-quarters of Israeli adults are natives, and just one-quarter were born abroad.

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Input: Washington has previously lashed out at Moscow for resorting to alleged "nuclear sabre-rattling" as East-West relations fell to the worst level since the Cold War following Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in March 2014. Putin's decision to cancel his Paris visit came a day after French President Francois Hollande said Syrian forces had committed a ' war crime ' in the battered city of Aleppo with the support of Russian air strikes. Putin had been due in Paris on October 19 to inaugurate a spiritual centre at a new Russian Orthodox church near the Eiffel Tower, but Hollande had insisted his Russian counterpart also took part in talks with him about Syria. The unprecedented cancellation of a visit so close to being finalised is a ' serious step ... reminiscent of the Cold War ', said Russian foreign policy analyst Fyodor Lukyanov. ' This is part of the broader escalation in the tensions between Russia and the West, and Russia and NATO, ' he told AFP.

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Russian Orthodox church


Input: And that is what is so stunning here in New Hampshire. And they are really, they can't figure out how to combat that. So to try to attract young women whom she lost by such extraordinary numbers in Iowa and in the polling so far here, she brings in women senators, who by definition are part of the establishment, and there's no female Marco Rubio. You have to be an older woman to become a senator, because the deck is so stacked against you. That's just the reality.

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Input: Such was the thickness of these socks that it was impossible to wear them inside anything other than boots which were two sizes larger than the wearer's feet. The heavier degree of protection from the elements suggests the officer on the right is on his watch on the flight deck. The other two may only have emerged briefly to confer with him and thus are only wearing their coats over their uniforms. Unsurprisingly, dressing for Arctic conditions involved some time and a lot of layers of clothing 3/19 A US-supplied Grumman Martlet fighter taking off from the US-supplied escort carrier HMS Pursuer.

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Input: She responded to Moammar Qaddafy's death with a joke, but the war left another failed state, host to Islamic State killers and convulsed by civil war. Her insistence on the ouster of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad discouraged a negotiated settlement, but the administration provided his opponents with no practical means to oust him. Clinton advocated lethal aid to rebels, who displayed a dismaying tendency to surrender and turn weapons over to radical groups, including ISIS. She later urged direct U.S. military intervention in the form of a "no-fly" zone. Clinton backed NATO expansion up to Russia's borders, a policy guaranteed to poison bilateral relations.

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Input: Children like Ryan kept me going when our plan for universal health care failed … and kept me working with leaders of both parties to help create the Children's Health Insurance Program that covers 8 million kids every year. Lauren Manning, who stood here with such grace and power, was gravely injured on 9/11. It was the thought of her, and Debbie St. John, and John Dolan and Joe Sweeney, and all the victims and survivors, that kept me working as hard as I could in the Senate on behalf of 9/11 families, and our first responders who got sick from their time at Ground Zero. I was still thinking of Lauren, Debbie and all the others ten years later in the White House Situation Room when President Obama made the courageous decision that finally brought Osama bin Laden to justice. In this campaign, I've met so many people who motivate me to keep fighting for change.

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Input: That could mean it was n’t hacked, or it could mean that “hostile” actors are waiting to make use of them. Given the growing suspicions that the Clinton Foundation may have exchanged favors with the Clinton State Department, her private server could be of great interest in establishing such links. In short, we have to acknowledge the danger that Hillary Clinton could be the target of international blackmail in the White House. Consider what happened the first time the Clinton couple was there. Bill Clinton’s involvement with the intern Monica Lewinsky had national security implications and also subjected him to possible blackmail.

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Input: In “The Dark Knight,” the seminal reboot of the “Batman” cinematic franchise, the Caped Crusader is able to locate any of Gotham’s denizens on a whim, by hijacking the microphones and cameras on their cellphones. FindFace, the identification app created by Alexander Kabakov, 29, and Artem Kukharenko, 26, is not quite as powerful as Christopher Nolan’s Orwellian nightmare tool. But the Russian developers say their facial recognition software could be used by authorities to fight crime — and, just as easily, score dates with attractive strangers.

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Input: Nickolay Mladenov, the U.N. coordinator for the Middle East peace process, told the Security Council from Jerusalem in a video link that Israel is ignoring the Quartet's pleas." Its recommendations continue to be ignored, including by a surge in Israeli settlement-related announcements and continuing demolitions," Mladenov told the Security Council. The Quartet, formed in 2002, has urged Israel to stop building settlements and urged the Palestinians to cease violence. Mladenov said the settlements have eroded the prospect of a two-state solution of Israel and Palestine. Since July 1, Israel planned more than 1,000 housing units in occupied east Jerusalem and 735 units in Ma'ale Adumim and other locations in the West Bank, Mladenov said.

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Input: In June, the fight intensified as House and Senate Republicans put forward a new bill that targeted Planned Parenthood — ditching the upper chamber’s previous deal with leading Democrats. The bill’s language does not mention Planned Parenthood. Specifically, it says that only health services “provided by public health departments, hospitals, or reimbursed through public health plans” can receive the Zika funding from Congress. Republicans, including the top health appropriator Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), have acknowledged that the bill targets Planned Parenthood, while stressing that they are willing to pay almost as much money as the Obama administration has asked for. “We do have provisions, obviously, to make it more difficult for Planned Parenthood.

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Input: She was n’t put on any of the networks. And she was n’t on the front page of the New York Times,” he pointed out. “And that was about her son being killed because Hillary Clinton had directly lied about it.” “The Trump campaign, and your listeners, and this election, understand – this democracy is under assault by a press, who I, in 45 years, have never seen so biased, and so on a jihad against one candidate,” Caddell declared. He castigated Hillary Clinton’s rival Bernie Sanders for “taking a dive” in the Democratic primary.

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Input: The 20-year -old Wasil Farooqui, of Roanoke County, seems to have chosen the his victims at random. (Rachel Weiner) Andrea Tantaros became the latest former Fox News host to file grievances against her former employer, naming Roger Ailes and Bill O'Reilly in a sexual harassment lawsuit. “The suit, which describes Fox News as a ‘misogynistic, sex-fueled cult,’ also alleges that newly appointed Fox News co-president Bill Shine encouraged her to drop her harassment claims,” CNN Money’s Dylan Byers reports. A University of Virginia student said she was sexually assaulted at knifepoint over the weekend, roiling the Charlottesville campus just days before classes are scheduled to begin. The assailant remains at large.

