Input: The Trump campaign played down the interview Thursday evening, explaining that they did not realize it would be broadcast on RT." Mr. Trump recorded a short interview with Larry King for his podcast as a favor to Mr. King. What Larry King does with the interview content is up to him; we have nothing to do with it," a Trump spokesperson told The Post.

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Input: "For ordinary Syrians, the spectre of arrest or abduction, and the near-inevitable horrors that follow, have paralysed communities across the country". In light what they called pervasive and ongoing violations of international law, commission members recommended that the Security Council refer the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court in the Hague. The commission also implored council members to adopt targeted sanctions against "persons, agencies and groups credibly suspected of being responsible for or complicit in conduct leading to custodial deaths, torture and enforced disappearances." The report, however, did not list those who it believed should be punished. Related: More Than a Million Civilians Are Under Siege in Syria, Mostly by Regime, Report Says

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Input: Hillary Clinton Donald Trump Candidate advantage%% (pct. pts.) All debate viewers Third debate 60 31 Clinton +29 Second debate 53 35 Clinton +18 First debate 61 27 Clinton +34 Democrats Third debate 96 2 Clinton +94 Second debate 93 3 Clinton +90 First debate 92 3 Clinton +89 Independents Third debate 58 35 Clinton +23 Second debate 51 32 Clinton +19 First debate 59 30 Clinton +29 Republicans Third debate 19 64 Trump +45 Second debate 15 71 Trump +56 First debate 28 53 Trump +25 Among U.S. adults who watched or listened to each debate Gallup; post-debate polls based on interviewing conducted Sept. 27-28, 2016, Oct. 10-11, 2016, and Oct. 20-21, 2016 Clinton's sweep of all three debates puts her in the company of Barack Obama in 2008, John Kerry in 2004 and Bill Clinton in 1996. Each won all of the presidential debates that took place in those election years, although Kerry still failed to win the 2004 election.

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Input: (The Washington Post) But more prosaic powers also present grave dangers. U.S. prosecutors have enormous discretion to investigate, or not investigate, and Mr. Trump would appoint his attorney general and a raft of new U.S. attorneys. These have to be confirmed by the Senate; but if you take comfort in that, simply imagine a Gov. Chris “Bridgegate” Christie at the Justice Department, or a Newt Gingrich — who, in Mr. Trump’s thrall, has advocated expelling any American who believes in sharia law — as homeland security secretary.

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Input: An employee of a Belgian state-funded charity who was denied entry into Israel said that its supporters were “inflating” Belgium’s anti-Semitism problem to distract from the Palestinian issue. Brigitte Herremans, who works as a Middle East expert for the Catholic groups Pax Christi and Broederlijk Delen, made the assertion Monday during a radio interview about her Aug. 9 experience at Ben Gurion Airport, where she was leading a group of activists seeking to “experience” life in the West Bank. Relevant to your professional network?

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Input: "Now we must learn from the troubling revelations Mr Snowden brought to light. Our intelligence and law enforcement agencies must be given the tools they need to protect us, but that can be done in a way that does not sacrifice our rights," Sanders wrote." While Mr Snowden played an important role in educating the American people, there is no debate that he also violated an oath and committed a crime," Sanders added. While he did not go as far as to suggest a full pardon, Sanders did say that in his view," the interests of justice would be best served if our government granted him some form of clemency or a plea agreement that would spare him a long prison sentence or permanent exile." Sanders ' note Wednesday is relatively consistent with his remarks on Snowden during a presidential debate last year, when he said Snowden should face a penalty, but added the lessons learned from Snowden's leak should be taken into consideration before the sentencing.

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Input: He listed the practical worries that had preoccupied him. “We had UN inspectors on the ground who were completing their work, and we could not risk taking a shot while they were there. A second major factor was the failure of Cameron to obtain the consent of his parliament.” The third, and most important, factor, he told me, was “our assessment that while we could inflict some damage on Assad, we could not, through a missile strike, eliminate the chemical weapons themselves, and what I would then face was the prospect of Assad having survived the strike and claiming he had successfully defied the United States, that the United States had acted unlawfully in the absence of a UN mandate, and that that would have potentially strengthened his hand rather than weakened it.” The fourth factor, he said, was of deeper philosophical importance. “This falls in the category of something that I had been brooding on for some time,” he said.

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Input: But on Saturday it was announced that the border will not open for the latest exodus from Aleppo. It is a sign of the nightmare unfolding in Syria's largest city, where opposition-held areas are being pounded by Russian strikes and attacks by the Assad regime. If it is surrounded, more than 300,000 people inside could be trapped and the opposition could be dealt a fatal blow. Half of Syria's pre-war population have fled their homes. Turkey has long been the gatekeeper to sanctuary.

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Input: 13/74 Isis controls Syrian Aid Local civilians queue for aid administered by Isis. Since it declared a caliphate the group has increasingly been delivering services such as healthcare, and distributing aid and free fuel 14/74 Iraq crisis Iraqi security forces detain men suspected of being militants of the Isis group in Diyala province 15/74 Iraq crisis Mourners carry the coffin of a Shi'ite volunteer from the brigades of peace, who joined the Iraqi army and was killed during clashes with militants of the Isis group in Samarra, during his funeral in Najaf 16/74 Iraqi refugees An Iraqi Shiite Turkmen family fleeing the violence in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, arrives at a refugee camp on the outskirts of Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region

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Input: Officials said the theory could change, with one senior administration official cautioning it is not yet supported by a "smoking gun." -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to express his condolences. -- The airplane "swerved and then plunged" before descending into the Mediterranean, Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos told reporters. -- Greek controllers tried to reach EgyptAir Flight 804 about 10 miles before it left the country's airspace and for about 90 seconds after and received no response, the head of the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority told Greek broadcaster ANT1 TV. What happened

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Input: But less than three months later, Kaine would be faced with the convergence of two threads in his life — his work as a capital defense lawyer and his promise to enforce the death penalty. Over the course of the past three decades, Kaine’s experience with the death penalty is far more complex and nuanced than that of any other major party candidate for the presidency or vice presidency in the modern era …. Kaine has represented multiple people on death row, seeking to highlight what he has described as a ‘shockingly unequal’ system, and he also has governed one of the few states that has continued to carry out executions regularly over the past decade.” Two fans wears masks Saturday during the game between the Alabama Crimson Tide and the Kentucky Wildcats in Tuscaloosa. (Kevin C. Cox / Getty Images)

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Input: “Viktor, by the way, is a very, very special man, a special entrepreneur,” Trump said. “When he was up seeing me I said, ‘I think I can learn more from you than you can learn from me.’” Pinchuk, who is the son-in-law of former Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, has also donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Global Foundation, and even hosted Bill and Hillary Clinton at his conference. “I know many people who live in the Ukraine. They’re friends of mine,” Trump said.

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Input: Imagine what would happen if we do n’t stand and fight them, if we do n’t lead a coalition — as we are doing, by the way. If we did n’t do that, you could have allies and friends of ours fall. You could have a massive migration into Europe that destroys Europe, leads to the pure destruction of Europe, ends the European project, and everyone runs for cover and you’ve got the 1930s all over again, with nationalism and fascism and other things breaking out. Of course we have an interest in this, a huge interest in this.” When I noted to Kerry that the president’s rhetoric does n’t match his, he said, “President Obama sees all of this, but he does n’t gin it up into this kind of — he thinks we are on track. He has escalated his efforts.

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

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Input: Maybe we should have seen this loss of historical memory coming nearly 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Perhaps we should have heard the alarm bells of a 2011 Newsweek survey that reported 73 percent of Americans “could n’t correctly say why we fought the Cold War” in response to a question taken from the official test for U.S. citizenship. Ignorance of socialism and America’s decadeslong struggle against it has become the norm, and the data suggest this norm will only harden as a generation of Americans pass away and national memory fades. For a generation with no memory of bomb shelter drills or sledgehammers smashing the Berlin Wall to pieces, the sad reality of life under socialist rule has been forgotten, and the lessons of the Cold War have been relegated to the “ash heap of history” alongside communism. Instead, the concept of socialism has often been confused with liberalism.

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Input: So why would Hillary be receiving a motor neuron test if she was only suffering from pneumonia, as her campaign claimed? Taken as separate, isolated incidents, one could easily dismiss any of the points made by Dr. Noel. But when examined as a whole, Clinton's "odd behavior" and "accidents due to dehydration" over the last ten years are much harder to dismiss as benign or symptoms of pneumonia. There's a very good reason why Hillary Clinton hasn't held a press conference for nearly 300 days: Her physical and neurological condition simply won't allow for it. She can't even take softball questions from her list of pre-approved journalsts without breaking into a coughing fit.

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Input: Reid’s missive set off a burst of speculation on Twitter and elsewhere. What was he referring to regarding the Republican presidential nominee? At the end of August, Reid had written to Comey and demanded an investigation of the “connections between the Russian government and Donald Trump’s presidential campaign,” and in that letter he indirectly referred to Carter Page, an American businessman cited by Trump as one of his foreign policy advisers, who had financial ties to Russia and had recently visited Moscow. Last month, Yahoo News reported that US intelligence officials were probing the links between Page and senior Russian officials. (Page has called accusations against him “garbage.”) On Monday, NBC News reported that the FBI has mounted a preliminary inquiry into the foreign business ties of Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chief.

