Input: You have two reasons here. The first one that we have to deal with, of course, is the terrorism, because those terrorists not only threaten people, but those terrorists deprive the people of the basic needs of their lives. The second reason is the embargo that has been implemented on Syria by the West, mainly the United States, of course, that caused more difficulties for the people to live here, especially in the health sector. So, we need to deal with these reasons in order to prevent this tragedy from being dragged on for a long time. Q.

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Input: Foreign policy might not get all the headlines but it can very well determine what our country and even the world will look like fifty years from now. Today in Myanmar, the country is transitioning power to a democratically-elected political party for the first time in a half-century. Today in Iran, children of all ages are getting a little more food and experiencing a little more freedom because sanctions placed upon their country are gradually being lifted after their political leaders chose to come to the negotiating table for the first time in forty years. And today in Cuba President Barack Obama became the first sitting American president to visit the country in eighty-eight years, giving hope to a nation that has been hopeless for decades. In all these instances, Hillary Clinton helped to create a situation where diplomacy triumphed and won out to create a path where democracy and increased freedoms may one day come to these great lands.

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Input: Manafort actively avoided the spotlight, though he had a knack for garnering unwanted attention. He took on clients and causes that even most of his colleagues on K Street considered outside the usual bounds. Black, Manafort, and Stone hired alumni of the Department of Housing and Urban Development then used those connections to win $ 43 million in “moderate rehabilitation funds” for a renovation project in Upper Deerfield, New Jersey. Local officials had no interest in the grants, as they considered the shamble of cinder blocks long past the point of repair. The money flowed from HUD regardless, and developers paid Manafort’s firm a $ 326,000 fee for its handiwork.

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Input: "The dominance by Senate Republicans could provide the roadmap for GOP strategists in other races, particularly future presidential campaigns,” Paul Kane explains. “They could also mean the overall weakening of the conservative movement’s ability to raise money and pressure senators to vote their way for fear they will draw a strong primary threat ... ' The culture of primaries within the Senate GOP campaign apparatus is where the entire party needs to go, ' said Josh Holmes, McConnell’s 2014 campaign manager whose firm, Cavalry, worked for McCain and several Republican incumbents. ' If your job is to win elections you do n’t just throw up your hands and say, gosh, I sure hope voters do n’t pick the guy who ca n’t possibly win. '" -- Republicans have had much less success at getting the candidates they want on the House side. The latest example is in an Arizona House district, where a right-wing sheriff tarnished by scandal won the primary in what would otherwise have been a pickup.

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Input: The destruction of the ancient structure, also called the Mashqi Gate, has been confirmed by the British Institute for the Study of Iraq, and the Antiquities Department in Baghdad has n’t denied the demolition, The Independent reported. Read more The terrorists demolished the 2,000-year -old gate using military equipment, activists in Mosul told Kurdish media outlet ARA News. Media activist Zuheir Mousilly added that ISIS have destroyed many of Iraqi historic sites and monuments, including the Assyrian city of Nimrud, the Winged Bulls, and the Mosul National Museum. As for the gate, other reports suggested that the IS were dismantling it and selling separate blocks.

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Input: One of the attendees at these conferences speaks to the stickiness of some donor relationships. Victor Pinchuk, a steel magnate whose father-in-law, Leonid Kuchma, was president of Ukraine from 1994 to 2005, has directed between $ 10 million and $ 25 million to the foundation. He has lent his private plane to the Clintons and traveled to Los Angeles in 2011 to attend Mr. Clinton’s star-studded 65th birthday celebration. Between September 2011 and November 2012, Douglas E. Schoen, a former political consultant for Mr. Clinton, arranged about a dozen meetings with State Department officials on behalf of or with Mr. Pinchuk to discuss the continuing political crisis in Ukraine, according to reports Mr. Schoen filed as a registered lobbyist. “I had breakfast with Pinchuk.

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Input: · Marissa Rose Moore, 21, of Fairview – Second-degree trespassing · James Thomas Clifton, 30 – Simple possession · Juvenile – Second-degree trespassing and resist, delay, obstruct an officer Earlier in the afternoon, Asheville officers confiscated a firearm from someone outside the center. Inside the arena, the most notable disturbance came when protesters stood on the balcony behind Trump and began shouting.

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Input: Advertisement For one, his supporters argue that black people should want no part of Clinton because of her vigorous support of her husband’s disastrous 1994 crime bill (which Sanders voted for, by the way) and 1996 welfare reform. Sanders supporters also remind us of her assertion that “super-predators” were roaming the streets in the 1990s, comments for which she only expressed some regret this year. The senator, on the other hand, attended the March on Washington. And if you want visual proof, Sanders supporters often tweet the image of him being arrested at the University of Chicago in 1963.

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Input: ISIS said that a bomb targeted a patrol and was followed by clashes between ISIS militants and police officers. The attack is believed to have been carried out by ISIS or one of its affiliates. January 21, 2016-Suspected ISIS militants launched an attack on oil terminal in the Libyan port of Ras Lanuf, causing at least one storage tank to explode and a pipeline to catch fire, according to the Libyan news agency and an engineer. No casualties are reported. The attack is believed to have been carried out by ISIS or one of its affiliates.

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Input: This included the training and equipping of the elite presidential guard; employment of foreign instructors to teach SPLA recruits; development of riverine forces; training of commandos by Ethiopian troops; establishment of a noncommissioned officers academy with training from private contractors and later U.S. military personnel; deployment of a “training advisory team” to guide the overhaul of military intelligence; renovation of a training center at the SPLA Command and Staff College; and construction of the headquarters of two SPLA divisions, according to a comprehensive report focusing on the years 2006-2010 by the Small Arms Survey at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. During these years and afterward, members of the SPLA were implicated in myriad human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence, and torture. A 2012 report by Clinton’s State Department, for example, noted that in addition to recruiting child soldiers, South Sudan’s security forces also committed arbitrary or unlawful killings, tortured and raped women, arbitrarily arrested and detained people, and “tortured, beat, and harassed political opponents, journalists, and human rights workers.” The SPLA also broke its 2010 pledge to demobilize all of its child soldiers by the end of the year, leaving children serving in the force. “Post-2005, I think the lack of public criticism — by the U.S. — of the SPLA for its abuses and then the military assistance given to the SPLA by private contractors and others was silly,” said Alex de Waal, the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. “It was totally counterproductive.

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Input: More than 35 Somali refugees have also left the U.S. to join foreign terrorist organizations including al-Shabab and ISIS. Two Iraqi refugees were charged and convicted in 2011 of providing material support to al-Qaida. “So in the run-up to that Kurbanov trial she (Olson) was wanting to make sure there was no backlash against Muslims,” Corcoran observed, even as more United Nations-selected refugees from Shariah-compliant Muslim countries were being planted in U.S. cities and towns. They are being resettled in more than 190 cities from Syria, Somalia, Afghanistan, Burma, Bosnia, Uzbekistan and Iraq as part of the federal government’s refugee resettlement program. That program has been operating in its current form since 1980 and has enjoyed the support of every president since Ronald Reagan, who resettled several thousand Muslim refugees from Afghanistan who he called “freedom fighters” because they were fighting the Soviets.

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Input: Lanier’s staff frequently clashed with prosecutors over evidence and the filing of charges. “People ‘want more police. They want more arrests,’ she said. ‘But if we’re arresting the same people over and over again, there’s got to be some questions being asked.’” (Read the full interview.) Petersburg Interim City Manager Dironna Moore Belton (Michael S. Williamson / The Washington Post)

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Input: Russia is now the top crude exporter to China, the largest (or second largest, depending on whom you ask) oil demand growth country in the world. At the start of the decade, Saudi Arabia enjoyed a 20% share of Chinese crude imports, while Russia was lagging far behind with 7%. Now the Saudis find themselves neck and neck with Moscow for the lead in Chinese market share, with both performing in the 13-16% range. But Russia's share continues to rise, as The Kingdom struggles to maintain a foothold.

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Input: But he’s grasping at straws — and once again refused to apologize for his own role in promoting the birther fable.” “Trump is simply wrong when he says the United States is the highest taxed nation in the world.” “Trump made a ludicrous claim that U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens made 600 requests for help before he perished in the attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi.” “Premiums (under Obamacare) are expected to increase overall in 2017, but Trump is cherry-picking from the highest proposed increases in the insurance marketplace.” There were several additional falsehoods they did not have time to cover.

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Input: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov walk into their meeting room in Geneva, Switzerland, to discuss the crisis in Syria, September 9, 2016. REUTERS / Kevin Lamarque U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R), U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura (C) and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) arrive for a press conference following their meeting in Geneva, Switzerland where they discussed the crisis in Syria September 9, 2016. REUTERS / Kevin Lamarque U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov look toward one another during a press conference following their meeting in Geneva, Switzerland where they discussed the crisis in Syria September 9, 2016.

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Input: All politicians smile maniacally and kiss babies. Trump doesn't bother with the big grin. He comes in with a frown, demanding spit and polish. This is not the guy who busted through the media barrier with intemperate language, directed against perfectly good and respectable people, all excellent GOP candidates. Trump was grossly nasty and insulting to Dr. Carson; Carly Fiorina; and, to a lesser extent, Ted Cruz.

