Input: Russia has also blamed the United States for failing to separate the rebel groups it supports from an extremist group that until recently was officially linked to Al Qaeda. Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the head of that militant group, formerly known as the Nusra Front, called on Sunni Muslim militants to unite in Syria, Al Jazeera reported. Mr. Jolani reached out to rebel groups as they have been given a fateful choice: sever any tactical alliance with his Qaeda-linked militants, now known as the Levant Conquest Front, and lose an effective ally — or potentially face joint airstrikes from Russia and the United States under the deal they negotiated. In recent months, the Syrian opposition has accused the United States of effectively siding with Mr. Assad by teaming up with Russia and focusing only on hitting designated terrorist groups and not the government, whose warplanes have leveled rebel-held areas, hospitals and civilian homes in indiscriminate strikes.

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Input: Israeli authorities on Tuesday demolished three European Union-funded shelters in the West Bank, drawing condemnation from a local human rights group. The demolitions of the three shelters and two other structures took place in the Palestinian village of Umm el-Kheir, a small Bedouin village near the Israeli settlement of Carmel in the South Hebron Hills. It is in Area C of the West Bank, which is entirely under Israeli military control.

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Input: Embed Hugh Hewitt: Trump should withdraw from race 5:01 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog In interviews with the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal Saturday morning, Trump said that he will not step down." There is zero chance I will quit," Trump said, adding that he's getting "unbelievable" support."

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Input: “The notion of a political test raises troubling questions about who is deciding which questions to ask and who is interpreting applicants ' responses,” said Royal. “Trump, given his track record of hateful remarks against Muslims, women, persons with disabilities, and others, is not a trustworthy arbiter of what questions we should ask immigrants seeking entry to the U.S.” Roybal suggested Trump did n’t understand the consequences of what he was proposing. “The LGBTQ community is quite familiar with the vehemently anti-LGBTQ views of his running mate, Mike Pence, and his party’s platform — that among other things is in favor of denying us human dignity, preventing us from marrying the person that we love, and persecuting us with discrimination,” he said. “In fact, if Trump is claiming that he would bar people from the U.S. if they do n’t support LGBTQ equality and support the persecution of LGBTQ people, he may have to bar quite a few of his party colleagues."

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Input: It basically has fallen,” Trump said. Then he quickly changed the subject to wonder aloud why the Iraqi government does n’t do a “sneak attack” to liberate Mosul, it’s second largest city. The Assad regime and its Russian partners are bombarding eastern Aleppo each and every day in a brutal campaign to crush the opposition under siege there by terrorizing the civilian population. The U.S. government and international experts agree Syria and Russia are committing war crimes there. For Trump to deny that any hope exists for the people of Aleppo to resist this onslaught amounts to turning a blind eye to the ongoing atrocities.

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Input: A day later, WikiLeaks cited its own poll as a “significant increase in online Trump support”—echoing Trump surrogates, who took to Fox and CNN to disavow the accuracy of traditional polling during that same week. This week, WikiLeaks pushed the Trump campaign’s new talking point: debunked claims about Clinton’s health. The group tweeted about an alleged illness three times on Monday, as websites like The Drudge Report and Breitbart, and Fox News’ Sean Hannity pointed to pictures of Hillary Clinton sitting on pillows to prove that she is infirm, or wearing a catheter, or riddled with syphilis. It’s impossible to know which disease she has, as WikiLeaks and other Trump surrogates appear to have an acute case of decision fatigue. “I guess I should be careful challenging WikiLeaks, lest all my emails get leaked,” Levav said.

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Input: I thought it was like Saturday Night Live. I mean, he’s the first person to be deported. He’s the first person — I’d sign his deportation proceeding, to be at the airport waving him goodbye. He’s running a campaign on the very things that he’s saying he’s going to fight against — bigotry, hatred. He’s talking about taking down fascism and then comparing what he wants to do to the era of taking down fascism.

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Input: They typically obtained Russian visas in Damascus or Beirut – some even went so far as to enrol in a Russian university to get a student visa – then flew to Moscow and took a train to Murmansk. From there, it was about 130 miles from the Norwegian border, where they were placed in refugee camps. Although Russian business owners have reportedly been charging several hundred US dollars for a bicycle and a ride to the border, the route is still far cheaper than being smuggled across the Mediterranean. The two countries began bouncing refugees between them in November after Norway said it would send back asylum seekers with Russian residency permits, but Russia refused to take them. Svetlana Gannushkina, an immigration activist, said Syrians sent to Russia would not be deported but were unlikely to receive legal status.

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Input: They include his campaign manager Paul Manafort, who has worked for Ukraine’s deposed pro-Russian president; his foreign policy adviser Carter Page and the former secretary of state and national security adviser Henry Kissinger. In the days after Putin annexed Crimea in mid-March 2014, for instance, Trump expressed strong opposition to the move. Appearing on NBC’s “Today” show on March 13, he said that the land grab — which Obama and top European leaders denounced as a gross violation of international law — “should never have happened.” “We should definitely be strong,” Trump added. “We should definitely do sanctions.”

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Input: Armour-clad warriors charge from behind a rocky outcrop and gallop across the steppe, swords aloft and banners flapping in the wind. With furious cries they surround a camp and embark on a gruesome and bloody battle. Perched on a rise above the skirmish, a female warrior in an elaborate fur headdress checks her smartphone as an impassive white camel chews the cud. This is not a medieval war zone but the set of a Game of Thrones-style TV series that aims to bring to life the colourful tale of the birth of a Kazakh state more than 500 years ago. The series dramatises the tumultuous events leading up to the creation of the first Kazakh khanate in 1465 amid the collapse of the Mongolian-ruled Golden Horde empire – events interpreted in modern-day Kazakhstan as laying the foundations for today’s independent state.

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Input: Sketch of new 1,400 room Renovation project of Commodore Hotel. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images) Donald Trump pauses in his apartment 5/20 after receiving the news that the Board of Estimate unanimously approved a 40-year tax abatement plan. Under the plan Trump will purchase and refurbish the Commodore Hotel, which closed into doors 5/18, from the Penn Central Transportation Corp. In return for his $ 10-million -dollar purchase and up to $ 100 million face-lifting investment, Trump will have no real estate taxes for 40 years. (Bettmann via Getty Images) Real estate developer Donald Trump announces intentions to build a $ 100 million dollar Regency Hotel.

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Input: 21/74 Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces celebrate after clashes with followers of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi, in front of his home in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad 22/74 Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces arrest a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad 23/74 Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces arrest a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi at his home after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad 24/74 Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces arrest a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad 25/74 Iraq crisis A vehicle burns in front of a home of a follower of Shiite cleric Mahmoud al-Sarkhi after clashes with his followers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad

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Input: Anne Frank's stepsister says Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump Donald TrumpTrump calls out Ossoff for living outside of Georgia district CNN's Acosta: Spicer is ' kind of useless ' Revive vocational vigor via college savings plan expansion MORE is "acting like another Hitler." "I think he is acting like another Hitler by inciting racism," wrote Eva Schloss, 86, in a piece published in Newsweek on Wednesday — Holocaust Memorial Day. Schloss is an Auschwitz survivor. Frank and Schloss were Jewish refugees in Amsterdam and played together as children before their families went into hiding.

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Input: At an emergency meeting Sunday, members of the Security Council "strongly condemned" the launch and reaffirmed that "a clear threat to international peace and security continues to exist, especially in the context of the nuclear test." It vowed to undertake punitive actions against North Korea, announcing plans to "adopt expeditiously a new Security Council resolution with such measures in response to these dangerous and serious violations," according to a statement read by Venezuela's ambassador to the United Nations after the meeting. Sanctions already in place against Pyongyang ban it from working with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles, blacklist certain figures and organizations and prohibit the import of luxury goods. South Korean President Park Geun-hye called the launch a "challenge to world peace," while her government announced it would begin talks with the United States to deploy a defense system called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, which can intercept missiles in flight. A U.S. defense official told CNN that plans to implement the missile defense system had been accelerated in response to the launch, and it could potentially be deployed within weeks.

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

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Input: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) VLADIMIR Putin is to send Russia’s largest battleship to Syria in a bid to crush ISIS once and for all. The Russian president is to dispatch the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier plus 30 jet fighters and attack helicopters to the war-torn country in an attempt to destroy the terror group for good. The Kremlin strongman’s decision came in the wake of ISIS atrocities in Bangladesh – where it murdered 20 hostages in a restaurant in the capital Dhaka – and Baghdad, Iraq, where a car bomb killed 125 shoppers. Associated Press 6 Authorised attack … Vladimir Putin gives permission for the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier to launch attack on ISIS forces

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Input: Berlin (AFP) -Germany's parliament votes Thursday on a resolution that brands the massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, drawing a clear warning from Turkey's president that it would harm ties. Put forward by the ruling left-right coalition and the opposition Greens, the resolution entitled "Remembrance and commemoration of the genocide of Armenians and other Christian minorities in 1915 and 1916" also carries the contested word throughout the text. The vote comes just over a year after President Joachim Gauck became Germany's highest ranking official to describe the massacre as a "genocide", sparking a fierce response from Turkey. Its timing is also awkward, as Germany and the European Union need Ankara to help stem a migrant influx even as tensions are rising between both sides over a string of issues, including human rights. In a strong call against the Bundestag move, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said:" If (Germany) falls into such a game, that would harm our future ties -- the diplomatic, economic, political, commercial and military ties between the two countries."