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Input: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan have urged a swift end to the bloodshed in war-torn Syria, following talks between the two leaders in Istanbul on Monday. “Both Russia and Turkey stand for the earliest cessation of bloodshed in Syria. In Russia we think that the switch to a political settlement must happen as soon as possible.

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Input: “It is necessary to stop distributing any information about this magazine, any links to its materials or comments on them. We want to call for observation of professional ethics and international laws and to remind everyone about the urgency of protection for mothers and children,” committee chair Yelena Sutormina told Kommersant daily. The letters promoting the boycott will soon be forwarded to the Russian Journalists’ Union and to the European Federation of Journalists, she said. The appeal was prompted by the latest issue of Charlie Hebdo, which contains a cartoon that ridicules the attacks on women in Germany’s Cologne that took place on the New Year’s Eve. About 430 women told police that they were harassed by groups of young men, supposedly immigrants from North Africa and Middle East, and two women said they were raped.

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Input: In April, Poroshenko, a multimillionaire businessman, appeared in the Panama Papers in connection with an offshore company registered in the British Virgin Islands. Opposition activists in Russia welcomed the prisoner exchange. Dmitry Gudkov, the lone liberal opposition deputy in Russia’s parliament, argued that if Russia had exchanged Savchenko earlier, Alexandrov’s Ukrainian defence lawyer, Yury Grabovsky, might not have been murdered near Kiev in March. “We would n’t have embarrassed ourselves before the whole world with the ‘trial’ of a deputy of the Rada and Pace. There would n’t have been another split in society over an artificial propaganda story,” Gudkov wrote on Facebook, referring to the fact that Savchenko was elected to the Ukrainian parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe during her imprisonment.

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Input: … Though it’s highly unlikely at this point, should Pence ever replace Trump as the party’s standard-bearer, his record as governor and a congressman would receive a new level of scrutiny it has thus far largely escaped. [And] when and if his congressional record comes into sharper focus, Pence could face struggle with women … and independent voters turned off by his dogmatic conservatism.” He once called the Disney film “Mulan” liberal propaganda, saying “women in military, bad idea.’” “He has rigid and deeply held assumptions about our economic and political future in the U.S.” former colleague Scott Pelath said. “The moment they're punctured, he struggles to defend himself.” -- New Yorker profile, Kellyanne Conway’s Political Machinations, by Ryan Lizza: “In a sense, Conway’s life prepared her for a boss like Trump. Born Kellyanne Fitzpatrick, she grew up in Atco, New Jersey … with her grandmother and two unmarried aunts.

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Input: Just so you understand. He’s not going to go into Ukraine, alright? You can mark it down and you can put it down, you can take it anywhere you want.” July 30, 2016, interview on ABC, referring to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose 2014 annexation of Crimea proved that he was already in Ukraine. 33. “I would like to think she would find another career or find another company if that was the case.

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

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Input: Seleznev had faced a 40-count indictment that charged him with running the hacking scheme from 2009 until his arrest in July 2014. The jury cleared him on two charges related to one of the Washington restaurants. U.S. Secret Service agents captured Seleznev as he and his girlfriend arrived at the Maldives airport on their way back to Russia. The agents flew him by private jet to Guam and then to Seattle, where he has been in custody. Seleznev was indicted on 29 felony charges in 2011, but a month later, he suffered a brain injury in a terrorist bombing in a cafe in Morocco.

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Input: Orbital ATK launched an Antares rocket to the International Space Station Monday evening, two years after an explosion caused millions of dollars in damage. (NASA) Orbital ATK returned to flight Monday evening by christening a refurbished Virginia launchpad with a smooth rocket liftoff two years after an explosion caused $ 15 million in damage. Flying an updated Antares rocket with new engines, the company sent its unmanned Cygnus spacecraft into orbit at 7:45 p.m., chasing down the International Space Station on a cargo resupply mission for NASA. The spacecraft is scheduled to reach the station Sunday to deliver 5,100 pounds of cargo and supplies to the astronauts there.

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Input: July 2012: The battle for Aleppo begins. Rebels make swift advances, but are unable to consolidate their gains and the city becomes divided 2013: The government begins bombarding rebel districts with barrel bombs, causing thousands of casualties September 2015: Syria launches a fresh offensive in the wake of Russia's intervention in the conflict February 2016: The government captures towns north of Aleppo, threatening to encircle the city

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Input: “Trump and his team also failed to disclose the large gift to the [IRS], instead reporting that the donation was given to an unrelated group with a similar name — effectively obscuring the contribution. … Trump [also paid the IRS a $ 2,500 penalty this year after reports surfaced about the gift and disclosure error. Representatives … said Trump reimbursed the foundation the full $ 25,000 from his own accounts after watchdog groups and news organizations began asking questions. The Trump business said it had taken all necessary steps to correct the errors. Though former aides say she solicited the donation herself, the timeline has emboldened Trump’s critics to accuse him of making a political bribe."

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Input: A cafe is engulfed in flames as English fans were targeted while drinking on the terrace of cafe on the streets of Marseille's Old Port A furious England fan hurls a missile at his opponent while two flares continues to blaze behind him during violent clashes in Marseille The flare-attack was one of the most shocking sights of the clashes, which have seen arrests of English supporters, property damaged and a fan dumped into the sea by a French gang. Hooligans kicked the Englishman-wearing an orange T-shirt-on the floor before throwing him over the harbour wall and into the sea. The fan, sporting a black eye, was later seen wading to shore.

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Input: FBI Director James Comey announced Tuesday that he would not recommend criminal charges against Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE for mishandling government secrets, clearing the way for her to be crowned the Democratic Party’s nominee for president later this month. Comey said evidence showed the former secretary of State had been “extremely careless” in handling classified emails over a private server, but that it was not enough to merit an indictment.

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Input: Under Duterte's predecessor, Benigno Aquino III, the U.S. and Philippine militaries twice staged naval exercises near the disputed waters. While taking a critical stance on U.S. security policies, Duterte has reached out to China and Russia. Lorenzana said he has been ordered by Duterte to travel to Beijing and Moscow to discuss what defense equipment the Philippines can acquire from them. _ _ _ Associated Press writer Jim Gomez in Manila, Philippines, and Matthew Pennington in Washington contributed to this report.

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Input: Donald Trump could be considering a lifelong Democrat as the No. 2 on the Republican presidential ticket: retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who once headed up the Defense Intelligence Agency and has informally advised Trump on foreign policy during the billionaire's primary campaign. The New York Post first reported Flynn's formal vetting earlier this week. In an interview, the 57-year -old former general did not deny that he was going through the process.

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Input: Russia is investing a lot in these war preparations. And we are not getting any explanations for this," Poroshenko said. The president added that Russia had failed to implement any aspect of 2015's Minsk Agreement, a ceasefire pact between Kiev and Moscow in Belarus. This came a year after Russia sent troops to annex Ukraine's Crimea region. Today, fighting continues in the east of Ukraine between government forces and pro-Russian rebels, despite the ceasefire.

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Input: Hillary said she and Bill were unaware of the scheme. Accuracy in Media reported, “Hugh Rodham, Hillary’s brother, was taking money and promising access to help get pardons. Two such high profile cases were those of drug kingpin Carlos Vignali and convicted swindler Glenn Braswell. Rodham received hundreds of thousands of dollars from each, and they were both granted pardons. Rodham was quoted as telling a top White House aide that the pardon for Vignali was ‘very important’ to Hillary.”

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Input: [10 wars that could be unleashed as a result of the one against ISIS] But in a series of internal meetings over the past week, the administration has found no alternative that has not already been considered, and previously discarded as unworkable or too risky in terms of broadening the Syrian conflict. President Obama is said to be no more willing to involve U.S. forces, air or ground, in the conflict than he was when it began five years ago. The prospect of flooding the opposition with more, and better, arms is still seen as hazardous. “Anything we do in the near term could lead to additional” expansion of the war, a second senior administration official said.

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Input: He or she continued:" It's not a report in one file, it's a big folder of docs devoted to Hillary Clinton that I found on the DNC server. The DNC collected all info about the attacks on Hillary Clinton and prepared the ways of her defence, memos, etc., including the most sensitive issues like email hacks." Upon inspection, the documents do indeed cover a wide range of topics. They include so-called "cheat sheets" on policies going back years, official positions on everything from Boko Haram to Assad, Snowden, taxes and, of course, the leak of emails from Clinton's home server. Additional documents, viewed by IBTimes UK, includes ' defence ' reports compiled on topics such as the Islamic State (Isis), the economy, Russia and the Clinton Foundation.

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Input: How so? BRENNAN: I think over the past number of years, as attention really focused on Iran's nuclear activities, CIA was fulfilling its responsibilities as far as intelligence collection and assessments and analysis. And through the course of the last decade or so we have learned a lot about various means and ways that Iran, as well as other states that are interested in proliferation, pursue those objectives in terms of acquiring materials, expertise, what is the type of capabilities that we need in order to advance the program. And so as a result of the JCPOA [Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action], there is a very comprehensive, and even intrusive, IAEA inspection regime. KELLY: JCPOA is the technical name of the Iran nuclear deal, and you're referring to the international nuclear inspectors ...

