Input: Washington has accused Beijing of militarizing the South China Sea after creating artificial islands, while Beijing, in turn, has criticized increased U.S. naval patrols and exercises in Asia. The Pentagon statement said the Department of Defense was addressing the issue through military and diplomatic channels. China's Defense Ministry said in a fax that it was looking into reports on the incident." DANGEROUS INTERCEPTS" In 2015, the United States and China announced agreements on a military hotline and rules of behavior to govern air-to-air encounters called the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES).

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

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Input: He would round up and deport 11 million people, a forced movement on a scale not attempted since Stalin or perhaps Pol Pot. He has, during the course of his campaign, denigrated women, Jews, Muslims, Mexicans, people with disabilities and many more. He routinely trades in wild falsehoods and doubles down when his lies are exposed. Certainly there are Republican leaders who understand all this: people such as House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.); former president George W. Bush and former presidential nominees Bob Dole, John McCain and Mitt Romney; and governors, senators and community leaders across the country. Some have spoken up over the course of Mr. Trump’s campaign, and then stepped back; others have been silent.

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Input: Malahifji claims that the rebels are concerned that if they withdraw first, the Assad government forces will exploit the movement to capture strategic positions. The rebels also claim that Syrian forces and Russia have used the exemption of terrorist groups from the ceasefire to attack their positions and civilian areas, which gives them little incentive to observe the ceasefire themselves. Russia, however, has claimed that the United States and their coalition of rebel groups have not lived up to their end of the Syrian ceasefire. According to Sky News, Russia has long believed that some of the “moderate rebels” that the United States supports are in fact terrorist organizations with ties to the Islamic State and al-Qaeda. Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov issued a statement about the fragile truce.

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Input: Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Live coverage: Senate Dems hold talkathon to protest GOP health plan MORE (I-Vt.) in the Democratic presidential primary, many Sanders supporters have called for his backers to support Stein in the November general election instead of Clinton. Clinton backers have argued that such a move amounts to a vote for Trump. They point to the 2000 presidential election, when Democrat Al Gore Al GorePence calls hiring of counsel ' routine ' CORRECTED: Three members of Mueller's team have donated to Democrats OPINION: Don't repeat the mistakes of Clinton and 1998 with Trump MORE lost to Republican George W. Bush in a very close race, which was at least partially because Gore lost many liberal votes to Ralph Nader.

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Input: While Abbas two years ago ordered that these salaries not be paid by the Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs but instead by the Palestinian Liberation Organization, Carmon described this as a "deliberately misleading move" to assuage concerns from donor countries worried about their money being funneled to terrorists." The source of the money remains the PA, which receives them from donor countries, and the overseeing body remains none other than the PA," Carmon told lawmakers. He said that countries who provide aid to Palestine, including the United States, are "complicit" in inciting terrorism because the Palestinian Authority uses foreign donations to subsidize terrorists and their families." By providing this support, the PA is encouraging terrorism in violation of its Oslo commitment. Furthermore, the PA has been using money granted by donor countries for this purpose, and by doing so, has made them complicit in encouraging terrorism as well," Carmon said.

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Input: What North Korea's opponents can actually do is problematic. After the fourth test back in January, China agreed to impose tougher UN sanctions. Further and even tougher sanctions are still possible, like blocking the export of fuel oil to North Korea. That would be a drastic step which might halt the economy and cause serious suffering to ordinary people. China and the US are increasingly at odds as China asserts itself in East Asia.

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Input: Some of this certainty comes from the simpleminded game of repeating that Buk missiles are “Russian-made,” which is true but irrelevant to the issue of who fired the missiles, since the Ukrainian military possesses Russian-made Buks. Despite the lack of U.S. cooperation in the investigation and the failure of Western intelligence to detect Russians or ethnic Russian rebels with a Buk battery in eastern Ukraine the Dutch criminal prosecutors who are working closely with the Ukrainian government say they are taking seriously allegations by bloggers at a British Web site called Bellingcat who have identified Russian soldiers assigned to a Buk missile battery as prime suspects in the shoot-down. So, the possibility remains that this Dutch-led investigation in coordination with the Ukrainian government will indict some Russian soldiers even as the U.S. government withholds its data that could resolve such key questions as where the fateful missile was fired. An indictment of Russian soldiers would make for more useful anti-Putin propaganda and would be sure to produce another chorus of denunciations against Moscow from the mainstream Western media. But such a development might do little to resolve the mystery of who really shot down MH-17, killing Quinn Schansman and 297 other people aboard MH-17.

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Input: Adolf Hitler’s personal copy of Mein Kampf, found by US officers in his Munich flat in May 1945, will be auctioned off in Maryland along with other Nazi-era artifacts. The inflammatory diatribe was never banned in the US and can be bought in bookshops. Alexander Historical Auctions in Maryland will open up bidding on the 1927 edition of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi manifesto for March 17 and 18.

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Input: And the fact that he invades Crimea or is trying to prop up Assad does n’t suddenly make him a player. You do n’t see him in any of these meetings out here helping to shape the agenda. For that matter, there’s not a G20 meeting where the Russians set the agenda around any of the issues that are important.” Russia’s invasion of Crimea in early 2014, and its decision to use force to buttress the rule of its client Bashar al-Assad, have been cited by Obama’s critics as proof that the post-red-line world no longer fears America. So when I talked with the president in the Oval Office in late January, I again raised this question of deterrent credibility. “The argument is made,” I said, “that Vladimir Putin watched you in Syria and thought, He’s too logical, he’s too rational, he’s too into retrenchment.

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Input: Hide Caption 6 of 37 Photos: Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies Castro, left, became Cuba's prime minister in February 1959. His brother Raul, right, was commander in chief of the armed forces. Hide Caption 7 of 37 Photos: Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies During a visit to New York in 1959, Fidel Castro spends time with a group of children. Hide Caption 8 of 37 Photos: Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies American talk-show host Ed Sullivan interviews Castro on a taped segment in 1959. Hide Caption 9 of 37 Photos: Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies Castro shakes hands with US Vice President Richard Nixon during a reception in Washington in 1959.

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Input: In 2013, Obama said that if Assad used chemical weapons, the U.S. would take military action. But when Assad used chemicals to horrifying effect, Obama did nothing. Instead, the Obama administration allowed Russia to negotiate the handover of “all” Syria’s chemical weapons for destruction. Obviously, Assad was n’t completely forthright. Obama’s reluctance to back up diplomacy with force has furthered the continued Syrian civil war — a humanitarian disaster in which nearly half a million people have died so far — as well as the massive refugee crisis that’s overwhelming Europe and Middle Eastern states like Jordan.

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Input: Since 2002, plaintiffs say that a cadre of government, military, police, and courts have been complicit in a land grabbing scheme that has effectively forced over 300,000 people to leave their homes. In a rush for natural resources and land, activists say that these kinds of events have seen “an area the size of Germany leased to investors in developing countries since 2000,” Global Witness said in a release. The human rights organization adds that as a result of these land grabs, millions of people have illegally and violently been evicted from their land in countries whose national courts can not provide a legal remedy to these wrongs. “Chasing communities off their land and trashing the environment has become an accepted way of doing business in many resource-rich yet cash-poor countries,” Gillian Caldwell, Executive Director at Global Witness, said in a statement. By expanding the kinds of actors that may be held legally responsible for crimes under international law, and by broadening the focus of crimes the ICC reviews, activists hope to see a decreased incidence of land grabbing, a renewed fight to protect the livelihoods of those who live on the land, and the integrity of the land itself.

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Input: But they also urged her to stop laying down conditions and caveats." Clinton will continue to struggle to convince climate advocates that she is serious about addressing the crisis until she comes out for a full ban on fracking," said Yong Jung Cho, campaign coordinator of grassroots groups 350 Action. As secretary of state, Clinton supported fracking as a way to reduce U.S. dependence on imported energy, and even led a push to spread shale extraction to allies in Europe to wean them off Russian gas. Her pledge in Flint to curtail the practice followed the blunt declaration against fracking by Senator Bernard Sanders, her sole rival for the nomination. Sanders ' challenge has shifted some of Clinton's positions in the campaign, and her statement on fracking now comes closer to wider Democratic party sentiment.

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Input: Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump has said the US has "got ta shoot down" Russian planes if diplomacy doesn't work. Trump's comments came just days after a Russian plane performed a move criticised by the Pentagon as ' dangerous ' when it barrel-rolled over a US plane for the second time in a month. The aggressive move was performed over the Baltic Sea, where Russian jets buzzed a US Destroyer ship repeatedly several days before the latest incident.

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Input: WASHINGTON (JTA) — A bill unanimously approved by the US House of Representatives would extend religious protections to advocates of circumcision and ritual slaughter as well as atheists, addressing what its sponsors describe as an increase in religious persecution in recent years. The bill, passed Monday, would broaden the definition of “violations of religious freedom” in the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to include the persecution of advocates of male circumcision or ritual animal slaughter. Atheists would become a new protected class. The measure, which moves to the Senate for consideration, was named for retired Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va., a longtime champion of human rights who authored the 1998 law.

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

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Input: (Aaron Davidson / Getty Images for Eisenhower Fellowships) Cohen, who served in the George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush administrations, tweeted a list of reasons to not vote for Trump in February. Short list: demagoguery, torture, bigotry, misogyny, isolationism, violence. Not the Party of Lincoln & not me. (Alex Wong / Getty Images for Meet the Press) Wehner, who served in the Reagan, George H.W.