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

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Input: Very early in their political careers, these seven masters of deception by their determination acquired their proficient skill in detecting on which side their political bread was buttered. Their remarkable perfection in that skill provides the answer to why these seven masters of deception went so far and so fast in so few years in the political world in which they moved. Throughout their political careers these seven masters of deception demonstrated that political shrewdness invariably identified with the immoral dogma of 20th century politicians who preach and practice "any means justifies all ends." Accordingly, future grass roots populations of the United States will one day find inscribed in the history of the rise and fall of the United States the verdict that the "means" today advocated by these seven masters of deception were primarily responsible for the "end" of the United States. It is today a well recognized fact of life in political circles in the United States that the censorship exercised today by Zionists over the media for mass information constitutes a virtual monopoly.

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Input: Bernie Sanders could be a spy for Russian boss Vladimir Putin! The left-leaning presidential candidate may have been recruited in 1988 while visiting the Russian spy capital of Yaroslavl, sources said. “Vlad’s likely been pulling Bernie’s strings for decades, and it will pay off handsomely if he wins the presidency!” former Secret Service agent John A. Carman told The National ENQUIRER. PHOTOS: Bill Cosby Creeps Into Court On Felony Assault Charges — His Mugshot And More!

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Input: Syrian state television quoted a military source as saying the army and allied militias had taken "complete control over the city of Palmyra". The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said gunfire could still be heard in the eastern part of the city on Sunday morning, but that the bulk of ISIL's forces had retreated. The group's director, Rami Abdulrahman, said that 400 ISIL fighters died in the battle, which he described as the biggest single defeat for the group since it announced its self-declared caliphate in Iraq and Syria nearly two years ago. SANA quoted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad as saying:" This is an important achievement and new evidence of the effectiveness of the strategy followed by the Syrian army and its allies in the war against terrorism ". READ MORE: Syrian regime seeks symbolic victory in Palmyra

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Input: But in between them our president said many very unwise things. No amount of sweetened coating obscures the blunt, discourteous lecture Obama delivered to the Castro government in the guise of his well-wishing address to its citizens. “Even if we lift the embargo tomorrow,” he said as he hit stride, “Cubans would not realize their potential without continued change here in Cuba.” His next sentence tells you all you need to know about where Obama was headed: “It should be easier to open a business in Cuba.” From there Obama was off and running. He praised the Internet, innovation, “entrepreneurship” and open markets, our 21st-century objects of idolatry.

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Input: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton takes the stage during the final day of the Democratic National Convention, Thursday, July 28, 2016, in Philadelphia. (Photo: John Locher, Associated Press) PHILADELPHIA – Officially accepting the first-ever presidential nomination of a woman in U.S. history, Hillary Clinton on Thursday night presented herself as a clear-eyed leader and unifying force, urging the American people to reject what she called “powerful forces … threatening to pull us apart.” “America is once again at a moment of reckoning,” Clinton told the audience at the closing night of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia as delegates cheered her historic selection as nominee. “Bonds of trust and respect are fraying.

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Input: In what was widely seen as a political prosecution, Khodorkovsky was charged with fraud and sent to prison for 10 years. 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.

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Input: They're like 70 bucks a month to rent.’ So we put shipping containers out in the parking lot here.” He pushes open a heavy metal door and there they are, three red, one orange, and one blue, pinged with rust, sitting on the hot asphalt with weeds popping through. “See, now we fill these up. Um …” He yanks the latch on the orange one, bends his knees as he heaves open the door. Inside it's the same as the corridors: boxes. “Maybe 50 times a day a trace will come in for gun records in those boxes.

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Input: In July, two Russian airmen were killed in the central Homs province when their Mi-25 helicopter was shot down by what the defence ministry said were Isis fighters. Isis also claimed to have shot down a Syrian military jet near Damascus and another Syrian Air Force plane near the city of Deir Ezzor. It was one of several attacks on Syrian jets claimed by Isis, including an attack in July where they later hung a pilot's corpse on display in the streets.

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Input: Related: Road-Tripping to South Carolina With the ' New ' KKK Last month at a Black Lives Matter protest in Dallas, a sniper unaffiliated with the protest opened fire on police officers. This, and another shooting that targeted officers in Baton Rouge one week later, compounded the misunderstanding that Black Lives Matter calls for violence against members of law enforcement, and as a result strengthened the burgeoning "Blue Lives Matter" movement championed by pro-policing advocates. Amid the furor that followed, SPLC said they received a number of requests asking that they classify Black Lives Matter as a hate group. In response, they released a statement explaining why BLM was not a hate group.

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Input: (Story continues below ...) Latest News Video The center points to posts on Barnette's page on vk.com, a Russian social networking site used by white supremacists due to its lack of censorship. In an Aug. 3 post on "Intelligence Report," the center reports," Barnette says that Jews and Muslims have formed an alliance ' to commit genocide of epic proportions ' of the white race. Now is the time, she adds in the same post, for ' the blood of our enemies [to] soak our soil to form new mortar to rebuild our landmasses. '" "Her background, the rhetoric of the group, the hangers-on of the group are white supremacist," Beirich said.

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Input: Against this backdrop, for the period of 2007-2012, the United States has averaged 4.9 homicides per 100,000 persons. America thus stands more or less shoulder to shoulder with Iran (4.1), Cuba (4.2), Latvia (4.7), and Albania (5). So much for the data on homicides tout court. The question then is whether or not to consider America’s standing among countries like these to be an aberration. Such states certainly are n’t in the same class as the United States in terms of development metrics like per capita GDP, and this fact tends to get cited by American politicians and political observers as prima facie evidence that something else (whether “terrorists” or guns) is skewing their country’s violence data, pushing it out of its allegedly more “natural” peer group — places like the Scandinavian states, the U.K., or Japan.

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Input: “To summarize: the US Intel Community should modernize their position on disclosure. Defensive capabilities should be aggressively public,” he tweeted as one of a seven-tweet series earlier Monday morning. Snowden, who now lives in asylum in Russia — which has been widely accused of hacking the DNC’s servers — said more disclosure could give the U.S. government a greater ability to attribute blame for the DNC hack. “If Russia hacked the # DNC, they should be condemned for it,” Snowden tweeted, citing the way the FBI presented its findings related to the Sony hack in November 2014, which the agency attributed to North Korea. “Evidence that could publicly attribute responsibility for the DNC hack certainly exists at # NSA, but DNI traditionally objects to sharing,” he later added.

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Input: Bodies lie on the pavement outside Istanbul's international airport after explosions and gunfire shook the terminal People who had just arrived at the airport in Istanbul after the blasts were pictured running as they tried to flee the scene Desperate passengers embrace as they gather in shock outside the terminal after the airport was evacuated and all flights were grounded Twelve months after that, he was found in Georgia, in the Lopota mountain valley following a battle between police and rebels which saw three policeman and 11 rebels killed. Chataev was injured and later detained-but said he had nothing to do with it.

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Input: In 2012 she suffered a concussion after fainting and striking her head. All of these falls can be explained by Parkinson's, which affects the motor system. (Team Hillary blames dehydration.) Hillary's personal aide Huma Abedin wrote in an e-mail that Clinton is "often confused." Again, this would be consistent with Parkinson's, which in its advanced stages can even lead to dementia.

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Input: Reports of Iskander-M missiles being moved to outpost between Poland and Lithuania fuels fears that Russia is seeking to expand control of Baltic Sea Estonian officials have said that Russia appears to be moving powerful, nuclear capable missiles into Kaliningrad, a Russian outpost province sandwiched between Poland and Lithuania along the Baltic coast. The Iskander-M missiles, which have a range of over 500 km, are reportedly being transported by ship from the St Petersburg area. It had previously been reported that the Russians might seek to place the Iskander-M missiles in Kaliningrad but not until 2018-19. If confirmed, the move would be seen by western governments as another sign that Russia is seeking to establish facts on the ground, from eastern Europe to the Middle East, before a new US president takes office in January.

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Input: Construction is what I know. I say nobody knows it better. The real wages for our workers have not been raised for 18 years. [Trump appears to be talking about median household income here. As of 2014, it was $ 53,657, a sizable drop from 1999's $ 57,843.

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Input: Coca-Cola has now removed the image altogether and apologised. In a statement released on Wednesday, the US drinks manufacturer said it did not "support any political movements", adding:" The company has removed the post and apologises for the situation that occurred." The US embassy in Ukraine had earlier condemned the inclusion of Crimea, saying in an online statement:" Coca-Cola's actions violate the official US position condemning Russia's illegal occupation of Crimea, which is and has always been an integral part of Ukraine." Image copyright Twitter Image caption Many Ukrainians called for a boycott of the company Coca-Cola posted the original message on VK, Russia's biggest social network, on 30 December, with the caption:" Celebrate winter holidays from Moscow to Vladivostok."

