Input: The bill has yet to pass. Among achievements listed in the Sept. 1 document, the Arab Regional Office includes increased advocacy by “Palestinian citizens of Israel,” or PCI, in international forums, challenging Israel’s “racist” policies in the face of its reputation as a democracy. The document advocates the “development of a more organized and efficient PCI advocacy and presence in international forums (UN, EU, US) especially in light of the increasingly limited domestic avenues available for seeking justice. ”“In shifting to international advocacy, PCI’s [sic] are up against Israel and its image as a democratic state before the international community, therefore Palestinian civil society organizations in Israel feel the pressure of filling this gap by strengthening their relations with international actors and systems such as the European Union and United Nations to put their issue on the international agenda,” it says. “There have been a number of successes in challenging Israel’s racist and anti-democratic policies in the international arena and influencing EU-Israel bilateral negotiations,” the document says. The emails were posted in recent weeks by DC Leaks, a group Bloomberg News, in an Aug. 11 report, quoted security experts as saying is likely backed by Russia’s intelligence agencies. Open Society told Bloomberg News that it reported the hacks to the FBI. JTA has submitted a number of queries regarding the hacks to Open Society, which has yet to reply. Former communists in the Eastern Bloc have for years reviled Soros for promoting democracy and free markets in their countries. At the same time some Jewish groups have labeled Soros, a child survivor of the Holocaust, as anti-Israel. The Soros page on DC Leaks’ website, in broken English, notes Soros’ Hungarian Jewish roots. Depicting a sinister-looking Soros presiding over an array of news photos of rioting and violence, it invokes anti-Semitic tropes commonplace in Russia and eastern Europe, describing him as a “vampire” managing “puppets” and “slaves” who “spill blood of millions and millions people just to make him even more rich. ”Soros is a major backer of the presidential bid of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Clinton’s campaign has accused Russian intelligence of being behind a deluge of recent embarrassing email dumps, and has alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin is backing her rival, Republican nominee Donald Trump. An Aug. 6, 2015 document details Open Society’s Arab Regional Office funding of civil society groups in Israel since 2001, amounting to $ 9,591,801.

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Input: U.S. President Barack Obama (L) attends a bilateral meeting with Vietnam's General Secretary of the Communist Party and National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Phu Trong at Central Office of the Communist Party of Vietnam in Hanoi, Vietnam May 23, 2016. REUTERS / Carlos Barria HANOI The United States announced a complete end to its arms embargo on Vietnam on Monday, a historic step that draws a line under the two countries ' earlier enmity and underscores their shared concerns about China's growing military clout. The move came during President Barack Obama's first visit to Hanoi, which his hosts described as the arrival of a warm spring and a new chapter in relations between two countries that were at war four decades ago. Obama, the third U.S. president to visit Vietnam since diplomatic relations were restored in 1995, has made a strategic "rebalance" toward Asia a centerpiece of his foreign policy.

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Input: Stein also pointed to 25 million Latinos who, she said," have learned that the Democrats are the party of deportation, of night raids, and of detention, of refugees who are fleeing a crisis in their home countries that we created. How? Through NAFTA, though illegal coups and CIA-sponsored regime changes, and through the drug wars. ... If people want to fix the immigration problem, the answer is, ' Stop causing it. '"

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Input: Like her role in handing Russia exclusive mining rights to 20 percent of US uranium reserves via a company that donated millions to the foundation. (You thought Donald Trump was Vladimir Putin’s best friend?) Or the tens of millions donated by the same Middle Eastern nations — Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait — that Hillary has publicly denounced for supporting terrorism (not to mention criminalizing gay sex). And the Clintons certainly did n’t want to remind voters that the foundation had to amend four years of tax filings to finally come clean about $ 20 million in foreign donations it took during Hillary’s tenure. Fact is, mentioning the foundation would have also shined a spotlight on just how the Clintons acquired their massive wealth in a few short years.

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Input: ADVERTISEMENT Trump's adult children joined the New York delegation to cast the decisive vote that put Trump over the top. Donald Trump Jr. was given the honor of making the announcement, and he promised his father would put the Empire State in play in November." It is my honor to be able to throw Donald Trump over the top tonight," Trump, Jr. said. “Congratulations Dad, we love you.”

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Input: “But now usage has gone back to where it was before, if not higher. Deaths have gone up.” In December, Ireland’s National Drug-Related Deaths Index showed drug poisoning deaths involving legal highs increased from six in 2010 to 28 in 2013. The European Commission has said that between 2011 and 2014, Ireland experienced Europe’s second largest increase in legal high use among 15- to 24-year -olds. One Irish user told the BBC that after the ban closed head shops: “People started selling it on every street.

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Input: 13. He said "Second Amendment people" could deal with Hillary Clinton "Hillary wants to abolish -- essentially abolish the Second Amendment. By the way, if she gets to pick, if she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is, I don't know," Trump said in August

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Input: The strikes have had a mixed record. In March, an American airstrike killed more than 150 Shabab fighters at what military officials called a “graduation ceremony,” one of the single deadliest American airstrikes in any country in recent years. But an airstrike last month killed more than a dozen Somali government soldiers, who were American allies against the Shabab. Outraged Somali officials said the Americans had been duped by clan rivals and fed bad intelligence, laying bare the complexities of waging a shadow war in Somalia. Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said the Pentagon was investigating the strike.

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Input: I'm not so sure, especially if economic growth continues to snail-pace along at less than 2 percent a year. That sort of anemic expansion — a product of all sorts of things, including out-of-control government spending, ever-increasing regulatory dicta, and forcibly misallocated dollars into everything from defense spending to insurance premiums to ineffective safey rules — makes us all crabs in a pot that seems to be getting smaller all the time. The water gets hotter and well, you start fighting like nobody's business to kick out everyone you can. If Chinese immgrants keep coming over in relatively large numbers, Chinese Americans keep doing well here, and China continues coming into focus as our major economic and military adversary on the world stage, we could easily see a resurgence of the worst sort of populist racism and discrimination. In an exchange related to his column, the Globe's Jacoby tweeted this out:

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Input: In June, Erdogan called for the Trump name to be removed from the complex in Istanbul and said presiding over its dedication had been a mistake. Still, that would leave a President Trump in a conflict: Dogan is his business partner, Erdogan is an essential American ally, and they both now are set against each other. Trump might have to choose whether to ignore his partner’s plight or to pressure Erdogan for his own financial benefit. This is no minor skirmish: American-Turkish relations are one of the most important national security issues for the United States. Turkey is among the few Muslim countries allied with America in the fight against the Islamic State militant group; it carries even greater importance because it is a Sunni-majority nation aiding the U.S. military against the Sunni extremists. Turkey has allowed the U.S. Air Force to use a base as a major staging area for bombing and surveillance missions against ISIS.

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Input: ! » turns out to have been more the start of a US defeat in an unprovoked invasion, than the start of a US victory against any authentic provocation by ‘the enemy’. Obama’s current plan to turn his defeat into victory there has no more reason to succeed than his predecessor, George W Bush’s plan to do likewise in Iraq did after he had, on 1 May 2003, declared victory there, aboard the warship USS Abraham Lincoln. Then, his famous 2007 « troop surge in Iraq » utterly failed to produce peace and to end the sectarian war the US and its allies had generated by their thoroughly counter-productive and shameful invasion against a nation that (like Libya) had n’t invaded nor threatened to invade the United States – nor its allies. There, as in Syria, too, America’s aggression produced only mass death and misery – and trillions of dollars in US federal debt, which has n’t yet resulted from America’s invasions of Libya and Syria, but might. And, of course, millions of refugees.

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Input: But the use of a surface-to-air missile — which arms experts said is likely a Russian-made 9K38 Igla — is a new and troubling development. It's unclear where the militants, who maintain bases in both Turkey and Iraq, would have obtained the weapon system. But former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was known to have acquired the same Russian-made system in the 1980s, as did Libyan strongman Moammar Gaddafi. The successful attack "is a game changer" and "could lead to further escalation in the region," Aykan Erdemir, senior fellow at the D.C.-based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, posted on Twitter. Turkish officials did not respond to request for comment.

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Input: When Trump accuses others of what he’s doing himself — or what the Russians are doing on his behalf — I hear Putin’s voice. When Trump talks about regulating the “dishonest” press or about jailing Clinton, these echoes become deafening. But when Trump questions the peaceful transfer of power; when he, essentially, says he will only accept the election results if he wins; when his supporters talk of assassinating Clinton if she becomes president and of blood flowing in the streets if Trump does n’t; the moment I’m transported to is not a Russian one, but an American one. One of the first events I covered upon returning to Washington from Moscow was Barack Obama’s 2013 inauguration. Amid the hundreds of thousands of people on the National Mall on that frigid January morning, I watched Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) say, through gritted teeth, the thing that makes America great is the peaceful transfer of power.