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Input: Russia has demonstrated its resurgent military might with its air campaign in Syria, which helped President Bashar Assad's military win a series of victories in recent weeks. The military used the Syrian operation to test new types of weapons in actual combat for the first time, including long-range air- and sea-launched cruise missiles. The air blitz in Syria has badly strained Russia's relations with Turkey, which shot down a Russian warplane at the border with Syria in November. The latest drills could be part of muscle flexing amid the tensions with Ankara. They also come at a time when a peace deal intended to end fighting between Ukrainian government troops and Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine appears to be in jeopardy amid increasingly frequent clashes in recent weeks.

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Input: The United Nations has long been bullied by its most powerful members, and U.N. secretaries-general have usually been forced to grit their teeth and take it quietly. But few nations have been more publicly brazen in this practice than Saudi Arabia, and earlier this summer, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon managed to get in a dig at the Kingdom over its blackmail-style tactics. Ban openly admitted that it was only after Riyadh threatened to cut off funding to the U.N. that he bowed to its demand to remove the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen, where it has launched a harsh military intervention, from a list of violators of children’s rights contained in the annex of his annual Children and Armed Conflict report. “The report describes horrors no child should have to face,” Ban told reporters.

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Input: An officer who responded reported seeing red marks on her wrist and neck. Bannon was charged in 1996 with misdemeanor witness intimidation, domestic violence with traumatic injury and battery, according to a Santa Monica, California, police report. The charges were dropped when after his estranged wife didn't show up at trial, according to court records. Piccard said in her declaration that she skipped the trial after Bannon and his lawyer arranged for her to leave town. She said Bannon had told her the lawyer would make her look like the guilty party if she testified and the attorney told her she'd be broke if Bannon went to jail.

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Input: As a result, he spent more than a year in Swedish prison. In 2010, Chataev was arrested in Ukraine with his mobile phone files containing a demolition technique instruction and photos of people killed in a blast. Russia requested his extradition on terrorism-related charges but the European Court for Human Rights ordered Ukraine not to hand him over to Russia with Amnesty International also urging Ukrainian authorities to halt extradition as Chataev “could face an unfair trial and would be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.” Back then, Amnesty International reminded Ukraine Chataev had refugee status in Austria https://t.co/xPAHJNHw73pic.twitter.com/r254GgSsKR — Nahia Sanzo (@nsanzo) June 30, 2016 A year later, he was once again detained as he was crossing the border between Turkey and Bulgaria but he again avoided extradition because of the interference of human rights organizations that stressed Chataev had a refugee status in Austria and thus can not be sent to Russia, Kommersant reported.

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Input: The Bush-Quayle ticket went on to win in a landslide, but the campaign lastingly damaged Quayle’s reputation. Eight years before that, when challenger Ronald Reagan brushed off incumbent President Jimmy Carter with “There you go again!,” the specific words did n’t matter as much as the picture of the easy, confident Reagan versus the purse-lipped, peeved-seeming Carter. And on through the list of debate moments that were discussed at the time and remembered afterward. No one recalls what Al Gore said during his first debate against George W. Bush in 2000 (except perhaps that he would keep the Medicare and Social Security budgets in a “lockbox”); many people recall, and held against him, his ostentatious sighs. In the late summer of 2011, Governor Rick Perry of Texas led Mitt Romney and all other Republicans for the 2012 nomination.

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Input: (Kelsey Snell and Anu Narayanswamy) -- “At the beginning of this week, the Trump campaign announced — to great fanfare — that it was launching a $ 10 million ad buy from Aug. 30 through Sept. 6. … Two days later, half of that ad buy still hasn't been purchased,” NBC’s Mark Murray reports. “Trump has purchased more than $ 5 million in ads in five states — Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and, yes, Michigan. But the orders still haven't come in for the other states that the Trump campaign said it would be advertising in-Colorado, Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and Virginia.”

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Input: Trump said one of the first significant bills that former President George Washington signed was for the protection of American manufacturers. This is true. The Tariff of 1789 was one of the first major pieces of legislation to be signed into law and it placed a tariff on most imported goods in part to secure income for the new nation and in part to protect the fledgling manufacturing industry. It is worth noting that there is some debate as to which was the primary purpose, protectionism or revenue, with most scholars believe the pressing need to pay off the debts of the Revolutionary War was the driving concern. While it was one of the first bills that Washington signed, it was not without some controversy at the time.

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Input: I wrestled with the Chinese over a climate deal in Copenhagen, brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, negotiated the reduction of nuclear weapons with Russia, twisted arms to bring the world together in global sanctions against Iran, and stood up for the rights of women, religious minorities and LGBT people around the world. [Applause] And I have, I have sat in the Situation Room and advised the President on some of the toughest choices he faced. So I’m not new to this work. And I’m proud to run on my record, because I think the choice before the American people in this election is clear.

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Input: As evidence, the aide pointed to Clinton’s remarks in a speech last November. “And, once and for all, the Saudis, the Qataris, and others need to stop their citizens from directly funding extremist organizations, as well as schools and mosques around the world that have set too many young people on a path toward radicalization,” she said then. In yet another instance cited by the aide, Clinton asserted in a September 2015 speech at the Brookings Institution that “nobody can deny that much of the extremism in the world today is a direct result of policies and funding undertaken by the Saudi government and individuals. We would be foolish not to recognize that. “

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Input: The deal was enormously lucrative for Donald Trump, particularly since it just fell into his lap thanks to his family. Under the deal, Grandcor agreed to pay him an additional $ 190,000, while Port Electric kicked in $ 228,500. (The payments were made over several years, but the value in present-day dollars on the final sum he received is $ 10.4 million.) Despite having no real success of his own, by the late 1970s, Trump was swaggering through Manhattan, gaining a reputation as a crass self-promoter. He hung out in the fancy nightspot Le Club, where he was chums with prominent New Yorkers like Roy Cohn, the one-time aide to Senator Joe McCarthy who was one of the city’s most feared and politically connected attorneys.

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Input: Hillary will build on the Administration’s initiative by launching the next generation of Investing in Innovation (“ i3”) grants — as sustained in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) as the Education Innovation and Research Program. She will double our investment in the program, and establish a 50 percent set-aside for scaling CS Education innovations. These new computer science grants (“ CS-i3 grants”) will help scale instruction and lesson programs that are demonstrated to improve student achievement or increase college enrollment and completion in CS Ed fields — helping us prepare the diverse tech workforce of tomorrow. Engage the Private Sector and Nonprofits to Train up to 50,000 Computer Science Teachers in the Next Decade: Hillary will launch an initiative to expand the pool of computer science teachers — both through recruiting new teachers into the field, and through helping current teachers gain additional training — so that we train an additional 50,000 CS teachers in the next ten years. To deliver on this goal, Hillary will commit federal financial aid, assistance to professional development programs, and support for public-private partnerships.

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Input: Energy U.S. Crude Oil Production – Obama has presided over a remarkable boom in U.S. crude oil production, which nearly doubled during his tenure. In the first quarter of 2016, the U.S. produced 83.7 percent more crude oil than it did in the three months before Obama began his presidency. To be sure, the boom peaked in April 2015, and production has declined since then. That’s because the price of crude oil plunged from more than $ 100 a barrel in 2014 to below $ 30 early this year.

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Input: Last October, the Air Force announced it had selected Northrop Grumman to build new stealth bombers that will carry nuclear weapons. The B-2 and B-52 are the Air Force’s two active strategic bombers that can carry both nuclear and conventional bombs. The Navy is in the early stages of buying new submarines, which will replace the Ohio-class subs. Friday’s announcement comes as Congress is out of session until after the Labor Day holiday in September.

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Input: So when you’re before the Congress, it’s a crime to lie, it’s also a crime mislead. Mislead is defined as creating a false impression. And it is clear that she did that but it’s the beginning stages of the investigation.” (RELATED: ‘EXTREMELY CARELESS’ — FBI Director Comey Says Clinton Mishandled Classified Info [VIDEO]) “Secondly, [Clinton] certified under oath and in writing to a federal judge in a Freedom of Information Act case that she had surrendered all of her emails to the State Department. We know from Director Comey that the FBI found thousands of work-related e-mails that she did n’t surrender, many of which that she tried to destroy,” Napolitano said.

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Input: Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov -- pictured here in March 2014 -- said three Islamic insurgents and two policemen were killed in a shoot-out following an attack on police in Russia's Chechnya region (AFP Photo / MENAHEM KAHANA) Moscow (AFP) -The strongman leader of Russia's Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, on Tuesday threatened to eradicate "enemy" opposition in Russia, raising more concerns about the fate of Kremlin critics and independent media in the country. Kadyrov, who rules with an iron grip the North Caucasus region that was the scene of two separatist wars, penned a lengthy diatribe in pro-Kremlin daily Izvestiya against the critics of President Vladimir Putin, calling them a "gang of jackals" who "dream of destroying our state." "We will save Russia if we don't spare the enemy," Kadyrov wrote, calling himself "Putin's foot soldier" and offering to put the opposition in a Chechen asylum where "there won't be a shortage of injections."

