Input: Russia is one of Greece's main trading partners, but business has been hit by the sanctions and a drop in commodity prices. Greece is also keen to reverse a slump in tourist arrivals from Russia last year, and attract interest from Russian companies in the planned privatization of rail and other transport services. Alexis Tsipras, the Greek prime minister, noted that Putin's visit comes just days after Athens reached a deal with eurozone bailout creditors to continue rescue loans, under a deal that expands power of a state privatization committee." Improving relations with Russia on multiple levels is a strategic choice," Tsipras said." Of course ... when the disagreements exceed our powers, we can act a positive influence within the EU and NATO."

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Input: In 1971, a year after he won the Nobel Prize for literature, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn survived a poisoning attempt. Ricin, made from castor beans, was probably involved, according to news media accounts and a biography of the dissident writer. Ukraine’s former pro-Western president, Viktor A. Yushchenko, was left with his face disfigured after a dioxin poisoning — most likely concealed in a meal of boiled crayfish — that Mr. Yushchenko attributed to Russian assassins. The attempt on Mr. Kara-Murza’s life turned out to be one of those mistakes, though that was not immediately certain. As his colleagues looked on surprised, Mr. Kara-Murza’s sweat-covered head flopped down onto a table.

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Input: The Trump campaign began the day by pulling back planned Sunday show appearances from campaign manager Kellyanne Conway and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. Giuliani said on “Fox News Sunday” that Conway is still a strong Trump supporter and attributed her absence to “scheduling.” Conway later flew with Trump to St. Louis. Giuliani said none of Trump’s inner circle would defend his comments but said his apology should be viewed as sincere — and that he’s likely to reissue it in the debate. “I think he made a full and complete apology for it,” he said. “I think he’s going to do it again tonight.”

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Input: “The airstrikes intensified on 1 February. The next day at 8.30am the centre was targeted by a missile. I was on my way to work when I saw and heard the explosion. When I arrived I saw the driver’s body at the entrance, two patients and five from the medical team severely injured. We had to transfer them outside of Anadan.

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Input: The verification regime which is starting to roughly resemble Swiss cheese, you could drive a truck through some of these holes and I am very concerned about that … .The entire zeitgeist of the agreement at this point seems to very much favor the Iranians in pursuing the bomb. One year after the implementation of the nuclear agreement, Stavridis’ concerns appear to have been off-base. Since implementation, and while being subjected to the inspections regime, Iran removed 14,000 centrifuges, filled the core of its plutonium reactor with concrete, and shipped almost all of its uranium gas to Russia. But critiquing the Iran deal was n’t Stavridis’ only criticism of the administration. In 2014, Stavridis appeared on Frank Gaffney’s radio show, Secure Freedom Radio.

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Input: They ought to be in jail for these things.” While it’s understandable that a libertarian would n’t want to vote for a war hawk and crony capitalist like Clinton, Paul emphasized the importance of voting for Donald Trump instead of Gary Johnson. Paul said he signed a document giving his word that he’d support the Republican nominee, and urged other voters to support the candidate they agree with the most, even if he’s not their first choice. When it comes to Johnson, Paul said, he’s polling well for a Libertarian candidate but it’s not realistic to believe he has any chance of winning and a vote for him only helps Clinton, especially in key swing states. Watch the clips below:

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Input: Cruz and other critics had argued the transfer could lead to authoritarian countries taking control of the internet and eventually censoring content throughout the world." Imagine an internet run like many Middle Eastern countries that punish what they deem to be blasphemy," Cruz said at a congressional hearing on September 14." Or imagine an internet run like China or Russia that punish and incarcerate those who engage in political dissent." "When ICANN escapes from [US] government authority," Cruz said," ICANN escapes from having to worry about the First Amendment, from having to worry about protecting your rights or my rights." But ICANN said such fears were uninformed.

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Input: The city of Bakhchisaray, Crimea’s onetime capital, and adjacent villages with a Tatar majority, ignored the vote, they said." I am not going to the election, because this is not my government and not my country," Nariman Dzhelyalov, deputy chairman of the Mejlis, an informal Tatar parliament that was outlawed by Moscow, said in a statement. Dozens of Tatars have been detained, arrested, searched and harassed by Russian authorities since the 2014 annexation. Mirovalev is a special correspondent. ALSO

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Input: “Trump’s ideology is one of rejecting the destructive globalism of the last few years in favor of a healthy American isolationism,” one prominent pro-Kremlin commentator declared on prime-time TV, adding that Trump’s declaration of intent to work with Putin infuriates American “globalists.” The Kremlin is clearly happy to see a Republican candidate who preaches disbanding NATO (or throwing it into debtors prison) and advocates an American retreat from the world stage. If America retreats, Russia advances, nipping at its heels. See, for example, Syria. If America’s role in the world shrinks, Russia’s role in the world grows.

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Input: The footage bore the extremist group’s al-Furqan media logo and showed the destruction of churches and desecration of religious symbols. A masked fighter made a statement threatening Christians who did not convert to Islam or pay a special tax. 29/40 2015-May Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of Isis has been "incapacitated" by a spinal injuries sustained in a US air strike in Iraq. He is being treated in a hideout by two doctors from Isis’ stronghold of Mosul who are said to be "strong ideological supporters of the group". 30/40 2015-May Isis has also claimed responsibility for killing 300 of Yazidi captives, including women, children and elderly people in Iraq AP

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Input: Barakat decided to escape the country, but not before securing the minutes of the meetings, which were stored in the members’ offices. He also planned to steal correspondence between the Crisis Cell and the Presidential office, the Prime Minister, and the minister of the interior. On a day off, Barakat ransacked the offices, taking as many documents as he could, before driving some two hundred and fifty miles north from Damascus, to the Turkish border. Syrian troops controlled the crossing point. But, with more than a thousand pages taped to his body, Barakat managed to slip through and check into a hotel under a false name before anyone in Damascus realized that he was gone.

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Input: The US embargo has been in place for decades, in various forms, and has had no discernible effect on Cuba's human rights record. It is currently opposed by 97 percent of the world's countries as well as a majority of Americans. There are very good reasons why Barack Obama is working to end the embargo. But Rubio's line is incredibly popular with a key Republican constituency in Florida: conservative Cuban Americans like Rubio himself. Rubio understands the state he represents, and wielded that knowledge effectively against Trump at Thursday's debate.

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Input: At the corner of Temple and New High streets, the lynch party tied a noose around the old man's neck and hauled him up." The rope broke and the unfortunate wretch, innocent of any wrong, asked for mercy from his cruel tormentors. This was denied with jeers, and he was again hung up; this time successfully." As readers of Reason know, the first mass exclusions on the basis of country of origin (then as now a proxy for protean categories of race) covered the Chinese in a law titled with unabashed descriptiveness: The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. (Read Erika Lee's recent history The Making of Asian America for more.)

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Input: It works without a follow-up. But with follow-up, it can be devastating. (Daily News: “Where would a President Sanders imprison, interrogate? What would you do?” Sanders: “Actually I have n’t thought about it a whole lot.”) Trump’s charisma has been hard to quell.

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Input: And everybody took it fine. Whether it was presidential or not I ca n’t tell you. I can just say that what he said was a lie. And everybody, they wanted to do stories on my hands; after I said that, they never did. And then I held up the hand, I showed people the hand.

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Input: And I think that was a terrible mistake. I think giving the money back was a terrible mistake. And by the way they are not using the money on us, they are not buying anything from us, they’re buying, you noticed, they did n’t buy Boeing, they bought Airbus, 118 planes from what I understand, but they bought them all from Airbus, they go out of their way not to spend any money in our country. So I would n’t have done that. And I think it’s going to just lead, actually, to nuclear problems.

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Input: Sadly, the Mendoza family is just one of thousands who have suffered the same fate. Here's an excerpt from Mrs. Mendoza's letter: Hillary Clinton, who already has the blood of so many on her hands, is now announcing that she is willing to put each and every one of our lives in harm's way. An open-door policy to criminals and terrorists to enter our country. Hillary is not concerned about you or I.

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Input: “What the Clinton campaign is doing at the moment is trying to say, ‘Well, OK, yes, maybe we’re committed to arms dealers and to Saudi Arabia, and yes, maybe we subverted the integrity of the Democratic primary, etc., etc., but you’ll just have to swallow that. You’ll just have to swallow that, or else you’ll get Donald Trump,’” he said. “That’s a form of extortion,” Mr. Assange told the enthusiastic crowd from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, where he has lived since being granted asylum amid sexual assault charges. That message may be taking hold with voters like Angelica Duanes, a Sanders supporter from Los Angeles who attended the convention. “I am still a Democrat but I guess you could say we’re a flight risk, so we’re really looking at our options now,” Ms. Duanes told Russia Today television.

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Input: It was a stirring tale, an example of how “hard choices” can yield happy outcomes — except the story got much messier just before Clinton’s memoir was published. Tacked onto her memoir’s section on South Sudan is a sentence that reads like a last-minute addition: “In late 2013, tribal divisions and personal feuds erupted in a spasm of violence that threatens to tear the country apart.” Those “tribal divisions and personal feuds” spiraled into a civil war pitting the forces led by Kiir — a member of the country’s largest tribe, the Dinka — against those loyal to Riek Machar, the vice president he had sacked earlier in 2013 and an ethnic Nuer — the second-largest tribe in the country. Kiir said the violence stemmed from an abortive coup by Machar, but a comprehensive investigation by an African Union commission found no evidence of one. It did find evidence that “Dinka soldiers, members of presidential guard, and other security forces conducted house-to-house searches, killing Nuer soldiers and civilians in and near their homes” in Juba.

