Input: The Inquistir reported in April that some members of the UFO community believe that President Dwight Eisenhower concluded treaties with certain alien races, such as the Grays. He reportedly held a secret “First Contact Meeting” with ET visitors during the early hours of February 21, 1954, at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California. A series of follow-up meetings led to the signing of a treaty between the U.S. movement and the Gray aliens. Bassett went on to claim that he believes that the reason why other governments around the world have not made UFO and ET disclosures independently is that following the famous incident at Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, when U.S. authorities reportedly recovered a crashed alien UFO from a ranch near the town, governments around the world agreed to a “truth embargo.” And despite the fact that several private individuals who witnessed the crash or had spoken with witnesses came forward over the decades to make critical disclosures, the “truth embargo” has remained in place.

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Input: Video Mr. Lehel was arrested in Romania in 2014 for hacking the email accounts of several Romanian officials. In April, he was extradited to the United States to face hacking charges and pleaded guilty in May before a federal judge in Alexandria, Va. While awaiting sentencing, Mr. Lehel claimed to have hacked Mrs. Clinton’s private email server, but federal officials have found no evidence to support his claim. Mr. Lehel is known for his fixation on what conspiracy theorists call the Illuminati, a shadowy group that they believe controls the world.

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Input: A report of the trial by an organization monitoring human rights in Ukraine noted that history professor Alexander Vertinsky acted for the prosecution and argued that the post "did not correspond with the position accepted at international level." Twisted The claim about the post "denying" the Nuremberg trials is based on the twisted logic that the trials did not mention Russia's invasion of Poland. 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.

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Input: The attackers were reportedly carrying the black flag of tawheed with the shahada, the Muslim testament of faith, written it white. The symbolic flag is commonly used by ISIS. Egyptian authorities today said the dead attacker was a 21-year -old student from the Cairo neighbourhood of Giza as video emerged of his accomplice being questioned as he lay injured in the aftermath. The video, which was posted to Facebook and picked up by Egyptian media allegedly shows the wounded attacker being questioned while lying bloody and bandaged on the floor. He is filmed wearing only his boxers and moaning in pain as men with medical gloves slap his face and attempt to give him CPR – despite him being conscious.

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Input: Joseph Stalin ordered the “liquidation” of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg — who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust — in 1947, according to the diary of a former KGB chief. The document offers a first confirmation that Wallenberg, who disappeared in 1945, was executed by the Soviet Union. A young architect and businessman, Wallenberg volunteered to travel to Hungary in 1944 as a special envoy to aid a US effort to rescue Jews from extermination at the hands of Nazi Germany.

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Input: Wolfowitz: Annoyed isn't the right word, it's inaccurate. If I had been the architect, a lot of these things would be different. As a matter of fact, I believed after 9/11, there was reason to get much tougher about the fact that Saddam was blocking the inspections for weapons of mass destruction. He was harboring terrorists. I thought that it was time to give Saddam an ultimatum just as we did with the Taliban who were harboring Osama Bin Laden.

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Input: Abbas is insistent that he wants to participate in the funeral due to its international importance and the presence of numerous world leaders, even if his decision draws broad public criticism from Palestinians, they said. Abbas ' decision to attend the funeral has placed the Arab political parties in Israel, in particular the Joint List as well as the Arab Higher Monitoring Committee, in an uncomfortable position. They have mostly remained quiet about Peres ' death, and do not plan to participate in his funeral because of Peres ' history in defense matters and his Zionism, which they say have had effects on the Palestinian people-while the senior Palestinian leadership, headed by Abbas, who is also the head of the PLO, will take part in the funeral. Hamas released a statement condemning the letter of condolence Abbas sent to Peres ' family, as well as his attendance. The Palestinian people should be happy over the death of someone "whose hands are covered in Palestinian blood," said Hamas in the statement.

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Input: What the president probably did n’t realize is that like de Tocqueville, D’Souza is a student of his surroundings and treats every experience like it’s going to be on the final exam. “I learned a lot in jail,” he said, “and I came out a much more hardened and realistic conservative. I used to see the 2.2 million incarcerated as simply criminals who had broken the law, but after meeting these people I realized the gangs inside are very much like the gangs in the White House.” For example, in the film we see how D’Souza learned that most major crimes follow the procedure of plan, pitch, take, and deny. You plan to fake out insurance companies. You create a fake corporation.

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Input: “I've said and done things that I regret, and the words released today on this more than a decade old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me know these words don't reflect who I am -- I said it, I was wrong, and I apologize.”It was a rare moment of contrition for the famously unapologetic businessman. But the apology may also anger Trump’s critics. He dismissed the controversy as a “distraction” and sought to turn the damaging revelations about his own personal life against Clinton. Trump said he would go on the attack against Clinton for her treatment of the women who have had affairs withor have accused him of sexual assault; something Republicans have warned him not to do.“I've said some foolish things, but there is a big difference between the words and actions of other people,” Trump said. “Bill Clinton has actually abused women and Hillary has bullied, attacked, shamed, and intimidated his victims. We will discuss this more in the coming days. See you at the debate on Sunday.”It was a bizarre and provocative ending to a pressure-packed eight-hour period that may represent the defining moment of the campaign. The fallout from Trump’s 2005 remarks – which came to light on Friday afternoon after the Washington Post released hot-mic audio of Trump and former “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush swapping sex stories – has been volcanic. Democrats are casting Trump’s remarks as “predatory.”

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Input: Russia said it expected its ally Syria to attend, although Damascus has yet to publicly confirm it will do so. The Syrian foreign minister is expected to announce his government's position on the talks on Saturday. Peace talks convened two years ago collapsed because the sides were unable to agree an agenda: Damascus wanted a focus on fighting terrorism, the term it uses for the rebellion, while the opposition wanted to discuss a transitional government. A senior adviser to Assad, Bouthaina Shaaban, said on Friday Russia had done more to fight terrorism in Syria than the United States and its allies, according to a BBC interview cited by state news agency SANA. The latest talks are intended to focus on future political arrangements in Syria, a new constitution and elections, U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura said.

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Input: This argument, centered on the perception of Hillary Clinton as an "unbelievably nasty, mean enabler," as Trump has put it, can be traced back to an op-ed penned in 1998 by then-right-wing pundit Arianna Huffington, who denounced Hillary as "enabler-in-chief." This past winter, nearly 20 years later, the Times editorial board reinforced the characterization:" For decades, Mrs. Clinton has helped protect her husband's political career, and hers, from the taint of his sexual misbehavior," the paper noted, citing, among other examples, Hillary's decision to stand next to Bill during a 1992 press conference in which he denied having an affair with Gennifer Flowers. As this narrative picked up steam, Fox produced a handy online "Millennials Guide to Bill Clinton's 20 + Sex Scandals" (The Washington Post later followed suit with its own "Millennials Guide"), while television pundits mused about how this would all play with young women." The lurking danger for Hillary Clinton is, first, was she enabling the behavior, and, more important, assaulting the reputation of the accusers?" former CBS pundit Jeff Greenfield said on Morning Joe in January.

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Input: As Huma Abedin wrote in an e-mail: “She created this mess and she knows it.” The “she” is Hillary Clinton, who’d promised to keynote an event in Morocco in exchange for a $ 12 million donation to the foundation from King Mohammed VI — but then realized it would look bad. The conference would be in May 2015, a month after Clinton officially announced for president — but the State Department she once headed had accused Morocco of “arbitrary arrests and corruption.” In hacked November 2014 e-mails revealed by WikiLeaks, Abedin was warning Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook (who plainly wanted to cancel) that Hillary just had to follow through: “Her presence was a condition for the Moroccans to proceed..

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Input: The disclosures likely will fuel charges by presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who claims Clinton turned her secretaryship into a huge “hedge fund” where “the Russians, the Saudis and the Chinese all gave money to Bill and Hillary and got favorable treatment in return.” Trump demanded that the foundation return $ 25 million it received from the Saudis. Clinton defended the foundation but admitted last week in a Politico interview that in “one or two instances” some foreign donations aiming to influence her office may have “slipped through the cracks.” A 2008 Memorandum of Understanding between the Clinton Foundation and Valerie Jarrett, then-vice-chairwoman of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team attempted to limit and in some instances to ban foreign government funds to the Clinton Foundation and its many projects. The FBI currently has two criminal investigations involving Clinton and the foundation, with one focused on her use of a private email server located in her New York home to conduct official diplomatic business instead of a secure government communication channel. The second investigation is reportedly focused on allegations of “pay-to-play” efforts in which Clinton traded policy or other official actions in return for contributions by foreign donors to the foundation.

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Input: After Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, the European Union and the United States used economic sanctions to target Russia’s financial, energy and defense sectors. Western sanctions have multiplied the effect of the low oil prices, said Robert Kahn, an international economics senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Russia has very little debt, but sanctions have made it difficult for the country to borrow on international capital markets. Additionally, the ruble has fallen nearly 50 percent against the dollar since August 2014. This has depressed the standard of living across Russia, because a weaker ruble makes imports more expensive. Russia countered Western sanctions with import bans on various food products, leading to a smaller supply of those goods and further rising prices. The World Bank predicts the poverty rate will reach 14.2 percent in 2016.