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Input: Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says Edward Snowden performed a "public service" when the ex-National Security Agency contractor leaked classified intelligence documents. Holder, however, was quick to put into context what appeared to be praise of a person the U.S. considers a criminal." I thought the president put it best when he said, ' Just because we have the ability to do something, doesn't mean we should, ' "Holder said during an appearance on the" Axe Files," a podcast hosted by David Axelrod, produced by CNN and the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. The Obama administration was constantly weighing the value of surveillance against the issue of privacy, Holder explained. Still, the former top American law enforcement official added "We can certainly argue about the way in which Snowden did what he did, but I think that he actually performed a public service by raising the debate that we engaged in and by the changes that we made."

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Input: JUST WATCHED Donald Trump Jr. slams email hack claim Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Donald Trump Jr. slams email hack claim 01:23 Putin also has a personal reason that he could want to intervene in America's democracy: He's convinced the U.S. orchestrated its own covert campaign against him that threatened his rule, and he has a personal grudge against Clinton as well. Putin, while serving as prime minister, forcibly denounced the then-U.S. secretary of state in 2011, saying she had condemned Russia's parliamentary elections as fraudulent before she had evidence and directly incited anti-government protests. The U.S. government dismissed the claims as absurd at the time. But people who have studied Putin closely suggest that the episode further cemented the Russian leader's conspiratorial mindset and a worldview framed by his experience as a KGB officer when the Soviet Union crumbled.

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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.

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Input: Immigrants, or children or grandchildren of immigrants, also hold similar views to the entire electorate on Trump’s proposal to temporarily ban entry to the U.S. from people residing in countries with a history of terrorism. But there were small differences among those voters who differ by generation. Americans who immigrated to the U.S. were the least likely to back the proposal, with 52 percent expressing support for it and 39 percent in opposition. At 68 percent, support for the ban was stronger among first generation Americans than the entire electorate (59 percent). Only 22 percent of that generation said they oppose it, compared with 27 percent of all voters.

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Input: PALMYRA, Syria Islamic State militants retreating from Palmyra laid thousands of mines that they planned to set off simultaneously as the army moved in, a Syrian officer told Reuters in the ancient city after its recapture from the jihadist fighters. The officer said main streets and side roads in Palmyra had been rigged with explosives weighing up to 50 kg. More than 3,000 had already been safely detonated since government forces, backed by Russian jets, retook the city on Sunday, he said. He did not say why the Islamic State fighters failed to set off the explosives before pulling out, but his assertion echoed comments from Syria's antiquities chief, who said the militants intended to dynamite a greater area of the city's 2,000-year -old ruins than they already had. The officer, who did not give his name, said the bombs left behind were linked so they could go off together.

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Input: NATO is slow to respond: Trump does not want America to be involved, and a large part of Europe is indifferent or blocking any action. “Russia, seeing no real resistance to their actions, move further into Latvia, and then into eastern Estonia and Lithuania. The Baltic States declare war on Russia and start to retaliate, as they have now been invaded so have no choice. Half of Europe sides with them, a few countries remain neutral, and a few side with Russia. Where does Turkey stand on this?

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Input: China is also building up its space warfare capabilities, and last year, it advanced work on an anti-satellite missile tested in July 2014. A section of the report on China’s energy strategy reveals that China will remain heavily dependent on foreign oil. Sixty percent of its oil was imported in 2015, and by 2035, Beijing will be importing 80 percent of its oil. Energy supplies are vulnerable to disruption as some 83 percent of China’s oil currently passes through the South China Sea and Strait of Malacca. Land pipelines are being built from Russia and Kazakhstan as part of efforts to maintain a supply chain that is less susceptible to disruption.

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Input: NYT, got a tape? — David Corn (@DavidCornDC) July 21, 2016 The Times’ reporter in the meeting with Trump, Maggie Haberman, stood by her report: @DavidCornDC he was n’t in the interview and unlikely he had time to catch up to it before convention program began. Transcript soon.

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Input: But Ms May knew that the Labour leader was prepared to state his position, which is the opposite of hers. Without being asked, Jeremy Corbyn volunteered the statement that “I’m not making the decision that kills millions of innocent people.” He added: “I do not believe the threat of mass murder is a legitimate way to go about international relations.” The decision to stage Monday's vote was made by David Cameron, who sat three rows back saying nothing while his successor addressed the Commons. Officially, Parliament was being asked to agree to spend up to around £ 30 billion renewing the four Trident submarines that are equipped with nuclear missiles and warheads.

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Input: The fifty-one diplomats called for “targeted military strikes” against the Syrian government and greater support for “moderate” forces fighting the regime. One of the architects of current policy, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, also has turned against the administration’s more disengaged approach. She urged creation of a no-fly zone, an act of war, as well as greater support for insurgents. The conflict is horrid, but no one has explained how U.S. entry into Syria’s multisided civil war would end the murder and mayhem. Nor has anyone shown how America making another Middle Eastern conflict its own would serve American interests.

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Input: The move earned the Texas Republican a wave of backlash from Democrats and broke with comments from some of his GOP colleagues — including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley Chuck GrassleySenate GOP shifts focus to Lynch Grassley welcomes Trump’s rescheduled Iowa rally Grassley rankles GOP with new Comey investigation MORE (R-Iowa) — who argue a Clinton nominee would not be automatically blocked. Reid earlier this month said he has paved the way for Democrats to change the rules. But any push to change the Senate rules would by led by Sen. Charles Schumer Charles SchumerDems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan GOP exploiting Virginia shooting in Georgia election MORE (N.Y.), who is expected to replace Reid as the leader of Senate Democrats and could become majority leader if his party wins control of the chamber on Election Day. Asked about the nuclear option earlier this month, Schumer demurred, telling CNBC's John Harwood," I hope we won't get to that. And I'll leave it at that."

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Input: Last year, Thales also won a security contract for Qatar Hamad port, a large commercial facility which will also be the site for a naval base. In early January, Qatar closed a $ 5.5 billion syndicated loan, arranged by six banks including three Japanese lead lenders: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp, Reuters reported. Qatar National Bank, Deutsche Bank and Barclays helped arrange the five-year loan, expected to carry a margin of 90 basis points over London Interbank Offered Rate. A basis point is 1/100 of a percentage point. Qatar had previously hoped to raise $ 10 billion with a smaller margin of some 80 basis points, International Financing Review reported.

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Input: Hide Caption 7 of 8 Photos: North Korea launches rocket An official photograph shows the control room. Hide Caption 8 of 8 "North Korea's terrorist attack could be in the form of causing harms to anti-North Korean activists, North Korean defectors or government officials," said Saenuri Party member, Lee Chul-woo, when CNN contacted his office Thursday. Members of the ruling Saenuri Party held a closed-door meeting with the NIS, defense ministry and other ministries. JUST WATCHED Defense official: N.Korean satellite tumbling in orbit Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Defense official: N.Korean satellite tumbling in orbit 03:59

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Input: But Øyvind Ravna, a law professor at the Norwegian Arctic university, told the paper the constitution did not apply to minor border adjustments, pointing out that Norway’s borders with both Finland and Russia had moved in recent times to reflect changes in riverbeds and the shifting position of sandbanks and islets. A Facebook page, Halti as anniversary gift, run by Harsson’s son from his home in the US and calling on supporters to allow “Finland, on its centenary, to rewrite both its history and its geography books”, has so far garnered nearly 14,000 likes. Public reaction has been overwhelmingly positive in both Norway and Finland, with the only objection so far coming from the indigenous Sami community, whose reindeer roam freely across the border and who argue that the land should belong to neither country. “Who knows?” Harsson told NRK. “It may really happen.”

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Input: He has a labyrinthine collection of partnerships, private corporations, holding companies and other investments. America does not know if he is a joint investor with unsavory characters (he has been before) or what financial incentives drive him. So imagine the day after Trump is elected president. If there is a Democratic majority in the Senate — which appears likely — the first subpoena coming out of a congressional committee will be for his tax returns. Whatever nasty secrets they contain will come spilling out.