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Input: The Espionage Act forbids gross negligence when handling national defense information, and her carelessness with such sensitive information could lead to an FBI indictment. Hillary’s private email server was allegedly hacked by a Romanian Hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar, also known as Guccifer. While early reports of the hacking were contested by media, Sonoran News and other sources have reported that Guccifer has been extradited to the United States and entered a plea agreement with U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris. Guccifer is a colorful character who believes he is fighting the Illuminati. He has allegedly hacked over 100 Americans, including government officers and even former presidents and their families.

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Input: 48 women & children flee rebel-held Aleppo as Damascus, Moscow cease airstrikeshttps://t.co / E74gcXhrGPpic.twitter.com / UVu3aa4tJ1 — RT (@RT_com) October 25, 2016 Rudskoy said that Russia has not conducted sorties over and around Aleppo since last Tuesday and intends to continue holding off the warplanes. Fighting on the ground in the city resumed on Sunday, after a three-day unilateral ceasefire was derailed by insurgents, who prevented civilians from fleeing the battered city. Iraq’s Mosul is being besieged by a ragtag coalition of uneasy allies, which includes Iraqi government forces, Shiite militias, Kurdish troops, and the Turkish Army. The US-led coalition is providing air support for the operation, which was launched a week ago.

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Input: Ditto for Mr. Trump on tariffs. There is no way that the Republican Congress will ever raise taxes on consumers in this or any future economic environment. Meantime, durable goods factory orders plunged 4 percent in June. Jobless claims are rising. The economy is drifting.

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Input: "Our American friends said they'd put pressure on the Kurds to stop the clashes," he told us," but there's no sign that's happened." The glimmer of good news from Syria is that aid convoys carrying food and medicine made it to areas besieged by fighting on Wednesday. One of those towns is Madaya, where there have been reports of people starving to death.

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Input: VERGE ON COLLAPSE Saturday’s bungle has raised questions about Syria’s ceasefire after the city of Aleppo was hit by its first air raids in nearly a week. The barrage of strikes on rebel-held districts of Aleppo risks reigniting battlefronts in the city and could be the most serious threat to the ceasefire so far. A halt to fighting around Aleppo and the delivery of desperately needed humanitarian aid were key components of the fragile deal that took effect last Monday evening. The ceasefire’s co-sponsors, Russia and the United States, have traded accusations over its fraying, with relations strained even further following the raid.

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Input: “They are woefully ignorant about Islam and have difficulty answering questions about Sharia law, militant jihad, and the caliphate,” she recently wrote in The Nation. “But a detailed, or even superficial, knowledge of Islam is n’t necessarily relevant to the ideal of fighting for an Islamic State, as we have seen from the Amazon order of Islam for Dummies by one British fighter bound for ISIS.” But how does the notion that terrorists are intent on getting powers to withdraw from their territory square with the view that the group’s shift to terrorist attacks in the West is designed to draw France and its allies into a ground war in Syria? Writing at the Harvard Business Review, Northeastern University political scientist Max Abrahms argues that these analyses are contradictory. But Pape says that it’s important to distinguish between ISIS’s long-term goals and its shorter-term strategies to achieve them:

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Input: This is not the case so far," he said. Turkey has denied permitting oil smuggling by the Islamist militant group, which holds swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. The United States last month rejected Russian allegations that the Turkish government and President Erdogan's family were in league with Islamic State to smuggle oil. However, US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said last month that ISIS was selling oil to middlemen who in turn were involved in smuggling the oil across the frontier to Turkey. Relations between former allies Turkey and Israel broke down in 2010 after an Israeli naval raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla killed ten Turkish citizens.

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Input: "We would not tolerate that from any other country, particularly one with whom we have adversarial positions," she said." And for Trump to both encourage that and to praise (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, despite what appears to be a deliberate effort to try to affect the election, I think raises national security issues." In the interview, Clinton used the email issue to cast Trump as overly cozy with Putin -- part of an effort to undercut Trump's qualifications on foreign policy and to suggest he's not steady enough for the presidency." I think if you take his encouragement that the Russians hack into American email accounts, if you take his quite excessive praise for Putin, his absolute allegiance to a lot of Russian wish list foreign policy positions, his effort then to try to distance himself from that backlash -- which rightly came not just from Democrats, but Republicans, independents, national security and intelligence experts -- leads us, once again, to conclude he is not temperamentally fit to be president and commander in chief," she said. Clinton also responded Sunday to Pat Smith, the mother of Sean Smith, who was killed in the attacks on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, and who said at the Republican National Convention that Clinton "lied to me" and that she blames Clinton personally for her son's death.

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Input: The Stand for Ukraine Act was introduced in April. It cleared the House Foreign Affairs Committee in July. Hawks are terrified that a potential Trump administration would unilaterally lift sanctions put in place by Barack Obama after Putin seized Crimea. The bill would allow for the lifting of sanctions only if Putin gives up Crimea. Now BuzzFeed reports that energy companies have won an early fight to weaken the legislation: “The US – Russia Business Council, a trade association of about 150 businesses and other organizations, including oil industry giants ExxonMobil and Chevron … asked lawmakers not to make the sanctions against Russia permanent.

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Input: On Monday, a hacking group calling itself the “ShadowBrokers” announced an auction for what it claimed were “cyber weapons” made by the NSA. Based on never-before-published documents provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Intercept can confirm that the arsenal contains authentic NSA software, part of a powerful constellation of tools used to covertly infect computers worldwide. The provenance of the code has been a matter of heated debate this week among cybersecurity experts, and while it remains unclear how the software leaked, one thing is now beyond speculation: The malware is covered with the NSA’s virtual fingerprints and clearly originates from the agency.

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Input: Clarence Ditlow, executive director of the Center for Auto Safety, said Monday that "while waiting for a recall remedy to be developed, the predictable happened. Anton Yelchin died. How many more people will be killed or injured waiting for a recall remedy of this fatal manufacturing flaw?" Fiat Chrysler spokesman Eric Mayne said the company would conduct a "thorough investigation" of Yelchin's accident." It is premature to speculate on its cause at this time," he added.

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Input: “A lot of stuff survived the 500 years on the bottom of the sea which should really not have done so.” Dr Noli believes the ship went down due to a combination of excess cargo and bad weather, although the true reason remains unknown. The wreck was first discovered by geologists in April 2008 and experts are only now realising its hidden treasures. He confirmed the Namibian government will receive the gold haul after the right was waived by Portugal. World news in pictures

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Input: Clinton’s operation also spent nearly $ 5 million to pay 705 staffers in July and $ 2 million on travel.” -- Trump, in his biggest spending month yet, still paid out $ 18.4 million. “Nearly half of the money, $ 8.4 million, went to one company: Giles-Parscale, a web-design firm whose president, Brad Parscale, serves as the Trump campaign’s digital director.” Other large sums spent went to travel and merchandise: “The campaign doled out $ 773,000 to reimburse various Trump-owned companies for expenses. In all, nearly $ 7.7 million has been paid out to Trump companies or Trump family members to cover campaign expenditures." -- Ousted campaign manager Corey Lewandowski received his regular $ 20,000 monthly salary on July 6 – two weeks after he officially left the campaign and joined CNN as a political commentator.

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Input: The number of Russians living in poverty has reached its highest level since 2006, according to official statistics published by Russian news site Gazeta. Russia has been hit hard by a financial crisis since the end of 2014, when low oil prices and an exchange of sanctions with the EU and U.S. heaped pressure on its faltering currency, the ruble. The International Monetary Fund has projected that Russia’s recession will not end before the end of 2016. According to figures from Russia’s federal statistics office, Rosstat, by the end of 2015 the number of Russians living in poverty grew by 3.1 million annually, reaching 19.2 million.

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Input: ISIS claims its "fighters" launched the attacks in the Belgian capital. Hide Caption 1 of 68 Photos: The ISIS terror threat Syrians gather at the site of a double car bomb attack in the Al-Zahraa neighborhood of the Homs, Syria, on February 21, 2016. Multiple attacks in Homs and southern Damascus kill at least 122 and injure scores, according to the state-run SANA news agency. ISIS claimed responsibility.

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Input: | Samir Puri Read more Earlier in the week two other emergency centres and the only remaining maternity centre were bombed by jets, prompting a bitter response from US diplomats and vague claims that Washington was “reviewing options” about how to defuse a grave and deteriorating humanitarian crisis. The attacks on Aleppo have worsened since the breakdown of a ceasefire brokered by Russia and the US that had barely lasted a week before Russian jets and Syrian helicopters attacked and destroyed an aid convoy that had been permitted to cross into an opposition-held part of the country. The US and Europe have said Russia is acting in flagrant breach of international law. Three days of phone calls between US secretary of state John Kerry and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov have failed to slow the carnage.

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Input: Friday’s pageant consisted of a swimsuit competition, two formal-wear competitions and a question-and-answer portion. Asked about “pinkwashing,” the accusation that Israel exploits its LGBT rights record as a PR coup to hide its alleged abuses of Palestinians, pageant organizer Yisraela Stephani Lev said, according to The Jerusalem Post: “Listen, there is n’t propaganda here. We live in Tel Aviv, in Israel, the only sane country in the region where people can live as gays or transgender and no one is going to throw them off the rooftop or slaughter them. This is just the reality here. It’s not some sort of brainwashing or pinkwashing or whatever.”

