Input: Though the overall tally for United Russia was higher than the 49 percent it claimed in 2011, participation was low, particularly in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. Only 47.8 of voters cast their ballots, against 60 percent in 2011, electoral officials said. Sunday's election follows a tumultuous few years that have seen Russia seize the Crimea peninsula from Ukraine, plunge into its worst standoff with the West since the Cold War and start a military campaign in Syria. A Russian army officer holding a ballot walks through military cadets lining up to get their ballots at a polling station during a parliamentary election in Moscow, Russia A Russian army officer with his child, foreground, and military cadets line up to get their ballots at a polling station during a parliamentary elections

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

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Input: Video of what appears to be an Israeli-made suicide drone flying over the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, where Azerbaijan and Armenia have clashed in recent days, surfaced Tuesday, in what could be one of the first instances of such a weapon being used in combat. The drone, based on its distinct wing shape and nose, looks like an Israeli Aerospace Industries Harop loitering munition. Unlike, for instance, a Predator drone armed with a Hellfire missile, the Harop itself is the munition and destroys a target by ramming into it. [The crisis over Nagorno-Karabakh, explained] According to the manufacturer’s website, the Harop can be remotely piloted or it can find targets autonomously based on radar or radio wave emissions.

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Input: One of Trump’s most troubling business entanglements is in Turkey, a critical U.S. ally in the fight against ISIL in the Middle East. After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan presided over a 2012 ribbon-cutting dedication of a Trump property in Istanbul, relations between him and the real estate mogul have frayed, with the president speaking out against Trump’s derogatory remarks about Muslims. The politically influential Dogan family, whose Dogan Group was Trump’s Turkish business partner on the project, is embroiled in criminal allegations, with its owner facing charges that he engaged in a fuel-smuggling scheme. Eichewald writes: The Trump family rakes in untold millions of dollars from the Trump Organization every year.

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Input: That will make the Donbass a puppet state of the Russian Federation, whose future is set to be decided exclusively in Moscow. This is confirmation of the failure of the Minsk Agreement, adherence to which by Russia is merely pretence. Furthermore, the west's demand that Ukraine should enable democratic elections in the areas not under its control is taken to the absurd by the revelation. The political figures up for elections in such vote would not be the ones in charge for the development of the area. Those that hold on to power are located in Moscow.

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Input: Cecil says Republicans waited too long to take on Trump and that “there were many people who were writing him off pretty early in the process and never readjusted as the polls continued to show that he was ahead in so many places.” “And, frankly, they did n’t even adjust after the first couple of contests that he won,” Cecil said. “When you think about the amount of earned media … it’s very difficult to run a campaign in two weeks, three weeks, that’s going to compensate for being absent from the case for seven or eight months.” Asked whether that meant that Priorities would go after Trump aggressively before August, when its $ 70 million campaign begins, Cecil responded, “We do n’t foreclose the idea.” Priorities has already begun polling and focus groups on Trump and is working with American Bridge, an allied outside group run by Clinton supporter David Brock, on research into the billionaire’s business career.

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Input: “So far we have all lip service,” Trump said of the international reaction to Putin’s aggression during his comments in Kiev last September. Trump’s changed tone comes after a period in which he has drawn extensive counsel from relative newcomers to his orbit who have strong views about Ukraine and Russia. One of them is Manafort, whom Trump hired in March and named as his campaign chairman in mid-May. The 67-year -old Manafort advised Yanukovych’s successful presidential campaign in the winter of 2009-2010. Manafort’s client was viewed as the Kremlin-backed candidate against more Western-aligned rivals.

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Input: He did not set out to serve his country; he set out to multiply his father’s fortune. “When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same,” Trump has said. “The temperament is not that different.” Decades later, Trump has praised Putin as a forceful leader, a “better leader” than Barack Obama; Putin hardly conceals his hope that Trump will win election to the White House. What would be more advantageous for Putin than to see the United States elect an incompetent leader who just so happens to be content to leave the Russian regime to its own devices, particularly in Europe? Even as non-Democrats have variously described their own nominee as a “con,” a “bully,” and a “borderline” 9/11 conspiracy theorist, Putin has acted as a surrogate from afar, dropping clear hints at his preference, slyly declaring Trump “bright” and “talented without doubt.” The Times has reported that hackers who broke into the Democratic National Committee’s e-mail trove — a cyber version of the Watergate burglary — were likely agents of the Russian Federation.

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Input: The reality is that Hillary Clinton has at every turn fought for progress and opportunity. As her campaign continues, she'll continue to share exactly what those fights have entailed, and for who — domestically, on behalf of children, veterans, active military, first responders, victims of gender-based violence, family caregivers, pregnant women. As Secretary of State, she helped restore America's standing during challenging times, meaning that her tireless diplomatic efforts brought forth progress with tougher sanctions, missile reduction treaties, ceasefires and strengthened international coalitions. And critically, her core belief — that the improved lives of women and girls worldwide will leads to stronger and safer economies — is proving to be transformational in the 21st Century. If this is what Republicans are leaning on as their key argument against Hillary Clinton, they are insulting the intelligence of the electorate.

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Input: So now Clinton’s policy was the same as Bush Sr.’s: Saddam must go. And there was far more to the U.S. strategy than just intermittent bombing. The U.N. had imposed harsh sanctions on Iraq, and the Bush administration had explained frankly that it would use them as the world’s cruelest bank shot: The sanctions would kill Iraqis, which would motivate surviving Iraqis to overthrow Saddam, so that the killing could end. “Iraqis will pay the price,” said Robert Gates, then Bush Sr.’s national security adviser. “All possible sanctions will be maintained until [Hussein] is gone.”

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Input: Meanwhile, average Americans — the 93 percent who have not served — are told over and over by politicians and ideologically-affiliated media outlets about the alleged weaknesses of the military. Here, the contemporary blame lies overwhelmingly with the Republican Party. (This was not always the case; during the 2000 presidential election, Vice President Al Gore routinely promised to “do whatever is necessary in order to make sure our forces stay the strongest in the world” and even pledged to spend “twice as much” on defense than George W. Bush.) Given the frequency with which Republican presidential candidates in particular have taken to denigrating the military, it’s unsurprising that Americans increasingly believe that other countries have matched, or surpassed, the strength of U.S. armed forces.

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Input: In Greece, smugglers are peddling offers to take migrants clandestinely to Italy, either by boat from the Greek mainland or via a more precarious route walking through the mountainous terrain of Albania, where they can then cross the Adriatic Sea. Others are offering to take them on less guarded paths through Macedonian forests, or to Bulgaria to reach Serbia and beyond. In the camp at Idomeni, at the border with Macedonia, where more than 13,000 migrants have been stuck in muddy conditions after Macedonia sealed its border, talk of smuggling is everywhere. Migrants point to the Hara Hotel and to gas stations along the highway to Idomeni as places where smugglers loiter and operate. Video

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Input: The more important the Suez Canal became to the Rothschilds, the more the Rothschilds worried what was going to happen when the ninety-nine year concession for the Suez Canal expired in 1969 and reverted to Egypt as the concession provided. Great Britain spent large fortunes and spilled much blood in many wars to maintain uninterrupted and undisturbed possession of the Suez Canal. The Rothschilds knew that Egypt would be free to grant a new concession for the Suez Canal to a power unfriendly to Great Britain, like France, Germany or Russia, when the concession expired. The Rothschilds feared the consequences should the Suez Canal fall into the hands of an unfriendly power and Great Britain had many powers in mind who could make good use of the Suez Canal politically also against the British Empire. Rothschild Fortune Risked Collapse Without Middle East Controls Under Zionist Supervision The Rothschild dynasty's fortune and Great Britain's authority would diminish in the Far East if Great Britain no longer controlled the Suez Canal.

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Input: But Turkey considers the YPG a "terrorist" group and vehemently opposes its attempts to create a contiguous autonomous zone along its border, fearing it could strengthen the Kurdish rebels fighting the state in southeast Turkey. Ankara says the YPG has broken a promise made to the US to go back across the Euphrates River after advancing westwards earlier this month. On Sunday, the first Turkish casualty in the operation was flown home from Gaziantep for burial in his home province of Duzce on the Black Sea. Erdogan also met relatives of the victims of the August 20 suicide bombing in Gaziantep, which hit a Kurdish wedding, reaffirming his earlier claim that the bomber was a 14-year -old boy. -Condemning chemical attacks-

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Input: He’s likely to build on the Sanders case, but make it more forcefully. Trump is also seizing on several areas where he is to the left of Clinton. The night Sen. Ted Cruz Ted CruzAccess to palliative care needs to stay in new health bill Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (R-Texas) dropped out of the race, Trump hammered Clinton over former President Bill Clinton Bill ClintonTrump legal team spokesman used Twitter to criticize Trump Jonathan Taplin misses the mark on corporate dominance in tech Senate GOP shifts focus to Lynch MORE’s signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which the celebrity businessman said was the worst trade agreement in history. He’s also routinely noted that he opposed the Iraq War early on, while Clinton backed it. Clinton has called that vote a mistake.