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Input: He was never heard from again. In 1957, the Soviet Union released a document saying Wallenberg had been jailed in the Lubyanka prison, the notorious building where the KGB security services were headquartered, and that he died of heart failure on July 17, 1947. But the account has been questioned, with some historians maintaining Wallenberg was executed. In 2000, the head of a Russian commission of investigation conceded Wallenberg had been imprisoned in 1947 for political reasons by KGB agents in Lubyanka, where he eventually died, but declined to provide hard evidence or elaborate on the circumstances of his death. The evidence ultimately came to light when the diary of the first KGB chief, Ivan A. Serov, was published in Russia in June.

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Input: Rattansi: If there is any illegality in the pending emails you will release or malfeasance in what you already released President Obama could presumably act on it and get Hillary Clinton charged? Regardless of whether you are about to release any email which would mean that James Comey and the FBI would have no alternative but to arrest Hillary Clinton? Assange: Our view which we have already stated is if the evidence that the FBI has is enough for a grand jury to indict already … But a prosecutor has to ask a grand jury to indict. And if a prosecutor does n’t ask, a grand jury wo n’t indict. But our next leak can bring her down because it is something that FBI ca n’t overlook! Rattansi: When will be the date when you will release this leak?

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Input: Mrs. Clinton champions the use of executive agreements in lieu of treaties to circumvent the constitutional requirement of a two-thirds Senate majority for ratification. A recent example was the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action to contain Iran’s nuclear ambitions. It was fashioned as an executive agreement because, as Secretary of State John Kerry told the House Judiciary Committee, “you ca n’t pass a treaty anymore.” In other words, if the President ca n’t get his way by complying with the Constitution, then the Constitution must be tortured to accommodate the President, i.e., to borrow from President Nixon to David Frost, “When the President does it, that means it is not illegal.” In flagrant violation of constitutional due process, Ms. Clinton also supports limitless presidential power to play prosecutor, judge, jury, and executioner to kill American citizens anywhere on the planet not engaged in hostilities that the president decrees based on secret, unsubstantiated information threatens national security. In exercising this awesome power, according to Clinton, the president is not accountable to any other person, branch of government, or to the public.

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Input: Desperate people who try to flee have been injured or killed by bullets or by land mines planted around the town, he added. According to Hassan Abu Shadi, a rescue worker in Madaya, one or two people have been dying daily of hunger over the past week, since snow fell on the mountain town and blanketed the last remaining vegetation. This undated photo posted by the Local Revolutionary Council in Madaya, which has been verified and is consistent with other Associated Press reporting, shows a starving boy in Madaya, Syria. (AP) “We were eating leaves and grass, but these days there are no more leaves because of the snow,” he said, speaking by telephone.

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Input: U.S. officials bridle at the way such talk muddles their carefully orchestrated message of U.S.-Europe unity against Putin's aggression. And they say Berlusconi, who remains close to Putin, still does his share of the troublemaking. During an October 2014 international summit in Milan, the Russian dropped in on Berlusconi's villa for a nightcap at 1:30 a.m. that reportedly lasted beyond 3 a.m. On a trip to Rome the next year, Putin again dropped in on his Italian friend, who pledged to use his enduring political influence to push for an end to European sanctions against Russia — and later publicly pledged to help “convince our American friends that the return to the atmosphere of the Cold War is inadmissible.” Most memorably, perhaps, the two men paid a joint visit in September to Crimea — itself a political statement, given the landmass ' disputed status. While touring a winery, the two men were shown several bottles of a dust-covered 1775 vintage wine imported during the reign of Catherine the Great.

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Input: Hide Caption 22 of 29 Photos: San Bernardino shooting A woman is wheeled away on a stretcher. Hide Caption 23 of 29 Photos: San Bernardino shooting People are moved away from the area by bus. Hide Caption 24 of 29 Photos: San Bernardino shooting Police and fire personnel are seen near the site of the shooting. Hide Caption 25 of 29 Photos: San Bernardino shooting A crowd gathers behind the police line. Hide Caption 26 of 29 Photos: San Bernardino shooting Ambulances pull out of a staging area near the Inland Regional Center.

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Input: After the Orlando mass shooting that left 49 dead at an LGBT nightclub, Trump used a major speech the next day to claim Hillary Clinton is n’t a real LGBT supporter. He made the case that his proposed ban on Muslims entering the country is what’s really needed to stop massacres like Orlando. Trump pointed out that the killer, Omar Mateen — who was born in the Unites States — has parents who immigrated here from Afghanistan. “The bottom line is that the only reason the killer was in America in the first place, was because we allowed his family to come here,” said Trump at the time. The FBI has said it can find no direct link between Mateen and ISIS, even though Mateen pledged allegiance to the terrorists’ leadership during 911 phone calls during the shooting spree.

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Input: Although Lonina told police she was trying to record the assault as evidence, her behavior as people watching via Periscope "liked" the assault painted a different picture, O'Brien said." She got, I guess, taken up with all the ' likes ' that her livestream was getting and therefore continued to do it, and did nothing to aid the victim," O'Brien said. Independent of the rape count, Lonina is also charged with livestreaming her friend nude the day before the assault, which is a felony, O'Brien said. The Franklin County prosecutor told WBNS he has handled many sexual assault cases in his career, but never anything like this one." Technology has moved us into an area that is sometimes beyond belief," he said.

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Input: The United Nations and the Organization of American States (OAS) called the ouster a military coup, but the White House and Clinton’s State Department were loath to call it such — despite the fact that a cable from the Honduran Embassy said, “The Embassy perspective is that there is no doubt that the military, Supreme Court and national congress conspired on June 28 in what constituted an illegal and unconstitutional coup.” Instead of condemning the figures behind the uprising, suspending support to the illegitimate government of Zelaya’s successor, Roberto Micheletti, and demanding a restoration of the democratically elected Zelaya, Secretary Clinton decided to move on. In her memoir “Hard Choices,” Clinton wrote that after the coup, she went about hatching a plan with other leaders in the region “to restore order in Honduras and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot.” The United States pushed for elections, and in November 2009, despite a boycott by opposition leaders and international observers, elections were orchestrated by the same figures behind Zelaya’s ouster. Since the coup, violence and assassinations, as well as persecutions of journalists and social justice advocates, have skyrocketed in Honduras. Last week’s high-profile murder of the Goldman prize-winning indigenous leader and environmental activist Berta Caceres is yet another tragic example of the abhorrent human rights record in Honduras under the government that came to power via the 2009 coup.

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Input: A number of Russian fans have been arrested and detained following the violence which led to French ambassador to Russia, Jean-Maurice Ripert, being summoned by Moscow. A number of English fans have also been jailed, deported and banned from France for their parts in the violence. England captain Wayne Rooney pleaded with fans to avoid the violence in a news conference on Monday as did manager Roy Hodgson after Uefa also threatened to kick England out. On Wednesday, 36 England supporters were arrested in Lille after clashes with French locals and police ahead of their match against Wales on Thursday, which they won 2-1. Additional reporting by the Press Association.

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Input: Rawlings said one of those held was an African American woman." Breaking: The chief said the gunman who engaged in the standoff "said he was upset about the recent police shootings." He was killed when police detonated an explosive. -- Trump just issued a statement calling this "an attack on our country": “It is a coordinated, premeditated assault on the men and women who keep us safe. We must restore law and order.

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Input: “It seems like he ca n’t decide what to do, he ca n’t decide on which side he is, he’s trying to be good for all, he’s trying to play his own game,” said Dmytro Anopchenko, a well-known Ukrainian journalist. Oksana Nechyporenko was among the protesters who hit the streets in late 2013 and early 2014 in Kiev, after the country’s then-president, Viktor Yanukovych, decided to abandon an economic agreement with the EU. The protests turned into a movement that ousted the government. Today Nechyporenko is active with organizations that are pushing for reforms in Ukraine, where corruption is rife. She gushes with gratitude for Vice President Joe Biden because of his strong interest in Ukraine.

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Input: I worked at the national level with a broad coalition of public health groups to clean up certain pesticides and to get them off the shelf, toxic pesticides that are poisonous for child development, Dursban in particular. At that point I realized, one down, hundreds more to go, and became very aware that we needed to change the system. Anyhow, that’s when I got recruited into electoral activism, but I come to this with a history of building coalitions to advance the public health, to promote good jobs. We actually worked on a referendum, I should mention as well, to promote jobs in clean renewable energy at the state level, at least to go on record that there was enormous public support for moving in that direction and shifting public subsidies from fossil fuels and other harmful large interests into sustainable development at the local level. So that’s the kind of experience I come with, building broad coalitions across many public interest groups in order to advance the public interest, and we’ve discovered in the process of this that our biggest obstacle is entrenched political power for advancing the public interest.