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Input: China is constructing a modernized version of the old silk roads, with the intent not only of integrating the region under Chinese influence, but also of reaching Europe and the Middle Eastern oil-producing regions. It is pouring huge sums into creating an integrated Asian energy and commercial system, with extensive high-speed rail lines and pipelines. One element of the program is a highway through some of the world’s tallest mountains to the new Chinese-developed port of Gwadar in Pakistan, which will protect oil shipments from potential U.S. interference. The program may also, China and Pakistan hope, spur industrial development in Pakistan, which the United States has not undertaken despite massive military aid, and might also provide an incentive for Pakistan to clamp down on domestic terrorism, a serious issue for China in western Xinjiang Province. Gwadar will be part of China’s “string of pearls,” bases being constructed in the Indian Ocean for commercial purposes but potentially also for military use, with the expectation that China might someday be able to project power as far as the Persian Gulf for the first time in the modern era.

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Input: Mr. Clapper’s colleagues go a step further in less public conversations. They argue that Mr. Putin has played his hand skillfully, stringing along Secretary of State John Kerry in a yearlong negotiation over cease-fires and political transitions in Syria, all the while bolstering their proxy, President Bashar al-Assad. Mr. Kerry’s efforts in Syria all but collapsed this week in waves of Russian and Syrian government airstrikes. The deal in Ukraine is hanging on, but just barely: Russia conveniently ignores many of the commitments it signed and has denied involvement in the downing two years ago of a Malaysia Airlines jet flying over Ukraine that killed 298 people. The theft of voter rolls in Arizona and Illinois — and “poking around” in the networks of other states, as James B. Comey, the F.B.I.

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Input: Let’s start with the reality that has led the GOP to the crisis it now faces: Trump is not a Republican. Sure, he appears on the ballot with an R next to his name, but you are supporting a candidate who has hijacked your party. This is my fourth open letter urging you to withdraw your endorsement of Trump, and at no point have I suggested that my efforts are in support of Hillary Clinton; instead, these missives were written to preserve the two-party system and to save the GOP and its rational supporters from the toxin of Trumpism. I have already written to you about my experiences with Trump, dating back decades, that convinced me he will govern as recklessly as he has campaigned; I have also reviewed for you his repeated lies under oath and discussed the disturbing ruse of his “religious commitment.” Now I will address what, for you, Mr. Speaker, may be the most important point here: Trump will poison the Republican brand for decades because he embodies the racist, xenophobic, angry faction your party has exploited for the past eight years. The high point for the modern Republican Party may have been the 1984 GOP convention.

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Input: Gov. Andrew Cuomo said initial reviews indicate the maintenance train somehow entered clearance space for the eastbound Long Island train, causing it to derail. (AP) The gunman accused of fatally shooting two Palm Springs police officers, and injuring a third, opened fire after the cops responded to a “simple family disturbance.” If found guilty, 26-year -old John Felix, would be eligible for the death penalty. (Amy B Wang) Samsung Electronics is temporarily halting production of its Galaxy Note 7 phone, delivering yet another blow to the tech company as it seeks to recover some 2 million faulty devices that have been overheating and risk catching fire. (Wall Street Journal) More than 95 percent of national health and medical groups -- including the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association -- are sponsored by Coca-Cola or Pepsi, according to a new study.

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Input: 16/42 Christina Knudsen Sir Roger Moore’s stepdaughter Christina Knudsen has died from cancer on 25 July at teh age of 47 Getty Images 17/42 Caroline Aherne The actress Caroline Aherne has died from cancer on 2 July at the age of 52 Getty Images 18/42 Christina Grimmie Christina Grimmie, 22, who was an American singer and songwriter, known for her participation in the NBC singing competition The Voice, was signing autographs at a concert venue in Orlando on 10 June when an assailant shot her. Grimmie was transported to a local hospital where she died from her wounds on 11 June Getty 19/42 Kimbo Slice Former UFC and Bellator MMA fighter Kimbo Slice died after being admitted to hospital in Florida on 6 June, aged 42 Getty

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Input: Why make an issue about fighting crime?" Duterte highlights stain on US's colonial past In his comments, Duterte referred to an infamous US massacre in the southern Philippines. The US acquired the Philippines from Spain as a result of the 1898 Treaty of Paris, which brought an end to the Spanish-American War. Filipinos rose up against the US, waging a war that ended in 1902. But some of the Moro population -- a Muslim group in the south of the country -- continued to reject US rule, in what is known as the Moro Rebellion.

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Input: 2. “Her client, she represented got him off and she is seen laughing — on two occasions — laughing at the girl who was raped.” — Trump It is false to say that Hillary Clinton laughed about the rape of a 12-year -old. In 1975, Hillary Rodham was a young attorney when a criminal court judge appointed her to defend an indigent man accused of raping a 12-year -old girl. In the 1980s, Arkansas journalist Roy Reed interviewed Hillary Clinton about the case, recording their conversation on cassette tapes.

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Input: I called the President an asshole!’” He added, “I had been through hell already. If it’s this, I’ll admit to everything.” When the agents brought Hamada back to the courtroom, the judge recognized him and immediately dismissed his case. Hamada returned to Deir Ezzor, which he described as “a ghost city.” Two years of intense combat and air strikes had destroyed many of the buildings. The minaret of the Othman mosque had been shelled. His two nephews were still detained in the Air Force-intelligence branch in Damascus.

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Input: “Trump is playing these three people against each other.” This is the second time in two months Trump’s campaign has undergone a major shake-up. But, whereas the rise of Paul Manafort and firing of Corey Lewandowski in June was largely interpreted as a sign Trump was preparing to moderate and take on the trappings of a fully operational national general election campaign, the overhaul Wednesday signaled a turn toward conspiratorial posturing. While Trump’s promotion of Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway to campaign manager was widely regarded as a positive move that just came too late, Bannon’s involvement in the campaign, was a different story. “I expect Trump to double down now on being an outsider,” said Republican strategist John Feehery.

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Input: So, what would happen if Clinton takes the U.S.-Israeli relationship “to the next level”? Presumably that would mean taking a super-hard line against Iran over last year’s nuclear deal. Yet, already Iran is questioning whether its acceptance of extraordinary constraints on its nuclear program was worth it, given the U.S. unwillingness to grant meaningful relief on economic sanctions. A belligerent Clinton approach – decrying Iran’s behavior and imposing new sanctions – would strengthen Iran’s hard-line faction internally and might well lead to Iran renouncing the agreement on the grounds of American bad faith. That, of course, would please the neocons and Netanyahu by putting the “bomb-bomb-bomb Iran” option back in play.

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Input: And yet we’re not reimbursed fairly for what we do. We’re constantly, you know, sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games, doing other. We’re reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing. LANE: You know, well, they say and I think this is on public record, it’s basically 50 percent of the non-personnel cost is paid by South Korea and Japan. TRUMP: 50 percent?

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Input: Over 1,000 Pakistani girls are estimated to be the victims of honor killings by their relatives each year. Recently, a prominent Pakistani social media star was strangled to death by her brother on the charge of dishonoring the family. In his confession, the brother took pride in the murder and said: “Girls are born to stay home and follow traditions.” Shockingly, this is a practice that has reached our own shores. One such case involves an Iraqi immigrant who was sentenced to 34 years in jail for running over his own daughter claiming she had become “too Westernized.”

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Input: He sees the NATO alliance (correctly!) as a major bulwark against Russian expansionism in eastern Europe, and would be thrilled if it fractured. That would make it far easier to install friendly dictators in small nearby countries, like Estonia, or even annex them entirely. A Trump victory, then, seems like it might allow Putin to fulfill his fundamental foreign policy goal — reviving Russia’s Soviet-era influence over its region — to a degree previously thought impossible. Trump seems totally oblivious the fact that he would be throwing US allies under the bus — and, in fact, to Putin’s hostility toward the United States entirely.

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Input: ▪ He is a xenophobe. He has inflamed white supremacists across the country, refusing to denounce them in every campaign stop and interview. He has done irreparable damage, especially to young minds, with his vicious verbal assaults against Mexicans, Muslims and African-Americans, just to name a few groups he has targeted. ▪ He treats women terribly. He has left one wife after another — cheating on each — and is a serial abuser of women.

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Input: It was only after Hillary Clinton left the State Department in 2013 that Boko Haram was listed as a terrorist organization. In 2012, the State Department was resisting pressure from Congress and outside groups to list Boko Haram as a terrorist organization. In 2014, Robert Jackson, the State Department’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, testified before Congress that, “The government of Nigeria feared that designating these individuals and the organizations would bring them more attention, more publicity and be counterproductive.” Rwanda: In 2011, the Clinton Foundation lobbied the State Department to transfer funding away from AIDS programs to a training program for health professionals in Rwanda. This idea was approved over the explicit objections of some State Department officials.

