Input: We ca n’t defend Japan, a behemoth selling us cars by the millions.” Foreign policy is Clinton’s area of expertise, and she discussed various international issues — NATO, Iran, Iraq, counterterrorism and more — in detail. But her basic principles were familiar ones in the Obama era: strong military alliances, a willingness to negotiate with enemies, a desire for multilateral action but without taking unilateral military action off the table. With a few tweaks in emphasis, her foreign policy vision could have been that of Obama, John Kerry or Al Gore. But if Clinton is a mainstream Democrat on foreign policy, Trump is anything but a mainstream Republican.

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Input: Meanwhile Turkish police clashed with pro-Kurdish protesters in a flashpoint district of Istanbul, leaving at least two wounded, reports said. Protesters in the Gazi district of the European side of the city — known as a staunchly anti-government stronghold — came out to protest against the military operations. Police arrived in armoured vehicles and fired tear gas canisters, while wounded protesters were taken away on stretchers, witnesses said. Pro-Kurdish media reports said at least two were wounded and the police had used live ammunition, but this was not confirmed by official sources. Washington, Ankara disagree over Kurds

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Input: She wasn't yanked down. She was-like, she didn't even have any expression. If somebody in this audience gets whacked, or gets hurt, including me, you get hit a little bit. You go, ow. There's no emotion.

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Input: It could have triggered a nuclear arms race in the Middle East and begun to unravel the global nonproliferation regime. After Iran initially rejected a diplomatic solution, the United States mobilized the international community to impose sanctions on Iran, demonstrating that nations that fail to meet their nuclear obligations will face consequences. After intense negotiations, Iran agreed to a nuclear deal that closes every single one of its paths to a nuclear weapon, and Iran is now being subjected to the most comprehensive inspection regimen ever negotiated to monitor a nuclear program. In other words, under this deal, the world has prevented yet another nation from getting a nuclear bomb. And we’ll remain vigilant to ensure that Iran fulfills its commitments.

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Input: Six hundred," Duterte said Monday." If (Obama) can answer that question and give the apology, I will answer him." Obama indicated Monday he was wary of meeting with Duterte, suggesting the bombast could prevent making substantial progress between the two nations." I always want to make sure if I'm having a meeting that it's productive and we're getting something done," Obama said during a news conference." If and when we have a meeting, this is something that is going to be brought up," Obama said, referring to the Philippines ' controversial record of combating drug crime since Duterte took office earlier this year.

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Input: According to a daily strike list provided by the coalition's Combined Joint Task Force, two strikes "near al Hasakah" carried out in the 24-hour period that included the early hours of Monday morning hit "two separate ISIL tactical units and destroyed an ISIL building." In a release sent a day later, on Wednesday, the coalition reported "near al Hasakah, four strikes struck two separate ISIL tactical units and destroyed two ISIL vehicles, four ISIL buildings, and an ISIL fighting position." On Wednesday, an American spokesperson for the coalition told VICE News that it was "aware of reports of civilian casualties and can confirm the Coalition conducted airstrikes in al Hasakah province recently." "If the information supporting the allegation is determined to be credible, we will then determine the next appropriate step," said the spokesperson, who responded from the coalition's public affairs press desk email and did not offer their name. The coalition did not say who had carried out the raids, though American pilots are responsible for the vast majority of strikes in Syria.

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Input: Politicians in Germany say they have received death threats after voting to recognise the Armenian genocide. Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan accused German MPs of Turkish origin of having "impure blood", and some have been given additional police protection amid fears of attacks. At a rally in Turkey, Erdoğan described MPs who backed the Armenia motion as "the long arm of the separatist terrorists in [Turkey]", in remarks broadcast on state television. According to the motion, the Armenian Genocide "is exemplary for the history of mass destruction, ethnic cleansing, expulsions and genocides which marks the 20th century in such a terrible way." It also acknowleges that Germany stood by and allowed the massacre to occur.

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Input: Baby Born On Flight Gifted A Lifetime Of Free Plane Tickets (00:50) Argument Over Starbucks Latte Error Escalates Into Stabbing Argument Over Starbucks Latte Error Escalates Into Stabbing (00:48) CNN’s Acosta Says Spicer Is ‘Just Kind Of Useless’ After Off-Camera Briefing CNN’s Acosta Says Spicer Is ‘Just Kind Of Useless’ After Off-Camera Briefing (01:00)

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Input: Hide Caption 7 of 14 Photos: Terrorist attack in Tunisia On its website, Hotel Riu Imperial Marhaba is described as an all-inclusive hotel with views of Port El Kantaoui. Hide Caption 8 of 14 Photos: Terrorist attack in Tunisia Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi, third from right, arrives at the resort with Prime Minister Habib Essid, third from left, and Interior Minister Mohamed Najem Gharsalli, far left. Hide Caption 9 of 14 Photos: Terrorist attack in Tunisia Hide Caption 10 of 14 Photos: Terrorist attack in Tunisia A medic stands next to the body of a tourist. Hide Caption 11 of 14 Photos: Terrorist attack in Tunisia Dead bodies are seen on the beach. Hide Caption 12 of 14 Photos: Terrorist attack in Tunisia A Tunisian security member stands next to a swimming pool at the hotel.

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Input: Historian Pawel Ukielski of the Polish Institute for National Remembrance (INR) would love to see the removal of the biggest symbol of the Soviet era in Poland-the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw. Since the 1950's, the 231-meter -high building has been the country's tallest building-and a thorn in the side of many Poles. In 2009, Polish Foreign Miniser Radoslaw Sikorski called for it to be demolished, saying it would be cathartic for Poland to symbolically bury the Soviet era. Poles have a history of such demolitions reaching back to the 1920s, when the newly founded Polish state destroyed all symbols of the Czarist period. Among them was the hated Alexander Nevksy Cathedral in central Warsaw, demolished in a series of controlled explosions.

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Input: Among the boldfaced names in his client portfolio were Angolan guerilla army leader Jonas Savimbi, and former presidents Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines and Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire. But those jobs would pale — both in terms of financial reward and degree of difficulty — to the gig to which Akhmetov referred Manafort and his team: returning Yanukovych to power. A former trucking official who had been convicted and incarcerated as a teenager for serious crimes, Yanukovych had become a popular symbol of the corruption that plagues Ukraine after his team tried to rig the 2004 presidential election. A series of protests, which became known as the Orange Revolution, forced a re-vote, which Yanukovych lost. While Manafort initially protested that Yanukovych was too deeply flawed to revive, Akhmetov eventually prevailed upon his American consultant to help Yanukovych and his political party, the Party of Regions, try to make a comeback in the 2006 parliamentary elections.

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Input: The letter also said "smuggling explosives and industrial chemicals to terrorist groups operating in Syria is also usually organized from Turkish territory" through the border crossings." In order to pass through the border controls unimpeded, effectively with the complicity of the Turkish authorities, products are processed for companies that are purportedly registered in Jordan and Iraq," it said. Churkin said large consignments of explosives are often transported by water, especially the Euphrates River. The letter listed the total supplies of explosives and industrial chemicals sent "to terrorists through Turkey in 2015." It said 2,500 tons of ammonium nitrate worth approximately $ 788,700 were sent along with 456 tons of potassium nitrate worth $ 468,700, 75 tons of aluminum powder worth $ 496,500, sodium nitrate worth $ 19,400, glycerin worth $ 102,500, and nitric acid worth $ 34,000.

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Input: Unwilling to allow Trump to modify his immigration stances, she said his address later that night in Arizona amounted to a "doubling down on his absurd plan to send a deportation force to round up 16 million people." "He can try to fool voters into thinking somehow he's not as harsh and inhumane as he seems, but it's too late," Clinton said. The former secretary of state flatly said "No," when asked in an ABC News interview whether she'd be willing to accept the Mexican president's invitation to visit the country, as Trump did last week." I'm going to continue to focus on what we're doing to create jobs here at home," Clinton said. Trump, meanwhile, addressed his proposed border wall plan in an interview with ABC's Good Morning America.

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Input: Seldom a day passes when China is not elevated to the status of a "threat". According to Admiral Harry Harris, the US Pacific commander, China is "building a great wall of sand in the South China Sea". What he is referring to is China building airstrips in the Spratly Islands, which are the subject of a dispute with the Philippines-a dispute without priority until Washington pressured and bribed the government in Manila and the Pentagon launched a propaganda campaign called "freedom of navigation". What does this really mean? It means freedom for American warships to patrol and dominate the coastal waters of China.

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Input: OPINION AMONG the many telling kernels of truth dappling the spoor of the Hillary Clinton campaign’s internal e-mails released by WikiLeaks this past week, this one immediately leapt out. “Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavoury, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be. But if everybody’s watching ... then people get a little nervous, to say the least.

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Input: Tragedy did not stop the players in this year's congressional baseball game after one of their own was shot and several others were injured during the Republicans ' practice the day before." By playing tonight, you are showing the world that we will not be intimidated by threats, acts of violence or assaults ... The game will go on," President Donald Trump said in a broadcasted statement before the game.

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Input: Syria condemns the attack, urges UN to step in Turkey views the Kurdish YPG as an extension of the PKK, Washington does not Pro-Kurdish protests in Istanbul turn violent as demonstrators clash with police On Saturday, Turkey demanded the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia withdraw from areas that it had captured in northern Aleppo in recent days from insurgents in Syria, including the Menagh air base. The shelling has targeted those areas.