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Input: A police report seen by Daily Mail Online also states the circumstances surrounding Rich's homicide are ' unknown '. The mystery has sparked a flurry of theories posted online, including claims he leaked DNC emails or that he was on his way to speak to the FBI when he was shot. Reddit user The_Donald also constructed a timeline that links Rich to the Clintons, as pointed out by Heat Street. ' The death of this DNC staffer is too suspicious to ignore, especially in the face of voter fraud allegations against Hillary's campaign … The Clintons definitely have a long list of unfortunate souls who crossed the wrong politicians ', wrote ClashDaily.com, which describes itself as a website for ' God- and country-loving patriots. ' But one of Rich's closest friends, Miles Mawby, told the Daily Mail Online that the idea that Rich was the source who gave the leaked DNC documents to Wikileaks was ' absolutely absurd. '

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Input: Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE on Friday argued the Republican Party will "split apart" if Donald Trump Donald TrumpLewandowski near ' high six-figure book deal ': report GOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Overnight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data MORE wins the GOP nomination. “He’s not going to be the nominee," Rubio told reporters before a rally in Oklahoma, while acknowledging Trump's status as the front-runner in the race. ADVERTISEMENT "The Republican Parry would be split apart if he became the nominee, because we can not allow the party of Reagan to be taken over by a con man," Rubio said.

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Input: "If you were president, what would you do about Syria and the humanitarian crisis in Aleppo?" She then recalled a recent statement from Trump's running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, who said," Provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength and that if Russia continues to be involved in airstrikes along with the Syrian government forces of Assad, the United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike the military targets of the Assad regime." Trump said he disagreed with Pence on this issue." He and I haven't spoken and I disagree," Trump said.

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Input: -- Hillary released her personal financial disclosure statement last night, showing that she made at least $ 6.4 million in 2015 from book royalties and paid speeches. (Abby Phillip) Trump boasted that his annual personal financial disclosure form is “the largest in the history of the FEC.” He claims that his net worth has increased since his last disclosure was filed in July and that his annual income is more than $ 557 million, not including dividends, interest, capital gains, rents and royalties. The campaign did not actually release a copy of the 104-page disclosure, and the FEC has yet to make it public. (Jenna Johnson)

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Input: The TPP essentially puts multinational corporations on a level with government — a level higher than government. It allows corporations to sue our sovereign governments in their courts, not our courts. And to decide whether we the people are guilty of violating their sacrosanct right to future profits — since when is the right of future profit-making a sacrosanct right of corporations that trumps our right to democracy? It is utterly mind-boggling that such a bill is even being considered. You've seen a vast expansion of the surveillance state in the U.S., and in Canada as well through Bill C-51.

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Input: A “fearless” former BBC journalist hanged herself in an airport toilet in a spur of the moment decision after missing a flight, an inquest has heard. Veteran war reporter Jacqueline Sutton, 50, was found hanged in a cubicle at Ataturk airport in Istanbul after she missed a connecting flight to Iraq last October. Ms Sutton had landed in the Turkish capital from Heathrow with the intention of travelling on to Erbil in Iraq, North London Coroner’s Court was told. The BBC producer had been working as the Iraq director of the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), a London-based charity network.

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Input: Julian Assange says if the United States government sees him as a threat to national security, it should see Hillary Clinton as one, too. In an interview with Morning Edition's David Greene, the founder of WikiLeaks called the Department of Justice's decision not to prosecute Clinton for handling classified information on her private email server an "incredible double standard." Assange has been living in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for four years to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning on suspicion of rape. In a statement last month, FBI director James Comey said the FBI "did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws," but that the use of a private email server was "extremely careless." Comey advised the Justice Department that "no charges are appropriate in this case," and career prosecutors agreed.

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Input: Instead, it’s getting fewer than 50. At that rate, if the Air Force were to move quickly to replace all of its old F-15s, F-16s, and A-10s with F-35s, it could do so only by significantly cutting the total number of frontline squadrons. But then the Air Force would be too small for all the training exercises, international deployments, and combat operations that the Pentagon requires of it, according to Robert Work, the deputy defense secretary. “If you told me we were going to go down from 54 tactical fighter squadrons to 45 but they’d all be F-35s, I’m not certain I’d say that’s a good thing,” Work told the trade magazine Flight Global on March 10. The Air Force ca n’t afford to cut down squadrons and also ca n’t afford to buy enough new F-35s for all the squadrons it needs.

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Input: Citing Donald Trump’s controversial call to his supporters to challenge voters at the polls, a leading civil rights group is urging international election monitors to beef up their efforts to observe this November’s U.S. presidential contest. It’s the latest reflection of deep concern among voting rights advocates about potential voter intimidation and suppression this fall. In a letter sent Saturday, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights asked the Warsaw, Poland-based Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to “greatly expand” its U.S. election monitoring program. Related: Trump Poll-Watching Plan Stirs Voter Intimidation Fears

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Input: "If the people in this country, or in America, knew that there is a country in the world, where there is a free education, free housing, free medical care, then they'd have second thoughts," Thae said in a speech, according to the broadcaster." That is the reason why the mass media creates all those shocking, terrifying stories about my country," he added. John Nilsson-Wright, the head of the Asia program at the London-based think tank Chatham House, said western intelligence agencies would want to question Thae about Kim’s leadership and what happened to members of the previous government who media said were executed, the Guardian reported. Last month, the United States put Kim and 22 other individuals and entities on the U.S. sanctions list for human rights abuses. Pyongyang "continues to commit serious human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances, arbitrary arrests and detention, forced labor, and torture," the State Department said in its announcement of the sanctions.

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Input: It is manufactured by Lockheed Martin. The US official told the AP that Lockheed was authorised to export the dummy missile for a Nato training exercise. The official attributed the shipping error to Lockheed’s freight forwarders, and said the US was working with Lockheed to get the device back. The official said the US did not want any defense technology to remain in a proscribed country, whether that country can use it or not. The official said there is greater concern that Cuba could give more technically advanced countries access to the dummy.

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Input: (L-R) Anne Holton, democratic vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA), democratic presidential nominee former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Mark Cuban, U.S. Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA) and former U.S. president Bill Clinton raise arms during a campaign rally with at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center on July 30, 2016 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images "You know what we call a person like that, you know, the screamers, the yellers, the people who try to intimidate you? You know what we call a person like that in Pittsburgh? A jag-off.

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Input: One hypothetical mission included in the document, entitled "Expeditionary [Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance]/Strike Sortie Scenario," has the drone flying from a Canadian Forces base in Kandahar, Afghanistan, to scope out an insurgent base near the city. The air force straps one Hellfire missile and two laser-guided bombs to the drone, sending it to take out a white pickup truck with a mortar mounted on the back. A live video feed allows the drone operators to inspect the damage after the strike. In another scenario, the air force tasks the drone — almost certainly, without any sort of weapons onboard — to do fly-overs of a G20 summit near Quebec City." The mission is tasked to conduct surveillance of the Summit site security zone, report activities that may threaten security, assist in the monitoring of crowds and access control, and record data for legal purposes," the document reads.

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Input: After reading the “Tick Tock” email released by WikiLeaks I found that it is in fact true. It’s called the “tick tock” email, just recently released by Wikileaks. The email shows Hillary Clinton’s office outlining how Mrs. Clinton must be given full credit for what took place in Libya before and after the fall of the Gaddafi regime – a fall that resulted in a missing 1.5 billion dollars sent to Libya by Hillary Clinton, the subsequent death of four Americans, including the first U.S. ambassador to die on duty in more than thirty years, and thousands more deaths as Libya descended into anarchy. And it was all done after the House of Saud wished it so – the very same House of Saud that has “donated” millions to the Clinton Foundation and the Hillary Clinton campaign. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3463806/posts

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Input: The candidate who actually seems … normal. Laugh at me all you want. Yes, I’ll vote for a third party that is polling less than 10% right now. Yes, I’d love for a woman to be President (in fact, part of me cringes that the Libertarian ticket is composed of two old white guys), but I do n’t think Hillary is the right person. Give me the guy who has n’t waded into this giant soap opera of 2016.

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Input: GET SMART FAST: Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) now says he's not going to quit after suggesting he might earlier this week. “I will not resign,” he said. “I’m not an alcoholic, and I’m not a drug addict, and I do n’t have mental issues.

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Input: Late Sunday night a campaign spokesman said a Clinton trip to California was being scrubbed, including several high-dollar fundraisers and television appearances by the candidate. Clinton donors who had planned to attend the San Francisco fundraiser Monday were told by the campaign that the event would go on as scheduled and that attendees could expect to hear from the candidate "via teleconference." Instead Clinton now plans to stay home and prepare for the upcoming debates, while her advisers to discuss how to move beyond arguably the worst weekend of the campaign. Two people close to the campaign said Monday that Clinton will almost certainly have to release more medical records -- or do an interview on her health, specifically. She is likely to resume campaigning Wednesday, but will almost certainly not fly to Nevada, as originally planned.