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Input: (Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters) A pedestrian carries an umbrella in Port-au-Prince. (Carlos Garcia Rawlins / Reuters) A woman sweeps garbage left by the rain, in Port-au-Prince. (Hector Retamal / AFP / Getty Images) Workers go to evacuate residents from the Grise River area before Hurricane Matthew arrives, in Tabarre, Haiti. (Dieu Nalio Chery / AP) A woman protects herself from rain as Hurricane Matthew approaches in Les Cayes, Haiti. (Andres Martinez Casares / Reuters) Waves crash against the rocks in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Input: “Within a few days, I have accepted pre-empts and I expect to close in Germany, Israel, Sweden, Italy, and other territories before the London book fair [in April],” said Zitwer. Bandi’s stories are set in 1990s North Korea and include stories about a wife attempting to make breakfast during a famine and a factory supervisor trying avoid denouncing a friend while staying on the ruling party’s good side himself. They were smuggled out of the country with the help of the Happy Reunification Road Organisation, which works to help North Koreans and for the reunification of the country. It was published in South Korea in 2014 by Chogabje. Zitwer, who has worked with major Korean authors on titles including Kyung-Sook Shin’s Please Look After Mother and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, said it was “unheard of until now” to find a work of fiction from North Korea.

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Input: 9:25 p.m. Donald Trump is raising accusations of sexual misconduct by Bill Clinton, saying the former president "was abusive to women" and saying Hillary Clinton attacked the accusers "viciously." Trump is also noting that Hillary Clinton was a court-appointed defender for a man accused of assaulting a 12-year -old who was raped in Arkansas and says she laughed at some point while discussing it. He also says Bill Clinton paid a monetary settlement to Paula Jones, a former Arkansas state worker who alleged in 1991 that Bill Clinton propositioned and exposed himself to her. Trump says video where he made crude comments to women "it's just words, folks."

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

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Input: Khizr Khan, father of deceased Muslim U.S. soldier Humayun S. M. Khan, holds up a booklet of the U.S. Constitution as he delivers remarks on the fourth day of the Democratic National Convention, Thursday in Philadelphia. (Alex Wong / Getty Images) House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and vice-presidential nominee Gov.

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Input: Engels expected the papers to include evidence linking high-level Syrian officials to mass atrocities. After a decade spent training international criminal-justice practitioners in the Balkans, Afghanistan, and Cambodia, Engels now leads the regime-crimes unit of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability, an independent investigative body founded in 2012, in response to the Syrian war. In the past four years, people working for the organization have smuggled more than six hundred thousand government documents out of Syria, many of them from top-secret intelligence facilities. The documents are brought to the group’s headquarters, in a nondescript office building in Western Europe, sometimes under diplomatic cover. There, each page is scanned, assigned a bar code and a number, and stored underground.

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Input: Why? Why?’” Ilona Bogen, a 38-year -old nurse who immigrated from Lithuania about 15 years ago and who is one of the few likely to support Hillary Clinton, said she has no idea why Trump is currying favor with Putin. “Those two are like dictators,” she added. “I’m really scared.

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Input: You ca n’t win with two white guys anymore. If he would have picked a woman, she would have been forced to defend him.” Steve had carefully planned his political retreat, which became evident as he laid out his strategy for defeating the Clinton administration’s anti-gun agenda: Retain control of the Senate at all costs. “With a big set of balls, they could stop any Supreme Court nominee — as many as she gives 'em, because the Constitution does n’t say there needs to be nine justices,” Steve said. “The best thing that can happen in Washington is nothing, gridlock.”

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Input: But Clinton also gave a greater voice than any of his predecessors to the issues of racial and gender equality, cultural diversity and universal tolerance — all causes of the New Left. He promised voters a Cabinet that “looks like America,” and he kept his word, assembling the most diverse administration to date and placing unprecedented numbers of women and minorities in Cabinet and government posts. The “first black president” worked to compensate African American farmers for the billions of dollars they lost because of the government’s discriminatory farm loan program. Clinton’s National Homeownership Strategy helped lift minorities’ home ownership rates by about five percentage points (well above the average increase nationwide) and aided more than 2 million African Americans and Hispanics in acquiring their own homes. In addition, he contributed to their social mobility by raising the minimum wage by more than 20 percent.

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Input: They then fired shells at the crowd that had gathered in the town centre to receive the aid, killing two people and wounding five civilians, the Southern Front, an opposition coalition that controls the town, said in a statement. “Communities in Darayya are in need of everything, and it’s tragic that even the basics we were bringing today are being delayed unnecessarily. We must be able to provide aid impartially and safely,” said Marianne Gasser, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria (ICRC). “There must be minimum conditions for independent humanitarian action in Syria. Today those conditions were not met.

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Input: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Xavier and Laura Justo. Photograph: Javier Justo for the Guardian Between September 2010 and May 2011, 1MDB agreed to lend an additional $ 830 m to the joint venture with PetroSaudi – bringing 1MDB’s total investment to $ 1.83bn. Of these new payments, US officials allege, $ 330 m was paid into the Swiss account they say was controlled by Low, on the basis of a request by Obaid – who is identified in the US legal complaint as “PetroSaudi CEO”. Emails and bank records seen by the Guardian suggest that in the nine months from September 2010, Obaid transferred $ 77 m from his Swiss JP Morgan account to his PetroSaudi co-founder, Prince Turki bin Abdullah.

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Input: Advertisement For a man who claims our economic system needs an overhaul, Sanders has proposed only moderate approaches to combating police brutality by advocating for community policing and body cameras. Many young black activists believe that amounts to nothing more than putting a Band-Aid on a gunshot wound. Why not call for a broad rethinking of American policing? Advertisement

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Input: “It’s almost unlimited.” Spokesmen for Qingdao and Sichuan declined to comment. A Chengdu Airlines spokesman did n’t reply to faxed questions sent at his request. Recruits preferring to live outside China earn a bit less but are offered free flights home to visit family members. Also on the negotiating table: signing bonuses, overtime pay and contract-completion payouts.

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Input: Those two countries are, of course, Russia’s main rivals in Asia. Dividing them from America, and each other, would be a gift to the Kremlin. I always thought that if Trump looked like he was winning in November, we’d all need to invest in gold bullion, as Trump has promised to use dollar devaluation as a major tool against other countries. But maybe we need to invest in Russian stocks as well. They would surely benefit.

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Input: Wada's Anti-Doping Administration & Management System (ADAMS) allows athletes to enter information about their whereabouts from anywhere in the world to help the agency co-ordinate testing." Through regular security monitoring of ADAMS, the agency noted that someone, other than Ms Stepanova, had accessed her account," said the statement." A subsequent investigation allowed the agency to determine that no other athlete accounts on ADAMS have been accessed." Stepanova and her husband Vitaly, a former Russian anti-doping official, are currently living in a secret location following her evidence to Wada's report into Russian doping. Media playback is not supported on this device Russian drugs cheats will be in Rio-Stepanov

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Input: John O’Neill, a veteran FBI official credited with being focused before September 11, 2001 on the threat posed by Al Qaeda, left a briefcase in a Tampa hotel conference room in 2000 containing very sensitive, classified information (including e-mails) about counterintelligence and anti-terror operations in the New York area. The briefcase was found a few hours later in another hotel, with some items missing but the classified papers intact. Prosecutors also declined to prosecute O’Neill, but he quit the bureau before it could decide what discipline to impose for the incident. He took a new job managing security at the World Trade Center, where he was killed in the September 11, 2001, attacks. At the tail end of Bill Clinton’s Administration, the State Department cracked down on security violations after someone stole a laptop containing “Top Secret” arms-control-related information off a conference room table there.

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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: Dr Higley said:" It got into the river and they didn't tell the people living downstream that they were exposed." Locals suffered up to 20 times as much radiation as the Chernobyl victims, according to one documentary. It caused chronic radiation sickness, said Dr Higley, raising the risk of cancer and congenital abnormalities. NC / GETTY BACK IN ACTION: The Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre has reportedly reopened However, North Korea’s WMD factory is supposed to be the Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre, 200 miles from Kilju.

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Input: Top allies of Democratic presumptive nominee Hillary Clinton planned to falsely accuse presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump of rape, a leaked file from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) shows. The table of contents of the file shows that midway through the Democrats’ anti-Trump document is the supposed revelation that “Trump’s ex-wife accused him of rape.” advertisement

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Input: The U.S. share is calculated on the basis of gross national income — the total domestic and foreign output claimed by residents of a country — and adjusted regularly. Currently that would be about 22 percent, compared to about 15 percent for Germany, 11 percent for France, 10 percent for the United Kingdom, 8 percent for Italy, 7 percent for Canada, and so forth. “Common funding includes both annual funding for NATO civilian and military expenses (the latter includes spending on very few NATO owned assets and is a few billion a year) and any operational military expenses, which get voted on whenever the operation is authorized,” said Ivo Daalder, a former U.S. ambassador to NATO who is president of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. “This includes fuel for NATO AWACS aircraft, some headquarter costs, etc.” Here’s the full breakdown for the 2016-2017 budget period.