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Input: COLUMBUS, Ohio- An 18-year -old Ohio woman accused of livestreaming the rape of her 17-year -old friend with a social media app was trying to record the assault as evidence, the woman's attorney said recently in a defense a prosecutor flatly dismissed. Marina Lonina pleaded not guilty Friday to multiple charges including rape, kidnapping, sexual battery and pandering sexual matter involving a minor. A judge set bond at $ 125,000 for Lonina, a student at New Albany High School, outside Columbus. Franklin County Sheriff's Office via AP

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Input: “The campaign of Donald J. Trump, Trump’s close advisor Roger J. Stone, Jr., Stone’s organization Stop the Steal Inc., the Nevada Republican Party (“NRP”), and others are conspiring to threaten, intimidate, and thereby prevent minority voters in urban neighborhoods from voting in the 2016 election,” the Nevada complaint alleges. The suits ask the judges to bar activities that could lead to voter intimidation. Trump has numerous times talked about the threat of voter fraud, and has urged his supporters to closely monitor voting in “certain areas”—widely understood as a reference to minority neighborhoods. He has sometimes singled out Pennsylvania as a likely location for fraud.

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Input: (Erdogan attended even though a newspaper the Dogan’s own, called Hurriyet, is one of the few media outlets in the country that publishes articles criticizing a government that is renowned for clamping down on journalistic freedom.) The influence that allowed for the Dogans to attract Erdogan to the ceremonies has collapsed, and once again, a Trump partner became caught up in allegations of criminal activities. In March of this year, an Istanbul court accepted an indictment of Aydin Dogan, chairman of the Dogan Group, on charges he engaged in a fuel smuggling. Aydin Dogan has proclaimed his innocence, and critics of the action have proclaimed that the indictment was a politically motivated attempt to crush the company that has served as a journalistic opponent of the government. Erdogan also struck at the family’s business partner, Trump, for his anti-Muslim rhetoric.

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Input: (Photo by Melina Mara / The Washington Post) KAINE CONTINUES TO BE THE PERCEIVED FAVORITE IN HILLARY 'S VEEPSTAKES: -- “Unprompted, White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Wednesday mentioned Sen. Timothy M. Kaine as someone [the president] would recommend to Clinton," Anne Gearan and Juliet Eilperin report." Earnest confirmed that Obama has weighed in on Clinton's vetting process, but the spokesman did not say exactly what advice the president gave.” He tossed out Kaine's name as someone qualified, also nothing that Obama frequently calls his selection of Joe Biden the “best decision that he has ever made." “Earnest made a point of saying that Obama considered Kaine ‘one of his own,’ even though he had n’t served in the Cabinet.

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Input: The tabloid refers to the presidential candidate as “Comrad Trump,” with a headshot of Trump next to Vladimir Putin and the cover story calling their relationship a "bromance." The headline pokes fun at a chant Trump fans used last week during the Republican National Convention: “Lock her up,” pointed at Clinton. (Clinton does not face criminal charges for using private email servers as the secretary of state, even though the FBI said she was "extremely careless" in handling classified information.) This isn't the first negative image of Trump on the tabloid. In February, the Daily News portrayed Trump as a clown on it's "Dawn of the Brain Dead" cover.

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Input: The teacher was charged with misdemeanor assault and battery. (Kristine Guerra) A Sikh man in California was brutally attacked in his vehicle by a group of men who removed his turban and cut off his hair. Police are investigating the incident as a hate crime. (Kristine Guerra) THE DAILY HILLARY:

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Input: 8/10 A lawyer wearing his official robes kicks a tear gas canister back toward Israeli soldiers during a demonstration by scores of Palestinian lawyers called for by the Palestinian Bar Association in solidarity with protesters at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, near Ramallah, West Bank AP 9/10 Undercover Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian in Ramallah Reuters 10/10 Palestinian youth burn tyres during clashes with Israeli soldiers close to the Jewish settlement of Bet El, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, after Israel barred Palestinians from Jerusalem's Old City as tensions mounted following attacks that killed two Israelis and wounded a child The king has previously stated his opposition to Israel’s actions towards Palestinians and stated he believes “Israel is not interested in peace”. King Abdullah used the remainder of his speech to discuss terrorist activity, and his desire for the world to differentiate between Islam and terrorism-the aim of which he said was to “erase human civilisation” and “drag us back to the dark ages”.

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Input: It appeared a group of English fans were targeted as they drank in the bar's terrace area and the group were then seen hurling objects and chairs at rival fans as hooliganism reared its ugly head. It is not known if the offenders were Russian supporters or locals. The flare-attack was one of the most shocking sights of the clashes, which has seen property damaged and a fan dumped into the sea by a French gang. The violence has echoed the brutal scenes from the France 1998 World Cup, during the infamous ' Battle of Marseille ', where English fans clashed with local hooligans after England's victory against Tunisia. A cafe is engulfed in flames as English fans were targeted while drinking on the terrace of cafe on the streets of Marseille last night

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Input: I think that’s a technical question we can approach. Right now, the weak link in the chain here is not knowing which nuclear weapons are going to go first. It’s establishing a dialogue with the Russians that begins to put us on the same page here and move us in the same direction. Why, as a principle, is rejecting the lesser of two evils a principle you would adhere to? I think at this point the lesser evil has a track record.

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Input: “The children of Aleppo are trapped in a living nightmare,” said the Unicef deputy chief, Justin Forsyth. “There are no words left to describe the suffering they are experiencing.” Health workers said the 4 am attacks at the M2 killed two staff members and a civilian whose heart was pierced by shrapnel. The hospital’s intensive care unit was extensively damaged, as were power generators, fuel storage and water tanks that kept the hospital running. Damage was also sustained by an ambulance that had replaced another that was destroyed in a bombing two days ago.

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Input: The ISIS assault puts the group in control of around 60 per cent of Deir Ezzor city, which is the capital of the surrounding province of the same name. If confirmed, the death toll in the assault would be one of the highest in a single attack by ISIS, though the terrorists have carried out mass murders before. In 2014, its fighters killed hundreds of members of the Sunni Shaitat tribe in Deir Ezzor province after they opposed the militants. And in August 2014, the group massacred some 200 Syrian soldiers when it overran the Tabqa military base in Raqqa province. The militants have carried out mass abductions before, seizing more than 200 civilians from central Homs province in August 2014, and at least 220 Assyrian Christians from villages in the north-east of the country months earlier.

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Input: The "very small loan" Trump was referring to was $ 1 million from Trump’s father, Fred, to finance his Grand Hyatt hotel in 1978. (At this point, Donald Trump was already president of his father’s real estate company.) But Fred Trump made out many other loans to his son until his death in 1999, including a $ 70 million construction loan for the Grand Hyatt and a $ 3.5 million casino chip loan to bail out Trump’s struggling gaming empire, the Washington Post Fact-Checker reported. Clinton:" In fact, Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, ‘Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money.’ Well, it did collapse."

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Input: NATO and the EU are concerned by Russia's military build-up in Crimea, which they say is part of a strategy to set up defensive zones of influence with surface-to-air missile batteries and anti-ship missiles. As well as the EU, the United States, Japan and other major economies including Australia and Canada have also imposed sanctions on Russia over Crimea, but others including China and Brazil have avoided direct criticism of Moscow. The 28-nation EU imposed its Crimea sanctions in July 2014 and then tightened them in December 2014, banning EU citizens from buying or financing companies in Crimea, whose annexation has prompted the worst East-West stand-off since the Cold War. After Russia's annexation of Crimea, an armed separatist revolt erupted in mainly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine that Kiev and its Western backers said was fueled and funded by Moscow. Russia denies the charges.

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Input: In May of this year, China introduced its first homegrown maglev line in Changsha, transporting passengers from the south railway station to the airport at a not terribly impressive top speed of 100 km / h. This all must come as quite the disappointment after a Chinese research team unveiled a prototype for a maglev train that could possibly reach 1,800 km / h back in 2014. In less ambitious news, CRRC also announced plans to develop maglev trains that travel at just 200 km / h, hoping to provide a more energy conscious form of medium to high-speed transport around the globe, as well as high-speed trains that can run at 400 km / h and alternate between different track gauges, making crossing borders a breeze, Xinhua reports. Currently, China leads the world with over 20,000 kilometers of high-speed track. That is projected to expand to 30,000 km by 2020 and then grow to 45,000 km by 2030.

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Input: He is the last foreign leader you should be praising. Abroad, Putin has interfered in the internal affairs of a host of nations on his periphery — through information operations, manipulation of elections and direct support, including providing weapons, to insurgent groups. Most significant, in the past decade, Putin has invaded two neighbors, Georgia and Ukraine — including annexing Crimea, the first major land grab in Europe since World War II. Putin’s goal in doing this is to keep the nations of the former Soviet Union from linking their futures to that of Europe and the West. Do you back these actions?

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Input: Please understand this: I've never taken the Never Trump blood oath. I deeply respect this decision that many other conservatives have made, though. I understand it.