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Input: Image copyright Reuters Image caption Thousands of people used bicycles to cross the Arctic border between Russia and Norway Norway has sent 13 migrants back to Russia under new rules expected to see thousands deported by bus, reports say. About 5,500 people are due to be transported from Norway to Russia. Many crossed the Arctic border by bicycle as part of the influx of migrants to Europe in 2015. Norway announced in November it would immediately deport people who had arrived from a country deemed safe.

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Input: He would n’t confirm whether such a recommendation was among those delivered to the DNC. “We give recommendations on governance, policies, technologies and crisis management,” he said. “For organizations that have not had a compromise assessment done, that is one of the things we often recommend.” It is n’t certain a breach assessment would have spotted the hackers, according to Barron-DiCamillo, but it would have increased the chances. “Why spend the money to have Good Harbor come in and do the recommendations and then not act on them?,” she asked.

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Input: Go look at the graves of the brave patriots who died defending America – you will see all faiths, genders and ethnicities. You have sacrificed nothing and no one.” Khan also noted that Trump’s proposals, which include a return to torture and the killing of families whose relatives are suspected of terrorism, would violate basic principles of the constitution. The immigration ban would have prevented his family from settling in the US, he said, and his son from joining the army. That was “only half” of the speech, Khan said on Friday night on MSNBC’s The Last Word.

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Input: In addition to not requiring the statement be made under oath, it does not require two witnesses, or one witness with corroboration. Clearly, both statutes criminalize lies (intentional and knowing false statements) before a committee of Congress. The hard evidence, however, shows that Hillary Clinton did not lie, rather those charging her have distorted her testimony, or claimed she had information she simply did not have at the time she testified. It is pretty ugly stuff, made even uglier because it is being promoted by two high ranking Republican chairmen who are, the facts show, trying to frame her. So let me explain what I found with each of their charges.

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Input: “For the Pentagon to so blatantly follow the White House’s politics first approach is a depressing commentary on this administration’s utter disregard for our national security needs,” he said in a statement. Rep. Joe Wilson Joe WilsonOPINION: We must reject toxic rhetoric after violence in Virginia Labor Department falters on fiduciary rule House lawmakers pitch ban on North Korean tourism MORE (R-S.C.) said he was disappointed as a veteran. “As the son of a veteran, the father of four sons who have served in the military, and a veteran myself, I am deeply disappointed that our commander in chief would threaten to use a veto of the National Defense Authorization Act as a ‘weapon’ against Speaker Paul Ryan and congressional Republicans,” he said in a statement. Rep. Bradley Byrne (R-Ala.) said the memo is part of the administration’s history of politicizing defense issues. “The Obama administration has a track record of using our military men and women as pawns in their political game, but this memo makes clear they have no shame in doing so,” he said in a statement.

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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: The Daily Banter recently reported that "according to an exclusive CNN report, sources familiar with the FBI probe of Clinton's private e-mail server are saying that as the investigation nears the end, so far ' investigators haven't found evidence to prove that Clinton willfully violated the law. '" However," sources familiar with the FBI probe "does not mean the FBI. It simply means the same anonymous sources Fox News quotes (saying Clinton will end up in jail after this investigating is over) have been asked their opinion." Sources familiar "with Saddam Hussein helped Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld justify the Iraq War, so we know why this type of journalism leads to chaos. Ultimately, the only recent facts that can't be disputed involve Huma Abedin and other top Clinton aides being interviewed by the FBI.

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Input: This is not to suggest that in similar circumstances a person engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary. Those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions but that's not what we're deciding now. As a result. Although the Department of Justice makes final decisions on matters like this we are expressing to justice our view.

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Input: And empowered Trump, the only politician who has refused to be cowed by the epithet. Practically, I think people who support Trump on these grounds are off base in many directions. For one thing, they’re too late; the demography of the country has probably already shifted too far to make restricting immigration, or winning elections on such a platform, possible. I doubt that Trump would find either the money or the popular support for his wall readily forthcoming, or for the kind of massive police operation that would be required to deport the people already here illegally. And I doubt that his commitment to restricting immigration is much more than skin deep, so I’d expect this issue to get dropped in the face of congressional opposition.

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Input: Were all of the flight capital returned and invested smartly it would reduce human misery by raising living standards, especially by reducing child mortality while increasing both health status and life expectancy. Kleptocrats and their retainers are not the only sources of flight wealth. A small portion belongs to business people who keep some of their wealth offshore for fear it will be confiscated. The weaker the laws to protect property, the greater the share of honest wealth titled offshore. There are only “inadequate protection of assets in these countries,” Henry said.

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Input: Indeed, Hillary Clinton, a neocon favorite at this point, reiterated her call for a no-fly zone as recently as April during a televised debate with Bernie Sanders. Obama has opposed a no-fly zone because it would draw the U.S. into a direct conflict with the Assad government and likely its Russian and Iranian backers as well. But now with the U.S. promising to continue patrolling the skies over Hasakah, he finds himself backing into a no-fly zone regardless. The confrontation begs the question of who is really calling the shots with regard to Syria, the President or well-placed hawks whose specialty is maneuvering the White House into doing their bidding. It also raises the question of the role of the Clinton presidential campaign.

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Input: The Trump Foundation still gives out small, scattered gifts — which seem driven by the demands of Trump’s businesses and social life, rather than by a desire to support charitable causes. The foundation makes a few dozen donations a year, usually in amounts from $ 1,000 to $ 50,000. It gives to charities that rent Trump’s ballrooms. It gives to charities whose leaders buttonholed Trump on the golf course (and then try, in vain, to get him to offer a repeat donation the next year). It even gives in situations in which Trump publicly put himself on the hook for a donation — as when he promised a gift “out of my wallet” on NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice.” The Trump Foundation paid off most of those on-air promises.

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Input: In 2010, Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren said that during the first two years of the Obama-Clinton administration, “Israel’s ties with the United States” had reached “their worst crisis since 1975 … a crisis of historic proportions. ”60 Some may recall how Mrs. Clinton betrayed Israel in the aftermath of an infamous 2010 incident where terrorist members of a Turkish organization known as the IHH — which has ties to Hamas, Al Qaeda, and the Muslim Brotherhood — participated in a six-ship flotilla of pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel activists who sailed to Gaza for the purpose of breaking Israel’s naval “blockade” there. (That “blockade” was, in reality, a policy whereby Israel insisted on examining all imports passing through Gaza, so as to prevent the ruling Hamas government, which has sworn its permanent allegiance to the destruction of Israel and the genocide of Jews, from importing weaponry from abroad). The flotilla’s lead ship was owned and operated by IHH. When its crew refused to comply with repeated Israeli demands that it submit to an inspection of its cargo, Israeli commandos boarded the vessel and were violently attacked by IHH terrorists.

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Input: Embed Put-Downs and Comebacks: The Best Zingers From Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton 1:26 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog While many newspaper headlines reported a Clinton victory, however, Russia's top three Kremlin-controlled television channels remained neutral. Channel One, Rossiya-1 and NTV, which serve as the country's main source of information, simply reported the debate was heated while refraining from giving favor to either candidate. Trump has spoken favorably about Russian President Vladimir Putin during his campaign, as well as inviting Russia to find and release Clinton’s emails — later claiming he was joking. Related: Six Key Moments of the First Presidential Debate

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Input: The DNC email hack forced former committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign. (Photo by Reuters) Just two years ago, the US imposed sanctions on individuals in the Russian government and on its business sector after Russia invaded and annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula." The US government could add some of the senior [Russian intelligence] officers to the financial sanctions list, or evict the [intelligence] liaison officer from the Washington, DC embassy," said Matt Tait, a cybersecurity expert and former information security specialist at GCHQ, the British equivalent of the NSA." All of those would send a message that this isn't okay, without actually responding in kind."

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Input: No matter who occupies the White House in 2017, the president will have to deal with the Middle East, just like every president since Franklin Roosevelt. Now whatever the candidates state on the campaign trail will mean nothing, and will fall to the harsh reality of the complexities of the Middle East come January 2017! In the entire debate on how to defeat ISIS it’s always about how to annihilate them with the militarily, or ‘we need to defeat them’ without ever identifying all the other players in the region, their complex tensions, and the diverse prospects which lie at the heart of the conflict. No matter what course of action the candidates take, a vast majority of the ISIS fighters will eventually survive to fight another day, and then other violent Islamic extremist groups will fill the vacuum; such as the Al Nusra or Al Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula. Quoting two of the most famous military strategists in history; Sun Tzu stated that, “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting,” and Clausewitz stated, “War is not a mere act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political activity by other means.”