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Input: But there is no understating what is now happening: A political party that once campaigned almost exclusively on American power projection and national security has just given license to a revanchist adversary to sow mischief across its borders and face no serious repercussions. I’ve spent a lot of time in the Baltics recently, particularly Estonia where, even before Trump’s unprecedented comments, there was a great deal of anxiety that Americans would not be willing to “die for Narva,” a popular refrain one heard from the realist school of the Washington foreign policy establishment in the months following Putin’s seizure of Crimea. (Narva is an Estonian border city where ethnic Russians predominate, even if they have no desire to be invaded or annexed by their next-door neighbor.) Would Americans die for Narva? What an ugly and stupid question.

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Input: 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. A Russian passenger plane crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula in October, killing all 224 people on board.

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Input: 1. Hillary passionately defends abortion and thinks it’s a matter of justice and “rights” for women. Everything in Scripture leads us in the opposite direction: that life in the womb is precious to God, and the shed blood of innocents makes our Lord furious. Yet Hillary will ruthlessly eliminate abortion restrictions. She indicated that her limit is “up until the third trimester,” but Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser believes this rhetoric signals that Clinton would allow abortion right up until birth.

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Input: Peace Agreement to begin Monday The airstrikes came just days before a ceasefire that is scheduled to go into effect at sundown Monday. The Syrian regime announced its support of the ceasefire deal Saturday, according to the state-run TV. US Secretary of State John Kerry said the accord, announced after hours of talks in Geneva, would prevent Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's air force from flying combat missions anywhere the opposition is present, calling this provision the "bedrock of the agreement." He labeled the Syrian air force the "main driver of civilian casualties" and migrant flows.

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Input: I am telling again: first, you have to give an account of the Holocaust. How you decimated, killed over 100 thousand Namibians in Namibia, you should give an account of that,” he said, as cited by The Daily Sabah. Erdogan added that Germany is the “last country” to make judgements on genocide, given its “history of massacres.” The German Empire carried out racially-motivated mass killings of tens of thousands of Namibians during colonial wars waged on the territory of modern-day Namibia from 1904 to 1907. According to various estimates, between 24,000 and 100,000 ethnic Herero and 10,000 Nama tribal people died as a result of starvation, abuse, and diseases during the course of the warfare and in concentration camps.

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Input: On November 2010, Assange was requested to be extradited to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning concerning an allegation of rape. Assange denied the allegation and has expressed concern that he would be extradited from Sweden to the United States due to his perceived role in publishing secret American documents. After exhausting his legal options in the United Kingdom, Assange did not surrender for extradition. Rather, he sought and was granted asylum by Ecuador in August 2012. Assange has since remained in the Embassy of Ecuador in London, and is unable to leave without being arrested for breaching his bail conditions.

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Input: When a win in South Carolina gave Clinton a notable delegate lead over Sanders, the former NSA contractor tweeted his dissatisfaction with both front-runners, writing," 2016: a choice between Donald Trump and Goldman Sachs." It was a thinly veiled reference to Clinton's economic ties to Wall Street. Russia granted Snowden temporary asylum in 2013, and the controversial whistleblower has resided there ever since. Although he faces criminal charges in the United States for leaking classified information regarding global surveillance programs run by the NSA — two counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and theft of government property — there's nothing to legally hinder Snowden from voting in presidential elections until he is convicted, according to his lawyer. The former NSA contractor has said he voted for a third-party candidate during the 2008 election, and given his presumed disregard for both Clinton and Trump, he might choose to do the same this year.

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Input: Yoshinori Ohsumi, a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, reacts to winning the Nobel Prize. (Kyodo / via Reuters) -- The Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Japanese scientist Yoshinori Ohsumi for his work on a fundamental process for autophagy, or “cell recycling.” According to the Stockholm-based prize committee, his work involves a series of experiments using baker's yeast that helped expand our understanding of how cells adapt to starvation and respond to infection. (Ariana Eunjung Cha) -- First in the 202 – New Ann Kirkpatrick ad ties John McCain to Trump: With Trump heading to Arizona tomorrow and polls showing the presidential race somewhat close, the Democratic nominee for Senate has a new spot linking the GOP incumbent with his party’s presidential nominee.

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Input: “His father was with Lee Harvey Oswald prior to Oswald’s being — you know, shot. I mean, the whole thing is ridiculous. What is this, right prior to his being shot, and nobody even brings it up. They do n’t even talk about that. That was reported, and nobody talks about it.

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Input: That lack of excitement meshed with reactions from college students interviewed by The Hill at Longwood University the day the institution hosted last Tuesday’s vice presidential debate in the battleground state of Virginia. All Longwood five students who spoke with The Hill decried the negative tone of the campaign, saying it has hurt their peers’ perception of the candidates. All of these interviews came before the release of the vulgar video by The Washington Post, which showed Trump talking about trying to bed a married woman and argue that women will let him "do anything" to them because he's famous. “This whole back-and-forth, it takes away the importance of the issues,” said Tonisha Pitchford, a 21-year old senior from Richmond who voted for Obama in 2012. “I want to know what you are going to do to help me and help the country, not how bad someone looks or how this person is n’t paying their bills.”

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Input: Call it what you will, but Gerasimov makes some pretty valid points:" In the 21st century we have seen a tendency toward blurring the lines between the states of war and peace. Wars are no longer declared, and, having begun, proceed according to an unfamiliar template." He goes on to suggest that much of what the world has seen in the Arab Spring or the various Color Revolutions are no less a form of conflict than any other type of warfare, and proceeds to suggest how this whole dynamic can be put to deliberate use to topple governments and seize land. Warfare is violent, and folks spend enormous amounts of time, blood, and treasure trying to kill the unholy hell out of each other. But contrary to the experience of those fighting it, warfare isn't about violence per se.

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Input: The danger now is not from an open military conflict. Rather with troops deployed in big numbers, and with Russian jets routinely buzzing US aircraft carriers, and other assets, the greater danger is from an accident or collision. In September, a Dutch investigation concluded that it was a Buk missile smuggled across the border from Russia that shot down Flight MH17 in 2014, killing 298 people. For much of the 1990s, Nato had lost its rationale. In recent years, it has been short of cash.

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Input: Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will start in 8 Cancel Play now Khadiza's husband was an American national of Somali origin who died late last year. All three families were represented at the time of the schoolgirls ' disappearance by lawyer Tasnime Akunjee, who said:" Leaving Isis is like trying to escape from Alcatraz, with a shoot to kill order added in." It's devastating for the family that it ended like this." Perhaps the only benefit out of this is as a tombstone and a testimony for others of the risks of actually going to a warzone, to dissuade people from ever making that choice."

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Input: And that is exactly the case with Mr. Trump," Lukyanov told CNN. But of course a bromance between political leaders is not enough to improve bilateral relations. The U.S and Russia have had massive disagreements over Ukraine in particular, where America accuses Russia of funding, equipping and providing combat support to separatist rebels and demands the return of Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014. Russia, for its part, wants sanctions levied against it by the international community because of its meddling in Ukraine's affairs to be canceled. When Trump spoke about improving relations with Russia he didn't mention Ukraine or Crimea.

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Input: Trump’s plan is more pro-growth than Reagan’s and certainly dramatically more pro-growth than anything that George W. Bush put forward in his campaign. He also talked which Reagan did and Bush — gosh, if he did I never heard him — about the regulatory burden. We’re now looking at $ 1.8 trillion a year absorbed by regulatory costs in the United Stated States, which is more than people pay on their regular income taxes. The government screws with you more through regulatory burdens than through the personal income tax and while not everybody technically pays the personal income tax, we all pay the cost of the regulations which raise the price of everything in the country. That makes everything you buy more expensive, getting a first home more expensive, all of these challenges.

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Input: View all New York Times newsletters. The Clintons have made more than $ 120 million in speeches to Wall Street and special interests since Bill Clinton left the White House in 2001. Mrs. Clinton typically earned $ 225,000 for speeches, though she sometimes donated her fees to her family foundation. “I kind of think if you’re going to be paid $ 225,000 for a speech, it must be a fantastic speech,” Mr. Sanders said during the primary, “a brilliant speech which you would want to share with the American people.” As her race against Mr. Sanders — who now campaigns for Mrs. Clinton — grew unexpectedly contentious and close, Mrs. Clinton sought to portray herself as deeply skeptical of Wall Street and eager to punish its wayward leaders.

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Input: He has no problem speaking, ad nauseam, about how America can be more like Denmark. Yet he is n’t bold enough to say black people can get reparations just like Holocaust survivors or Japanese internment victims? On the economy, Sanders’ idealism on fighting Wall Street and advocacy for free public college education and universal health care does n’t seem to extend to acknowledging that black people need a special kind of economic boost to come as close as possible to the 40 acres and a mule we were promised after emancipation. Advertisement Those white young people who supported Sanders in huge numbers graduate college with heavy loads of debt, but black students finish with even more of it and fare far worse in the job market.

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Input: He was punching people. He was — one guy was, you know, I’d like to say — JO-ANN ARMAO, ASSOCIATE EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR: The Fayetteville protester who was sucker punched — he did n’t punch anyone — TRUMP: No. ARMAO: He was being escorted from police, and he was sucker punched.

