Input: He put up a Soviet flag in his office, shocking even the Birkenstock-wearing local liberals. At the time, the Evil Empire was on the march around the world, and threatening the US with nuclear annihilation. Then, in 1989, as the West was on the verge of winning the Cold War, Sanders addressed the national conference of the US Peace Council — a known front for the Communist Party USA, whose members swore an oath not only to the Soviet Union but to “the triumph of Soviet power in the US.” Today, Sanders wants to bring what he admired in the USSR, Cuba, Nicaragua and other communist states to America. For starters, he proposes completely nationalizing our health care system and putting private health insurance and drug companies “out of business.” He also wants to break up “big banks” and control the energy industry, while providing “free” college tuition, a “living wage” and guaranteed homeownership and jobs through massive public works projects.

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Input: “They really put democracy in the background when they could have put democracy and human rights up front.” A peace deal between the government and the rebels, signed in August 2015, and even Machar’s recent return to the government, has so far failed to end the bloodshed from a war that fractured into a series of sub-conflicts as well as from peripheral violence — including ethnic and tribal clashes — carried out by a plethora of armed groups with shifting alliances and a variety of aims. Nobody knows how many South Sudanese have perished in the war. The estimates run from 50,000 to 300,000. Add to that 2.4 million people forced to flee their homes and up to 5.3 million — almost half the population — facing “severe food insecurity” in the months ahead.

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Input: JUST WATCHED Mexico's ex-president drops F-bomb on Trump's wall Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Mexico's ex-president drops F-bomb on Trump's wall 00:47 ISIS Trump vows to "bomb the hell" out of ISIS in Iraq -- especially the oil wells it's captured there -- to deprive it of income. In Syria, Trump says he would leave the job of fighting ISIS to the government and -- alone among major presidential candidates -- he has welcomed Russia's military support for the regime Under Trump, the U.S. would also refuse to accept Syrian refugees (and, at least temporarily, all Muslims from anywhere in the world).

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Input: President Barack Obama's trip to Asia next week will be anchored by a stop in Hiroshima, where he will focus on its dark nuclear past. But Obama’s visit comes at a moment when U.S. and Asian officials fear the region is entering a newly dangerous atomic future, threatening Obama’s vow to roll back the spread of nuclear arms and possibly touching off an Asian nuclear arms race. Story Continued Below North Korea is expanding its nuclear arsenal and upgrading its ballistic missiles.

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Input: A US air strike in Syria took the lives of at least 85 civilians, including women and children. In the strike which happened on Tuesday, the civilians were mistaken for ISIS fighters and were bombed by the US-led coalition in Syria. According to varying reports, some eight families were hit as they tried to flee the fighting in their area. This has been one of the deadliest air strikes on civilians since the beginning of the conflict. This includes those perpetrated by the Assad regime on its own people.

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Input: He also warned about the NSA earlier this week posting for auction some of its most powerful spying tools -- considered electronic lock picks with code names such as "buzzdirection" and "epicbanana." "The distribution of that cyber arsenal to the wild allows for literally a cyber forest fire to occur against U.S. corporations and government agencies," Kellerman said. The codes -- created by a group of elite NSA hackers -- were believed stolen in 2013, at the same time former contractor Edward Snowden was copying thousands of NSA surveillance documents. Snowden is still in Russia, and experts are not ruling out a DNC connection." The only links are circumstantial," Gourley said.

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Input: The influence that allowed for the Dogans to attract Erdogan to the ceremonies has collapsed, and once again, a Trump partner became caught up in allegations of criminal activities. In March of this year, an Istanbul court accepted an indictment of Aydin Dogan, chairman of the Dogan Group, on charges he engaged in a fuel smuggling. Aydin Dogan has proclaimed his innocence, and critics of the action have proclaimed that the indictment was a politically motivated attempt to crush the company that has served as a journalistic opponent of the government. Erdogan also struck at the family’s business partner, Trump, for his anti-Muslim rhetoric. In June, Erdogan called for the Trump name to be removed from the complex in Istanbul and said presiding over its dedication had been a mistake. Still, that would leave a President Trump in a conflict: Dogan is his business partner, Erdogan is an essential American ally, and they both now are set against each other.