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Input: SANDERS: No, they would n’t. Look, here’s where we are. Let me reiterate. We have a global crisis. Pope Francis reminded us that we are on a suicide course.

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Input: “The East Europeans believe they are living on a razor’s edge,” Mr. Burns said. “They are really worried about Trump.” Madeleine K. Albright, a secretary of state in the Clinton administration who is advising Mrs. Clinton, recently returned from a trip to Britain. She told a friend that she was stunned to discover that people wanted to talk more about Mr. Trump than about the British vote to leave the European Union. Advertisement Continue reading the main story

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Input: “[ISIS leaders] know it’s hard for them to get Americans into America [from Syria]. … For America and Canada, it’s much easier for them to get them over the social network, because they say the Americans are dumb — they have open gun policies. They say we can radicalize them easily, and if they have no prior record, they can buy guns, so we do n’t need to have no contact man who has to provide guns for them.” Advertisement Even if Trump managed, through vetting, to prevent future terror attacks, he would n’t provide the security he’s promising to most Americans.

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Input: He says whatever he feels like at any given time because you can do that when you're a TV star. But you can't do that when you're president of the United States." Kaine also chided Trump for his meeting last week with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, with whom he later entered into an online spat over whether they discussed if Mexico would pay for a wall along the US-Mexico border." Just hours after his first international foray into foreign relations, Trump was in an online feud with one of our neighboring heads of state, our second largest trading partner," Kaine said." Now, if you're going to get into a feud with an ally, how about dealing with an adversary?

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Input: Both Donald and Ivana have denied the allegations, but it remains unclear if she did in fact accuse him of sexual assault in court, as the documents in the case were sealed. 26 years later, little is known about the terms and conditions of the split other than that Ivana's reason for filing was “cruel and unusual treatment." Now, several major media outlets-The New York Times and USA Today parent company Gannett among them-have requested that the New York State Supreme Court unseal the court documents from Trump's divorce proceedings. The outlets argue that revealing whether or not Ivana made the allegations would "resolve an ongoing campaign controversy" that's been debated for over a year now. The Trump campaign maintains that releasing the transcripts would represent a gross violation of the candidate's privacy.

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Input: “Just last week, Donald Trump courted votes in Orlando from some of the nation’s most notorious anti-LGBTQ activists, including people who have worked to export anti-LGBTQ hate abroad. Trump and Pence have vowed to to roll back nationwide marriage equality, supported vile laws like North Carolina’s HB2 and pledged to appoint anti-LGBTQ Supreme Court justices. Pence is best known by most Americans for the hateful denial-of-service law he peddled in Indiana last year, and even sought to divert funding from HIV programs to promote the abusive practice of so-called ‘conversion therapy.’” Even the Log Cabin Republicans, a group for gay members of the GOP, had a tepid reaction to the Trump plan. “Overly broad ideological litmus tests are difficult to implement,” said Log Cabin president Gregory T. Angelo, “but something must be done to address the threat of radical Islamic terror to the LGBT community, both abroad and at home, and Donald Trump clearly understands that.”

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Input: Restrictive measures against Turkey also came into force on Friday, which were adopted by Russian side in retaliation for Turkey's downing of a Russian Su-24 attack aircraft in November of 2015. The import of Turkish foodstuffs and other agricultural products to Russia is banned starting from Friday. According to a decree signed by Putin on Nov. 28 of 2015, Russia would stop importing a wide range of Turkish agricultural products including fruit and vegetables, salt, poultry products and so on. While charter flights in both directions were banned, the visa-free travel regime between the two countries was suspended to "ensure national security of the Russian Federation from criminal and other illegal activities." Russian companies will be banned from hiring Turkish citizens starting from Friday.

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Input: However, Commander John Harbour, a spokesman for the EU naval force in Somalia, told the BBC that the loss of navigation equipment would not necessarily be critical and that the signal from the beacon could vanish if the battery ran out or it entered a satellite blind spot. One Somali news website reported a conversation with an unidentified pirate who claimed the men were indeed dead – but said they had all been shot before they were loaded into the skiff. There is no evidence for this account, and photographs from the Moscow University seem to support Russian reports that marines killed one pirate in a firefight, and took the other ten captive. Commander Harbour observed that the Russian navy was within its rights to release the men as it did – and it is probable that the boat they were returned to was one of their own. He congratulated the Russians on a “brave” and successful action against piracy.

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Input: As evidence of success, it can point to its landmark nuclear deal with Iran, the historic diplomatic opening to Cuba and a sweeping international climate change deal-all of which a senior administration official said will likely be touted in Tuesday’s speech. He has also forged a major Asia-Pacific trade pact but faces an uphill fight to get it through Congress. For the coming year, Obama has left the door open to using executive powers to fulfill his early pledge to close the Guantanamo military prison, and could also act on his own to further loosen the half-century-old economic embargo on Cuba. “The president will be focused on finishing strong on his foreign policy agenda,” the senior administration official told Reuters. “In no lexicon I’m aware of is this a strategy of containment.”

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Input: The Australian has been living in the embassy for over four years and has been granted political asylum by Ecuador. He is due to be questioned over a sex allegation in Sweden-which he denies. Mr Assange believes that if he goes to Sweden he will be extradited to the United States for questioning over the activities of WikiLeaks. The ex-Baywatch star told the Press Association: ' I really believe in him and think he's a good person, and I'm concerned about his health, his family, and I just hope that by some miracle he's set free. ' Assange has been hiding out at the Ecuadorian Embassy (pictured here on a balcony in the embassy in February) for four years to avoid a rape investigation in his native Sweden

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Input: His massive ego and his bombastic statements reveal someone who sees things entirely in black and white and can not perceive that many situations around the world are highly complex and require sophisticated judgments. The Obama administration attempted to reset relations with Russia at a very different time. But here we have a situation in 2016 where [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has invaded and annexed Crimea, invaded and divided the Donbas region in Ukraine, and threatened NATO allies — Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. So it is naïve to think that somehow we can have a productive relationship with Russia when Russia is engaging in territorial land grabs over the last two years. I was struck by the fact that Trump was very soft and accommodating toward Russia in his speech and did not mention Crimea, Ukraine, or the threats to our NATO allies. What kind of Commander in Chief would he be? The first job of an American President is to defend American interests, but you also want to be able to defend our allies and work very closely with them.

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Input: A witness told MailOnline: ' The groups of fans were chasing each other backwards and forwards. ' An English went too far ahead and was cornered. He was punched to the ground and they were kicking him. Then they threw him in the water. ' He was helped out by an Algerian family who had set up their market stall.

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Input: Crowd still chanting despite final warning from police. pic.twitter.com/AmFg3zm319 — Terry L Jones (@tjonesreporter) July 11, 2016 Eventually, there was a spate of forcible arrests, even of protesters who had retreated from the streets onto sidewalks and, in one case, into the front yard of a woman who tried to shelter them. After 50 demonstrators were taken away, Lisa Batiste, the woman whose front yard was raided by the police, told the CBS News correspondent David Begnaud she was shocked and disappointed by the behavior of the police. Baton Rouge home owner "very upset" after police storm her yard arresting protesters who had permission to be there pic.twitter.com/gwE8aRGKfL — David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) July 11, 2016

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Input: Development Secretary Priti Patel slammed the “barbaric assault on the world’s humanity” Not known 13 Rescuers cover bodies of adults and children killed in bomb attack on UK-funded schools in the Idlib province of Northern Syria Ms Patel hit out after 35 were killed in the bombardment of the Ahmad Kalaji school complex in Hass, in the Idlib province on Wednesday. The UK pay nine teachers’ salaries at the three schools as part of a £ 12.6 million education programme, the Sun can reveal. At least 22 children and six teachers died in the attack according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

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Input: The president sent the son of a CIA agent, Frank Wisner, to deliver the “it’s time for you to go” message to Mubarak. Even as Mubarak had one foot out the door, Vice President Joe Biden refused to refer to Mubarak as a dictator. All the while, the US was busy directly funding groups (not only in Egypt) that were training young student “leaders” to follow in the footsteps of OTPOR!, the US-funded group that helped its agenda by destabilizing Serbia with protests and increased civil strife, thereby easing the ouster of Serbia’s President Slobodan Milosovic. Occupy Movement activists were chagrined to learn that Srdja Popovic, who they had met, was actually working for Stratfor, an intelligence company that fancies itself the “Shadow CIA.” In research for my dissertation, I even found an OTPOR! manual for the destabilization of Venezuela.