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Input: More than 35 square miles of jihadi land have been regained by the Moscow-backed anti-extremist coalition. Strategically vital Rabia was one of 28 towns which fell to the Syrian army, the Russian Defence Ministry said. The Kremlin claims almost 500 terrorist targets in Syria were hit by Russian airstrikes over the weekend, with 169 sorties flown between January 22-24. Airstrikes against ISIS Sat, February 27, 2016 British, French, Russian and US forces launch air strikes around the world. Play slideshow 1 of 63 Russian army carried out an airstrike in Damascus

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Input: In reality, Moscow appeared most interested in propping up the failing regime of its ally, President Bashar al Assad. Video: Russia Bolstering Air Campaign In War-Ravaged Syria But its air campaign has made it an indispensable part of the quest for a negotiated end to Syria's five-year-old civil war, which has claimed the lives of over 260,000 people. It is hard to see how Russia can be forced to adopt a more diplomatic approach and abandon its military campaign if it does not want to.

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Input: Lack of preparation is a common excuse for poor debate performances — it took the blame when President Obama stuttered out of the gate against Mitt Romney in 2012. The difference, however, is that Obama’s fitness for the office was n’t a major question in 2012. Trump’s total lack of debate preparedness suggests that he’d be similarly lost in the Oval Office. It also means that the bar will be set even lower when he and Hillary Clinton meet again in two weeks. Then, Trump will only have to stay on topic to gain points from pundits.

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Input: This election will decide whether we are ruled by the people or by the politicians. Here is my promise to the American voter: If I'm elected president, I will end the special-interest monopoly in Washington, D.C. Very important. [Trump has said that he loves "the idea of campaign finance reform" and regularly decries the influence of money in politics, but he has yet to outline how he would "end the special-interest monopoly in Washington, D.C." His website does not list campaign finance reform, money in politics or checking the influence of lobbyists in the section devoted to issues.

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Input: “If our jails are overcrowded and congested,” Dr Simbulan said, “that will also be true in our courts.” Aside from a lack of physical space in courtrooms, there is a shortage of judges and prosecutors to hear cases. Consequently, with just two or three hearings a year, inmates’ trials can take years, even decades. There are 3,800 inmates at the jail, which was built six decades ago to house 800, and they engage in a relentless contest for space (AFP / Getty)" Posting bail is often not an option because most of those who run afoul of the law are poor," Phelim Kine, Asia deputy director for Human Rights Watch, told The Independent.

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Input: Seven C.I.A. employees, as well as the G.I.D. officer, were killed in the attack. Two recent heads of the service, also known as the Mukhabarat, have been sent to prison on charges including embezzlement, money laundering and bank fraud. One of them, Gen. Samih Battikhi, ran the G.I.D.

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Input: She added that Trump wants to fire-bomb everybody in other countries.” -- A naked, hoofed statue of Hillary prompted a scuffle in Manhattan. An outraged Clinton supporter destroyed it while the artist tried in vain to save it, the New York Post. (Travis Andrews) Naked Hillary Clinton statue causes scuffle in New York https://t.co/YtbIrn7CNk pic.twitter.com/rb2cebKxCM — WGNO (@WGNOtv) October 19, 2016

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Input: 30/42 Imre Kertesz Hungarian writer and Holocaust survivor Imre Kertesz, who won the 2002 Nobel Literature Prize, has died on 31 March, at the age of 86 REUTERS 31/42 Rob Ford Rob Ford, the former controversial mayor of Toronto, has died following a battle with a rare form of cancer. The 46-year -old passed away at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto on 22 March 32/42 Joey Feek Joey (left) passed away in March after a two-year cancer illness. She was part of country music duo, Joey + Rory, with her husband Rory (right) Jason Merritt / Getty Images

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Input: Inside that long URL, there's a 30-character string that looks like gibberish but is actually the encoded Gmail address of John Podesta. According to Bitly's own statistics, that link, which has never been published, was clicked two times in March. That's the link that opened Podesta's account to the hackers, a source close to the investigation into the hack confirmed to Motherboard. That link is only one of almost 9,000 links Fancy Bear used to target almost 4,000 individuals from October 2015 to May 2016. Each one of these URLs contained the email and name of the actual target.

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Input: The Department of Defense had nothing to do with that.” All of this is important for a few reasons. For starters, in response to repeated questions about the cash payment, which coincided with an intricate deal to release Americans detained in Iran, the State Department defended the decision by saying it went through an interagency process. At an Aug. 4 briefing, State Department Deputy Spokesman Mark Toner was asked about whether the payment was a form of ransom. Toner began by saying, “There’s always an interagency discussion around any decision like this, and every relevant agency weighs in.”

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Input: That's why just two days ago, when I released my plan to improve mental health services for all Americans, I included a specific section about more help for veterans and their families because we know too many aren't getting the help they need right now. We've got to serve them, just as they served us. We are also going to help more veterans looking for jobs, with expanded tax credits for businesses that hire veterans. More support to veterans who want to start their own businesses. And making it easier for veterans to get credit for the skills they learned while serving.

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Input: I sent Chris Stevens to Benghazi inthe height of the Libyanconflict. QUESTION: Yeah, yeah. SECRETARY CLINTON: And he was eager to go, and he was very effective, and then I recommended him to be our ambassador, and I had the highest regard for him. QUESTION: Gosh, that must make it that much — SECRETARY CLINTON: Oh, it's painful, Monica. It's absolutely painful, because it's not ° tat a faceless person.

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Input: Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, right, shakes hands with U.S. Vice President Joe Biden during a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on May 16, 2013, as Biden's wife Jill and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry look on. STUTTGART, Germany — Turkish police blocked access to Incirlik Air Base late Saturday in response to an anti-American protest, the second such rally in three days and a signal that the strategic base is emerging as a fulcrum for post-coup fallout as tensions between Turkey and the U.S. intensify. Speculation of a second coup quickly swirled Saturday among local media as Turkish police in armored vehicles cut off access to Incirlik, but local officials dismissed the maneuver a “safety inspection." “We did a general safety assessment. There is nothing wrong,” wrote Omar Celik, Turkey’s minister for European Affairs, in a Twitter post.

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Input: The attack may have been inspired by ISIS. January 13, 2016-Three ISIS fighters launch an attack on the Pakistani consulate in the Afghan city of Jalalabad. The first operative reportedly detonated his explosives while attacking the consulate's guards and a second bomber detonated his device inside the building. A local official said six people were killed, as well as the three assailants. The attack is believed to have been carried out by ISIS or one of its affiliates.

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Input: WASHINGTON, April 20 (Yonhap) -- North Korea's failed launch of its Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile last week sparked a huge fireball that damaged the launcher and could have also injured or killed missile technicians on the ground, a news report said Wednesday. The missile blew up about 300 feet above the ground, shortly after Friday's launch, and U.S. strategic defense surveillance systems, both airborne and space-based, videotaped the explosion, the Washington Free Beacon reported, citing U.S. defense officials. Two road-mobile Musudan launchers were set up for the test, but the second was not fired after the explosion, the report said. It also cited a diplomatic source as saying that the likely cause of the explosion was a faulty fuel system or turbo pump failure. The Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile is an indigenous variant of the Russian SS-N-6 submarine-launched ballistic missile, known by Moscow as the R-27, which the North obtained covertly from Russia sometime in the 1990s, the report said.

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Input: Compounding the intensity of the debate is the now standard Democratic campaign tactic of reflexively accusing adversaries of being tools or agents of Moscow. WikiLeaks has always been somewhat controversial, but reaction has greatly intensified this year because many of its most significant leaks have had an impact on the U.S. presidential election and, in particular, have focused on Democrats. As a result, Republicans who long vilified the group as a grave national security threat have become its biggest fans (“ I love WikiLeaks,” Donald Trump gushed last night, even though he previously called for Edward Snowden to be executed), while Democrats who cheered the group for its mass leaks about Bush-era war crimes now scorn it as an evil espionage tool of the Kremlin. For years, WikiLeaks has been publishing massive troves of documents online — usually taken without authorization from powerful institutions and then given to the group to publish — while news outlets report on their relevant content. In some instances, these news outlets work in direct partnership with WikiLeaks — as the New York Times and The Guardian, among others, did when jointly publishing the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and U.S. diplomatic cables — while other times media outlets simply review the archives published by WikiLeaks and then report on what they deem newsworthy.

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Input: “You want to see the loading dock?” We head down a corridor lined with boxes. Every corridor in the whole place is lined with boxes, boxes up to the eyeballs. In the loading dock, there's a forklift beeping, bringing in more boxes. “You go, ‘Whoa!’” he says. “Okay?

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Input: “I flew to Juba, the new capital of South Sudan, to try to broker a deal,” she wrote. “It had taken years of patient diplomacy to end the civil war and midwife the birth of a new nation, and we could n’t let that achievement fall apart now.” It was August 2012, a little more than a year after South Sudan’s inaugural Independence Day — the product, beyond any sort of American midwifery, of two brutal conflicts with Sudan that raged from 1955 to 1972 and 1983 to 2005, leaving millions dead and displaced. But it was also true that for more than 20 years, a bipartisan coalition in the United States had championed the southern rebels. And as the new nation broke away from Sudan, the U.S. poured in billions of dollars in aid, including hundreds of millions in military and security assistance.