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Input: On 6 June 2014, this report continues, Nadiya Savchenko entered into the Federation from Ukraine and presented herself before Federal Migration Service (FMS) officials stating that she was a refugee and requesting she be granted Russian identity documents — which were approved. On 17 June 2014, this report notes, while on Federation soil and in the possession of (legal) Russian identity documents, Nadiya Savchenko used her cellular phone to secretly adjust mortar fire from her Aidar Battalion terrorist allies in Ukraine onto a militia roadblock in the vicinity of Metallist village in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) killing Russian television reporter Vladimirovich Kornelyuk and his sound engineer Anton Voloshin. With the facts relating to Nadiya Savchenko’s terrorist crimes and neo-Nazi affiliations having been fully documented during her trial, FSB legal analysts in this report state, the “beyond top secret” emails belonging to former Secretary Hillary Clinton are critical for the court’s “understanding / consideration” in sentencing as they “directly relate” to the causes as to why this murderer has become the West’s latest cause célèbre against Russia. According to these FSB analysts, the specific emails obtained from former Secretary Hillary Clinton involving Nadiya Savchenko were written by US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland who masterminded what the private American intelligence firm Stratfor (known as the Shadow CIA) called the “most blatant coup in history” in toppling Ukraine’s legitimate government. And with these emails having a US government classification of SAP (an acronym for ‘special access programs,’ a level of classification above top secret), this report further notes, the “black project” nature of the American’s attempting to subvert justice in the case of Nadiya Savchenko has not only been confirmed, but also explained.

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Input: At the time, Akhmetov was assembling a team of consultants to burnish the reputation of his business. It was facing regulatory action from a new government that had taken over when Yanukovych, who had been prime minister, lost his hold on power after his party tried to rig an October 2004 election to make him president. Kilimnik was recruited to join Manafort’s team by a former IRI official named Philip M. Griffin, who had worked with Kilimnik at the institute. When IRI officials found out, they asked Kilimnik to resign for violating the nonprofit’s moonlighting prohibition. Several people around IRI say they suspected the institute regarded Kilimnik as too closely allied with Russia — even before he went to work for Akhmetov.

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

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Input: AN SAS sniper blew the head off a terrorist commander while he was teaching Islamic State recruits how to decapitate prisoners. GETTY TARGET LOCKED: The marksman was using a special bullet which ' tumbles ' when it strikes The shooter fired at a range of almost 1,200 metres after his team sneaked into a terrorist-controlled enclave of northern Syria two weeks ago.

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Input: Like Russia they did n’t bomb the hospital in Aleppo, but they’re part of a coalition with the Syrian government that is doing that. “Maybe we should use the format of an open letter to the president of China saying, as the only remaining permanent member of the security council who is currently not bombing anyone, could you please remind your colleagues?” In February, an MSF report identified 94 airstrikes and shelling attacks on hospitals across Syria. In February last year, the NGO Physicians for Human Rights said it had documented 224 attacks on 175 health facilities since the start of the conflict, and 599 medical personnel had been killed. Why is Britain still selling Saudi Arabia arms to use in Yemen?

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Input: Justin Bieber lost 3,538,228 followers, Akon lost more than half of his followers, and some accounts seemingly popular accounts were revealed to be almost entirely the product of fake followers. Instagram itself lost 18,880,211 of their own followers that day, which speaks to the perverse incentives at play with these companies who benefit from perceived activity. Fiverr, a website dedicated to making it easy to buy services that cost about five dollars, has offerings where you can purchase tens of thousands of real USA retweets for five dollars. Can you picture how absurd the notion of purchasing 10,000 real retweets is? Even if a real human could make one retweet per second, it would take them almost three hours to perform this action entirely impossible action.

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Input: We need to work with Congress ..." Snowden When asked about damaged inflicted by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Carter said: “It was damaging to security, to work with other countries, but most importantly [it] hurt trust with industry. For companies, it has been used as a guise for protectionism. It has put our companies at a disadvantage.

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Input: “I’m very confident that Donald Trump will stand by our allies,” he said Thursday on Fox News. “But at the same time we’re going to begin to say to allies around the world that the time has come for them and their citizens to begin to carry the financial costs of these international obligations.” Trump said the U.S. must be “properly reimbursed for the tremendous cost” of defending other countries, many of which are “extremely rich,” according to the newspaper’s transcript of the interview. Without such deals, “I would be absolutely prepared to tell those countries, ‘Congratulations, you will be defending yourself’,” he said. ‘Dangerous’ Trump

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Input: The rise of Trump this year is adding an edge to what otherwise would be routine efforts to get the candidates to pay lip service to the importance of a qualified diplomatic corps. The American Foreign Service Association, a non-partisan union representing U.S. diplomats, is agonizing over the topic. The group debated sending letters to the Clinton and Trump campaigns urging them to keep political appointments to a minimum, but now plans to wait until the election is over and approach whoever wins. Once the new Congress is sworn in, AFSA also will likely reach out to relevant committee chairmen and ranking members to make its case for giving preference in appointments to career diplomats. Like some of his predecessors, President Barack Obama has been criticized for handing out plum diplomatic posts to prominent campaign donors.

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Input: Reuters first reported in mid-March that CHAI confirmed that it had not released a complete list of donors since 2010. Mrs. Clinton had pledged to the Obama administration that the State Department would be able to review all proposed new or increased contributions to the CHAI by foreign governments, but while she served in the Obama administration, CHAI received millions in new or increased payments from seven separate foreign governments with no review. Five of the governments began donating to the foundation after Hillary became Secretary of State, while two more at least doubled their contributions. CHAI admitted only that it should have informed the State Department of a $ 340,000 contribution from Switzerland (Reuters, March 19, 2015). The other donor-governments were Great Britain, Australia, Swaziland, Papua New Guinea, Sweden, and Rwanda.

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Input: “Last night, our nation was attacked by a radical Islamic terrorist,” Trump wrote in a statement released late Sunday, summing up the sentiments of most Republicans and many independents who think Obama and Clinton are weak on religiously fueled acts of terror. But few will remember that, not with the way Trump behaved in the aftermath of the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. He could have appeared dignified, controlled, in-command, following the time-tested presidential path blazed by George W. Bush in 2001 and Obama on Sunday. Instead, he bellowed like Ralph Kramden throwing an I-told-you-so over his shoulder at passengers on his bus. “Appreciate the congrats for being right on radical Islamic terrorism,” Trump tweeted triumphantly mid-Sunday, as the FBI and Orlando police were still pulling bodies from Pulse, a gay nightclub where at least 49 innocents were gunned down.

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Input: He has said the difference between Hezbollah (which also fights ISIS) and Hamas (which does not) does not matter. We know that Trump fibs frequently. On Friday he denied that he used an alias and pretended to be his own spokesman in a 1991 phone call, despite audio in which the spokesman sounds just like Trump, as well as Trump’s prior admission, under oath, that he used an alias to act as his own fake spokesman. Trump has made 26 statements during his campaign that Washington Post fact checkers have deemed false. He continues to say many of them.

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Input: But by October that year, there were reports Miss Kesinovic wanted to flee having been sickened by the terror group's murders. The two Viennese girls, Samra Kesinovic (left), 17, and 15-year -old Sabina Selimovic (right), whose parents are Bosnian refugees, disappeared in April 2014 after saying that they wanted to fight in Syria She was killed by ISIS as she tried to flee their stronghold of Raqqa. Prior to her death, she was forced to be a sex slave for the terror group, according to a Tunisian former extremist who lived with the two girls in the terror group's de facto capital. The Tunisian woman said the two Austrian teenagers lived together in the same house and were viewed as a ' sexual present for new fighters '.

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Input: What a waste of time if we don't pull this off! ' The Republican said at the second presidential debate that he'd appoint a special prosecutor to look into her emails and told Clinton she'd ' be in jail ' if he were in the White House now. ' Every time Donald Trump says he wants to jail his opponent, meaning me, I think to myself, you know, we don't do that in America, ' Clinton said Saturday at her Pittsburgh rally. ' We actually have laws and courts and an independent judiciary. ' She said later she's not worried that Donald Trump will make good on his threat to ' jail ' her if he wins, though.

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Input: U.S. State Department spokesperson John Kirby stressed Monday night that the Obama administration does not consider the Golan Heights to be part of Israel, one day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed they "will forever remain under Israeli sovereignty." "The U.S. position on the issue is unchanged," Kirby told reporters during a daily briefing at the State Department in Washington." This position was maintained by both Democratic and Republican administrations.

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Input: On 5 February 2016, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention announced its decision after a 16-month investigation into his case. Sweden and the UK participated in the process, but their arguments failed to convince the panel that their actions against Julian Assange were justified. The UN ordered Sweden and UK to immediately release him and compensate him for violating his rights. 2. Assange has not been charged and he is not wanted for trial.

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Input: Annan's peace efforts were sunk by the United States ' unbending insistence that U.S .- led regime change must precede or at least accompany a ceasefire. As the Nation editors put it in August 2012: The US demand that Assad be removed and sanctions be imposed before negotiations could seriously begin, along with the refusal to include Iran in the process, doomed [Annan's] mission. Clinton has been much more than a bit player in the Syrian crisis. Her diplomat Ambassador Christopher Stevens in Benghazi was killed as he was running a CIA operation to ship Libyan heavy weapons to Syria.