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Input: (June 29) AP 9 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT President Obama on Istanbul attack | 1:59 Obama spoke on the attack after a meeting with the president of Mexico. Time 10 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT First look inside Istanbul Airport | 1:11 Officials on Wednesday began assessing the damage caused to the terminal at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, which was attacked by suicide bombers. (June 29) AP 11 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT ' Like Hell ': Istanbul airport attack witnesses describe bloody scene | 1:27 The attack at Ataturk Airport on Tuesday killed 41 people and injured more than 200. Newslook 12 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT Anxious travellers react to deadly Istanbul airport attack | 1:07 A triple suicide bombing and gun attack at Istanbul's Ataturk airport has killed scores of people, including foreigners, with Turkey's prime minister saying early signs pointed to an assault by the Islamic State group. Newslook 13 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT France's Hollande condemns the Istanbul airport attack | 0:38 French President Francois Hollande condemns the Istanbul airport attack that left at least 41 dead. Video provided by AFP Newslook 14 of 19 Skip in Skip x Embed x Share CLOSE SUICIDE ATTACK AT ISTANBUL AIRPORT Timeline of terror: Attacks across Europe since 2004 | 2:16 The deadly explosions in Istanbul are just the latest in a series of terror attacks on European soil in recent years.

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Input: CNN witnessed dozens of protesters being driven from the site in buses. The group consists largely of women who have been arrested and imprisoned for speaking out against the government here. Jose Daniel Ferrer, a Cuban dissident who was imprisoned for eight years beginning in 2008, said Obama could harness the attention from his trip to make a loud demand for political reform, citing President Ronald Reagan's demand in 1987 for the Soviet Union to "tear down this wall." But Ferrer, speaking with CNN in his home Sunday, conceded that even incremental change is beneficial to the island's politically oppressed citizenry." It's a support gesture, it's a solidarity gesture for the struggle that we are taking forward," he said.

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Input: Rumours of US military activity in the area have been circulating for weeks, Stratfor says. Rmeilan is in Hassakeh province in north-east Syria. In October the US dropped supply pallets containing more than 45 tonnes of ammunition to rebels in the province. Murad Batal Shishani, BBC Islamic Groups analyst The imagery appears to confirm growing rumours over the past couple of days about the presence of a runway.

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Input: From David Weigel: “Sanders cast his vote on the first of four gun safety amendments before most of his colleagues showed up, then ducked into the cloakroom. When he returned, he sat for a while with Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), the only colleague who'd endorsed him, and the two were occasionally, happily interrupted by well-wishers of both parties." Trump confers with Marco Rubio during the disastrous Feb. 6 debate in New Hampshire that essentially ended Rubio's 2016 presidential hopes. (Jewel Samad / AFP / Getty Images) -- Coming attraction: Rubio told a Post reporter on his way out of the Capitol last night that his announcement about running for the Senate again is coming "sooner rather than later."

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Input: The neo-McCarthyism adopted by the Clinton campaign to deflect any reasonable criticisms one may have of her flawed candidacy is unnecessary and paranoid. Not only this, but it draws attention away from the real issues and problems that the US faces as a nation — many of which Clinton and fellow centrists have been the root cause of. Whenever Clinton pivots to Trump’s or WikiLeaks’s alleged “associations” with Russia in response to valid criticism of her campaign, you know that she is as guilty as sin. Of course, the baseless red-baiting claims made by Clinton are being repeated by her friends in the press. As a uniting figure between both moderate Republican and Democrat establishment media, she has led swathes of commentators to publish scare stories relating to Trump and the Russian government.

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Input: (Orlando Barra / EPA) Three men pull a trunk stuck under a bridge after the passage of Hurricane Matthew in Chantal, Haiti. (Andres Martinez Casares / Reuters) People use a handmade ladder after a bridge was destroyed in Chantal, Haiti. (Andres Martinez Casares / Reuters) Men transport a wounded woman in Chantal, Haiti. (Andres Martinez Casares / Reuters) People search for belongings in the devastation caused by Hurricane Matthew in Baracia, Cuba. (Alejandro Ernesto / European Pressphoto Agency) People dry their mattresses in Baracia.

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Input: The House Judiciary Committee is expected to hold a hearing when Congress returns from its summer recess next month on allegations that Clinton committed perjury while discussing her private email setup before the House Select Committee on Benghazi last year. FBI Director James Comey announced in July that the Justice Department would not indict Clinton or her aides for mishandling classified information. Rep. Adam Schiff Adam SchiffSchiff: Russia investigation is just beginning Sunday shows preview: Trump pushes back as Russia probe heats up Dem: Congress will begin impeachment if Trump fires Mueller, Rosenstein MORE (Calif.), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, dismissed the idea of a special prosecutor during an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell on Tuesday." There's no evidence at all of any illegality in terms of Clinton Foundation and the secretary of State's of work," he said." The most that has come to surface is that some of the Clinton Foundation supporters also met with the secretary of State, which you would imagine would be the case.

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Input: According to the two former executives, the Trump Organization received an annual fee of approximately $ 8 million a year. Shortly after the deal was signed, the parent company of Daewoo Engineering and Construction, the Daewoo Group, collapsed into bankruptcy amid allegations of what proved to be a $ 43 billion accounting fraud. The chairman of the Daewoo Group, Kim Woo Choong, fled to North Korea; he returned in 2005, was arrested and convicted of embezzlement and sentenced to 10 years in prison. According to the two former Daewoo executives, a reorganization of Daewoo after its bankruptcy required revisions in the Trump contract, but the Trump Organization still remains allied with Daewoo Engineering and Construction. This relationship puts Trump’s foreign policies in conflict with his financial interests.

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Input: He answered "not guilty" when asked to enter his plea to the five-count indictment. A jury trial was scheduled for Feb. 23. Marquez could be sent to prison for as long as 50 years if he's convicted. His lawyer, Young J. Kim, declined to comment after the arraignment. According to the FBI, during 10 days of interviews Marquez revealed plots he and his friend, Syed Rizwan Farook, discussed but never carried out to slaughter students at a community college and murder motorists on a congested freeway.

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Input: “She [Merkel] told me this morning that she sided with her parliamentary group,” Wirtz said ahead of the vote. Although, Turkey admits that tens of thousands of Armenians were killed from 1915 to 1917, it denies that this constituted an act of genocide by Turkish Ottoman forces, insisting that the number of casualties is greatly exaggerated. Ottoman authorities began the mass killings in question on April 24, 1915, when 250 Armenian intellectuals were detained and later executed in their capital, Constantinople, which is present-day Istanbul. Most of the Ottoman Empire’s Armenians were subsequently displaced, deported, or placed in concentration camps, affecting up to 1.5 million people, ostensibly for rebelling against the Ottomans and siding with the Russians during World War I.

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Input: CNN witnessed dozens of protesters being driven from the site in buses. The group consists largely of women who have been arrested and imprisoned for speaking out against the government here. Jose Daniel Ferrer, a Cuban dissident who was imprisoned for eight years beginning in 2008, said Obama could harness the attention from his trip to make a loud demand for political reform, citing President Ronald Reagan's demand in 1987 for the Soviet Union to "tear down this wall." But Ferrer, speaking with CNN in his home Sunday, conceded that even incremental change is beneficial to the island's politically oppressed citizenry." It's a support gesture, it's a solidarity gesture for the struggle that we are taking forward," he said.

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Input: "What Larry King does with the interview content is up to him; we have nothing to do with it," the spokesman said. However, Trump previously appeared on "Politicking" in October 2013, less than a year after King joined the network. Meanwhile, retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, a prominent Trump adviser, accepted an invitation from RT to attend a dinner in Moscow last year, where he was seated next to Putin. Arkady Ostrovsky, an editor at the Economist and the author of "The Invention of Russia: From Gorbachev's Freedom to Putin's War," said the Trump campaign's explanation is plausible." It's what they do," Ostrovsk said.

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Input: This would allow us to measure how authoritarianism coincided or didn't with our other sets of questions. The second set asked standard election-season questions on preferred candidates and party affiliation. The third set tested voters ' fears of a series of physical threats, ranging from ISIS and Russia to viruses and car accidents. The fourth set tested policy preferences, in an attempt to see how authoritarianism might lead voters to support particular policies. If the research were right, then we'd expect people who scored highly on authoritarianism to express outsize fear of "outsider" threats such as ISIS or foreign governments versus other threats.

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Input: Daniel Rye Ottosen The only period in Mueller's 18 horrifying months as an ISIS hostage when she wasn't subjected to some form of torture, verbal abuse, prolonged isolation, sensory deprivation, stress positions, forced labor or sexual assault before she died in captivity was the six weeks she was held at an abandoned oil refinery in Syria, with other Western hostages in 2014. Because many of the ISIS captives were being individually negotiated for ransom with their governments, employers or families, the women, at least, inside the makeshift prison south of ISIS stronghold Raqqa were not subjected to the kind of abuses that Mueller said she experienced in other ISIS prisons before and after her time there, according to the Mueller family and those held captive with her. Three of the Westerners released by ISIS and a Yazidi teenager who escaped captivity provided eyewitness accounts to ABC News of Mueller's strength, selflessness and will to survive amid her considerable suffering, including details she gave them of her treatment when she was completely alone for most of her confinement by the terrorist group." They would scream at her, and they would, you know, blame her for everything that America has done in the world," Frida Saide, one of three women from Doctors Without Borders who shared a cell with Mueller at the oil refinery, told ABC News in an interview this month.