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Input: Among the G20 countries other than the United States, the only one where Mr. Trump bested Ms. Clinton was Russia. That Ms. Clinton would win in a global contest against Mr. Trump, despite the reservations some hold about her, partially reflects bigger concerns that many foreigners have about the billionaire businessman’s fiery rhetoric and policy positions. It is no coincidence that the G20 country where she received most support was Mexico, which Mr. Trump has widely assailed as part of his incredible proposal to build a border wall. Aside from the anti-Trump effect, however, many want Ms. Clinton as president given the strong role she played as secretary of state in the Obama administration in helping to restore the U.S. reputation in the world following George W. Bush’s presidency. In 2009, Mr. Obama and Ms. Clinton confronted a situation in which anti-U.S. sentiment was at about its highest levels since at least the Vietnam War, a situation that could be repeated if Donald Trump were elected in November.

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Input: Russian hackers have used hacking and other techniques to influence public opinion in Europe and Eurasia, it noted. On the eve of a critical post-revolution presidential vote in Ukraine in 2014, for instance, a digital assault nearly crippled the website of the country’s central election commission. The intelligence community has for weeks been confident that hackers tied to Russian spy agencies were behind the DNC hack. Senior officials at the Justice Department and DHS pressed the White House to go public with an accusation. But a number of administration officials were worried that such a statement would appear to politicize the issue in the weeks before the election.

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Input: That is why Mr. Putin said he will lift the sanctions imposed on Turkish products. It includes food and agricultural products, as well as automotive sector," he added. Turkey's foreign minister also said that Putin asked Erdogan to take measures on products that are embargoed by Russia, but still reaches the country via Turkey." We will continue our embargo to these countries," Cavusoglu said." We won't let this happen.

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Input: For my friends, don't forget to check your status by going to # IWillVote.com. # Freedom — Donna Brazile (@donnabrazile) October 31, 2016 Her Oct. 11 statement was issued after the first email's release on the question about the death penalty. “As a longtime political activist with deep ties to our party, I supported all of our candidates for president. I often shared my thoughts with each and every campaign, and any suggestions that indicate otherwise are simply untrue.

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Input: Relevant to your professional network? Please share on Linkedin Tel Aviv police said the attacker began stabbing people near the entrance to the Jaffa Port, wounding a number people to varying degrees. He then escaped on foot in the direction of Tel Aviv, running between vehicles stopped on the road and stabbing motorists. He managed to wound a number of other civilians before he was shot and subdued by police. (Scene of Jaffa stabbing.

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Input: Lack of formal charges might merely be viewed as proof that the process was not above-board. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley Chuck GrassleySpecial counsel to meet with Senate Judiciary Committee members: report Senate GOP shifts focus to Lynch Grassley welcomes Trump’s rescheduled Iowa rally MORE (R-Iowa) has pressed for the FBI to release the evidence collected during its investigation once the probe is concluded — regardless of the outcome — to reassure the public that political considerations did not play a role in the Department's decision. To avoid concerns about impartiality, Grassley and other prominent Republicans have pressed for Attorney General Loretta Lynch to appoint a special independent prosecutor to handle the Clinton investigation. So far, she has denied the request. Was the server secure?

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Input: It turned out Gaddafi had been right about the nature of his enemies. Undaunted by the mess in Libya, Clinton made similar plans for Syria where again she marched in lock-step with the neocons and their “liberal interventionist” sidekicks in support of another violent “regime change,” ousting the Assad dynasty, a top neocon / Israeli goal since the 1990s. Clinton pressed Obama to escalate weapons shipments and training for anti-government rebels who were deemed “moderate” but in reality collaborated closely with radical Islamic forces, including Al Nusra Front (Al Qaeda’s Syrian franchise) and some even more extreme jihadists (who coalesced into the Islamic State). Again, Clinton’s war plans were cloaked in humanitarian language, such as the need to create a “safe zone” inside Syria to save civilians. But her plans would have required a major U.S. invasion of a sovereign country, the destruction of its air force and much of its military, and the creation of conditions for another “regime change.”

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Input: "This is monumentally stupid political theater," Bradley Moss, a lawyer who specializes in security clearances, told The Hill in an email." There already are several provisions within the Adjudicative Guidelines pertaining to security clearance adjudications that address mishandling of classified information." It is not known whether Clinton or her top aides implicated in the FBI probe now hold active clearances — although several security clearance lawyers who spoke to The Hill think it’s unlikely, since none are currently employed by the federal government. If Clinton wins the presidential election in November, she would be essentially exempt from security clearance vetting as an elected official. In the short term, Republicans want to deny her clearance to receive the national security briefings typically given to each party’s presidential nominee.

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Input: He has a specially adapted lamp to mimic sunlight in his room — which measures just 15 ft by 13 ft. Near a Victorian fireplace he has a treadmill donated by the Left-wing film-maker Ken Loach and in his first year at the embassy he notched up 744 miles on the running machine. Sources have said his health has suffered ever since he walked in four years ago, and there is a suspicion Assange, still unapologetic about his role in leaking government secrets, had pushed to leave because of illness. She said afterwards she was worried for his health and when a series of mysterious tweets were sent by WikiLeaks on Sunday his fans feared that he had perished after eating her food. Assange, 45, who has been hiding in the London embassy since 2012 to avoid sex crime allegations in Sweden, is alive and well according to the embassy and now appears to be the victim of a cyber attack.

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Input: Trump will be running against a candidate with deep vulnerabilities in Clinton, who like Trump suffers from weak approval ratings. In early March, a Washington Post-ABC News poll found only 37 percent saw her as honest and trustworthy. Trump is already seizing on those figures by describing Clinton as “Crooked Hillary,” a nickname he hopes will be as successful as his primary attacks on “Little Marco” and “Lyin’ Ted.” Like Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? ' Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan MORE (Vt.), Trump will paint Clinton as tied to Wall Street and other special interests.

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Input: Widely seen as a master of political spin, Mr Surkov specialised in manipulating information in a way which often left his interlocutors unsure as to where the facts ended and the fiction began. This also appears to be an approach used by Dmitry Kiselyov, the powerful head of the state-run Russia Today media network, and a man often referred to as "the Kremlin's chief propagandist". Tasked with broadcasting the Kremlin's point of view, both to Russians and the rest of the world, Mr Kiselyov told the BBC earlier this year that "the age of neutral journalism" had passed. Blurred reality Image copyright AFP Image caption Anton Vaino: The bureaucrat's grandfather was a communist boss in Soviet Estonia

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Input: She has made clear the United States’ unwavering support for Israel, and she has pushed back against autocrats like Russian President Vladimir Putin. As our world grows ever smaller and both threats and opportunities leap across oceans in the blink of a tweet, we would welcome an American commander-in-chief who knows dozens of world leaders on a first-name basis and appreciates their needs — but is not easily taken in. Clinton was a member of the inner circle that advised President Barack Obama to take out Osama bin Laden. Donald Trump, in contrast, talks about NATO like it’s a country club that charges too much. He is clueless as to how such alliances safeguard the security of the Western world.

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Input: But when America proposed deposing him, more than a million progressives poured into the streets in protest. At first, the Democratic leadership supported the Iraq invasion as a just and necessary war. But three months later, with American men and women still in harm’s way — and under pressure from the progressive Left — they turned against the very war they had voted to authorize and, for the next five years, conducted a malicious propaganda campaign, worthy of the enemy, to discredit America’s intentions and to obstruct our military mission. RELATED: The Inconvenient Truth about Ghetto Communities’ Social Breakdown Because the Bush administration chose not to defend itself by confronting the Left’s subversive actions — including the exposure of three national-security programs — leftist myths about the Iraq War persist to this day, even in some conservative circles.

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Input: But what if Tripp or someone else had taken those tapes to Chinese or Iranian diplomats instead of Kenneth Starr, the special prosecutor? Indeed, in his book “Clinton, Inc.,” journalist Daniel Halper reports that there was a blackmail attempt against Bill Clinton. In October 1998 in a bid to gain the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, an Israeli team led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to blackmail President Clinton with tapes of Clinton and Lewinsky. When Clinton brought Israel’s request for Pollard’s release to CIA Director George Tenet, Tenet threatened to resign on the spot should Clinton cave and release Pollard. Clinton ultimately declined the Israeli request, though he would consider it once again before the end of his term.

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Input: After major military victories, the 240-year -old United States has tended to pour money and aid back into countries it has fought to help re-establish governments and services. It was, in fact, a kind of nation-building approach. The U.S. still has troops in Germany and Japan, with the permission of those nations, but it never confiscated their natural resources. In his speech, Trump said that as president he would discard “nation-building.” In its place would be what he called a new approach, which he described simply as halting the spread of “radical Islam.” He said that if elected he would convene an international conference on the topic and work closely with Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Russia, the NATO alliance and “all others who recognize this ideology of death that must be extinguished.” Trump also called Monday for “extreme” ideological vetting of immigrants seeking admission to the United States, vowing to significantly overhaul the country’s screening process and block those who sympathize with extremist groups or do n’t embrace American values.