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Input: 7.Falsely said of Hillary Clinton, “She gave them Mosul. She did n’t know what she was doing.” (As secretary of state, Clinton was not in charge of military decisions in Iraq. And she advocated for keeping a residual troop force in the country rather than a more complete withdrawal.) 6.Falsely said, “They said Romney had crowds, but the truth is he had one crowd, one big crowd the last day.” (Romney drew numerous big crowds in the last month of the election. Wrote Politico in Oct. 2012: “In the past week alone, Romney’s campaign says at least three of its rallies have, per the campaign’s crowd counts, exceeded 10,000 people: an Oct. 4 event with country singer Trace Adkins in Fishersville, Va., which was Romney’s largest event ever at 14,000 people; a rally last Sunday in Port St. Lucie, Fla., that drew 12,000; and one in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, that fire marshals estimated also drew 12,000.”)

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Input: "It takes two to tango, but it takes one to start a war," she tells me." It takes one country to bomb other countries such as Libya." "The West would argue, ' It takes one country to annex Crimea, '" I respond." Wasn't what Russia did in Crimea a watershed moment for international security?" "It wasn't Russia that annexed Crimea," Ms Krasheninnikova replies.

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Input: Russia’s beleaguered opposition frequently faces accusations that it is in the pay of western intelligence services. Both men were bundled away by security guards. Shortly after, police began evacuating the building, citing a bomb threat. Yashin initially refused to leave, and accused police of acting on orders to close down the opposition event. While the much-anticipated report is drawn mainly from open sources, this is the first time such a well-compiled and thorough examination of Kadyrov’s alleged rule of terror has been made public.

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Input: The ledgers focused new attention on the Trump campaign amid the candidate’s favorable statements about Russian President Vladimir Putin and the suspected Russian hacking of Democratic Party officials’ emails. LUPICA: Team Trump ca n’t compare to Bill Clinton's Ukraine’s newly formed National Anti-Corruption Bureau, which obtained the ledger, said in a statement that Manafort’s name appeared 22 times in the documents over five years, with payments totaling $ 12.7 million. Manafort is the national chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign. (Evan Vucci / AP)

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Input: Trump’s assertion, which his campaign manager insisted was irreversible, came less than one week before the kickoff Iowa caucuses. He once again defied the conventional rules of politics, and used his power and prominence to shape the campaign agenda and conversation. So far, Trump’s untraditional moves have only expanded his support, but his threatened boycott leaves him open to criticism that for all his tough talk he is ducking face-to-face confrontations with his opponents and scrutiny from the Fox moderators. Given Trump’s past flirtations with boycotting Fox, many will doubt his declaration until they see the other candidates take the debate stage on Thursday night without him. The Republican debates have become must-see television, in part because of the allure of Trump’s star power and unpredictable candidacy.

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Input: Morell told Rose that he had not discussed his proposal to kill Russian and Iranian personnel in Syria with Clinton, though he believed she was supportive of efforts to gain “diplomatic leverage.” After leaving the CIA in 2013, Morell authored a memoir entitled “The Great War of Our Time.” The book was widely criticized for defending detainee torture in the post-9/11 era. Morell was also a co-author of a “rebuttal” to the Senate Intelligence Committee torture report. Last week, CBS announced that Morell had left his role as a network news analyst so that he could begin publicly supporting Clinton’s run. During his interview with Rose, Morell continued to heap praise on Clinton’s perspective on U.S. relations with Syria, Russia and Iran.

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Input: Tuesday: The Times reports that Comey had described in a memo a conversation in which Trump appeared to ask him to back off the FBI’s investigation into Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn. (Both stories, by the way, broke their respective news outlets’ records for the most people — more than 100,000 — reading an article online simultaneously.) Wednesday: The Post reports it has obtained a recording of House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy saying last year that he thinks Vladimir Putin pays Trump. Friday: The Times reports that Trump told Russian officials, “I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job.” The Post then reports that a senior White House adviser has been identified as a person of interest in the Russia probe.

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Input: Former ambassador Michael McFaul was hounded by government-paid protesters, and intelligence personnel followed his children to school. The harassment is not new; in the first term of the Obama administration, Russian intelligence personnel broke into the house of the US defence attache in Moscow and killed his dog, according to multiple former officials who read the intelligence reports. But since the 2014 Russian intervention in Ukraine, which prompted a wide range of US sanctions against Russian officials and businesses close to Putin, harassment and surveillance of US diplomatic staff in Moscow by security personnel and traffic police have increased significantly, State Department press secretary John Kirby confirmed to me. Advertisement "Since the return of Putin, Russia has been engaged in an increasingly aggressive grey war across Europe.

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Input: Scores of buyers ponied up deposits in 2006, but by 2009 the project was still just a hole in the ground. That year, the developers notified condo buyers their $ 32 million in deposits had been spent, no bank financing could be obtained, and they were walking away from the project. Scores of lawsuits claimed the buyers were deceived into believing Trump was the developer. Trump walked away from the deal, saying that if the condo buyers had any questions, they needed to contact the developer — and that was n’t him, contrary to what the marketing material implied. The same story has played out again and again.

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Input: Only days ago, an ISIS killer invaded a Christian church in Normandy France, forced an 85-year -old priest to his knees, and slit his throat before his congregation. Overseas, ISIS has carried out one unthinkable atrocity after another. Children slaughtered, girls sold into slavery, men and women burned alive. Crucifixions, beheadings and drownings. Ethnic minorities targeted for mass execution.

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Input: * * * The DNC also made a secret “agreement” with Kenneth Vogel, an influential report for Politico. An email from late April with the subject line “per agreement … any thoughts appreciated” shows that Vogel sent an advanced copy of a story about Hillary Clinton’s fundraising to the DNC even before his editor even saw it. “Vogel gave me his story ahead of time / before it goes to his editors as long as I did n’t share it,” DNC press secretary Mark Paustenbach wrote to Miranda. “Let me know if you see anything that’s missing and I’ll push back.”

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Input: "If you ask me about the Clinton Foundation, do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects many millions of dollars from foreign governments, many governments which are dictatorships … yeah, I do," Sanders told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview aired June 5. Asked whether the foundation's ongoing activities presented an ongoing conflict of interest, Sanders responded," Yes, I do." Trump himself has openly boasted that Sanders ' lines about Clinton's paid speeches would be useful fodder in a general election bout, even as the Vermont senator has vowed to do everything in his power to keep the presumptive Republican nominee from the White House. Five days before Clinton declared victory in the Democratic primary, Trump tweeted," Bernie Sanders was right when he said that Crooked Hillary Clinton was not qualified to be president because she suffers from BAD judgement!" On Tuesday, the Trump campaign said the foundation had accepted between approximately $ 21.3 million and $ 65.5 million from the governments of countries with "policies hostile toward women's rights, gay rights and human rights," including Algeria, Brunei, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, the Friends of Saudi Arabia organization and the Zayeds, the ruling family of the Emirates.

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Input: Police made the following arrests during and after the rally: · Harry Rivera, 39, of Asheville – Simple affray · Isis India Rivera, 18 of Asheville – Resist, delay, obstruct an officer · Marissa Rose Moore, 21, of Fairview – Second-degree trespassing · James Thomas Clifton, 30 – Simple possession

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Input: In his last few months in the Senate, Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, is n’t pulling any punches -- especially after the recent revelations by FBI Director James Comey that more emails were found that could be related to the Clinton email probe. The pugilistic Reid, who plans to retire after finishing out this term in Congress, penned a blistering letter to Comey Sunday, accusing the FBI chief of holding back “explosive” information about Donald Trump’s close Russian ties while possibly violating the Hatch Act by reviving the Clinton email investigation. “Your actions in recent months have demonstrated a disturbing double standard for the treatment of sensitive information, with what appears to be a clear intent to aid one political party over another,” Reid wrote, adding that through Comey’s “partisan actions, you may have broken the law.” The Nevada Democrat went on to insinuate Comey’s violation of the Hatch Act, which prohibits “activity directed towards the success or failure” of a candidate by executive branch employees.

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Input: The head of security in Hadramout province escaped assassination when a second suicide bomber targeted his convoy, but six others were killed. The attack is believed to have been carried out by an ISIS affiliate. May 20, 2016-Two members of the Egyptian security forces were killed when a roadside bomb detonated close to their vehicle near the town of Al-Arish, in northern Sinai. ISIS claimed the attack in its daily bulletin of operations. The attack is believed to have been carried out by an ISIS affiliate.

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Input: It's not just as [running mate] Tim [Kaine] said that Ohio is one of those battleground states you hear about every four years, it's that Ohio represents everything that's great about America and all the challenges and opportunities we face." Clinton has suffered several coughing spells during her appearances in recent months, which some of her critics have used to argue that she is in poor health. Among other issues that critics cite in saying that the 68-year -old Clinton is suffering from health problems are the fact she suffered a concussion in December 2012 after fainting from dehydration. The concussion was said to be the reason she was seen wearing thick glasses to combat double vision during her Benghazi testimony in January 2013. She was seen wearing glasses again in February of this year, sparking a tweet from the Drudge Report titled "Hillary Health Drama: Prism Glasses Back on Day After Coughing Seizure."