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Input: "It now looks like the Paris agreement will enter into force before the end of the year and that will really be light speed compared to almost all other international agreements," he said. U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is a strong supporter of the accord, but her Republican counterpart Donald Trump has dismissed man-made climate change as a hoax and says he will abandon the Paris agreement if elected. Countries that ratify the deal will have to wait for three years after it has gone into legal force before they can begin the process of withdrawing from it, according to the agreement signed in Paris. Ratification, however, does not mean the work is over. Alden Meyer, international director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the Paris agreement's detailed rules will likely take another year or two to finalize.

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Input: Rebel gains this weekend could change the balance of power in Aleppo, after Assad said a siege by government and allied forces on rebel-held east Aleppo in early July was a prelude to re-taking the city. The loss of Aleppo would be a crushing blow for rebels." We have now seized full control of the Ramousah area ... We are in our trenches but there are insane air strikes of unprecedented ferociousness. The regime is using cluster and vacuum bombs," said Abu al Hasanien, a senior commander in Fateh Halab, the coalition of moderate rebel groups inside the city. Pro-Syrian government news channels have mostly played down the rebel gains and say Syrian army efforts have caused rebels to withdraw from some recently-gained areas.

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Input: In July, Khizr Khan, the father of a soldier killed in Iraq, criticized Trump’s proposal, and the candidate responded by mocking Khan’s wife, Ghazala: “She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she was n’t allowed to have anything to say.” (She subsequently spoke out eloquently.) Under sustained criticism, Trump proposed, instead, to “screen out any who have hostile attitudes towards our country or its principles — or who believe that Sharia law should supplant American law.” Gingrich called for re-creating the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was established in 1938 to investigate accusations of subversion and disloyalty. “We’re going to presently have to go take the similar steps here,” he said, on Fox News. “We’re going to ultimately declare a war on Islamic supremacists, and we’re going to say, If you pledge allegiance to ISIS, you are a traitor and you have lost your citizenship.” The committee is not often praised; before it was abolished, in 1975, it had laid the groundwork for the internment of Japanese-Americans, and led investigations into alleged Communist sympathizers.

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Input: WUHAN, April 6, 2016 (Xinhua) -- A freight train heading to Lyons of France sets off from Wujiashan Railway Center in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province, April 6, 2016. The train, which is loaded with mechanical, electronic and chemical products, marks the opening of the Wuhan-Lyons freight train. The train will travel 16 days and run 11,300 kilometers before arriving at Lyons. (Xinhua / Xiao Yijiu)

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Input: Police arrested a lovestruck “idiot” who wore a fake suicide belt and forced an EgyptAir passenger jet to land in Cyprus Tuesday morning, government officials confirmed, ending a bizarre and frightening hijacking that stretched on for hours. The president of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades insisted it was not terrorism, with another government official saying the man "seems (to be) in love." Police said he demanded a meeting with his ex-wife, with whom he has four children.

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Input: An investigator speaking in the court said that to date no one else had been found who was involved in the crime. Bobokulova was arrested as half a dozen police officers swooped near Oktyabrskoye Pole metro station in Moscow, Russia, as she reportedly shouted she had a bomb. The girl's mum was later seen being taken away by paramedics after being told her daughter had been decapitated. (Photo: Reuters) (Photo: Getty)

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Input: If the ceasefire holds for a week, then the U.S. will open a joint operations center with Russia meant to target the Islamic State and al-Qaida elements in Syria. “The U.S. government does n’t want Assad to remain but their actions are n’t doing anything to get him to leave, they’ve only helped him stay in power,” Bill Roggio, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense Democracies, explained to The Daily Caller News Foundation. Assessing the ceasefire Roggio elaborated, “These ceasefire’s do n’t hold, everyone uses them for their own advantage, some groups will get some supplies, and then the fighting will resume.” Secretary of State John Kerry himself reportedly shares Roggio’s pessimism regarding the ceasefire. Kerry privately admits to friends and confidants he does not think his newly brokered ceasefire with Russia in Syria will work, The New York Times reports.

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Input: Trump has repeatedly tried to do business in Russia, and Russian investors have been important to his real estate empire, particularly in recent years. According to litigation filed in Florida, Trump’s partners on a Panama project traveled to Moscow in 2006 to sell condos to Russian investors. Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $ 95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev; he had purchased the home at a bankruptcy auction four years earlier for $ 41.4 million. Trump has also sought to build a tower in Moscow numerous times since the late 1980s, when he said he had a deal to explore a Trump project in partnership with the Soviet government. His most recent effort came after a Putin ally, Aras Agalarov, known as the Trump of Russia, paid Trump millions to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013.

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Input: It announced Fernando’s abrupt decision to step down. “Mr. Fernando chose to resign from the Board earlier this month citing additional time needed to devote to his business,” it reads, noting that membership on the board was required to be “fairly balanced in terms of the points of view represented and the functions to be performed by the advisory committee.” “As President and CEO of Chopper Trading, Mr. Fernando brought a unique perspective to ISAB. He has years of experience in the private sector in implementing sophisticated risk management tools, information technology and international finance,” the statement says.

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Input: Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, “appears increasingly to be the mouthpiece of Putin” in Europe after receiving “lavish gifts” including large energy contracts thanks to the negotiations of a “shadowy,” Russian-speaking Italian intermediary. And thousands more of additional intelligence revelations along the same lines. Following Clinton’s alleged drone proposal, another controversial remedy was floated in the State Department to place a reward or bounty for Assange’s capture and extradition to the United States, sources said. Numbers were discussed in the realm of a $ 10 million bounty. A State Department source described that staff meeting as bizarre.

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Input: A little history: Back in March 2014, Russia annexed Crimea, an autonomous region of Ukraine. After the ouster of the Ukrainian president, Russian troops moved in and held an unauthorized referendum in which Crimeans voted to rejoin Russia, of which it had previously been a part. As The Post reported back then, it was "the first time that one European nation has seized territory from another since the end of World War II." As such, U.S. and European allies roundly rejected the annexation. Since then, Vice President Biden has declared it an "illegal" occupation.

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Input: Putin, who met Abe in the Pacific port of Vladivostok, told the Japanese prime minister in televised remarks that Moscow is willing to build on the progress in talks that the two leaders last held in Russia's Sochi in May. The turret of an old tank set in the ground as a part of war fortifications with a lighthouse in the background near Yuzhno-Kurilsk on Kunashiri Island, one of the Kuril Chain, known as the Northern Territories in Japan, is shown in this undated file photo. Lying off the northeastern tip of Japan, they were seized by Soviet troops in the last days of World War II. Photo Credit: null "We are carefully studying the proposals that you put forward during your visit to Sochi," Putin said. His spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters later that the Kremlin had not expected a breakthrough on the territorial dispute, stressing the need for "long-term and thorough efforts of experts" in order to reach a compromise. Peskov also said that Abe's visit testified to Japan's interest in expanding economic ties with Russia.

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Input: It’s always been there. And it was the dictatorial leadership that was keeping the top on. And be careful when you find yourself in a situation like that, where you demand that the top go away. [Egyptian President Hosni] Mubarak must go. [Syrian President Bashar al-] Assad must go.

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Input: It is fair to read Ms. Clinton’s career as a series of learning experiences that have prepared her well for such an environment. As first lady, she failed when she tried to radically remake the American health-care system. Instead of retreating, she reentered the fray to help enact a more modest but important reform expanding health-care access to poor children. Her infamous “reset” with Russia offers a similar arc. We have not hesitated to criticize the Obama administration’s foreign policy, including its lukewarm support for Ukraine in the face of a Russian invasion, but criticism of the “reset” is off-base.

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Input: Chinese airlines need to hire almost 100 pilots a week for the next 20 years to meet skyrocketing travel demand. Facing a shortage of candidates at home, carriers are dangling lucrative pay packages at foreigners with cockpit experience. Giacomo Palombo, a former United Airlines pilot, said he’s being bombarded every week with offers to fly Airbus A320s in China. Regional carrier Qingdao Airlines promises as much as $ 318,000 a year. Sichuan Airlines, which flies to Canada and Australia, is pitching $ 302,000.

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Input: He did n’t “flee to Russia”; he was trapped there when the government stripped his passport. He did n’t have protected whistleblower avenues. He did n’t lie about his medical discharge from the military or his position as a NSA contractor. The House report accuses Snowden of causing “tremendous damage” to national security, but fails to offer a clue of what that damage might be. Even more bizarre is the recent Post editorial opposing a pardon for Snowden.

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Input: "The relevant units of armed forces were notified." Tensions have run high in the area, sparking fears that violence between the two countries could re-erupt. The Crimean Human Rights Group posted photos on its website showing Russian military trucks being transported by train on August 6 near Kerch, a port in Eastern Crimea near the border with Russia proper. Ukraine has seen a surge in violence in the eastern regions of the country held by pro-Russian separatists, with three Ukrainian soldiers killed and four wounded in the last 48 hours, reported Newsweek on Tuesday. Russian authorities closed the border between Crimea and Ukraine proper for several hours on Sunday, Radio Free Europe reported.

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Input: Aid deliveries to besieged areas were a key part of the cessation of hostilities deal brokered last week. Supplements were delivered to the besieged town of Talbiseh in Homs province on Monday, the Red Cross said. But most aid shipments were still waiting to go in. The UN said it had received government approval to reach all the besieged and hard-to-reach areas where it sought to bring aid. But access to many areas was still constrained, it said, because of fighting, insecurity and administrative delays.