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Input: She will deliver on this goal with continue investments in the Connect America Fund, Rural Utilities Service program, and Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), and by directing federal agencies to consider the full range of technologies as potential recipients — i.e., fiber, fixed wireless, and satellite — while focusing on areas that lack any fixed broadband networks currently. Hillary also backs the FCC’s decision to extend Lifeline support to broadband, and she will work to connect this policy with community-based programs that help citizens with enrollment, offer digital literacy training and expand access to low-cost devices. Launch a “Model Digital Communities” Grant Program: By leveraging the $ 25 billion Infrastructure Bank she plans to establish, Hillary will create a new competitive grant program to give cities, regions, and states incentives to create a “model digital community.” The end goal is simple: encourage localities to undertake actions that foster greater access to high-speed internet for their residents at affordable prices – whether through fiber, wireless, satellite, or other technologies. Regions would come forward with proposals, and grants would be awarded based on impact assessment. Qualifying proposals might seek to:

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Input: Labor Day, which falls on Sept. 5 this year, marks the end of U.S. summer vacations and traditionally launches the final phase of the long U.S. election season." As for Mr. Trump, he needs to stop blaming everyone else and decide if he wants to behave like someone who wants to be president-or turn the nomination over to Mike Pence," it said, referring to the Indiana governor, who is Trump's vice presidential running mate. Adding to Trump's woes this week was the news, first reported by The New York Times, that the name of his campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was on secret ledgers showing cash payments designated to him of more than $ 12 million from a Ukrainian political party with close ties to Russia. Manafort denied any impropriety in a statement on Monday." I have never received a single ' off-the-books cash payment ' as falsely ' reported ' by The New York Times, nor have I ever done work for the governments of Ukraine or Russia," he said.

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Input: Bill Clinton signed into law the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, while Hillary Clinton praised the move. Bernie Sanders warned Congress against repealing it, and his warnings came to fruition in 2008 with the economic collapse. Most recently, Sanders’ warnings against the Panama Free Trade Agreement solidify his record of being right when it matters, and that is what qualifies him to be President of the United States. [Photo: Andrew Renneisen / Getty Images]

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Input: Luckily, we’ve managed to get a glimpse of where they might go. Additional commercial satellite imagery also reviewed by the National Interest shows similar construction activity at sites at Brest and Grodno. New drive-through launch revetments typically associated with the S-300 were constructed since 2014. The construction activity in Grodno, also located at an early warning (EW) radar site, was still ongoing in 2016. However, recent imagery from May showed a single battalion of six TELs deployed at the EW site, adjacent to the new launch revetments.

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Input: I call it extreme, extreme vetting.” Current U.S. naturalization law requires adherence to “the principles of the Constitution of the United States” and rejects advocates of a variety of ideological positions, and those with proclivities, in the judgment of immigration officials, to commit various crimes. In a semantic softening of his previous position restricting immigrants or visitors from Muslim -majority countries, Trump said he would “temporarily suspend immigration from some of the most dangerous and volatile regions of the world that have a history of exporting terrorism.” As he has in the past, Trump said he would keep open the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that Obama has unsuccessfully tried to close for more than seven years. “Drone strikes will remain part of our strategy, but we will also seek to capture high-value targets to gain needed information to dismantle their organizations.

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Input: Navalny said the man later had to be hospitalized. Five others, including Navalny himself, also suffered injuries. Cossack paramilitaries, who style themselves as conservative patriots, helped Russia annex Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. Cossack militia members also attacked the Pussy Riot punk group with whips and teargas at the Winter Olympics host city of Sochi in 2014 as they tried to perform a song mocking Vladimir Putin. Navalny, 39, who has accused top government officials from the president downwards of graft, is one of the most high profile leaders of the country's small liberal opposition and the founder of Russia's Anti-corruption Foundation.

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Input: Hosko noted that commitment of resources by the FBI to extradite Guccifer to the U.S. with the cooperation of Romania is significant. A review of recent federal cases by Fox News found that Guccifer’s extradition appears to be an outlier. Hackers typically are extradited in the event of major financial theft, such as a 2013 case where three Romanian men stole in excess of $ 2 million in a cyber-fraud ring – and not in cases involving a breach of personal privacy. 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. Herridge joined FNC in 1996 as a London-based correspondent.

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Input: At least 30 soldiers have been killed in fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, officials of both countries said, each blaming the other for violence. Azerbaijan said in a statement on Saturday that Armenian forces had killed 12 of its soldiers and shot down a helicopter in the fighting, which broke out overnight. Armenian President Serzh Sarkisian said that 18 of his country's soldiers had been killed and 35 wounded, not specifying if the soldiers belonged to Yerevan-backed separatist forces in Karabakh or Armenia's armed forces. READ MORE: Azeri-Armenian enmity and citizen diplomacy "Active combat is currently under way," Armenian Defence Ministry spokesperson Artsrun Hovhannisyan said on Facebook.

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Input: The debate over the transition centers on internet freedom and the United States ' international interests." This is a solution in search of a problem that poses real risks to the liberties of Americans," Cruz said." Imagine an internet run like many Middle Eastern countries that punish what they deem to be blasphemy, or imagine an internet run like China or Russia, [which] punish and incarcerate those who engage in political dissent." However, proponents of the transition argue that such fears are unrealistic and rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the IANA function, which "is too limited in scope to be a tool for protecting internet freedom," NTIA Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling said." No one controls the internet. … To claim otherwise is simply not true, and people who really understand the internet know it is not true."

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Input: In response to the report, Defense Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said that Russian aircraft do not use cluster bombs and insisted that Moscow doesn't even operate an airbase in Khmeimim. The 2010 Convention on Cluster Munitions prohibits the use of cluster bombs. However, the world’s largest manufacturers of this weapon — namely Russia, the United States, and China — have refused to ratify the treaty.

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Input: But the proposal will likely not arrive before November's elections, as the trade deal has emerged as a top issue on the presidential trail, where both Republican Donald Trump Donald TrumpLewandowski near ' high six-figure book deal ': report GOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Overnight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data MORE and Democrat Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonGOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Trump seeks tech's help for government IT overhaul What do Democrats stand for? MORE say they're dead set against it. Obama's move is a clear indication that the president, far from bowing to liberal pressure, will instead push full-throttle to try to pass the enormous 12-nation agreement — the largest in U.S. history — before he leaves office. And the liberal critics aren't giving much credence to Ryan's recent suggestion that he won't act on the TPP because it lacks the votes to pass." You can trust but you have to verify," DeLauro told The Hill Thursday, referring to Ryan.

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

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Input: Can you imagine how this will change the course of the election?! It’s something that many have wondered since the attack on Benghazi, and it could completely destroy Hillary’s campaign to be President. But does this mean that the Russians are now determining how our elections will go? There’s a lot of reason to believe that Wikileaks is just a Russian espionage operation, which raises even greater concerns about the integrity of our elections.

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Input: It calls for “no daylight between America and Israel” and guarantees Israel a qualitative military edge. It recognizes “Jerusalem as the eternal and indivisible capital of the Jewish state” and calls for the American embassy to be moved there. It denounces the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement as anti-Semitic and calls for legislation to prevent the boycotting of Israel or “the Israeli-controlled territories.” In February 2016, Trump said that the United States should remain “neutral” between Israel and the Palestinians so as to be in a position to broker a deal between the two sides. But he quickly withdrew that, saying that “Palestinians must come to the table knowing that the bond between the United States and Israel is absolutely, totally unbreakable,” that he would move the U.S. embassy to “the eternal capital of the Jewish people,” Jerusalem, and that Hillary Clinton and Obama had “treated Israel very, very badly.”

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Input: The war has become the longest in U.S. history, and the Taliban remains a threat to the sovereignty of Afghanistan. The U.S. military has suffered 2,384 fatalities in the war, though the yearly count has fallen dramatically, from a high of 499 in 2010 to six so far this year, according to iCasualties.org. As the United States tries to withdraw from Afghanistan, the Obama administration has requested $ 44 billion for 2017 military operations there, which includes funding for combat and shoring up the Afghan army’s fight against the Taliban and other extremist groups. While U.S. and NATO forces have largely left Afghanistan, any hopes for a complete withdrawal have proven to be false. “Fifteen years of conflict has shown there are limits to U.S. ambitions in stabilizing Afghanistan,” said Faisel Pervaiz, a South Asia analyst for Stratfor.

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Input: "Yes, Russia invaded Georgia, and, yes, there is a lot more to the story." Law professor Kenneth Anderson at American University put a lot of weight on the rest of the story. Right after the ceasefire, Anderson urged western powers to push back hard against Russian expansionism. But he reminded people of the ethnic cleansing that took place at the hands of Georgian nationalists in the 1990s, saying it was as extreme as anything he had seen in the war in the former Yugoslavia." The facts of South Ossetia and Abkhazia are not simply a narrative of Russia stirring up trouble in an otherwise untroubled corner of the world," Anderson wrote in a 2008 article.

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Input: While the investigation continues, authorities have launched a criminal case into the “illegal entrepreneurial activity” of the church’s members. Russian news agencies reported that a number of members of the church were brought in for questioning. At least 10 were reportedly detained in St. Petersburg. Scientologists receive revenue by providing “consultation services” in fields such as education, “without any official registration,” therefore evading taxes, a source in the security services told RIA. READ MORE: Moscow-based Church of Scientology allegedly spied on visitors-report

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Input: In February, Russia's Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Karlov said Turkish exports to Russia fell by two-thirds soon after the jet incident. In November 2015, a Russian pilot died when his plane was shot down over Syria by a Turkish fighter. Following the incident, Moscow introduced a package of economic measures against Ankara – a visa regime, travel ban, as well as an embargo on agricultural products and on hiring Turkish nationals. All major projects were also frozen.