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Input: There are certainly other things the Saudis could theoretically do to capture market share." Owning refineries in key demand regions guarantees market captivity," Tran wrote." This has historically been part of the Saudi playbook and the recent reported interest in acquiring stakes in Chinese refineries is a strategic move that would guarantee the Kingdom a seat at the table in the preeminent region for demand growth." Basically, if the Saudis own the refineries, then their oil will be sold there. In any case, the upshot for the overall oil market is that we probably won't see Russian-Saudi coordination in the oil sector anytime soon, Tran argued.

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Input: At one point, Clinton denounced Trump for having “said he would order our military to carry out torture and the murder of civilians who are related to suspected terrorists — even though those are war crimes.” Hillary Clinton is herself a war criminal who has supported every war the United States has conducted in the last 25 years. She was a strong advocate for the US wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya. In the latter case, she was the prime instigator of a war which has left tens of thousands of civilians dead. When she received news that former Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi had been murdered, she laughed and said: “We came, we saw, he died.”

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Input: US Secretary of State John Kerry has claimed that the ceasefire in Syria “is not dead” following an attack on an aid convoy that killed around 20 people near Aleppo. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) has condemned the strike that killed around 20 humanitarian volunteers and one staff member, calling it “totally unacceptable”. The UN and Red Crescent convoy was delivering aid supplies to Uram al-Kubra, west of Aleppo city, when it was struck on Monday night.

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Input: Since the breakdown of the Obama-Putin agreement to cooperate militarily against terrorists in Syria, which Cohen blames primarily on the Obama administration, Washington has escalated its warfare rhetoric against the Kremlin and Russian President Putin in particular. The man with whom the Obama administration proposed to partner with in Syria only two weeks ago is now denounced as a “war criminal” for Russia’s fight against terrorists in Aleppo, which was to be “liberated” by the now aborted US-Russian military alliance. The Washington Post was more specific, publishing a leaked account of how Putin might be arrested outside of Russia and put on trial. But the first victim might have been Secretary of State Kerry, who negotiated and advocated the proposed alliance and who now must level against Russia the same charges of “war crimes,” dealing a devastating blow to his own reputation. Putting another nail in the coffin of its jettisoned cooperation with the Kremlin, the White House officially accused the Putin leadership of trying to undermine the American electoral system through systematic hacking, even though it presented no real evidence for the allegation.

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Input: Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email A live hand grenade was hurled towards a refugee camp in Germany as anti-migrant violence continues to increase. The horrifying attack took place just after midday at the Baden-Württemberg hostel. It houses 170 refugees who have fled terror at the hands of Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.

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Input: 10 show all The Israeli – Palestinian conflict intensifies 1/10 Medics evacuate a wounded man from the scene of an attack in Jerusalem. A Palestinian rammed a vehicle into a bus stop then got out and started stabbing people before he was shot dead AP 2/10 Israeli ZAKA emergency response members carry the body of an Israeli at the scene of a shooting attack in Jerusalem. A pair of Palestinian men boarded a bus in Jerusalem and began shooting and stabbing passengers, while another assailant rammed a car into a bus station before stabbing bystanders, in near-simultaneous attacks that escalated a month long wave of violence AP

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Input: And that something in return was access, and I think favors.” “There’s not going to be an email that says, ‘Do this and I’ll give you the money,’ but I do think that the emails indicate that oligarchs went to the Clinton Foundation and they did n’t go through official [State Department] channels because they thought they could get to a higher level more quickly at the State Department to decision makers that matter to them,” Schweizer said. “What the Clinton Foundation did was create a conduit whereby a foreign entity who can not donate to a campaign, and get access that way, could donate to the Clinton Foundation,” he added. A new report from the Schweizer-led watchdog group Government Accountability Institute, the author says, “has the hallmarks” of corruption “where you see a high concentration of the participants in [Skolkovo] being Clinton Foundation donors, both on the Russian and on the U.S. side. Which I think also begs the question of ‘why is there this high level of correlation between the Clinton Foundation and the State Department?’ and I think it is precisely because there was a pay-to-play culture.

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Input: Trump is wrong that Muslims do n’t do our part,” by Mohammed A. Malik: “Trump believes American Muslims are hiding something. ‘They know what’s going on. They know that [Mateen] was bad,’ he said after the Orlando massacre. This is a common idea in the U.S. It’s also a lie. First, Muslims like me ca n’t see into the hearts of other worshipers.

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Input: "I shot them in the back of the head, it's true." Euromaidan activist Ivan Bubenchik, a resident of Lvov, gave an interview to Bird in Flight publication, in which he told of how he was killing Berkut riot police officers during mass riots in Ukraine. Bubenchik said that by 20 February, after the blaze in the House of Trade Unions on Independence Square, the protesters had moved to the Conservatory, from where they were shooting at the riot police from hunting rifles. He asked the protesters not to do it, because the riot police started throwing Molotov cocktails back. In the morning of February 20, someone brought a Kalashnikov and 75 rounds of ammunition.

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Input: Alina Orlova was held in the Russian city of Vladivostok where she was waiting for a connecting flight between her home in Khabarovsk to St Petersburg. The 17-year -old and pal, identified only as Kristina K., are accused of posting photographs and videos of themselves torturing and killing cats and dogs for "bloodlust". The horrific images show one dog nailed to a wall as if it had been crucified and another hanging by its collar and then shot with an air gun. WARNING: VIDEO CONTAINS DISTRESSING IMAGES Video Loading Video Unavailable Click to play Tap to play The video will start in 8 Cancel Play now

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Input: Aid agencies expressed alarm Thursday about dire conditions in a besieged town west of Damascus where people have been eating cats and grass to stay alive and as many as 23 people are reported to have died of hunger. No food has arrived in the rural town of Madaya since October, and desperate residents have posted photographs on the Internet showing frail, skeletal corpses and emaciated people, including children. The medical charity Doctors Without Borders said 23 people have died of starvation since Dec. 1 at a clinic the group supports in Madaya, six of them infants less than 1 year old. The town has become “an open-air prison,” Brice de le Vingne, director of operations for Doctors Without Borders, said in a statement. Desperate people who try to flee have been injured or killed by bullets or by land mines planted around the town, he added.

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Input: before the town are excluded from the moderator’s election in favor of persons who can moderate fairly and evenhandedly. Sanders as the self-appointed moderator / boss opened the evening with naked self-justification. “It is a very complex situation …” followed by the ritual of

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Input: Britain’s aid budget has contributed £ 12.6 million to an education programme which helps 7,000 teachers across 800 schools in opposition-held Idlib and Aleppo provinces in Syria. AP: Associated Press 13 Looking for life among the dead … Syrian rescuers look for survivors following the bloody attack in the village of Hass RELATED STORIES ' DAD DIED IN MY ARMS ' Daughter, 26, cradled her dying dad after he was mowed down by Finsbury Park terror van ROBERT COLVILE Following its recent purchase of Whole Foods, Amazon has become a monster we should be afraid of ' Pics ' dad suicide Dad-of-two, 50, shoots himself in US after he was wrongly accused of possessing indecent images TOT, SKIP AND JUMP Bizarre festival in Spain sees men dressed as The Devil leap over babies to rid the tots of bad spirits HE 'S IN THE BAG Iraqi illegal immigrant is discovered being smuggled into Britain on the back seat of a car ... in a SUITCASE ' IT 'S CLEAR AS DAY ' Cops confirm stabbed dad took photo just as killer who knifed him to death in his car pounced ' YOU JUST HAVE TO RUN ' Couple doused themselves in water and dashed through 16 floors of fire to safety-after sobbing 999 operator said ' nobody could save them ' FIRE RISK WARNING Ministers warned THREE years ago that fire regulations in tower blocks were not keeping people safe twin the dock Celeb barrister, who was spared jail after drugs rap, loses eviction fight after bitter battle with twin brother TYCOON SUICIDE Banker, 69, kills himself two months after police questioned him over suspected arson at £ 15 m home PUSS IN SOOTS RSPCA inspector left filthy after rescuing a cat who was trapped eight foot up a chimney for FOUR days ANILA BAIG Spreading hate only does dirty work for ISIS — we must have sense to stand together against them UK taxpayers help nine teachers with £ 82 per month each at the three schools hit in the strike. Last night DfID said the the project has provided access to education to 275,000 Syrian kids, half of them girls.

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Input: When I actually sat down and thought about it, ’cause I did, I went back, I even told a number of my friends that I was insure what I wanted to do, but time went on and I just concluded that you never know what’s coming next, it’s so unpredictable, anything can happen, usually does, and I tried to imagine myself, look at a day like this, not having this program. Oh, it would be torture. It would be torture. I would be calling people, “Hey, can you give me five minutes? I got ta say something.” I’m the guy that turns down those requests now.

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Input: (Photo: Twitter / bilalgezer13) Cizre is located close to the Turkish-Syrian border, a mainly Kurd area. Last year the Turkish government launched a military operation against left-wing militants from the Kurdistan Workers ' Party (PKK), which has resulted in several bloody conflicts and curfews imposed across major, Kurd-majority towns and cities.

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Input: Hide Caption 43 of 43 The hard truth is the math makes your winning the Democratic nomination impossible. Hillary has won more votes, more states, more pledged delegates and more superdelegates. But you have a chance to win something nearly as important: the ability to shape the debate. Sure, that will take the form of trying to massage the Democratic Party's already progressive platform (which many will debate ad nauseam, then no one will read).