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Input: It was strikingly similar to an attack on NPR and us four years ago by the conservative Free Beacon that claimed "Ploughshares Fund gives millions to slant coverage on Iran." Over the past few days, I have personally been the target of harassing hate tweets slandering me, reporters who have interviewed me, and Ploughshares Fund. The goal is clear: intimidate us into backing down; intimidate journalists from talking to us; smear the administration and major media as liars and paid tools. Setting the Record Straight Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Input: Some chose to use their trials solely as an opportunity to make public statements. In the current era, one of the imprisoned members of the protest-art group Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, used this approach: she would come to court with short prepared speeches and deliver them, in turn, every time she was asked a question. Others chose to point to the court’s lack of legitimacy and refused to engage with it — in the current era, another imprisoned Pussy Riot member, Maria Alekhina, made the act of turning her back to the court’s video camera an art form (she was meant to testify via an uplink from jail). Nadiya Savchenko has used both of these strategies. She has given speeches and sung the Ukrainian anthem in her cage, and supporters in the courtroom have joined her in what might be called a rousing rendition.

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Input: Many criticised the Prime Minister as making an ill-advised decision in order to win an election, which was due in 2014. He also wanted to refrain from having too many foreign eyes on their economic policies, as many reforms were criticised as being undemocratic. Paying the loan back early has meant Hungary have saved € 11.7 million worth of interest expenses, but Gordan Bajnai, leader of the electoral alliance E14-PM, claimed that they had actually lost € 44.86 million by March 2014 because of the early repayment as all they did was replace the loan from the International Mafia Federation (another nickname, we’re still talking about the IMF here) with a more expensive one, labelling the stunt as Propaganda. And what made further nonsense; another loan at high interest rates was signed to finance a nuclear upgrade, which will mean not only higher repayments but also high electricity costs. But they do have economic sovereignty now.

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Input: Hillary voted for the Iraq war, not me! — @realDonaldTrump Captain Khan, killed 12 years ago, was a hero, but this is about RADICAL ISLAMIC TERROR and the weakness of our "leaders" to eradicate it! — @realDonaldTrump Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, said he sympathizes with the Khan family but that their loss is not the issue at hand.

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Input: "We're going to let everybody compete." That has turned out to be a brutal reckoning for Alberta, and Canada, as well as other oil producing nations. There is as much talk of layoffs in Houston as there is in Calgary. High-cost producers need to get out If there was a theme to the speech, it was that high-cost producers don't have much of a future.

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Input: Security officials have made plans for an attack. Staff at The Mall at Cribbs Causeway, near Bristol, were advised to round up members of the public and barricade themselves in a shop. An exercise in May involved a fake suicide bomber ' detonating ' explosives inside Manchester's sprawling Trafford centre, sending 800 ' victims ' running for cover. A major police operation is ongoing in Munich, around the city's Olympic Park, with the force warning people to stay in their homes and avoid public spaces as they admitted they don't know where the gunmen Police officers respond to a shooting at the Olympia Einkaufzentrum (OEZ) at July 22, 2016 in Munich, Germany

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Input: OFFICER JODY SMITH Smith, who worked as a police officer at Georgia Southwestern State University, was shot as he and another officer checked a report of a domestic dispute at an apartment complex in Americus on December 7. Smith died the next day at a hospital. The suspect was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said. The other officer, who worked for the Americus Police Department, also died.

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Input: Instead of shunning this pool of nonpartisan, experienced professionals, the president should embrace it as among his or her most valuable tools. After all, these dedicated public servants exist solely to help policymakers — especially the president — make sound and informed decisions. Second, Trump is perhaps willing to advocate and celebrate acts of espionage by foreign adversaries when they are convenient for his own domestic interests. In the wake of the DNC hack this past summer, Trump encouraged Russia to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails. Then, when more information — likely hacked by Russia — started pouring through the WikiLeaks faucet, Trump rejoiced in the political capital he thought it would deliver.

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Input: We had upheld a taboo against the use of chemical weapons and we have failed to uphold it on this occasion.” More broadly, he argued, the west had not caught up with the consequences of a change in the balance of power in the past 15 years, including a Russian and Chinese decision to invest in full spectrum military power. “We are not treating Russia and China as major powers that can cause us a great deal of damage,” he said. “What we really need to avoid is moving down a road that leads to a direct confrontation.” He said the west no longer had a clear strategic framework with Russia, as had existed in the cold war, to ensure stability, singling out a lack of rules between Russia, China and the west about the legitimate use of cyberwarfare.

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Input: In private, members can admit that they care about some things more than others and find a way to reach an accommodation. But read in combination with other leaked excerpts, Clinton’s tribute to the virtues of betraying one’s public position while making back-room deals becomes more damaging. In her DNC speech, Clinton said she believed that “Wall Street can never, ever be allowed to wreck Main Street again.” But in a 2013 speech to Goldman Sachs, Clinton seemed to doubt that Wall Street had ever “wrecked Main Street” in the first place: That was one of the reasons that I started traveling in February of ‘09, so people could, you know, literally yell at me for the United States and our banking system causing this everywhere. Now, that’s an oversimplification we know, but it was the conventional wisdom.

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Input: Citizenship fraud Trump's political career ostensibly began in earnest when he began routinely questioning whether Obama had been lying to the American people about his place of birth. Trump went on to cast aspersions on everything from Obama's birth name to his academic credentials, but if indeed Trump's allegations were true (which the evidence suggests they are not) the president would be guilty of violating Article II of the Constitution and it could potentially plunge the country into a crisis. The Supreme Court has repeatedly rejected entreaties from "birthers" to take up their cause, and Trump himself has said he doesn't talk about the theory anymore, although he would "love to." Accomplice to sexual assault

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Input: It was part of a pact that was hailed last month as the most complex local cease-fire yet, involving Fouaa and Kfarya on one hand, and Madaya and neighboring Zabadani on the other. Wounded fighters and their families were evacuated simultaneously on both sides, and plans were made for more aid and evacuations. But those plans have stalled as people continue to become sick and die in Madaya — subject to one of the tightest sieges of the war, including what the United Nations calls “credible reports” of people being shot as they try to escape. Civilians also suffer in rebel-encircled northern towns, though government helicopters make occasional airdrops. The talks are complex and sensitive, involving discussions between Iran and rebel groups because Zabadani and Madaya are encircled mainly by Hezbollah, the Iran-backed Lebanese militia that supports Mr. Assad.

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Input: CRIMEA ISSUE CLOSED Putin sounded a defiant note over Crimea, the Ukrainian region which Russia annexed in 2014. Moscow said it was acting on the will of the Crimean people, who voted to join Russia, but Western governments say it was an illegal land grab." As far as Crimea is concerned, we consider this question is closed forever," Putin said." Russia will not conduct any discussions with anyone on this subject."

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Input: In the email was a question about the death penalty. The next evening, Clinton faced a question about the death penalty at a CNN-TVOne town hall event at Ohio State University. TVOne host Roland Martin introduced Ricky Jackson, who had been wrongly convicted of murder back in the 1970s, when he was a teenager. He asked Clinton about the death penalty. Did Brazile — who left her contributorship at CNN over the summer to take over as interim Democratic National Committee chair — help the Clinton campaign to anticipate a topic in the heat of the primary battle against Bernie Sanders?

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Input: Area C comprises more than 60 percent of the West Bank and is under complete Israeli military control, both for security and civil affairs. Estimates of the Palestinian population in Area C are a subject of mystery and debate. The U.N. agency that provides aid to Palestinians reported that there were 297,500 Palestinians in Area C in 2014. An Israeli human rights group, Bimkom, estimates that 150,000 to 180,000 Palestinians live there. The Israeli military division that controls Area C gives an estimate of 50,000 Palestinians.

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Input: The order included 24 Dassault Aviation fighters and 12 options, and guided weapons from MBDA and Safran’s Sagem. The French Air Force will also train Qatari pilots and maintenance personnel. Japanese banks lent Doha funds for the down payment, said a French executive and a financial specialist who declined to be identified. Qatar expects its economy this year to fall into a $ 12.8 billion budgetary deficit, representing 6 percent of gross domestic product, according to the CIA World Factbook. “Low oil prices have dampened the outlook,” the report said.

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Input: Julia Louis-Dreyfus said politics is getting harder to satirize on VEEP because it's all so crazy: Al Franken tweaked Cruz and Paul Ryan: Clinton's campaign is running an ad in Connecticut featuring the daughter of the slain principal at Sandy Hook Elementary: Finally, watch an Irish runner make an incredible comeback to win a race:

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Input: Clinton may well be the toughest and most resilient woman in the country, and America needs nothing less. For decades she has regularly been treated unfairly by the media and her peers for committing transgressions that are really more perplexing than they are disturbing. If Hillary Clinton is guilty of anything, it’s that she is so often too guarded about what she says and does, anticipating that her political enemies will try to make hay of anything and everything they can, as often as they can, for as long as they can. And they do. But the trait almost always causes her more grief in the end than just standing up to her bully enemies as they come, instead of having to later defend her actions — and then her motives.

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Input: Edward Snowden says his old employer was likely hacked by his new host. The National Security Agency leakmeister tweeted Tuesday that the auction of malicious software files allegedly stolen from the NSA may actually be diplomatic signaling by Russia. The software, a set of digital tools, is being auctioned by a group that says it stole the cyber weapons from another group allegedly linked to the NSA. Snowden's comments are just the latest twist in the drama of an alleged hack of the NSA. A group calling itself The Shadow Brokers posted part of the software online earlier this week to entice bids for the rest of it.