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Input: Crude oil extracted at Syria’s Deir ez-Zor and Iraq’s Qayyara oil fields, which remain under under Islamic State control, is being sold for as little as $ 25 per barrel to smugglers, independent Syrian and Iraqi traders who transport oil using their own trucks. The crude oil could also be sold to nearby refineries that produce petrol and fuel oil, or directly to the local oil market. Yet the capacity of local buyers is limited, so smuggling oil to Turkey and other countries is more profitable. “Turkey is playing not a very clean game, especially with smuggling the Iraqi oil and Syrian oil through the borders and selling it in the black market in Turkey,” Iraqi MP Mowaffak Al-Rubaie, a former national security adviser, told RT, adding that a recent investigation by the Norwegian authorities exposed Turkey as having ties with Islamic State’s illegal oil trade. Most smuggled ISIS oil goes to Turkey, sold at low prices – Norwegian report https://t.co/ZsxKy1QEmVpic.twitter.com/Jjrc2VnoPf — RT (@RT_com) December 20, 2015

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Input: This means voting machines with voter-verified paper audit trails, and no Internet voting. I know it’s slower and less convenient to stick to the old-fashioned way, but the security risks are simply too great. There are other ways to attack our election system on the Internet besides hacking voting machines or changing vote tallies: deleting voter records, hijacking candidate or party websites, targeting and intimidating campaign workers or donors. There have already been multiple instances of political doxing — publishing personal information and documents about a person or organization — and we could easily see more of it in this election cycle. We need to take these risks much more seriously than before.

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Input: Couldn't have said it better!" After being widely denounced for his previous silence, Trump now acknowledges the need to disavow Duke. Nonetheless, Trump's address was a toxic combination of unprovable claims -- "excessive regulation is costing our country as much as $ 2 trillion a year" and ending it will "produce more than $ 20 trillion in job-creating economic activity" -- and outright lies -- "My opponent wants to essentially abolish the Second Amendment." The Republican nominee repeated his belief that "NATO is obsolete." Hours earlier, he told The New York Times he found nothing sacred about America's decades-old pledge to defend any NATO member whose borders are threatened by Russia.

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Input: Indiana Gov. Mike Pence met Thursday with Archbishop Demetrios of America in the church's ornate headquarters near Central Park in New York City. Father Alexander Karloutsos began the meeting by talking about how the only church destroyed in the 9/11 attacks at the World Trade Center was Greek Orthodox. Work is continuing to replace the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church. The archbishop posed for pictures with Pence, his wife Karen and daughter Charlotte before the meeting was closed.

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Input: But China, North Korea’s main ally, has been resisting the US-led push for tougher UN sanctions. Its biggest concern is an economic collapse of North Korea that would send thousands of refugees streaming across the border. South Korean media has reported that the North Korean military chief of staff has been executed for corruption and factionalism. Ri Yong-gil, chief of the Korean People’s Army general staff, was put to death earlier this month, Yonhap news agency said, in the latest in a series of purges and executions ordered by Kim since he came to power in late 2011.

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Input: Short transcript: BRET BAIER: Both the campaign chair and anybody you talk to, including Senator Murphy would not go down that road once pressed on the connection between Russia and the Trump campaign. But they have thrown it out there. George? GEORGE WILL: Well, it's the sort of thing we might learn if we saw the candidates ' tax returns.

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Input: When the Russians disappeared from the scene, instead of — you know, the pretense was," Well, it’s because of the Russians." When they disappeared from the scene, how did we react, under Clinton? By making the embargo harsher. Clinton outflanked George H.W. Bush from the right, in harsh — during the electoral campaign, in harshness against Cuba.

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Input: He threatens to pull troops out of South Korea and Japan, and he doesn't care whether this leads to nuclear proliferation. He wants to order U.S. troops to commit war crimes by killing relatives of terrorists and torturing terrorist suspects. He vows to launch trade wars that will cost millions of jobs. The email flap does n’t change the fact that Clinton is sane and safe, while Trump is the least qualified, most dangerous presidential candidate in U.S. history. This should not be a close call, America.

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

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Input: Despite having no real success of his own, by the late 1970s, Trump was swaggering through Manhattan, gaining a reputation as a crass self-promoter. He hung out in the fancy nightspot Le Club, where he was chums with prominent New Yorkers like Roy Cohn, the one-time aide to Senator Joe McCarthy who was one of the city’s most feared and politically connected attorneys. Cohn became one of the developer’s lifelong mentors, encouraging the pugilistic personality that showed itself all the way back in second grade, when Trump punched his music teacher. Soon Trump gained the public recognition he craved. Through a wholly owned corporation called Wembly Realty, Trump struck a partnership with a subsidiary of Hyatt Hotels.