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Input: IG Steve Linick said during a House hearing last week that Clinton’s team declined an interview request and referred him to her “fact sheet.” (RELATED: State Dept. IG Report Deals Clinton Devastating Blow) Do You Think Hillary Clinton Will Be A More Dishonest President Than Obama If Elected? Yes No Login with your social identity to vote Thanks for participating in this survey, in order to vote you must register with your email address. Sign out.

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Input: _ _ _ 7 a.m. Voting in the 2016 election is getting underway. Advance voting is beginning Friday in North Carolina — the first of 37 states that will allow balloting by mail for any reason or in person before Election Day, which is Nov. 8. It's part of a nearly nine-week campaign frenzy during which millions of voters will have the ability to fill out a ballot for the 2016 presidential race.

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Input: Snowden criticized the NSA’s penchant for secrecy, adding, “The aversion to sharing # NSA evidence is fear of revealing ‘sources and methods’ of intel collection, but # XKEYSCORE is now publicly known.” Snowden argued that publicizing the consequences of insidious data hacking clear is the best national defense. “Without a credible threat that USG can and will use # NSA capabilities to publicly attribute responsibility, such hacks will become common,” he tweeted, adding, “This is the only case in which mass surveillance has actually proven effective. Though I oppose in principle, it is a mistake to ignore.” Authors:

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Input: However, Dole became Bush's chief defender in the Senate and was instrumental in supporting Bush on foreign and domestic affairs. In the present election, Bernie Sanders has gone from political obscurity to a cult figure in progressive circles. Should Hillary be elected President, Sanders will likely be a constant presence, urging her to pursue a progressive agenda. In fact, Sanders could become her chief antagonist should she govern as a centrist. He could also be her chief exponent should she act as a progressive Democrat.

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Input: GET SMART FAST: President Obama and Vladimir Putin agreed to expand diplomatic and military cooperation to implement a cease-fire and aid delivery in Syria. On a call between the two this weekend, Obama stressed the importance of “rapidly implementing humanitarian access” to besieged areas, and urged the Russian president to cease air campaigns against moderate Syrian opposition forces. (Karen DeYoung) … Meanwhile, the violence on the ground in Syria continued: Turkey shelled positions held by a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia for the second day in a row. (AP) Saudi Arabia launched a massive military exercise that will include troops from 20 nations, to project strength in the face of an ascendant Iran.

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Input: KIEV, UKRAINE — Nationalist demonstrators in Ukraine on Saturday attacked two offices of Russian banks in the capital amid observances of the second anniversary of the protests that brought down the Russia-friendly president. Demonstrators threw rocks through windows at the offices of Alfa Bank and Sberbank and damaged furniture and equipment inside. Protesters also vandalized the offices of the holding company of Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov. Police did not intervene. Tens of thousands of people in the Ukrainian capital came to various observances of the “Day of the Heavenly Hundred.” The term refers to those who died during the months of protests in Kyiv that culminated with President Viktor Yanukovych fleeing.

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Input: Editor-In-Chief Jim Impoco noted that the attack came as the story earned national attention. “Last night we were on the receiving end of what our IT chief called a ‘massive’ DoS (denial of service) attack,” Impoco wrote in an email to TPM. “The site was down most of last evening, at a time when Kurt Eichenwald’s story detailing how Donald Trump’s company broke the law by violating the U.S. trade embargo against Cuba was being covered extensively by prominent cable news programs. Our IT team is still investigating the hack.” Later Friday afternoon, Impoco emailed TPM that in an initial investigation, the “main” IP addresses linked to the attack were found to be Russian.

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Input: Women sat on the side of the road holding babies and waiting to be allowed into Turkey. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said 15,000 people fleeing Aleppo had arrived at Turkey's border. Rights group Amnesty International urged the country to let in those fleeing the latest violence." It feels like a siege of Aleppo is about to begin," said David Evans, Middle East program director for the U.S. aid agency Mercy Corps, which said the most direct humanitarian route to Aleppo had been severed." The situation in Aleppo is a humanitarian catastrophe,” said an opposition spokesman still in Geneva after the ill-fated peace talks.

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Input: Marine reserve, covering an area of 1.55 square kilometres, will be the biggest in the world. The world's biggest marine park is to be be created in the Antarctic Ocean, covering a massive 1.55 million sq km, after a "momentous" agreement was finally reached by 24 countries and the EU. The deal, sealed on Friday in Hobart, Australia, after years of negotiations and with Russia dropping its long-held opposition, will see a massive US and New Zealand-backed marine protected area established in the Ross Sea. The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources said the Ross Sea marine park would be protected from commercial fishing for 35 years.

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Input: North Korea's supreme (farm) leader Trump presidency could cost U.S. economy $ 1 trillion: Oxford Economics Israeli aircraft attack Syrian army position "Our intention is to secure the strongest possible (U.N. Security Council) resolution that includes new sanctions as quickly as possible," Kim told a news briefing after meeting his South Korean counterpart. He said the United States would work with China, North Korea's major diplomatic ally, to close loopholes in existing resolutions, which were tightened with Beijing's backing in March.

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Input: In Arizona, a state that has voted Democratic once in nearly 70 years but has a growing Hispanic population, his lead has slipped to 44% to 42%. Marco Rubio: women with Zika should not be allowed abortions Read more Trump’s broader polling numbers have plummeted in a period during which, among other controversies, he again refused to release his taxes, insulted the family of a war hero, claimed that Russia had not invaded Ukraine – two years after it had, said his daughter should “find another company” if sexually harassed and briefly claimed to have seen a nonexistent video of cash shipments to Iran. Republicans have tried to tie Clinton’s foreign policy to that money, $ 400 m owed to pre-revolutionary Iran for a failed arms deal in the 1970s, describing it as “ransom” for hostages who were freed in January, around the time of delivery and sanctions relief for a nuclear arms deal. Clinton began tentative nuclear talks with Iran but the money dispute predated her and was concluded by her successor as secretary of state, John Kerry, who also oversaw the hostage release.

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Input: Laura says that Mahony offered Justo a deal: confess and plead guilty, and PetroSaudi will get you out of here by the end of the year. Justo reluctantly agreed. He signed a confession – without a lawyer present – which claimed that he had attempted to blackmail his former employers, and apologised to Mahony and Obaid “for the harm stress and anxiety I caused them”. According to Laura, a man who claimed to be a Scotland Yard detective – and later told her he had been hired by PetroSaudi – took down Justo’s confession. (PetroSaudi told the Guardian that Justo had “illegally obtained commercially sensitive, confidential and private documentation” and was in prison for “blackmail and extortion”.)

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Input: That’s not delusional. That’s a fact.” Approximately 250,000 people trapped in rebel-held east Aleppo have been subjected to intense bombing since Thursday which has destroyed civilian infrastructure such as emergency response clinics and left almost 500 people dead, activists on the ground say. Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and Russian leader Vladimir Putin have ignored pleas from the West and besieged residents to cease the campaign, which civilians report has included napalm, cluster bombs, and incendiary devices. Several countries, and Nato, have said the attacks amount to war crimes.

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Input: Both Frank and Schloss were Jewish refugees in Amsterdam together and the pair played together as children until their families were forced into hiding in 1942. After the war, Otto Frank (Anne’s father) married Fritzi (Eva’s mother). Eva Schloss is the co-founder of the Anne Frank Trust UK and the author of several books about her experiences during the Holocaust. The theme of this year’s Holocaust Memorial Day is “Do n’t stand by”. This is particularly important now with the refugee crisis going on as more people than ever are being bystanders.

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Input: “A Clinton administration will not shrink from making clear to the world exactly what the Assad regime is,” he told The Telegraph. US diplomats criticise Obama's Syria policy in memo “It is a murderous regime that violates human rights; that has violated international law; used chemical weapons against his own people; has killed hundreds of thousands of people, including tens of thousands of children.” Barack Obama, David Cameron and international allies were vocal with their criticism of the Syrian government’s human rights abuses and war crimes at the start of the conflict in 2011 and the UK almost launched an intervention against Assad two years later. But following the rise of the so-called Islamic State and links between its Syrian bases and attacks in France and Belgium, calls for the President’s removal have been drowned out by a move towards co-operation in the fight against global terrorism.

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Input: The $ 800 billion stimulus was unpopular. But the huge bill touched nearly every aspect of American life in a positive way. It saved the jobs of hundreds of thousands of state and local government workers (including first responders), cut taxes on the middle class, accelerated the transition to clean energy, hastened electronic medical record-keeping, incentivized accountability in public education (through the Department of Education's "Race to the Top") and began the rapid expansion of college loans, among hundreds of other investments. The 2010 Dodd-Frank bill, while too modest, sharply increased regulation of Wall Street and lessened the chance of another crash and bailout. It also included Elizabeth Warren's proposed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has labored quietly and successfully on behalf of ordinary people victimized by predatory lenders.