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Input: The vessel is expected to arrive in the Med this Autumn, where it will liaise with land-based Russian forces already deployed in the region. The Admiral Kuznetsov will be packed with warplanes and attack choppers. RELATED STORIES ' CUBS OF THE CALIPHATE ' ISIS release shocking footage of child soldiers executing Taliban captives accused of spying BAGHDAD BOMBINGS At least 125 dead and 150 injured after ISIS car blast at shopping centre cages of death Chilling images reveal the hellhole prisons where ISIS captives were BURNED ALIVE as the jihadis fled Fallujah GOTCHA SAS soldiers shoot and kill three British ISIS extremists during 30 minute gun battle in Libya HOSTAGE DRAMA ISIS release gloating pictures of Bangladesh terror siege victims as its revealed all 20 killed were foreigners FREED TO KILL ISIS mastermind of Istanbul massacre ' dodged extradition to Russia because it breached HUMAN RIGHTS ' It will be carrying 15 Sukhoi Su-33 fighters and 15 MiG-29 warplanes, as well as 30 attack choppers. Airstrikes from coalition forces-including the UK and the US-have already left ISIS on the brink of collapse, and it is hoped Russia’s latest attempt will succeed at destroying what's left of the caliphate.

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Input: I would anticipate an even more bellicose, even less-connected-to-the-facts approach from the Trump campaign moving forward.” Other sources who spoke with The Hill were much more complimentary of Conway — but, for the most part, just as scathing of Bannon and Breitbart. Long-time Republican strategist John Feehery, who is also a columnist for The Hill, said he thought Conway was “a good hire” who could “bring some much-needed discipline” to Trump’s quest. But he added, regarding Bannon’s elevation: “I know how it is going to be perceived on the Hill and among the leadership: it’s not gon na be perceived very well. Because Breitbart are nuts!

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Input: Evidence has also indicated that Damascus has been using chemical weapons against the Syrian opposition and civilians, despite an agreement to reduce its stockpile two years ago. The Japan attack that Clapper referred to in his testimony occured in March 1995. Then, perpetrators hailing from the cult Aum Shinrikyo launched five coordinated Sarin gas attacks on the Toyko subway, killing 12, severely injuring 50 and leaving some 1,000 people with temporary vision impairment. Clapper dropped the latest revelation amid discussions of other worldwide national security threats, including North Korea, which he said has expanded a uranium enrichment facility and restarted a plutonium reactor that could start recovering material for nuclear weapons in weeks or months. Meanwhile, Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Islamic militants will continue plotting against U.S. interests overseas and homegrown attacks will pose the most significant threat from violent extremists to Americans at home.

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Input: Earlier, Comey said in an internal message to FBI employees that "we don't ordinarily tell Congress about ongoing investigations, but here I feel an obligation to do so given that I testified repeatedly in recent months that our investigation was completed." The note added that it would "be misleading to the American people were we not to supplement the record. At the same time, however, given that we don't know the significance of this newly discovered collection of e-mails, I don't want to create a misleading impression."

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Input: Where SECONDDATE Fits In This overview jibes with previously unpublished classified files provided by Snowden that illustrate how SECONDDATE is a component of BADDECISION, a broader NSA infiltration tool. SECONDDATE helps the NSA pull off a “man in the middle” attack against users on a wireless network, tricking them into thinking they’re talking to a safe website when in reality they’ve been sent a malicious payload from an NSA server. According to one December 2010 PowerPoint presentation titled “Introduction to BADDECISION,” that tool is also designed to send users of a wireless network, sometimes referred to as an 802.11 network, to FOXACID malware servers. Or, as the presentation puts it, BADDECISION is an “802.11 CNE [computer network exploitation] tool that uses a true man-in-the-middle attack and a frame injection technique to redirect a target client to a FOXACID server.” As another top-secret slide puts it, the attack homes in on “the greatest vulnerability to your computer: your web browser.”

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Input: That was in large part because of tax policies that slashed taxes on the wealthy, failed to invest in the middle class, took their eyes off of Wall Street, and created a perfect storm. In fact, Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006," Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money." Well, it did collapse. TRUMP: That's called business, by the way.

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Input: (AP Photo / Andy Wong, File) The world's count of wild tigers roaming forests from Russia to Vietnam has gone up for the first time in more than a century, with some 3,890 counted by conservation groups and national governments in the latest global census, wildlife conservation groups said Monday. The tally marks a turnaround from the last worldwide estimate in 2010, when the number of tigers in the wild hit an all-time low of about 3,200, according to the World Wildlife Fund and the Global Tiger Forum. India alone holds more than half of them, with 2,226 tigers roaming reserves across the country, from the southern tip of Kerala state to the eastern swamps in West Bengal, according to its last count in 2014. But while experts said the news was cause for celebration, they stopped short of saying the number of tigers itself was actually rising. In other words, it may just be that experts are aware of more tigers, thanks to the fact that survey methods are improving and more areas are being included.

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Input: Meanwhile, Moscow has warned the US not to carry out airstrikes against the Syrian army while Russia goes to the aid of President Bashar al Assad's forces. Defence Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov issued a statement on Thursday saying any US strikes on areas controlled by Mr Assad could jeopardise the lives of Russian servicemen. The statement said:" I would recommend our colleagues in Washington to carefully weigh possible consequences of the fulfilment of such plans." Video: What is Russia telling citizens about Syria? In Washington, State Department spokesman John Kirby responded:" We're looking at the full range of options here and those comments notwithstanding, we still have a responsibility as a government to consider all those options.

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Input: “Secretary Clinton proved tonight she is unfit to be commander-in-chief,” a top-ranking DOD intelligence source said. “What she did compromises our national security. She is cavalier and reckless and in my opinion should be detained and questioned so we can unravel why she did what she did.” According to Pentagon sources, the information Clinton disseminated publicly is Top Secret intelligence governed under the U.S. Special Access Program (SAP) which dictates safeguards and protocols for accessing and discussing highly classified and Top Secret intelligence. The specific details of the country’s nuclear response time discussed by Clinton, sources said, are only known by a handful of individuals outside top military brass … “Targeting options by ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missiles), air or sea, launch order, launch procedures and response are some of the most secretly guarded tenets of national security and nuclear war policy,” a Pentagon source said. “It’s truly incredible that (nuclear) response time as part of an ERO (Emergency Response Option) is now out there in the public domain to our adversaries.” U.S. Defense sources said according to developed U.S. counterintelligence, military officials in China, North Korea, Syria, Russia, Iran and even actors like ISIS had no previous definitive intelligence to determine the U.S. nuclear response time, especially during an ERO, prior to Clinton’s admission Wednesday night.

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Input: When asked about the latest on the energy projects between Turkey and Russia, Cavusoglu said the Akkuyu nuclear power plant process "will be accelerated." Erdogan has announced that the Akkuyu nuclear power plant project in Mersin province, southern Turkey, would be granted strategic investment status. In a 2010 agreement Russia said it would help construct and operate Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, which is expected to produce around 35 billion kilowatt-hours per year and cost around $ 25 billion." We will also initiate Turkish Stream works as soon as possible and make necessary and additional agreements accordingly," Cavusoglu said. Announced by Putin in Dec. 2014, the ' Turkish Stream ' pipeline will carry Russian gas via the Black Sea and Turkey to southeastern Europe.

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Input: US demands Russia stop bombing Syria's opposition after peace talks suspended in Geneva Updated US Secretary of State John Kerry has demanded Russia stop bombing the Syrian opposition, implicitly blaming Moscow for the collapse in peace talks.

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Input: At stake in 2016 is the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, and, possibly, control of the House of Representatives. Hence, Republicans have a decision to make. Will they set aside political and personal feuds and come together to win in November, after which they can fight over the future of the party, and the country? Or will they split apart, settling scores now, lose it all, and, then, after November, begin a battle to allocate blame for a historic defeat that will leave wounds that will never heal?

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Input: Washington recognises the PKK as a terror group, as does the European Union. Davutoglu accused the PYD of cooperating both the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad -- who Turkey wants to see ousted -- and his Russian allies, as well as committing war crimes." We are expecting a clear and unambiguous stand from the United States -- who we believe to be our allies -- against this slaughter of humanity," said the premier. 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."

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Input: The State Department report said the biggest human rights violations in Israel were terror attacks against civilians, and “institutional and societal discrimination” against Arabs, Israelis of Ethiopian extraction, women, non-Orthodox Jews and migrants. In the Palestinian territories, the report singled out the PA for failing “to condemn incidents of anti-Semitic expression and embraced as ‘martyrs’ individuals who died while carrying out attacks on Israeli civilians.” Hamas, it said, was guilty of a slew of humans rights abuses in the Gaza Strip, including “security forces killing, torturing, arbitrarily detaining, and harassing opponents, including Fatah members, and other Palestinians with impunity. Terrorist organizations and militant factions in the Gaza Strip launched rocket and mortar attacks against civilian targets in Israel, and they did so at or near civilian locations in Gaza.” The report also pointed at Israeli legislation forcing foreign government-funded NGOs to take certain measures, which critics say would target groups critical of the government.

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Input: By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL, Feb 1 (Reuters) -More than 3,600 Turkmens and Arabs fleeing advancing pro-government Syrian forces in the north of Latakia province have crossed into Turkey over the past four days, Turkish disaster agency AFAD said on Monday. A Turkmen official said several thousand more migrants were expected as a camp mostly sheltering Turkmens in the Syrian village of Yamadi was being evacuated after the pro-government forces backed by Russian air strikes advanced." In Syria's Turkmen region, following the intensifying attacks against Turkmen population thousands of families had taken shelter in the Yamadi camp across the Syrian side of the border," AFAD said in a statement." As the attacks have spilled over to Yamadi camp, the first group of 731 migrants, mostly babies, children, women and the elderly, have entered our country on Jan. 29," it said.