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Input: Obama held separate talks with President Xi Jinping of China, the closest North Korea has to an ally, and said they both wanted to see "full implementation" of the latest United Nations sanctions against Pyongyang. But Xi offered no sign that Beijing was prepared to go beyond its consent to the Security Council measures imposed in early March. “We are united in our efforts to deter and defend against North Korean provocations,” Obama told reporters after the U.S.-Japan -South Korea meeting." We have to work together to meet this challenge." Relations between Park and Abe have been frosty in the past, but the two have been brought together in recent months by shared concerns about North Korea, which conducted a fourth nuclear bomb test on Jan. 6 and launched a long-range rocket into space in February.

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Input: “It is only because of Russian Air Force support [that] the offensive of the terrorist group was stopped. We request that the air support for the Syrian armed forces be continued by the Russian air force in order to destroy the terrorists.” The Russian Foreign Ministry stressed that US air strikes against Syrian government forces jeopardize the Syrian ceasefire deal reached between Moscow and Washington on September 9. Earlier on Saturday Russia’s Defense Ministry said that four strikes against Syrian positions had been delivered by US-led coalition aircraft – two F-16 jet fighters and two A-10 support aircraft. The Syrian military called the bombing a “serious and blatant aggression” against Syrian forces, and said it was "conclusive evidence" that the US and its allies support IS militants.

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Input: @DebraMax, attacks Hillary Clinton’s gay campaign manager, Robby Mook, calling him “a disgrace” for working for “that bitch.” She says Clinton “took money from these countries, from these countries that would take him and his friends or his lover or his partner and throw them off a building and kill them.” She says Mook is too young to remember “the time of AIDS” and adds, “I never thought in my life I would see another time that I would fear for me and my other gay friends,” referring to the shooting in Orlando. “How disgraceful that you are out there in the public supporting somebody that is going to come here and will kill you for being a gay man,” she says. @DebraMax is not the first to use the massacre at an Orlando gay Pulse nightclub to try to push LGBT people to vote for the overtly anti-Muslim Trump. That’s the message from Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos and from Trump himself. It’s the same message Gingrich delivered at the Log Cabin Republicans party.

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Input: A very powerful explosion,” said Victor, another local resident. “I thought it must have destroyed the door [of the station].” There were conflicting initial reports about the circumstances of the ensuing firefight. Local police said there were two gunmen, one of whom was killed by gunfire at the checkpoint. Some media reported that four people were involved in the attack, which was called an attempted suicide bombing.

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Input: Seselj, who helped incite the ethnic cleansing of parts of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia in the 1990s — by recruiting volunteer fighters and calling non-Serbs “primates,” vampires,” and “excrement” — was acquitted of crimes against humanity and war crimes in a split decision by a panel of three judges at the United Nations court in The Hague in March. Serge Brammertz, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, condemned the decision and promised to appeal it. The original indictment notes that Seselj began his career in ultranationalist politics when he traveled to the United States in 1989 and “met the chairman of the ‘Movement of Chetniks in the Free World,’ Momcilo Dujic, who on the day of the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Kosovo — 28 June 1989 — appointed him a Chetnik ‘Vojvoda,’ meaning a ‘Duke’ or leader.” Having secured this endorsement, Seselj then collected funds to support his nationalistic activities from the Serbian-American diaspora. According to Balkan Insight, a website financed by the European Commission, Seselj has continued to support the goal of a “Greater Serbia” and still calls Bosnia “undoubtedly Serbian.” “If the Muslim fundamentalists do n’t like that,” he added, “they can pack their bags and leave.” Radical nationalists in Serbia justified their brutal assault on civilians in Bosnia by claiming, falsely, that the largely secular population of Slavs who adopted Islam centuries ago during Ottoman rule were secretly Muslim extremists. More than 100,000 people were killed in the ensuing campaign of murder, rape, and intimidation initiated by Serb forces and the wars that followed.

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Input: And many later whistleblowers have turned to other organisations. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists this year published stories based on data dumps from tax havens Panama and the Bahamas, while environmental group Greenpeace in May released documents from negotiations over a controversial US-EU free trade deal. WikiLeaks caused a fresh stir in July when it leaked emails showing US Democratic Party officials favouring Hillary Clinton over left-winger Bernie Sanders in presidential primary elections, forcing high-ranking party members to resign. Assange himself is unmoved by criticisms of his organisation.

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Input: Zakaria took to his show to explain why he decided to use this term to describe the Republican presidential nominee." He boasts and boasts and boasts about his business, his buildings, his books, his wives; much of it is a concoction of hyperbole and falsehood. And, when he is found out, he's like that guy we have all met making wild claims at the bar, who when confronted by the truth quickly responds, ' I knew that. '" Zakaria said. One of the examples Zakaria points to is the "non-relationship" between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

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Input: “The public has a right to know this information.” It was unclear what Mr. Reid was referring to. A spokesman said in a telephone interview Sunday that Mr. Reid did not believe it was his place to disclose national security information, which had been told to him in confidential briefings with senior intelligence and law enforcement officials. Advertisement Continue reading the main story “The exact information is at the discretion of the national security community, but it is Senator Reid’s view that there is much more that can be said publicly than has been so far,” said the spokesman, Adam Jentleson.

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Input: The Pakistanis were mobile phone dealers and had arrived in Moscow to attend an annual convention. Sources said that some of them were kept in a room without food and water for hours. Of the detained persons, 80 belonged to Karachi, 35 are from Lahore and the rest from Islamabad. According to latest updates, 48 Pakistanis have been sent back to Pakistan via different flights. According to sources, the 48 have already reached Turkey.

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Input: 6:10 p.m. UVA Student Detained in North Korea Has Died Otto Warmbier came back to the United States last week in a coma, after being imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months. 4:58 p.m. Trump Brags About 100-Year -Old Canal He Did n’t Build to Panamanian President

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Input: The most recent spate of negotiations led by the US collapsed in April 2014. Israel claimed the process failed because the Palestinians refused to accept a US framework document outlining the way forward, while Palestinians pointed to Israel’s ongoing settlement building and the government’s refusal to release veteran prisoners. While members of the international community have rested the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the discontinuation of illegal Israeli settlements and the establishment of a two-state solution, a number of Palestinian activists have criticized the two-state solution as improbable, unsustainable and unlikely to bring durable peace, proposing instead a binational state with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians.

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Input: Neighbouring Slovakia is officially the Slovak Republic. Similarly, Russia is used for the Russian Federation. Czech leaders, including President Milos Zeman, Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka, speakers of both chambers of Parliament and the foreign and defence ministers met Thursday and endorsed the new name. In a statement, they said "it is recommended to use a one-word name in foreign languages if it is not necessary to use the formal name of the country." They mentioned sports events and marketing as an example.

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Input: According to a memorandum of understanding, revealed by Politifact, the foundation could continue to collect donations from countries with which it had existing relationships or running grant programs. The records would show that of the 25 donors who have contributed more than $ 5 million to the Clinton Foundation throughout the years, six are foreign governments, with the largest contributor being Saudi Arabia. The importance of Saudi Arabia’s role in funding Clinton is tremendous, as the Syria / Saudi relationship over the last half century is what this civil war is all about. As Zuesse points out in his article on Strategic Culture, When the interviewer asked Hersh why Obama is so obsessed with replacing Assad in Syria, since “The power vacuum that would ensue would open Syria up to all kinds of jihadi groups”; and Hersh replied that not only he, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff, “nobody could figure out why.” He said, “Our policy has always been against him [Assad].

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Input: Kerry made the remarks at a dinner in Washington to mark last week's Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, shortly before he was due to set off on a tour of European capitals. This journey was to take him on Thursday to Moscow, where he is set to meet with President Vladimir Putin and lobby Russia to do more to help end Syria's five-year-old conflict. Syria is in the grip of what Kerry called the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II, and more than 4.8 million people have fled the country. The United States has traditionally been by far the world's most generous host for refugees but has been criticised for moving too slowly to respond to the Syrian crisis. Frontline states like Lebanon and Jordan meanwhile have been all but overwhelmed, and the arrival of streams of unvetted migrants on Europe's shores provoked a crisis.

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Input: (a) (a) Destruction or Removal of Property To Prevent Seizure .— Whoever, before, during, or after any search for or seizure of property by any person authorized to make such search or seizure, knowingly destroys, damages, wastes, disposes of, transfers, or otherwise takes any action, or knowingly attempts to destroy, damage, waste, dispose of, transfer, or otherwise take any action, for the purpose of preventing or impairing the Government's lawful authority to take such property into its custody or control or to continue holding such property under its lawful custody and control, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both .. (b) “Impairment of In Rem Jurisdiction .— Whoever, knowing that property is subject to the in rem jurisdiction of a United States court for purposes of civil forfeiture under Federal law, knowingly and without authority from that court, destroys, damages, wastes, disposes of, transfers, or otherwise takes any action, or knowingly attempts to destroy, damage, waste, dispose of, transfer, or otherwise take any action, for the purpose of impairing or defeating the court's continuing in rem jurisdiction over the property, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.” Hillary knew her emails were being investigated and intentionally acted to obstruct the investigation. If not for the efforts of Judge Rudolph Contreras to order the State Department to release emails, Hillary would have continued to destroy them and delay the investigation. An interesting side note is that Hillary went to Maine South high school in Park Ridge, IL, a suburb that borders Chicago. The FBI agent who sold more secrets to Russia than any agent in history, Robert Hanssen, grew up two miles from her and went to nearby Taft High School in Chicago.