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Input: I already have my ticket. I literally bought my ticket, I swear ' 5/8 Cher ' If he were to be elected, I'm moving to Jupiter ' 6/8 Neve Campbell ' I’m terrified. It’s really scary.

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Input: Just because we do n’t have a constitutional mandate for it does n’t mean we ca n’t build an evenly balanced tribunal, controlled by neither party, to investigate and resolve all claims of electoral fraud that might arise in a presidential election — the kind of institution that Madison himself came to recognize as missing. We would join Canada and Australia, countries that also inherited their legal systems from Britain, in creating such a body. In fact, even for this election, it’s not too late: Much like Minnesota did, the U.S. Supreme Court could create special three-judge panel, ideally agreed to by both candidates, that could advise the court in any case involving the presidential election. Long-term, we could put this kind of impartial tribunal on a more permanent footing by means of a constitutional amendment. As difficult as that would be, the legitimacy of the highest office is at stake.

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Input: ' The Americans ' wars, the Syrian war, Germany helps pay for all of this stupidity. ' The child protection services are so quick to take children away from their parents. They get paid to do it, and it's almost like child trafficking .. We were worried it would happen to us. ' And the children are sexualised far too early through clothes and pictures and books. There's no way to fight against it.

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Input: Stein thinks Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning are heroes and would end the Obama administration’s attacks on whistleblowers who reveal government wrongdoing. Clinton falsely asserted that Snowden "could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower" and supported Manning’s prosecution; she appears likely to continue Obama’s secretive and anti-democratic policies in matters of national security. Stein calls for electoral reforms, such as "equal access to the debates [for] all ballot-qualified candidates" and ranked-choice voting, that make it easier to vote, reduce the influence of money in politics, and eliminate barriers for less wealthy and well-known candidates to win elections. Clinton calls for some electoral reforms as well, but she does n’t go nearly as far as Stein and is n’t a particularly credible advocate against money in politics, given the arguments she and her supporters have made to defend the donations she’s received. On practically every issue social justice advocates say we care about — from addressing poverty to providing a path to citizenship for immigrants to regulating Wall Street to raising taxes on the wealthy to establishing education as a right — Stein is much more with us ideologically than is Clinton.

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Input: Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Does Trump devalue golf properties to avoid taxes? 02:50 In an example of how complicated Trump's business holdings are, the candidate paused during remarks about Chinese currency manipulation at the Economic Club in New York Thursday to add a thought -- that he "likes China" because it rents a lot of condos. Podesta also raised Newsweek's description of Trump's stymied efforts to get more of a toehold in India's market, wondering aloud if Trump's would "come down harder on Pakistan to win favor with the Indian government." "These are decisions affecting countries with nuclear weapons," Podesta said.

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Input: I guess this isn'tsurprising, but as the big legal fight heated up this week between Apple and the Justice Department over whether or not Apple can be forced to create a backdoor to let the FBI access the contents of Syed Farook's iPhone, all of the major Presidential candidates have weighed in ... and they're all wrong. Donald Trump is getting the most attention. Starting earlier this week he kept saying that Apple should just do what the FBI wants, and then he kicked it up a notch this afternoon saying that everyone should boycott Apple until it gives in to the FBI. Apparently, Trump doesn't even have the first clue about the actual issue at stake, in terms of what a court can compel a company to do, and what it means for our overall security. Meanwhile, most of the other candidates didn't go as far, but tried to stupidly pretend there was some sort of compromise between the two positions. Bernie Sanders did the "on the one hand / on the other hand / I won't actually take a stand" thing: If you think there's a "middle ground" you don't understand the issue. Hillary Clinton did the same thing, trying to straddle the line by admitting a backdoor sounds problematic, but really, if the nerds just nerd harder, can't they figure something out: Again, the thing that they don't get is that the "nerd problem" here is: How can you make a security vulnerability that only can be used by the good guys?

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Input: “In each case, the appeal filed by the IAAF has been upheld and the decision issued by the disciplinary anti-doping committee of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency for each athlete has been modified.” Kirdyapkin sees his competitive results from August 20th 2009 to October 15th 2012 wiped from the record books, with Bakulin losing his results from February 25th 2011 to December 24th 2012, Kaniskina from August 15th 2009 to October 15th 2012, Valeriy Borchin from August 14th to October 15th 2012, Vladimir Kanaikin from February 25th 2011 to December 17th 2012, and Zaripova from July 20th 2011 to July 25th 2013. Kanaikin had been handed a life ban by RUSADA but CAS replaced that with an eight-year suspension, it announced in a statement. Australian Jared Tallent can expect to be named as the men’s 50 km Olympic champion from 2012, having taken silver in London. He wrote on Twitter: “History has been rewritten ....

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Input: Clinton predicted she could work Putin for peace. This is a major break from the Obama administration thinking, and an odd statement for a former secretary of state to make. Russia would later annex Crimea and force the U.S. Army to begin stepping up NATO training exercises in Europe. In 2013, Clinton assured a moneyed audience she and Putin got along." I last saw [Russian President Vladimir Putin] in Vladivostok where I represented President Obama in September for the Asia-Pacific economic community.

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Input: The U.N. has been seeking access to 17 rebel-held areas that are surrounded by Syrian government forces and their allies. Kerry and his counterparts from Russia, Iran and other countries involved in Syria had set a June 1 deadline for Syria to open up aid routes or accept air deliveries of food and other supplies. U.N. officials say they need Syria's cooperation for that, too, and aid workers say airdrops, when helicopters bring in supplies, are riskier and less efficient than ground operations." What is clear is that there are too many hurdles, too many processes, through which the U.N. and its humanitarian partners need to jump through to get aid to those who need it," says U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric." We shouldn't be in a position to have to negotiate for every convoy.

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Input: Advertisement Continue reading the main story Mr. Mateen bought the two weapons used in the attack just this month, officials said. When he went to buy those guns after having come under investigation, “one would have liked to have known about it,” Ms. Yates said.

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Input: Lewis and Rosemary Owen, and their son Lewis-named after his father-were kicked and punched during an assault by a gang during celebrations for the Thai New Year. The couple are believed to be 68 and 65 and have been named by neighbours from Wenvoe, in the vale of Glamorgan in Wales. CCTV footage leaked online shows the attackers punch and kick the victims in the busy Soi Bintabaht district. When Ms Owen tries to sit up she is brutally kicked in the head and collapses. Thai officials have said the men were under the influence of alcohol and reportedly "sorry" for the attack.

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Input: Executives at those companies have also contributed heavily to Clinton's presidential campaign, complicating her attempts to attack the pharmaceutical industry as a political "enemy" akin to Republicans. The Clinton Foundation boasts of the four million patients who gained access to HIV drugs through its work negotiating pharmaceutical contracts. A separate nonprofit, the Clinton Health Access Initiative, claims to have helped 11.5 million patients obtain the treatments. Neither of those figures matches the nine million patients Clinton cited during her interview. The Clinton Health Access is just one of several charities operating within the sprawling philanthropic network known as the Clinton Foundation.

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Input: NATO was set up when we were a richer country. We’re not a rich country. We’re borrowing, we’re borrowing all of this money. We’re borrowing money from China, which is a sort of an amazing situation. But things are a much different thing.

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Input: Meanwhile, Ohio and Pennsylvania are fracking away, and creating jobs and energy. The admission that Clinton tried to spread fracking worldwide -- but not in her home state of New York -- is possibly more controversial than any other admission about the subject. Sanders supporter Susan Sarandon, the actress, said a key reason she didn't support Clinton was that she traveled the world and advocated the energy production process, which cracks open parts of the earth to release natural gas and oil. The process is also hated by New Yorker Yoko Ono and son Sean Lennon, who wrote," Don't Frack My Mother." As for the opposition to the process, Clinton -- in a familiar refrain -- told another business group that it was the Russians who were whipping up opposition.

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Input: "It just leads us into an area where smoke is a major contributor to the incident, either by destroying the aircraft's equipment or suffocating the pilots," he told the AP. Looking for clues to whether terrorists may have brought down the Airbus A320, investigators have been poring over the passenger list and questioned ground crew members at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, from which the plane took off. The aircraft had been cruising normally in clear skies on a nighttime flight to Cairo early Thursday when it suddenly lurched left, then right, spun all the way around and plummeted 38,000 feet into the sea, never issuing a distress signal. The first available audio from the doomed flight indicates that all was routine as the pilot checked in with air traffic controllers in Zurich, Switzerland, around midnight, before being handed over to Italian air traffic controllers in Padua (Padova): Pilot- "This is 0-7-2-5 Padova control. (Unintelligible) 8-0-4.