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Input: This is True. According to media reports and gun violence experts, there have been more than 3,000 shooting victims in Chicago so far this year. Clinton:" It's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man, you are more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated." The research suggests that when you compare what happens to black and whites who are engaging in the same illegal activity and have the same criminal history, African Americans are more likely to be arrested, more likely to face tougher charges, and more likely to receive longer sentences than their caucasian counterparts. This claim is True.

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Input: In July, Rubio mocked Clinton in a tweet for wanting to “reset” relations with Cuba, just as she had in her “failed” attempt to forge new diplomatic channels with Russia. “Here we go,” speechwriter Dan Schwerin wrote his colleagues when he saw the tweet. Campaign staff began a spirited exchange over how to punch back at the upstart senator, who favored keeping a trade embargo born of the Cold War in place against the communist island nation. “John, did you have in mind having HRC hit back, or campaign?” senior Clinton aide Jake Sullivan asked Podesta. “I’m good with either.

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Input: We do n’t talk in this country about criminalizing poor political judgment or flawed policy. That is what separates us — or has until now separated us — from Vladimir Putin’s Russia or Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela. Communist China conducts political show trials; not here. The criminal prosecution rhetoric underscores the discomfort many feel with giving Trump — a peevish, resentful narcissist — control over the Internal Revenue Service, the FBI, the NSA, the CIA and, of course, the military. Jamie Kirchick argues that the following scenario is not all that far-fetched:

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Input: "You're not fighting Syria anymore, you're fighting Syria, Russia and Iran, all right? Russia is a nuclear country, but a country where the nukes work as opposed to other countries that talk," he said. Trump has not laid out a clear strategy for combating ISIS or addressing the globally destabilizing conflict in Syria, which has killed hundreds of thousands and pushed millions more to flee their homes. He has suggested the US should allow ISIS, anti-government rebels and the Syrian government to fight it out and more recently has focused on joining forces with Russia -- which has aided the Syrian regime in the bombing of civilians and US-allied rebels -- to combat ISIS." Assad is secondary, to me, to ISIS," Trump told Reuters of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom US officials have argued must step down.

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Input: Here she will sit, as she has for the past 18 years, turning a dial right while countless images zoom past. “I'm looking for a W,” she says. The images are the color of asphalt, and the writing on them looks like tiny pebbles, and they whiz by so fast, I begin to get actual car sickness. I ask her how she can possibly read anything moving this fast. “I'm looking for a W,” she says, picking up a magnifying glass and leaning in toward the upper left of the screen.

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Input: Although she was responsible for the security of US diplomatic installations and personnel abroad, she allowed our consulate in Benghazi to remain open in an environment so lethal that the British and even the International Committee of the Red Cross pulled out. Her bad judgment resulted in the deaths of four Americans, including the US ambassador. Her "what difference, at this point, does it make" testimony at the ensuing congressional hearings into Benghazi showed a shocking disregard of her responsibilities to the deceased and misreading of the gravity of what had taken place. Carly Fiorina was crucified by the media earlier this year for her performance as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. Where are their questions about Hillary's role in a larger calamity, which, in addition to causing thousands of deaths and waves of desperate refugees, has imperiled the peace, prosperity, domestic tranquility and cultural cohesion of our European allies?

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Input: To prove perjury, it should be noted however, requires showing beyond a reasonable doubt that the statement was made with “willful intent” and the speaker knew the statement was false. It is not perjury or a punishable false statement when the testimony results from “confusion, mistake or faulty memory.” Inconsequential inconsistencies or conflicts in testimony do not constitute perjury or false statements. An intentionally misleading but literally true answer can not form the basis for prosecution. In short, perjury can not be proven simply by showing the testimony of a witness is inconsistent with the statements of another witness, as the Republicans seek to do with the Goodlatte / Chaffetz letter, and with their video clips of Clinton vs. Comey testimony. Finally, to convict of perjury it must be proven by more than one witness, or one witness plus corroborative evidence.

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Input: [In Scranton, Pa., Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden’s memory lane tour is an appeal to white working class Democrats] The Republican nominee said that under his administration, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay would remain open, human intelligence would be highly valued and foreign combatants would be tried in military commissions. Immigration officers would be able to immediately deport people visiting the country who "preach hate" and those who immigrate to the United States would be expected to assimilate, he said." Assimilation is not an act of hostility, but an expression of compassion," Trump said." Our system of government, and our American culture, is the best in the world and will produce the best outcomes for all who adopt it."

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Input: Where Mussolini attempted to make good his imperial promises by, in Churchill’s words, “frisking up to the side of the German tiger”, Trump has publicly praised Vladimir Putin, who is fast turning Russia into a dictatorship. Where Mussolini unrealistically promised the Italian people that he would capture Gibraltar from Britain, Trump promises to make Mexico pay for an impenetrable wall on the Rio Grande. Only in Trump’s utterly unenforceable promise to ban all Muslims from entering America – something that would wreck the US economy and destroy her influence in the world – is there no possible equivalent from “Il Duce”. The fact that every single significant conservative commentator has expressed their horror at the way that Trump seems to have sown up the Republican nomination speaks volumes for the wisdom of a commentariat that usually enjoys its diversity. Only the former owner of this newspaper, Conrad Black, in National Review Online has endorsed his friend The Donald, on the admittedly credible grounds that Trump would discover maturity in office once faced with the responsibility of leading the Free World rather than mouthing off vicious sexist comments about women reporters.

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Input: Russia suspends coordination with US-led coalition after downing of Syrian jet US changes disposition of coalition aircraft in Syria after Russian threats SDF vows to resist Syrian government attacks near Raqqa ARA News ALEPPO – Islamic State’s (ISIS) jihadis on Thursday publicly executed and crucified a man in Syria’s northern Aleppo province, activists and eyewitnesses reported.

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Input: Security software maker Trend Micro said in May that Russian hackers had been trying for several weeks to steal data from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party, and that they also tried to hack the Dutch Safety Board computer systems to obtain an advance copy of a report on the downing of a Malaysian aircraft over Ukraine in July 2014. The report said the plane was brought down by a Russian-made Buk surface-to-air missile. The cyber attacks are part of a broader pattern of state-sponsored hacking by Russia focused on political targets, with a goal of giving Russia the upper hand in dealing with other governments, said Pasi Eronen, a Helsinki-based cyber warfare researcher who has advised Finland’s Defense Ministry.

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Input: Last year, Turkey shot down a Russian Sukhoi bomber over Syrian skies and President Erdogan who was then a staunch enemy of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad rejected extending an apology to Moscow for about a year, although economic sanctions by Russia as well as growing victories by the Syrian army, popular forces, Hezbollah fighters, Iranian advisors and Russian air force that cornered the terrorists in Syria and similar victories against ISIL in Iraq convinced the Turkish president to not just apologize for the Sukhoi incident, but also show signs of a U-turn in foreign policy, saying that he is dropping his opposition to President Assad. Four days after the coup, officials in Ankara announced that the two Turkish pilots who played a role in the downing of the Russian plane in November were in custody over the recent failed coup. “Two pilots who were part of the operation to down the Russian Su-24 in November 2015 are in custody,” a Turkish official told journalists on Tuesday, adding that they were detained over links to the coup bid. Russian President Vladimir Putin called his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday, describing the attempted coup as unacceptable and voicing hope for a speedy return to stability. The diplomatic sources said the shift in Erdogan's foreign policy stated only a week before the coup has been "a major cause pushing several foreign states to provoke and promise support for the army to stage the coup, and the same shift also saved him" as it was not clear if the Russians would provide Ankara with their intel, otherwise.

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Input: He’s given voters, GOP lawmakers and potential donors a laundry list of reasons to steer clear of his campaign. Here’s how Trump’s terrible week went down. Saturday, July 30: Trump attacked Khizr and Ghazala Khan, a Gold Star military family whose son was killed in Iraq in 2004. The couple appeared on stage together at the Democratic National Convention, where Khzir Khan criticized Trump, saying the GOP nominee “smears the character of Muslims.” Trump responded by insulting the Khans and ignoring their sacrifice.

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Input: The Clinton campaign left it to the foundation to reply to questions about the Fernwood donations; the foundation did not provide a response. Mr. Telfer’s undisclosed donations came in addition to between $ 1.3 million and $ 5.6 million in contributions, which were reported, from a constellation of people with ties to Uranium One or UrAsia, the company that originally acquired Uranium One’s most valuable asset: the Kazakh mines. Without those assets, the Russians would have had no interest in the deal: “It was n’t the goal to buy the Wyoming mines. The goal was to acquire the Kazakh assets, which are very good,” Mr. Novikov, the Rosatom spokesman, said in an interview. Amid this influx of Uranium One-connected money, Mr. Clinton was invited to speak in Moscow in June 2010, the same month Rosatom struck its deal for a majority stake in Uranium One.

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Input: Russia may be preparing their population for “difficult times.” Citing local media, The Daily Mail reports that Russia is ordering all of its officials to fly home any relatives living abroad, fearing a global war. Politicians and high-ranking figures allegedly received a warning from President Vladimir Putin to return to the “Motherland.” The Daily Mail added that all this is occurring while “Putin cancelled a planned visit to France amid a furious row over Moscow's role in the Syrian conflict.” UPI further confirmed the growing strain in relations between Russia and the West: “Tensions continue to rise between the United States and Russia as the Russian foreign minister said Sunday recent actions and statements threaten his country's national security.