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Input: That’s, nobody’s ever raised that with me. Paul: It’s been in news reports that ships have been leaving from Libya and that they may have weapons. And what I’d like to know is, that annex that was close by, were they involved with procuring, buying, selling, obtaining weapons and were any of these weapons being transferred to other countries? Any countries, Turkey included? Clinton: Well, Senator you’ll have to direct that question to the agency that ran the annex.

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Input: Washington has sold weapons and provided training, targeting information, and aerial refueling support to the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen. It has also sold Riyadh millions of dollars’ worth of cluster bombs in recent years. Asked about the hold on the shipments, a senior U.S. official cited reports that the Saudi-led coalition used cluster bombs “in areas in which civilians are alleged to have been present or in the vicinity.” “We take such concerns seriously and are seeking additional information,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The hold applies to CBU-105 cluster bombs manufactured by the U.S.-based firm Textron Systems, a subsidiary of Textron.

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Input: When asked by co-host Charlie Rose about Trump’s past support support of the Iraq war, Conway said the GOP nominee has always been against what he now calls a “disaster” in the Middle East. “He was a private citizen who was against the Iraq war,” Conway said. Her response came moments after “CBS This Morning” hosts played a tape of Trump, in 2002, being questioned by Howard Stern in a radio interview whether Trump “was for invading Iraq.” Trump’s response in September 2002, before the war began: “Yeah, I guess so.” “You heard him with Howard Stern say “yeah, I guess so,’” Conway said. “Had he been in the United States Senate, he would have casted a vote against the Iraq war.”

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Input: The project was the hit with a series of lawsuits in response to some typically Trumpian efforts to defraud investors by making fraudulent claims about the financial health of the project. Emerging out of that litigation however was news about secret financing for the project from Russia and Kazakhstan. Most attention about the project has focused on the presence of a twice imprisoned Russian immigrant with extensive ties to the Russian criminal underworld. But that’s not the most salient part of the story. As the Times put it,”Mr.

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Input: That much is true – largely because Russia played a significant role in the trials and so steered them away from any discussion of Russia's early collaboration with Nazi Germany. Of course, that doesn't mean the coordinated invasion didn't happen – it did, as any number of historians would be willing to confirm, as well as millions of Poles. It has long been known that the agreement to invade Poland took place under the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, which was secret at the time but is now readily available and referenced in just about every World War Two history book. The issue, of course, is that Luzgin both criticized the Kremlin and supported Ukraine. The post was titled "15 facts about Bandera supporters, or what the Kremlin is silent about."

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Input: And then she was like, ' No, I didn't, ' "Ottosen told ABC News. He admits it surprised him a lot. He had once tried to strangle himself when ISIS guards strung his arms up by chains." I would not have had the guts to say that. I don't think so," he said.

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Input: 27/42 Denise Robertson Denise Robertson, an agony aunt on This Morning for over 30 years, has died on 1 April, aged 83 28/42 Zaha Hadid Dame Zaha Hadid, the prominent architect best known for designs such as the London Olympic Aquatic Centre and the Guangzhou Opera House, has died of a heart attack on 31 March, aged 65 2010 AFP 29/42 Ronnie Corbett British entertainer Ronnie Corbett has passed away on 31 March at the age of 85 2014 Getty Images 30/42 Imre Kertesz Hungarian writer and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertesz, who won the 2002 Nobel Literature Prize, has died on 31 March, at the age of 86 REUTERS 31/42 Rob Ford Rob Ford, the former controversial mayor of Toronto, has died following a battle with a rare form of cancer.

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Input: A report from NBC News on Monday indicated that another person had been informed that Russia was behind the hacks: Donald Trump." A senior U.S. intelligence official assured NBC News that cybersecurity and the Russian government's attempts to interfere in the 2016 election have been briefed to, and discussed extensively with, both parties ' candidates, surrogates and leadership, since mid-August," NBC's Robert Windrem and William Arkin reported. They quote the unnamed official:" To profess not to know at this point is willful misrepresentation." Willful misrepresentation is not outside of the realm of possibility for Donald Trump, of course. So let's look a bit more closely at what he said.

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Input: Republicans are already reacting with outrage. “Totally insane,” is how former ambassador Eric Edelman describes the remarks. “He says he has been advised by Secretaries Baker and Kissinger but I find it hard to imagine that they would have recommended the things that he said in his New York Times interview. It would be totally contrary to everything they have written and the manner in which they conducted themselves in office.” He continued, “His comments have already undermined U.S. alliances, emboldened Russian revanchists, degraded our extended nuclear deterrent, threatened multiple trade wars that would beggar the international economy and destroy American prosperity.” Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute tells Right Turn, “Donald Trump is apparently the bastard stepchild of Charles Lindbergh and Barack Obama, at once embarrassed by American values and leadership, contemptuous of loyalty unless it’s to him, strangely drawn to dictators and utterly ignorant of history.” She added, “If this guy led another country, we’d be considering sanctions and fretting about his political enemies languishing in prison.” Trump proved Cruz right.

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Input: It’s that we’re losing influence so rapidly to the Russians that people just are n’t listening to us anymore.” In the face of public objections from U.S. officials and reportedly backed by Russian airstrikes, the YPG has overrun key villages in the northern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib. It now threatens the town of Azaz, on the border with Turkey, through which rebel groups have long received crucial supplies. Over the weekend, Turkey began shelling YPG positions around Azaz in response, raising another difficult scenario for the U.S. in which its proxy is under assault from its NATO ally. Yet as Assad and his Russian allies have routed rebels around Aleppo in recent weeks — rolling back Islamist factions and moderate U.S. allies alike, as aid groups warn of a humanitarian catastrophe — the YPG has seized the opportunity to take ground from these groups, too.

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Input: Our experience over two decades has shown unequivocally that the global terrorist threat can not be contained. It must be defeated, and it can not be defeated without strong, targeted and sustained offensive action. Trump rails frequently against the Iraq and Libya wars, but shows no understanding of what has actually worked well in counterterrorism strategy: intense and sustained Predator strikes, special operations raids and joint capture operations, and mobilizing tribal resistance. When he says that he would cede Syria to Assad, Iran, Lebanese Hezbollah and Russia — a policy that would further alienate and weaken our Sunni allies in the region and allow global jihadis a continued sanctuary from which to plan attacks against the American homeland — he shows no appreciation for the larger strategic context in which counterterrorism strategy must operate in order to be effective. Trump’s bluster about ordering our national security professionals to waterboard detainees and “more” is deeply troubling on multiple levels.

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Input: Paul Manafort, the chairman of Trump's campaign, also advised former Ukranian president Viktor Yanukovych, who was aligned with Putin. Carter Page, one of Trump's advisers on foreign affairs, has openly praised Putin and criticized Western sanctions on Russian officials. Trump himself has praised Putin, as well, and has also called for the United States to retreat from its responsibilities in NATO -- which would probably increase Putin's influence in the region. At this point, however, there is no evidence that anyone in the Trump campaign has a direct connection with the Kremlin, as Clinton's spot insinuated. The Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Input: Between 239,000 and 250,000 people were imprisoned in the camp. About 56,000 died, including 11,000 Jews. Hide Caption 25 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral procession goes down Connecticut Avenue on its way to the White House. Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia, just weeks before Germany's surrender. Hide Caption 26 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures Harry S. Truman takes the oath of office on April 12, 1945, as he becomes the 33rd president of the United States.

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Input: And, you know, you end up in a situation where there are now governments, because of Donald Trump’s business dealings in their country, in Turkey and the UAE, also in a convoluted way in Saudi Arabia, where they say, publicly and privately, they’re not going to work with a Trump administration. NERMEEN SHAIKH: And what about the points — KURT EICHENWALD: And so, you know, we’re buying — we’re buying a pig in a poke here. We do n’t know about this guy’s health. We do n’t know about his businesses.

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Input: “So I ca n’t find a lawyer,” said Yayla. “The lawyers are afraid. All they are saying is ‘We have family too, they will arrest us too.’” Teams of counter-terrorism officers had been sent to the home of Yayla’s father in Ankara. They had searched the house, and asked repeated questions about Ahmet himself.

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Input: Ousted Iraqi Defense Minister Khaled al-Obeidi, seen arriving at an air base in Tikrit, is out of a job this morning. (Hadi Mizban / AP) -- Iraq’s parliament voted to sack its defense minister amid accusations of corruption. The move follows the resignation of the interior minister last month after that horrible bomb attack in Baghdad. This means the government’s two most important security posts are empty ahead of a planned offensive in Mosul, their biggest fight yet against ISIS militants.

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Input: Pope Francis ends his Mexico tour praying for migrants at the U.S. border Watch the touching moment Pope Francis blessed a young boy in a wheelchair Pope Francis preaches to marginalized indigenous in a fight to keep Catholics In historic encounter with leader of Russian Orthodox Church, pope set to meet staunch Kremlin ally

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Input: 19/19 Caspian Flotilla of the Russian Navy firing Kalibr cruise missiles against remote Isis targets in Syria, a thousand kilometres away. The targets include ammunition factories, ammunition and fuel depots, command centres, and training camps Â © TASS / ITAR-TASS Photo / Corbis Before joining Nato in 1949, Norway allayed Russian fears by undertaking not to open its territory to foreign combat troops so long as Norway was not attacked or threatened with attack. This pledge was later amended to allow foreign troops to conduct manoeuvres in Norway." The policy of non-stationing [of foreign troops], which even withstood the test of the Cold War, has always been an advantage for Norway as a partner over other Nato countries," said Mr Gourov.