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Input: Facebook Email “It is absolutely outrageous – though not surprising – that the Syrian government has continued to bombard and starve its own civilians. And it is unacceptable that the UN and other influential international players are not doing more to address the critical situation in Daraya and other besieged locations.” Imprecise barrel bombs

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Input: The Chechen warlord has risen to become an ISIS commander, with at least 130 militants at his disposal, with security sources claiming he was creating terror cells to be sent into Russia. One-armed Chechen warlord Akhmed Chataev (pictured) has been named as the mastermind behind the Istanbul airport massacre, it has emerged It comes as pictures emerged of the three suicide bombers-seen smiling together just moments before they carried out the deadly massacre, killing 42 and injuring hundreds Attack: CCTV shows the moment a deadly blast went off at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul late on Tuesday It comes as pictures emerged of the three suicide bombers-seen smiling together just moments before they carried out the deadly massacre, killing 42 and injuring hundreds.

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Input: "However complicated the United States ' relationship with Russia may be at the moment, there is nothing to the argument that the two countries are at war, or that Russia is an ' enemy ' within the meaning of the proviso." But he added that Trump could have transgressed a different federal law that makes it a crime for an individual to induce others to commit felonies involving physical force against American property," which almost certainly includes cyberhacking." Trump's explosive comments on the emails Wednesday, during a news conference apparently called to try to commandeer media coverage focused the Democratic convention, were not confined to the two email sagas. He denied reports in some media outlets that his business was under undue influence from Russia and that Putin hoped he would win the election. He also claimed that Putin had once used the ' N ' word in a show of disrespect against Obama.

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Input: Expect to see lots of appearances in battleground states such as Ohio, North Carolina, Florida and Pennsylvania Voters will go to the polls on Tuesday 8 November to decide who becomes the 45th president of the US The new president will be inaugurated on 20 January 2017 More on the US election

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

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Input: The SLBM [Submarine-launched ballistic missile] test-fire was successfully carried out without any adverse impact on neighboring countries.” The news agency quoted Kim Jong Un as saying the following: “The US vicious nuclear threat and blackmail against the DPRK only resulted in bolstering up its nuclear attack capability hour by hour and the US mainland and the operational theatre in the Pacific are now within the striking range of the KPA, no matter how hard the US tries to deny it.” The actions of the North Koreans have been preceded by the deployment of the THAD anti-missile system in South Korea and the Sea of Japan, as well as the recent redeployment of nuclear-armed B-52 bomber aircraft by the U.S. to the island of Guam. In addition, a total of 75,000 U.S. and South Korean troops have been engaged in military exercises in South Korea that have infuriated the North Koreans.

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Input: The same supporter is then apprehended by police as they take him in for his part in inciting the violence on Marseille's streets An officer from the specialist dog team patrols the streets of Marseille as football fans drink and socialise outside one of the city's bars An English fan is arrested in Marseille after supporters clashed with police prior to England's opening game against Russia on Saturday A line of French riot police march along a street in Marseille as they attempt to the quell the crowd of England fans after violence flared ' THEY'RE TOO OLD, FAT AND DRUNK ' -RUSSIAN HOOLIGANS GOAD ENGLISH THUGS BEFORE MARSEILLE CLASH by Will Stewart in Moscow Russian hooligans warned England fans were ' too old, fat and drunk ' too put up a fight against them as tensions explode on the streets of Marseille.

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Input: We are not going to criminalize, profile, round up, and deport 16 million people. pic.twitter.com/oCAAusi5dx John Podesta, her campaign chairman, said in a statement:" It turns out Trump didn't just choke, he got beat in the room and lied about it." The Clinton campaign also released a web video on Wednesday that accused Trump of lying about his trip to Mexico and sarcastically called him the "Great Negotiator." A wall that Mexico will pay for: a bad idea from an even worse negotiator.

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Input: He uttered the tired refrain that Israel’s military needs to end its “disproportionate” responses to Palestinian terror. What’s “disproportionate” about Israel’s self-preserving responses to rocket fire on civilians’ heads, Bernie? He was the first US senator to join House Democrats boycotting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress. He rejected Netanyahu’s dire warning that the nuclear deal entered into by the governments of Iran, the United States and other world powers threatens the very existence of the Jewish state. Campaigning in Dearborn, Mich., last month, a city whose population contains the nation’s highest proportion of Arab-American Muslims, Sanders stuck it to his own people.

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Input: In 2002, Sheremet won a journalism prize from the Organization for Security and Co‑operation in Europe (OSCE) for his reporting on human rights violations in Belarus, including the disappearances of opposition politicians and journalists. The OSCE called on Wednesday for action to address the safety of journalists in Ukraine. The founder of Ukrayinska Pravda, Georgiy Gongadze, was an investigative journalist who was murdered 16 years ago, his decapitated body discovered in a forest outside Kiev. The incident helped to precipitate the Orange Revolution of 2004/05, which resulted in an election re-run and the victory of an opposition presidential candidate. (Reporting by Natalia Zinets, Sergei Karazy, Alessandra Prentice and Margaryta Chornokondratenko in Kiev, Jack Stubbs and Maria Tsvetkova in Moscow, Andrei Makhovsky in Minsk, and Mohammad Zargham in Washington; Writing by Matthias Williams; Editing by John Stonestreet and Diane Craft)

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Input: "Today, a country that threatens the existence of Israel, denies the Holocaust, destabilizes the Middle East, subjugates its own people and supports terror across the globe is being strengthened by the international community," Yair Lapid, a member of the Knesset, said." The lifting of sanctions strengthens Hezbollah, it strengthens (Syrian President Bashar al-) Assad, it strengthens terrorists across the region who benefit from Iranian support." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is monitoring Iran and will report any violation of the nuclear agreement. Iran has not given up on its ambition to acquire a nuclear weapon, he said. ' Implementation Day '

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Input: -- A Washington Post poll finds that 53 percent of Virginia voters approve of Terry McAuliffe’s performance as governor, but that’s weaker and more partisan than what nearly all of his predecessors enjoyed over the past two decades. Six in 10 Virginians support the governor’s effort to restore voting rights to more than 200,000 felons. But they are evenly split on whether he was motivated by altruism or politics: 45 percent say he did it because he thinks it is the right thing to do, while 42 percent say he did it because it would help Democrats win elections. (Laura Vozzella, Gregory S. Schneider and Emily Guskin) -- “Efforts to choose a successor to D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier, who is retiring next month, are beginning with an early focus on the department’s assistant chiefs, including one just promoted to that position this month,” Peter Hermann and Clarence Williams report.

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Input: WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- President Barack Obama included North Korea on a list of countries that are suspected of human trafficking violations. The presidential decree was posted to the Federal Register on Monday and follows a July U.S. Treasury decision to name Kim Jong Un a human-rights offender. The blacklisting of North Korea under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 is mostly symbolic, since the ban would prohibit Washington from providing non-humanitarian, non-trade-related assistance to embargoed countries.

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Input: “So our missiles, even if they are standoff missiles so we’re not putting our pilots at risk — you’re going to kill a lot of Syrians.” “So all of a sudden this intervention that people talk about so glibly becomes an American and NATO involvement where you take a lot of civilians,” she added. Clinton also noted that Syria had “the fourth-biggest army in the world,” along with “very sophisticated air defense systems” that had gotten even more sophisticated because of Russian imports. The quotes from this speech were included in a list of excerpts of Clinton’s paid speeches to Wall Street, which was attached to a January 2016 email to John Podesta, a close Clinton ally who now serves as the chair for Clinton’s presidential campaign. WikiLeaks has published thousands of emails to and from Podesta.

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Input: Chapman’s assignment to Hotel reflected the agency’s rapidly expanding relationship with the U.S. military, according to Henry Crumpton, the leader of the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center task force that led the war in Afghanistan. It was a relationship born out of necessity in order to field an effective unconventional force in a new and entirely unconventional war. After purchasing thousands of dollars in outdoor supplies from area sporting goods stores and requesting the weapons and equipment the team would need in Afghanistan, the six men spent the remainder of October bouncing between the CIA’s Camp Peary — better known as The Farm — in Williamsburg, Va., and the agency’s headquarters. Chapman was responsible for assembling the team’s communications equipment. At the time, the process of interfacing satellite radios and computers was a new discipline, but it was something Chapman had already mastered.

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Input: French President Francois Hollande expressed extreme revulsion at Donald Trump’s “excesses” in the U.S. presidential campaign and warned against the authoritarian tone adopted by the Republican nominee and billionaire reality-television celebrity. “In the U.S., one of the world’s great democracies, maybe the greatest democracy, where democracy was born, before the French one, we see some excesses that are sickening,” Hollande said in Paris during the annual meeting with the presidential press. Particularly, Hollande added, when Trump “speaks ill of a soldier, of the memory of a soldier,” an allusion to his feud with the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, a Muslim-American soldier killed in Iraq in 2004.