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Input: Determining a precise number of Americans in the data is difficult. There are at least 200 scanned individual U.S. passports. Some appear to be American retirees purchasing real estate in places like Costa Rica and Panama. Also in the database, about 3,500 shareholders of offshore companies who list U.S. addresses. And almost 3,100 companies are tied to offshore professionals based in Miami, New York and other parts of the United States.

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Input: (AP) A Georgia appeals court ruled that taking pictures up a woman’s skirt in a public place is not actually a crime, siding with a grocery store employee who was captured taking inappropriate cell phone videos. (Katie Mettler) Dallas police report a 344 percent spike in employment applications following the July 7 shooting that killed five officers. The surge comes after the chief said officers were under “too much strain” and urged Black Lives Matter protesters to become part of the solution. “We’re hiring,” Brown told demonstrators. “Get off that protest line and put an application in!” (Jacob Bogage) Work that involves complex thinking and social interaction can potentially help ward off Alzheimer’s Disease, according to research presented in Toronto.

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Input: On Saturday morning, the American Embassy in Ankara issued an “Emergency Message for U.S. Citizens,” warning that power had been cut to Incirlik and that “local authorities are denying movements on to and off of” the base. Incirlik was forced to rely on backup generators; U.S. Air Force planes stationed there were prohibited from taking off or landing; and the security-threat level was raised to FPCON Delta, the highest state of alert, declared when a terrorist attack has occurred or may be imminent. On Sunday, the base commander, General Bekir Ercan Van, and nine other Turkish officers at Incirlik were detained for allegedly supporting the coup. As of this writing, American flights have resumed at the base, but the power is still cut off. According to Hans M. Kristensen, the director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, underground vaults at Incirlik hold about fifty B-61 hydrogen bombs — more than twenty-five per cent of the nuclear weapons in the NATO stockpile.

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Input: The team investigating the shooting down of Malaysian Airways flight MH17 has published a picture of a fragment of BUK missile found at the crash site. The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) said the picture showed the nozzle of a Russian-made BUK surface-to-air missile. The Dutch Safety Board (DSB) has already concluded in its examination of the plane that a BUK model 9N314 M was responsible for the crash.

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Input: Listen, watch learn.” Since 2012, Assange has been running WikiLeaks from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, after applying for political asylum. He is wanted in Sweden for rape, an accusation he links to a conspiracy to extradite him to the US to face charges. This week, the Ecuadorian embassy said it had removed his internet access. The US and Ecuador denied that they had conspired to do so.

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Input: In his address, Lavrov said he hoped "migration problems" wouldn't drive authorities to "paint over reality with political correctness." "Truth and justice must prevail," he said, adding that Moscow was working with the girl's lawyer, her family and the Russian embassy. Watch video 00:43 DW's Hans Brandt discusses Russia's take on rape case In the days following the girl's disappearance, Russian TV claimed she was held for 30 hours as a sex slave by several foreigners. The pro-Kremlin channel NTV went so far as to say that "in Germany and in Sweden, residents are regularly raped by refugees … but the local authorities and police hide these facts and do not open criminal investigations."

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Input: De Mistura said Syria's declaration of a military offensive to retake rebel-held eastern Aleppo has led to one of the worst weeks of the 5 1/2-year war with dozens of airstrikes against residential areas and buildings causing scores of civilian deaths. He said the offensive targeting civilians with sophisticated weapons including incendiary devices may amount to war crimes. Men inspect the damage after an airstrike on the rebel held al-Qaterji neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria September 25, 2016. Abdalrhman Ismail, Reuters Medical workers and local officials reported airstrikes on neighborhoods throughout Aleppo's rebel-held eastern districts as an announced government offensive entered its fourth day.

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Input: He may have some new people putting new words in his mouth … but we know where he stands. He would form a deportation force to round up millions of immigrants and kick them out of the country. He’d abolish the bedrock constitutional principle that says if you’re born in the United States, you’re an American citizen. He says that children born in America to undocumented parents are, quote," anchor babies "and should be deported. Millions of them.

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Input: She passed out. That’s either cardiovascular or neurologic. Now, her team wants us to believe it is dehydration. She did n’t appear to be dehydrated and that does n’t get fixed in 90 minutes.” There's a very good reason why Bill has already replaced his wife on the campaign trail: Hillary Clinton is suffering from advanced stages of Parkinson's.

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Input: Trump’s unpopularity is unprecedented, but even so, the United States is a highly partisan country, and having only 64 percent of your own party’s voters take a favorable view of you — as Gallup found a week ago — is really low. While Trump’s performance during the second and third debates was middling as judged by post-debate polls, he at least tossed his base plenty of red meat. And there’s been less discussion recently of the videotape released on Oct. 8 that showed Trump condoning unwanted sexual contact toward women, or of the many women who came forward to accuse him of sexual assault. Another potential issue is partisan nonresponse bias, the possible tendency of voters not to respond to surveys during periods of poor news coverage for their candidate, which can potentially exaggerate swings in the polls. I’m personally somewhat agnostic about how serious a problem this is and whether there are good ways to adjust for it.

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Input: He said Trump’s “Make America Great Again” works well for the presumptive Republican nominee, and Clinton is trying to counter that. “It’s a hard message to break down. ‘Make America great’ is a hard thing to tear apart,” he said. “What her goal is, is to show that when Trump’s saying ‘Make America Great Again’ [he] means make America great for some people, not everyone. … Her message is inclusive, not exclusive.”

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Input: The truce appeared largely to be holding across much of Syria. Xelil said the YPG and Syrian Kurdish internal security forces were able to "crush this attack and encircle the attackers", although he gave no casualty toll. The YPG captured Tel Abyad from Islamic State last year in an offensive backed by U.S.-led air strikes. The town lies north of Raqqa and had been a key supply line for the jihadi capital. The Turkish security sources said the attack was launched on two fronts and that the sound of gunfire and explosions, audible from the town of Akcakale on the Turkish side, had continued for several hours.

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Input: The U.S. military has a longstanding connection to the islands. Bikini Atoll was used as a nuclear test site after World War II. Kwajalein Atoll, a battle site during the war, is now an Army base, a ballistic missile test site and an important part of the military's space surveillance network. The growing problem of space debris was highlighted in 2009, when an old Russian satellite smashed into a commercial U.S. satellite, creating hundreds of pieces of orbiting junk. The 2013 movie "Gravity" dramatized the threat to astronauts, who need to be safe from debris whether they're traveling on the International Space Station or in a rocket.

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Input: He drew on disclosures March 2 about Fredriksson in SVD (Svenska Dagbladet, or Swedish Daily) to illustrate a broader theme: that Swedish officials and thought leaders defer far more to the United States and authoritarian policies than commonly understood in liberal democracies, including Sweden. Sweden's highly irregular investigation of Assange illustrates his thesis. Ecuador granted Assange political asylum in its London embassy three and half years ago to protect him from a relentless effort by Swedish authorities to extradite him for questioning over rape and sexual assault allegations arising from two affairs he undertook from invitations by women attending his featured speech at an August 2010 conference in Sweden. Assange submitted to questioning about the claims from the two women, who had separately invited him to stay with them. Authorities have never charged him with a crime but they have mounted an extraordinary campaign to extradite him to Sweden for further questioning after he left the country.

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Input: Swedish police were forced to run for their lives after being attacked by a mob of asylum seekers as they tried to relocate amid allegations a 10-year -old boy had been ' raped repeatedly ' at a refugee centre. Officers entered the centre in Västerås to save the young boy who had been reportedly attacked repeatedly by asylum seekers at the centre. Initially, staff in the centre tried to remove the boy but were stopped by the mob. Instead the staff called police for backup.

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Input: But it’s not a coincidence that he made an exception for Putin. Trump, more than any major politician in either party, has indicated a desire to shift U.S. policy toward Russian interests while consistently praising Putin as a strong and effective leader. At his press conference on Wednesday, Trump told a reporter that he would consider recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea from the Ukraine — something only a handful of countries currently do — and that he may end American sanctions enacted in response. Last week, the RNC changed its platform to weaken language criticizing Russia’s Ukraine intervention and Trump’s top aide Paul Manafort previously lobbied for a pro-Putin Ukrainian leader. Trump also stood by his repeated threats to abandon NATO allies threatened by Russian aggression if they do n’t agree to pay more for American defense.

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Input: The incident provoked a deep political crisis between Ankara and Moscow. Since then, the two countries have been locked in a war of words. Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has ordered economic sanctions against Turkey. The multiple sanctions on Ankara include banning agricultural trade with Turkey, reintroducing a visa regime, and suspending most bilateral economic projects, including the Turkish Stream gas pipeline construction project. On a related note, Turkey has been caught red-handed in illegal oil trade with the terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, as evidence unraveled on Ankara’s involvement being the main destination for the smuggled petrol.