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Input: Trump views U.S. wars of intervention and occupation around the world, all in countries that pose no threat to American citizens, a waste of taxpayer money. He is the only candidate in either party who will question the cost and legitimacy of our commitment to Cold War relics like NATO and continuing to station troops in S. Korea; our country’s involvement in religious civil wars in the Middle East and overthrowing and killing secular dictators there it does n’t like (Hussein and Kaddafi); and our threatening Russia by encouraging its neighboring states of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Ukraine, and Georgia to join NATO and give them weapons and military guarantees to defend them. Crippled America: How ... Donald J. Trump Best Price: $ 1.15 Buy New $ 6.49 U.S. exploits are leading America to the brink of war with Russia — and possibly, given its actions in the S. China Sea, to war with China as well. Putin has said, “The U.S. wants to subdue Russia, to solve U.S. problems at Russia’s expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia and no one ever will.” [3] More ominously, in a speech delivered at the Valdai International Discussion Club in Sochi, he states, “Russia does not wish for chaos to spread, does not want war, and has no intention of starting one.

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Input: We are going to make America safe again. We are going to make America Great Again," he said. Lambasting a "rigged" political system dominated by special interests, Trump also stressed his outsider credentials and urged Americans to approach the general election as jurors." Come November, the American people will have a chance to issue a verdict on the politicians that have sacrificed their security, betrayed their prosperity and sold out their country -- and I mean totally sold out their country," Trump said. Trump's speech aimed to dissect Clinton's personality and positions on issues ranging from trade and foreign policy to paint the former secretary of state as someone who is out of touch with workers and has enriched herself "at America's expense."

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Input: TV shows are n’t, either. Bradley Cooper also played an anti-Semite who ends up in a body brace after trying to suck his own dick on Nip / Tuck, but I’d venture to guess this does not resemble the man IRL. Also, while not the most outspoken actor in the world when it comes to politics, Cooper is a longtime Democrat, having donated some shekels to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2008, and orchestrated POTUS’s Obamacare-promoting appearance on his pal Zach Galifianakis’s program Between Two Ferns. There is, it should be noted, a degree of political bias in Hollywood. Stars on the right like Jon Voight, Clint Eastwood, and Gary Sinise often find themselves the subject of ridicule for their political beliefs, while other high-profile Republicans like Adam Sandler and Vince Vaughn rarely speak out because of it.

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Input: "The stakes in global statecraft are infinitely higher and more complex than in the world of luxury hotels." 24." We all know the tools Donald Trump brings to the table -- bragging, mocking, composing nasty tweets. I am willing to bet he is writing a few right now." 25.

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Input: “My sister was punished so harshly last month because she had forgotten her gloves and left them at home.” Isis insists that women be fully veiled, wear loose or baggy trousers, socks and gloves, and be accompanied by a male relative whenever they step outside their homes. Fatima said that a month after the use of this metal tool to punish her sister “the bruises and scars are still visible on her arm.” She quoted her sister as saying that “the biting punishment is more painful than labour pains.” Other witnesses describe the Biter as operating like an animal trap, or a metal jaw with teeth that cut into the flesh. It is difficult and dangerous to escape from Mosul, which Isis has held since capturing it from the Iraqi army in June 2014. But people from the city, who have had themselves smuggled across the border to Syria and then to Kurdish-controlled territory known as Rojava in the past two months, all confirm that living conditions have deteriorated sharply.

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Input: The leader of the Islamic State’s operations in the volatile Sinai Peninsula and mastermind of the October 2015 attack on a Russian airliner in the region that left 224 dead has been killed by Egypt’s air force, intelligence sources told Fox News Thursday. ISIS Sinai leader Abu Dua al-Ansari was killed in Al Arish, the sources said. A post on the Facebook page of the military's chief spokesman, Brig-Gen Mohammed Samir, said al-Ansari was killed in an operation guided by "accurate intelligence."

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Input: Concerns about the damage being done to Britain’s oil and gas industry has led the British prime minister, David Cameron, to pledge £ 250 m to Aberdeen. About 70,000 jobs direct and indirect jobs have been lost around the UK due to the crude price slump. Shell has already promised to cut 10,500 more jobs worldwide once the BG deal is consummated on 15 February. Some job cuts could come in Aberdeen. Meanwhile, hopes were raised last week that Russia and Saudi Arabia may agree at a meeting next month to hold back oil production in an attempt to push up energy prices.

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Input: 29/42 8 June 2017 A woman reacts at the place where 17-year -old demonstrator Neomar Lander died during riots at a rally against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas, Venezuela, June 8, 2017. The sign reads: ' Neomar, entertainer for ever ' REUTERS / Ivan Alvarado 30/42 8 June 2017 Frenchman Alain Castany, sentenced to 20 years on charges of drug trafficking in the ' Air Cocaine ' affair, leaves the prison in Santo Domingo, on his way to France, where he is being transferred for medical reasons Getty Images 31/42 8 June 2017 Queen Maxima of The Netherlands visits Tobroco Machines in Oisterwijk, Netherlands. The company is a manufacturer of machines for use in agriculture, road construction and field maintenance.

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Input: High temperatures climb into the middle to upper 80s along with moderate humidity.” -- The Nationals lost to the L.A. Dodgers 4-1. -- A Loudoun County jury convicted former Ashburn IT executive Braulio Castillo of first degree murder, finding him guilty for killing his estranged wife in 2014 and then staging it as a suicide. (Tom Jackman) -- “Kane Show” radio host Peter Deibler (on 99.5) was arrested in Maryland after his soon-to-be ex-wife accused him of second-degree assault.

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Input: Italian police arrested Zhukov at Olbia airport in Sardinia in 2001 as he was heading to his villa in nearby Porto Cervo. Detectives accused him of being part of a ring that tried to smuggle weapons from Ukraine and Belarus to the former Yugoslavia in 1994. The alleged shipment, apparently destined for Venice and hidden aboard the Jadran Express container vessel, was said to have included grenades, anti-tank weapons and 30,0000 Kalashnikovs. While Zhukov spent six months in prison in Turin, he was interviewed by Belgian police and later acquitted. He told Russian newspaper Kommersant: “I am completely innocent of arms dealing.” The court held that the underlying facts “did not exist”.