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Input: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is worth $ 55.5 billion, surpassing Oracle founder Larry Ellison, who fell to No. 5 at $ 49.3 billion. New York City grocery mogul John Catsimatidis immigrated to the United States from Greece as an infant. He is worth $ 3.3 billion. (Andrew H. Walker / Getty Images)

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Input: The driver of the vehicle survived the blast — suggesting it originated in the middle of the bus. The incident comes at a highly sensitive time for landlocked Armenia, which has not experienced any major terrorist incidents since the 1990s. Four days of clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops in early April in Nagorno-Karabakh claimed over 100 fatalities — the greatest loss of life in the conflict since a 1994 ceasefire ended a bloody ethnic war that erupted in the dying days of the Soviet Union. The violence threatens to destabilize a sensitive region bordered by Turkey, Russia and Iran. Photo: REUTERS / Vahan Stepanyan / PAN Photo

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

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Input: The bank also joined the Clinton Foundation to launch entrepreneurship and inner-city loan programs, through which it lent $ 32 million. And it paid former president Bill Clinton $ 1.5 million.” During the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton’s campaign has said that “when Wall Street executives commit criminal wrongdoing, they deserve to face criminal prosecution.” An IBT analysis found that the Clinton Foundation has accepted $ 5 million worth of donations from at least nine financial institutions that reached settlement agreements with the Justice Department that required them to pay big fines but let them avoid prosecution. Coal: The Intercept reported this week that in an email exchange, a Clinton Foundation donor hired as a political consultant for Peabody Energy made an effort to secure a meeting between Hillary Clinton and executives at the coal company. The correspondence was initiated by Joyce Aboussie — who gave the Clinton Foundation between $ 100,000 and $ 250,000 and worked for the lobbying firm of former House Democratic Leader Dick Gephardt.

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Input: In Aleppo, you had fights, and they pictured themselves over the bodies of Syrian soldiers, the White Helmets with al-Nusra.” But instead of presenting the horrors of Aleppo, Assad said western media is portraying terrorists as “good people who are sacrificing their lives to help the others and children.” The only way to stop terrorism in short term is to annihilate armed militants, Assad believes, while in the long term focusing on efforts to battle the jihadist ideology. READ MORE: Several killed, injured in shelling of gov’t -held area of Aleppo (EXCLUSIVE VIDEO) “If you talk about those fighters, ideological fighters, or terrorists, let’s say, who are fighting our army, the only way is to fight them and kill them.

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Input: His wife now lives alone with their 4-year -old son in a sparsely furnished apartment on the ground floor of a drab Soviet-era apartment block. After her husband was arrested, Anastasia Bubeyeva, 23, dropped out of medical school because she couldn't find affordable day care for her child, who still wears an eye patch for an injury he suffered when he bumped his head during the raid. Several months after his arrest, Bubeyev pleaded guilty to inciting hatred toward Russians and was sentenced to a year in prison. His offense was sharing articles, photos and videos from Ukrainian nationalist groups, including those of the volunteer Azov battalion fighting Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. Among them was an article about the graves of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine and a video describing Russia as a "fascist aggressor" and showing Russian tanks purportedly crossing into Ukraine.

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Input: Wolfowitz: It would be a huge mistake to abandon democracy promotion. Peaceful political change has been enormously successful in the past years in Eastern European countries as well as in countries like South Korea, South Africa, Chile and Indonesia. However, if possible, the use of force is something to avoid except in cases where genocide is threatened, like Bosnia or Libya or with regimes that threaten our security, like the Taliban and Saddam Hussein. After a regime is removed, however, it is dangerous to leave a security vacuum. This is where we failed in Libya and in Iraq.

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Input: He has promised to kick all Syrian refugees out of the United States and relocate them to a “safe zone” in their war-torn country that he would force the Gulf States to finance. Trump has also said he would shut down parts of the Internet so that the Islamic State can not recruit young Americans, an idea that he has yet to fully explain. After a terrorist attack in France this summer, Trump said he would request war authorization from Congress — an unprecedented departure from long-standing practice for American military engagement that would grant the president sweeping powers not invoked since World War II. Trump has also called for the United States to mobilize a NATO coalition against terrorists — which has already happened — even while calling the alliance obsolete and complaining about its cost. Concerns by experts

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Input: Like false-flag kind of thing. You know, that’s how I started thinking about all this stuff after being in Russia.” In his research from St. Petersburg, Chen discovered that Russian internet trolls — paid by the Kremlin to spread false information on the internet — have been behind a number of “highly coordinated campaigns” to deceive the American public. It’s a brand of information warfare, known as “dezinformatsiya,” that has been used by the Russians since at least the Cold War. The disinformation campaigns are only one “active measure” tool used by Russian intelligence to “sow discord among,” and within, allies perceived hostile to Russia.

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

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Input: Forty-nine dead in a mass shooting in Florida. Shootings by police claiming the lives of black Americans in Louisiana, Minnesota, and Maryland. Fatal shootings of police in Texas, Louisiana, and California. Breaking reports of horror follow one another fast enough to induce a kind of whiplash. Or consider the strenuousness with which each political party now routinely denies that Americans are inherently violent, a refrain that can begin to feel like protesting too much.

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Input: Broad new sanctions would be imposed on Russia's mining, metals, shipping and railways sectors. The measure would punish individuals who conduct what the senators described as "malicious cyber activity on behalf of the Russian government." Also covered by the sanctions are people doing business with Russian intelligence and defense agencies. The Senate bill also would cement in law a series of executive orders signed by Obama and aimed at punishing Russia for aggressive behavior, including its 2014 annexation of Crimea and support for separatist rebels in Ukraine's east. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Thursday the Trump administration is still reviewing the Senate legislation and is committed to keeping existing sanctions in place "until Moscow fully honors its commitments to resolve the crisis in Ukraine.

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Input: Trump does not appear to have any understanding of the general purpose of military alliances. Here he is speaking not just of NATO but of the general American practice of forming security alliances with foreign countries — a practice he seems to think should be replaced by an imperial regime in which America extorts cash tribute from countries under our thumb: TRUMP: If we can not be properly reimbursed for the tremendous cost of our military protecting other countries, and in many cases the countries I’m talking about are extremely rich. Then if we can not make a deal, which I believe we will be able to, and which I would prefer being able to, but if we can not make a deal, I would like you to say, I would prefer being able to, some people, the one thing they took out of your last story, you know, some people, the fools and the haters, they said, “Oh, Trump does n’t want to protect you.” I would prefer that we be able to continue, but if we are not going to be reasonably reimbursed for the tremendous cost of protecting these massive nations with tremendous wealth — you have the tape going on? SANGER: We do.

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Input: What he would do about them is sometimes less clear. The Wall The centerpiece of Trump's presidential campaign is the plan to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico as a barrier against illegal migration, criminals and narcotics trafficking. Whatever the ultimate source of the financing, it would almost certainly involve billions of dollars passing through the coffers of the U.S. government, which only Congress has the authority to approve. And there has been no rush by Washington lawmakers to embrace the plan.

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Input: The road-widening cost the state $ 345 million, which Gov. Johnson covered by tapping a federal bond program giving the state 20 years to pay back the interest. So the “principled” budget-conscious libertarian governor forced his state deep into debt to pay for a campaign donor's pork barrel project, and the only way he could raise that much debt was to go to Washington DC and borrow everything he could against the state, sticking the poorest state in America with the bill: $ 345 million for construction of the road, plus another $ 142 million in interest on those bonds. It will take New Mexico's residents twenty years to pay off what was essentially a transfer of a half-billion dollars from New Mexico's residents ' wallets into the Kochs brothers ' offshore accounts. The Upshot: The Kochs bankrolled Gary Johnson’s 1998 campaign, and they helped make him a national figure by PRing his name through their libertarian think-tanks like the Cato Institute.

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Input: But the Afghan “surge” faced skepticism from Vice President Joe Biden and other White House staffers. Gates wrote that he and Clinton “were the only outsiders in the session, considerably outnumbered by White House insiders. … Obama said at the outset to Hillary and me, ‘It’s time to lay our cards on the table, Bob, what do you think?’ I repeated a number of the main points I had made in my memo to him [urging three brigades]. “Hillary agreed with my overall proposal but urged the president to consider approving the fourth brigade combat team if the allies would n’t come up with the troops.” In Duty, Gates cited his collaboration with Clinton as crucial to his success in getting Obama to agree to the Afghan troop escalation and the expanded goal of counterinsurgency.

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Input: 12:40 p.m. The Turkish president says his country's military operation in Syria aims to prevent threats from "terror" groups, including the Islamic State and a Syrian Kurdish militia that is affiliated with Turkey's outlawed Kurdish rebels. Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Wednesday's operation was launched in response to a string of attacks in Turkey, including a suicide bomb attack at a wedding party near the border which killed 54 people. He says no one should consider "the Syrian issue to be independent from Turkey's domestic issues." Erdogan, addressing groups that have targeted Turkey, says:" You will not succeed.