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Input: “Both China and Russia have the full capability to do this,” he said. Later on Monday, Trump himself then attributed the attack on the DNC to “China, Russia, one of our many, many ‘friends, '” who “came in and hacked the hell out of us.” Since very few of us are cybersecurity experts, and the Iraq debacle is a reminder of how dangerous it can be to put blind faith in experts whose claims might reinforce our own political positions, there is also the question of who we can trust to provide reliable evidence. One expert in the field, who is well aware of the evidence-gathering capabilities of the U.S. government, is Edward Snowden, the former Central Intelligence Agency technician and National Security Agency whistleblower who exposed the extent of mass surveillance and has been given temporary asylum in Russia. “If Russia hacked the # DNC, they should be condemned for it,” Snowden wrote on Twitter on Monday, with a link to a 2015 report on the U.S. government’s response to the hacking of Sony Pictures. In that case, he noted, “the FBI presented evidence” for its conclusion that North Korea was responsible for the hacking and subsequent release of internal emails.

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Input: In Austria a cleaning robot reportedly ' committed suicide ' by switching itself on, and climbing on to a kitchen hotplate where it was burned to death. The Irobot Roomba 760 robot had apparently rebelled against its chores and decided enough was enough. Firemen were called to the blaze at Hinterstoder in Kirchdorf, Austria, and say they found the remains of the machine on the hotplate. Fireman Helmut Kniewasser said:" The home-owner had put the small robot on the work surface to clean up some spilled cereal." Once the robot had done its job it was switched off but left on the kitchen sideboard.

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Input: They laid him on the ground and searched him for around two minutes before taking him away. At 2:43pm it was announced that "the hijacker has just been arrested". A policeman stands guard at Larnaca Airport near a hijacked Egypt Air A320. Photo: Reuters Officials in both Cyprus and Egypt then confirmed that all crew and passengers were safe.

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Input: With the thawing of the icy tundras in Siberia, tonnes of woolly mammoth tusks are emerging leading to a burgeoning trade. it's estimated that Russia exports 100 tonnes of mammoth ivory every year. Woolly mammoth ivory isn't protected under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, the 1989 treaty that outlawed most trade in elephant ivory. The Cites treaty is an international agreement between 182 governments around the world. Initially it was thought that mammoth ivory would act as a substitute for illegal elephant ivory, helping to reduce poaching of African elephants. However, more evidence is emerging that poachers have been passing off elephant tusk ivory as derived from mammoths to get around restrictions currently imposed on elephant tusks.

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Input: Stone, a controversial Trump supporter and one-time adviser, is reportedly organizing a volunteer “exit polling” operation that would take place in minority areas across the country. 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.:

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Input: An intentionally misleading but literally true answer can not form the basis for prosecution. In short, perjury can not be proven simply by showing the testimony of a witness is inconsistent with the statements of another witness, as the Republicans seek to do with the Goodlatte / Chaffetz letter, and with their video clips of Clinton vs. Comey testimony. Finally, to convict of perjury it must be proven by more than one witness, or one witness plus corroborative evidence. False statement prohibition is set forth in Title 18 of the U.S. Code, section 1001: “Whoever, in any matter within the jurisdiction of the … legislative … branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully (1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact; [or] (2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or representation … shall be fined [and/or] imprisoned not more than 5 years.” While this statute has been subject to much criticism, its broad language has been much used. It applies to all statements, written and oral, sworn and unsworn, voluntarily given or required by law.

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Input: Charles Krauthammer explained this as a Chief Justice John Roberts approach, using a “tortured, logic-defying argument” because following the law would be too disruptive to other systems: I would suggest that Comey’s thinking, whether conscious or not, was similar: He did not want the FBI director to end up as the arbiter of the 2016 presidential election. If Clinton were not a presumptive presidential nominee but simply a retired secretary of state, he might well have made a different recommendation. That is the most charitable explanation for why Comey said he did n’t recommend indictment after he demonstrated that Clinton had been “recklessly careless” (that is: grossly negligent) in her mishandling classified information, and had lied about every single thing she’d ever claimed with regard to her private server. Prosecuting her for breaking laws surrounding the handling of classified information would have certainly been disruptive to the already chaotic 2016 campaign.

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Input: Just a few days ago a self-professed Trump fan physically attacked two hijab-wearing Muslim women in New York City while reportedly yelling, “Get the fuck out of America, bitches … This is America — you should n’t be different from us.” (The attacker was formally charged with a hate crime.) And in the last month alone we have seen three Muslim Americans killed in New York City in two separate incidents that the Muslim community believes are possible hate crimes. Add to that the numerous mosques that have been attacked, including a fire Sunday night — officially deemed by the police as arson — at the mosque the Orlando Pulse nightclub gunman had attended. Keep in mind that after the horrific 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and injured over 250, we did n’t see this type of backlash. As the Associated Press noted at the time, “Muslim civil rights leaders say the anti-Islam reaction has been more muted this time than after other attacks since Sept. 11.” The difference was that in 2013 there was no Trump ginning up hatred of Muslims for political gain.

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Input: Transcript: NPR's Interview With CIA Director John Brennan Enlarge this image toggle caption Ariel Zambelich / NPR Ariel Zambelich / NPR MARY LOUISE KELLY: Let me start with this week's news with cyber and the legal showdown unfolding between Apple and the FBI over this San Bernardino iPhone.

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Input: Instead of condemning the figures behind the uprising, suspending support to the illegitimate government of Zelaya’s successor, Roberto Micheletti, and demanding a restoration of the democratically elected Zelaya, Secretary Clinton decided to move on. In her memoir “Hard Choices,” Clinton wrote that after the coup, she went about hatching a plan with other leaders in the region “to restore order in Honduras and ensure that free and fair elections could be held quickly and legitimately, which would render the question of Zelaya moot.” The United States pushed for elections, and in November 2009, despite a boycott by opposition leaders and international observers, elections were orchestrated by the same figures behind Zelaya’s ouster. Since the coup, violence and assassinations, as well as persecutions of journalists and social justice advocates, have skyrocketed in Honduras. Last week’s high-profile murder of the Goldman prize-winning indigenous leader and environmental activist Berta Caceres is yet another tragic example of the abhorrent human rights record in Honduras under the government that came to power via the 2009 coup. Between 2010 and 2014, 101 environmental activists have been killed in Honduras, according to Global Witness.

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Input: He said: “We are extremely concerned about the increasing tensions near the administrative boundary between Crimea and the rest of Ukraine. “We urge both sides to avoid provocative steps or rhetoric that could escalate the situation.” related stories PUTIN 'S PURGE Shock as Vladimir Putin’s sacks his Chief-of-Staff after years in the Russian President’s inner circle ' BRITS NO MATCH FOR RUSSIANS ' Red alert as Russia stocks up on secret weapons after testing them in war against Ukraine Red Zeppelin Vladimir Putin is planning to build this huge £ 23million airship and it's bigger than a Boeing 747 KREMLIN THREAT Putin orders war games off Crimea after accusing Ukraine of trying to stir up conflict INSIDE THE WAR ZONE Horrifying images reveal extent of fighting in Syria's war torn Aleppo as Russia teams up with Iran PUTIN IS WATCHING US The tyrant's Russian spy planes are flying over Britain – and the MoD is absolutely fine about it Officials told the publication similar movements were seen before Vladimir Putin carried out his deceptive annexation of the Crimea. Such manoeuvres have reduced the “warning time” available to the US if he decides to launch another attack.

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Input: Islamic State’s bureaucratic structure has survived as well. So although Islamic State’s power is on a constant downturn, it is still hard to predict when a more dramatic decline, of the sort that will keep it from working in an organized fashion, will occur. Should Islamic State be defeated, no one can say which Islamic group will take its place or what will happen to the territories from which it will have to withdraw. It is not at all certain that calm and security will return to the country if the Iraqi army should take Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, in the coming months. Tensions still run high between the Sunnis and the Shi’ites, as well as among various Shi’ite groups, over the way the country should be run, as well as its future.

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Input: Over the past six months it's gotten worse, according to Airwars. “Between December and May, in both Iraq and Syria, there was a marked increase in the number of alleged casualty incidents and civilian death attributed to coalition actions,” it says. In Iraq, the group reports that between 297 and 518 civilians were killed by coalition airstrikes in this time. In Syria, between 197 and 274 civilians were killed, “a 38 percent increase in likely civilian deaths above the previous six months.” The U.S. has admitted to killing just 20 civilians.

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Input: No one was ever shot and killed trying to scale the Berlin Wall to go east. I will say that you do have a right to be ticked off at the nation your parents and grandparents are leaving you. They conitnue to feast on a dollar’s worth of government largess, pay only 60 cents for it, borrow the rest, and stick you with their 40 cent tab year after year until over $ 19 trillion in debt has been left for you to sort out after we’re gone. Just remember, it was the expansion of government that socialism epitomizes, not private enterprise, that imposed this generational theft upon you and saddled you with the dismal future you hope Sanders will change. So, please know I understand that you are unhappy with the way things are going.

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Input: The full trappings of white male privilege afford him the undying rationalizations of esteemed Republican men and women (many with daughters), and a mainstream media complex craving for an interview and ratings fix like a heroin addict cooking a spoon. Hence, the extent of any horrific sexual transgressions are limited to the "locker-room talk" and trivialization. Lip-bubbling media outrage and disgust was near unanimous through Cosby's summer-long perp walk; with Trump, it's all preelection gawking and the admiration of adoring pitchfork-brandishing fans. It's safe to assume Nate Parker's "Birth of a Nation" won't get an Oscar; but threre are award accolades galore for Woody Allen despite years of molestation allegations, and the same for Roman Polanski, the filmmaking "legend" despite pleading guilty to (and then fleeing) charges that he brutally raped a 13-year -old girl. Julian Assange still faces rape allegations and unresolved extradition requests from Swedish authorities, but the Russian-espionage tool is a mythical hero for the conspiracy-theorizing right-wingers and rabid Bernie Sandernistas who claim Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for?