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Input: In a series of videos, Alex Jones and his news service Infowars struck back hard, making a mockery of Clinton, her hatred, her lies, and her bizarre conspiracy theories. In one video, Jones pointed to the Clinton family's long history of friendship and support for late former KKK Grand Wizard Robert Byrd, a recruiter for the racist organization whom Clinton called her “friend and mentor.” Even the far-left Snopes “fact checking” website could not deny it. Separately, Clinton has lavished praise on racist eugenicist Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood who spoke to KKK gatherings about her efforts to “exterminate the Negro” and others she called “human weeds” from the gene pool. In another video, Jones pointed out that Clinton used shady tactics to steal the Democrat Party nomination, as evidenced by hacked e-mails. The popular radio host also noted that Clinton was in major trouble as more evidence of her brazen criminal activity continues to emerge — not to mention the destruction of Libya, the illegal support for jihad terrorism, and more.

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Input: WikiLeaks, or people within the organization, have long had suspicious relations with Putin’s allies. In 2011, a staffer named Israel Shamir was caught providing raw intelligence documents to the interior ministry of Belarus, whose leader, Alexander Lukashenko, is a strong ally of Putin’s. (James Ball, another WikiLeaks staffer, quit the organization — and subsequently wrote about the scandal for the Guardian — when the group’s founder, Julian Assange, forbade any internal criticism of Shamir, a close friend of his.) It may also be worth noting that Assange hosted a short-lived television show on Russia’s RT channel, which is essentially a propaganda arm for Putin’s government. But quite aside from these connections (and let’s assume for a moment that they’re irrelevant or outdated), it is certainly the case that if any foreign power wanted to release secrets over the transom without leaving clear fingerprints, WikiLeaks has long proved itself an eager partner — especially if the secrets might embarrass the United States or its allies.

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Input: With the help of the U.S. military, Riyadh was able to impose a blockade, by air and sea, and commence attacks on their southern neighbor. Prior to the war, Yemen was already the poorest country in the Arab world and soon commercial stocks of food and fuel, as well as drugs and other medical supplies, were running dangerously low. By September, the U.N. estimated Yemen was receiving just 1 percent of the fuel imports it required. Today, more than 21 million people in Yemen are in need of some form of humanitarian assistance and half the population suffers from food insecurity and malnutrition — figures that dwarf Syria’s. In Sanaa, a Yemeni boy carries a weapon during Shiite Huthi demonstrations against Saudi-led air strikes, May 8, 2015.

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Input: Restrictive measures against Turkey also came into force on Friday, which were adopted by Russian side in retaliation for Turkey's downing of a Russian Su-24 attack aircraft in November of 2015. The import of Turkish foodstuffs and other agricultural products to Russia is banned starting from Friday. According to a decree signed by Putin on Nov. 28 of 2015, Russia would stop importing a wide range of Turkish agricultural products including fruit and vegetables, salt, poultry products and so on. While charter flights in both directions were banned, the visa-free travel regime between the two countries was suspended to "ensure national security of the Russian Federation from criminal and other illegal activities." Russian companies will be banned from hiring Turkish citizens starting from Friday.

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Input: Retail sales in June shrank for a record 18th month, plunging 5.9 percent from a year earlier, the Federal Statistics Service in Moscow said on Tuesday. “It’s not possible for consumption to expand,” said Dmitry Polevoy, chief economist for Russia at ING Groep NV in Moscow. “Salaries are n’t growing or are growing much more moderately than they used to, lending is declining.” As Russia pivots from a consumer-driven growth model after the crash in oil prices, the crisis is decimating the middle class and millions are sinking into poverty. Not even better consumer confidence and stabilizing inflation are translating into stronger demand.

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Input: ' They were baiting us, and then attacked, ' said one fan from Leeds, who asked to be named only as Simon. ' None of the England fans were doing anything wrong – a few of us had a bit much to drink, but that was all. ' Suddenly a French gang appeared and started attacking us, and throwing stuff. We had to defend ourselves, and then the police showed up. ' Others spoke of their fear as they were targeted by youths brandishing makeshift weapons, and shouting ' Get the English '.

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Input: This article was originally published by EurasiaNet.org. Russia has announced the details of a new shipment of arms it is sending to Armenia, a relatively rare move likely connected with Russia's ongoing tension with Turkey. Last week, the Russian government announced that it would be providing Armenia with a $ 200 million credit to buy equipment including multiple-launch rocket systems, anti-tank missiles, handheld antiaircraft missiles and upgrades to tanks. The credit was announced last year, as an apparent concession by Russia amid large-scale street protests in Armenia against the country's Russian-owned electricity company. But the details of the weapons to be acquired weren't released, which is the normal practice with Russian arms deliveries to Armenia, said Emil Sanamyan, an analyst who closely follows Caucasus military affairs.

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Input: The head of the center and several others were badly injured. KERRY 'S GAMBLE The week-old attempt at a ceasefire, negotiated by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, could be the final attempt by U.S. President Barack Obama to negotiate an end to Syria's civil war. Kerry called on Moscow to halt Syrian government airstrikes, including on aid convoys, and indicated that the United States had not received official word from Russia that the ceasefire deal was dead." The Russians made the agreement.

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Input: I was driving from Sarasota, Florida, to Washington in the pre-dawn hours Sunday morning when my iPhone chirped a news alert. More than 50 people dead at a nightclub shooting in Orlando. The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. And later, news that the gunman reportedly called 911 to declare his loyalty to Islamic State before committing the act, investigators said.

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Input: In an interview for Ukrainian news website Liga.net on Saturday, Lenur Islyamov, one of the troika of Ukraine-based Tatar politicians responsible for organizing the so-called food and electricity ' blockades ' of Crimea, announced that the ' food blockade ' has come to an end, in connection with recent Ukrainian legislation banning trade with the peninsula." We have removed all the checkpoints charged with the inspection of vehicles at 12 pm; the blockade is being lifted; it is moving into the legislative sphere … The guys will stay there [in Ukraine's Kherson Region, bordering Crimea], but just as observers, running checkpoints, similar to the checkpoints of an assault group or police checkpoints," the Tatar nationalist organizer said. © Sputnik/ Sergey Malgavko Crimea Switches Away From Ukrainian Power Supply After Blackout In mid-December, Ukraine's cabinet of ministers approved a total ban on trade with Crimea, excepting a small category of ' socially significant products '.