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Input: Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told the council. Britain's U.N. ambassador, Matthew Rycroft, said on Sunday the U.S. and Russian bid to bring peace to Syria "is very, very near the end of its life and yes the Security Council needs to be ready to fulfill our responsibilities." "The regime and Russia have instead plunged to new depths and unleashed a new hell on Aleppo," Rycroft told the council." Russia is partnering with the Syrian regime to carry out war crimes." However, Russia is one of five veto-powers on the council, along with the United States, France, Britain and China.

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Input: She also told investigators that in the weeks before the attack, Mateen spent thousands of dollars, including for the guns used in the attack. Mateen and Salman married in 2011. They have a 3-year -old son and lived in Fort Pierce, about two hours from the massacre. A U.S. attorney plans to bring evidence before a federal grand jury to determine whether charges will be filed, two law enforcement officials said. Facebook postings

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Input: That's not to say that such an attitude is in some way better than simple racism or xenophobia — it is still dangerous and damaging, especially if it empowers frightening demagogues like Donald Trump. Perhaps more to the point, it helps explain how Trump's supporters have come to so quickly embrace such extreme policies targeting these outgroups: mass deportation of millions of people, a ban on foreign Muslims visiting the US. When you think about those policy preferences as driven by authoritarianism, in which social threats are perceived as especially dangerous and as demanding extreme responses, rather than the sudden emergence of specific bigotries, this starts to make a lot more sense. VIII. What authoritarians want

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Input: "In terms of leadership, [Putin]'s getting an A," Trump said in a past interview. Putin has also praised Trump and a number of Trump's advisers have ties to the Kremlin. Manafort advised pro-Russian, Ukrainian oligarchs including former President Victor Yanukovych -- a Putin ally who fled to Russia in 2014 after corruption accusations. The FBI announced Monday it is investigating the hack, and promised to hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace.

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Input: Among his other discredits, Sanders supported the Federal Crime Bill that give the gave the capitalist state more than 50 new pretexts to execute members of the working class – because those without capital get the punishment. He did this while courting

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Input: The letters promoting the boycott will soon be forwarded to the Russian Journalists’ Union and to the European Federation of Journalists, she said. The appeal was prompted by the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo, which contains a cartoon that ridicules the attacks on women in Germany’s Cologne that took place on the New Year’s Eve. About 430 women told police that they were harassed by groups of young men, supposedly immigrants from North Africa and Middle East, and two women said they were raped. READ MORE: ‘New dimension of crime’: Crowd of ‘Arab origin’ blamed for mass sexual assaults in Cologne on NYE Sutormina added that it was not the first attempt by the Public Chamber to launch a campaign that would influence Charlie Hebdo cartoonists and editors.

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Input: Saudi Arabia is discussing plans to deploy ground troops with regional allies, including Turkey, for a safe zone in Syria, in a last-ditch effort to keep alive a rebellion at risk of collapse as a Russian-backed offensive by Syrian regime forces encroaches on the northern province of Aleppo. Although western officials have dismissed the plans as lacking credibility, they are a sign of the desperation that many of Syria’s opposition backers feel towards what looks like an increasingly bleak outcome to the war. Two people familiar with Saudi plans told the Financial Times that high-ranking Gulf officials are in Riyadh meeting Turkish officials to discuss options for deploying ground troops to head a coalition of fighters inside Syria.

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Input: The Canadian Air Force is moving ahead with its weaponized drone program, and it's hoping to find a model that's good for everything from blowing up enemy convoys to helping drowning sailors. The government published the call-out to the defense industry on Friday, asking military contractors to spell out how they would build a Canadian drone fleet. The Joint Unmanned Surveillance and Target Acquisition System (JUSTAS), after years of trying to acquire non-weaponized drones, is now searching for a single type of unmanned aerial vehicle to do many different things, including dropping bombs. The Royal Canadian Air Force is hoping to get as many as 12 drones, and wants them to be a veritable Swiss Army knife — able to run top-of-the-line surveillance, but also capable of dropping precision missiles. Canada is alone amongst its major military allies in lacking drone capabilities.

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Input: CLAIM:" Hillary Clinton took up to $ 25 million from Saudi Arabia, where being gay is also punishable by death. Hillary took millions from Kuwait, Qatar, Oman and many other countries that horribly abuse women and LGBT citizens." As of March 2016, records showed that Saudi Arabia has donated between $ 10 million and $ 25 million to the foundation. Here's a list of everyone who has ever donated to the Clinton Foundation — as provided by the Clinton Foundation website. This list is broken into the following categories:

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Input: Is there talk of putting any sanctions on the way we did with Russia when they went into the Ukraine? John Carlin: The bottom line I think has to be that we continue to increase the costs until the behavior changes. If it doesn't change, then we need to keep thinking of additional actions, whether they're trade actions or sanctions that change the behavior. The government of China declined our request for an interview, but sent us this comment:" China has long suffered from massive cyber attacks ... (and) firmly opposes and combats all forms of cyber attacks in accordance with law ... groundless speculation, accusation or hyping up is not helpful ..." In Massachusetts, Daniel McGahn is rebuilding with much of his business now shifted to India.

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Input: We’ve got it now, but it’s under control in different places. Why ca n’t I connect from home?” Emilio Arturo Marill, a 90-year -old retired lawyer, argues that Obama could take even more steps than he has to weaken the U.S. embargo on Cuba, which only Congress can formally lift. He and other Cubans also want Obama to shut down the prison at Guantánamo Bay — a goal impeded by members of Congress. (Cuba insists the U.S. return the territory, which is also home to an American naval base, despite a decades-old lease agreement.)

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Input: They are doing what benefits themselves, which is to maintain power, and they will do whatever is necessary to accomplish that objective. To think they are taking such a hard line against Putin’s Russia and Assange’s WikiLeaks solely to protect our constitutional liberties and national security would be naïve. They are working tirelessly to deflect and delegitimize a substantial amount of very incriminating evidence by attempting to destroy the reliability of the originators of that evidence. This is a standard progressive tactic straight out of the Saul Alinsky playbook. Some Things Never Change

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Input: Why did America drop not one but two atomic bombs on civilian populations? The story goes that dropping two atomic bombs on civilian cities saved lives. Because, had we not dropped those bombs, Japan was not going to surrender and consequently America would have had to invade, like D-Day and even more lives would've been lost, right? So, let us examine this with a clear head. An invasion of a handful of tiny islands in the south pacific can not really be compared to the D-Day invasion.

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Input: Advertisement There are so many aspects of this line of argument from Trump that are difficult to fathom, but first and foremost is the fact that Putin has been a terrible leader for his country, particularly since his second run as Russian president. Due in large measure to a drop in global oil prices and Putin’s ill-advised seizure of Crimea, the Russian economy has been in freefall. In 2015 it contracted by 3.7 percent, hundreds of billions in foreign capital has left the country because of international sanctions imposed because of Putin’s actions in Ukraine, and the value of the Russian ruble dropped 127 percent. The number of Russians living in poverty has sharply increased and real wages have fallen while inflation continues to rise.

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Input: “Regavim’s work is beginning to bear fruit with a large increase in demolitions of European structures. We will not stop until there is a total European exit from all Israeli territory.” EU Ambassador to Israeli Lars Faaborg-Andersen said on July 27 that since 2009, approximately 170 EU-funded structures of a value of € 300,000 have been demolished or confiscated and approximately 600 structures, worth over € 2.3 million, have been served with demolition, stop-work or eviction orders and are therefore under threat of demolition. 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.

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Input: Angert’s company Transcargo shared a Mayfair address with Zhukov’s Sintez UK. 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.

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Input: Anderson Cooper will become the first openly gay man to moderate a presidential debate when the CNN anchor emcees the second contest, held in St. Louis this Sunday evening. Cooper, who came out publicly in 2012 following years of speculation, previously hosted last October’s CNN / Facebook Democratic Debate, in which former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders faced off for the first time. His presence will play a pivotal role in this week’s debate, the latest matchup between Clinton and her Republican challenger, Donald Trump.

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Input: “I appreciate the well wishes and love, but this is the work of God,” she added. “I am a vessel!” She was one of 102 protesters arrested on Saturday night outside the police station on Airline Highway. Another of those detained and held overnight was DeRay Mckesson, a prominent Black Lives Matter activist, who was live-streaming video from the shoulder of the road when he was tackled by an officer.. @deray was live streaming on # Periscope when he got arrested.

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

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Input: Two Romanian businessmen and an Italian politician got caught trying to sell rocket launchers and AK-47s to Colombian terrorists. But one now claims he was really just helping the CIA. A wacky tale is playing out in a federal courtroom in New York City, where a Romanian security consultant is on trial for an illegal $ 17 million weapons deal. In 2014, Virgil Flaviu Georgescu got caught in a federal sting operation. He was brokering a deal that involved selling machine guns and rocket launchers to the Communist guerrilla fighters of FARC, the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia.