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Input: Talmudists enlisted in great numbers in October 1916 in Great Britain's Department of Defense. Their purpose was to facilitate transforming Talmudists throughout the world from pro-German to pro-British. After the London Agreement was concluded, Great Britain left no stone unturned to impress Talmudists in London with the necessity of immediately notifymg Talmudists throughout the world about Great Britain's pledge to turn over Palestine to them for their future sovereign Zionist state. Guided by the recommendation of Justice Brandeis that the sinking of the S.S. Sussex justified a declaration of war under international law against Germany by the United States, President Wilson addressed a joint session of both houses of Congress on April 2, 1917. In that address President Wilson pleaded with Congress to declare war against Germany.

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Input: A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for more meddling, intervention, and war, with more dead Americans and wasted dollars, and ultimately even more meddling, intervention, and war. She cloaks her constant push for war with praise of "American exceptionalism" and America's role as "the indispensable nation." In her speech to the American Legion she cited Ronald Reagan's belief in America as a "shining city on a hill," even though he urged the U.S. to lead by example, not by becoming an international dominatrix. In fact, Reagan was a veritable peacenik in comparison to Clinton, embracing missile defense out of his horror at the prospect of war. As justification for her belligerence Clinton affirmed "America's unique and unparalleled ability to be a force for peace and progress, a champion for freedom and opportunity."

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Input: But lawyers say the bank could have unusual leverage over him as it searches for a way out of its current crisis. [Inside Trump’s financial ties to Russia and his unusual flattery of Vladimir Putin] If Deutsche’s financial health was in danger, that could also potentially threaten Trump’s corporate interests, because the bank could freeze future lending to his companies. If the German government partially owned the bank, lawyers said, Trump’s dual rule as a business executive and chief diplomat could come into conflict. “The level of entanglements here are unprecedented,” said Ken Gross, the former elections enforcement official and lawyer who has advised presidential candidates from both parties, speaking generally outside the Deutsche case.

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Input: “These are acts that beg for an appropriate investigation of war crimes, and those who commit these would and should be held accountable for these actions,” Kerry added. For his part, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault spoke about the French efforts to push towards a ceasefire in Syria, describing the situation in Aleppo as “extremely dangerous”. Ayrault met, earlier, Russian officials to discuss efforts to reach a ceasefire especially after Washington-Moscow truce collapsed, tension increased and accusations were being exchanged. Yet, the political arena seems suspicious towards Obama’s administration desire or ability to take such a tough decision at the meantime.

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Input: Sign up for 30 days ' free trial, no obligation. Full subscription only 15 € / month or 150 € / year. Settlement expansion seen as obstacle to peace by EU, but the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement unwelcome (Photo: ISM-NC) The EU recently tightened up rules on grants and trade perks for settler firms as well as on retail labels for settler-made food, wine, and cosmetics. Faaberg-Anderson said, according to Israeli media: “The settlements are not part of Israel, and for that reason products from the settlements, although they are welcomed in the European market, they are not given the same preferential treatment.”

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Input: Capping a highly politicized debate, the US government on Saturday let go of its remaining grip on the internet, handing control of the net's address book to a nonprofit. Saying free speech in the virtual realm was at stake, Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and others had tried to block the transfer. But a federal judge denied on Friday their request for an injunction and the scheduled handoff took place at midnight. The transfer involved the internet's domain name system, or DNS, which translates the Web addresses you type into your browser, like "cnet.com," into the numerical language that net-connected computers use to communicate. Under a plan that's been in the works for years, the US Department of Commerce shuttled control of the DNS to a nonprofit called the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), whose multiple stakeholders include technical experts, as well as representatives of governments and businesses.

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Input: Dr. Jill Stein, Green Party presidential candidate. Ben Jealous, former NAACP president and Bernie Sanders surrogate, is now — gave the convention speech last night saying, as Bernie Sanders did, support Hillary Clinton. That does it for our broadcast. I’ll be speaking this weekend in Provincetown on Friday night, in Martha’s Vineyard on Saturday night. Check our website at democracynow.org.

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Input: Others shrugged at the news. Several were horrified. One, a partially disabled Saudi woman who'd secretly gone into debt to support a sick relative, said she was devastated. She'd kept her plight from members of her own family." This is a disaster," she said in a phone call.

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Input: To date, they have found no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised,” he said. The hack follows on the heels of breaches at the Democratic National Committee and at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee earlier this year. More than 19,000 emails from DNC officials were published on WikiLeaks just prior to the Democratic National Convention, casting a shadow over the proceedings. Some security experts and U.S. officials have attributed the breaches to Russian operatives, although the origin of the email leak is less certain. The DCCC is working with CrowdStrike to investigate the breach, according to Reuters.

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Input: You don't know what's going to happen," Chavez recalled of the state of terror in which they lived. ABC News What is now known of Mueller's 18 months of hell in ISIS hands has been drawn from the eyewitness accounts of a handful of fellow Western hostages like Saide and Chavez, who spent those six weeks with her in the spring of 2014 inside the oil refinery, as well as from the Yazidi teen who was imprisoned with Mueller in late 2014. Towards the end of Mueller's life, after her parents Carl and Marsha Mueller say the FBI and Obama administration had blocked opportunities to help them ransom their daughter, her spirit had apparently dimmed, her parents concluded after recently meeting the Yazidi girl, now 15, for the first time. Mueller was more optimistic about being freed when she briefly shared a cell with the Doctors Without Borders women in early 2014, the freed hostages said.

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Input: REUTERS / Damir Sagolj WUKAN, China Residents of a Chinese village once seen as a cradle of grassroots democracy were in shock on Wednesday after a "wild crackdown" by police in clashes with protesters which they said led to about 70 people being detained. Hong Kong rights activists fear Tuesday's violence marks a last-ditch push to silence Wukan, a southern fishing village in Guangdong province, which received international attention when a 2011 uprising over land grabs forced authorities to back down and grant local direct elections. MORE FROM REUTERS: Top German companies say refugees not ready for job market

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Input: “A mother spanked her son for watching porn ... but his teachers in school noticed bruises, complained, and the court made the mother pay a 8,000-ruble ($ 120) fine ... Parents no longer have the right to choose methods of up-bringing,” a statement on their website says. “Traditional, or rather archaic values have become popular again,” says Alyona Popova, activist and women’s rights advocate. High-profile stories of abuse — movie stars beating their wives into a coma, female journalists posting pictures of bruised faces after fighting with their significant others — have done little to change the situation. Indeed, commentators — both male and female — have even intimated that the victims “most probably provoked” incidents, “were asking for it with frivolous behavior,” or “knew who they were marrying and should have known better.” “Women are n’t supposed to be able to do and achieve things on their own,” says Popova.

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Input: This dramatic footage shows how two Syrian women risked their lives using a hidden camera to film life in Raqqa under the brutal rule of ISIS extremists. Video taken inside the terror group's Syrian stronghold shows armed guards patrolling deserted streets and landmark buildings reduced to rubble after years of civil war. The women describe gruesome public executions with extremists shooting their victims, decapitating them and putting their heads on sticks and leaving their bodies in the road to be run over. The women describe gruesome public executions with extremists shooting their victims, decapitating them and putting their heads on sticks and leaving their bodies in the road to be run over (file picture) In one scene, video shows how the faces of female models used to advertise hair products have been scribbled out with black marker pens by shopkeepers terrified of their hard line ISIS rulers.

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Input: Completely. There was speculation she had called Monday's news conference, which was streamed live online, to announce she was quitting tennis." I know many of you thought that I would be retiring today, but if I was ever going to announce my retirement it would not be in a downtown Los Angeles hotel with this fairly ugly carpet," she said. Maria Sharapova shot to stardom in 2004 by winning Wimbledon as a teenager According to BBC tennis commentator Andrew Castle, Sharapova's positive drugs test is "a hammer blow to the sport".

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Input: Both major-party nominees have made Pennsylvania a priority, peppering the state with advertising and campaign events. Last week alone, both Trump, the Republican nominee, and running mate Mike Pence Mike (Michael) Richard PenceDems threaten to gum up Senate over ' secret ' ObamaCare bill This week: Senate plots path on healthcare Pence family adopts new kitten, puppy MORE had events in the Keystone State, while first lady Michelle Obama Michelle ObamaMichelle Obama holds fitness ' bootcamps ' for friends Obama marks Father’s Day: ‘I'm most proud to be Sasha and Malia's dad’ Obamas invited to be honorary football coach at University of Michigan MORE — a top Clinton surrogate — spoke in Philadelphia. Franklin & Marshall College conducted its poll of 496 likely voters in Pennsylvania via online and telephone interviews from Sept. 28 to Oct. 2. It has a margin of error of 6.1 percentage points.

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Input: It was both fitting and chilling that the centerpiece of the second presidential debate was Donald Trump’s threat to imprison his opponent. That is the kind of act normally associated with autocrats like Ukraine’s Viktor Yanukovych (who jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in 2011), Myanmar’s military junta (which put opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest even before her party won the 1990 election), Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (who overthrew and imprisoned President Mohamed Morsi in 2013), and Russia’s Vladimir Putin (who in 2003 arrested Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a wealthy political adversary). Trump’s apologists tried to claim that he was n’t threatening to jail former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for being his political opponent but, rather, for supposed “felonies committed in office.” But this is exactly the kind of thing that dictators always say; no one ever admits to jailing the opposition for political reasons. The essence of democracy is not to criminalize political differences.