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Input: As her race against Sanders-who now campaigns for Clinton-grew unexpectedly contentious and close, Clinton sought to portray herself as deeply skeptical of Wall Street and eager to punish its wayward leaders." I believe strongly that we need to make sure that Wall Street never wrecks Main Street again," Clinton said in January." No bank is too big to fail, and no executive is too powerful to jail." As she sought to burnish her image as an advocate of working America, Clinton declared her opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership, Obama's 12-nation trade pact, and distanced herself from Nafta, which her husband signed into law. But in a 2013 speech to a Brazilian bank, Clinton took a far different approach.

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Input: You’ve got to have a close contest to get the tens of millions of people you want watching it. Mike McIntire wrote an unbelievably brilliant story on the front page of the New York Times that laid out the Trump SoHo [a Trump-developed building in Manhattan] and even showed that the district attorney of Manhattan had conducted a criminal investigation that included Ivanka and Donald Jr., who made all kinds of false claims about how many units had been sold, and, you know, that Trump had worked out a settlement that included a specific provision with the depositors who bought units in Trump’s SoHo. He had worked out a settlement in which they agreed that they would n’t cooperate with the district attorney, which sounds like obstruction of justice to, I think, anyone who read the story. And it could n’t get a minute of airtime. It never has gotten a minute of airtime, and so you would have, I think, some outstanding pieces of print journalism.

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Input: Two non-Turkish NATO staff familiar with the situation confirmed that Turkish personnel are being recalled but did not have more details. Although the number of dismissals is a small fraction of the 100,000 judges, police, teachers and soldiers to be suspended or fired since the failed coup, the decision to target some of the most highly-trained staff in prestigious foreign posts underscores the depth of President Tayyip Erdogan's purge. Turkish officials say the scale of the crackdown, which has broad popular support at home, is justified by the gravity of events on July 15, when rogue soldiers commandeered tanks, fighter jets and helicopters, bombing parliament and government buildings in their attempt to seize power. More than 240 people, many of them civilians, were killed. But the dismissals at NATO raise questions about Turkey's strategy after the failed coup, as Erdogan seeks closer ties with the alliance's Cold War foe Russia.

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Input: “Over the decades, he has increasingly let others invest the capital and take the risks. He sells them his name and reputation, and is paid millions in return.” The newspaper said that seems to be the case with the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel & Tower in Panama, noting that in the Mossack Fonseca files, it is the most frequent association with Trump’s name, “since his business partners in the project appear as buyers of condo units, some of whom create offshore shell companies with Mossack Fonseca for the purchase.” McClatchy cited two instances of others seeking to capitalize on Trump’s name that were responsible for hits in the Panama Papers database: Trump Wise Investment Ltd. was created by the Hong Kong firm Instant Companies Limited and registered in the British Virgin Islands from 1998 to late 2005.

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Input: He congratulated the Russians on a “brave” and successful action against piracy. The Russian announcement that the men were probably dead led immediately to a tit-for-tat threat from the pirates. Somali media reported one pirate as saying: “In future, if we capture Russians they will meet the same fate as those they executed.” If this sabre-rattling translates into deaths it will reflect a recent escalation in violence in the region, as reported previously on The First Post, and could endanger the many hostages taken by the pirates, including British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler, held captive since last autumn. Previously, the pirates have always treated their hostages well.

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Input: She was a cheerleader in the overthrow of friendly governments, such as Egypt, along with the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi, who had previously given up his nuclear weapons program, promising an Arab Spring in Libya. Now ISIS-style militants are fighting in the country and wreaking havoc. In Syria, hundreds of thousands of civilians have died and millions have been forced to flee as refugees. Her negligence disqualifies her from being commander-in-chief. She did not see the growing threat of radical Islam, but believed in an “Arab Spring.”

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Input: Russian warplanes are being blamed for carrying out what is being called a "deliberate attack" on two makeshift hospitals and a school in northern Syria Monday that killed nearly 50 people, according to the United Nations. Doctors Without Borders -- also known by its French acronym MSF -- said in a statement that the hospital in the town of Maaret al-Numan was hit four times in at least two attacks that were minutes apart." This appears to be a deliberate attack on a health structure, and we condemn this attack in the strongest possible terms," said Massimiliano Rebaudengo, MSF's mission chief." The destruction of the hospital leavesthe local population of around 40,000 people without access to medical services in an active zone of conflict." In the neighboring Aleppo province, two missiles struck a children's hospital in the town of Azaz, killing at least five people, including pregnant women and children, and wounding dozens, the chief liaison officer at the Syrian Civil defense said.

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Input: At that point, creationism became a matter of public and political debate. Polls were taken all over Europe to determine public opinion. Some online polls were hijacked by creationists in Turkey to alter the outcome. Books, pamphlets and Web sites were launched and circulated. And the media loved it.

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Input: Ventura added that his final decision on seeking the Oval Office depends on who wins each party’s nomination. He said "the chances are better" that he would run if Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonWhat do Democrats stand for? THE MEMO: For Trump, danger signs in the polls McAuliffe touts buildup of cyber defenses in the states MORE is the Democratic nominee and Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE is her Republican counterpart. “I do n’t want the revolution to die if Bernie gets beat,” he added. Ventura was spotted at a Sanders campaign rally later Monday by a newspaper reporter who was told Ventura and Sanders had a private meeting planned.

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Input: He said there was no clear Muslim instruction about FGM and no evidence that it "tames desire". More than 200 million women and girls around the world have undergone FGM. The UN estimates a further three million are at risk of being mutilated. FGM has been documented in 30 countries, mainly in Africa, but also in the Middle East and Asia.

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Input: ISIS claims responsibility. The attack is believed to have been conducted by ISIS or one of its affiliates. September 24, 2015-A bomb blast at the Al Bilaili mosque in Sanaa, Yemen, kills at least 29 people. ISIS claims responsibility. The attack is believed to have been conducted by ISIS or one of its affiliates.

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Input: Enlarge Image Sunshinepress / Getty Images Edward Snowden says his old employer was likely hacked by his new host. The National Security Agency leakmeister tweeted Tuesday that the auction of malicious software files allegedly stolen from the NSA may actually be diplomatic signaling by Russia. The software, a set of digital tools, is being auctioned by a group that says it stole the cyber weapons from another group allegedly linked to the NSA. Snowden's comments are just the latest twist in the drama of an alleged hack of the NSA.

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Input: Farage was the architect of the "Brexit" movement and Trump has said he will be called "Mr. Brexit" after the election because of his long odds. [To view video on YouTube, Click Here.] Donald Trump and his surrogates hint at a mysterious "illness" afflicting rival Hillary Clinton. Pushing back, Clinton warns of murky ties between Trump and the Russian government, insinuating that her Republican opponent may be a puppet of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Rumors and innuendo long confined to the far reaches of the Internet are dominating the presidential race, forcing Clinton to grapple — once again — with the kinds of whispers that have dogged her family for decades.

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Input: Trump’s twin controversies have dominated headlines for days, frustrating his allies and giving new ammunition to his critics. Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence Mike (Michael) Richard PenceDems threaten to gum up Senate over ' secret ' ObamaCare bill This week: Senate plots path on healthcare Pence family adopts new kitten, puppy MORE, has had to sweep up Trump’s messes on both occasions. Pence released a statement over the weekend calling the late Capt. Humayun Khan a “hero” and saying that his family should be “cherished.”

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Input: Trump’s proposed foreign policy would, intentionally or no, aid Vladimir Putin in ways the Russian dictator could only dream about before Trump. Trump has repeatedly expressed wild admiration for Putin personally; his campaign staff and businesses have extensive ties to Russian interests. (Just yesterday, the New York Times reported the existence of a handwritten ledger documenting $ 12.7 million in payments to Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, from Ukraine's pro-Russian deposed president, Viktor Yanukovych). These facts have led to wilder theories about the Kremlin plotting to elect Trump, or even that Trump might be doing Russia’s bidding. This speculation is just that: speculation.

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Input: -- Former Obama economic adviser Jacob Leibenluft joined the Clinton campaign, signaling close coordination between the president and HRC. Leibenluft, who has served on Obama’s economic team since 2008, has focused heavily on job training, apprenticeships and the minimum wage, says CNBC’s John Harwood. Bernie Sanders departs his Capitol Hill house yesterday to walk with his wife Jane to his campaign headquarters. (Reuters / Jonathan Ernst) -- Sanders returned to the Capitol yesterday and cast his first votes since JANUARY 2!

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Input: Analysis-BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner Image copyright Reuters It is only some small comfort that the man who hijacked Egyptair flight MS181 was bluffing. The bulging white "suicide belt" with wires sticking out turned out to be a fake. It at least means that this time Egypt can not be accused of letting someone smuggle explosives through airport security and on to an airliner as they did in October at Sharm El Sheikh airport, destroying a Russian passenger jet in mid-air.