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Input: They can also use cyber warfare to target a nuclear facility.” The meeting in Amsterdam marks the 30th anniversary of the Reykjavik summit between US President Ronald Regan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev which paved the way for a historic missile treaty between the US and the Soviet Union. It comes after a nuclear conference hosted by President Barack Obama in Washington earlier this year which focused on the threat of a terrorist attack using nuclear material by Isis and other extremist groups following the Paris and Brussels attacks. In pictures: The rise of Isis 74 show all In pictures: The rise of Isis

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Input: “More Usinsk oil to the motherland!” giant letters proclaim on top of one prefab flat block. Just south of the Arctic Circle, the sun does n’t even set in Usinsk in the summer, and it’s reachable by car only when rivers freeze to make “winter roads”. Komi’s aging oil infrastructure has been prone to accidents. In 1994, a pipeline break in Usinsk gushed up more than 60,000 tonnes of oil (many estimates put that figure at twice as much), one of the biggest spills ever on land. Spills in 2013, 2014 and 2015 released hundreds of tonnes of oil on to the snow and river ice.

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Input: While Abbas two years ago ordered that these salaries not be paid by the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs but instead by the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Carmon described this as a "deliberately misleading move" to assuage concerns from donor countries worried about their money being funneled to terrorists." The source of the money remains the PA, which receives them from donor countries, and the overseeing body remains none other than the PA," Carmon told lawmakers. He said that countries who provide aid to Palestine, including the United States, are "complicit" in inciting terrorism because the Palestinian Authority uses foreign donations to subsidize terrorists and their families." By providing this support, the PA is encouraging terrorism in violation of its Oslo commitment. Furthermore, the PA has been using money granted by donor countries for this purpose, and by doing so, has made them complicit in encouraging terrorism as well," Carmon said.

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Input: Hillary Clinton deliberately undermined government intelligence-handling protocols and ignored Freedom of Information Act requests. FBI director James Comey, after a lengthy investigation, has stated before Congress that Mrs. Clinton was untruthful in her various public explanations about her reckless behavior. We are discovering from her unsecured and once-deleted correspondence more evidence of negligence and unethical behavior — from crossover business between State Department operatives and the Clinton Foundation to quid pro quo favors and discussions about a U.S. informant who was later executed by the Iranian government. Unfortunately, Mrs. Clinton can not distinguish truth from falsehood in areas that transcend the e-mail scandal. She went on record falsely attesting that the Benghazi tragedy was a result of popular anger against a filmmaker.

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Input: Share on Facebook SHARE Share on Twitter TWEET Link Members of Brazilian bomb squad pack their gear after detonating a suspicious package near the men's cycling road race final in Copacabana. Photo: AP News of the robbery came on a troubling opening day for security at the Rio OIympics, which had been overshadowed by the Russian doping scandal even as the world's athletes gathered in Brazil.

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

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Input: Our peaceful agenda will not be derailed by propaganda, nor will our tolerance and adherence to international law be altered by fallacies and cynical spin,” the PA Foreign Ministry said. Netanyahu suggested that the Bible aside, UNESCO members should visit the Arch of Titus in Rome. “On it one can see what the Romans brought back to Rome after they destroyed and looted the Second Temple on the Temple Mount 2,000 years ago. There, engraved on the Arch of Titus, is the seven-branched menorah that is the symbol of the Jewish People, and I remind you, is also the symbol of the Jewish state today,” he said. “Soon, UNESCO will say that the Emperor Titus engaged in Zionist propaganda,” Netanyahu said. “To say that Israel has no connection to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall is like saying that China has no connection to the Great Wall of China or that Egypt has no connection to the pyramids. By this absurd decision, UNESCO has lost what little legitimacy it had left,” Netanyahu added. The senior US official said the vote showed that the US, which withdrew its funding from UNESCO in 2011 in response to acceptance of Palestine as a state, must become more involved in the organization. “The recurring highly politicized use of the UNESCO executive board meetings only further underscores the urgent need for the United States to restore its leadership at UNESCO, which has been considerably undercut since the United States ceased funding UNESCO in 2011.”“We will continue to explore with Congress options for resuming payment of our dues, which will allow the United States to play a full role in this organization going forward and advance UNESCO’s work on issues like Holocaust education and countering terrorist narratives. ”The votes broke out in this way. Those who supported the motion included Algeria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Chad, China, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Russia, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan and Vietnam. Nations that abstained from the vote were: Albania, Argentina, Cameroon, Cote de’Ivoire, El Salvador, Spain, France, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Haiti, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Nepal, Uganda, Paraguay, South Korea, St. Kits and Nevis, Slovenia, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Togo, Trinidad and Ukraine. Absent countries included Serbia and Turkmenistan;Those who opposed the resolution were: the US, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Germany and Estonia voted against the motion.

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Input: A suspected chlorine gas attack on an opposition-held neighbourhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo has caused at least one death and dozens of cases of suffocation, according to local activists and medical sources. A video obtained by Al Jazeera shows what activists say is the aftermath of an attack in the rebel-held Al Sukkari neighbourhood in eastern Aleppo. They say that the Syrian government used a helicopter to drop two barrel bombs loaded with gas on residents, killing at least one person and injuring more than 100. Rescue workers also said that Syrian government helicopters dropped suspected chlorine bombs on the neighbourhood on Tuesday. The Syrian Civil Defence and the Syrian American Medical Society posted videos and photos on social media showing children doused in water using oxygen masks to breathe.

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Input: Mills responded quickly:" We would not have issues." A few days later, Desai once again emailed Mills requesting a personal meeting between the Libyan president and Bill Clinton, referred to by his initials, WJC." Would you recommend accepting or declining the WJC meeting request?" the email read. But there’s more.