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Input: Air disasters timeline Pilot fatigue has long been stated as a concern in the airline industry. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has previously proposed setting limits on the duration that pilots can fly. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's Steve Rosenberg:" All that remains of the aircraft is debris scattered across a Russian airfield" "The attitude among crew before this crash was that it's a case of when, not if, there would be an accident," one of the pilots said.

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Input: This is evidence that even as they twisted the rule at the time, they recognized its value and retained it for the most consequential situations. I wrote at the time in The New York Times: The Senate Republicans, by blatantly and transparently obstructing President Obama's judicial nominations, have goaded the Democrats into an historic mistake. To reach understandable ends, they have adopted tragically flawed means. By use of the so-called "nuclear option," Senate Democrats have now established the principle that a simple majority in the Senate can change any rule at any time.

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Input: The presence of all these people has become a downright nuisance to his community, he says. Given the roadblocks, residents of Cannon Ball are often forced to go more than 40 miles out of their way. Native Americans march to the site of a sacred burial ground that was disturbed by bulldozers building the Dakota Access Pipeline on September 4, 2016 near Cannon Ball, North Dakota. Not long ago, he found three teenage girls from Ontario, Canada, camped out inside his storage shed. A white woman from Spokane, Washington, came to see him for help, saying she'd come here with nothing and her car had broken down.

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Input: In a taped interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, Mr. Trump’s running mate, called Mrs. Clinton “the most dishonest candidate for president of the United States since Richard Nixon.” Yet Mr. Pence also opened the door for more criticism of Mr. Trump by vowing to release his own income tax returns within the next week. Mr. Trump has refused to release his own returns, but Mr. Pence said his running mate would eventually disclose them as well, although he did not say when that might happen. Last week The Washington Post revealed that Mr. Trump had to pay a $ 2,500 penalty to the I.R.S.

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Input: It’s hardly a surprise, then, that The Washington Post recently reported that at least some Moscow factions may prefer Clinton to Trump. Photo: Mikhail Metzel / AP Then there’s the policy basis for insinuating that people like Stein and Trump have misplaced allegiances to Russia rather than the United States of America. Both have been vilified for advocating ways to reduce US / Russian tensions. Trump in particular has been attacked by Democrats for his opposition to arming Ukraine in order to deter Russian aggression, his desire to cooperate with Putin in Syria, and his questioning of the ongoing financial and security value of NATO. All this, we’re told, would benefit Putin, making anyone who advocates it in “alignment” with the Russians deliberately or otherwise.

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Input: Kaine snapped back that no president should coddle Putin, and ' Hillary Clinton knows exactly who this guy is. ' Pence sniffed that Clinton had only said she was sorry for saying ' half ' of Republicans were deplorable CBS correspondent Elaine Quijano tried to keep control of the proceedings as the pair exchanged jibes in their only chance to impress the voters Kaine gave Clinton credit for killing Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda ringleader whom President Obama gave the order to kill the third time his military leaders asked him to PENCE HITS CLINTON ON FOREIGN POLICY RECORD

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Input: more-in Since July’s party conventions in the U.S., the campaign of Republican > presidential nominee Donald Trump has had a series of wobbles in contrast to the steady, if baffling, surge that it witnessed through the first half of this year. First, Mr. Trump engaged in a verbal > battle with Khizr Khan and his wife Ghazala, parents of a fallen U.S. soldier and a Muslim. Their denigration by the property magnate prompted disdain even from senior Republicans such as House Speaker Paul Ryan. Second, observers on both sides of the aisle squirmed in discomfort as Mr. Trump’s apparent affinity for Russia and its President Vladimir Putin increasingly came to the fore.

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Input: There is, though, a growing pattern of attacks on the data systems of U.S. political organizations by hackers whom U.S. intelligence officials and private cyber security firms have concluded are working for or with Russian intelligence agencies. Donald Trump's presidential campaign has hired consultants CrowdStrike to bolster its data security. But two people familiar with attempts to breach the campaign and other Republican organizations said that so far there was no indication of a penetration as serious as those of the Democratic organizations, and CrowdStrike is not investigating any successful hacking of Trump campaign data. (Reporting By Mark Hosenball and Ginger Gibson.; Editing by John Walcott and Jonathan Oatis)

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Input: "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. Later, on Monday afternoon, the White House announced the meeting was canceled. The Philippines war on drugs Since Duterte was elected, more than 1,900 people have died, including at least 700 in police operations that were part of the President's hard-line war on drugs.

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Input: In 2011, Secretary of State Clinton also was a hawk on military intervention in Libya to oust (and ultimately kill) Muammar Gaddafi. However, on Libya, Defense Secretary Gates sided with the doves, feeling that the U.S. military was already overextended in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and another intervention risked further alienating the Muslim world. This time, Gates found himself lined up with Biden “urging caution,” while Clinton joined with U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and NSC aides Ben Rhodes and Samantha Power in “urging aggressive U.S. action to prevent an anticipated massacre of the rebels as Qaddafi fought to remain in power,” Gates wrote. “In the final phase of the internal debate, Hillary threw her considerable clout behind Rice, Rhodes and Power.”

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Input: Moore believes we do not fully comprehend the damage caused by plastic pollution, largely as the gyres where it collects have been ignored." The gyres are 40% of the world ocean -- one third of the planet," says Moore." But these areas are not part of any exclusive economic zone, they are not used for the shipment of goods, they are not harvested for marine resources, and their welfare is no one's concern ... I'm convinced we haven't scraped the surface of the damage being done." From his own research, the volume of plastic has tripled in the gyres since the turn of the century, and plastic is disproportionately consumed by fish at the bottom of food chains, leading to rapid and deadly proliferation.

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Input: Some 5,000 people came to Donetsk's opera house to pay last respects to the 33-year -old Russian, known as "Motorola," who died Sunday when a homemade device exploded in his apartment block. A Russian army veteran from the Komi region, Pavlov joined the fighting in east Ukraine in 2014 as a volunteer, rising to prominence after appearing on Russian television broadcasts. He boasted in a 2015 interview of shooting 15 Ukrainian prisoners of war, prompting Kiev's defence ministry to say he was lucky to die in a bombing rather than serving an "inevitable" life sentence. Some mourners carried flowers and black-and-orange St. George's ribbons that symbolise World War II victory and have been adopted by the Kremlin-backed insurgents, an AFP correspondent reported from the scene. The grandiose memorial ceremony was also shown live on Russian state television.

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Input: It was thorough and concluded:" She is in excellent physical condition and fit to serve as president of the United States." What a fool I was to be duped by this "doctor," who is actually a highly respected doctor. On Fox News on Sunday, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani raised the specter of Clinton's "signs of illness," saying:" Go online and put down ' Hillary Clinton illness ' and take a look at the videos for yourself." I did that. I went "online" and "put down" those words and indeed found videos of people who are not Clinton's physician or anyone's physician, including Giuliani, saying that Clinton is absolutely sick, and possibly mentally ill.

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Input: Mr. Snowden’s defenders do n’t deny that he broke the law — not to mention oaths and contractual obligations — when he copied and kept 1.5 million classified documents. They argue, rather, that Mr. Snowden’s noble purposes, and the policy changes his “whistle-blowing” prompted, justified his actions. Specifically, he made the documents public through journalists, including reporters working for The Post, enabling the American public to learn for the first time that the NSA was collecting domestic telephone “metadata” — information about the time of a call and the parties to it, but not its content — en masse with no case-by-case court approval. The program was a stretch, if not an outright violation, of federal surveillance law, and posed risks to privacy. Congress and the president eventually responded with corrective legislation.

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Input: 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. Bunker-buster bomb reports may mark new stage in Russia's Syrian assault Read more Medics took shelter in the hospital basement during the mid-morning attack, sending calls for aid as they hid until government planes had retreated.

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Input: Go away with your market nonsense. The world needs regulation and democracy. The key to addressing climate change is to win elections and break the deadlock of corporate power. No economic, social and technological solution is possible without it (here).

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Input: Despite his forces being part of the truce, President Assad vowed to take back the country from "terrorists" -a term used to describe all opposition groups. Israel has largely remained on the sidelines of the fighting along its border, but has carried out reprisals on Syrian positions when errant fire has previously landed in Israel. The IDF is also widely believed to have carried out airstrikes on arms shipments destined for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, a close ally of Assad. Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the Six Day War of 1967, before Syrian forces led an unsuccessful counter-offensive in 1973, and Israel effectively annexed the vast majority of the occupied territory in 1981. The United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) was set up to monitor a ceasefire established in the region but fighting between the Syrian regime and rebels has frequently spilled over into the demilitarised area since 2012, sparking Israeli air strikes in Syrian territory.

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Input: Nearly a third of those children had fled post-coup violence in Honduras. Clinton reiterated her support for deporting them as recently as August. Indigenous rights and environmental activist Berta Cáceres criticized Clinton’s role in the coup prior to her murder by a Honduran death squad on 3 March. The Clinton campaign denied that its candidate bore any responsibility for the violence, casting her role in Honduras as “active diplomacy.” This week, Clinton again defended the overthrow of Zelaya. Despite the trail of blood she left behind, Clinton remains confident in the righteousness of US-backed regime change.