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Input: Despite this apparent extension of the halt in Russian raids," many people think it's only a matter of time before Russia and its allies launch the final assault on Aleppo ", Challands said. Some analysts think the period between now and January, when a new United States president will take office, is a time when raids on east Aleppo may intensify, believing US President Barack Obama will be reluctant to confront Russia militarily before he steps down. On Friday, though, the US rejected the idea that the pause in the air assault on eastern Aleppo has provided much relief to civilians, accusing the Syrian government of using starvation as a weapon of war. The AFP news agency, quoting a US official, said that" the [Syrian] regime has rejected UN requests to deliver aid to eastern Aleppo-using starvation as a weapon of war ". Close shave for Russian and US jets

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Input: 26/32 Syria crisis A Free Syrian Army fighter works on a locally made launcher before firing it towards forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar Al-Assad in Mork town 27/32 Syria crisis Syrian policemen and citizens inspecting the site of a car bomb at the entrance of Moadhamiyet al-Sham neighborhood in rural Damascus. According to Syria's Arab News Agency (SANA), a car bomb explosion has gone off in the countryside of Damascus and initial information say there are casualties, where a car rigged with explosions was remotely detonated at the entrance of Moadhamiyet al-Sham neighborhood in rural Damascus during engineering units it was trying to dismantled it 28/32 Syria crisis Opposition fighters carrying a rocket launcher during clashes against government forces in the Sheikh Lutfi area, west of the airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo 29/32 Syria crisis A Syrian man helps a woman to make her way through debris following reported air strikes by government forces in the Halak neighbourhood in northeastern Aleppo

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Input: !” September 9, 2015, in Rolling Stone, talking about GOP candidate Carly Fiorina. 6. “It has not been easy for me ... My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.” October 26, 2015, on NBC’s “TODAY” show. 7. “@mygreenhippo # BenCarson is now leading in the # polls in # Iowa.

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Input: A source at the Bishkek police told AFP that the Mitsubishi Delica car smashed a gate on the embassy before blowing up in the centre of the compound close to the ambassador's residence. Another source with the Central Asian nation's security service said that an "explosive device" had been placed inside the vehicle. Local medics said the driver of the car was killed while two Kyrgyz embassy staff and a woman were lightly wounded in the blast. Advertisement Advertisement

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Input: WALLACE: One last look at the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania, where we sat down with the new Democratic nominee this weekend. It is good to be back in Washington. And if you noticed something different today, while we were gone, they built us a brand-new set. We hope it will add something to our conversation with our guests and panel. And that's it for today.

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Input: The countries’ foreign ministries have been “closely cooperating” and their aides have been involved too, Russia’s top diplomat said. The Normandy format includes Russia, France, Ukraine, and Germany. “The most important condition for the progress, as stated in the Minsk deal and in UN Security Council resolution, is establishment of direct dialogue between Kiev and Donbass,” Lavrov stressed. READ MORE: Time to send ‘strong signal’ to Russia and gradually lift sanctions – Austrian FM Russia has repeatedly said that it’s doing everything in its power to facilitate the implementation of the Ukrainian peace deal, while Kiev has been hindering the process.

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Input: Fallen Muslim American soldier's father scolds Trump: ' have you even read the constitution? ' Read more In an interview with the New York Times opinion writer Maureen Dowd, Trump’s only comment was: “I’d like to hear his wife say something.” The Republican nominee also gave an interview with ABC, in which he suggested that Hillary Clinton’s speechwriters scripted Khan’s speech, which Khan has said he wrote with his wife, Ghazala Khan. “If you look at his wife, she was standing there,” Trump said.

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Input: And yet, in the pursuit of documents, many investigators made their mission known to rebel commanders with murky connections. “Our people are extremely well trained on what to do if they’re captured,” Wiley told me. “The equipment they have is encrypted and sufficiently sophisticated that anyone going through it would not find any evidence of the work they’re doing.” Only one investigator, a Syrian woman, who was captured more than two years ago, is currently detained by the Syrian regime. Moving documents to the international borders is by far the most dangerous step in the CIJA’s operation. Paper is heavy and incriminating for the carrier; on the other hand, photographs, while more portable, can be difficult to authenticate in court.