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Input: A halt to fighting around Aleppo and the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid were key components of the fragile deal that took effect last Monday evening. The ceasefire’s co-sponsors, Russia and the United States, have traded accusations over its fraying, with relations strained even further following the raid. Syria accused the United States of seeking the failure of the ceasefire. “The objective of this US aggression is to bring about the failure of the truce,” said Bashar Jaafari, Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations. Sunday was the deadliest day of the truce so far, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, with 10 civilians killed in areas where the ceasefire was supposed to have taken hold.

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Input: Its submarine bases on Hainan are home to an expanding fleet of nuclear-armed submarines and a big target for on-going Western surveillance operations. The Guangdong coast is also believed to be home to some of China's most advanced missiles, including the DF-21D anti-ship weapon. The Pentagon last month called on China to reaffirm it has no plans to deploy military aircraft in the Spratly Islands after China used a military plane to evacuate sick workers from Fiery Cross Reef, where it has built a 9,800-foot (3,000 meter) runway. In April 2001, an intercept of a U.S. spy plane by a Chinese fighter jet resulted in a collision that killed the Chinese pilot and forced the American plane to make an emergency landing at a base on Hainan. The 24 U.S. air crew members were held for 11 days until Washington apologized for the incident.

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Input: So why are these attacks still happening? The answer is twofold: The attacks are effective, and the Russian and Syrian governments know they can get away with them. Killing the people who are providing aid to your enemies is effective If you want to completely cripple your enemies and are not concerned with pesky things like basic human decency and morality, bombing hospitals and humanitarian aid convoys is a great idea. After all, they’re providing aid to your enemies.

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Input: In fact, according to one study in International Studies Quarterly, Washington and Moscow intervened in a third country’s elections 117 times between 1946 and 2000. And yet it’s Russia that is being portrayed as the singular bad guy here, Russia that is being turned into the existential threat to the civilised world. As The Economist put it, ‘four years ago Mitt Romney, then a Republican candidate, said that Russia was America’s “number-one geopolitical foe” ... With Russia hacking the American election, presiding over mass slaughter in Syria, annexing Crimea and talking casually about using nuclear weapons, Romney’s view has become conventional wisdom.’ Indeed. As the Guardian concluded, the big ‘strategic, security and diplomatic problem’ of our age is: ‘what to do about Russia?’ Russia is being conjured up in the Western political imagination as the enemy, the threat that must be dealt with, the military power that must be shot down, as Tory MP Andrew Mitchell sees it.

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Input: But he said he did not want to detail military strategy because it would tip off potential foes." We will defeat radical Islamic terrorism just as we have defeated every threat we've faced at every age and before," Trump said, blaming his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, and President Barack Obama for aiding the rise of Islamic State. In a speech in the swing state of Ohio, Trump also said that in implementing his call for a temporary ban on Muslims immigrating to the country, he would institute “extreme vetting” and develop a new screening test to try to catch people who intend to do harm to the United States. As president, he said, he would ask the U.S. State Department and Department of Homeland Security to identify regions of the world that remain hostile to the United States and where normal screening might not be sufficient to catch those who pose a threat. The Clinton campaign said Trump's plan to have immigrants submit to ideological tests was "a cynical ploy to escape scrutiny of his outrageous proposal to ban an entire religion from our country and no one should fall for it."

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Input: ARMZ currently holds 23.1% of Uranium One’s outstanding common shares. On completion of the transaction, ARMZ will own not less than 51% of the Company’s outstanding common shares. ARMZ has agreed to a standstill of 18 months from closing during which it may not, without prior consent, dispose of or acquire any additional Uranium One shares, except pursuant to agreed antidilution rights, which will permit ARMZ to maintain not less than a 51% interest in the Company and to certain other exceptions. Therefore, the Podesta Group lobbied for Uranium One after Rosatom had acquired ownership in the corporation. How does this correlate directly to Hillary Clinton?

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Input: Photos: Heartbreaking images following Aleppo airstrike A Syrian family leaves the area following a reported airstrike on Friday, September 23, in rebel-held east Aleppo. Following the airstrike, recovery teams from Syria Civil Defense, known as the White Helmets, began working to free the trapped and recover the dead, including small children. Hide Caption 1 of 7 Photos: Heartbreaking images following Aleppo airstrike Hide Caption 2 of 7 Photos: Heartbreaking images following Aleppo airstrike This photo was released by the volunteer group Syria Civil Defense of the bodies of a man, with his knee pulled up near his face, and a child covered in dust after they were killed in the airstrike. Hide Caption 3 of 7 Photos: Heartbreaking images following Aleppo airstrike The volunteers work to recover the bodies the man and child. Hide Caption 4 of 7 Photos: Heartbreaking images following Aleppo airstrike A Syrian man carries the body of his nephew, recovered from the rubble.

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Input: RFA Mounts Bay and two Border Force patrol boats, known as cutters, will join naval vessels from Germany, Canada, Turkey and Greece as part of Nato's first intervention in the migrant crisis. The vessels will identify smugglers taking migrants to Greece and pass the information to the Turkish coastguard so it can intercept the boats and take the migrants back to Turkey. The EU has pledged € 3bn (£ 2.3bn; $ 3.3bn) to Turkey in return for housing migrants and stemming the flow. Some 13,000 are stranded on Greece's border with Macedonia as European states seek to restrict entry. RFA Mounts Bay would begin the operation in the "coming days", the cutter Protector was on its way to the region and a further cutter was expected to join them later this month, the government said.

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Input: “The intent of the law is clear — the waiver authority should be used as a mechanism for reform, not as a way of continuing the status quo.” Because of the requirements of the law, the waivers were issued by the White House rather than the State Department, so Obama was the target of most of the criticism. Hillary Clinton, who was secretary of state when the first waivers were issued, was apparently never asked to comment on them, and the State Department never provided any explanations about its role. Clinton had spent years vowing to defend the rights of children worldwide — in 2012, she railed against “modern-day slavery” in the introduction to a State Department report on human trafficking that took aim at the “unlawful recruitment or use of children” by armed forces. Yet she does not appear to have publicly explained her role in allowing South Sudan and other countries to receive military support despite using children as combatants. In fact, the State Department played a central role in issuing the controversial waivers, according to two sources, including a former State Department official.