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Input: But as home computing migrates away from the laptop, the tablet and the smartphone, experts warn that the security features on the coming wave of automobiles, dishwashers and alarm systems lag far behind. The government just admitted it will use smart home devices for spying | Trevor Timm Read more In an appearance at a Washington thinktank last month, the director of the National Security Agency, Adm Michael Rogers, said that it was time to consider making the home devices “more defensible”, but did not address the opportunities that increased numbers and even categories of connected devices provide to his surveillance agency. However, James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, was more direct in testimony submitted to the Senate on Tuesday as part of an assessment of threats facing the United States. “In the future, intelligence services might use the [internet of things] for identification, surveillance, monitoring, location tracking, and targeting for recruitment, or to gain access to networks or user credentials,” Clapper said.

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Input: And how can diplomacy be effective when our bombing may be exacerbating the very sectarian divides negotiations are supposed to solve? Her bragging list of diplomatic accomplishments included nuclear weapons reduction negotiations with Russia (which were badly undermined by an accompanying trillion-dollar plan to “modernize” our own arsenal), the barely useful climate deal in Copenhagen, the 2012 Hamas-Israel ceasefire (which Israel soon violated), the pressure she applied on other countries to join in Washington’s sanctions against Iran, and (more laudably, if unevenly) her record of standing up for the rights of women, religious minorities, and LGBT people. But she did n’t mention her failure (matching the failure of the secretaries of state before and after her) to negotiate a just peace in Israel-Palestine based on international law, human rights, and equality for all. Indeed, her earlier promise to embrace Israel’s right-wing prime minister would make salvaging that legacy almost impossible. Nor did she mention the two issues which shape her foreign policy legacy as a senator and as secretary of state: her vote for George W. Bush’s 2003 war in Iraq, and her role in pulling the administration — including a reluctant president — into the U.S.-NATO regime change war that devastated Libya and sent a cascade of Libyan weapons into conflict zones across North and Central Africa and the entire Middle East.

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Input: The latter increased its spending on foreign arms by a whopping 699 percent, catapulting their rank among importers from 43rd to eighth over the past five years. Nearly all of the weapons delivered to Vietnam came from Russia, including 8 combat aircraft, 4 submarines and 4 "fast attack craft." SIPRI assessed that Vietnam's stepped-up purchasing reflected fears of Beijing's growing power in Asia and territorial claims in the South China Sea that overlap with its own. Related: The Pentagon Is Betting Big on Space Warfare — Against China and Russia While China still only accounts for 5.9 percent of global arms exports, its share is growing faster that practically any other state.

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Input: According to Sec. James, the components for a great military are training, modernization, and taking care of the service people. Specifically, the Air Force has implemented measures to combat sexual assault through education, reform, and victim care. Listen to the episode above for more on the benefits of having a mentor, the importance of “zigzagging,” and exclusive insight into the U.S. Air Force.

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Input: 49 53 Brussels March 22, 2016 Nail bombings in Brussels Airport Two suicide bombers carrying homemade bombs in large suitcases attacked a departure hall at Brussels Airport in Zaventem. They exploded nine seconds apart. Another explosion took place just over an hour later in the middle carriage of a three-carriage train at Maalbeek metro station. 35 340 Istanbul January 12, 2016 Suicide bomber detonates in the city's tourist-heavy historical centre

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

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Input: That effort to add a woman to the boardroom turned into a six-year stint that cemented the long relationship between Arkansas’ most famous corporation and its most famous political family. As Brian Ross of ABC News reported in the lead-up to her 2008 run, Hillary notably left that glass ceiling-shattering appointment out of her biography. She basically “de-linked” herself from a stridently anti-union company that was also a notoriously thrifty spender on employee wages and benefits. The ABC report also referenced a 1992 report showing her trumpeting Walmart’s “Buy America” campaign in spite of Walmart’s reliance on children working in sweatshops in places like Bangladesh. That’s a practice Walmart continued into the 1990s.

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Input: Can you picture how absurd the notion of purchasing 10,000 real retweets is? Even if a real human could make one retweet per second, it would take them almost three hours to perform this action entirely impossible action. I'd like to meet the candidate who has the stamina to make 10,000 retweets. Twitter themselves at one point released a statement claiming a whopping 8.5 percent of their user base to be known bots, and their measuring tactics seemed even conservative to me. Twitter, a company that has had a hard time growing its active users of late, and may be sold to another tech giant any day, has a lot of reason to downplay the bot demographics for fear of having their stock drop even further than it has.

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Input: More than 200 House GOP members showed up at the Capitol Hill Club. Republican senators emerge from a back alley behind a gas station after meeting with @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/qAhXhVdR76 — Niels Lesniewski (@nielslesniewski) July 7, 2016 -- As Trump wrapped up with House members, he urged them to go tell reporters that the meeting had gone great. “It would great if you could say we had an unbelievable meeting. ‘Trump loves us.

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Input: The U.S. military says it has halted airstrikes over Syria after the Russian Defense Ministry accused the U.S.-led coalition of carrying out a strike that hit Syrian government soldiers, killing 62 and injuring 100. U.S. Central Command acknowledged the accusations in a statement it released this afternoon, but did not squarely claim responsibility for the reported deaths and injuries." Earlier today Coalition aircraft conducted an airstrike south of Dayr Az Zawr, Syria.

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Input: During the vice presidential debate on Tuesday night, when the subject turned to foreign policy, Trump campaign HQ zapped out a press release headlined, “Donald J. Trump’s Plan to Defeat ISIS and Make America Safe Again.” This was curious, because throughout his presidential bid, Trump has proclaimed that he has a “secret” plan for defeating the murderous Islamic extremist group that controls parts of Iraq and Syria. He has refused to reveal it, claiming that would tip off the enemy. But he has also promised that in the first 30 days of a Trump administration, he would ask the generals for an anti-ISIS plan. Which is confusing because he has also said he knows more about ISIS than the generals and that he would fire most of the generals. Still, at the same time, Trump brags that he does have his own plan that he can share publicly.

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Input: To receive funding and support for his lab, he said, he had to do the Kremlin’s bidding. He had occasionally, however, run afoul of the Russian authorities in his work. In 2011, he was investigated for trafficking in performance-enhancing drugs, and he said he fully expected to go to prison. His sister was convicted and imprisoned on similar charges. The investigation into Dr. Rodchenkov, however, disappeared.

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Input: According to the Rand Corp., the United States provided $ 441 million in security funding to the Philippines from 2002 to 2013. That security relationship has benefited both countries, but whether it will continue under Duterte is at least an open question. 6) Duterte has demanded that the United States apologize for the Bud Dajo “massacre” in 1906, which his spokesman has ludicrously likened to the Holocaust. The Battle of Bud Dajo was part of the larger American war against Moro extremists, as Philippine Muslims were then known. Hundreds of Moros, including women and children, died in this extinct volcano.

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Input: The attack is believed to have been carried out by ISIS or one of its affiliates. January 20, 2016-ISIS claims responsibility for an attack in Arish in Sinai, which kills five police officers. ISIS said that a bomb targeted a patrol and was followed by clashes between ISIS militants and police officers. The attack is believed to have been carried out by ISIS or one of its affiliates. January 21, 2016-Suspected ISIS militants launched an attack on oil terminal in the Libyan port of Ras Lanuf, causing at least one storage tank to explode and a pipeline to catch fire, according to the Libyan news agency and an engineer.

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Input: Dirty bomb Fears over nuclear materials falling into terrorists ' hands were highlighted at the Nuclear Security Summit hosted by President Obama in Washington last week, and underscored by an ISIS plan uncovered earlier this year to try and target a Belgian nuclear facility. Two men linked to the Brussels attacks recorded 10 hours of secret surveillance video of a top Belgian nuclear scientist, likely hoping to use his security clearance to try to obtain radioactive material to build a so-called "dirty bomb." "The possibility of threats against nuclear facilities is of particular concern and our agencies are actively reacting to it," German Ambassador to the United States, Peter Wittig, told CBS News. The ambassador said Germany would seek more international help by hosting an international workshop in Berlin in September on the existing Code of Conduct for Safety and Security of Radioactive Sources.

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

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Input: Trump’s partners on a Panama project traveled to Moscow in 2006 to sell condos to Russian investors, according to litigation filed in Florida. Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $ 95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, according to property records. Trump had purchased the mansion at a bankruptcy auction less than four years earlier for $ 41.4 million, records show. In 2013, Trump found a new Russian partner for a Moscow real estate project, Aras Agalarov, an Azeri-born real estate developer who is sometimes called the "Trump of Russia" for his tendency to emblazon his name on his development projects. The Agalarovs are wealthy developers who have received several contracts for state-funded construction projects, a sign of their closeness to the Putin government.