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Input: The RAF has sent two further Tornado aircraft and six Typhoons to bolster aircraft now flying sorties to both Iraq and Syria The group has sent a memorandum outlining its questions and concerns to the US Department of Defence but said it has not yet received a reply. A survivor of an air strike that hit two houses where civilians were sheltering in Ayn al-Khan, al-Hasaka governorate, on 7 December last year described being woken by a huge explosion. “The house shook and began to crumble, the windows shattered,” he said. “I ran outside and saw my neighbour’s house completely destroyed.

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Input: They reached the border checkpoint in the countryside near Brest on August 29 and set up camp after being refused entry into Poland. A spokesman for Poland's local Border Guard, Dariusz Sienicki, told the Associated Press Wednesday that the group had returned to Belarus. Poland was receptive to Chechens during Chechnya's war against Russian forces, which ended in 2009. Sienicki said that 6,000 Russian citizens, mostly Chechens, have been admitted to Poland so far this year, a 150-percent increase from the same period last year. During the same time, some 30,000 people have been denied entry.

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Input: During his early years in office he seemed to favor a no-first-use policy, reflecting the view that the sole purpose of nuclear forces is to deter their use against us by our adversaries. The penultimate draft of his “posture review” still retained this view, but in the end one of his senior bureaucrats in his national security council talked him into preserving the first-use option. This adviser presented a scenario in which a quick U.S. nuclear strike offered the only available tool to eradicate an unfolding terrorist operation meant to spread deadly biological pathogens from a makeshift production laboratory in a remote location to cities worldwide. Trump’s fascination with nuclear weapons appears to be nearly as strong as Obama’s. Trump emphasizes repeatedly that nukes pose the existential threat to mankind.

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Input: The good news for Democrats is that they likely have never heard of anyone involved in the walkout. There were zero prominent union leaders, elected officials and activists. The man negotiating with police on behalf of the group, Jeffrey Eide, and the closest thing the delegates had to a leader, runs a bicycle advocacy group in Fargo, North Dakota. Related: Democrats Pull Back From Brink on First Night of Convention The bad news for Democrats is that they likely have never heard of anyone involved in the walkout.

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Input: England fans embroiled in violence in Marseille on Saturday night have said groups of Russian hooligans launched “savage coordinated attacks” around the city, disguised in English club shirts and equipped with gumshields and telescopic truncheons. Roaming Russian fans approached the violence, which occurred before and after England’s opening Euro 2016 game in Marseille, with “military organisation”, fans said, as Uefa opened disciplinary proceedings against Russia’s football union. Calling cards were posted on lampposts around the Old Port area of town, seemingly to guide the hooligans as to where to congregate before acts of violence that even seasoned travellers with England said were the worst they had experienced. Rebekah Vardy, the wife of the England striker Jamie, had to be escorted from a brasserie near the stadium after riot police teargassed marauding hooligans. She tweeted on Sunday: “That has to be up there with the worst experience EVER at an away game!

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Input: U.S. Central command denied that claim, saying it voluntarily warned the Russians ahead of time about the impending airstrike." Coalition members in the Combined Air Operations Center had earlier informed Russian counterparts of the upcoming strike," Central Command said in its statement." It is not uncommon for the Coalition Air Operations Center to confer with Russian officials as a professional courtesy and to deconflict Coalition and Russian aircraft, although such contact is not required by the current U.S.–Russia Memorandum of Understanding on safety of flight." Nevertheless, the Russians are claiming their Syrian allies have been killed by the U.S. military, just as the U.S. and Russia are trying to maintain the fragile, nationwide cease-fire that went into effect Monday. That cease-fire calls on the Syrian regime to cease all airstrikes over U.S.-backed opposition forces and limits it to striking ISIS targets.

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Input: They are now just 30 miles to the north of Raqqa and have cut off a major supply route deep inside Isis-held territory. Ahmet Silk / Getty 39/40 2015-June Isis has released gruesome footage claiming to show the murder of more than a dozen men by drowning, decapitation and using a rocket-propelled grenade as it seeks to boost morale among its fanatical supporters. 40/40 2015-June Isis has begun carrying out its threat to destroy structures in the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra, blowing up at least two monuments at the Unesco-protected site as Syrian government troops made advances on the Islamist’s positions. AFP

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Input: Twitter Embed Video of Hungarian Camerawoman Kicking Refugees Shocks World 2:12 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog BUDAPEST, Hungary — The camerawoman who was filmed kicking and trying to trip migrants near the border with Serbia in September 2015 has been indicted for breaching the peace, Hungarian prosecutors said Wednesday. Petra Laszlo, who later apologized for her actions while also trying to justify them, was fired by the right-wing N1TV after footage of her actions went viral on social media. TV camerawoman Petra Laszlo tripping Osama Abdul Mohsen and his son, Zaid MARKO DJURICA / Reuters

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Input: Some are predicting massive tax hikes under a Hillary presidency. 2. In Hillary’s upside-down ethical world, sodomy and gender rebellion are “human rights.” Our children will be further corrupted as Hillary twists the notion U.S. civil rights law into including male / male or female / female sexual behavior, and ramps up the Obama pressure on public schools to deceive children with deviant “LGBTQ” propaganda. Her Departments of Education and Justice are likely to continue the phony interpretation of Title IX allowing privacy-free, open sex bathrooms. But this deviance-fest wo n’t end at the U.S border.

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Input: Former Minnesota Republican congresswoman Michele Bachmann said on Saturday that the Syrian Civil War is paving the way for an apocalyptic war between Israel and foreign powers. Bachmann, who has previously claimed that President Obama and the gay rights movement are ushering in the Last Days, told radio hosts Jan Markell and Eric Barger that “the world is about to give legitimacy to the Islamic State” while, at the same time, Russian and Iranian military intervention in Syria on behalf of its dictator Bashar Assad has paved the way for a future invasion of Israel by the two countries in order to seize its energy resources, just as laid out in the Bible. “I believe that they are positioning themselves so that someday they could invade Israel to be able to take over the vast stores of oil and natural gas that Israel is controlling,” she said, adding that “this very unique new partnership between Iran and Russia in Syria” with the support of China “lines up with scripture.” All of these powers, she said, are seeking “a global world order to keep their game going into the future and to support them if they would invade against Israel.” And who will lead this global world order? Why, none other than Obama.

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Input: Meanwhile, Putin was focused on the Sochi Winter Olympics and the threat that the games could be disrupted by terrorism. So, with the Kremlin distracted, Ukraine’s Yanukovych tried to fend off his political crisis while limiting the violence. However, on Feb. 20, 2014, snipers fired on both police and protesters in the Maidan square and the Western media jumped to the conclusion that Yanukovych was responsible (even though later investigations have indicated that the sniper attack was more likely carried out by neo-Nazi groups to provoke the chaos that followed). A Successful Coup On Feb. 21, a shaken Yanukovych agreed to a European-brokered deal in which he surrendered some of his powers and agreed to early elections.

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Input: But it is clearly on the scale of tens of thousands. For example, in 1991, 47,276 Jews immigrated to Israel from Russia, while 10,196 left to resettle in the United States, according to Mark Tolts, a demographics researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. These numbers do not include Jews who immigrated to other countries such as Germany, nor do they include non-Jewish immigration. Journalist Masha Gessen said thousands of people could lose their citizenship as a result of the new regulations, which she described as “really bizarre,” “insane” and “amazing.” “There can not be such a thing as a person who was born on Russian territory and is not a Russian citizen,” she said.

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Input: The sentence confirms The sentence confirms the plea bargain reached by Muawiya’s lawyer with the Israeli military prosecutor earlier this month. In November, In November, Muawiya was indicted on charges of attempted murder and possession of a knife. after the two allegedly stabbed and injured an Israeli security guard on the light rail near the illegal Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev in northern Jerusalem. Israeli forces shot and wounded Muawiya’s 12-year -old cousin Ali Alqam after the two allegedly stabbed and injured an Israeli security guard on the light rail near the illegal Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev in northern Jerusalem. Ali, who was shot at least three times on the scene and Ali, who was shot at least three times on the scene and had to undergo surgery to remove a bullet from his stomach, is currently being held at a juvenile rehabilitation center since Israeli authorities decided to uphold his one-year detention in April.

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Input: 1, 2001, a U.S. Navy EP-3E with the VQ-1, flying an ELINT (Electronic Intelligence) mission in international airspace 64 miles southeast of the island of Hainan was intercepted by two PLAN (People’s Liberation Army Navy) J-8 fighters. One of the J-8s piloted by Lt. Cdr. Wang Wei, made two close passes to the EP-3 before colliding with the spyplane on the third pass. As a consequence, the J-8 broke into two pieces and crashed into the sea causing the death of the pilot, whereas the EP-3, severely damaged, performed an unauthorized landing at China’s Lingshui airfield. The 24 crew members (21 men and three women), that destroyed all (or at least most of) the sensitive items and data on board the aircraft, were detained by Chinese authorities until Apr.