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Input: "Proper representation and a bigger voice for the developing countries are the need of the hour. For instance, being the world's third-largest economy and the largest foreign reserves holder, China should get its due place in the monetary body." Another idea Yi raised was that the U.S. and Europe should give up their traditional privileges of appointing the heads of the World Bank and the IMF. The idea of a creating a new global reserve currency isn't new. But analysts say the proposal isn't likely to gain much traction because it faces major obstacles.

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Input: The three nations are major trading partners and are part of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with nine other Pacific Rim countries. The Hill's Vicki Needham fills you in: http://bit.ly/1Og0d9k. FANNIE MAE SET TO PAY TREASURY $ 919 MILLION: Mortgage giant Fannie Mae will pay the Treasury Department a dividend next month after posting net income of $ 1.1 billion in the January – March period. The government-controlled enterprise will pay $ 919 million to the Treasury in June following its 17th straight quarter of profits." We continue to run our business well while supporting the improving housing market," said Timothy Mayopoulos, president and chief executive officer of Fannie.

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Input: Iranian state television on Wednesday broadcast photos and a video of an American serviceman appearing to cry after he and nine other U.S. sailors were captured by the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) last month. Tehran had previously publicized footage of the detained sailors kneeling with their hands behind their heads, as well as a video of one serviceman apologizing to Iran for unknowingly entering the country’s territorial waters. A U.S. military official said that the filmed apology was “clearly” staged.

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Input: Sign out. The email also includes several items flagged by department officials which may have been of interest to the Clinton campaign. This includes an invitation former President Clinton received to speak at a climate change conference in Turkey, for which he would have been compensated by the Turkish government, and another speaking engagement paid for by the Canadian government. President Clinton declined the former invitation, but accepted the latter. “Jen — happy to give you more background on prior releases since it’s your first go around,” Samuelson wrote to close out the email, in reference to Palmieri.

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Input: You can see the person turning the corner at centre: Of course, what UrtheCast can see pales in comparison to the spooky level of detail that commercial satellites can pick up. Military spy satellites can peer even closer. A lot of eyes in the sky can see a mobile phone in your hand from space  -but the US government limits the resolution of images that can be sold. However, companies are lobbying the US government to permit them to sell those ultra-detailed images to anyone who wants to buy them, so long as they’re cleared as non-threatening to national security.

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Input: Following the award, The Post's executive editor Martin Baron said the reporting exposed policy "with profound implications for American citizens ' constitutional rights"." Disclosing the massive expansion of the NSA's surveillance network absolutely was a public service." Snowden has been living in exile in Russia since June 2013 and faces US charges of espionage and theft of state property, which could put him in jail for 30 years. Topics: journalism, security-intelligence, united-states First posted

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Input: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Naomi Klein documented that neoliberals advocated the use of crises to impose unpopular policies while people were distracted. Photograph: Anya Chibis for the Guardian As Naomi Klein documents in The Shock Doctrine, neoliberal theorists advocated the use of crises to impose unpopular policies while people were distracted: for example, in the aftermath of Pinochet’s coup, the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina, which Friedman described as “an opportunity to radically reform the educational system” in New Orleans. Where neoliberal policies can not be imposed domestically, they are imposed internationally, through trade treaties incorporating “investor-state dispute settlement”: offshore tribunals in which corporations can press for the removal of social and environmental protections. When parliaments have voted to restrict sales of cigarettes, protect water supplies from mining companies, freeze energy bills or prevent pharmaceutical firms from ripping off the state, corporations have sued, often successfully.

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Input: The atmosphere was confrontational, as the purpose of the interrogations is to enable federal prosecutors and investigators to determine whether these five are targets or witnesses. Stated differently, the feds need to decide if they should charge any of these folks as part of a plan to commit espionage, or if they will be witnesses on behalf of the government should there be such a prosecution; or witnesses for Mrs. Clinton. In the same week, a federal judge ordered the same five persons to give videotaped testimony in a civil lawsuit against the State Department which once employed them in order to determine if there was a “conspiracy” -- that’s the word used by the judge -- in Mrs. Clinton’s office to evade federal transparency laws. Stated differently, the purpose of these interrogations is to seek evidence of an agreement to avoid the Freedom of Information Act requirements of storage and transparency of records, and whether such an agreement, if it existed, was also an agreement to commit espionage -- the removal of state secrets from a secure place to a non-secure place. Also earlier this week, the State Department revealed that it can not find the emails of Bryan Pagliano for the four years that he was employed there.

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Input: Rep. Andre Carson (D-Ind.), one of only two Muslims currently serving in Congress, accused GOP presidential candidates like Trump of “deliberately spread[ing] mean-spirited and false information about Muslims.” In addition to Trump proposing a Muslim ban, Sen. Ted Cruz Ted CruzAccess to palliative care needs to stay in new health bill Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (R-Texas) at one point suggested increasing surveillance on Muslim neighborhoods in the aftermath of the Brussels terrorist attacks in March. “They said Islam hates America. They suggested that increasing surveillance on American Muslims is the way to go.

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Input: Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım has said that “Armenian genocide,” which refers to the killings of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire, is an “ordinary event” that might take place in the time of war. PM Yıldırım was asked about the German parliament’s voting on a resolution that labels the killings of Armenians a “genocide” during a press conference he held before his first official visit to Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) as the prime minister. Emphasizing that the voting expected to be taken by German parliament on Thursday is “nonsense,” Yıldırım said: “[Armenian killings] is an ordinary event that might have taken place under war circumstances in 1915 and it has no rhyme or reason. Those who try to impute this event to Turkey have no good intentions.”

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Input: These are but a few of dozens of other examples of what looks like influence peddling on an industrial scale at the Clinton State Department. Sidney Blumenthal even makes an appearance in some of the new Clinton work-related emails, offering his inside advice on the 2009 uprisings in Iran. At one point, he suggests Clinton get the Russians involved by offering to remove a U.S. missile defense system set up in Eastern Europe. All of this is damning evidence that flies in the face of the continued Clinton campaign and State Department denials that Clinton or her aides provided certain donors with special access and treatment. Nonetheless, State Department spokesman Mark Toner went out again today and essentially tried to convince reporters that the new emails really were not evidence of favors for Clinton Foundation donors.

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Input: "I'm taking bets that Merkel will leave the country when she steps down – for security reasons," the post continued. When Will asked if she was serious about this, von Storch said "I mean that she should go into exile to Chile or South America". It was a pointed reference to the fact that many Nazi war criminals, such as Holocaust mastermind Adolf Eichmann, fled to South America following the defeat of the Hitler regime in 1945 and escaped prosecution for decades. Chile was also the final destination for East German Socialist Unity Party (SED) leader Erich Honecker following the reunification of Germany in 1990. But the South America link is especially resonant at a time when many far-right Merkel opponents are explicitly comparing the Chancellor and her government to Nazi war criminals.

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Input: When Bill was governor, Hillary sent out a group of investigators known at the “Truth Squad” to discourage many of her husband’s lovers from going public. 3) Looting the White House When the Clintons left 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2001, they reportedly vandalized and looted the White House. Hillary tried to ship furniture to the Clintons’ personal home in Chappaqua, New York. The Clintons came under fire when they reportedly tried to take $ 190,000 in gifts and furnishings from the presidential mansion.

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Input: In response, Clinton acknowledged, as she has on previous occasions, that she’d made a mistake. But she also offered an explanation for her vote, something she has rarely done in the past. President Bush, she told the audience, had made a “very explicit appeal” that “getting this vote would be a strong piece of leverage in order to finish the inspections.” In other words, a resolution to use force would prod Saddam Hussein into readmitting U.N. inspectors, so they could continue their mission of verifying whether or not he had destroyed his chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons sites. In other words, Clinton was now claiming she voted the way she did in the interests of diplomacy; the problem was that Bush went back on his word — he invaded before giving the inspectors enough time. Listening to her rationale Wednesday night, I did n’t know whether she was telling the truth.

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Input: He put up a Soviet flag in his office, shocking even the Birkenstock-wearing local liberals. At the time, the Evil Empire was on the march around the world, and threatening the US with nuclear annihilation. Then, in 1989, as the West was on the verge of winning the Cold War, Sanders addressed the national conference of the US Peace Council -- a known front for the Communist Party USA, whose members swore an oath not only to the Soviet Union but to "the triumph of Soviet power in the US." Today, Sanders wants to bring what he admired in the USSR, Cuba, Nicaragua and other communist states to America. For starters, he proposes completely nationalizing our health care system and putting private health insurance and drug companies "out of business."