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Input: Iran paid forth a $ 400 million deposit for military equipment before the Islamic revolution in 1979 that was never delivered, while the White House insists the transaction was not directly related to the release of five U.S. hostages, including Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, which the administration characterized as “a goodwill gesture” by Tehran. Even NPR quoted Mark Dubowitz of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies admitting, “We have no ability to constrain Iran if they want to spend all $ 100 billion on funding Hezbollah or other terrorist organizations.” The nuclear deal permits Iran access to that $ 100 billion after the International Atomic Energy Agency verifies it has implemented nuclear-related measures under the agreement — except under the agreement, they will block access from other actors to cash in on its exclusive economic cooperation with Moscow to construct as many as six reactors. Meanwhile, U.S./Iranian diplomatic relations have remained severed since 1979.

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Input: I have a list of celebrities that support Socialism I refuse to spend another $ on. Add this one. Boycott them all. pic.twitter.com/uOFMkxSvRY — Nat Shupe (@NatShupe) July 28, 2016

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Input: O’Brien said the UN asked to deliver aid to nearly 1 million people in besieged and hard-to-reach areas in August, but the Syrian government approved less than 50 percent of the requests, denying aid to rebel-held eastern Aleppo and several other besieged areas. O’Brien said that not one aid convoy has moved yet due to fighting, insecurity and bureaucratic requirements, and the end of the month is just nine days away. Russia, a close ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government, said last Thursday it was ready to back the UN call for weekly 48-hour cease-fires in Aleppo, provided aid convoys travel to both rebel-controlled and government-controlled parts of the city. US deputy ambassador Michele Sison reiterated American support for the humanitarian pauses in her speech to the council, saying “it is imperative that all armed groups in Aleppo respect these pauses.” She urged Russia to follow its unilateral declaration “with genuine steps to support regular and sustained access to Aleppo.” O’Brien welcomed the Russian announcement but also stressed that “we need the agreement of all parties to let us do our job.”

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Input: Last year, there was an airlift of 500 Syrian Christians from Turkey to Austria. Advertisement-story continues below Riots in Hungary, death off the Italian coast: Every day, there are stories of “immigrants” from North Africa and the Middle East drowning when their small, overcrowded boats sink. Recently, a photo was shown around the world of a young boy’s lifeless body being picked up where it had washed ashore on a beach in Turkey. There have been riots at the main train station in Budapest, Hungary, as refugees from Syria and Iraq demand to board trains for more wealthy European nations.

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Input: He told reporters in Paris: “In any case these are the elements that have come up from the testimony of the people around him.” Five people had been arrested since the attack, according to judicial sources. Agence France-Presse reported that one of the people being held was arrested on Friday, while three others were detained on Saturday morning. The driver’s estranged wife was also being held. The promenade was reopened on Saturday morning as France began three days of national mourning and Hollande held a security meeting with ministers, police and intelligence officers.

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Input: Neither Syria nor the principal international actors either operating militarily or backing armed groups in the country — including Russia, Iran, the US and Saudi Arabia — have ratified the ICC's Rome Statute; in 2014, permanent Council members Russia and China vetoed a resolution that would have referred Syria to the Court. Human rights investigators, included those staffing the commission, are routinely denied access to regime controlled areas of Syria. Much of what was previously known about conditions in regime prisons came from a horde of more than 50,000 photographs depicting dead and abused prisoners that were smuggled out by a government defector in 2013. In December 2015, Human Rights Watch was able to identify several victims who exhibited signs of torture, all of whom were detained by regime authorities between May 2011 and August 2013. The systematic photographing of detainees ' bodies lends credence to the commission of inquiry's assertions that "high-ranking" members of the Syrian regime are implicated in human rights abuses.

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Input: 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. At least 18 of the 31 trucks in the convoy were hit in the strike, which is believed to have been carried out by either Syrian or Russian forces. Russia has denied that its planes carried out the strike, and Syria has denied deliberately targeting the convoy. Mr Kerry – who personally negotiated the truce during months of intensive diplomacy with Russia – spoke about the crumbling ceasefire after emerging alongside Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov from a meeting of foreign ministers of 20 countries, gathered to discuss Syria in New York on Tuesday.

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Input: While Russia Today, a source widely respected for their objectivity and journalistic integrity, initially reported Ammon to be accompanied by 150 bristling citizen revolutionaries -- this is likely a bit of literary flourish. Journalists on the ground are reporting no more than 15 heavily armed "militiamen" to be camping in the quaint, one story red-brick bastion of Federal oppression. Supposedly, Ammon and company are following in his father's felonious footsteps by seizing this federal property in protest of the arrest of two Oregon ranchers -- Dwight and Steven Hammond, who were convicted of arson for setting fire to 127 acres of Federal land so as to protect their own property from uncontrollable forest fires. The Hammond's argue that the Federal government was negligent in the managing of this land, and that their negligence presented a threat to their own property and livelihood. It's worth noting that the Hammond family, through their attorney, has steadfastly denied any association with Mr. Bundy and has vowed to report to Federal prison despite their potentially compelling disagreement with the government.

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Input: A man holds his child as he casts his ballot at a polling station during the parliamentary elections The demonstrators stood at the entrance of Russia's embassy in the Ukrainian capital, where a polling station has been set up for Russian citizens who wish to vote in their country's parliamentary elections. One man was arrested yesterday and claims of fraudulent voting such as young men registering multiple names at the ballot boxes have materialised. A leader of the nationalist Svoboda party, Igor Miroshnichenko was among the demonstrators Sunday. He said Ukraine should ' not allow the enemy and state aggressor that stole Crimea to conduct illegal elections in Ukraine '.

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Input: More than half the people outside government who met with Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state gave to the Clinton Foundation, the Associated Press reported Aug. 23. At least 85 of 154 from private interests donated as much as $ 156 million to the foundation, AP said. Some large donors are foreigners with shadowy pasts, such as Lebanese businessman Gilbert Chagoury, who was denied entry to the U.S. last year because of suspicion of links to terrorism. Sixteen foreign governments donated up to $ 170 million after their representatives had meetings with Secretary Clinton, the AP reported. “Why did the Saudi regime and other Gulf tyrannies donate millions to the Clinton Foundation?” wondered left-wing journalist Glenn Greenwald.

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Input: Trump has struggled to expand his support beyond his most loyal backers and must reshape the race in its closing days if he hopes to defeat Clinton. The candidates clashed repeatedly over their drastically different visions for the nation's future. Trump backed Supreme Court justices who would overturn the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling, while Clinton vowed to appoint justices that would uphold the decision legalizing abortion, saying," We have come too far to have that turned back now." The businessman entered the final debate facing a string of sexual assault accusations from women who came forward after he denied in the previous contest that he had kissed or groped women without their consent. That Trump denial followed the release of a video of in which he's heard bragging about exactly that.

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Input: An international court ruled in 2014 that Putin’s government would have to pay $ 50 billion for using tax claims to take control of and bankrupt Yukos. The court said the government was trying to silence Khodorkovsky, who was using his riches to fund opposition parties to Putin. Born in the then-U.S.S.R., Kukes immigrated to the U.S. in his twenties and became an American citizen, but has gone back and forth between Russia and the U.S. since then. Kukes served as president and CEO of Russia’s Tyumen Oil Company from 1998 to 2003. After his stint at Yukos, he was general director of ZAO Samara-Nafta, a Russia-based oil producing company and subsidiary of Lukoil, one of Russia’s largest oil companies, and was a partner at Hess Corporation, a New York-based oil and gas company.

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Input: The Israeli Defense Forces devastated Gaza. For 51 days, Israel bombarded Gaza with more than 6,000 airstrikes. The United Nations Human Rights Council subsequently convened an independent, international commission of inquiry, which concluded that Israel, and to a lesser extent Palestinian armed groups, had likely committed violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, some constituting war crimes. “The scale of the devastation was unprecedented” in Gaza, according to the commission. Yet Clinton was puzzled by what she calls “this enormous international reaction against Israel,” adding, “This reaction is uncalled for and unfair.”

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Input: Mr. Trump said Mrs. Clinton was “fraudulent” in her misrepresentation of his foreign policy positions, explaining that he supported global alliances, but believed that the United States should shoulder less of the financial burden. “Our country ca n’t afford to protect the world anymore, and at least not get reimbursed for it,” he said. Mrs. Clinton has delivered a series of foreign policy speeches over the course of the nominating fight that included calling for accelerating the American-led operation to defeat the Islamic State, ending the economic embargo against Cuba, and pledging unwavering support of Israel. And she had already begun to lay the groundwork against what she called Mr. Trump’s “reckless actions” on foreign policy. The San Diego speech, to be delivered in a city known for its military presence at a time when Mr. Trump is facing scrutiny over his donations to veterans’ groups, will present a more sweeping — and fearsome — portrayal of Mr. Trump, one that the Clinton campaign will deliver like a drumbeat to voters in the coming months.

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Input: While calling for new leadership and vision, it was not clear if the priorities Pence laid out would change human spaceflight programs now targeting launches from Cape Canaveral by 2018. NASA is helping Boeing and SpaceX prepare rockets to fly crews to the station, and developing an Apollo-style rocket and capsule for deep space missions, first around the moon and possibly to Mars in the 2030s. Earlier in Monday's rally, U.S. Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Space, criticized the Obama administration’s 2010 cancellation of the Constellation program that had intended to return astronauts to the moon after the shuttle program, but was deemed under-funded and too far behind schedule." We lack focus, we lack leadership, we lack a mission and a goal in our space program," said Babin." “We have seen our space program slip.”