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Input: An easing of data privacy laws and a restriction of public access to pharmaceutical companies’ clinical trials are also thought to be on the cards AFP / Getty Images 5/6 Jobs The EU has admitted that TTIP will probably cause unemployment as jobs switch to the US, where labour standards and trade union rights are lower. It has even advised EU members to draw on European support funds to compensate for the expected unemployment. Examples from other similar bi-lateral trade agreements around the world support the case for job losses. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between the US, Canada and Mexico caused the loss of one million US jobs over 12 years, instead of the hundreds of thousands of extra that were promised Dave Thompson / Getty Images

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Input: At a news conference after the meeting, Kirill said the discussions were "open" and "brotherly", while Francis described them as "very sincere"." We hope our meeting contributes to the re-establishment of this unity wished for by God," their joint declaration said. The document called on the world community to defend Christians, saying that "in many countries of the Middle East and North Africa whole families, villages and cities of our brothers and sisters in Christ are being completely exterminated." "Their churches are being barbarously ravaged and looted, their sacred objects profaned, their monuments destroyed." At the scene: BBC's Oleg Boldyrev

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Input: In an interview with Al Jazeera, the Turkish president says the country's democracy is not under threat. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has insisted Turkish democracy is not under threat, but said there could be more arrests in the wake of last week's failed coup attempt, in a wide-ranging interview with Al Jazeera." We will remain inside a democratic parliamentary system, we will never step back from it," he told Al Jazeera's Jamal Elshayyal, speaking through a translator, from inside the presidential palace in Ankara." However, whatever is necessary for the nation's peace and stability will be done," Erdogan said, expressing doubts that the coup attempt was entirely over.

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Input: The 28-nation EU imposed its Crimea sanctions in July 2014 and then tightened them in December 2014, banning EU citizens from buying or financing companies in Crimea, whose annexation has prompted the worst East-West stand-off since the Cold War. After Russia's annexation of Crimea, an armed separatist revolt erupted in mainly Russian-speaking eastern Ukraine that Kiev and its Western backers said was fueled and funded by Moscow. Russia denies the charges. (Reporting by Robin Emmott; Additional reporting by Dmitry Solovyov in Moscow; Editing by Gareth Jones)

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Input: American officials estimate that, with an influx of men from Iraq, Syria and Tunisia, the Islamic State’s forces in the country have swelled to as many as 6,500 fighters, allowing the group to capture a 150-mile stretch of coastline over the past year. It has mounted attacks on the oil facilities that account for most of Libya’s wealth. “The last thing in the world you want is a false caliphate with access to billions of dollars of oil revenue,” Mr. Kerry warned at a meeting of the 23-nation coalition against the Islamic State on Feb. 2 in Rome. For weeks, American and allied Western officials have mulled a possible air campaign against the Islamic State in Libya, particularly around its de facto headquarters in Surt. Libyan officials and news media outlets have reported the presence of American, French, British and Italian special forces units in the country in recent weeks, ostensibly on reconnaissance missions and to liaise with local militias.

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Input: Free the Delegates has taken the lead in that effort while the complementary Delegates Unbound group urges the RNC to cut off all financial support to the Trump campaign. The odds of either effort succeeding are low but for the anti-Trump dissenters, desperate times require desperate measures and conscience demands action. Democrats have ignored the opportunity to replace the increasingly damaged Clinton with a qualified and vetted candidate readily at hand, such as Vice President Joseph Biden or Secretary of State John Kerry John KerryTillerson: ' My view did n’t change ' on Paris climate agreement CORRECTED: Three members of Mueller's team have donated to Democrats Kerry: New Iran sanctions may be dangerous MORE. History will judge which party has taken the more responsible course during this unpredictable, unprecedented, and increasingly parlous presidential election. Joseph Bosco served in the office of the Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush.

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Input: It remains unclear if the Obama administration’s hold will affect a tranche of cluster bombs poised for shipment to Saudi Arabia, or simply all future requests. The United States concluded a contract for the manufacture of 1,300 CBU-105 weapons to Saudi Arabia in 2013. The final shipment of such weapons can take years to complete, but U.S. officials have repeatedly refused to clarify if the order’s final tranche was delivered. “Textron Systems does not comment on delivery dates with our customers,” said Matthew Colpitts, a spokesman for Textron Systems. The Saudi Embassy in Washington did not respond to a request for comment.

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Input: Again, these are easily verifiable facts that have been widely reported, are central to Ms. Qiu’s narrative, and yet she completely ignores them. Politifact Claim: FACT: Politifact is confusing commitments to donate with the actual dates of donations. Politifact Claim: “Third, most of their Clinton Foundation donations occurred before and during Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential bid, before she could have known she would become secretary of state.” FACT: The absurdity of this statement boggles the mind.

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Input: US State Department spokesman John Kirby said last week that the Kurdish fighters "have been some of the most successful" in fighting Islamic State jihadists inside Syria. He said the United States had supported the Kurdish fighters, mostly with air power," and that support will continue." Turkey last year claimed killing dozens of PKK fighters and destroying their hideouts in cross-border air raids on northern Iraq.

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Input: © AFP 2017/ ARIS MESSINIS 50,000 Targeted in Turkey Purge, No Islamic Funeral Rites for Coup Soldiers The failed coup attempt left nearly 300 people dead and over 1,000 injured, and has been blamed on supporters of exiled religious and political leader, and former Erdogan ally, Fethullah Gulen. Ankara has filed a formal request with the US government for Gulen’s extradition. In the wake of the coup attempt, Ankara has launched an unprecedented crackdown on those suspected of being involved in the events of last week. Nearly 50,000 individuals have been targeted as part of a purge, including military personnel, educators, judges, and civil servants.

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Input: Nishimura was fined $ 7,500, received two years probation and, naturally, will never again be allowed to have security clearance. So when Comey speaks of what a "reasonable prosecutor" would or would not do, what he really means is no prosecutor would be crazy enough to pursue charges against the presumptive Democratic nominee for president and the first woman in U.S. history to hold such a distinction. If Clinton wins the presidency, she will be expected to swear an oath to "faithfully execute the office of president of the United States," and will to the best of her ability," preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." But she's already demonstrated that her fidelity isn't to preserving the laws but to her own self-preservation. She lies.

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

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Input: I tell it like it is: She is a fighter. I disagree with much of what she’s fighting for. I do disagree with her judgment in many cases, but she does fight hard and she does n’t quit and she does n’t give up, and I consider that to be a very good trait,” he said. It was miles away from the opening moment. Walking out on stage, neither candidate offered a handshake to the other.

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Input: He pointed out that the picture accompanying the story was a “slightly doctored version of a photo used in a 2015 article about election results in the United Kingdom.” “A Christian myself, I take offense to reading such unbelievable lies from a publication alleging Christian ties,” Husted said. “It was a deliberate attempt to deceive and mislead. We already get enough of that from the candidates.” Indeed, Husted has said that the presidential campaign rhetoric around vote rigging and other election security matters threatens to undermine whichever candidate wins on Nov. 8.

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

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Input: Published 5:50 PM, October 11, 2016 MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) – After calling for an end to United States and Philippines joint military exercises and saying US troops in Mindanao should pull out, President Rodrigo Duterte said he does not "mean" to cancel military alliances." I do not mean to cancel or abrogate the military alliances," said Duterte on Tuesday, October 11, during the oath-taking of government officials in Malacañang Palace. But right after this statement, he wondered out loud if the Philippines needs these military partnerships in the first place." But tanungin ko kayo (But let me ask you).

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Input: “He and I have n’t spoken, and he and I disagree,” Trump said on Sunday when asked about his running mate’s comments. He went on to insist that Russia and Assad were forces for stability and counterterrorism in Syria. This assertion has come even amid a deluge of reports indicating that Moscow has used controlled weapons and struck humanitarian targets in Syria, including a United Nations aid convoy (which both the U.S. and the U.K. have accused Russia of attacking with credible evidence). These are only the latest developments in Russia’s campaign against Assad’s enemies in Syria, which opened with a brazen strike on U.S.-backed rebels and a CIA-provided weapons depot. The evidence exposing Trump’s support for to Russian interests materialize almost daily, but this is a trend that anti-Trump Republicans had been observing for over a year.

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Input: The still contested part of the Donbass appears "like a satellite state of Russia", is how experts interpreted the situation. The commission is taking the Minsk Agreement to the absurd Put simply, this means that Moscow is only promoting the implementation of the Minsk Agreement as a show for the West. Behind the curtains, a separate plan for the controlled areas in the Donbass has been put into effect since the end of 2014 (only three months after signing the peace plan Minsk). Rather than envisaging a reintegration of the regions in the Ukraine over the medium term, this plan aims to secure its long-term existence under complete Russian control.

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Input: And to this day, it continues to be an issue dogging her campaign. There was an FBI investigation that contradicted some of her initial explanations. That investigation ended in a decision not to press charges. A New Weapon For Trump Now, the WikiLeaks release is giving new ammunition to her opponent, Donald Trump, who talked about one of these email chains at a rally Tuesday in Florida.