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Input: WASHINGTON / NEW YORK, March 2 (Yonhap) -- The U.N. Security Council adopted the harshest-ever sanctions on North Korea on Wednesday, punishing Pyongyang for its defiant nuclear and missile tests and seeking to put curbs on the weapons programs through what could amount to a land, sea and air blockade designed to dry up key revenue sources. The 15-member council unanimously adopted Resolution 2270, significantly tightening the screws on the communist nation that sparked global outrage with its fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6 and its long-range missile launch on Feb. 7 in violation of U.N. bans. The new sanctions, the toughest ever to be imposed on Pyongyang, require mandatory inspection of all cargo going in and out of the North, regardless of whether by land, sea or air, while banning its exports of coal, iron and other mineral resources, a key source of hard currency that accounts for nearly half of the country's total exports. It also prohibits all small arms and other conventional weapons from being sold to the North, bans jet and rocket fuel supplies to the country, grounds North Korean flights suspected of carrying contraband and denies vessels carrying illicit items access to ports. The resolution blacklisted 16 North Korean individuals and 12 entities, including the General Reconnaissance Bureau in charge of espionage operations, and requires the expulsion of North Korean diplomats engaged in activities banned under Security Council resolutions.

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Input: Anyway, not only have U.S. aircraft been harassed during intercept missions. Here are just a few examples. On Sept. 13, 1987, a RNoAF P-3B had a mid-air collision in similar circumstances with a Soviet Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker over the Barents Sea. In Apr. 2012, whilst flying over the Barents Sea on a routine mission, a Norwegian P-3 Orion almost collided with a Russian Air Force Mig-31 Foxhound that had intercepted the patrol aircraft.

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Input: The amended document included a line that was present in November 2015 when the foundation announced revised federal tax filings for the four years. The line added in January 2016 said: “All other government grants came from foreign governments” with a total figure for each of the four years that equalled $ 17.7 million. The foreign donations are still not listed on the financial portion of the foundation’s web site despite a claim in November by the non-profit’s president, Donna Shalala, that “there is nothing to suggest that the foundation intended to conceal the receipt of government grants, which we report on our website.” Criticism of the the latest revelation concerning Clinton Foundation tax returns came from across the ideological spectrum. Leslie Lenkowski, an expert on philanthropy who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton in 1993 as a founding director of the Corporation for National and Community Service, a government-operated volunteer organization, told TheDCNF that the Clinton Foundation was “an appearance of a conflict of interest waiting to happen.”

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Input: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg briefs the media during a NATO defence ministers meeting at the Alliance headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, June 14, 2016. REUTERS / Francois Lenoir BRUSSELS Britain, Germany and the United States advanced plans on Tuesday to spearhead a new NATO force on Russia's border from next year, and Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered snap checks on combat readiness across his armed forces.

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Input: (Presidents Carter and Clinton both lost their cards on two occasions.) If the balloon goes up someday, Trump, assisted by his military aide, would consult the card to find a short reply code (such as “Delta Zulu”) that matches the challenge code (such as “Echo Bravo”) issued by the leader of the Pentagon’s war room (a colonel or brigadier general). This brief exchange would establish Trump’s identity and confer all rights as commander in chief to order the military to carry out his nuclear wishes, possibly including launching an all-out nuclear attack on country X, Y or Z. After authenticating, his menu selection from the war plan in the “black book” is all that is needed to trigger a U.S. strategic nuclear assault. If he does not like the menu, he can request a special dish, but that would delay things by hours or days.

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Input: GREENE: Yeah, I mean these are-these are the emails that have been the news during the weekend, I mean, suggesting that the party was favoring Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders through the nominating process. GONYEA: Right, the Democratic Party-which led to a resignation. Democratic Party Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz-she will resign after-after the convention. GREENE: After, which is important. I mean, she's going to be gaveling in this convention, which could be a moment for, I mean, who knows what?

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Input: And it is contemptuous of a rules-based liberal order.” The debate about terminology may ignore the seriousness of the conditions that gave rise to Mr. Trump and his European counterparts. The New York real estate developer has tapped into a deep discontent in a country where many feel left behind while Wall Street banks get bailouts, newcomers take jobs, terrorists threaten innocents and China rises economically at America’s expense. “It seems to me in developed and semideveloped countries there is emerging a new kind of politics for which maybe the best taxonomic category would be right-wing populist nationalism,” said Stanley Payne, a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “We are seeing a new kind of phenomenon which is different from what you had” in the 20th century.

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Input: The meeting in Qatar was not formally an Opec event, though most of the group's members were represented. Opec has been slow to respond to the sharp fall in oil prices, which are still less than half the peak of $ 115 ($ 81) a barrel seen in June 2014. The price of oil had risen in recent weeks, largely due to speculation that some major exporters would limit supply. Amrita Sen, chief oil analyst at Energy Aspects, told the BBC that oil markets were "rebalancing" even without a deal being reached in Qatar." Production is falling everywhere because of low prices so the freeze actually wouldn't really matter for the markets because people are already producing at maximum levels and production is anyway gradually falling with or without the freeze deal," she said.

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Input: But while that may surprise those unfamiliar with the sharp-elbowed world of presidential politics, it's hardly unexpected that the DNC would prefer an established Democrat with centrist views over a fair-weather party member who self-identifies as a democratic socialist. In his speech on Monday, Sanders called on Democrats to unite behind Clinton — but barely 24 hours later he announced that he'd return to the Senate as an independent. The leak confirmed that political parties and their surrogates attempt to spin the press, that wealthy donors often angle for — and are appointed to — ambassadorships, and that people tend to say rude things via email. For the pro-Bernie camp, it was all further confirmation that the deck was stacked against the Vermont senator. The most frequently cited email saw a DNC apparatchik suggesting that Sanders ' irreligiousness be underscored in religious states.

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Input: The following information in italics was shared with me by my colleague Carol Rosin, who worked closely for several years with Wernher von Braun before his death. “Carol and I have worked on the Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space, attached for your convenience.” The emails also reveal that Mitchell feared that mankind was on the brink of a space war that could lead to ETI intervention to stop humanity from self-annihilating. The former NASA astronaut backed up his claim that mankind was on the brink of a devastating space war by referring Podesta to several online news articles and analyses about the increasing risk of war in space. He cited the Obama administration’s request of $ 5 billion to fund space defense programs in 2016 as evidence that the major powers were preparing for a space war despite efforts to convince them to sign the Treaty on Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space, first proposed by China and Russia in February 2008, as part of efforts to outlaw the weaponization of space, according to the Space Review.

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Input: Just putting garrisons of troops sitting in the countries ... will not deter." Russia insists it poses no threat to the former Soviet states. Top NATO officials say talk of an impending attack is misleading, a view shared by Paris and Berlin. Russia has held unannounced exercises on the borders of the Baltics, including one in 2014 which mustered 100,000 troops, according to Danish Colonel Jakob Sogard Larsen, who heads the new NATO command outpost in Lithuania." You see it differently when you live here," Larsen said.

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Input: Putin's pawn? Mr Assange fears for his future. He sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex assault allegations that he says are a US plot to jail him for leaking US military and diplomatic files. Image copyright AFP / Getty Image caption Mr Assange has been in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 But the war of words has escalated dramatically this month.

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Input: The northern city of Aleppo has become a key battleground in Syria's bloody five-year civil war. Save the Children said on Sunday that humanitarian workers on the ground reported that approximately half of the casualties pulled from the rubble were children. One hospital told the charity that 43% of the injured they treated on Saturday were children, and a Syrian ambulance crew said more than 50% they picked up in the past 48 hours were children. ' New heights of horror ' Ms Power told the meeting that Russia, which is supporting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, had "long had the power to stop this suffering".

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Input: Her campaign released a statement over the weekend from Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) which noted that Sanders was the "only Democrat in the Senate to vote with ultra-conservative Republicans to kill the Export-Import Bank." Critics of the Export-Import Bank, which briefly shut down before Congress agreed to renew its charter, deride it as "crony capitalism" and a waste of money. Many conservative groups and Republican politicians, including Sen. Ted Cruz Ted CruzAccess to palliative care needs to stay in new health bill Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (R-Texas), a presidential hopeful, are against it. Sanders's campaign put out a statement ahead of the debate bashing the bank and arguing that "more than 75 percent of Export-Import Bank financing goes to large profitable corporations which have moved manufacturing plants and jobs overseas." But Clinton came to the bank's defense, arguing that it is a vital tool to promote American businesses abroad.

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Input: The possibility of Russian involvement in cyber intrusions that were revealed in July "raises some grave questions about potential Russian interference with our electoral process," the Democratic nominee told reporters on her campaign plane as she flew to a rally in Illinois. Mrs Clinton stopped short of using the term cyber-war, but sternly described the Russian interference as "a threat from an adversarial foreign power." The Democratic nominee, locked in a battle for the presidency with Donald Trump, also blasted her Republican rival for encouraging Moscow to spy on her.

