Input: After Lazar was flown to the U.S. on March 31, U.S. government officials confirmed that federal agents from three agencies previously met with Lazar in Romania where he was serving a seven-year sentence for breaching the accounts of Romanian officials. Two independent sources also confirmed in recent weeks that Lazar spoke at length to an FBI agent during his extradition flight from Romanian to Virginia. Asked why he agreed to be extradited when he faces the possibility of more than five decades in an American prison, Lazar said," It was not my call." Then Lazar claimed that his extradition agreement contains conditions that block further charges. While the claim can not be independently verified, the statement could help explain why Lazar felt comfortable discussing his supposed hacking of the Clinton server – which was not mentioned in the nine-count federal indictment.

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Input: He’s even bragged that he’d “get along very well with” Russian President Vladimir Putin, the autocrat who took Crimea by force and continues to prop up Syria’s despotic President Bashar al-Assad. A President Trump seems likely to escalate tensions abroad and to create unnecessary and dangerous hostilities, while hollowing out our values so that we are no longer the beacon of the free world. Earlier this month he endorsed torture “much worse” than waterboarding, prompting former CIA director Michael Hayden last week to suggest that military and intelligence officers might “refuse to act” on Trump’s orders. A recipe for chaos. The second danger is that the demagogue will surround himself with incompetent and dangerous advisers.

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Input: Therefore, loading up on guns and ammo is not a robust solution. And it could tip the scales away from calmer, more desirable scenarios. Retaliating against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meddling, and indicting Trump and his colleagues on charges of seditious conspiracy are equally problematic. Perhaps the one solution that is robust in as many scenarios as possible is to try to de-escalate the viciousness and incivility and work together to make sure the worst futures do not come to pass. What are the lessons from the 1850s?

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Input: It was then claimed the Russians had unwittingly hit a rebel base thinking it was an Islamic State stronghold. Insiders said the Russians left when the US F-18s arrived but when they paused to refuel the Russian jets returned to resume bombing. Related Stories CAR BOMB MURDER Award-winning journalist killed by IED in horror blast ' which may have been meant for his partner ' Pure evil US-backed Syrian rebels film themselves beheading 11-year -old boy for being a spy COUP 'S TERROR RISK Turkey's instability threatens UK and US airbases used to fight ISIS in Syria RUSSIA ' BOMBS ' REFUGEES Putin's jets ' blitz makeshift camp ' in Syria killing 12 people and injuring dozens more RESURGENCE OF AL QAEDA How terror fanatics are becoming a more formidable force than the ISIS ' TV terrorists ' in Syria Reports in the US revealed the second attack killed Syrian rebels giving first aid to those hurt in the first attack. At the time the Pentagon said in a statement: “Russia’s continued strikes at At-Tanf, even after U.S. attempts to inform Russian forces through proper channels of ongoing coalition air support to the counter-ISIS forces, created safety concerns for U.S. and coalition forces.”

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Input: In reality, Republican candidates pay to have their names and faces secretly mixed in with the liberal candidates whose names and faces appear to give it a semblance of authenticity. Lacy’s slate order business is, he claims, the largest in the state of California, if not the entire country, and it wreaked so much havoc on California local elections that even Orange County residents revolted with a ballot requiring slate mailers disclose. Lacy fought to have the courts void the will of Orange County’s voters, and the courts agreed, saying that putting restrictions on how badly Lacy could deceive voters violated his First Amendment rights and constituted a form of tyranny. So both lawyers whose names are on Gary Johnson’s main campaign group since 2009 are not only associated with right-wing extremists and violent nativist vigilantes, but more importantly, both of them specialize in fraudulent vote schemes that help their Republican Party clients win elections by deceiving Democratic Party voters. Lacy has been poisoning American politics since his radical-right college years when he was national chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom.

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Input: It called Zhukov an “important member” of the Solntsevskaya gang, Russia’s most powerful international crime syndicate, with a base in Rome. Zhukov strongly denies the allegation. He has never been arrested, charged or convicted of any related offences. Zhukov’s UK citizenship will not endear him to Russia’s hawkish president, Vladimir Putin. UK-Russian relations have been strained since the murder of the former Russian secret service officer Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006.

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Input: A reporter said Friday she had received a barrage of anti-Semitic emails and phone calls from supporters of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, after a profile story she wrote about Trump’s wife Melania was published in GQ Magazine. Julia Ioffe, who is Jewish, said the hatred she had experienced since her piece was published reminded her of racism her family experienced in Russia before it immigrated to the US 26 years ago. Ioffe’s article chronicles Melania’s story from her Slovenian roots to her relationship with the man who, it seems increasingly likely, may well become the Republican nominee for president in 2016. But the piece struck a none-too-flattering tone in its description of either Melania and her husband, and has been criticized by its subject as “yet another example of the dishonest media and their disingenuous reporting.” And when the angry responses by Trump die-hards began arriving to Ioffe’s phone, inbox and Twitter feed, many of them took a decidedly racist slant.

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Input: But I told this during various times to lots of different people and nobody has a problem with it. We have to help our students. Our students are under tremendous pressure to a point where it's making them sick. Our students are under tremendous pressure, we have to help our students. And I'm going to have a plan over the next four weeks.

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Input: "Clinton demonstrated her iron self-control", it writes." Trump ... lost all his energy. He kept silent more often and attacked less." The pro-Kremlin business website Expert Online thinks the two candidates fought a draw:" A great majority of polls still show that Clinton is beating Trump ... But Trump is obviously winning on social networks."

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Input: Putin has also praised Trump and a number of Trump's advisers have ties to the Kremlin. Manafort advised pro-Russian, Ukrainian oligarchs including former President Victor Yanukovych -- a Putin ally who fled to Russia in 2014 after corruption accusations. The FBI announced Monday it is investigating the hack, and promised to hold accountable those who pose a threat in cyberspace.

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Input: The nature conservation organization said it had no knowledge of and had never given consent to the use of its name by "so-called Panamanian foundations". Accountability experts warn that the ICRC and WWF were unlikely to be the only examples of charity names being misused in this way." Where funds are actually donated, charities should consider the risks posed by anonymous or opaque donors and take reasonable steps to identify them-especially if amounts are large or unusual," said Oliver May, an expert on fraud in humanitarian agencies." But there are limitations to what such organizations can reasonably do," said May, a former head of counter-fraud at Oxfam GB. The latest Panama Papers leaks add to a slew of files revealing financial arrangements of prominent global figures, including friends of Russian President Vladimir Putin, relatives of the prime ministers of Britain and Pakistan, as well as Ukraine's president.

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Input: From Wednesday onwards it is illegal to preach, teach or share faith outside state-controlled settings. Senior Protestant church leader in Russia, Sergei Ryakhovsky, said the law ' creates the basis for the mass persecution of believers '. Russian officials insist it is to tackle terrorism and is aimed at Islamic hate preaching. The new law was passed almost unanimously by Russian MPs and means anyone caught sharing their faith outside church faces a fine of at least £ 600. Some fear it's a way of clamping down on the growing number of house churches across the country.

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Input: She has vowed to open America's top secret X-Files, containing details about UFOs and military base Area 51 in the Nevada desert if she becomes president in November. GETTY Hillary Clinton has pledged to declassify US secret documents on aliens Earlier this year she was a guest on radio show Power 105.1 Breakfast Club in New York where she met host Lenard McKelvey-also known as Charlamagne the God-who believes he has been abducted by aliens several times. She told Mr McKelvey she would open tyne files unless it posed a threat to national security. When asked whether she believed in aliens, Mrs Clinton replied:" I do n’t know.

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