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Input: Bahrain Venezuela — Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) October 10, 2016 I've spent lots of time reporting in countries where winners do imprison losing candidates. Believe me, we don't want to go there. — Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) October 10, 2016

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Input: Surely this will intrigue the FBI, which has reportedly been able to retrieve the emails Mrs. Clinton attempted to wipe from her server. While all of this has been going on, intelligence community sources have reported about a below-the-radar, yet largely-known debate in the Kremlin between the Russian Foreign Ministry and the Russian Intelligence Services. They are trying to come to a meeting of the minds to determine whether the Russian government should release some 20,000 of Mrs. Clinton's emails that it obtained either by hacking her directly or by hacking into the email of her confidante, Sid Blumenthal. As if all this wasn't enough bad news for Mrs. Clinton in one week, the FBI learned last week from the convicted international hacker, who calls himself Guccifer, that he knows how the Russians came to possess Mrs. Clinton's emails; and it is because she stored, received and sent them from her personal, secret, non-secure server. Mrs. Clinton has not been confronted publicly and asked for an explanation of her thoughts about the confluence of these events, but she has been asked if the FBI has reached out to her.

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Input: As reported earlier, Russian State Duma members Valery Rashkin and Sergei Obukhov petitioned to President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, and proposed to sever the brotherhood and friendship treaty (Treaty of Moscow), which the then Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Bolshevist Russia) and Turkey had signed in 1921. In their respective letter, the said Russian MPs point to the consistency in Turkey’s aggressive behavior. Pursuant to the 1921 Treaty of Moscow, most of Kars Province, southern part of former Batumi Province, and Surmalu District — along with Mount Ararat — of Yerevan Province were given to Turkey.

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Input: Here's what you need to know: -- Pro-Clinton super PACs have sustained a massive cash advantage over several groups supporting Trump, lapping contributions from outside groups for July. From Matea Gold and Anu Narayanswamy: “Priorities USA Action, the main super PAC aligned with Clinton, brought in $ 9.3 million in July, giving it a total of $ 110 million for the 2016 cycle … The group headed into August with nearly $ 39 million in the bank. Meanwhile, two of the main pro-Trump groups, Make America Number 1 and Great America PAC, together just pulled in $ 4.4 million last month. Nearly half the money came from conservative hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer, who gave $ 2 million.

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Input: Interest payments, overwhelmingly, are a transfer of money from the poor to the rich. As property prices and the withdrawal of state funding load people with debt (think of the switch from student grants to student loans), the banks and their executives clean up. Sayer argues that the past four decades have been characterised by a transfer of wealth not only from the poor to the rich, but within the ranks of the wealthy: from those who make their money by producing new goods or services to those who make their money by controlling existing assets and harvesting rent, interest or capital gains. Earned income has been supplanted by unearned income. Neoliberal policies are everywhere beset by market failures.

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Input: “It’s child’s play between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, but we did n’t see that in 2012,” she added, noting that Obama had a much stronger connection with young voters than either candidate does. Pitchford said that while she’s undecided, in the end, she’ll likely vote for Clinton, arguing that she does n’t believe a country can be run like a business. Thomas Riordan, an 18-year -old freshman from Virginia Beach, said that while he voted for Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight 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 Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE in the primary, he believes he’ll end up in Clinton’s corner too because she’s a “better alternative than Trump.’ But for Emily Neighbors, a 20-year -old junior from Verona, Va., she’s still not ready to commit despite backing Ben Carson in the primary. “I know I’m not voting for Hillary.

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Input: The USA Today editorial board is opposing Donald Trump Donald TrumpLewandowski near ' high six-figure book deal ': report GOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Overnight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data MORE's candidacy, taking a position in a presidential election for the first time in the newspaper's 34-year history. Describing Trump as "erratic," "ill-equipped" to be commander in chief and a "serial liar," the newspaper slammed him for trafficking in "prejudice" and having a "checkered" business record. ADVERTISEMENT "This year, the choice is n’t between two capable major party nominees who happen to have significant ideological differences," reads the editorial published Thursday." This year, one of the candidates — Republican nominee Donald Trump — is, by unanimous consensus of the Editorial Board, unfit for the presidency," it states.

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Input: Mazen al-Hamada’s name soon appeared on an arrest list in Deir Ezzor. Two of his brothers were also wanted, as was one of his brothers-in-law. One day in March, 2012, a doctor asked Hamada if he would smuggle baby formula to a woman in Darayya, a rebellious suburb of Damascus. He and his nephews gathered fifty-five packages of formula, hid them under their clothes, and travelled to meet her at a café. As soon as Hamada handed over the bags, security agents handcuffed him and his nephews, pulled their shirts over their heads, and shoved them into an S.U.V.

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Input: “Last year, $ 500 a month was enough for a family to live on, but now even $ 1,000 is not enough because prices are twice or even five times what they used to be.” Refugees speak of starvation spreading throughout the city under the impact of this economic siege. “For me, I could stand the bad treatment and lack of food, but when my toddler of 11 months began to starve it became impossible to stay,” said Fatima. Baby milk has not been available for six months and other foodstuffs are prohibitively expensive. Rice costs $ 10 a kilo.

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Input: Consider also the curious case of Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian steel magnate who donated over $ 8 million to the Clinton Foundation and had committed to giving as much as $ 20 million more to its initiatives. The Washington Post’s Tom Hamburger reported last October that Pinchuk had used his Clinton Foundation connections to get a meeting with a “top Clinton aide” at State, but that’s hardly all his $ 8 million bought. While Secretary of State, Clinton hosted a dinner for her foundation’s donors, including Pinchuk, who had hired longtime Clintonista Douglas Schoen to lobby the State Department on behalf of the Yanukovich government – the pro-Russian regime that Ukrainians sacked in late 2013, a change that was supported by the Obama administration. But wait, as television pitchmen say – there’s more! At the same time as Pinchuk was lobbying State and getting invited to close access dinner events through his Clinton Foundation connections, he had connections of a very different kind through his businesses.

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Input: The fear is that a traveller who has returned from Africa with yellow fever will be bitten by an indigenous mosquito, which then spreads the disease. America, which has not had an outbreak in more than a century, is at risk, too. Yellow fever used to be common there: Philadelphia suffered one of the country’s worst outbreaks in 1793, when the disease killed 5,000 people, then about a tenth of the city’s population. In New Orleans in 1853, 9,000 died. The port cities of Europe also suffered outbreaks: one in Barcelona in 1821 killed thousands.

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Input: Russia could have been trying to influence the election on behalf of Trump, if they carried it, or to make mischief more generally and create chaos during the election. Officials stressed that the administration is only beginning to talk through a possible US response, which could involve cyber countermeasures. They added that sanctions are also possible but will not be easy to apply in a hacking case like this, particularly since the authority might not exist in the current Executive Order dealing with punishment for a cyber attack. But the exploration of responses following US intelligence assessments that Russia is most likely behind the DNC hack, along with the comments by Biden and Obama, come at a time when the Democrats see a political opening in Trump's posture on Russia. The GOP nominee has repeatedly made positive comments about Putin.

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Input: He will appear before a federal court in Brooklyn on Wednesday charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, Bloomberg said. Getty 9/21 Former PwC employees found guilty in ' Luxleaks ' tax scandal-June 2016 Two ex- PricewaterhouseCoopers staffers were found guilty in Luxembourg of stealing confidential tax files that helped unleash a global scandal over generous fiscal deals for hundreds of international companies. Antoine Deltour and Raphael Halet face suspended sentences of 12 months and 9 months and were ordered to pay fines of € 1,500 (£ 1,230) and € 1,000 (£ 822) for their role in the so-called LuxLeaks scandal. Despite the minimal sentences, the ruling was described by Deltour’s lawyer as “shocking” and “a terrible anomaly.” The ruling “puts on guard future whistle-blowers,” Deltour told reporters. The LuxLeaks revelations sped beyond Luxembourg, causing European Union regulators to expand a tax-subsidy probe and propose new laws to fight corporate tax dodging, while EU lawmakers created a special committee to probe fiscal deals across the 28-nation bloc.

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Input: “We have people that do n’t know what they’re doing. Hillary Clinton will be worse. She’ll be worse,” Trump vowed, remarking that Clinton has “bad relationships” with leaders like Russian President Vladimir Putin. “This is a nuclear country we’re talking about. Russia.

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Input: He likely would not be able to count on much support from either side on Capitol Hill. That would mean trouble for his promises to build a wall along the Mexican border or to round up and deport the roughly 11 million people currently in the U.S. without legal authorization. Both would require Congress to approve billions of dollars in new appropriations even if Trump could pressure the Mexican government into reimbursing the U.S. for the cost of the wall, which the Mexicans say they won't consider. Charles Krupa / AP Campaign buttons displayed for sale prior to a campaign stop by Donald Trump at an Elks Lodge in Salem, N.H., on Feb. 8, 2016. Trump easily won the state's primary election.