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Input: Before celebrating an outdoor Mass, Francis led a procession through St. Peter's Square to usher in Holy Week, the solemn period leading to Easter. Faithful Catholics clutching olive branches and braided palm fronds received his blessing. Francis abandoned his homily text to lament Europe's handling of the influx of migrants and asylum-seekers fleeing war, persecution or poverty from Syria, Iraq, Africa and elsewhere. Palm Sunday recalls a crowd's triumphant welcome of Jesus entering Jerusalem. But soon Jesus would be condemned to be crucified after a series of authorities declined to rule on his fate.

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Input: A month after the law was signed, the state was sued by the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the food-industry trade group that had been leading the charge against state labeling efforts. The suit argued that the law violates its First Amendment rights and interferes with interstate commerce, and pushed the court to stop the measure from taking effect. A federal district court rejected the industry’s request for an injunction, and a ruling on an appeal is still pending. Meanwhile, companies and farm groups took their concerns to Capitol Hill and were successful, in July 2015, in getting a bill passed in the House. The bill reads like an industry wish list: In addition to pre-empting states, it required the Agriculture Department to set up a voluntary GMO-free certification and defines the word “natural,” when used on food labels, to include GMOs.

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Input: (Reuters Photo)"One SDF fighter entered a house on Friday and saw a shoe placed on a Koran. When he removed it there was an explosion and he was killed," this source said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based monitor, reported that several hundred of the civilians taken from the city were no longer being held by IS." Among the civilians taken by IS there were people used as human shields but also many who chose voluntarily to leave the town due to fear of reprisals "by the SDF, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said. The SDF launched an assault in May on Manbij, on a key jihadist supply route between the Turkish border and IS's de facto Syrian capital Raqa. A woman sets fire to a niqab after she was evacuated with others by the Syria Democratic Forces fighters. (Reuters Photo)The jihadists, who have suffered a string of losses in Syria and Iraq, have often staged mass abductions when they come under pressure to relinquish territory they hold. IS has also booby-trapped cars and carried out suicide bombings to slow advances by their opponents. SDF forces captured Manbij on August 6 but had continued to battle pockets of jihadists in parts of the town. According to the Observatory, 437 civilians, including more than 100 children, were killed in the battle for Manbij and surrounding territory. Around 300 SDF fighters died, along with more than 1,000 jihadists, it said. Pentagon deputy press secretary Gordon Trowbridge said Friday that IS" is clearly on the ropes "." It has lost the centre of Manbij, it has lost control of Manbij," he said. Since fighting for Manbij began, US-led strikes have taken out more than 50 of IS's heavy weapons and destroyed more than 600 fortified fighting positions, Trowbridge said. But the job of clearing the city will be complicated after the jihadists left behind hundreds of mines and booby traps, he added. Syria's conflict erupted in March 2011 and has since killed more than 290,000 people and drawn in world powers on all sides of the war. On Friday Russian and Syrian jets pounded rebel positions in and around second city Aleppo. The raids came despite a pledge by Russia to observe a three-hour daily ceasefire in Aleppo to allow for humanitarian aid deliveries.

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Input: The minimum wage at the national level right now is $ 7.25, right? We want to raise it higher than it ever has been, but we also have to recognize some states and some cities will go higher, and I support that. I have taken my cue from the Democrats in the Senate, led by Senator Patty Murray and others, like my good friend Kirsten Gillibrand, who has said we will set a national level of $ 12 and then urge any place that can go above it to go above it. Going from $ 7.25 to $ 12 is a huge difference. Thirty-five million people will get a raise.

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Input: "He had been working for EgyptAir for five years and he loved his job," Diab said of his 25-year -old nephew. EgyptAir operates from a hub at Cairo International Airport and is based in Heliopolis, Egypt. It offers passenger and freight services to more than 75 destinations. In March, EgyptAir Flight 181 en route to Cyprus was hijacked by a passenger claiming to be wearing a suicide belt. The hijacker surrendered at Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus and all passengers were released safely.

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Input: Scripture teaches quite the opposite, where even Paul says, in Philippians 3 that even his good works, his zeal and his obedience to the law, were all in vain. It was all rubbish before God because his righteousness could only come from God. This point addresses the first two points of Scripture above. Trump is antichrist because he rejects what Christ stands for and who Christ is. Trump is antichrist for the same reason that Nancy Pelosi or Hillary Clinton is antichrist: Because if you reject the clear teaching of Scripture, then you are antichrist.

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Input: Donald Trump in the spin-room Saturday night. (Daniel Acker / Bloomberg) -- “Debate rips open GOP wounds, and party risks tearing itself apart,” by Robert Costa and Philip Rucker: “The GOP is at risk of tearing itself apart over its past as it heads into the thick of the primary season. A day after a debate marked by personal, petty exchanges, Republicans were grappling with their core beliefs, as well as the image they were broadcasting to the country … The increasingly harsh discussions of these and other issues amount to an existential crisis within the Republican Party and reflect the growing influence of non-ideological, populist voters. Contenders are making their most concerted effort yet to stop Trump [in South Carolina], even though previous attempts to take him down have attained little.

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Input: Michelle Obama praises weekend rampage by Chicago teens as good way to burn calories and stay healthy This Passover, Obama urges his subjects to paint lamb's blood above doors in order to avoid the Sequester White House to American children: Sequester causes layoffs among hens that lay Easter eggs; union-wage Easter Bunnies to be replaced by Mexican Chupacabras Time Mag names Hugo Chavez world's sexiest corpse Boy, 8, pretends banana is gun, makes daring escape from school

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Input: “Ca n’t a girl have a sick day or two?” reporter Christiane Amanpour lamented Monday on CNN. “Do n’t get me started, because when it comes to overqualified women having to try 100 times harder than under-qualified men to get a break, well, we know that story.” The Clinton campaign has seized on the argument that there is a media double standard in pushing back against questions about its handling of Clinton’s illness. “I hope you drill into [Trump’s health disclosures] with the same detail as you’re drilling in with ours,” Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said Monday under tough questioning from MSNBC anchor Kate Snow about Clinton’s health. Liz Spayd, the public editor at The New York Times, where coverage of ties between Clinton’s State Department and her charitable foundation has attracted criticism from liberals, is dismissing complaints about a false equivalency.

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Input: “In recent years Israel has gained a great diplomatic advantage in that the claim that the source of all troubles in the Middle East is the Israeli-Arab conflict has been disproved by developments, such as the developments in Syria, Iraq and Libya that have no connection to Israel,” Mr. Rabinovich told Israel Radio, adding, “I’m not necessarily coming out against the stand but against this demonstrative act that returns us to the heart of the argument.” The cabinet meeting came a week after Mr. Netanyahu made another unusual declaration acknowledging that Israel had carried out “dozens” of strikes across the Syrian frontier in recent years to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining advanced weapons. While Israel has generally hewed to a policy of nonintervention in the internal fighting in Syria, it has acted to prevent weapons shipments from Syria to Lebanon but has rarely admitted responsibility for the strikes, in part to avoid pushing the other side to retaliate.

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Input: Acrimony within the group could undermine these efforts to rebalance the market. Phin Ziebell, of National Australia Bank, told Market Watch:" Qatar may have little reason to keep the production quota and if that happens, it might encourage other Opec members to cheat too." In addition, if the row rolls on, it may prove difficult to keep oil shipments moving along the strategically important Strait of Hormuz waterway. Oil price back above $ 50 as Arab states cut off Qatar 05 June AM

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Input: During their phone conversation, Putin and May expressed dissatisfaction with their nations’ political, trade and economic cooperation, the Kremlin statement said. May confirmed the UK would help commemorate the 75th anniversary of the arrival of the first British Arctic convoy in Arkhangelsk, several weeks after Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, according to the Kremlin. “Both leaders agreed to foster dialogue between intelligence agencies dealing with aviation security and made plans to meet in person in the near future,” the statement said. Park’s meeting with Putin will likely focus on economic development and efforts to reign in North Korea’s nuclear program, said Ko Jae-nam, a Russia specialist at the Korea National Diplomatic Academy in Seoul. Russia wants to build a gas pipeline to the south through North Korea.

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Input: “China has made strategic choices favoring renewable over fossil fuels that are still not widely understood or appreciated,” John A. Mathews wrote. On a related note, China, Japan, Russia, & South Korea are planning a “Super Grid” for renewable energy. Business Green continues with the recent info from the Ipsos survey, noting that there’s “overwhelming support for paying a premium on energy bills to secure cleaner energy sources with 92.6% saying they can accept a price rise when buying green power.” 44% said they would support a monthly increase in their bills of RMB 10–30 ($ 1.5–$4.5) if it delivered clean power supplies 90.6% saying they would accept rises of up to 10% of the average Chinese family monthly electricity bill, which would equate to an increase of $ 1.50 a month.

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Input: Facts about the war in Syria and ISIS The war in Syria has entered its sixth year. In March of 2011 Syrians protested in Daraa in south Syria and demanded the release of arrested boys who had scribbled slogans against the regime. The protests spread rapidly to other areas i Syria, Several parties are involved. The Muslim Brotherhood, Libanese Hizbollah and al-Qaida are some of several hundreds of militias who fight in Syria. Today it's mostly al-Nusra, Jaish al-Islam and ISIS who have control in the rebel-controlled areas.