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Input: To better understand Assange’s recent intervention in the U.S. election, it helps to look more closely at a sort of manifesto he wrote as he was creating WikiLeaks. The same month that WikiLeaks.org went live, in December of 2006, Assange posted an essay on his blog, “Conspiracy as Governance,” in which he explained his theory that authoritarian regimes — and western political parties — maintain power by conspiring to keep the public in the dark, through “collaborative secrecy, working to the detriment of a population.” In order for the people to regain control of the political system, Assange argued, it is necessary to find ways of “throttling the conspiracy,” like disrupting the ability of the conspirators to communicate secretly. With that in mind, Assange wrote, “let us consider two closely balanced and broadly conspiratorial power groupings, the US Democratic and Republican parties.” He continued, “Consider what would happen if one of these parties gave up their mobile phones, fax and email correspondence — let alone the computer systems which manage their subscribers, donors, budgets, polling, call centres and direct mail campaigns? They would immediately fall into an organisational stupor and lose to the other.” A decade later, by releasing thousands of unredacted emails and voice-mail messages hacked from the Democratic Party — in a database that makes it easy to search for the social security numbers of donors, as well as their passport and credit card details — Assange was finally able to put his theory into practice, by attempting to throttle one of the “conspiratorial power groupings” that selects candidates to run the U.S. government. Assange’s attack on the DNC certainly revealed hypocrisy within the party, and led to the resignations of four senior officials, but his decision to not redact personal information from those documents — or from a second cache of emails hacked from a Turkish political party — also led to criticism from some longtime supporters, including Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower.

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Input: The ice maiden often sniffed cannabis, it is thought, and her altered state of mind gave her a special status in her society. This would explain the care her people took to care for her and not leave her to die, or hasten death. It also helps to understand the way her burial was conducted in a style similar-but different-to royalty. She had been buried on the 8,200 feet high Ukok Plateau with six horses and many treasures. But the decision to put her on public display at a museum in Gorno-Altaisk, close to where her grave was found, has caused outrage among native ethnic groups in the Altai Republic, a Russian region bordering Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan.

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Input: “She sat down,” he recalls, “took her shoes off, put her feet up on the coffee table and said, ‘General, do you know where a gal can get a cold beer around here?’” Advertisement Continue reading the main story It was the start of a dialogue that stretched over two wars. In the spring of 2002, Hagenbeck led Operation Anaconda, a 16-day assault on Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters in the Shah-i-Kot Valley that was the largest combat engagement of the war to date. When the general came back to Washington to brief the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Clinton took him out to dinner on Capitol Hill for her own briefing.

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Input: “If she thinks we can get to Labor Day without taking press questions, I think that’s suicidal,” Podesta wrote. “We have to find some mechanism to let the stream out of the pressure cooker.” A similar debate re-emerged in 2016, after Clinton went months without answering questions from her traveling press, only to change course after Labor Day with more frequent news conferences. Still unable to lay the email issue to rest in 2015, Clinton’s aides talked about their effort to persuade Clinton to use the decision to turn over her server to the Justice Department as an “opportunity” for her to be seen as having dealt with the issue. “It is clear that she is not in same place (unless John has a convo with her and gets her in a different place),” Palmieri wrote in August 2015.

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Input: “And comments like this are not only ill-informed, they’re dangerous.” Trump has long offered a radically different view of U.S. engagement with the world than many in his own party hold — one that is defined primarily in economic terms and which does not hold treaties sacrosanct. In the Times interview, Trump also said he would not chide authoritarian leaders for cracking down on civil liberties or their political rivals; that he'd pull the U.S. out of the North American Free Trade Agreement if Canada and Mexico didn't agree to better terms; and that he might withdraw U.S. troops deployed around the world, even from sensitive areas such as the Korean peninsula. But the Manhattan billionaire's comments on NATO were unusually striking. Trump, who has often questioned whether other NATO states are carrying their share of the financial and military burdens that come with the alliance, said that if he became president the U.S. would come to the assistance of a member state under attack only if it “has fulfilled their obligations to us.”