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Input: After Hillary: The 2010 debt crisis emaciated the Greek economy and Clinton remained adamant that Greece comply with draconian economic measures dictated by Germany, the European Union, and the IMF / World Bank. Making matters worse, Clinton’s “Arab Spring” eventually resulted in a flood of mainly Muslim refugees being welcomed into first, the Greek isles, and then mainland Greece, from the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. Today, Greece, especially the islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Symi, Rhodes, Leros, and Kos, are wracked by Muslim refugee crime, unsanitary public health habits of migrants, sexual assaults by migrant men of women and children, acts of arson and vandalism, and a diminution of Greek culture and religious practices. 10. Guatemala

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Input: Honduras -César Rosenthal, son of former Vice President Jaime Rosenthal Ireland -Frank Flannery, political consultant and Fine Gael’s former Director of Organisations and Strategy Italy -Giuseppe Donaldo Nicosia, convicted of bribery alongside former Senator Marcello Dell’Utri India -Jehangir Soli Sorabjee, son of former attorney general Soli Sorabjee and a honorary consultant physician at Bombay Hospital, Harish Salve, India’s leading lawyers and son of N. K. P. Salve, member of the Indian National Congress party, Rajendra Patil, son-in-law of veteran Congressman and Karnataka Horticulture Minister Shamanuru Shivashankarappa and a businessman Ivory Coast -Jean -Claude N’Da Ametchi, associate of former President Laurent Gbagbo

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Input: NK News reports Russia has warned North Korea that threats to deliver “preventive nuclear strikes” could create a legal basis for the use of military force against the country, suggesting that even Pyongyang’s few remaining friends are growing concerned about its increasingly confrontational stance. The Russian foreign ministry statement, which follows a North Korean threat to “annihilate” the US and South Korea, also criticises Washington and Seoul for launching the largest joint military drills yet to be held on the peninsula. North Korea threatens to reduce US and South Korea to ' flames and ash ' Read more “We consider it to be absolutely impermissible to make public statements containing threats to deliver some ‘preventive nuclear strikes’ against opponents,” the Russian foreign ministry said in response to North Korea’s threats.

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Input: The comment was met with rousing applause from the audience. (The Washington Post) Watching Donald Trump talk during a presidential debate about jailing his opponent was a jarring experience for Al Cardenas, who traces his Republican identity in part to his hatred of the authoritarian Castro regime he fled long ago. “As a refugee from a dictatorship, that attitude sounds all too familiar,” said Cardenas, former chairman of the Florida Republican Party. For John Yoo, the conservative legal scholar and former Justice Department official under President George W. Bush, Trump “reminds me a lot of early Mussolini.

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Input: There were no reported casualties. Three Chinese fishermen were killed last month when a fire broke out on their boat after a South Korean coastguard threw flash grenades into their cabin. In response to the frequent skirmishes, South Korean coastguard officials announced on Tuesday they would authorize the use of handguns and onboard cannon to attack Chinese vessels they deem threatening. “We will actively respond to Chinese fishing boats that obstruct justice by using all possible means if needed such as directly hitting and gaining control of those Chinese fishing boats as well as firing common weapons,” South Korea’s deputy coastguard chief, Lee Choon-jae, told a news conference. Read more

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Input: Bradley Cooper's appearance at the Democratic National Convention Wednesday night has irked some conservative fans of the actor's portrayal of Navy SEAL Chris Kyle in 2014's "American Sniper." Cooper was spotted by TV cameras seated at the meeting in Philadelphia alongside his Russian model girlfriend, Irina Shayk. Some Twitter users say they plan to boycott Cooper's future films over his presence at the convention. Another commented that they thought his experience playing Kyle would have rubbed off on him. The complaints have been mocked by others who say Cooper was simply acting a role when playing Kyle and conservatives shouldn't be surprised.

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Input: So in that respect it will not be “business as usual”. We will only converse as equal partners and we will not accept every idea from the EU. When the EU is ready for a fair, respectful dialogue without setting ultimatums, we will be really happy, since I am convinced the present historic period will not last long, and we are condemned to live together. If Europe still has politicians with visions they will understand that the EU and Russia can each on its own be fully competitive. To DN’s final question, which of the candidates in the US election would be best as President, Mr Lavrov answers with his usual diplomatic tact: “I do n’t know”.

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Input: In reacton to Russia's announcement, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office "expressed Israel's dismay at the decision ... (and) told President Putin that this step will only increase Iran's aggression in the region and will destabilize security in the Middle East." In response," Vladimir Putin explained the rationale for the decision in the current context and highlighted the fact that due to their tactical and technical characteristics, S-300 have a purely defensive significance and pose no threat to Israel," the Kremlin said in a statement. The Iranians have purchased four units of the anti-aircraft S-300 system, which were removed from service in the Russian military, and have already received all of the supporting systems at the end of 2015, including the radar system.

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Input: Reporter for Ukrainian Pravda and critic of leaders in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia was driving to work when car exploded A car bomb in Kiev has killed Pavel Sheremet, a pioneering journalist and outspoken critic of leaders in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Security camera footage showed the car had entered an intersection when an explosion ripped through it from underneath. Passersby ran to pull Sheremet out of the vehicle, which later caught on fire. Sheremet had been on his way to host his morning radio show.

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Input: “Within a few days, I have accepted pre-empts and I expect to close in Germany, Israel, Sweden, Italy, and other territories before the London book fair [in April],” said Zitwer. Bandi’s stories are set in 1990s North Korea and include stories about a wife attempting to make breakfast during a famine and a factory supervisor trying avoid denouncing a friend while staying on the ruling party’s good side himself. They were smuggled out of the country with the help of the Happy Reunification Road Organisation, which works to help North Koreans and for the reunification of the country. It was published in South Korea in 2014 by Chogabje. Zitwer, who has worked with major Korean authors on titles including Kyung-Sook Shin’s Please Look After Mother and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, said it was “unheard of until now” to find a work of fiction from North Korea.

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Input: Armenia says up to 1.5 million people were killed. Turkey says the number of deaths was much smaller Most non-Turkish scholars of the events regard them as genocide-as do more than 20 states including France, Germany and Russia, and some international bodies such as the European Parliament Turkey rejects the term "genocide", maintaining that many of the dead were killed in clashes during World War One, and that many ethnic Turks also suffered in the conflict Find out more about what happened

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Input: On 11 January Lisa F was reported missing by her family. She re-appeared the next day. But a TV interview given by a woman identified as the girl's aunt claimed that the girl was raped by numerous men over the 30-hour period while she was missing. The report that sparked the protests was spread on social media and has so far been watched more than a million times on Facebook. German lawyer Martin Luithle has now reported the Russian journalist behind the report, Ivan Blagoy, to the police for incitement.

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Input: When the Russians disappeared from the scene, instead of — you know, the pretense was," Well, it’s because of the Russians." When they disappeared from the scene, how did we react, under Clinton? By making the embargo harsher. Clinton outflanked George H.W. Bush from the right, in harsh — during the electoral campaign, in harshness against Cuba.

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Input: If this sabre-rattling translates into deaths it will reflect a recent escalation in violence in the region, as reported previously on The First Post, and could endanger the many hostages taken by the pirates, including British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler, held captive since last autumn. Previously, the pirates have always treated their hostages well. In part, no doubt, this is to ensure ransom payments – but it may also reflect the fact that some do not want to see themselves as pirates and have turned to hostage-taking as a last resort to escape desperate poverty in a violence-riven country with no functioning government. In January, Rachel Chandler told a French journalist: “We have not much time left and are being badly treated.” There have been no statements from the couple since then.

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Input: According to the German media the attackers wearing gloves and balaclavas set upon the tourists at about 7 pm on Thursday night. Plain clothes German police rushed to the tourists’ rescue, arresting six of the Russians, who were reported to be in their 20s. One of the attackers managed to escape. According to the German police they were on the way to the airport to catch a flight back to Moscow. They were found to have had tickets for the England v Russia match in Marseille, which ended with English supporters fleeing for their own safety after being set upon.

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Input: He and his team had vouched for everything in it. We did n’t make up anything. We threw out a lot of stuff that was not double- and triple-sourced, because I knew the importance of this. When I was through, I felt pretty good about it. I thought we had made the case, and there was pretty good reaction to it for a few weeks.

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Input: Nikita Kamayev, who headed Russia's RUSADA until late last year, died of what was believed to be a heart attack while skiing, state news agency TASS reported." Sadly Nikita has passed away. What happened looks like a massive heart attack," the former general director of the anti-doping agency, Ramil Khabriyev, was quoted as saying." He complained of heart ache after a skiing session.

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Input: The attack is believed to have been inspired by ISIS. March 14, 2016-ISIS claims responsibility fo the assassination of a Shia cleric in Bangladesh. Hafiz Abdul Razak was stabbed to death in Jhenaidah in southwestern Bangladesh. The attack is believed to have been inspired by ISIS. March 16, 2016-A pro-ISIS group in the Philippines, Ansarul Khilafah, releases a video showing the beheading of an accused spy, identifying the man as Robert Pepito.

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Input: One of them, General Samih Battikhi, ran the GID from 1995 to 2000 and was convicted of being part of scheme to obtain bank loans of around $ 600 m for fake government contracts and pocketing about $ 25 m. He was sentenced to eight years in prison, but the sentence was eventually reduced to four years that were served in his villa in the seaside town of Aqaba. General Mohammad al-Dahabi, who ran the service from 2005 to 2008, was later convicted of stealing millions of dollars that GID officers had seized from Iraqi citizens crossing into Jordan in the years after the American invasion of Iraq in 2003. His trial showed that he had also arranged for money to be smuggled in private cars from Iraq into Jordan and had been involved in selling Jordanian citizenship to Iraqi businessmen. He was sentenced to 13 years in prison and fined tens of millions of dollars.

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