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Input: North Korea's worst human rights abuses 11 show all North Korea's worst human rights abuses 1/11 Starvation A UN report said that policies leading to mass starvation in North Korea amounted to crimes against humanity. Deaths peaked during the 1990s North Korean famine. Al Jazeera

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Input: It is one incident in my long career. “) She also insisted that no ground troops would go to Iraq or Syria, making the cardinal error of ruling out options and, worse, ignoring the 5,000 or so troops already there. None of that — if you can believe it — was anywhere as awful as Trump’s rambling, incoherent and at times jaw-dropping performance. He once again fawned over Vladimir Putin, who has invaded his neighbors and repressed his citizens. Besides, Putin has an 82 percent approval! (That’s like saying Bashar al-Assad is the world’s most popular ruler since he gets 99 percent of the vote.)

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Input: During the first six months of 2016, Israel razed 91 houses built with “support of the European Union,” up from 70 in all of 2015, he said. The EU has invested € 21 million in the last two years for development and humanitarian aid for Palestinian in the past two years, he added. Faaborg-Andersen said the EU would continue to provide aid to the Palestinians in Area C, despite the tension it generates with Jerusalem.

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Input: Three days later, Khomeini himself made a direct appeal to the White House." It is advisable that you recommend to the army not to follow Bakhtiar," wrote Khomeini in his "first first-person" message on 27 January. Khomeini, in effect, had three requests: smooth the way for his return, press the constitutional government to resign, and force the military to capitulate. The ayatollah also included a subtle warning that if the army cracked down, his followers would direct their violence against US citizens in Iran. Still, he made sure to end on a positive note, emphasising the urgent need for a peaceful resolution of the crisis.

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Input: US diplomats criticise Obama's Syria policy in memo “It is a murderous regime that violates human rights; that has violated international law; used chemical weapons against his own people; has killed hundreds of thousands of people, including tens of thousands of children.” Barack Obama, David Cameron and international allies were vocal with their criticism of the Syrian government’s human rights abuses and war crimes at the start of the conflict in 2011 and the UK almost launched an intervention against Assad two years later. But following the rise of the so-called Islamic State and links between its Syrian bases and attacks in France and Belgium, calls for the President’s removal have been drowned out by a move towards co-operation in the fight against global terrorism. In a mark of decreasing hostility, the US and Russia – Assad’s staunch ally – were drawing up an agreement on bombing Jabhat al-Nusra, which has since attempted a re-brand disassociating itself from al-Qaeda.

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Input: The Supreme Court will take up a momentous fight over parties manipulating electoral districts to gain partisan advantage in ... Top court to hear case that could reshape US political map The White House on Monday urged technology CEOs to pitch in on President Donald Trump's effort to modernize government. Nevada's marijuana regulators are working furiously to launch recreational sales on July 1, a fast-approaching deadline that ... White House press secretary Sean Spicer is seeking to take on a more strategic role that would give him a limited presence ...

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Input: Trump, Spencer believes, has exposed the Republican Party's i d." The Trump phenomenon expresses a fundamental truth," he says." It's an unspoken truth, and that is that the Republican Party has won elections on the basis of implicit nationalism and not on the basis of the Constitution, free-market economics, vague Christian values and so on. Even a leftist would agree with that statement. Like, Trump has shown the hand of the GOP.

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Input: Indeed, in January 2016, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council it was an “indisputable truth” that “Palestinian frustration is growing under the weight of a half century of occupation and the paralysis of the peace process.” He noted that it was “human nature to react to occupation, which serves as a potent incubator of hate and extremism.” Clinton did n’t ponder why so many people around the world are participating in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against the Israeli occupation. Representatives of Palestinian civil society launched BDS in 2005, calling upon “international civil society organizations and people of conscience all over the world to impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel.” In her November 2015 article titled “How I Would Reaffirm Unbreakable Bond With Israel — and Benjamin Netanyahu,” published in the Jewish newspaper Forward, Clinton vowed to continue to oppose BDS. “As secretary of state, I requested more assistance for Israel every year,” she boasted, adding that she opposed “the biased Goldstone report,” explained below.

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Input: The Asia-Pacific region’s accident rate -- not just crashes but incidents such as landing gear malfunctions -- has increased since 2011, according to the International Air Transport Association. That safety record also is worse than the global one. In Asia-Pacific, there were 3.2 accidents per million flights last year, compared with a worldwide rate of 1.8 per million. The Bloomberg Asia Pacific Airlines Index has declined about 10 percent this year. “Some of the airlines see some value in having a Western accent in the cockpit,” Loveridge said.

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Input: The greatest single political problem in the Western world is sclerosis of the imagination. In Congress, on the hustings, and in the media, the United States is reduced to two camps. One side is calling for swingeing strokes of a spending scythe on the government with the threat of a shutdown behind it, and the other side is offering more redistributive taxing and, through the quaint and incompletely recycled ex-communist Bernie Sanders, a trillion-dollar bribe in the forgiveness of all student loans. In the media, we have shrieking heads with very few people saying anything intelligible. In Canada, there are cries of alarm over the deficit, though it is hardly a surprise and seems to top out at less than a third, as share of gross domestic product, than where the U.S. sat for seven years (1.5 per cent against five to seven per cent).

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Input: Together with the commander of the Russian troops in Syria and the Syrian army, they direct what happens on the ground. At their disposal are Hezbollah troops, Bashar Assad’s army, and a kind of “foreign legion”: three brigades of Shi’ite combat fighters who are neither Syrian nor Lebanese. One brigade, from Iraq, is made up of troops whom the Iranians recruited to fight in Iraq for pay, and were transferred to Syria. The other two, from Pakistan and Afghanistan, are made up of Pakistanis and Afghanis who tried to immigrate to Iran and were persuaded to join the fighting in Syria with promises (of Iranian citizenship) and threats (of expulsion from Iran), among other things. Opposing them is a coalition comprising dozens of Sunni groups, the most prominent of which are Ahrar al-Sham and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, and they, too, act in coordination with one another.

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Input: The United States and China were wrapping up strategic talks aimed at smoothing out differences on currency and trade issues, as Washington presses Beijing to get tough on North Korea. (Photo credit Saul Loeb, AFP / Getty Images) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens to Ambassador-Designate to Russia Michael McFaul during his swearing-in ceremony at the State Department January 10, 2011 in Washington, DC. McFaul is President Barack Obama's top adviser on Russia and has been involved in the reset of relations between the two countries and the signing of the New START treaty. (Photo by Astrid Riecken / Getty Images) U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks during the South Sudan International Engagement Conference December 14, 2011 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC. The two-day conference was to highlight the national development vision of South Sudan and the opportunities for investment in the country.

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Input: One even survived a direct hit from a TOW missile in Syria. Originally fielded in 2004, the T-90A features an autoloader, reactive armor, a remotely operated machine gun, and a 125 mm cannon. The crew can fire antitank guided missiles from the main gun. Like Russia, China fields a few varieties of tanks and has new ones in development. It’s go-to for tank-on-tank engagements is the Type 99.

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Input: There is the need for adulation. There are the fantasies of unlimited power — see Trump’s admiration for Russian President Vladimir Putin. There is the expectation of special treatment — see his debate boycott. There is the lack of empathy — see his cruel mocking of a disabled reporter. Leadership is often evidenced in relatively small things.

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Input: Report expected to say Buk missile was fired from separatist-held area in Ukraine and its launcher smuggled back to Russia An international criminal investigation into the shooting down of flight MH17 is likely to conclude that the plane was downed by a Buk missile fired from separatist-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine, diplomats say. The Dutch-led Joint Investigation Team (JIT) has been gathering evidence for a possible criminal trial and is due to present its interim findings on Wednesday.

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Input: Police and organisers estimated the crowd at up to 2,000 people for Sunday's march, which ended outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office." Stop the suffering, stop the discrimination, stop the racism," demonstrators chanted, holding signs with similar slogans as well as pictures of relatives left behind in Ethiopia. Antaihe Cheol, a 30-year -old resident of northern Israel, said his father and brother have been waiting to immigrate for 20 years." This is simply discrimination," Cheol told the AFP news agency. His friend Ashebo noted that the government actively encourages immigration of Jews from France, the United States and Russia.

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Input: ' All intensive care units are full. Patients have to wait for others to die so they can be moved to an available bed in intensive care, ' Abu Waseem, manager of an MSF-supported trauma hospital in east Aleppo, warned in the statement. ' We only have three operating theatres and yesterday alone we had to do more than 20 major abdominal surgeries, ' he said, pointing out that ' hospital staff is working up to 20 hours a day. They can not just go home and let people die. ' MSF said it had last been able to deliver medical supplies to east Aleppo in August, and warned that the huge number of wounded was rapidly depleting the stocks in the remaining hospitals.