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Input: Interestingly the USTR’s report praises the fact that “a Russian court shut down Rutracker.org”, when in fact the site was only blocked and remains fully operational today. Nevertheless, it appears that court orders are not enough for the United States. “Issuing injunctions against infringing websites does not address the root of the problem; Russia should be investigating and prosecuting the operators of such sites. The overall number of raids, criminal charges, and convictions have declined in recent years,” the report reads. Finally, Ukraine remains on the Priority List in 2016.

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Input: Trump sounded a similar note in discussing the U.S. presence in the Pacific. He questioned the value of massive military investments in Asia and wondered aloud whether the United States still was capable of being an effective peacekeeping force there. “South Korea is very rich, great industrial country, and yet we’re not reimbursed fairly for what we do," Trump said." We’re constantly sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games — we’re reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing." Asked whether the United States benefits from its involvement in the region, Trump replied," Personally, I do n’t think so."

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Input: Chinese billionaire Ng Lap Seng (left), Bill Clinton (center), Hillary Clinton (right) Along with UN President Ashe and Chinese billionaire Seng being indicted for being a part of this massive bribery scheme to enrich the Clinton’s and fuel Hillary’s presidential run, this report notes, Francis Lorenzo, the ambassador to the UN for the Dominican Republic, and the top two executives for the Global Sustainability Foundation (GSF), Sheri Yan and Heidi Hong Piao, were, also, charged, all of whom had reached plea deals in exchange for their testimony against the Clinton’s and Seng — has had, likewise, UN President Ashe done just prior to his death. Grimly to note too, this report continues, is that a “powerful indictor” that UN President Ashe was being targeted for death revealed itself this past January (2016) when Chinese billionaire Seng (currently under house arrest in his New York City penthouse) suddenly dropped his bid for a speedy trial — and which SVR analysts in this report attribute to his being given “assurances / guarantees” by the Clinton’s that once Hillary gained the US presidency he would pardoned. And in a “power move” perfected by both the Bush and Clinton Crime families, this report says, within 7 hours of UN President Ashe being reported dead, top Bush family warhawk Brent Scowcroft declared he was throwing his Republican Party allegiance behind Hillary Clinton, and not his own parties nominee Donald Trump. Most important to be noted about these events, this report continues, are that they are occurring in a Western government atmosphere where the rulers are now openly rebelling against their own citizens — and as best exampled by German President Joachim Gauck actually stating this past week that “the elites are not the problem, the populations are the problem”.

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Input: Kirby, asked Wednesday what the consequences would be for Russia if cooperation with the U.S. in Syria collapsed, said “that extremists and extremists groups will continue to exploit the vacuums that are there ... which will include, no question, attacks against Russian interests, perhaps even Russian cities, and Russia will continue to send troops home in body bags.” Konashenkov interpreted Kirby’s statement as a direct threat to the Russian military in Syria. He said Russia remains open for dialogue with Washington on Syria, but added that the U.S. needs to “exclude even a hint at threatening our military and Russian citizens.” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Thursday that Moscow still wants to cooperate with Washington on the Syrian crisis, but blamed the U.S. for a failure to deliver on its pledge under the Sept. 9 agreement to encourage moderate opposition to sever ties with al-Qaida’s branch in Syria. “Our colleagues from Washington have tried to cover up their inability to fulfill their own obligations with verbal attacks on Russia,” he said.

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Input: MORE's personal emails. Sens. Chris Coons Chris CoonsWeek ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling Dem: Trump wrong, Salem witch trials ' greatest witch hunt in American history ' When can law enforcement access data stored abroad? Only Congress can tell MORE (D-Del.) and Sheldon Whitehouse Sheldon WhitehouseSpecial counsel to meet with Senate Judiciary Committee members: report Office of Government Ethics: Bannon’s waiver ' problematic ' Senators debate bringing in Comey for Round 2 MORE (D-R.I.) sent a letter to Cruz Wednesday calling the GOP presidential nominee's remarks "dangerous and irresponsible."

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Input: But the details of the weapons to be acquired weren't released, which is the normal practice with Russian arms deliveries to Armenia, said Emil Sanamyan, an analyst who closely follows Caucasus military affairs. In general, Armenia prefers to cultivate an air of mystery about what weaponry exactly it is acquiring, partly to keep its rival, Azerbaijan, off-guard but also because it likely is acquiring far less and so has little to gain by flaunting it. Azerbaijan, by contrast, tends to exaggerate its purchases in an effort to intimidate. (That said, Azerbaijan's purchases are still substantial, and a large portion of them also come from Russia. This week, the Stockholm International Peace Research institute released a report noting that Azerbaijan was the largest importer of arms in Europe over the period 2011-15, and that it accounted for nearly five percent of Russian exports over that period.)

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Input: Smallpox – a deadly disease eradicated from the world in 1977 – could return as the frozen tundra of Siberia melts and releases the virus from the corpses of people who died in a major epidemic about 120 years ago, experts have warned. The disease was once one of the most feared in the world. Up to 30 per cent of people who caught it would die, according to the World Health Organisation, after experiencing symptoms including a high fever and the characteristic pus-filled spots.

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Input: That goes for other GOP leaders on Capitol Hill as well. Despite the sexual allegations against Trump, GOP leaders will try to “ride out” the rest of the campaign without picking a fight with their controversial nominee. “You essentially have a crazy person at the top of the ticket, someone who just has no focus on how to win elections but has demonstrated he does n’t care if Republicans control the House or the Senate,” said Brian Walsh, a GOP strategist and former official at the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “He is willing to pull the pin and take everyone down with him. Let's not give him any more oxygen to burn the Republican ship down.”

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Input: I benefited from that when I was a candidate. And we take for granted sometimes what is steady and true. And Hillary Clinton's steady and she is true,” the president said before urging voters to support Clinton by echoing a famous Teddy Roosevelt speech. “If you're serious about our democracy then you've got to be with her. She's in the arena and you can't leave her in there by herself.

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Input: Of the three strategies, the second seems more imaginative. Going beyond the traditional dialectic of confirm-or-deny, Fallon hopes to totally delegitimize the emails by branding them as the dark fruits of a scurrilous foreign power. The subtext of Fallon’s protest is that no matter what reporters dig out in the voluminous Podesta emails, their stories will be polluted by the motives and methods behind their acquisition. Fallon is floating a very large crock here. Real reporters do n’t treat Freedom of Information Act requests the way he implies.

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Input: It would destroy our balance sheet, totally destroy the balance sheet. So you'd be paying so little interest right now. This is the time to borrow. SCOTT WAPNER: Mr. Trump, you said you would at least double what Hillary Clinton wants to spend on infrastructure. That would imply some $ 500 billion.

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Input: A man inspects the damage after airstrikes by pro-Syrian government forces in the rebel held al-Sakhour neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria February 5, 2016. REUTERS / Abdalrhman Ismail A boy gestures as others inspect the damage after airstrikes by pro-Syrian government forces in the rebel held al-Sakhour neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria February 5, 2016. REUTERS / Abdalrhman Ismail People inspect the damage after airstrikes by pro-Syrian government forces in the rebel held al-Sakhour neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria February 5, 2016.

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Input: Twenty-four hours after she landed, a ceasefire went into effect — and that year became Israel’s quietest in a decade. Wait just one moment. Clinton was secretary of state for President Obama’s entire first term, and her most significant accomplishment is helping negotiate the end of a week-long skirmish between Israel and Hamas? What about the war in Libya? Oh, that’s right:

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Input: The fund stood at $ 90 billion in late 2014, but has come under increasing strain as Russia's oil-dependent economy has suffered under falling energy prices. The price of oil fell to to just $ 27 a barrel in January this year, after peaking at $ 105 dollars a barrel in June 2014. A report published last month by Moscow’s Higher School of Economics predicted that Russia's reserve fund could be exhausted before the end of 2016 if energy prices failed to rise, while the country’s Finance Ministry has repeatedly warned that the fund could run out in 2017. The government is expect to look to the national welfare fund, used for the long term protection of state pensions, as reserve levels run low. Russia’s Finance Ministry announced in July that it planned to spend $ 26 billion of the national welfare fund's $ 72 billion between 2017 and 2019.

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Input: B’Tselem said Tuesday morning’s demolitions “demonstrate that the Israeli government continues its policy of destruction of Palestinian communities in favor of expanding [Jewish] settlements, a policy that drew international criticism in a recent Quartet report.” That report by the Middle East Quartet — representatives of the US, UN, EU and Russia — released in early July, accused Israel of undermining a two-state solution by making it nearly impossible for Palestinians to build in Area C, while allowing the expansion of Israeli settlements in the area. Israeli authorities regularly demolish homes built by Palestinians in Area C, arguing they are built illegally without permits and outside areas zoned for Palestinian building. Israel does not balk at demolishing EU-funded structures, despite the open tension it causes with its powerful ally. While Israeli authorities did not immediately respond to an inquiry about Tuesday’s demolitions, the pro-settlement group Regavim praised the move, saying its complaint had led to the action.

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