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Input: While the Clinton Foundation openly works with corporations and governments on its philanthropic projects, the Journal notes that “under federal law, tax-exempt charitable organizations are n’t supposed to act in anyone’s private interest but instead in the public interest.” Promoting corporate donors: In 2015, IBT reported that while Clinton Foundation donor Cisco faced criticism over its work with China’s autocratic government, Clinton’s State Department honored the company for “outstanding corporate citizenship, innovation and democratic principles.” Her department also delivered government contracts to the company. The Washington Post in 2014 reported that in 2010, Clinton pushed Russia to approve a $ 3.7 billion purchase from Boeing. Two months after the deal was solidified, reported the newspaper, Boeing announced a $ 900,000 contribution to the Clinton Foundation. Uranium: In a 2015 investigative report, the New York Times reported that as Russia’s atomic energy agency assumed control of a multinational uranium mining conglomerate, “a flow of cash made its way to the Clinton Foundation” from investors with a stake in the deal.

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Input: Meanwhile, another Trump disaster was brewing. Eastern Air Lines, which had been struggling, put its northeastern air shuttle up for sale. Trump persuaded the banks to lend him $ 380 million to purchase the route, and in June 1989 the Trump Shuttle began flying. Trump introduced the airline with his usual style — by insulting the competition. At an elegant event at Logan Airport in Boston, Trump took the stage and suggested that the other airline with a northeastern shuttle, Pan Am, flew unsafe planes.

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Input: 1) Falsely said “you’re wrong” when the moderator told him a judge ruled New York City’s “stop and frisk” program unconstitutional. (That happened in 2013.) Below is our complete list of false and misleading claims uttered by both of them: At their first presidential debate, on Monday night in New York, Trump made 34 false claims to Clinton’s four false claims, continuing his pattern of unprecedented serial lying. WASHINGTON — Again, there was no contest: Donald Trump was by far more dishonest than Hillary Clinton.

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Input: CNN reporters and producers typically prepare in what is informally known as the "cone of silence." Secrecy is prioritized and access is restricted during the prep sessions. But Brazile's March 12 email to Palmieri included the text of a potential question about the death penalty. A similarly-worded question was read by Martin at the town hall the next day. He introduced an exonerated former death row inmate who asked Clinton about her view on the matter.

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Input: This report deserves continuous monitoring, especially in light of last week’s military maneuvers and movements conducted by Russia’s infantry and airborne forces, as well as their naval assets and air force in and around the borders of the Baltic nations, primarily Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia, as well as Ukraine and Poland. Recent reliefs of command (and/or purges) of several senior members of the Kremlin and the Russian military suggest (as can be read in detail in other articles) that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may be clearing out any of his advisors that may oppose future military operations in Europe. To increase tensions further, it has been reported that on Wednesday, August 24th, Turkish military forces have invaded Syria. The offensive has been comprised of Turkish armored units, special forces teams, and aircraft supported by “coalition” aircraft of the U.S. The purported objective was to dislodge ISIS from proximity to the Turkish border and to stem advances made by Kurdish militia.

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Input: YOUNGSTOWN — Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wrapped up a 49-minute speech on foreign policy saying: “As your president, I will be your greatest champion.” Trump said he would “reject bigotry and oppression” as president though during the speech he mentioned tougher immigration laws that would specifically target those coming from Syria and other nations he said are hostile to the United States. While he spoke softly for much of his speech, the crowd at Youngstown State University at times erupted with applause and chants of “Trump, Trump, Trump,” and “USA, USA, USA.” Trump told those gathered that America needs to restore common sense to its immigration policy.

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Input: But a presidential term lasts only four years, and Congress and the courts provide checks and balances." The Supreme Court appointment is for a lifetime." Trump played to the crowd with a tribute to Phyllis Schlafly, the anti-feminist founder of Eagle Forum who died this week at 92. She supported him early in the primaries, and he announced that he'll attend her funeral Saturday. He also offered a typically caustic review of Clinton's foreign policy and service as secretary of state.

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Input: Israel’s inner security cabinet discussed blocking social networks in the Hebron area where the two deadly attacks took place last week, within the space of just over 24 hours. The violence was the most serious in a week that began with clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces at a contested Jerusalem shrine sacred to Muslims as the al-Aqsa mosque compound and to Jews as Temple Mount. There were also Palestinian stabbing attacks, rocket fire at Israel by Gaza Strip militants and retaliatory Israeli airstrikes. Over the weekend, Israel locked down hundreds of thousands of people in Hebron and surrounding areas, the largest such action since it went after the killers of three Jewish youths in 2014, according to the military. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to withhold some of the taxes and fees it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority on the ground some of the money is transferred to families of attackers.

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Input: He added that the Israeli rejection of the French initiative came just as authorities informed the Palestinians that the army would continue to storm Area A of the West Bank. The Oslo Accords signed between the two sides divided the West Bank into three zones, with Area A under Palestinian jurisdiction. Mustafa Barghouti, head of the Palestinian National Initiative, said Israel's decision proved that "an alternative national strategy that focused on popular resistance and the boycott movement" was essential, in addition to reconciling feuding parties Hamas and Fatah. Source: Al Jazeera

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Input: [12] This is not for a lack of desire — more than half of America’s millennials say they want to start a business — but barriers like student debt and a lack of access to credit are holding young people back. [13] Hillary is committed to breaking down barriers and leveling the playing field for entrepreneurs and innovators who are launching their own start-ups. Hillary will allow entrepreneurs to put their federal student loans into a special status while they get their new ventures off the ground. For millions of young Americans, this would mean deferment from having to make any payments on their student loans for up to three years — zero interest and zero principal — as they work through the critical start-up phase of new enterprises. Hillary will explore a similar deferment incentive not just to founders of enterprises, but to early joiners – such as the first 10 or 20 employees.

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Input: Right: July 2, 2011. A major fire ripped through New Mexico, destroying sites considered sacred by American Indian tribes and threatening the Los Alamos National Nuclear Laboratory. The blaze, thought to have been started by a downed power line, burned more than 125,000 acres of the Santa Fe National Forest. In the July 2 image, burned areas are reddish brown and bright tones at the edge of the forest indicate active fires. June image taken by the Thematic Mapper sensor aboard Landsat 5.

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Input: “We had a discussion about China back then, about trade, cheating, and all those issues,” DiMicco told me. Now a member of Trump’s Economic Advisory Council, he has visited Trump in New York, and he prides himself on offering unconventional advice. To deal with China, he says, the United States should act like an aggressive patient at a dentist’s office: “Here’s how the patient deals with the dentist: sits down in the chair, grabs the dentist by the nuts, and says, ‘You do n’t hurt me, I wo n’t hurt you.’” Peter Navarro, Trump’s senior policy adviser on trade and China, is a business professor at the University of California at Irvine. He does not speak Chinese, and he is at odds with many mainstream China scholars, but he has directed documentaries, including “Death by China,” and written books such as “The Coming China Wars.” During a lull at the Republican National Convention, Navarro told me that he argues for the need to “balance the trade deficit.” He said, “If you simply do that, it sets in motion a process where you grow faster, there’s more employment, that pushes real wages up, and that floods the government coffers with tax revenues, and then you’re able to pay for the infrastructure and social services and defense, which have been neglected.” He added, “You focus on the trade deficit and good things happen. That’s the philosophy of Donald Trump.” The Economist Intelligence Unit, an economic-and-geopolitical-analysis firm, has ranked the prospect of a Trump victory on its top-ten risks to the global economy.

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Input: Russia on Tuesday argued strongly against Turkey's demand to keep a leading Kurdish group out of Syria's peace talks, and said it expects the UN envoy to resist "blackmail" by Turkey and others, reflecting sharp differences that remain ahead of the scheduled talks. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected allegations that Moscow had offered Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down and could offer him a political asylum. He specifically shrugged off reports last week claiming that Russia's military intelligence chief had traveled to Damascus to try to persuade Assad to step down.

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UN envoy


Input: A photo taken from a Norwegian surveillance aircraft shows Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov in international waters off the coast of Northern Norway on October 17, 2016. (Reuters) It is understood that shadowing ships is regular business for the Royal Navy, being supported by RAF surveillance aircraft on this occasion. Navy ships will continue to escort the Russian task group and provide a visible presence south through the North Sea and English Channel as the Russian fleet sails through, the MoD said. The UK is working alongside Nato partners to monitor the warships.