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Input: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill MORE (R-Ky.) that would give the FBI more power to get a customer's email records during terror investigations. (The Hill) A network of hijacked computers that was believed to be offline has resumed spamming its victims with ransomware. (The Hill) Hackers have hit the Indonesian and South Korean central banks ' public websites, after a recent pledge by the hacking group Anonymous to target the global banking industry, senior officials in both countries said.

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Input: It pointed out that the companies had also enjoyed a combined $ 11.2tn in federal loans, bailouts and loan guarantees during the same period. Overall, the use of tax havens allowed the US firms to reduce their effective tax rate on $ 4tn of profits from the US headline rate of 35% to an average of 26.5% between 2008 and 2014. The charity said this had helped firms spend billions on an “army” of lobbyists calling for greater state support in the form of loans, bailouts and guarantees, funded by taxpayers. The top 50 US firms spent $ 2.6bn between 2008 and 2014 on lobbying the US government, Oxfam said. “For every $ 1 spent on lobbying, these 50 companies collectively received $ 130 in tax breaks and more than $ 4,000 in federal loans, loan guarantees and bailouts,” said Oxfam.

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Input: On election night in 2012, even, Trump started tweeting about impropriety in the final result. The following year, Trump insisted that "dead people" had made the difference in Obama's nearly 5 million-vote advantage over Mitt Romney. Other than insisting that there are people "voting many, many times" in this country, Trump has yet to produce any sound proof of a systematic plan to steal elections perpetrated by Obama and the Democrats. Play Facebook Twitter

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Input: There are currently no functioning Hyperloops anywhere in the world, and skeptics wonder if the technology can ever make the leap from science fiction to reality. To successfully transport passengers, designers will have to overcome challenges including motion sickness and fear of travelling at high speeds in a sealed tube. Despite the challenges, Hyperloop One’s Lloyd said last month the company would build a system capable of transporting cargo by 2019 and passengers by 2021. It is unclear where the first Hyperloop One project will be built. The company has set up a competition asking people to submit ideas for areas of the world where a Hyperloop could meet a region’s transportation needs.

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Input: I think he did a lot more harm than good. Let me say a few more words about this. Snowden has long claimed that he took an oath to “support and defend the Constitution” (see here and here), and he has implied that he was fulfilling this oath when he stole and distributed the documents. “The oath of allegiance is not an oath of secrecy,” he told Bart Gellman. “That is an oath to the Constitution.

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Input: Modern Turkey, the successor state to the Ottomans, rejects the claim, arguing that 300,000 to 500,000 Armenians and as many Turks died in civil strife when Armenians rose up against their Ottoman rulers and sided with invading Russian troops. More than 20 nations, including France and Russia, have recognised the Armenian genocide, but Germany has not. In direct reference to the atrocities against the Armenians, the resolution says:" Their fate exemplifies the mass exterminations, the ethnic cleansing, the expulsions and indeed the genocides that marked the 20th century in such a terrible way." It also states that the "German Empire bears partial responsibility for the events," a point that Gauck had also made last year. Germany was then allied with the Ottomans, and deployed soldiers who participated in the deportations of Armenians, Gauck had said.

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Input: I've been trying to talk about America's values and our interests and our security everywhere I can. QUESTION: Is that in pant — did you have a vision that you also have to remake America's brand? SECRETARY CLINTON: I think we — I think our brand was battered for a lot of reasons. We came into office in the midst of the economic crisis, which was very dangerous, and I thought that — and still do that confidence is a commodity, and we had to show confidence. We had to be making smart decisions.

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Input: “We have repeatedly called on the Syrian and Russian governments to abide by international humanitarian law and have urged Russia to conduct credible, independent investigations into its forces’ attacks on hospitals and other serious violations,” said Tirana Hassan. “All medical workers and all health facilities should be respected and protected instead of being targeted. The injured and sick people are stranded at the Turkish border or dying inside Syria because hospitals have become the new front line in the offensive on the northern part of the Aleppo Countryside governorate. There is no excuse for a government to prevent people from accessing medical care. There is no excuse for deliberately targeting hospital after hospital.”

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Input: I surely consider Iran as a regional power. I believe that France must change its foreign policies, and if it tends to fight the real terrorist, it should take Iran and Russia as its main allies. After the recent event in France, I recommended several times to negotiate with Iran over the issue of terrorism. This country can certainly help us very much regarding this problem. Iran has considerable influence in the region and can deal with most of our problems.

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Input: A special agent assigned to the NSA counterintelligence division also had discovered additional e-mails with Snowden expressing his concerns. This contradicts numerous claims by various figures in the government who stated Snowden had n’t tried to resolve his concerns privately. But not only do the documents Vice News acquired show that did occur, but the revelations that they may have lied about this sparked panic up the ranks. The information contained in the more than 800 pages of documents paints a deceptive picture of those within the government handling the Snowden revelations. From the White House press secretary to various leaders within the National Security Agency, there has been an effort to deceive the people about the handling of the entire situation.

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Input: He helped lead the CIA when it was carrying out drone missile assassinations and other forms of covert state terrorism. Throughout his tenure in Langley, Virginia, the CIA was engaged in war crimes in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Syria and many other countries. After Morell left the agency, Obama appointed him to the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, which prepared a whitewash of National Security Agency spying following the revelations by Edward Snowden. He then moved seamlessly to a position as a well-paid media commentator for CBS News, while joining the campaign of former CIA officials to block the release of the Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture. That such an individual comes out publicly in support of Hillary Clinton says a great deal about the nature of the Democratic presidential campaign and the type of administration Clinton will head in the event that she wins the November election.

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Input: On April 14, a U.S. Air Force RC-135U Combat Sent electronic intelligence gathering aircraft flying a routine mission (in international airspace) over the Baltic Sea was intercepted by a Russian Su-27 in “an unsafe and unprofessional manner,” Navy Capt. Danny Hernandez, U.S. European Command spokesman told the CNN. According to EUCOM, the Flanker began the barrel roll from the left side of the U.S. RC-135 and went over the top of it to end on the right side of the aircraft, an aggressive maneuver (not compliant with the international standards) that brought the Russian jet dangerously close to colliding with the Combat Sent. The episode comes few days after Russian Su-24s performed several low passes over a U.S. destroyer in the Baltic Sea, and it’s only the last in a long series of tense close encounters between American spyplanes and Russian fighters in the skies across the world. On Jan. 25, 2016 a U.S. RC-135 intelligence gathering jet was intercepted by a Russian Su-27 Flanker fighter jet over Black Sea: during the interception, the Su-27 made an aggressive turn that disturbed the controllability of the RC-135.

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Input: It is used by many popular email programs, including Gmail, but about half of the 23,000 messages came from programs that do n’t use the security system, or did n’t at the time, and thus could not be assessed one way or the other. The WikiLeaks Podesta emails have prompted a storm of controversy, beginning in August when it was revealed the Democratic National Committee, under its then-chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was biased against the insurgent presidential campaign of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign the day before the Democratic National Convention nominated Clinton. More recently, Donna Brazile, who succeeded Wasserman Schultz, claimed she was being “persecuted” when asked about a Podesta email describing her receiving a debate question in advance from CNN, which she then relayed to the Clinton campaign. In a recent interview with Fox News’s Megyn Kelly, Brazile claimed the email was “doctored.”

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Input: I'm never voting for a political dynasty that incarcerated more Americans than any presidency in history, because unlike Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders doesn't take prison lobbyist donations and addressed prison reform long before 2016. I'm never voting for a person I consider a liar. If you consider me a liar for my support of Warren, Webb and O'Malley before Sanders, or even an article on a Republican I wrote simply to protest perpetual wars, then don't vote for me when I run for president. Yes, Clinton supporters rely on a childish and dangerous form of moral relativism, blissfully ignoring the irony that on each topic, their candidate is worse than the morally relative comparison. But Sanders supported the F-35!

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Input: Here he delivered a rambling letter in Arabic making a number of demands, including to meet with a European Union representative and for the release of female prisoners in Egypt." There was no logical consistency for the demands to be taken seriously," Kasoulides said. It all came to a dramatic end when Mustafa surrendered at Larnaca airport with his hands in the air at 1 pm. Hijacker Mustafa hands letter to flight attendant to be delivered to his ex-wife. Photo: Twitter / The Cairo Post

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Input: But those jobs would pale — both in terms of financial reward and degree of difficulty — to the gig to which Akhmetov referred Manafort and his team: returning Yanukovych to power. A former trucking official who had been convicted and incarcerated as a teenager for serious crimes, Yanukovych had become a popular symbol of the corruption that plagues Ukraine after his team tried to rig the 2004 presidential election. A series of protests, which became known as the Orange Revolution, forced a re-vote, which Yanukovych lost. While Manafort initially protested that Yanukovych was too deeply flawed to revive, Akhmetov eventually prevailed upon his American consultant to help Yanukovych and his political party, the Party of Regions, try to make a comeback in the 2006 parliamentary elections. Manafort and his team, including Kilimnik, set about to recast Yanukovych as an inspiring leader who could work with the West.