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Input: US officials say that the CIA has trained thousands of rebels in the past three years, and that the fighters made substantial advances on the battlefield against Syrian government forces until Russian military forces-launched last year in support of Assad-compelled them to retreat. The training programme is based in Jordan because of the country's proximity to the Syrian battlefields. From the beginning, the CIA and the Arab intelligence agencies relied on Jordanian security services to transport the weapons, many bought in bulk in the Balkans and elsewhere around Eastern Europe. The programme is separate from one that the Pentagon set up to train rebels to combat fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), rather than the Syrian military. That programme was shut down after it managed to train only a handful of Syrian rebels.

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Input: Yet, recently and quite publicly, you remarked that U.S. citizen and Indiana-born Judge Gonzalo Curiel's Mexican heritage presents a conflict of interest in his ability to preside over lawsuits related to your Trump University business because you are "building a wall." House Speaker Paul Ryan quickly called your observation “the textbook definition of a racist comment.” What do you think about General and Secretary of State Colin Powell, whose parents immigrated from Jamaica, or former Army intelligence officer, Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Leon Panetta, whose family immigrated from Italy? And we all remember you launching your presidential campaign by calling Mexican immigrants criminals and rapists. Do you think the same thing about Alfred Rascon, a Mexican native who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor for his courageous actions during the Vietnam War?

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Input: New recruits practice on February 16, 2016 in a rebel-held area of the northern city of Aleppo before fighting with opposition fighters (AFP Photo / Karam al-Masri) United Nations (United States) (AFP) -Western powers rejected a Russian bid at the United Nations to halt Turkey's military actions in Syria, as France warned of a dangerous escalation in the nearly five-year conflict. The emergency Security Council meeting came as US Secretary of State John Kerry cautioned there was "a lot more work to do" for a ceasefire to take hold in Syria, following talks in Geneva between American and Russian officials. Meanwhile President Barack Obama, in a phone call with Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, urged the Ankara government and Kurdish YPG forces to "show reciprocal restraint" in northern Syria. The elusive truce was meant to begin Friday, but failed to materialize as fighting raged in Syria with Kurdish-led forces backed by US-led air power seizing a key town from the Islamic State group.

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Input: President Barack Obama authorised the covert arming programme in April 2013, after more than a year of debate inside the administration about the wisdom of using the CIA to train rebels trying to oust Assad. The decision was made in part to try to gain control of a chaotic situation in which Arab countries were funnelling arms into Syria for various rebel groups with little coordination. The Qataris had paid to smuggle shipments of Chinese-made FN-6 shoulder-fired weapons over the border from Turkey, and Saudi Arabia sent thousands of Kalashnikovs and millions of rounds of ammunition it had bought, sometimes with the CIA's help. By late 2013, the CIA was working directly with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other nations to arm and train small groups of rebels and send them across the border into Syria. The specific motives behind the November shooting at the Amman police training facility remain uncertain, and it is unclear when the FBI will officially conclude its investigation.

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Input: 📸 pic.twitter.com/wRkowqrJSi — Mete Sohtaoğlu (@metesohtaoglu) September 19, 2016 EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini has also called the air bombardment in Aleppo, a "massacre" and stated European governments were considering their response, reports Reuters. As for how Washington will respond, U.S. officials told Reuters "they are considering tougher responses to the Russian-backed Syrian government assault, including military options, although they have described the range of possible responses as limited and say risky measures like air strikes on Syrian targets or sending U.S. jets to escort aid are unlikely." In 2011, the Syrian civil war began when President Bashar Al-Assad violently used force to crush dissent among hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy protesters who took to the streets to demonstrate against civil rights abuses. Since then, violence escalated, sectarian conflict emerged, and rebel brigades were formed to fight government forces, with the governments of Syria, Russia, and the United States all launching air strikes on various rebel forces on the ground, resulting in the death and displacement of thousands of civilians in the process.

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Input: And while the international community has put the brakes on Iran's nuclear program, an unconstrained North Korea continues to test and perfect nuclear explosive devices and the ballistic missiles to carry them. How would the candidates for president address these problems? Apart from promising to tear up the Iran nuclear agreement and wondering if Japan and South Korea should be acquiring their own nuclear weapons (both of which would have devastating consequences for U.S. security), Trump has said virtually nothing about his plans on nuclear weapons issues. Clinton says she will "vigorously enforce" the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement and intensify efforts to safeguard nuclear materials. But she has said little more.

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Input: I surely consider Iran as a regional power. I believe that France must change its foreign policies, and if it tends to fight the real terrorist, it should take Iran and Russia as its main allies. After the recent event in France, I recommended several times to negotiate with Iran over the issue of terrorism. This country can certainly help us very much regarding this problem. Iran has considerable influence in the region and can deal with most of our problems.

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Input: There’s just a father and son taking in the history of a great nation. To think these Bernie Sanders-inspired terrorists want to take away this bonding experience between a father and his son … well, let’s just say they’re going to have to get through me and a couple of my colleagues at the Willard Hotel before they get the chance. If we soundly condemn Sanders’ offensive disrespect of institutions and possibly imprison him, it will send a clear message to his supporters that we will not be cowed into submission by a violent man whose bloodlust for respectability is possibly aggravated by dementia. This is our country, Digsters and Digettes. Let’s not surrender it.

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Input: Violent confrontations could escalate between South Korea and Chinese boats found fishing in its waters after the US ally sanctioned a greater use of force, including the use of firearms, to control its sea border. The threat of lethal force comes as China publically berated the US over its operations close to artificial islands Beijing has built in the South China Sea, and its plan to deploy a missile defense system to South Korea. China’s ambassador was summoned by South Korean officials to protest the latest clash off the Korean peninsula’s west coast, in which a coastguard patrol boat sank last week after being rammed by a Chinese fishing vessel. There were no reported casualties. Three Chinese fishermen were killed last month when a fire broke out on their boat after a South Korean coastguard threw flash grenades into their cabin.

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Input: As Andrew noted, a recurring joke within the white nationalist and alt-right world is that everyone is secretly Jewish. /pol/ threads often accuse users of being paid trolls for Hillary Clinton. “Prior to the election I rarely saw any of these ‘23andme’ threads, and when I did it was n’t to compete to see who was the most white; it was just sharing the heritage you did n’t know you had with others,” a longtime 4chan user told me. When I showed him a thread I thought looked too pat to be true (“ To find out I’m 15% black is killing me inside”) he responded, “It could be real. Sometimes even the most veteran 4chan users can have a tough time distinguishing between troll or not troll.”

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Input: "I am still convinced that we can turn the course of events. We have proven this more than once before," he said, adding that he would not quit trying to bring peace in Syria." Any sign of me resigning would be a signal that the international community is abandoning the Syrians, and we will not abandon the Syrians, and neither will you," he said. (Reporting by Michelle Nichols and Yara Bayoumy; Editing by Mary Milliken and Bill Trott)

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Input: “It is not the refugee outflows that cause terrorism, it is terrorism, tyranny and war that create refugees,” he said. “It is clear that the Daesh (Isis) strategy is not only to set Europeans against refugees, but within Europe, to set citizen against citizen within communities, community against community within countries, and country against country in the Union.” More than 133,000 migrants have arrived in Europe by sea so far this year, according to the UNHCR, with at least 400 drowning in the attempt.

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Input: When Bill was governor, Hillary sent out a group of investigators known at the “Truth Squad” to discourage many of her husband’s lovers from going public. 3) Looting the White House When the Clintons left 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in 2001, they reportedly vandalized and looted the White House. Hillary tried to ship furniture to the Clintons’ personal home in Chappaqua, New York. The Clintons came under fire when they reportedly tried to take $ 190,000 in gifts and furnishings from the presidential mansion.

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Input: "It is alarming that Leon Panetta would, through his silence, excuse Hillary Clinton's enablement of foreign espionage with her illegal email scheme and her corrupt decision to then destroy those emails and dissemble her ' private ' server to hide her crimes from the public and authorities," Trump senior policy advisor Stephen Miller said. He also argued that it was Clinton who was endangering national security with her policies in the Middle East and North Africa. The FBI recommended not to bring criminal charges against Clinton earlier this month. Cleaving up the controversy Earlier Wednesday, Trump's campaign pushed back against claims that he was inviting Russia to hack Clinton's emails.

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Input: When someone comes and takes your family member in the night?” “We feel like we survived a plague, and now we are seeing people with boils on their skin.” Interviews with more than a dozen immigrants from the former Soviet Union in the Bay Area suggest that some in the community are recoiling from Bernie Sanders and his leftist ideals. One hundred years after the Bolshevik Revolution swept Communists into power, some Russians in America say they ca n’t believe a serious candidate in the United States is calling himself a socialist. As another Russian émigré, Tatiana Menaker, put it, “We feel like we survived a plague, and now we are seeing people with boils on their skin.” Most of those who’ve immigrated from the former Soviet Union to the United States over the past few decades have been Jewish. Estimates of America’s Russian-speaking Jewish population range from 350,000 to 750,000, and about 40,000 of them settled in the Bay Area. Jews born in the Soviet Union now account for about 5 percent of the American Jewish population.

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

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