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Input: Jaw-dropping footage from Turkey shows fighters loading a Russian-made MANPADS surface-to-air missile launcher. Moments later a missile is hurtling towards a distant helicopter, smashing its rear rotor off and sending it into a tailspin. The helicopter then plummets to the floor trailing debris, in an attack that would claim the lives of both pilots. YOUTUBE DESTROYED: The Russian-made missile destroyed the Turkish helicopter “PKK has used Russia-origin MANPADS before, but not for several years” Charles Lister It comes after Turkey shot down a Russian plane in November, bringing the two nations to the brink of war.

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Input: While in Kabul, Kerry met with Gen. John Nicholson, the new commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, who is currently reviewing troop levels in Afghanistan. He also greeted U.S. and NATO troops to thank them for their service. Nicholson's predecessor, Gen. John Campbell, suggested as he was leaving the post that the United States may have to leave a larger presence to train and assist Afghan forces, as well as dial up pressure on the Taliban with airstrikes. Current rules of engagement only allow U.S. commanders to call in airstrikes to protect NATO troops and Afghan forces in imminent danger of being overrun by the Taliban. They can target al Qaeda and ISIS militants but can not conduct airstrikes against the Taliban unless they pose a direct threat to NATO or Afghan forces.

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Input: "It was discussed at the political level but it wasn't discussed as a military mission," Saudi Brigadier General Ahmed Asseri told Reuters." Once this is organized, and decided how many troops and how they will go and where they will go, we will participate in that." The cessation of hostilities agreement, the first of its kind since the Syrian civil war began in 2011, is a less formal arrangement than a ceasefire. It is meant to allow peace talks to resume and aid to reach besieged communities. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it was largely holding, with casualties greatly reduced compared with before the agreement took effect.

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Input: At the same time that it began to rely on other people’s money, the Trump Foundation sometimes appeared to flout IRS rules by purchasing things that seemed to benefit only Trump. In 2007, for instance, Trump and his wife, Melania, attended a benefit for a children’s charity held at Mar-a-Lago. The night’s entertainment was Michael Israel, who bills himself as “the original speed painter.” His frenetic act involved painting giant portraits in five to seven minutes — then auctioning off the art he’d just created. He painted Trump. Melania Trump bid $ 10,000.

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Input: He’s already tried with South Korea, another ally that he has threatened to pull American support from. On Thursday, Trump called South Korean President Park Geun-Hye and committed himself to protecting the US-Korean alliance. That’s a big deal, as South Korea has in the past contemplated acquiring nuclear weapons to protect itself from North Korea (Trump once suggested that would n’t be such a terrible idea). Trump needs to do something similar with NATO allies, telling the members of the alliance publicly that his administration will defend NATO allies and respect Article 5 without reservations. This will be one of the first tests how an America with Trump’s finger on the nuclear trigger will work.

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Input: The foundation will continue to raise money from American individuals and charities. “The only factor is that we remove the perception problems, if she wins the presidency,” he said, “and make sure that programs can continue in some form for people who are being helped.” But Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, a conservative group that has sued to obtain records from Mrs. Clinton’s time at the State Department, said that “the damage is done.” “The conflicts of interest are cast in stone, and it is something that the Clinton administration is going to have to grapple with,” Mr. Fitton said. “It will cast a shadow over their policies.”

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Input: Share on Facebook SHARE Share on Twitter TWEET Link Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes inspects construction work at the Olympic Park's Tennis Centre in December. Photo: Getty Images "We decided to do a ' stress test ' where taps and toilets were simultaneously turned on in apartments on several floors to see if the system could cope once the athletes are in-house.

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Input: Is it a coincidence that Russian state-controlled media are cheering on Trump at every turn? Is it a coincidence that top Trump foreign policy adviser Michael Flynn, a former general vetted for a spot on his ticket, sat near Putin at a celebration for the Russian propaganda outlet RT? Is it a coincidence that Trump’s business has increasingly relied on loans from Russian sources, and, in 2008, Donald Trump Jr. told a real estate conference that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross section of a lot of our assets”? Putin’s long game is to weaken Europe and dominate the region. That’s why he has supported — and loaned money to — right-wing populists around Europe: Marine Le Pen in France, Silvio Berlusconi in Italy, and anti-EU parties in Greece, Hungary and Bulgaria.

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Input: She was absent from the Fight for $ 15 before she tried to take credit for championing it. Third, Rampell alleges that Stein and Baraka have "trafficked in conspiracy theories." This assertion is based in part on Baraka appearing on a radio show with and allowing an article of his to be published by a person who turned out to be a Holocaust denier. But once Baraka found out about that person’s belief, he forcefully denounced it, saying he "abhor[s] and reject[s] any individual or group that fails to understand the tremendous suffering of Jewish people during that dark period." The "conspiracy theory" charge is also based on Stein’s responses to questions she’s been asked about wireless internet and 9/11.

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Input: It’s hard imagining a more deplorable candidate for any public office, unthinkable for the nation’s highest. Her presidency, if elected, assures endless wars of aggression, possible confrontation with Russia and China, letting Wall Street, other corporate bandits and war-profiteers continue looting the nation’s wealth, as well as likely advancing tyranny to full-blown, stripping the mask entirely off constitutional governance. Why any ordinary American would support a ruthless she-devil committed to undermining the lives, welfare and futures is shocking to imagine. A leaked transcript of Clinton’s June 2013 speech to Goldman Sachs officials and likely guests gives insight into her deplorable agenda – expressing views not stated on the stump.

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Input: Everyone but me was killed.” The attack is believed to have been targeting a group of Isis fighters who had moved into a house on the edge of the village five days earlier and were later joined by reinforcements. In another incident on 11 August, an air strike targeting a mortar factory in Atmeh, Aleppo governorate, destroyed two adjacent civilian homes and killed eight civilians including six children. Smoke rises from the the Syrian town of Ain al-Arab, known as Kobane by the Kurds, after a strike from the US-led coalition as it seen from the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern village of Mursitpinar, Sanliurfa province, on October 14, 2014. (AFP / Getty Images)

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Input: Listen to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump discuss some of his foreign policy positions with The Washington Post editorial board." NATO is costing us a fortune," Trump said." We're not reimbursed fairly for what we do." (The Washington Post) One of the most frustrating aspects about fact checking Donald Trump is that his staff almost never responds to queries or bothers to provide an explanation of his remarks.

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Input: “It’s a pretty hypocritical position to take,” said Richard Nephew, who served from 2013 to 2015 as principal deputy coordinator of sanctions policy at the U.S. State Department and spent nearly a decade working on Iran sanctions in the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama. “It suggests that his principles are pretty flexible when it comes to him getting paid.” A court document obtained by ICIJ indicates that Bank Melli’s rent on more than 8,000 square feet on the GM Building’s 44th floor may have topped half a million dollars a year. The legal ramifications of the Trump Organization taking rent payments from Bank Melli are unclear. At the time, the U.S. had a sweeping embargo in place which prohibited Americans from doing business with Iran, including receiving rent payments.

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Input: (Scene of Jaffa stabbing. Credit: Hadashot Tzavam)Police have ruled out the possibility that the attack was carried out by more than one individual, after carrying out searches in the area. According to Palestinian reports, the attacker was identified as a 22-year -old from the Palestinian village of Kalandiya in the West Bank. According to Magen David Adom, among the wounded, four were in serious condition, another four were in moderate condition and two others suffered light wounds. According to Channel 2, one of the victims in serious condition was a pregnant woman. Another victim suffering serious wounds was a Russian tourist. The incident occurred around the time that US Vice President Joe Biden arrived to the Peres Center for Peace, no more than a mile from the scene of the attack. A source from Biden's team said the US vice president's delegation was aware of the incident and had not altered its schedule.

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Input: He has praised Russia’s Vladimir Putin, whose backing of Syria’s Bashar Assad is contributing to the horrors in that country’s civil war. He has built an empire of buildings, ventures and clubs under the Trump moniker. But close inspections of his business legacy unveil a tarnished record filled with blemishes that go far beyond anything Clinton has suffered in her career. It’s undisputed that Trump solicited donations for his foundation — rarely giving his own money to the charity — and then shamelessly benefitted from the organization with gross self-dealing epitomized by purchasing a mural of himself to hang in his for-profit golf club. Trump boasts of playing the political game by donating to politicians to “buy” their favor on his issues.

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Input: Night Beacons of Gas Waste The Punta de Mata flare was measured in a new study that offers the most comprehensive look so far at gas being burned off around the world. The paper, written by researchers at NOAA and co-funded by the World Bank, attracted little notice when it was released on Christmas. But it’s the first set of results in a four-year effort to use new infrared imaging technology to map out where, and how much, natural gas is being flared. (See related story, “Space View of Natural Gas Flaring Darkened by Budget Woes.”)

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Input: President Rodrigo Duterte also wants to halt the 28 military exercises that are carried out with U.S. forces each year, Lorenzana said. Duterte has said he wants an ongoing U.S.-Philippine amphibious beach landing exercise to be the last in his six-year presidency as he backs away from what he views as too much dependence on the U.S. "This year would be the last," Duterte said of military exercises involving the Americans in a speech Friday in southern Davao city where he lashed out at the U.S. anew and repeated his readiness to be ousted from office for his hard-line stance." For as long as I am there, do not treat us like a doormat because you'll be sorry for it," Duterte said." I will not speak with you.