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Input: The space rock came within one-tenth the distance from Earth to the moon. Hide Caption 5 of 21 Photos: All about asteroids NASA scientists used Earth-based radar to produce these sharp views of the asteroid designated "2014 HQ124" on June 8, 2014. NASA called the images "most detailed radar images of a near-Earth asteroid ever obtained." Hide Caption 6 of 21

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Input: When asked about Millian, Trump Organization General Counsel Alan Garten said no one at his firm could recall his name. “I know of no formal or even informal relationship between my company with Mr. Millian," Garten said. In December, ABC News reported on another the Russian emigre who professed ties to Trump, Felix Sater. Sater had appeared in photos with Trump and carried a Trump Organization business card with the title “Senior Advisor to Donald Trump.” Sater had played a role in a number of high-profile Trump-branded projects across the country. Garten said at the time that Sater was not actually an advisor to Trump and that it was common practice in the real estate industry to provide business cards and bestow titles “in order for brokers to be able to make initial introductions.”

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Input: Luba Samri, also with Israeli police, told CNN that at least four people were stabbed near the Jaffa port and another three or more were stabbed as the attacker moved north on the boardwalk, a popular waterfront spot that has shops and restaurants. An American who lives in Tel Aviv told CNN that she was walking home from work when she saw people running toward her." They were shouting, ' The terrorist, he's stabbing people, ' "said Emily Young, who is originally from Scarsdale, New York. Young went to help a victim who had been stabbed in the eye. She put something on the wound to stop the bleeding and tried to communicate, but the Russian tourist couldn't speak Hebrew or English.

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Input: The U.S. responded to questions and recommendations from 117 countries during a three-and-a-half-hour session in Geneva on Monday morning, with the high level of participation leaving each country just 65 seconds to speak. Among the various concerns raised by U.N. member states was the failure to close the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, the continued use of the death penalty, the need for adequate protections for migrant workers and protection of the rights of indigenous peoples. Member states also called on the U.S. to end child labor, human trafficking and sexual violence against Native American and Alaska Native women and to lift restrictions on the use of foreign aid to provide safe abortion services for rape victims in conflict areas. Pakistan, Russia, China and Turkey were among the most vociferous of the member states, with Russia informing the U.S. that "the human rights situation in the country has seriously deteriorated recently" before presenting seven recommendations to the U.S. delegation. Pakistan Ambassador to the U.N. Zamir Akram told the delegation that Pakistan has "serious concerns about the human rights situation in the U.S." Akram’s eight recommendations included calls for the U.S. to use armed drones in line with international norms and to compensate innocent victims of drone strikes with cash.

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Input: On the contrary, Turkey is among the main supporters of militants fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Ankara has also been accused on numerous occasions of being involved in illegal oil trade with the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group. All sides to Syria conflict should respect truce In another development on Tuesday, the Arab League urged all sides to the conflict in Syria to adhere to the terms of a ceasefire deal announced by the United States and Russia the previous day. Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby © AP

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Input: Image copyright AFP Image caption Smoke billows after an air strike on Jarablus Syrian rebels, backed by the Turkish military and US air cover, say they have taken the town of Jarablus from jihadists of so-called Islamic State. The assault began at dawn when Turkish warplanes, tanks and special forces personnel crossed the nearby border. Rebel commanders said most of the IS militants subsequently retreated. Turkey says its intervention is targeting both IS fighters and a Syrian Kurdish-led alliance that is attempting to advance on Jarablus.

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Input: Representatives from Zimbabwe, China and Serbia also attended. The concert took place in the same Roman theatre used by Islamic State in November to execute captured Syrian soldiers. Teenage Isis recruits shot the soldiers from close range in the back of the head. Their bodies were later found in a mass grave. Palmyra after Isis: a visual guide Read more

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Input: Referring specifically to The Post, he added: “If I become president, oh, do they have problems. They’re going to have such problems.” Trump has attempted to smear and intimidate a district judge, Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over a lawsuit for fraud against Trump University, with its distinguished faculty of cardboard cutouts and allegedly bankrupt real estate investors. Trump accuses Curiel of hostility against him because “I’m very, very strong on the border.” Another shrill pipe of the ethnic dog whistle. This is more than a personality disorder talking.

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Input: And so what's the solution or pathway out of what continues to appear an intractable situation? According to Bennis, the answer has long been the same." Only arms embargoes, negotiations and diplomacy have any chance to end this crisis," she said.

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

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Input: Another notable GOP elder who hasn't yet taken a stand is Colin Powell, a former secretary of state under George W. Bush. Powell said in July that he was not yet ready to endorse a candidate, but few would expect him to back Trump. The retired general jolted the political scene by crossing party lines to endorse Obama in 2008 and 2012. Some of the signatories of the March letter say Rice, Kissinger and other luminaries should speak out, if not to endorse Clinton, then at least to oppose Trump." Failure to do so is a dereliction of duty," said Max Boot, a conservative commentator who has been very outspoken about his anti-Trump views.

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Input: Britain should withdraw from the European convention on human rights regardless of the EU referendum result, Theresa May has said, in comments that contradict ministers within her own government. The shadow justice secretary, Charles Falconer, said he was appalled by the home secretary’s comments, which he described as “so ignorant, so illiberal, so misguided”, while the Tory MP and former attorney general Dominic Grieve said he was disappointed by the intervention. May used a speech in central London to argue that it was the convention, rather than the EU, that had caused the extradition of extremist Abu Hamza to be delayed for years and that had almost stopped the deportation of Abu Qatada. “The ECHR can bind the hands of parliament, adds nothing to our prosperity, makes us less secure by preventing the deportation of dangerous foreign nationals – and does nothing to change the attitudes of governments like Russia’s when it comes to human rights,” she said. Theresa May shows Michael Gove to the other exit on the right Read more

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Input: These are the narratives which are paraded endlessly in our education system. They are not natural or accidental. They have been constructed by intellectuals and academics who have had a radical agenda to transform the nation, and benefit themselves in the process. Believers in these doctrines of straight, white male oppression today call themselves liberals. This is a post-war fabrication designed to deceive everyday Americans about their revolutionary agenda.

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Input: Kerry said that all war planes over Syria should be grounded, to "prevent Syria from doing what it so often does in the past -- to target civilians." UN chief: ' A make or break moment ' Speaking before Kerry, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the United States had not done enough to rein in Syrian rebels under its influence, adding that Syrian government troop withdrawals had not been matched with rebel retreats. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for the ceasefire to be restored to enable humanitarian relief to be delivered." We are at a make or break moment," he said.

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Input: The United States and European Union also say there is no evidence it took place. Whether the plot is real or imagined, Moscow has cranked up its military activity in Crimea at the same time as holding a series of what it says are pre-planned war games and missile deployments in the area. Putin, who is expected to visit Crimea later this week in a show of support, convened his Security Council and canceled the next round of international talks meant to turn the shaky ceasefire in eastern Ukraine into a lasting peace. But his response-deliberately refocusing international attention back on eastern Ukraine and the lack of progress in implementing a peace deal there-suggests Putin is trying to milk the latest Crimean crisis as part of a diplomatic power play he hopes will eventually kill Western sanctions. TALKS RUN INTO SAND

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Input: 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. A police source said: ' We are checking on a report that an English supporter was drunk and fell into the harbour.

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Input: The failure of the federal government to take strong and aggressive action against the MSAs is yet another indicator of their catastrophic incompetence and criminal negligence.” The Muslim Brotherhood goals and strategies are found on many websites, proclaiming their objective to create and rule a world-wide Islamic Empire, called a “caliphate”. “The Daily Journalist” website says that The Muslim Brotherhood, also known as “Ikhwan” in Arabic, has over 2,000 branches in 70 countries, and has a plan to reach world domination by building an unbreakable network, planning to eventually take over a country through elections. The blueprint of the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States is slow infiltration through superb organization with the objective that Islam will discreetly grow under the radar until it is too late to reverse its power. Among the Muslim Brotherhood’s many affiliated organizations is CAIR – or the Council on American Islamic Relations – which serves as the public relations arm for the organization.

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Input: Their deaths were ruled accidental, with the medical examiner saying they had fallen asleep on a railroad line after smoking marijuana, but a grand jury found they had been murdered before being placed on the tracks. They had allegedly stumbled on a plot to smuggle drugs and guns from an airport in Mena, Arkansas that Bill Clinton was said to be involved in as state governor. Victor Raiser, 53, small plane crash, July 30, 1992. The second finance co-chair of Bill Clinton's presidential campaign was killed along with his son during a fishing vacation in Alaska. Campaign press secretary Dee Dee Myers called Raiser a major player in the organization.

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Input: A nation that would n’t see civilian deaths as acceptable collateral damage from drone assassinations of suspected terrorists. That would n’t advocate and laugh at murder — even of admitted terrorists. You’d expect something more along the lines of “We tried our best to capture him alive so that we could bring him back to face justice starting with a fair trial, but, sadly, he died in a firefight.” With a serious face, becoming of a Presumptive Future President. Not with a cackle that dismisses the value of human life, a value enshrined in the American conception of justice: innocent until proven guilty. Yep, Robert Gates; Gang of Three; Dick Cheney (“ Vice”)—those are the Comrades with whom she shares her voluminous experience.