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Input: But to imagine a first strike happening with Trump in the White House, it helps to imagine a different kind of scenario ― say, a terrorist attack somewhere in the U.S. In the fevered, panicked environment that a homeland incident could provoke, it’s not so crazy to imagine Trump ordering a nuclear strike against ISIS targets in Syria ― even though such a strike would, in fact, be crazy. Probably the most generous interpretation of Trump’s statements is that Scarborough’s account is somehow inaccurate and that Trump merely intends to dangle the possibility of using nuclear weapons as part of his negotiating technique to intimidate foreign adversaries. But even musing about the use of nuclear weapons would be profoundly destabilizing, because one of the most important checks on the use of such weapons is the knowledge that no nation that possesses them would actually use them without facing an existential threat. As Hurlburt told HuffPost in an email:

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Input: "But I’m going to say it — and I hate to say it." At that point, just nineteen minutes in, it was already hard to imagine what might give Trump any qualms. He had already said that her record was "terrible" and "disgraceful," and that she "should be ashamed”; called Clinton's husband, Bill, the worst abuser of women "in the history of politics in this nation," and claimed that Hillary had "viciously" attacked women who had made allegations against him (three of those women were Trump’s guests at the debate); accused her of "laughing at the girl who was raped" by a man she had represented as a young lawyer (he'd brought her, too); accused her of being behind birtherism, which he himself had pushed; and objected when Clinton referred to Michelle Obama, who has been campaigning for her, as her friend — objected, it seemed, to the idea that Clinton could have any friends but Sidney Blumenthal (" he's another real winner that you have "). In those first nineteen minutes, Trump had also repeatedly insisted that a video that emerged last Friday — outtakes from" Access Hollywood," in which he told the host, Billy Bush, that because Trump was "a star" he could do whatever he wanted to women without their consent (Anderson Cooper, the moderator, paraphrased one line as "grabbing their genitals")—was an example of" locker-room talk." Trump made a vague expression of contrition, but with the air of a man looking over the moderators ' shoulders for a sign pointing to said locker room.

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Input: Image copyright AP Image caption Donald Trump, centre, sits with, from right, Paula Jones, Kathy Shelton, Juanita Broaddrick, and Kathleen Willey Kathy Shelton, a fourth woman who spoke, encountered Mrs Clinton in a criminal case when she was 12 years old. Early in Mrs Clinton's legal career, she was appointed to defend Ms Shelton's rapist, despite objections, and had his sentence reduced to a lesser charge. Years later, an audio tape emerged of Mrs Clinton speaking with a reporter, in which she can be heard laughing about the case. During one instance, she laughed after explaining that her client had passed a lie detector test, which convinced her to never trust them again.

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Input: ELECTION COMPLAINT FILED WITH DOJ AGAINST FLORIDA AG FOR 2013 TRUMP FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTION. A Democratic group affiliated with an anti-Trump super PAC filed a complaint with the Department of Justice on Wednesday night against Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for the $ 25,000 her re-election fundraising group accepted from the Trump Foundation in 2013." We believe that Pam Bondi, Florida Attorney General, and Donald Trump have violated federal voting laws including but not limited to bribery across state lines by way of a $ 25,000 campaign contribution from Trump to Bondi during her 2013 election by way of the Trump Foundation in return for AG Bondi dropping an investigation into Trump University. We ask the DOJ to investigate this matter," a complaint filed by the Democratic Coalition Against Trump reads. More from ABC’s VERONICA STRACQUALURSI: http://abcn.ws/2coEjIo

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Input: The missed opportunity is another blow to party officials already embarrassed by the theft and public disclosure of e-mails that have disrupted their presidential nominating convention in Philadelphia and led their chairwoman to resign. QuickTake Cybersecurity Computer security consultants hired by the DNC made dozens of recommendations after a two-month review, the people said. Following the advice, which would typically include having specialists hunt for intruders on the network, might have alerted party officials that hackers had been lurking in their network for weeks -- hackers who would stay for nearly a year. Instead, officials did n’t discover the breach until April.

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Input: 224 0 Tunisia June 26, 2015 Mass shooting at packed tourist beach Attack occurred at Port El Kantaoui where hundreds of Brits were holidaying. Seifeddine Rezgui Yacoubi, disguised as a tourist, socialised with others, and then took out a Kalashnikov assault rifle concealed in a beach umbrella and fired at the tourists on the beach. He entered a hotel, shooting at people he came across. 38 39

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Input: The nature of the attack was the same: hackers sent phishing emails intended to appear like it came from tech support in order to trick the recipient into clicking on a link. But while Clinton’s staff opened the email due to a miscommunication, the emails to the RNC “were quarantined by a filter meant to detect spam as well as potentially malicious traffic that may carry viruses or trick recipients into divulging passwords.” The emails remained in quarantine until June, “after Democratic committee leaders revealed that hackers had successfully gained a foothold inside their networks.” At that point the RNC hired an outside security firm to make sure they were safe. “Upon inspection, the RNC found that its electronic filters had blocked emails sent to a former employee matching the description they’d been warned about.” According to WSJ, “analysts now believe what started as an information-gathering campaign aimed at both parties later took on a focus of leaked emails about Mrs. Clinton and Democrats.” This does n’t contradict the stance of the CIA that the Russians aimed to help Donald Trump, but it does suggest that “at least initially, they were trying to gather potentially incriminating or embarrassing information on both parties.” READ MORE:

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Input: 10/40 2014-June Isis take Baiji oil fields in Iraq-giving them access to huge amounts of possible revenue. EPA 11/40 2014-August James Foley is executed by the group as concerns grow for second American prisoner, fellow reporter Steven Sotloff. AP 12/40 2014-August Obama authorises U.S. airstrikes in Iraq, helping to stall Isis’ along with action by Kurdish forces following the deaths of hundreds of Yazidi people on Mount Sinjar.

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James Foley


Input: In a conference call Thursday with reporters, Wyden, the top Democrat on the Finance Committee, said that when lawmakers return to the Capitol next month he will urge them to take up legislation he introduced on May 25 that would require all presidential nominees of major parties to release their last three years of tax returns within 15 days of accepting their party’s nomination. If the nominee fails to do so, the Federal Election Commission would request the returns from the Treasury Department and then make them public. The bill would take effect immediately if signed into law by President Obama. “You just do n’t get to hide your tax returns from public view when you are running for president of the United States,” Wyden told reporters. He noted that nominees for executive branch positions lower than the presidency are required to give their tax returns to Senate committees for review, and he questioned Trump’s reasoning for not releasing his returns.

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Input: It is believed a device he was carrying exploded, although it was not clear if it was a suicide bombing or whether the man intended to plant the device: 12 people were injured. Germany is on edge after a shooting at a Munich shopping mall on Friday in which nine people died, and an axe attack on a train near Würzburg last Monday in which five were wounded. Ansbach blast: Syrian asylum seeker kills himself and injures 12 in Germany Russian athletes escape blanket Rio ban The International Olympic Committee faced an unprecedented backlash from anti-doping groups and athletes after it decided not to impose a blanket ban on the Russian team competing in next month’s Rio Games.

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Input: Another contender could be the former NATO commander James Stavridis, reportedly a finalist to be Clinton’s running mate. There is precedent for a military man to run the State Department: former Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Colin Powell did so in George W. Bush’s first term. But many Democrats and foreign service officers believe the military has encroached on traditional diplomatic roles over the past decade, and they might object to putting a general in the job. John Kerry, seen watching tennis at the Olympics in Brazil on Saturday, continues to travel the globe at age 72. | AP Photo

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Input: The KGB may be gone, but Russian foreign intelligence, operating with the initials “SVR,” is thriving. Proof: Evgeny Buryakov, the Russian agent who, beginning in 2012, operated undercover as a banker in New York City gathering intelligence, trading coded messages with other Russian spies who sent clandestinely collected information back to Moscow. He was caught, was indicted and pleaded guilty in March. There’s the reported Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the release of 20,000 DNC emails. Jumping to Putin’s defense, Trump said at NBC News’ Wednesday night national security forum, “Well, nobody knows that for a fact.” Tell that to the intelligence community.

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New York City


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: Throughout the 90's and 00's, NATO continued to expand its operations, accept new member countries, and analyze new tactics. This year they officially recognized cyber warfare as an action of war, which could trigger member countries to come to the aid of others. Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, the section compelling member nations to provide aid, was invoked for the first time in the history of the organization in the wake of 9/11. NATO countries took over anti-terrorism operations in Afghanistan, and later spread to Iraq as well. More recently, in 2011, NATO was swept into controversy when it began an 8 month bombing campaign in Libya during its uprising.

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Input: This is clear from her response to ABC reporter Martha Raddatz’s painfully loaded question about the Syrian conflict. With Raddatz going on about the hundreds killed by the evil twins, Bashar al-Assad and Putin and even tossing in the Holocaust for good measure, Clinton saw no reason to hold back: “Well, the situation in Syria is catastrophic and every day that goes by we see the results of the regime – by Assad in partnership with the Iranians on the ground, the Russians in the air – bombarding places, in particular Aleppo where there are hundreds of thousands of people, probably about 250,000 still left, and there is a determined effort by the Russian air force to destroy Aleppo in order to eliminate the last of the Syrian rebels who are really holding out against the Assad regime. “Russia has n’t paid any attention to ISIS. They’re interested in keeping Assad in power.

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Input: Among her duties as secretary of state, Clinton also had a role in the World Bank, which is largely financed with U.S. funds. Blackburn questioned a controversial Hillary Clinton decision permitting Russia to obtain a controlling stake in a U.S. uranium company after an effort led by Ian Teller, a major Clinton Foundation donor, and Canadian billionaire Frank Giustra, a long-time friend of Bill Clinton. Uranium One “donated $ 2.35 million to the Foundation through several donations, which the foundation failed to report, as the Russian’s gained control of Uranium One from 2009-2013,” Blackburn said. Teller’s Fernwood Foundation additionally donated more than $ 2 million to the Clinton Foundation, according to “Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer. Blackburn said “Secretary Clinton was also one of several administration officials who approved the sale of the uranium.”

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$ 2.35 million

the Foundation

$ 2.35 million

U.S.