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Input: The discussion now turns to Moscow, which has reacted to Washington’s words and deeds in kind. Cohen cites several examples, including speeches by Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (formerly Kerry’s partner); a nationwide civil-defense exercise; a proposal to give military officials control over regional political leaders in the event of war; and a beefing up of Russian ground-to-air missile defense systems in Syria. While Lavrov spoke of an American policy driven by “aggressive Russophobia,” Putin said normal relations could be restored only by Washington reversing all of its Cold War policies in recent years, from NATO expansion to Russia’s borders to economic sanctions. In response to Batchelor’s question, Cohen again points to a historical precedent of a way out in dark times in US-Russian relations, when President Reagan decided to meet Soviet leader Gorbachev halfway in the mid and late 1980s, though, he adds, no such leader seems likely to occupy the White House any time soon. He also adds that while the possibility of war is the constant and primary subject in the Russian mainstream media, its near total absence in the America media is itself a very bad sign.

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Input: One TV report stated that the “role of the Clinton family and of Hillary in particular in the American wars of the last couple decades is hard to overstate.” Trump is presented as a pragmatist who understands that America is over-extended and needs to pull back. “Trump’s ideology is one of rejecting the destructive globalism of the last few years in favor of a healthy American isolationism,” one prominent pro-Kremlin commentator declared on prime-time TV, adding that Trump’s declaration of intent to work with Putin infuriates American “globalists.” The Kremlin is clearly happy to see a Republican candidate who preaches disbanding NATO (or throwing it into debtors prison) and advocates an American retreat from the world stage. If America retreats, Russia advances, nipping at its heels. See, for example, Syria.

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Input: Clinton was happy to be accused of being pals with a president who was too tough on immigration. Had the debate stopped there, Trump might have skated by, and we could gone back to wondering whether he’d lose Utah. But toward the end of the “Fitness to Be President” section, the debate changed. Wallace asked Trump if he’d accept the results of the election. “I will look at it at the time,” Trump said.

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Input: Expand Sergei Alekseenko. © 2012 Private “Russian authorities use the ‘gay propaganda’ law to harass and intimidate LGBT activists into silence,” said Tanya Cooper, Europe and Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch. “Sergei Alekseenko will be appealing the district court’s verdict and the prosecutors should not oppose Alekseenko’s appeal.” The verdict, which Human Rights Watch reviewed, stated that Alekseenko was responsible for information about “non-traditional sexual relations” posted on the group’s web page on the Russian social network VK (formerly VKontakte) and fully aware that children might have access to it.

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Input: At the top of his rally in the critical Wisconsin county of Waukesha on Wednesday night, Donald Trump accused the search giant Google of both impeding and bolstering his candidacy. Speaking in Waukesha, Wis., Sept. 28, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump accused Google of concealing "bad news" about his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton. (The Washington Post)" A new post-debate poll, the Google poll, has us leading Hillary Clinton by two points nationwide," he said," and that's despite the fact that Google search engine was suppressing the bad news about Hillary Clinton.

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Input: Several thousand members – maybe as many as 20,000 – have been killed in combat." Airstrikes have intensified lately. Foreign fighters set up temporary roadblocks and take the civilians ' ID cards. They confiscate them so they can use them when they flee to Turkey," says Om Mohammad. Om Omran and Om Mohammad are planning to leave the city, but it has been impossible so far.

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Input: A pair of Palestinian men boarded a bus in Jerusalem and began shooting and stabbing passengers, while another assailant rammed a car into a bus station before stabbing bystanders, in near-simultaneous attacks that escalated a month long wave of violence AP 3/10 Getty Images 4/10 Palestinians throw molotov cocktail during clashes with Israeli troops near Ramallah, West Bank. Recent days have seen a series of stabbing attacks in Israel and the West Bank that have wounded several Israelis AP 5/10 Women cry during the funeral of Palestinian teenager Ahmad Sharaka, 13, who was shot dead by Israeli forces during clashes at a checkpoint near Ramallah, at the family house in the Palestinian West Bank refugee camp of Jalazoun, Ramallah AP

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Input: “If the airstrike was caused by the wrong coordinates of targets than it’s a direct consequence of the stubborn unwillingness of the American side to coordinate with Russia in its actions against terrorist groups in Syria,” Konashenkov stressed. The Defense Ministry also confirmed a report by SANA that an Islamic State offensive began right after Syrian Army positions were hit from the air." Immediately after the airstrike by coalition planes, Islamic State militants launched their offensive. Fierce fighting with the terrorists is currently underway in the area of the airport where for a long a time humanitarian aid for civilians was parachuted,” Konashenkov said. The Syrian General Command has called the bombing a “serious and blatant aggression” against Syrian forces, and said it was "conclusive evidence" that the US and its allies support IS militants.