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Input: A senior Obama administration official said that the agreement “never had a date” for implementing the envisioned coordination. While Churkin said that aid deliveries to the besieged northern city of Aleppo would begin Sunday morning, the official said the administration may decide that only “one or two days” of deliveries might not be enough to prove good faith. But, the official added, “we still think that despite” Saturday’s airstrike and the exchanges that followed, the agreement “is still worth pursuing, and we can still get there.” Deir al-Zour, where the airstrike took place, is far from the populated western region where the separate civil war that is the subject of the cease-fire is focused. The Islamic State controls much of the province, although there are some scattered Syrian military installations.

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Input: (Just to show how far to the right the GOP has drifted, Merkel is the leader of Germany's main center-right party). Beyond his expressed support for Russian policies, Trump seeks to govern in the same illiberal, authoritarian manner that Putin has demonstrated, itching to dilute the freedom of the press and laws barring war crimes and human rights abuses and deport undocumented immigrants and refugees legally settled in the country. Like the Religious Right activists who have rallied behind Putin, Trump believes that Christians have been sidelined and marginalized in America, promising to return them to their rightful positions of power. Such contempt for civil rights, diversity and democracy pervades the alt-right, which calls for a more "masculine," racially chauvinist response to a society it sees as weak and rootless. One alt-right meme shows "President Trump" congratulating Putin, both decked out in military garb," on retaking Constantinople."

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Input: Obama was speaking following an hours-long meeting with Castro at the Palace of the Revolution in Old Havana, his third meeting with the Cuban leader since work began to reopen diplomatic ties to the island. Castro, making a statement before the reporters ' questions, said that work toward improving economic conditions in his country was progressing. But he added that a longstanding trade embargo prevents a full restoration of ties." Much more could be done if the U.S. blockade could be lifted," Castro said." The most recent measures adopted by his administration are positive but insufficient."

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Input: “It is sad that such incidents are taking place in our country. It is hoped that this will not happen again,” the community wrote about the incident, which was discovered after Estonian National Day celebrations on August 20. Separately, a monument built near a mass grave of Jews murdered by Nazis in the Holocaust was smashed in the Russian district of Pskov, situated some 200 miles southeast of Kalevi-Liiva. In January 1942, hundreds of Jews were shot to death by Germans at the site. According to a report Thursday by the Russian news agency Interfax, the desecration in Pskov occurred sometimes between August 14 and August 29.

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Input: The attacks are believed to have been carried out by an affiliate of ISIS. July 20, 2016-ISIS claimed to have killed seven Yemeni soldiers in a bombing in Aden. A statement distributed on Twitter said its fighters had detonated an IED against "a gathering of soldiers in the city." Local reports spoke of five soldiers being killed in the attack. The attack is believed to have been carried out by an affiliate of ISIS.

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Input: A spokesperson, said: ' This impartial documentary takes a balanced viewpoint in reporting the competing theories surrounding the fate of MH17, including the evidence for and against those involving Russia, Ukraine and the CIA. ' It also examines in detail the findings of the official Dutch inquiry into the incident, which provide compelling evidence that the plane was brought down by a powerful ground to air missile. ' Another extraordinary theory mentioned in the programme is that the aircraft was detonated in a CIA-backed ' terrorist operation ', where two bombs were planted on the airliner (file photo) The new casualties came after three Ukrainian soldiers were killed by pro-Russian rebels in a mortar attack earlier this week, in the deadliest attack in nearly two months, the Kiev military said. A series of truce agreements have helped reduce the violence, although sporadic clashes continue and prevent the sides from reaching a firm political reconciliation deal.

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Input: Several thousand members – maybe as many as 20,000 – have been killed in combat." Airstrikes have intensified lately. Foreign fighters set up temporary roadblocks and take the civilians ' ID cards. They confiscate them so they can use them when they flee to Turkey," says Om Mohammad. Om Omran and Om Mohammad are planning to leave the city, but it has been impossible so far.

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Input: According to the Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism, hatred of Jews in Belgium is driving them to leave the country and refrain from enrolling their children at public schools. During the interview with Radio 1 Monday, she said that Israeli customs officers asked her to provide the details of her contacts in Israel to ascertain whether to give her a visa. When she refused to do so she was warned her refusal would lead to her detainment and repatriation. She told the Belgian radio station she felt it would be “unethical” to “send the Israeli security services after” her contacts. In 2012, Pax Christi called for a boycott of firms a UN investigator said were profiting from Israeli settlements, including Hewlett Packard, Motorola, Volvo and Caterpillar. Herremans said that whereas her employers “take into account Israel’s security needs,” Israel “feels it can afford to persecute human rights activists … because no sanctions are applied against it, as they are in Russia. ”Belgian media showed a strong interest in Israel’s refusal to let in Herremans, a pro-Palestinian activist who has said that Israel is not a democracy and called for the application of sanctions against it. Michael Freilich, the editor-in-chief of the Joods Actueel Belgian Jewish weekly, defended Israel’s right to not issue visas to would-be visitors who decline to cooperate with passport control officers, and blasted Herremans as an extremist that is perceived as mainstream because of her eloquence and esthetic looks. This, in turn, prompted Emmanuel Stein, a member of a far-left Jewish group, to pen an op-ed in the De Morgen daily in which he said he was “deeply ashamed” over Freilich’s words. On Thursday, a senior spokesperson for the Belgian royal house removed from Fac ebook a post that featured a photograph of a sign that read: “Palestine belongs to the Palestinians” and was seen as endorsing Stein’s message. She wrote about the article the Flemish word for “typical,” or “recognizable. ”But the spokesperson, Rafike Yilmaz, deleted her post hours later. The investigative journalist Thierry Debels quoted an unnamed source familiar with the issue as saying that Yilmaz was ordered to remove the post “because it could be misinterpreted.”

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Input: VIENTIANE --Secretary of State John Kerry says he raised the email hack of the Democratic National Committee with Russia's top diplomat but stopped short of making any allegation about who might be responsible. Kerry told reporters Tuesday he brought the matter up with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at a meeting in Laos and explained that the FBI was investigating. He did not, however, repeat allegations or echo suspicions that Russia was responsible for the hack and said he would not draw conclusions until the probe is complete." I raised the question and we will continue to work to see precisely what those facts are," Kerry said.