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Input: "The democratic order in Turkey must be respected. Everything needs to be done to protect human lives," Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Twitter. Ties between Turkey and Germany-vital partners in efforts to curb mass migration to Europe-have been strained since Germany passed a resolution in June branding the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide. Ankara recalled its ambassador and threatened unspecified retaliation. Iran, a Shi'ite Muslim nation which has long been a regional rival to Sunni majority Turkey, said on Friday it was deeply concerned about the crisis in the neighboring country.

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Input: South Korean employees working at the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) change their license plate authorized by North Korea to a South Korea one as they arrive at the South's CIQ (Customs, Immigration and Quarantine), just south of the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, South Korea, February 11, 2016. REUTERS / Lim Byong-sik / Yonhap South Korean vehicles transporting employees working at the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) wait to pass the gateway at the South's CIQ (Customs, Immigration and Quarantine), just south of the demilitarised zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, South Korea, February 11, 2016. REUTERS / Lim Byong-sik / Yonhap SEOUL South Korea and the United States are expected to begin talks next week on possible deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system following North Korea's recent rocket launch, officials said on Friday, as Seoul cut power to a factory park run jointly with the North.

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Input: Fiat Chrysler spokesman Eric Mayne said the company would conduct a "thorough investigation" of Yelchin's accident." It is premature to speculate on its cause at this time," he added. Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Jane Kim said on Monday that investigators were aware of the recall issue with the Jeep and were looking at whether that played any role in the fatality. Yelchin, a 27-year -old Russian native, would be the first death reported to be linked to the defect. In 2014, a U.S. study said nearly 100 people were killed and 2,000 injured annually from vehicles that rolled away between 2008 and 2011.

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Input: Several officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss Russian capabilities and recent high-level White House meetings on Syria, Iraq and the Islamic State, including a Friday gathering of the National Security Council chaired by President Obama. The NSC session largely focused on the Mosul offensive begun against the Islamic State this week, and an upcoming operation against the militants in the city of Raqqa, their Syrian headquarters. Consideration of other alternatives, including the shipment of arms to U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in Syria, and an increase in the quantity and quality of weapons supplied to opposition fighters in Aleppo and elsewhere, were deferred until later, officials said. U.S. military action to stop Syrian and Russian bombing of civilians was even further down the list of possibilities. Another senior official dismissed what he called Moscow’s “yard sale approach” of displaying all available systems to attract potential purchasers, and said last month’s S-300 deployment did not much change Russian capabilities from where they have been over the past year.

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Input: He added the two countries were:" providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL and other radical Sunni groups in the region ". The email between the two Democrats showed they wished to shift policy also with regard to Turkey, giving their full backing to Kurdish allies in the region." Armed with proper equipment, and working with US advisors, the Peshmerga [Kurdish rebel forces] can attack the ISIL with a coordinated assault," Podesta explained. In the past a deal with Turkish general staff had stopped the US arming Kurdish rebels with heavy weapons." The current situation in Iraq, not to mention the political environment in Turkey, makes this policy obsolete," he wrote.

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Input: In a Democratic debate in October, Clinton said Snowden should return and be put on trial. Bernie Sanders, now the only other Democratic contender, agreed, though he said he thought Snowden “played a very important role in educating the American public”. In 2013, Trump implied that Snowden should be executed. In March, he said the US should get Snowden back from Russia because he is a spy. The Kremlin said it would not entertain such a plan.

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Input: Trump has cited the 2013 Miss Universe contest as proof he possesses serious foreign policy experience. In May, he told Fox News, “I know Russia well. I had a major event in Russia two or three years ago, which was a big, big incredible event.” And it provided the reality television mogul the opportunity to hobnob with a Putin crony who is now under US sanctions, various oligarchs who are chums with the Russian leader, and an alleged Russian mafioso accused by the US government of protecting a global criminal enterprise that operated directly below one of Trump’s own apartments in Trump Tower. What a small world.

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Input: Our media is lazy and chooses to focus mostly on Clinton's involvement in Iraq and Libya. Yet as Secretary of State she was active behind the scenes in helping to initiate several policies that didn't become law or practice until years later. For example, in 2011 then Secretary of State Clinton visited the country of Myanmar where she met with Nobel Prize winner Aung Sang Suu Kyi, who had recently been freed after having been detained for twenty years for speaking against the military junta that had controlled the country for nearly a half-century. Clinton also used her trip to call for the release of political prisoners and to encourage the country to engage in democratic reforms. Just over four years later in November of 2015, Kyi's National League for Democracy Party (NLD) won its first-ever national election and Kyi is set to be the party head despite being formally barred from having an official position by her political opposition.

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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: There are eight weeks to go before the US presidential election, and the rhetoric and anger appears to be increasing on the campaign trail and off. In recent days supporters of Donald Trump have physically clashed with protestors demonstrating against the Republican candidate, and one hung a representation of Democratic rival Hillary Clinton from a noose. Meanwhile, white supremacist David Duke heaped praise on Trump’s running mate Michael Pence, after Pence refused to call him “deplorable” in a Sept. 12 interview. In Asheville, North Carolina, a 69-year -old woman with an oxygen tank, who was part of a crowd of hundreds of protestors, was punched in the face by a Trump supporter outside a rally on Sept. 12. Shirley Teter told the local ABC affiliate she had told a Trump supporter that he should learn to speak Russian if Trump wins.

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Input: View of the hole from the “storage space” where Dr. Rodchenkov and his colleagues worked. View of the hole from the official urine sample collection room. Photographs by Grigory Rodchenkov, via Bryan Fogel, Icarus Documentary Film The urine sample bottles, manufactured by Berlinger, a Swiss company, were designed so that they could not be opened without breaking the cap once the bottle had been sealed. When it is time to test the urine sample, the cap is removed by breaking it into two parts with tools or machines sold by Berlinger. Unique 7-digit code Security cap locks by pushing down while screwing it on.

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Input: The U.S. and the UK have a special, deep relationship that will continue." White House spokesman Eric Schultz added that the administration was "working through" how the "Brexit" vote would affect the TTIP talks." If we have to start negotiating separately with the United Kingdom, that's going to start from a different vantage point, especially because we've had years of progress." Schultz said that U.S.-U.K. economic ties "remain strong and vibrant as they have been, and the special relationship had not suffered because of the vote. The more conciliatory tone" is about stabilizing the economic situation," said Heather Conley, European Program Director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

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Input: Mrs. Clinton’s record of service to children, women and families has spanned her adult life. One of her boldest acts as first lady was her 1995 speech in Beijing declaring that women’s rights are human rights. After a failed attempt to overhaul the nation’s health care system, she threw her support behind legislation to establish the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which now covers more than eight million lower-income young people. This year, she rallied mothers of gun-violence victims to join her in demanding comprehensive background checks for gun buyers and tighter reins on gun sales. After opposing driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants during the 2008 campaign, she now vows to push for comprehensive immigration legislation as president and to use executive power to protect law-abiding undocumented people from deportation and cruel detention.

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Input: “If you talk about those fighters, ideological fighters, or terrorists, let’s say, who are fighting our army, the only way is to fight them and kill them. You do n’t have any other way. They are not ready for any dialogue, and you do n’t have time to make dialogue, you want to protect your citizens, so you have to kill them,” the Syrian leader said.

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Input: It was widely known that she used a private, unsecure email. How is that not grossly negligent? Granted, I’m not a lawyer, but 18 U.S. Code 1924 — “Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material” — clearly states that anyone who “knowingly removes” materials “without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both.” Perhaps a prosecution would have been tough, but everything Comey laid out in his press conference — until the very end — only substantiated that Hillary had nonchalantly mishandled classified information. The case also speaks to trust of government. Comey claimed that he put on this unusual press conference because a high-impact case deserves extraordinary transparency.

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Input: Trump inherited Bank Melli, one of Iran’s largest state-controlled banks, as a tenant when he purchased the General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, … The Trump Organization kept the bank on as a tenant for four more years after the U.S. Treasury Department designated Bank Melli in 1999 as being controlled by the Iranian government. U.S. officials later alleged that Bank Melli had been used to obtain sensitive materials for Iran’s nuclear program. U.S. authorities also alleged that the bank had been used between 2002 and 2006 to funnel money to a unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that has sponsored terrorist attacks — a period that overlapped with the time the bank rented office space from Trump.” -- Creepy -- > “Inside Trump’s Surveillance Operations,” by Buzzfeed's Aram Roston: “The suburban house on Water Mark Place in Sterling, Virginia, does n’t look like a [Trump] residence: no classical columns, no gold accents. But sources say it has one feature, common to many Trump properties … an extensive and closely-monitored surveillance system.” Trump’s adjacent golf club also has an extensive web of surveillance cameras that is “far beyond” what is routine for a golf club, former employees said.