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Input: State-run Anadolu Agency says Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has called all legislators for an emergency meeting on Saturday. Parliament Speaker Ismail Kahraman earlier said that a bomb hit one corner of a public relations building inside the parliament complex, injuring some police officers. He said there were no fatalities and that all legislators were safe at a parliamentary shelter. Troops loyal to the government are moving to crush the coup attempt, arresting some 130 anti-government forces. A helicopter was flying over the area where the parliament is located and shots were being fired.

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Input: Tyler Drumheller, the former chief of CIA European operations, described a meeting in Washington with his BND counterpart in September 2002. Regarding Curveball, Drumheller said the German agent told him," We think he's probably a fabricator." That meeting is also part of the 2005 report from the commission that investigated the intelligence failures leading up to the war. Another top American spy manager, James Pavitt, said that information led to screaming matches inside the CIA." My people were saying, ' We think he's a stinker. '

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Input: “Memorial was holding a very important event at Dom Kino in central Moscow, but the guests and the participants were attacked by a group of aggressive protesters,” Zhemkova said. The protest was organised by the People’s Liberation Front nationalist movement, local media reported. Roughly 20 activists are said to have congregated outside, holding banners reading “we do n’t need alternative history” and shouting insults. Among those attacked was acclaimed Russian novelist Lyudmila Ulitskaya. The writer, who headed the jury of the school competition, was sprayed in the face with green disinfectant.

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Input: "I still have to go to the Blue Mosque and the old Turkish Bazaar, so I have to use that ticket ... We have no hard feelings towards Turkey. We know there are some mad people out there," he said. RUSSIAN DETENTIONSAla said nine other Germans were wounded in the blast, along with the Norwegian and one Peruvian. He vowed to work closely with Germany in investigating the attack. One person was detained late on Tuesday as part of the investigation, Ala said, but gave no details. He defended Turkey's record in fighting Islamic State, saying 200 suspects had been detained just a week before the blast. Turkey has rounded up hundreds of suspected Islamic State members since launching what it called a "synchronized war on terror" last July, raids which continued on Wednesday. Since the attack, police have detained a total of 65 people including 16 foreign nationals in six Turkish cities, the Dogan news agency reported. The Russian foreign ministry confirmed three of those detained were Russian nationals, but it was not immediately clear whether there was any connection to the Istanbul attack, for which there has been no claim of responsibility. Ala said Turkey had detained 3,318 people for suspected links to Islamic State and other radical groups since Syria's conflict began. Of that number, 847 were subsequently arrested, most of them foreigners.

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Input: Are we ashamed of standing essentially alone as the world’s number one arms dealer, or is our Weapons “R” Us role such a commonplace that we take it for granted, like death or taxes? The numbers should stagger anyone. According to the latest figures available from the Congressional Research Service, the United States was credited with more than half the value of all global arms transfer agreements in 2014, the most recent year for which full statistics are available. At 14 percent, the world’s second largest supplier, Russia, lagged far behind. Washington’s “leadership” in this field has never truly been challenged.

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Input: “I paid no attention to it whatsoever,” Wiley recalled. The multinational coalition had established a special tribunal, staffed by Iraqi judges and prosecutors, to hold legal proceedings in accordance with international standards. But the Iraqi government replaced judges who seemed sympathetic to the defense, and, days after Saddam’s lawyers appeared in news broadcasts, two of them were assassinated. In early 2006, the coalition hired Wiley to advise Saddam’s lawyers, whose principal argument was that the court itself was illegal. They regularly boycotted proceedings, leaving Iraq and watching the hearings on television.

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Input: Image copyright AFP Image caption The Syrian civilians are are fleeing a Russian-backed government offensive near Aleppo The number of Syrians trying to cross into Turkey amid an upsurge of fighting in northern Syria has nearly doubled, a Turkish official says. The governor of the Turkish border province of Kilis said 35,000 refugees had reached the border area-up from an estimated 20,000 on Friday.

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Input: A vile, hideous, bigoted, nasty, ignorant, deluded, psychotic, ruthless, preposterous, demented buffoon on a collision course to steal the White House and destroy the planet. Oh, and he’s a sexist, racist, homophobic, misogynist pig too, and every other word ending in ‘– ist’ you can think of for that matter. Actually he’s even worse than that; in fact, Trump’s the new Hitler – a man who, you may recall, ordered the slaughter of six million Jews. I know all this because I’ve been reading those exact descriptions about Trump for weeks in the US media, from a whole phalanx of intelligent, experienced journalists, broadcasters, politicians and pundits. Watching and reading American media, one would think Trump is a sexist, racist, homophobe, the new Hitler-and a misogynist pig

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Input: I am a 68-year -old American voter. I am a white American. I am a combat veteran of the U.S. Army; I served for 18½ years, received an honourable medical discharge, and was declared 100 per cent Service Connected Disabled. I have been married to the same wonderful woman for over 33 years, have four children with her. I grew up on a farm in the state of Maryland, which in the’ 50s and’ 60s, made my parents automatically Democrat.

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Input: "Those are extremely interesting. We will see what will come of them." Assange spoke from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he faces extradition over sexual assault allegations.

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Input: Given the choice of a man who promises to reinstitute Glass-Steagall, make college education free, and provide Medicare for all, and a woman who will animate conversations about gender equity, large numbers of female Democrats have chosen the former. Just as in 2008, Clinton has found herself rejected by her “natural constituency” as a less inspirational candidate, a less plausible agent of change than her male opponent — and this time, it’s rather more galling, because the opponent in question is not an elegant, younger black man who can sing Al Green songs, but a seventy-four-year-old white man with the oratory style of a staff sergeant. In Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders took 80 percent and 82 percent respectively of votes among women under the age of 30; in Nevada, he took 73 percent of the votes among women under the age of 45. In South Carolina and several of the states that voted on Super Tuesday, Clinton did much better with young women voters, but even in these contests, it was her popularity among minority voters of both sexes rather than gender solidarity that proved crucial to her victories. Clinton’s older female supporters, who have set so much store by Clinton running “as a woman,” have responded with some exasperation to the failure of the gender strategy.

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Input: Drawing a contrast with hawkish Republicans, Trump said “war and aggression will not be my first instinct” and pledged to deploy combat forces only as a last resort. Trump spoke to an invited audience of conservative-leaning national security experts, as well as some prominent foreign policy writers. Trump’s advisers cast Wednesday’s speech as the first in a series of policy addresses aimed at calming the nerves of Americans who worry the businessman does n’t have the experience to handle the range of responsibilities that land on a president’s desk. A speech on trade is expected soon. The Associated Press’ Jill Colvin and Julie Pace wrote this report.

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Input: "I don't think Russia wants that. I don't think Assad is going to benefit from that. There may be even other repercussions being discussed." Again, however, Kerry did not specify the consequences the Assad regime or Russia would face if it violated the cease-fire agreement." If Assad's strategy is to somehow think he's going to just carve out Aleppo and carve out a section of the country, I got news for you and for him: This war doesn't end," Kerry said.

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Input: ' Some are attempting to politicize this horrible tragedy, ' Seth Rich's parents told Daily Mail Online through a spokesperson ' There had been a struggle. His hands were bruised, his knees are bruised, his face is bruised, and yet he had two shots to his back, and yet they never took anything, ' his mother Mary told Washington's NBC affiliate. ' They took his life for literally no reason. ' So far, police have uncovered no clues to help solve his July 10 murder.

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Input: Mr Netanyahu also approved the planning of 240 new homes in settlement neighbourhoods of annexed east Jerusalem, as well as for 600 units for Palestinians in the city’s Beit Safafa district, media reported. Mr Netanyahu and Mr Lieberman issued no comment on the reported approvals, which follow calls inside Israel for a harsh response to a spate of attacks on Israelis in the West Bank. On Thursday, a 13-year -old Israeli-American girl was fatally stabbed in her home in the Kiryat Arba settlement, on the outskirts of Hebron. Her 19-year -old Palestinian assailant was shot dead by a security guard. A young woman related to the assailant was shot dead at a Hebron checkpoint the next day by Israeli security forces who accused her of drawing a knife.

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Input: Its inevitable reports of “irregularities” will provide the predicate for Trump to claim fraud. That, in turn, will prompt reactions like that already heard from a Trump supporter at a Mike Pence rally last week. After raising the specter of rigging, she said: “If Hillary Clinton gets in, I myself, I’m ready for a revolution, because we ca n’t have her in.” After a thousand cable broadcasts of that moment, Putin surely was still smiling. And the revolution? Putin understands that Washington is not Kiev; mobs are unlikely to mass in front of the White House or Congress.

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Input: A US official accused Israel of treating some Arab-Americans unequally after the Jewish state detained and denied entry into its borders five pro-Palestinian American activists. State Department spokesman Mark Toner on Tuesday reiterated the United States’ “concern” about “unequal treatment” following reports of the July 17 incident at Ben Gurion Airport. Upon their arrival on July 17, a US staffer for the organization US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and four other members of the group — all carrying US passports — were “interrogated by Israeli border police about their backgrounds and political involvement,” according to a statement issued by the organization Tuesday.

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