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Input: Doyle suggested on CNN that the campaign fired a volunteer for forwarding an email that promoted the "conspiracy" but later clarified that the conspiracy was about Obama’s religion, not birthplace. We rated Trump's claim False. Clinton:" Donald started his career back in 1973 being sued by the Justice Department for racial discrimination because he would not rent apartments in one of his developments to African-Americans." This is True. The government in 1973 accused Trump, his father and Trump Management of violating the Fair Housing Act, part of the Civil Rights Act of 1968.

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Input: Also Read: Watch Donald Trump Get Schooled by Michigan Pastor Into Stopping Anti-Hillary Tirade (Video) Making matters even stickier … The last time Trump’s returns were made public, he paid $ 0 in income taxes. Leopold, who successfully sued for the release of 30,000 Hillary Clinton emails earlier this year, is also suing the FBI to see if the government has been investigating Trump for suggesting Second Amendment advocates could stop Hillary Clinton, a remark that was interpreted by many as threat of violence, as well as Trump’s recent comments inciting the Russian government to hack into Clinton’s emails. “We know that the Secret Service said it was looking into it,” Leopold said. “We want any relevant documents.”

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Input: ' If they do n’t have any more staff, and they’re paying five times more? '" -- In addition to the Trump Tower space, Trump has paid his golf courses and restaurants more than $ 260,000 since a mid-May fundraising deal was struck with the RNC: “On May 18, the day the fundraising deal was announced, Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach was paid $ 29,715; Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter, Florida, was paid $ 35,845; and Trump Restaurants LLC was paid $ 125,080." Trump also began increasing rent at Trump Tower starting May 31. -- THE SURROGATES: Rudy gets the street brawl with Hillary that he’s always wanted, by Philip Rucker and Robert Costa: “Giuliani is finally running the race against Clinton that he first contemplated some 17 years ago: a brutish bout under a white-hot spotlight. Only he’s doing it at the behest of his longtime friend.

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Input: Mike Pence, do n’t agree on the way forward. But the more important takeaway from Sunday night’s presidential debate is that Trump does n’t grasp the basic facts of the situation, does n’t understand the history of the conflict and does n’t seem curious enough to figure it out. Monday morning, the Trump campaign was in full spin mode trying to pretend that Trump and Pence did n’t openly disagree on whether or not the United States should consider using military force against the regime of Bashar al-Assad to stop the slaughter of civilians in Aleppo. On CNN’s New Day, Pence accused moderator Martha Raddatz, of ABC News, of mischaracterizing his statements from his own national debate last week. In fact, Raddatz asked Trump repeatedly to address the same question Pence answered.

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Input: It has set the stage for a situation that the regime and its allies have been working toward for years: a choice between ISIS — whose crimes are well-documented and publicized — and Assad, whose atrocities in torture chambers across the country were systematically covered up and largely unknown to the world. The regime has made no effort, on the other hand, to hide its practice of barrel bombing civilian targets such as schools, marketplaces, and hospitals. Whereas roughly 10% of civilian fatalities in Syria last year were at the hands of ISIS, the regime was responsible for at least 75% of all civilian deaths in Syria in 2015, according to humanitarian news group IRIN. Meanwhile, the regime's detention program — a squalid prison system where, according to the UN report, torture and summary executions are deliberate and commonplace — is ongoing. View photos A Syrian refugee child looks on, moments after arriving on a raft with other Syrian refugees on a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos, January 4, 2016.

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Input: 0 0 The Turkish tourism industry has hit hard following Russian sanctions imposed after Turkey’s decision to shoot down a Russian plane in Syrian airspace, reported Turkey’s daily Today’s Zaman. As many as 1,318 hotels are up for sale now along the Aegean and Mediterranean, with 410 tourism facilities in the Mediterranean resort of Antalya worth TL 30 billion. Also, 908 hotels have sale prices of a total of TL 8.8 billion, the report elaborated.

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Input: The Clinton team's initial poor transparency, leaving it to reporters to figure out she was MIA from a New York City 9/11 memorial event (which Donald Trump also attended) and then supplying an incomplete statement, didn't do anything to help tamp down conspiracy theories about Clinton's health. Late Sunday, the campaign issued a statement from Clinton's personal physician Dr. Lisa Bardack reporting that she'd diagnosed Clinton with pneumonia on Friday and advised her to lighten her schedule. Bardack stated the episode occurred due to the combination of that diagnosis, dehydration and overheating. I'd certainly agree these are all factors. That the Clinton campaign didn't release the diagnosis of pneumonia on Friday is symptomatic of its own problems.

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Input: Here’s the transcript of how Rove characterized it in the Wall Street Journal: He further demonstrated his ignorance by complaining to the Times’s David Sanger and Maggie Haberman about how Iran is spending the billions released to it under the nuclear deal. “They’re buying everything, they’re buying from everybody but the United States,” he said. When Mr. Sanger reminded the celebrity TV star that U.S. sanctions prevent American companies from selling to Iran, Mr. Trump was reduced to saying, “Uh, excuse me?” While here’s the actual transcript of that part of Trump’s interview with the Times:

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Input: (Emma Brown) -- The fire department screws up: Fire struck the same Temple Hill duplex twice in a single day, displacing eight people and causing an estimated $ 85,000 in damage. Officials suspect “residual heat and embers” were left after emergency responders treated the first blaze, which sparked the second fire. (Terrence McCoy) -- Leon Harris, the anchor on WJLA (Channel 7), is out.

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Input: During the first six months of 2016, Israel razed 91 houses built with “support of the European Union,” up from 70 in all of 2015, he said. The EU has invested € 21 million in the last two years for development and humanitarian aid for Palestinian in the past two years, he added. Faaborg-Andersen said the EU would continue to provide aid to the Palestinians in Area C, despite the tension it generates with Jerusalem.

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Input: Over the weekend, WikiLeaks released what appeared to be transcripts from paid speeches Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs employees in 2013. Clinton’s speeches to Wall Street heavyweights have come under scrutiny throughout her presidential campaign, with her primary opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders criticizing her for accepting around $ 225,000 per speech and repeatedly calling on her to release the transcripts. Clinton has promised throughout her campaign that she will be tough on Wall Street if elected president — but the transcripts of her speeches showed a softer side of the former secretary of state in her interactions with Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd Blankfein and other Wall Street executives. As The New York Times reported, in a 2013 speech hosted by Goldman Sachs, Clinton gave Blankfein advice on how to launch a hypothetical presidential campaign. “I think you would leave Goldman Sachs and start running a soup kitchen somewhere,” she told Blankfein at the time.