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Input: “Together, Russia and the Assad regime are deliberately weaponizing migration ... to break European resolve,” he told the Senate Armed Services Committee (Sen. John McCain, chairman) March 1. [9] In truth, refugees are n’t entirely fleeing ISIS; they are tragically immigrating into the very NATO countries that ironically are bombing their homeland, only to face more violence from anti-immigrant far-right nationalists. From Russia’s perspective, the U.S. and NATO have consistently violated international law by invading foreign countries in order to conduct regime change (through “color revolutions” or by military force). Insofar as Russian participation in Syria, it was by invitation from Bashar al-Assad to defend Syria against terrorists: both ISIS and so-called “moderate rebels” (a.k.a.

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Input: “It's just not true.” And, in a clear swipe at Trump, Clinton also vowed never to disrespect Gold Star families or prisoners of war. Trump sparred for days with a Gold Star family who spoke ill of him at the Democratic National Convention and beyond and claimed Arizona Sen. John McCain is n’t a war hero because he was captured. “To insult them is just so wrong, and it says a lot about person doing the insulting,” she said. “This election is about how to make things better.

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Input: Hillary fainted at a 9/11 service yesterday (Picture: Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Getty Images) One of the US’s most well-known scientists has warned that Hillary Clinton may have been poisoned by Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Bennet Omalu, the famous pathologist who discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brains of deceased American football players, made the disturbing suggestion on Twitter. ‘I must advise the Clinton campaign to perform toxicologic analysis of Ms Clinton’s blood,’ he wrote.

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Input: Russia’s networks are almost certainly harder to penetrate and monitor than North Korea’s, and if NSA did have that kind of access, it would be reluctant to share evidence that would reveal active sources and methods. Nonetheless, the stakes involved may warrant denouncing the Russians on the basis of something less than absolutely definitive proof. The U.S. would need to be unusually creative to find new targets, given the many sanctions already in effect in Russia. 2) Sanctions Advertisement

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Input: Posts will include basic information on the issue at hand, opinions from leading politicians, and links to more data so that readers can decide for themselves where they stand. General Information The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military cooperative consisting of 28 countries between North America, South America, and Europe. The stated goals of NATO are to use democratic means to work through struggle and prevent conflict, and, when necessary, to band together in military support of a member country. The treaty compels each member nation to respond in support of another member nation when they are attacked.

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Input: I’ve written a couple of books, which you might want to peruse. Here is the link for buying the second edition of my 1993 book, Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement, with an Introduction by Prof. George W. Carey, a Foreword by Patrick J. Buchanan, and critical essays by Scott Richert and David Gordon (ISI Books, 2008). You can buy An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard (Prometheus Books, 2000), my biography of the great libertarian thinker, here. Read more by Justin Raimondo

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Input: They were arrested by police, beaten, and shot to death. “The police said the two had tried to escape by seizing an officer’s gun,” the New York Times reported. “But a forensic examination found that the men had been incapacitated by the beatings before they were shot; Jaypee Bertes had a broken right arm.” And just this week a self-confessed assassin testified before the Philippine Senate that he was a member of a death squad that Duterte, when he was mayor of Davao, used to kill not only “drug dealers, rapists, [purse] snatchers” but also political opponents. Some of the victims were allegedly disemboweled and dumped at sea; at least one was fed to crocodiles.

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Input: "I'm gon na take a look at it," he told host George Stephanopoulos in the Sunday broadcast. Trump also suggested the people of Crimea would rather be part of Russia. That runs counter to the Obama administration, which imposed economic sanctions against Russia for annexing the territory in Ukraine two years ago. Donald Trump's proposal to suspend all Muslim immigration until the U.S. can ' figure out what is going on, ' was made last December. More recently, he has promised to suspend immigration from any country deemed ' compromised by terrorism. '

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Input: "Gaddafi talked about it with Putin, proposing his son as a future son-in-law, but the Russian President was taken aback and said his daughter did not know Saif al-Islam," al-Houni said. Gaddafi was ousted and killed in a NATO-back revolt in 2011. Saif al-Islam was in July sentenced to death by a court in Tripoli in a mass trial of former regime figures widely criticised by human rights groups. Saif al-Islam has been in custody in the Libyan mountain town of Zintan since he was caught trying to flee Libya in the aftermath of the 2011 revolution. The militia holding him has refused to hand him over.