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Input: A court document obtained by ICIJ indicates that Bank Melli’s rent on more than 8,000 square feet on the GM Building’s 44th floor may have topped half a million dollars a year. The legal ramifications of the Trump Organization taking rent payments from Bank Melli are unclear. At the time, the U.S. had a sweeping embargo in place which prohibited Americans from doing business with Iran, including receiving rent payments. However, some Iranian organizations were granted licenses exempting specific transactions from sanctions. If the payments were licensed, it may have been legally difficult for the Trump Organization to evict the bank.

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Input: Though Clinton stated with almost certainty that Russia was to blame, there may be more to the story. In fact, two American hacktivists, Andrew Otto Boggs and Justin Gray Liverman, were arrested over their purported involvement with WikiLeaks and hacking into federal agency email systems and neither have been linked to Russia. Two alleged hackers arrested over WikiLeaks publications. Young activists in the US. https://t.co/7V0IlTBpgp https://t.co/7V0IlTBpgp — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) October 15, 2016 The two “activists,” 22-year -old Andrew Otto Boggs and 24-year -old Justin Gray Liverman, from the United States, were reportedly part of a group known as “Crackas With Attitude.” The hackers reportedly targeted CIA Director John Brennan’s emails as well as other high-ranking CIA staff members.

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Input: He recalled the migration with a shrug, in a single sentence, as if it were nothing. Hamada’s account of atrocities at Hospital 601 was later corroborated by approximately fifty-five thousand photographs, smuggled out of Syria by a military-police officer known by the name Caesar, an alias. Before the war, Caesar and his colleagues had documented crime scenes and traffic accidents involving military personnel in Damascus. He uploaded pictures to government computers, then printed them and stapled them to official death reports. Beginning in 2011, however, the bodies were those of detainees, collected each day from security branches and delivered to military hospitals.

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Input: Developing countries should focus on building resilience to a weaker economic environment and shielding the most vulnerable. The benefits from reforms to governance and business conditions are potentially large and could help offset the effects of slow growth in larger economies.” The Bank said it expected the growth rate in the Middle East and North Africa region to more than double as a result of the ending of sanctions against Iran and an end to declining oil prices. “Growth is forecast to accelerate to 5.1% in 2016 from 2.5% in the year just ended, as the expected suspension or removal of economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran will allow that country to play a larger role in global energy markets. Growth is expected to pick up in other oil exporters as well, predominantly on the assumption that oil prices will stabilize.”

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Input: Marc Elias, the lead lawyer on the lawsuits, is a top lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign. Rick Hasen, a leading election law scholar, wrote Monday: “It is not clear that a court would issue a vague order to stop ' voter intimidation, ' as requested in the relief in these suits (as that term would be vague and difficult to enforce). But the suits will first bring publicity to the activities, and second get these parties on record stating that they do not plan on engaging in voter intimidation, which itself could be useful in the event of problems on election day. Update, 3:17 p.m.: Timothy La Sota, the general counsel of the Arizona GOP, called the lawsuit" outrageous."

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Input: Fonseca, the firm's co-founder and until March a senior government official in Panama, said his firm has formed more than 240,000 companies, adding that the "vast majority" had been used for "legitimate purposes". The ICIJ report published on Sunday details billions of dollars of financial transactions moved through numerous offshore accounts. Britain's Guardian newspaper said the documents showed a network of secret offshore deals and loans worth $ 2 billion led to close friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Kremlin dismissed the report as aiming to discredit Putin ahead of parliamentary elections. Fonseca emphasized that the firm was not responsible for the activities of the companies it incorporates.

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

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Input: PHOTOS: Russian Meteor Strike Aftermath The event itself is notable because it is the largest atmospheric impact recorded since the famous Chelyabinsk bolide that exploded over Russia in 2013, causing widespread structural damage and injuries to the city with a population of 1 million. This recent Feb. 6 event unleashed an energy equivalent of 13,000 tons of TNT exploding instantaneously (a.k.a. a "13 kiloton" explosion); the Chelyabinsk impact ripped through the Ural Mountain skies with a whopping energy of 440 kilotons. Initially noticed by NASA's Ron Baalke and then investigated by Bad Astronomer Phil Plait, it quickly became clear that the high-altitude impact was likely caused by a chunk of space rock approximately 5-7 meters (16-23 ft) wide.

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Input: [Parents of slain man appeal for help finding killer] The editor of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, said in a statement issued through an intermediary that he would not confirm or deny whether Rich or any person was a source for the organization, which over the years has obtained and released massive amounts of internal emails and other documents from the military, the State Department and other agencies. The statement says that policy “also covers alleged sources who were deceased.” “We treat threats towards any suspected WikiLeaks sources with extreme gravity,” the statement says. “This should not be taken to imply that Seth Rich was a source to WikiLeaks or that his murder is connected to our publications.

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Input: Russia's defence ministry said a Russian helicopter was shot down near Saraqeb, killing all five people on board in the largest loss of life for the Russian military since it started operations in Syria's civil war 10 months ago. The Mi-8 transport helicopter was brought down by ground fire in Idlib province while returning to Hemeimeem air base after delivering humanitarian goods to Aleppo, the ministry said. It said all three crew members and two military officers on board died. Images uploaded to social media purportedly show the flaming wreckage of the helicopter along with a dead body and what are alleged to be Russian identity documents taken from the wreckage. The helicopter appeared to have broken up as it crashed: its tail could be seen lying separately from the aircraft's body in flames.

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Input: We will not share your email with anyone for any reason. If two former New York mayors in Philadelphia was n’t enough for a race with two New Yorkers duking it out for the presidency, Rudy Giuliani also showed up. As part of the counterprogramming provided by the Republican National Committee, Giuliani appeared at a boxing club where The Wrestler was filmed, to assail the Democratic nominee. “I would be surprised,” Giuliani said, “if the Russians have n’t hacked all of Hillary’s emails way back when they were sitting in [a] garage. That server of hers was less secure than the DNC server that was hacked — considerably less secure.”

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Input: The case sparked outrage and allegations on far-right websites and Russian media outlets of an official cover-up. But Berlin's prosecutors said there was no evidence that the girl was forced to have sexual relations during that period. Martin Steltner, a spokesman for Berlin's prosecutor's office, said that it had opened an investigation against a man on possible statutory rape charges. Sex with anyone under the age of 14, even if consensual, is a crime in Germany which is punishable by imprisonment. Amid ongoing tensions between Russia and the West on a range of issues, Lavrov used the occasion of his annual press conference to draw attention to the case and said Moscow was directly involved.

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Input: Turkey is the main route into Syria for UK jihadis. Out of the at least 50 UK jihadis known to have died fighting either for Islamic State or al-Qaida’s Syrian branch, Jabhat al-Nusra, almost all travelled into Syria through Turkey. Foreign secretary urges Turkey to further stem flow of Syrian migrants Read more One of those fighters, Fatlum Shakalu, 20, from west London, was killed in fighting in May 2015 after blowing himself up for Isis in the Iraqi city of Ramadi. Shakalu was understood to have smuggled himself into Syria via Turkey in the spring of 2013 with his brother Flamur, who also died on the frontline in Iraq last year.

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Input: They were ultimately released from detention and fired from the service, but were allowed to keep their pensions and money they gained from the scheme, according to Jordanian officials. Jordan’s decision to host the CIA-led training programme is the latest episode in a long partnership. Beginning in the Eisenhower administration, the CIA made large payments to King Hussein, who ruled Jordan from 1952 until his death in 1999, in exchange for permission to run numerous intelligence operations on Jordanian soil. CIA money and expertise also helped the king establish the GID and put down internal and external threats to his government. Since the September 11, 2001, attacks, the United States has flooded Jordan with money for various counterterrorism programmes.

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Input: The two male Australian officials were wearing their team uniforms and were walking the short distance back to their hotel, after attending the Australian team's informal opening ceremony on Ipanema Beach, when they were confronted by two male teenagers about 8.30pm on Friday, local time, Australian Olympic Committee spokesman Mike Tancred said. One of the teenagers pulled out a knife and threatened the pair, while the other teen grabbed one of the coaches by the throat and demanded he hand over his money, Mr Tancred said." One coach was robbed of his wallet which contained a credit card, and he also lost his team blazer which he was carrying over his arm at the time. They both lost their mobile phones," Mr Tancred said." They didn't resist, they complied and handed everything over."

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Input: Abbas is insistent that he wants to participate in the funeral due to its international importance and the presence of numerous world leaders, even if his decision draws broad public criticism from Palestinians, they said. Abbas ' decision to attend the funeral has placed the Arab political parties in Israel, in particular the Joint List as well as the Arab Higher Monitoring Committee, in an uncomfortable position. They have mostly remained quiet about Peres ' death, and do not plan to participate in his funeral because of Peres ' history in defense matters and his Zionism, which they say have had effects on the Palestinian people-while the senior Palestinian leadership, headed by Abbas, who is also the head of the PLO, will take part in the funeral. Hamas released a statement condemning the letter of condolence Abbas sent to Peres ' family, as well as his attendance. The Palestinian people should be happy over the death of someone "whose hands are covered in Palestinian blood," said Hamas in the statement.