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Input: This shameful betrayal of humanity in the face of mass suffering must stop now.” For Diab Serriya, who was imprisoned in Saydnaya from 2006 to 2011, the reconstruction serves as a lasting reminder. “I lost five years of my life there, I nearly died there,” he says. “I just want it to remain so that other generations will see this horrible place, where we were tortured. The world should know it’s the worst place on earth.”

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Input: "His children are incredibly able and devoted, and I think that says a lot about Donald," Clinton said of his family, who attended the debate as did her husband, daughter and son-in-law. Trump admitted to some grudging respect for Clinton's resilience." I will say this about Hillary: She doesn't quit. She doesn't give up. I respect that.

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Input: This is all forbidden under Islam. ' He was not a Muslim, he was a s***. ' Horrifying: Police and forensics teams inspect bodies in the French sunshine where at least ten died and 50 injured-many of them in buggies left abandoned today Disaster zone: Bodies lie along the promenade showing the devastating route the lorry took as it went through huge crowds Heartbroken men and women refused to leave the bodies of their loved ones and the dead remain strewn across the famous Promenade des Anglais today.

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Input: teleSUR was included in packages of more than 90 cable operators and had agreements with five television stations in different Argentine provinces. Until Feb. 29, 2016, it reached more than 20 million viewers in addition to more than 8 million subscribers. On the same day as Macri's announcement, thousands of journalists and dozens of media workers ' unions protested against massive layoffs in Buenos Aires, calling on the government to prevent the closure of newspapers and television stations. According to a study conducted by the Buenos Aires Press Union, more than 1,000 media workers have lost their jobs in the city since December 2015, when Macri took power. The Press Workers’ Federation, one of the umbrella unions of media workers, reports that more than 2,500 media employees have lost their jobs across the country over the same period.

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Input: Elected leaders and top officials from around the world are responding with denials and outrage to allegations that they used secret offshore companies and accounts to hide billions of dollars. The media reports, based on a massive leak of documents, allege the existence of a clandestine network involving associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and business ties between a member of FIFA's ethics committee and men indicted for corruption. The Kremlin has dismissed the allegations as "a series of fibs" aimed at discrediting Putin ahead of elections, while the FIFA official has described them as "ridiculous" and "outrageous." But some governments are acting on the information -- the U.K., France, Australia and Mexico have pledged to investigate for possible cases of tax evasion.

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Input: “As we pieced together the model, we realised the building is n’t only a space where incarceration, surveillance and torture take place,” says Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture, “but that the building is, itself, an architectural instrument of torture.” Weizman’s provocative work – tagged “the architecture of public truth” – has tackled everything from the spatial strategies of the Israeli Defence Force in Palestine to mapping drone strikes in Afghanistan and the topography of genocide in the Guatemalan jungle. His team is practically unique in the field of “architectural forensics”, using the designer’s spatial toolkit to build damning bodies of evidence used in both UN investigations and trials in the international criminal court. For Amnesty, the team began an intensive process of interviewing former detainees of Saydnaya prison who escaped across the border to Turkey, to build up a detailed picture of the facility. The prison is an echo chamber: one person being tortured is like everyone being tortured.

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Input: Ahmet Sait Yayla The former Turkish National Police counter-terrorism chief is speaking out at considerable risk to his own family. As part of Erdogan’s crackdown after the failed military coup in July, Yayla’s 19 year old son was prevented from leaving the country, and eventually arrested on terrorism charges. When I first spoke to Yayla, he had just launched his new book in Washington DC, ISIS Defectors: Inside Stories of the Terrorist Caliphate, co-authored with Professor Anne Speckhard, a NATO and Pentagon consultant specialising in the psychology of radicalisation. “Turkey is supporting Islamic State and other jihadist groups,” said Yayla.

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Input: Yet even though the entire gruesome image was caught on video, the “paper of record” has refused to report a single word. The same goes for Lina Sergie Attar’s stirring Times op-ed. Although it invokes the infamous 2013 Queiq River massacre to describe the suffering that Assad has heaped upon the people of Aleppo, it fails to mention that the slaughter was most likely the work of Al Nusra. Why spoil a good story with the facts? Much the same can be said for Hasakah where The Wall Street Journal blandly reported that “Syrian government bombers had been striking Kurdish positions near the city of Hasakah, where the U.S. has been backing Kurdish forces in the fight against Islamic State,” also known as ISIS, ISIL and Daesh.

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Input: Kaminsky — whose institute is responsible for investigating crimes against the Polish nation — said that plans for the demolition of the monuments, would be sent to local authorities in the coming weeks. These monuments should have been demolished in the early 1990s, he said, and called the preservation of the monuments “a fatal mistake.” The demolished monuments will be removed and transferred to museums where they can become “a witness of hard times,” Kaminsky said, the RIA Novosti news agency reported. He added that such measures would not apply to the graves of Soviet soldiers, for which Poland will continue to care. Soviet war memorials have fallen into disrepair and been regularly vandalized in Poland, where the Soviet role in World War II is viewed with ambiguity or outright hostility.

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Input: It means freedom for American warships to patrol and dominate the coastal waters of China. Try to imagine the American reaction if Chinese warships did the same off the coast of California. I made a film called The War You Don't See, in which I interviewed distinguished journalists in America and Britain: reporters such as Dan Rather of CBS, Rageh Omar of the BBC, David Rose of the Observer. All of them said that had journalists and broadcasters done their job and questioned the propaganda that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction; had the lies of George W. Bush and Tony Blair not been amplified and echoed by journalists, the 2003 invasion of Iraq might not have happened, and hundreds of thousands of men, women and children would be alive today. The propaganda laying the ground for a war against Russia and/or China is no different in principle.

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Input: This line of attack was puzzling to some who recalled that Trump had dismissed past reports of inappropriate behavior by Bill Clinton, who never been charged with a crime of a sexual nature. Electoral fraud In recent weeks, as his poll numbers have suffered, Trump has started openly floating the idea that the general election in November could be "stolen" through "cheating," presumably by his Democratic opponents. But this again is not a new line of attack from the GOP nominee. On election night in 2012, even, Trump started tweeting about impropriety in the final result.

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Input: Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill have called for restored Christian unity between the two churches at historic talks in Cuba. The meeting was the first between a Pope and a Russian Church head since the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity split in the 11th Century. In a joint declaration, they also urged the world to protect Christians from persecution in the Middle East. The Pope has now arrived in Mexico for a five-day visit. A crowd of 300,000 braved the cold in Mexico City to welcome him to the country which has the world's second largest Catholic population.

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Input: I.e. Earlier decades were revised to be “cooler,” while recent years were suddenly marked as “warmer” by factoring in measurements that included seawater temperature readings from the engine manifolds of ocean-going vessels. Various academic papers have debunked NOAA’s “new” temperature findings, but NOAA’s revised measurements continue to be used to make claims such as “warmest year ever.” The questionable methods utilized by NOAA to assemble its “pause buster” study are now the subject of a Congressional investigation. But the oceans are becoming acidic. The oceans remain comfortably alkaline, as they have for millions of years.

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Input: GENEVA — Donald Trump has officials in this world capital of trade running scared. Faced with the prospect of a U.S. president who pledges to rip up trade agreements, slap tariffs on allies and pull out of the World Trade Organization, top trade officials are in various states of denial and dread. Story Continued Below Some attending a WTO meeting this week consoled themselves the populist billionaire could n’t really win the election — “though after Brexit, nothing can be ruled out,” warned Jonathan Peel, a member of the European Economic and Social Committee.

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Input: Not nearly that many people had gathered by the first day. As of Monday afternoon, officials said sweltering heat approaching 100 degrees was their main concern. Police Commissioner Richard Ross described the protests as "very peaceful" and said no arrests had been made. Contributing: Michael Collins, Nicole Gaudiano, Susan Page, Eiza Collins and Paul Singer Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/2a0X40h

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Input: While the claim can not be independently verified, the statement could help explain why Lazar felt comfortable discussing his supposed hacking of the Clinton server – which was not mentioned in the nine-count federal indictment. During an interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Clinton was not asked about the FBI investigation or claims the server was hacked, but her campaign said in early May:" There is absolutely no basis to believe the claims made by this criminal from his prison cell. … We have received no indication from any government agency to support these claims, nor are they reflected in the range of charges that Guccifer already faces and that prompted his extradition in the first place.” A review of her emails found more than 2,100 containing classified information – though she claims nothing was considered classified at the time. Catherine Herridge is an award-winning Chief Intelligence correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC) based in Washington, D.C. She covers intelligence, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security.

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Input: All Dow components ended in negative territory, as were all 10 sectors on the S&P 500. Follow MarketWatch’s stock market live blog. Read: Why oil could plunge to $ 20 a barrel, but probably not $ 10 Selling began in China after official data showed that new bank loans were lower than expected in December as lenders sharply curtailed activity amid worries about slowing growth and bad debt. In a bid to boost liquidity, China’s central bank said it pumped $ 15 billion of funds into the market via a medium-term lending facility on Friday.