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Input: But Sen. Thom Tillis Thom R. TillisNavy leaders defend Trump's lackluster ship budget Industry pushes lawmakers to build 355-ship Navy Congress should pass the GOP's RAC Act to protect Dreamers MORE (R-N.C.) argued that QR codes are commonplace and easy to use. “So for those who say this is some sort of weird code or outdated, I don't know about you all but that's not the world that I live in,” he said. McConnell called the legislation a "compromise bill that would protect middle-class families from unnecessary and unfair higher food prices while also ensuring access to information about the food they purchase." "It's the result of bipartisan work to address an issue that could negatively harm consumers and procedures," he added. Before a procedural vote to advance the legislation Wednesday, Democrats criticized their colleagues across the aisle for rushing the bill to the floor for a vote.

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Input: The Israeli government is to hold its first ever cabinet meeting at a location on the Golan Heights on Sunday, in an effort to underline Israel’s determination never to relinquish the strategic ridge despite anticipated international pressure to do so. According to a Channel 2 report on Friday evening, the first clause of a draft agreement aimed at settling the brutal civil war in Syria, being worked on with the support of the US, Russia and other major world powers, specifies that the Heights, captured by Israel from Syria in the 1967 war, is Syrian territory and must be returned to Syria. Israel extended its law to the Heights in 1981, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly furious that the international community is deliberating the notion of Israel giving up the area.

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Input: Sci-Hub represents the sum of countless different universities ' institutional access-literally a world of knowledge." That's all well and good for us users, but understandably, the big publishers are pissed off. Last year, a New York court delivered an injunction against Sci-Hub, making its domain unavailable (something Elbakyan dodged by switching to a new location), and the site is also being sued by Elsevier for "irreparable harm" -a case that experts are predicting will win Elsevier around $ 750 to $ 150,000 for each pirated article. Even at the lowest estimations, that would quickly add up to millions in damages. But Elbakyan is not only standing her ground, she's come out swinging, claiming that it's Elsevier that have the illegal business model.

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Input: To even get Iran to negotiate, there had to be a series of heavy sanctions placed upon the country and Clinton was instrumental in getting those sanctions in place. A large part of the success this diplomatic solution was due to Clinton successfully convincing both China and Russia to join the United States in its calls for stricter sanctions against Iran. These sanctions were approved by the UN Security Council in June of 2010 in what President Barack Obama called "the toughest sanctions ever faced by the Iranian government." By getting these sanctions in place and despite constant fear mongering and war cries from neo-Conservatives, Iran eventually did come to the negotiating table and the Obama administration was able to work out its historic Iran Deal in a case where diplomacy proved to be the correct course of action. And lastly, we would be remiss not to mention Hillary Clinton's involvement in opening up Cuba, something that has only now come to light.

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Input: Lewinsky (pictured in back, believed to be greeting Hillary Clinton in their only known photo together) never seemed to stay far from Clinton at official events at the White House More than just a secretive sexual romp in the White House 19 years ago, their red-hot phone sex posed a threat to national security when intercepted by the UK, Israel and Russia. A less than subtle ' blackmail ' attempt by the Prime Minister of Israel urged Clinton to release an American who was spying for Israel, according to another Clinton author, Daniel Halper, in his book Clinton Inc. Clinton tried to comply and keep it all under wraps, but their sexual high jinks exploded on to the international scene. Nothing was off limits to Clinton and the ' pepperpot ' intern-there was little fear of getting caught.

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Input: Who the candidates meet also could offer hints about their foreign policy goals — and invite backlash from critics. Clinton's teams said she plans to see Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko. The meeting with Poroshenko is a signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has invaded Ukraine, of Clinton's pledge to be tough on Moscow if elected. It also would be a veiled slap at Trump, who has spoken kindly of Putin and insisted he would get along with the Russian leader. (Putin is expected to skip the U.N. meeting this year.)

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Input: We need an affirmative agenda if we’re going to move forward as a democracy. Yet we have a voting system that forbids us from actually bringing our values into our vote, which is, in my view, quite a disaster. The reason they wo n’t allow that is clear, because they rely on fear to intimidate people into voting Democratic. They do n’t want a candidate that actually can stand up for true Democratic Party values. That’s very intimidating to the Democratic Party.