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Input: The statement was part of medical information Clinton's campaign released Wednesday after her pneumonia diagnosis last week. The campaign says that Clinton's physician found that the remainder of the Democratic presidential nominee's complete physical exam was "normal" and she is in "excellent mental condition." Dr. Lisa Bardack adds that Clinton is "recovering well with antibiotics and rest" after she became overheated, dehydrated and felt dizzy at a 9/11 memorial ceremony on Sunday. Clinton's aides say she'll return to the campaign trail on Thursday. _ _ _

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Input: I want to talk about some questions I have that might still get answered, or hopefully the FBI will speak to ultimately. Let’s start with the fact that when we talk about this investigation, most of us, including myself, think about this in the context of her time as Secretary of State. However, some of the most potentially damaging decisions she made was as a private citizen while still possessing the server full of classified materials from her time as Secretary of State. Including her unilateral decision to destroy over 30,000 emails without any government review. But, /u / nebraskagunowner “she had no classified materials on her server, it was all retroactively classified!” Let’s start with the fact that we have n’t seen half of what she had on her server, or what has been withheld from the public.

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Input: Whatever is faster,” Podesta replied. The staff crafted Clinton’s response tweet, which was posted later that day: “You've got it backwards: Engagement is a threat to the Castros, not a gift. Embargo has n’t worked for 50 + years. -H” The campaign also discussed ways to turn Rubio’s hardline Cuba policy against him.

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Input: “But we live in fear that they’re going to have a coup, that jihadists are going to take over the government, they’re going to get access to nuclear weapons, and you’ll have suicide nuclear bombers. So, this could not be a more threatening scenario.” The United States, Mrs. Clinton said, needs to “do everything we can” to restrain the competitions, including exploring new treaties with Moscow that would go beyond the New Start treaty of 2010, which she helped negotiate. Mrs. Clinton proceeded to praise Mr. Perry, saying the more he spoke out publicly and joined with Republican statesmen in trying to curb nuclear arms, “the better off we’ll be in trying to really cut this off.’ “This is going to be a big issue,” she added.

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Input: Opposition activists have blamed the President Bashar Assad's forces and Russia for airstrikes that hit Civil Defense units and clinics in the city where eastern rebel-held neighborhoods are besieged by government forces and pro-government militiamen. Related: Syrian Rebels Guardedly Agree on Truce, but Battles Persist On Friday, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders demanded that the Syrian government and its allies "halt the indiscriminate bombing that has killed and wounded hundreds of civilians — many of them children," over the past week in Aleppo. It said from Sept. 21 to 26, hospitals still functioning in Aleppo reported receiving more than 822 wounded, including at least 221 children, and more than 278 dead bodies, including 96 children, according to the Directorate of Health in east Aleppo. In the eastern province of Deir el-Zour, warplanes of the U.S.-led coalition destroyed several bridges on the Euphrates river, according to Syrian state news agency SANA and Deir el-Zour 24, an activist media collective.

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Input: Mr Putin’s name, they note, does not appear in the Mossack Fonseca documents. Questions about how the president’s old friend, the cellist Sergei Roldugin, came into such enormous wealth are dismissed as “Putinophobia”. Andrey Kostin, head of the state-run bank VTB, which allegedly made loans to Mr Roldugin through a Cypriot subsidiary, called the notion of Mr Putin’s involvement “bullshit”. The documents may prove far more damaging for Mr Putin’s counterpart in Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko. A confectionery magnate known as the “Chocolate King”, Mr Poroshenko promised to sell his company, Roshen, after winning the presidency in May 2014.

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Input: Yet, recently and quite publicly, you remarked that U.S. citizen and Indiana-born Judge Gonzalo Curiel's Mexican heritage presents a conflict of interest in his ability to preside over lawsuits related to your Trump University business because you are "building a wall." House Speaker Paul Ryan quickly called your observation “the textbook definition of a racist comment.” What do you think about General and Secretary of State Colin Powell, whose parents immigrated from Jamaica, or former Army intelligence officer, Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Leon Panetta, whose family immigrated from Italy? And we all remember you launching your presidential campaign by calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists. Do you think the same thing about Alfred Rascon, a Mexican native who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for his courageous actions during the Vietnam War?

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Input: The family of Tymoshenko, who was prime minister from 2007 to 2010, asked for help when she was jailed following an election defeat in 2010. When he learned about the covert lobbying campaign that opposed him, Slattery said that he was disappointed but not surprised. He said he hopes the U.S. government will look more closely at whether such behavior violated federal laws." You don't want to be the only person in town complying with the law," he said. _ _ _

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Input: EgyptAir operates from a hub at Cairo International Airport and is based in Heliopolis, Egypt. It offers passenger and freight services to more than 75 destinations. In March, EgyptAir Flight 181 en route to Cyprus was hijacked by a passenger claiming to be wearing a suicide belt. The hijacker surrendered at Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus and all passengers were released safely. No one was hurt in the incident, which Cypriot authorities said was not terrorism related.

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Input: Hillary Clinton's assertion to the grieving mother of a Benghazi, Libya, victim that the deadly 2012 assault was caused by an anti-Islam video was as "true" as the fact it was a terror strike, according to ex-CIA acting director Michael Morell. In an interview Sunday with ABC News ' "This Week," Morell said "the video did play a role in that attack, and Republicans don't want people to believe that."

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Input: DOCUMENT: King of Jordan Abdullah II condolences letter on the death of @PresidentPeres pic.twitter.com/a1b4QFDK4j — Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) September 29, 2016 The matter of Abbas ' participation in the funeral has been under discussion in his office since the morning, said sources close to Abbas. Abbas is insistent that he wants to participate in the funeral due to its international importance and the presence of numerous world leaders, even if his decision draws broad public criticism from Palestinians, they said. Abbas ' decision to attend the funeral has placed the Arab political parties in Israel, in particular the Joint List as well as the Arab Higher Monitoring Committee, in an uncomfortable position. They have mostly remained quiet about Peres ' death, and do not plan to participate in his funeral because of Peres ' history in defense matters and his Zionism, which they say have had effects on the Palestinian people-while the senior Palestinian leadership, headed by Abbas, who is also the head of the PLO, will take part in the funeral.

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Input: Advertisement However, the Islamic State has now set up a new defensive line east of Jabboul Lake. By doing so, ISIS commanders intend to prevent the Syrian Arab Army from capturing Deir Hader, Tabqa Airbase and Jirah Airbase. If the aforementioned sites are lost to the Syrian Government, ISIS will be expelled from northern Syria and will be forced to set up a desperate last stance defence at ar-Raqqah city itself. Ar-Raqqah is the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State and as such, its loss will prove an intolerable blow to the moral of ISIS fighters across the Middle East.

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Input: The American public, on the other hand, is much more in favor of an American-centric policy, this view being held by 61 percent of U.S. citizens. WIN-GIA / CVoter conducted the global poll exploring the outlook, expectations, views and beliefs of 44,194 people from 45 countries. In each country, a representative sample of around 1,000 people were interviewed in person, via telephone, online or a combination of those methods. The field work was conducted during August and September. The margin of error is 3 to 5 percentage points.

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Input: It was the trophy of a Boston-area nursing home magnate, until he lost his fortune in 2004. That’s when Donald Trump scooped it up. After paying $ 41 million for the place in November 2004, Trump called it “the finest piece of land in Florida, and probably the U.S.” He vowed to upgrade the structure into “the second-greatest house in America.” (Second, of course, to his nearby Mar-a-Lago resort.) But Trump had no intention of living there. He intended to flip it for a quick — and huge — profit.

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Input: FACT: If the above did n’t make it clear, the tension between the “States’ Rights” Conservatives of the Southern Bloc and the Rest of the Democratic party essentially starts 1789 with tension in the anti-Federalist party, continues to Jackson, splits the party in Civil War, does n’t exactly help Bryan, results in Wilson, and is part of the story of FDR, but it really picked up steam after WWII over Brown v. the Board. From there we start getting the “States’ Rights” third parties. Then Civil Rights 1964 and Voting Rights 1965 is the tipping point. Yes, many Republicans voted for Civil Rights and Voting Rights. Indeed.

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Input: NC / GETTY BACK IN ACTION: The Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre has reportedly reopened However, North Korea’s WMD factory is supposed to be the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre, 200 miles from Kilju. On the other hand, the sickness could come from simple mining – North Korea digs the uranium enriched at Yongbyon right out the earth. Propaganda describes the North’s uranium supply as "infinite" and it is known that prisoners in North Korean concentration camps are forced to mine. One such facility, Hwasong Concentration Camp, sits less than 10 miles from the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site on Mount Mantap.

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