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Input: (Photo by Ameer Alhalbi / NurPhoto) More than 1 in 10 Syrians have been wounded or killed since the beginning of the war in 2011, according to a new report that finds a staggering 470,000 deaths have been caused by the conflict, either directly or indirectly. The grim tally from the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR) represents a dramatic increase from the total of 250,000 fatalities often cited by the United Nations, which stopped independently counting Syria’s war dead early in 2014. In all, 11.5 percent of Syria’s population has been wounded or killed since 2011, according to the SCPR analysis. The vast majority of deaths — 400,000 — were caused by violence, while 70,000 came as an indirect result of the war — the collapse of the country’s health-care infrastructure, lack of access to medicine, poor sanitation, the spread of communicable diseases, falling vaccination rates, food scarcity and malnutrition.

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Input: In a cable to his subordinates throughout the province, Brigadier General Jameh explained that the protests in Syria were influenced by “some Arab countries witnessing youth revolutions calling for change, democracy, freedoms, and reforms aimed at creating job opportunities for young men, improving living standards, and fighting corruption.” But by the end of the month the provincial security chiefs had adopted the language of conspiracy which emanated from Damascus. Hours after Assad gave his televised speech at the parliament building, on March 30th, the members of the Deir Ezzor security committee agreed to consider it “a reference and a pillar in our work,” and most of the group’s future discussions were infused with anxiety over treachery, sedition, foreign infiltration, and “the Zionist American project.” Hamada and his friends were excited by the prospect of revolution, and every Wednesday they began meeting inside the neighborhood mosque, the Othman bin Affan, to organize protests that would take place after Friday prayers. “It was a logistical issue,” he told me. “Everyone went to the mosque on a Friday, everyone came out.” He laughed, and added, “If we could have come out of churches, we would have come out of churches!”

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Input: Michelle Obama praises weekend rampage by Chicago teens as good way to burn calories and stay healthy This Passover, Obama urges his subjects to paint lamb's blood above doors in order to avoid the Sequester White House to American children: Sequester causes layoffs among hens that lay Easter eggs; union-wage Easter Bunnies to be replaced by Mexican Chupacabras Time Mag names Hugo Chavez world's sexiest corpse Boy, 8, pretends banana is gun, makes daring escape from school

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Input: They were, generally, in favor of order and had a propensity toward the broadly normative, a certain squareness. They leaned toward skepticism (they’d believe it when they saw it, “it” being anything feelings-based, gauzy, liberal, or European; i.e., “socialist”). Some (far from all) had been touched by financial hardship — a layoff was common in many stories — and (paradoxically, given their feelings about socialism) felt that, while in that vulnerable state, they’d been let down by their government. They were anti-regulation, pro small business, pro Second Amendment, suspicious of people on welfare, sensitive (in a “Do n’t tread on me” way) about any infringement whatsoever on their freedom. Alert to charges of racism, they would pre-counter these by pointing out that they had friends of all colors.

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Input: “If the Americans and the Russians agreed, then we will obey. We can only listen to their orders.” The U.N. special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said humanitarian agencies hoped to implement the first phase of the agreement, calling for humanitarian deliveries of aid to besieged communities, where people have been starving to death, “within the coming days.” The text of the agreement reached Thursday called for the aid deliveries to begin “this week,” which implied they were supposed to begin Saturday. Karen DeYoung in Brussels and Brian Murphy in Washington contributed to this report.

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Input: Given this development, it would seem prudent to reconsider whether the 36 core uncompetitive, sole source award to ULA is truly in the best interests of the people of the United States.” The argument hit the nail on the head and found a responsive audience in the person of Sen. John McCain, who began a two-year battle against ULA’s monopoly under the pretext of the Russian threat. When his attempts to fully ban Russian engines – and thus put ULA out of business – failed (the final text did not include commercial launches and exempted the engines already purchased) he tried to limit the amount of future purchases. This clause, while giving some flexibility, pushed the Pentagon to seek other launch service providers who would develop a truly American engine. However, pretty quickly it was discovered that a new engine would require an entirely new rocket, and the first all-American launch could happen no sooner than 2022 at very best.

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Input: When it comes to immigration, Clinton has held a number of stances that have evolved over the years. In 2003, she was “adamantly against illegal immigration.” In 2006, she voted YES to build a fence along the Mexico border. In 2007 she said, “As president, I will not support driver’s licenses for undocumented people and will press for comprehensive immigration reform that deals with all of the issues around illegal immigration, including border security and fixing our broken system.” In 2015 she said that she now supported state policies to provide driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants and came out in support of a path to citizenship. She defended Obama’s deportation policies in 2014, but now suggests they were too harsh. And then there’s perceptions of Hispandering and Clinton’s fumble to attract the Hispanic vote.

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Input: He said, « Our policy has always been against him [Assad]. Period ». This has actually been the case not only since the Party that Assad leads, the Ba’ath Party, was the subject of a shelved CIA coup-plot in 1957 to overthrow and replace it; but, actually, the CIA’s first coup had been not just planned but was carried out in 1949 in Syria, overthrowing there a democratically elected leader, in order to enable a pipeline for the Sauds’ oil to become built through Syria into the largest oil market, Europe; and, construction of the pipeline started the following year. But, there were then a succession of Syrian coups (domestic instead of by foreign powers – 1954, 1963, 1966, and, finally, in 1970), concluding in the accession to power of Hafez al-Assad during the 1970 coup. And, the Sauds ' long-planned Trans-Arabia Pipeline has still not been built.

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Input: North Carolina is shaping up as perhaps the single most important state in the race for the White House and control of the Senate. Voting rights advocates sued North Carolina earlier this year, alleging that the state has failed to process thousands of voter registration applications made through the DMV. Last week, U.S. Judge Loretta Biggs issued a preliminary injunction, saying North Carolina likely violated the National Voter Registration Act. Biggs ordered that voters who say they registered through the DMV but find they’re not on the rolls be allowed to cast a provisional ballot that must be counted unless the state can produce a signed form showing the voter declined to be registered. But Allison Riggs, a lawyer with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, said the process the state announced for complying with Biggs’s order is badly flawed.

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Input: Rebel-held eastern Aleppo, where up to 275,000 people live, has been almost entirely cut off from vital supplies including food, water, medicine and electricity for over a month, O’Brien said, while access to the estimated 1.5 million people in government-controlled western Aleppo “remains extremely difficult.” The UN has found a new route into western Aleppo and has delivered some aid, and it is preparing 20 trucks to deliver food and other supplies to eastern Aleppo as soon as a cease-fire takes place, he said. “This is a race against time, as fighting rages on, with ever more shocking reports of bombed hospitals and wrecked schools,” O’Brien said. “Electricity is out, water is scarce, and movement is restricted.” He repeated his appeals for UN action, not just on Aleppo, but to end the war in Syria saying: “When hospital attacks have become the new normal, when medieval sieges of entire cities and neighborhoods have become a lasting reality for hundreds of thousands of people, this council can not look the other way.”

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Input: Clinton's own conduct would be less perplexing if the federal rules on handling sensitive information weren't so explicit, and if she wasn't so familiar with them. The government wants to protect this nation's secrets. And freedom of information laws want official communications to be accessible so that, if the details don't compromise national security, lawmakers and other citizens can inspect them. Among established and well-known protocols: Officials can't send classified data on unclassified networks. On Friday, though, the State Department disclosed that "top secret" communications had moved through Clinton's private computer server — information so highly classified that State couldn't make 37 pages of the emails public.

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Input: “The godfather of this global brand of extreme nationalism is Russian President Vladimir Putin,” Clinton said. “Trump himself heaps praise on Putin and embraces pro-Russian policies.” While Trump has indeed made some dubious statements about Russia and Putin that sparked alarm among many segments of the conservative movement, the notion that Putin is leading a global conspiracy of right-wing nationalists, is, well, pretty wild, and has been widely ridiculed. As Clinton becomes increasingly paranoid and detached from reality in her public statements, some analysts have suggested it is all a campaign tactic or evidence of senility. By demonizing tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of Americans as racists, though, Clinton is playing a dangerous game. She is also doing a major disservice to legitimate efforts to expose and oppose racism, because if everyone and everything is racist, then nothing is racist and the word becomes meaningless.

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Input: But terrorism has always seemed the prime known-unknown. After all, terrorism is now a depressingly regular feature of American life. While no attacks have rivaled 9/11, we saw at least 45 thwarted terror plots in the first ten years after the destruction of the World Trade Center and in the last year alone suffered horrific losses in the San Bernardino and Orlando slaughters. But we have no template for the impact of an attack just before an American election. We are in a long war, a “generational struggle against radical jihadist terrorism,” as Hillary Clinton has repeatedly said.