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Input: The FBI found no evidence that anyone penetrated the e-mail of the former secretary of state, although “hostile foreign actors successfully gained access to the personal e-mail accounts of individuals with whom Clinton was in regular contact and, in doing so, obtained e-mails sent to or received by Clinton on her personal account,” the bureau wrote. Those people included confidant Sidney Blumenthal, whose e-mails were hacked and publicly revealed by Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar. The bureau wrote in its report that it was unable to track down all of Clinton’s electronic equipment because some of it had been destroyed or lost. One staffer told investigators that he had destroyed two mobile devices “by breaking them in half or hitting them with a hammer.” The FBI said it had requested 13 devices from the law firm representing Clinton, and the firm replied that it could not produce any. The FBI wrote that “investigative limitations, including the FBI’s inability to obtain all mobile devices and various computer components associated with Clinton’s personal e-mail systems, prevented the FBI from conclusively determining whether the classified information transmitted and stored on Clinton’s personal server systems was compromised via cyber intrusion or other means.”

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Input: Although Snowden considered making the trip, in the end he decided against it because it was unclear whether he would be arrested or extradited to the United States. Merkel's ruling coalition had also voiced concerns that such an invitation could damage relations with Washington. In October last year, the European Parliament passed a resolution calling on EU governments to protect Snowden from prosecution and extradition. However, as the resolution is non-binding, EU states are under no legal obligation to comply. jar / kms (AFP, Reuters)

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Input: File photo of the S-300 air defence system launching a missile during the International Army Games 2016 at the Ashuluk military polygon outside Astrakhan, Russia, August 7, 2016. REUTERS / Maxim Shemetov ANKARA Iran has deployed the Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile defence system around its Fordow underground uranium enrichment facility, Iranian state media reported on Monday. Iranian state TV on Sunday aired footage of deployment of the recently delivered missile system to the nuclear site in the central Iran." Our main priority is to protect Iran's nuclear facilities under any circumstances," Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps ' (IRGC) air defense force told state TV.

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Input: DAMASCUS, Syria — A defiant Bashar al-Assad expressed confidence that Syria’s bloody war could be won within months, saying Russia’s intervention has helped tip the scales toward victory. Assad spoke exclusively to NBC News on Wednesday at his office in Damascus in a wide-ranging interview about the Syrian war, ISIS, the U.S. and his legacy. He was unruffled by the State Department branding his vow to retake every inch of Syria as “delusional,” saying it was only a matter of time until he regained full control of his country. Damaged buildings are pictured at a site hit by airstrikes in the rebel-controlled town of Ariha in Syria's Idlib province on Wednesday. AMMAR ABDULLAH / Reuters

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Input: James Clapper did not name specific agency as being involved in surveillance via smart-home devices but said in congressional testimony it is a distinct possibility The US intelligence chief has acknowledged for the first time that agencies might use a new generation of smart household devices to increase their surveillance capabilities. As increasing numbers of devices connect to the internet and to one another, the so-called internet of things promises consumers increased convenience – the remotely operated thermostat from Google-owned Nest is a leading example.

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Input: Video: UN says Aleppo suffering ' new height of horror ' Meanwhile, Mr Rycroft, Ms Power and French ambassador Francois Delattre walked out of the Security Council when Syria's ambassador was called to speak-in a show of anger and frustration by the West. Syrian rebels had declared the push for peace "futile" after Syrian government and Russian warplanes bombarded Aleppo in the worst surge of violence in the city for years. The 30 rebel groups-including the biggest faction backed by Turkey, Gulf states and the West-said the bombing campaign was "unprecedented", with more than 200 killed in recent days. Efforts to revive such an agreement are now a lost cause unless there is an immediate end to fighting and aid is forthcoming, rebels said.

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Input: This is a disgraceful yet fitting end to a sleazy, deeply polarizing campaign during which the sexual predilections, self-deceptions and lunacies of Trump and two other men who are not candidates have attracted opprobrium and ridicule and could decide the fate of the presidency. The tomcatting of Hillary Clinton’s husband, Bill, and the husband of an aide that Clinton has described as a “surrogate daughter” have been righteously mined by the Republicans to besmirch her reputation. And the Democrats have sanctimoniously harpooned Trump for his many outrageously vulgar comments about women and over multiple allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault by women over the past few decades. The first woman to reach the Oval office may start her term under criminal investigation by the FBI. Either way, Republicans will be braying for her impeachment the moment that Congress convenes early next year.

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Input: Crimea was taken over by Russia in 2014 following months of protests that led to the downfall of Ukraine's pro-Moscow President Viktor Yanukovych. The majority of Crimea's 2.3 million population identify as Russians and speak Russian. The EU and US condemned the annexation of Crimea and announced travel bans and asset freezes against a number of Russian and Ukrainian officials.

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Input: What example did Mrs. Clinton’s set with her mysterious $ 100,000, 10-month profit from cattle futures trading, or by collecting $ 675,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs? The Clinton campaign faults Donald Trump for anti-Semitism on the basis of his tweet of a staff-selected graphic that featured a six-pointed star and a background of cash. But if we’re debating which candidate is worse for the Jews, what about Hillary Clinton’s support for the deal that gives Iran — a country that holds an annual Holocaust denial cartoon contest and that funds Hezbollah and Hamas terrorist missiles and rockets aimed at Israeli Jews — $ 150 billion in sanctions relief? Trump opposed that deal. At a recent Clinton campaign event, a Democratic senator, Jeanne Shaheen, assailed Trump: “He’s praised Vladimir Putin.

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Input: I have all the beautiful new girls for me," she said of Trump’s frequent comments about her weight and appearance. “These are totally baseless and unsubstantiated claims by Ms. Machado, who lobbed a public smear campaign in order to gain notoriety at the expense of Mr. Trump’s name and reputation," Trump campaign’s Deputy Communications Director Jessica Ditto said in an emailed statement to Cosmopolitan.com." Hillary Clinton will continue to use these false distractions like Ms. Machado and Mark Cuban to easily deceive the biased media, but will have no impact on Mr. Trump or the voters who are concerned with real issues.” On Fox & Friends Tuesday morning, Trump characterized Machado as the “absolute worst” they ever had at the Miss Universe pageant. “She gained a massive amount of weight, and it was a real problem.”

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Input: If I had a nickel for every time somebody said that to me during this election, I could close Donald Trump’s fundraising gap with Hillary Clinton. But I’m not having a blast. As someone who delights in the absurd in politics, I should celebrate Trump: an orange buffoon who flies to Scotland in the middle of the Brexit crisis and boasts about his golf resort, who brags about his penis size in a televised debate, lies about his charitable giving, fights with the pope, talks at a third-grade level, bastardizes Yiddish and bungles New Testament verses alike, calls 9/11 7-Eleven and believes global warming is a hoax invented by the Chinese. The preposterous Trump is, from this perspective, an embarrassment of riches. But I see him as just an embarrassment.

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Input: leader, says, “Somebody lied to you about successful and spontaneous non-violent revolution, that thing does n’t exist in the world.” Today, almost seven years after the Cairo speech, President Obama has destroyed Libya, oversaw the division of Sudan, is seeking to dismember Syria, continues to bomb Yemen and Somalia, and is still sending fresh US boots on the ground to Iraq. Libya is now destroyed and its residents consider themselves the victims of a holocaust. And I agree with them. On a recent trip, I witnessed two Sudanese women, one from Khartoum, the other from the new state of South Sudan, crying over what had happened to their country in 2011 on President Obama’s watch.

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Input: 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. 11.

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Input: “We can only hope that it is a temporary aberration and they will soon return to their senses,” Ford told RT, urging the US government to abandon their policy of de facto aiding Al-Qaeda’s affiliate. He also expressed his support for Russia’s “very reasonable demand that the forces of the so-called moderate opposition disentangle themselves from the embraces of Al-Nusra and allow Al-Nusra to be bombed.” The former ambassador also stressed that there is “virtually no difference” between Al-Nusra and such groups as Jaish al-Islam, Ahrar al-Sham and Jaish al-Fatah as they are “indistinguishable” in terms of ideology, sectarian bias and their practical methods consisting of “massacres and ruthlessness.” He also emphasized that the only difference between Al-Nusra and other groups that western countries, including the US, portray as “moderate opposition” lies in the field of tactics. “The so-called moderate groups pay lip service to the idea that Syria might end up with a secular system after negotiations provided only that Assad will go.

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Input: “Russia is ready to join in joint measures to limit output and calls on other oil exporters to do the same,” Putin said on Monday at the World Energy Congress in Istanbul. “In the current situation, we think that a freeze or even a cut in oil production is probably the only proper decision to preserve stability in the global energy market.” Ministers from some of the largest oil-producing nations are gathering in Turkey this week to discuss ways to end a two-year supply glut. With benchmark Brent crude trading at about $ 52 a barrel -- less than half its price in mid-2014 -- countries from Saudi Arabia to Russia remain under severe economic pressure. Last month in Algiers, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries reversed its policy of pumping without constraints, helping boost prices.

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