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Input: Trump also proposed to “expand the definition” of a lobbyist to prevent officials from using titles including consultants or adviser to skirt the regulation. “It is time to drain the swamp in Washington, D.C.,” Trump said Monday. “That is why I am proposing a package of ethics reforms to make our government honest once again.” Trump also proposed getting Congress to pass campaign finance reforms that would prohibit registered foreign lobbyist from raising money in U.S. elections and create a lifetime ban against “senior executive branch officials lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.” Trump also took aim at former President Bill Clinton Bill ClintonTrump legal team spokesman used Twitter to criticize Trump Jonathan Taplin misses the mark on corporate dominance in tech Senate GOP shifts focus to Lynch MORE, saying he "rigged the system" when he left office by undoing his executive order that White House or federal agency staffers couldn't lobby the government for five years.

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Input: Other parts of Yanukovych’s team preferred the idea of collaborating with the Russians. Akhmetov won out." It was advantageous for the defeated Yanukovych’s team to find a guilty one," Pavlovsky told PolitiFact. The relationship lasted for years leading up to Yanukovych’s 2010 presidential campaign. Manafort made Yanukovych look more respectable, working with stylists and consultants to redesign his image.

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Input: “With more than half the delegates yet to be chosen and a calendar that favors us in the weeks and months to come, we remain confident that our campaign is on a path to win the nomination.” Clinton on Tuesday picked up four wins in Florida, Ohio, Illinois and North Carolina, with results in Missouri too close to call early Wednesday. She's added to her significant delegate lead, leading Sanders by about 300 pledged delegates, 1,132 to 818, according to The Associated Press. “We think it would be very difficult, if not impossible, for him to overtake her at this point,” Clinton spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri said on CNN. Still, some expect Sanders to stay in the race in an effort to further influence the eventual Democratic nominee, pushing Clinton into the summer.

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Input: The Kentucky senator slammed the Clintons at a Rotary Club in Maysville, Ky. on Thursday. “We have now a comparison between Hillary Clinton and her husband who have grown rich off of government service, selling themselves, and selling their speeches,” Paul said. “Bill Clinton made a million dollars talking to a Russian bank that was negotiating the purchase of a uranium company in North America, who had to approve that? Hillary Clinton.” “Bill Clinton made almost a million dollars speaking to an electronics company who was trying to sell electronics into Iran,” he continued.

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Input: One country that does possess nuclear weapons is Israel, which refuses to ratify the NPT. Clinton has consistently and uncritically supported the policies of the Israeli government. In the Atlantic interview, she placed the blame for Israel’s 2014 massacre in Gaza squarely with the Palestinians. From July 8 to Aug. 27, 2014, Israel killed over 2,100 Palestinians — including more than 400 children — 80 percent of them civilians. Sixty-six Israeli soldiers and seven Israeli civilians were killed.

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Input: ' The worst place on earth ': inside Assad's brutal Saydnaya prison Read more On Tuesday, Russia launched airstrikes in Aleppo and two other provinces from a base in western Iran, the main regional ally of the Assad regime. The horror generated by the image of Omran echoes the anguished global response to pictures of Aylan Kurdi, the drowned Syrian boy whose body was found on a beach in Turkey. Those pictures came to encapsulate the horrific toll of Syria’s civil war. Associated Press contributed to this report

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Input: The exact number of people who emigrated from Russia between July 1, 1991, when the Soviet-era passport confiscation policy for departing Jews ended, and February 6, 1992, could not be obtained. But it is clearly on the scale of tens of thousands. For example, in 1991, 47,276 Jews immigrated to Israel from Russia, while 10,196 left to resettle in the United States, according to Mark Tolts, a demographics researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. These numbers do not include Jews who immigrated to other countries such as Germany, nor do they include non-Jewish immigration. Journalist Masha Gessen said thousands of people could lose their citizenship as a result of the new regulations, which she described as “really bizarre,” “insane” and “amazing.”

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Input: While plenty of last-minute events have popped up within range of the last two elections — in 2012, Romney's "47% remark" emerged in late September and Hurricane Sandy happened the week before the election — most presidential historians, including Lichtman, have long cast doubt on the existence of actual October Surprises, with some of the most notable names in the field insisting that the most influential cases involved the ones that never came to pass. In 1968, for example, Richard Nixon was concerned that his Democratic opponent Hubert Humphrey, the sitting vice president to President Lyndon Johnson, had been trying to finagle a pre-election peace deal to curtail, or end, U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Nixon himself is thought to have used a backchannel to officials in Vietnam to forestall their participation in a peace agreement, telling them they'd get a better deal with him when he was elected. Neither occurred, Nixon won and the U.S. remained mired in Vietnam for another five years. Then in 1980, it was rumored that Ronald Reagan was so worried that incumbent President Jimmy Carter might secure the release of the 52 American hostages being held in Iran right before the election, either with negotiations or covert military action — which would have had potentially swung the race for him — that he, some have speculated, may have negotiated with Iranian officials for a release that would occur under his own watch.

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Input: Marco Rubio announced that he will run for reelection to the Senate, a big boost for Republican hopes of retaining the Senate majority. (Sean Sullivan and Mike DeBonis) The Colombian government and FARC rebels reached a cease-fire agreement, clearing one of the last major hurdles in the effort to end a nearly 50-year conflict. (Nick Miroff) Pakistan’s government announced that it is giving a $ 3 million grant to the “University of Jihad,” agreeing to subsidize one of the world’s most controversial Islamist institutions even as the country vows to crack down on havens for the Islamic State. (Tim Craig) The Senate rejected a Republican-led effort that would have allowed the FBI to access a person’s internet browser history and email without a court order. (Karoun Demirjian) Rep. Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) announced his intention to resign from Congress after being convicted of nearly two dozen public corruption charges.

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Input: In Syria, the United States military efforts have proved modestly successful in degrading the Islamic State. A combination of American and allied airstrikes, as well as military support for fighters on the ground, has caused the group, also known as ISIS or ISIL, to lose territory. On Friday, American-backed Kurdish-led forces seized the eastern Syrian city of Shadadi, important for its nearby oil and gas fields. Photo

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Input: “I do n’t need jets, F-16 -- that’s of no use to us,” Duterte said. “We do n’t intend to fight any country.” Since 1950, the U.S. has accounted for about 75 percent of the Philippines’ arms imports, according to a database from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Russia and China have n’t supplied any weapons in that time, it showed. The U.S. would probably move diplomatically to prevent the Philippines from procuring a major defense system from China, according to Jon Grevatt, an defense industry analyst at IHS Jane’s in Bangkok.

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Input: Azerbaijan denied those allegations, saying its soldiers were reacting to heavy attacks from the Armenian side. Putin urges restraint Russian President Vladimir Putin urged both sides to stop fighting and "show restraint", Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies. Russia's foreign and defense ministers contacted their Azerbaijani and Armenian counterparts in hopes of stabilising the situation, the ministries said. US Secretary of State John Kerry issued a statement saying that the United States "condemns in the strongest terms the large scale ceasefire violations."

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Input: Critics say Pence has not accomplished anything significant and rather has ridden the coattails of his predecessor, former Gov. Mitch Daniels (R), who is credited with improving Indiana’s fiscal health and growing its economy. Supporters have cheered Pence's focus on tax cuts and credit him with signing into law one of the largest tax deals in state history. He is a well-connected fundraiser Pence could go a long way in helping Trump shore up his fundraising deficit against Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for?

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Input: After Holt bored in on Trump’s documented early support for the war in Iraq, the billionaire businessman was reduced to pleading with reporters to ask Sean Hannity of Fox News about supposed private conversations the two had had before the war started. Sensing that he was losing the moment ― big time ― Trump began to blame the “mainstream” media for opposing him and siding with Clinton. In one surpassingly bizarre exchange, he suggested that perhaps the hacker probing U.S. computer systems might be “somebody on a bed who weighs 400 pounds.” Clinton could only smile. Rather, however, she went after Trump with all the skill of the Yale-trained lawyer she is, and did so for the most part with a wry tone that was more that of a mom talking to a 7-year -old than the public scold she is often criticized for being. She said that she was proud that she had prepared hard for the debate ― and that to have done so was a sign of how well prepared she would be for the presidency.

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Input: She’s had the experience doing it. She went toe to toe with Russia and lodged protests when they went into Georgia. And we’ve done the same thing about Ukraine, but more than launching protests, we’ve put punishing economic sanctions on Russia that we need to continue. Donald Trump, on the other hand, did n’t know that Russia had invaded the Crimea. GOV.

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Input: The occupants targeted by the Assad regime were unarmed civilians, the suit claims. Colvin was known for her courage behind the front lines and immediately recognizable for an eye patch that hid an injury suffered in a Sri Lankan ambush. She had given a harrowing telephone interview to BBC radio from Homs just days before her death. Describing the damage caused by a near-constant barrage of artillery from state security forces, Colvin recounted watching a toddler die after being wounded by shrapnel. Just Tuesday, Colvin spoke with CNN's Anderson Cooper by phone about the child's death, saying," That baby probably will move more people to think, ' What is going on and why is no one stopping this murder in Homs that is happening every day? '"

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