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Input: Democratic Republic of Congo (383,100) Chad (369,500) The UK has said its policy is to provide aid money to neighbouring countries so that they can support refugees closer to home. But Amnesty criticised the approach in its report, saying rich countries should not "pay to keep people ' over there '". Refugees and migrants continue to risk their lives attempting to reach Europe.

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Input: Link Experts say Donald Trump may legally have no tax to pay. Photo: Evan Vucci It showed she and her husband, Bill, paid 30.6 per cent of their $ US10.6 million earnings in federal income tax. Tax experts suggested Mr Trump could legally have taken advantage of generous deductions open to property developers. Len Green, the chairman of the Green Group, a tax consulting service, said:" It's certainly feasible that he may be paying zero."

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Input: They have much more power,” Polyakov told the Guardian. He also explained how attackers can also target a safety feature called a Burner Management System (BMS) used to safely startup and shut down furnaces used at various stages of gas-oil separation. This system is “easy to manipulate” to create a malfunction that could lead to an explosion, Polyakov said. Oil companies should be “very worried” about these potential exploits, he said. Some 43% of global mining, oil and gas companies were hacked in 2014, according a study by cybersecurity firm Symantec.

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Input: Washington’s pursuit of hegemony has fallen short of its goal, causing havoc and collapse of states, Bashar Assad said in a new interview. Syria’s head believes that US meddling in the conflict aims to “save what is left” from its fading global preeminence. In an interview to Iranian magazine Tehran Foreign Policy Studies Quarterly on Wednesday, the Syrian president argued that the US resort to force every time it fears a challenge to its clout and ability to control the international agenda unilaterally. Read more “United States builds its position on hegemony over other states and it has been the case since they took advantage of the USSR collapse and established unilateral control over this world up to this day,” the president said, adding that the real motive behind US military interventions into foreign countries is to coerce them to submit to American authority, as in the case with Syria.

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Input: The Daily Beast Editor-in-Chief John Avlon responded to our request for comment and denied any collusion with the Clinton campaign: The Daily Beast is non-partisan and does not collude with campaigns. While all sources are, of course, confidential, the freelancer who authored the story, David Freedlander rejects the suggestion that the campaign had anything to do with the story’s inception or execution, and this email in no way states otherwise. The Clinton campaign also tried to pin the 1996 crime bill to Bernie Sanders, by tying his vote on it to the high incarceration rates of African Americans in the state. The controversial bill, which was signed by President Clinton and was supported by then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, harmed communities across the nation and disproportionately affected African Americans.

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Input: At least 32 people were killed in separate attacks Monday in Aleppo and its western suburbs, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The United States and Russia have been essentially on opposing sides of the conflict but had recently agreed to the ceasefire and some cooperation. But the two powers were quick to accuse each other of violating the ceasefire, and Moscow has long opposed the US position of supporting and arming what it calls moderate rebels to fight ISIS. The US State Department blamed Moscow and the Syrian regime for hampering the delivery of aid." For more than a week, we have urged Moscow to fulfill the commitments it made in Geneva to facilitate the unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid to the Syrian people," the department said in a statement.

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Input: Republicans on Capitol Hill seized on the message, arguing that it showed “intent” and indicated Clinton may have violated laws that cover how classified material is handled. Clinton’s campaign responded that she never would have instructed an aide to send classified information on an unclassified system. Regardless, the State Department said it found no evidence that the document was ever sent via unsecured fax. In an earlier, February 2010 email exchange, Sullivan had to explain to Clinton that he could n’t send her a Mideast peace-related statement from former British Prime Minister Tony Blair because it was classified. Clinton seemed irritated: “It's a public statement!

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Input: The security guard, believed to be a 30-year -old man, reportedly suffered multiple stab and gunshot wounds when he confronted the attacker. He is in a serious condition at the Hadassah Medical Centre in Ein Karem. Following the attack, Israeli troops sealed off Bani Naim and began preparations to demolish Tarayreh's home." The horrifying murder of a young girl in her bed underscores the bloodlust and inhumanity of the incitement-driven terrorists that we are facing," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement." The entire nation deeply identifies with the family's pain and declares to the murderers: You will not break us."

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Input: The shocking footage shows a number of injured people being treated by paramedics at the scene of the incident. Terrified shoppers were seen running for their lives from the Munich Olympia Shopping Centre, in the district of Moosach, after hearing gunshots. Thamina Stoll, 22, of Durham, North Carolina, who is in Munich on a summer internship, filmed people fleeing the shopping centre during the attacks from her grandmother's apartment. She said some 50 terrified people ran towards her house, seeking shelter. A major police operation is ongoing in Munich, around the city's Olympic Park, with the force warning people to stay in their homes and avoid public spaces Ms Stoll said had just visited the shopping centre with her grandmother and a cousin for an hour before the shooting started.

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Input: "There is a reason Clinton gave these high-paid speeches in secret behind closed doors-her real intentions will destroy American sovereignty as we know it, further illustrating why Hillary Clinton is simply unfit to be president.” Trump’s Issues Trump has hammered the issues for months, blaming trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the North American Free Trade Agreement for the loss of thousands of middle-class manufacturing jobs, and undocumented immigrants for crime and a decline in law and order. Clinton faced pressure during the Democratic primary from Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders to release transcripts of her private speeches to banks and other financial firms as he argued that voters should know what Clinton was willing to say to groups that had given her six-figure paychecks that she would n’t say to the public." Whatever Secretary Clinton may or may not have said behind closed doors on Wall Street, I am determined to implement the agenda of the Democratic Party platform which was agreed to by her campaign," Sanders said in a statement reported by NBC News.

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Input: Aleppo's citizens would have been better off living under occupation than living under ruins," Koteich wrote. Israel took the Golan Heights during the 1967 Six Day War, and in 1981 extended Israeli law to the region, thereby de facto annexing it. Koteich's comment came shortly after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel would never renounce the Golan, infuriating Syrian politicians. Thus, many Syrian social media activists began wrangling with Koteich for voicing pro-Israel opinion. A Twitter user affiliated with the Syrian opposition said:" the carnage in Aleppo increases our hatred for Zionists, because without Israel, Assad would have gone." Many other users cursed Koteich, claiming that he should be incarcerated for being an Israeli agent. Koteich anchors DNA, a daily show broadcast on the Lebanese Future Television Network. On his show, he tends to criticize Iran and its involvement in Lebanon, calling Lebanon "a mafia state" controlled by Hezbollah. The northern Syrian city of Aleppo has been witnessing endless bombardments by the Syrian air force in the last week, in a bid to oust rebel factions from the city's outskirts. Since the city was excluded from the truce forged by the American administration and Russia on Friday, airstrikes continue hitting the city, causing hundreds of civilian causalities.

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Input: At least 27 air tankers and 15 helicopters are involved in fighting the wildfire that has driven over 88,000 people from their homes in the oil patch community. Goodale was also not prepared Sunday to call out the army to join the over 600 firefighters from Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba and New Brunswick who have been part of the effort to contain the blaze, the origins of which remain a mystery. Troops were deployed last year to help contain a massive woodland blaze in Saskatchewan, but Goodale said Sunday it was best to leave the current disaster to full-time firefighters." This is a beast of a fire and it needs the most professional fighters to contend with it," he said. The air force, meanwhile, deployed one of its new heavy-lift battlefield helicopters Sunday for the first time in support of the disaster relief operation.

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Input: (CNN) The mass killing in Orlando this weekend fits a grim pattern: Every lethal terrorist attack in the United States in the past decade and a half has been carried out by American citizens or legal permanent residents, operating either as lone wolves or in pairs, who have no formal connections or training from terrorist organizations such as al Qaeda or ISIS. Because 9/11 was carried out by 19 Arab foreign-born terrorists, many Americans may think that terrorist attacks in the United States are carried out by foreigners, rather than by U.S. citizens. But Omar Mateen, who on Sunday carried out the deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11, is an American citizen who was born in New York to parents who immigrated to the United States from Afghanistan. In fact, since 9/11, a plot which was directed by al Qaeda from Afghanistan and involved only foreign operatives, the real terror threat in the United States has been American citizens or legal permanent residents such as the Tsarnaev brothers, who carried out the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, and Nidal Hasan, the U.S. Army major who killed 13 at Fort Hood, Texas, four years earlier. In other ways, Mateen is also typical of jihadist terrorists in the States.

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Input: Image copyright AP Image caption America's highest-ranking military officer has warned against a US-imposed no-fly zone in Syria "That's a pretty fundamental decision that certainly I'm not going to make." At the final presidential debate in Nevada on 20 October, Mrs Clinton outlined her support for the measure." A no-fly zone can save lives and hasten the end of the conflict," she said on stage. But in a 2013 speech to Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs, Mrs Clinton said establishing a no-fly zone would "kill a lot of Syrians", according to a transcript disclosed by Wikileaks.