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Input: Advertisement Continue reading the main story President Obama authorized the covert arming program in April 2013, after more than a year of debate inside the administration about the wisdom of using the C.I.A. to train rebels trying to oust Mr. Assad. The decision was made in part to try to gain control of a chaotic situation in which Arab countries were funneling arms into Syria for various rebel groups with little coordination. The Qataris had paid to smuggle shipments of Chinese-made FN-6 shoulder-fired weapons over the border from Turkey, and Saudi Arabia sent thousands of Kalashnikovs and millions of rounds of ammunition it had bought, sometimes with the C.I.A.’s help.

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Input: Cohen went on to warn: The director of one of Russia’s largest plutonium and heu processing facilities and two of his deputies were arrested for corruption in a multimillion scheme, while a Russian general in command of a nuclear weapon storage site was fired due to massive corruption. A colonel in the Russian Interior Ministry in charge of nuclear security inspections was also arrested for soliciting bribes to overlook security violations. Most recently, an Associated Press investigation reported four separate incidents where Moldovan police broke up smuggling attempts involving nuclear materials linked to Russian organized crime — one of which involved an attempt by a Russian gang to sell nuclear material to the Islamic State. Furthermore, forensic analysis revealed the materials seized were produced in the early 1990s in a Russian nuclear facility in the Ural Mountains.

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Input: From David Weigel: “Sanders cast his vote on the first of four gun safety amendments before most of his colleagues showed up, then ducked into the cloakroom. When he returned, he sat for a while with Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the only colleague who'd endorsed him, and the two were occasionally, happily interrupted by well-wishers of both parties." Trump confers with Marco Rubio during the disastrous Feb. 6 debate in New Hampshire that essentially ended Rubio's 2016 presidential hopes. (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images) -- Coming attraction: Rubio told a Post reporter on his way out of the Capitol last night that his announcement about running for the Senate again is coming "sooner rather than later."

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Input: Michael McFaul tweet The founder of Ukrainian Pravda, the investigative journalist Georgiy Gongadze, was murdered 16 years ago. His body was found decapitated in a forest outside Kiev. The incident helped to precipitate Ukraine’s Orange revolution. In his last blogpost for Ukrainian Pravda, Sheremet had warned about how some militia commanders and veterans of the conflict in eastern Ukraine have escaped responsibility for other crimes.

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Input: An explosion at the Chinese Embassy in the Kyrgyzstan capital Bishkek left several dead and injured on Tuesday (Aug 30), according to the local emergency ministry. BISHKEK: A car driven by a suicide bomber on Tuesday (Aug 30) exploded after ramming a gate at the Chinese embassy in the capital of ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan, wounding three people, the healthcare ministry said." As a result of the explosion only the suicide bomber terrorist died. Security guards were injured," Kyrgyzstan's Deputy Prime Minister Jenish Razakov told journalists.

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Input: 5:50 a.m. 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.

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Input: A government funding battle also seems likely to occupy the President's time this month. Many of the states that officials say Obama will target -- including Florida, North Carolina, Iowa, Pennsylvania and Michigan -- are easily accessible in a single day-trip on Air Force One, but would leave few moments for other business at the White House. Given Obama's sway among young and minority voters -- populations historically difficult to get to the polls -- there is pressure for the President to hit many states before their voting registration deadline passes. In Florida, Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, that means showing up before October 11." I think what is clear is that the President does have a lot of influence over a large number of voters that haven't previously been regularly engaged in politics," Earnest said Monday, adding the Clinton campaign is "hoping that the President will be helpful in making the case on their behalf to motivate voters to get registered and to participate on Election Day."

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Input: The United Nations said the Syrian government promised Thursday to allow aid to be delivered “in the coming days” to Madaya as well as the two northern towns surrounded by rebels. Read more: Videos appear to show starvation used as a weapon in Syrian town of Madaya Haunting images from Aleppo: ‘Syrian children are at the heart of this catastrophe’ U.N. Security Council approves plan for Syrian peace process

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Input: Charles Ortel, a Wall Street investor who has served as a trustee to two public charities, told TheDCNF there appears to be no evidence the IRS ever approved the new foreign-directed mission for the foundation. “I find no evidence in the public domain that it was ever authorized to engage in any other activity other than as a Presidential Library,” Ortel said. He described the foundation as “an illegally constructed front masquerading as a charity.” Ortel said no one has ever been able to untangle the hundreds of millions of dollars obtained by the foundation, including donations from billionaire hedge fund managers, African mine operators, Irish telecom moguls, and Middle Eastern Sheiks. “You do n’t have an ability, in a straight-forward way, to go year-by-year and understand who may have been profiting from the foundation,” Ortel said.

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Input: At the same time, the ‘moderate opposition’ led by the US is increasing the amount of attacks on residential districts … Russia has respected its obligations to fulfill the ceasefire regime in Syria from the first minute.” The United Nations has blamed both sides for the delay of aid. 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.

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Input: Put two and two together. Stay tuned for more updates and confirmation as it is becoming increasingly clear that other companies and government entities are most likely also involved. The government, alongside private companies (including foreign-owned), are in the middle of a massive criminal land grab which the mainstream media is largely ignoring, instead opting to paint those in Oregon as crazy anti-government extremists. In other words, members of the mainstream media are directly responsible for helping to allow this takeover to happen. Related: Rancher Dwight Hammond threatened with “bullet”: Exclusive Interview

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

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Input: Video: Largest hospital in rebel-held Aleppo hit by airstrikes:: Rescue worker breaks down as baby is saved from rubble in Syria It aims to deliver medical, water and food aid from EU stocks to up to 130,000 people and to evacuate urgent medical cases from the area. Meanwhile, Turkish military officials said 15 Syrian opposition fighters have been killed in an ongoing battle with Islamic State militants in northern Syria. It is reported about 35 Syrian rebels were injured in the fighting, which is seeking to capture seven residential districts south of the town of al Rai.

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