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Input: The writer is a fellow at Defense Priorities. John Allen and Charles R. Lister warned of a “future, inevitable U.S. intervention” if we do not quickly adopt a series of lethal and nonlethal measures. The authors should be reminded that Russia, with its presence in Syria, has created what we established for the defense of Western Europe during the Cold War years: a tripwire that if crossed leads automatically to war, and in the nuclear age with possible terminal consequences. The authors’ measures can not avoid tripping the Russian wire. Benjamin Hoge, Alexandria

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Input: It was both fitting and chilling that the centerpiece of the second presidential debate was Donald Trump’s threat to imprison his opponent. That is the kind of act normally associated with autocrats like Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych (who jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in 2011), Myanmar’s military junta (which put opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest even before her party won the 1990 election), Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (who overthrew and imprisoned President Mohamed Morsi in 2013), and Russia’s Vladimir Putin (who in 2003 arrested Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a wealthy political adversary). Trump’s apologists tried to claim that he was n’t threatening to jail former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for being his political opponent but, rather, for supposed “felonies committed in office.” But this is exactly the kind of thing that dictators always say; no one ever admits to jailing the opposition for political reasons.

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Input: “All the elements necessary to prove a felony violation were found by the FBI investigation,” Stein said in a statement. “Her staff has said Secretary Clinton stated she used her private email system because she did not want her personal emails to become accessible under [Freedom of Information] laws,” she added. “This is damning on two counts — that she intended to disregard the protection of security information, and that she had personal business to conceal.” FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday said the investigation found little evidence to suggest Clinton and her aides intended to mishandle sensitive information, though they did appear to be “extremely careless.” Still, that did not meet the legal standard of “gross negligence,” Comey said.

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Input: YOUTUBE HISTORIC: The tombs held the bodies of elder tribesmen “The wooden-earthen pyramid complex on which we’re working is the largest of its kind in Europe” Dr Krzysztof Tunia Dr Krzysztof Tunia, from the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, said: “The wooden-earthen pyramid complex on which we’re working is the largest of its kind in Europe. “Where stones were scarce, as they were in the soil of Kazimierza Wielka region, chambers were constructed from wood.” The structures – like the pyramids in Egypt – are heavily influenced by astronomy and are placed along the east-west line, with the entrance to the tomb’s chamber always on the east side. The sites are visibly similar to prehistoric Stonehenge, which was built around the same period. M SCHILLER TOMBS: The megalithic structures were scattered around and find using laser scanning

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Input: And I would have taken out a lot of oil. And, uh, I would have kept it. I mean, I would have kept it, because, look: Iran has the oil, and they’re going to have the oil, well, the stuff they do n’t have, because Iran is taking over Iraq as sure as you’re sitting there. And I’ve been very good on this stuff. My prognostications, my predictions have become, have been very accurate, if you look.

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Input: Hillary Clinton discussed her plan to defeat Islamic terrorism and addressed the most recent North Korean nuclear test, while making the case that Donald Trump’s leadership would make the nation less safe following a Cabinet meeting-like round table with national security experts on Friday. The Democratic presidential nominee spelled out her security plans, including how she would bolster defenses against domestic terror attacks, before she turned to attacking her GOP rival in an appearance before reporters in New York. Clinton cited her endorsement by 110 retired generals and admirals, including 15 within the past 48 hours. It’s “a signal that this election is different,” Clinton said after meeting with a bipartisan group of national security leaders, including former George W. Bush homeland security chief Michael Chertoff. Experts on both sides of the aisle are “chilled by what they’re hearing from the Republican nominee,” said Clinton, painting his candidacy as a risk that makes the November election among “the most important in our lifetimes.”

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Input: They then fired shells at the crowd that had gathered in the town centre to receive the aid, killing two people and wounding five civilians, the Southern Front, an opposition coalition that controls the town, said in a statement. “Communities in Darayya are in need of everything, and it’s tragic that even the basics we were bringing today are being delayed unnecessarily. We must be able to provide aid impartially and safely,” said Marianne Gasser, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria (ICRC). “There must be minimum conditions for independent humanitarian action in Syria. Today those conditions were not met.

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Input: The newspaper’s then editor-in-chief Kevin Lau Chun-to was stabbed by two assailants in February 2014, raising questions whether the attack was related to the investigation. The assailants admitted receiving HK$100,000 each to attack Lau, but refused to say who paid them. They were jailed for 19 years last August. See more: Law firm at centre of leaked docs debated dropping VIP client Sun Hung Kai Properties during corruption scandal Searches banned

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Input: On Thursday, the Cossacks blocked the Greenpeace camp for hours, preventing the volunteers from leaving and heckling them, the organization said. Cossack groups in the Kuban region have recently been involved in a series of politically-motivated assaults, punching and whipping a group of opposition activists when they visited the area. Local authorities have previously hired the groups to work as neighborhood patrols. A spokesperson for Greenpeace, Halimat Tekeeva, declined to say whether the group believed the masked attackers were connected to the Cossacks and suggested the assault, though nationalist-themed, may also have a financial motive. So far, the spokesperson said, the group remains unsure of the motives behind the attack.

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Input: The election of Hillary Clinton would prove that Americans – albeit uninformed and misguided by a corrupt press – have opted to submit to what Marcus Tullius Cicero called “tyranny by popular support.” But we fear greatly for such a future not only because of the realities of tyranny – whether by force or popular support – but because we recognize the true national identity still runs strong enough within the fiber of American society that millions will not stand idle in the face of it. “This formidable censor of the public functionaries, by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which must otherwise be done by revolution,” Jefferson wrote to Adamantios Coray in 1823. We now know that Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information in a manner that would result in any other American being prosecuted, potentially incarcerated and certainly prohibited from ever obtaining federal employment ever again, let alone hold a security clearance. We now know that Hillary Clinton repeatedly lied to the American public, and repeatedly revised those lies with evolving lies regarding her grossly incompetent and reckless use of a private email server to conduct official State Department business. We now know that Hillary Clinton designed and pushed a secret war in Libya that was not authorized by Congress.

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Input: So keep going to ‘72, time back. CHUCK TODD: Well I have to say everybody is going to get brutalized, the two nominees are going to be pretty battered and bruised are they not. ANDREA MITCHELL: There was a young woman just yesterday in Concord who came at Hillary Clinton saying I worked for you in 2008 but I’m troubled by Benghazi I’m troubled by the server.

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Input: Washington has accused Beijing of militarizing the South China Sea after creating artificial islands, while Beijing, in turn, has criticized increased U.S. naval patrols and exercises in Asia. The Pentagon statement said the Department of Defense was addressing the issue through military and diplomatic channels. China's Defense Ministry said in a fax that it was looking into reports on the incident." DANGEROUS INTERCEPTS" In 2015, the United States and China announced agreements on a military hotline and rules of behavior to govern air-to-air encounters called the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES).

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Input: The Syrian ceasefire is breaking down in Aleppo, as the deal brokered by Russia and the United States shows signs of strain. The breakdown threatens a planned United Nations effort to provide aid to Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, where upwards of 250,000 people are trapped by the hostilities. The below video shows the eerie but anxious calm that fell over Aleppo as the ceasefire began.

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Input: How can you support Trump and not believe he’ll succeed at building a wall and getting Mexico to pay for it? Part of the answer is the one Trump occasionally gives himself: that the point of his campaign rhetoric is "a starting point for negotiations." If Trump rides into office demanding a 15-foot -high border wall, the logic goes, he can "compromise" on a 10-foot one. Many of Trump’s supporters really do believe that the current federal government, under Obama, is doing nothing to secure the border or screen refugees to the US. And many of them believed that before Trump came along.

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Input: Three separate payments, for example, totaling nearly $ 5.7 million are earmarked for Mr. Manafort’s “contract.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Another, from October 2012, suggests a payment to Mr. Manafort of $ 400,000 for exit polling, a legitimate campaign outlay. Two smaller entries, for $ 4,632 and $ 854, show payments for seven personal computers and a computer server. The payments do not appear to have been reported by the Party of Regions in campaign finance disclosures in Ukraine.

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Input: Obama on Friday concluded a week-long swing through Asia, with stops on the front end in Nevada, Hawaii and Midway Island meant to burnish his environmental legacy. Even Tuesday's rally was restricted to a relatively close-by location. Obama had business at the White House Monday evening when he met with congressional leaders, and is due to meet Burmese State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi in the Oval Office on Wednesday. Obama's four-day obligation at the United Nations General Assembly next week makes adding a campaign stop difficult before the end of the month. And while the campaign may arise implicitly during Obama's final address to the gathering of world leaders -- he's expected to recap eight years of foreign policy, providing a contrast to Trump's proposals -- it's hardly the setting for a fiery political throw-down.

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Input: As a result of a sharp decrease in oil revenue, the terrorist group has turned to trade other kinds of contraband, which has even made its way to France, Frederic Encel, professor of International Relations at the Paris School of Business, told the French newspaper Atlantico. “Under French pressure after the Paris terror attacks in November last year, the Americans and Russians increased their airstrikes on the ' nerve centers ' of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS), that is, the transport routes which take oil to Turkey,” Encel said. “As a result, Daesh barbarians, like other criminal regimes, have increased other forms of trafficking. This includes facilitating the local production of goods: cigarettes, food, cotton, and of course weapons and drugs.” Encel also said that ISIS terrorists have earned millions of dollars from smuggling goods, some of which has ended up in France.

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