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Input: Please share on Linkedin “The two terrorists stabbed them in the back multiple times, both in the upper body, and fled the scene toward the adjacent neighborhood of Jebl Mukaber,” police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said shortly after the stabbings. “Police and emergency units rushed to the scene and gave immediate medical assistance before transferring both women to Shaare Zedek Medical Center in moderate condition. While a forensics team searched the area, police set up roadblocks to find the terrorists. ”Roughly one hour later, Rosenfeld said, Border Police officers arrested two suspects matching the description of the assailants, but after extensive questioning, both young men were released without charges. “Police are continuing to search for the terrorists involved in the attack and hope to make arrests soon,” he said later in the day. Shortly after the attack, Shaare Zedek Medical Center spokeswoman Shoham Ruvio said both victims were in stable condition and expected to survive. “They are stable and conscious,” said Ruvio. “One, 86 years old, was stabbed in the back three times and is in the intensive care unit. The second victim, 82, was also stabbed multiple times and is in the department for heart surgery. She does n’t need surgery, but is being closely monitored due to a preexisting heart condition. ”Meanwhile, Rosenfeld said, security has been heightened throughout the capital, and will continue at elevated levels throughout the holiday. “All public areas will have additional police units deployed and nothing will be left to chance, as the city observes Remembrance Day and Independence Day,” he said. Last October, the Armon Hanatziv / East Talpiot neighborhood made international headlines after two terrorists from Jebl Mukaber stormed an Egged bus and stabbed and shot four victims to death before being killed by police. To stymie the deadly violence between the Arab and Jewish communities, police temporarily set up a concrete wall and checkpoint around Jebl Mukaber, which was soon taken down amid protests by human rights groups. Near the scene of Tuesday’s attack, a cross-section of residents expressed shock and indignation that the assailants preyed on women in their 80s. Meir Shahar, 67, a longtime resident of Armon Hanatziv/ East Talpiot said young Arab residents from Jebl Mukaber have long intimidated and terrorized Jews living in his neighborhood, but said he was stunned that defenseless elderly women were stabbed in the back. “These are old women!” he said with clear revulsion.

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Input: A fascinating and unprecedented interview took place on HBO's “Real Time” between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and longtime host Bill Maher. Why "fascinating" and "unprecedented"? ADVERTISEMENT

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Input: He had been due to be part of the Rhode Island delegation to the convention but pulled out due to ill health. However, Weiner, who was suffering from leukemia, still planned to travel to Philadelphia to see Bill Clinton speak and was dressing for the trip when he suddenly said he felt ill. Weiner, who raised prodigious amounts of money for both Clintons, never woke up. Both Bill and Hillary attended his funeral in Providence last week, with the former president giving the eulogy, remembering his old pal as ' forever young, forever exuberant … always just a little too much. ' Victor Thorn, 54, a journalist and strong critic of the couple climbed a mountain near his State College, Pennsylvania home on his August 1 birthday and shot himself to death. He wrote a trilogy of books on the Clintons, devoting one of the books to the number of their contacts who had mysteriously died Shawn Lucas, 38, a lawyer who supported Bernie Sanders, was found dead on August 2 on the bathroom floor of his Washington DC apartment.

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Input: She would discuss with the teenage boy where they would stay for the prize-but she wanted ' to go on holiday somewhere abroad '. ' I will travel to Moscow and then the boy will decide, ' she said. ' We will negotiate it with his mother too if he can live in a hotel with me, or fly with me somewhere. Although Ruslan's mother is quoted saying the boy is 16, an official database lists him as being aged 14. The age of consent in Russia is 16

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Input: Ronald Reagan, viewed as an icon by most Republicans, famously granted asylum to hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflicts in Southeast Asia and Central America, and even invoked America’s generous refugee policy in his 1989 presidential farewell speech. Even George W. Bush, who ignited some of the conflicts that people are today fleeing, chose to restart the Refugee Resettlement Program after 9/11. “Some of the Republicans advocating against refugees today do n’t know that historically GOP presidents have had welcoming asylum policies toward people fleeing conflicts,” says Quigley. “The rhetoric in this presidential campaign is making it easier for legislation like H.R. 4731 to be proposed, but it is also silencing traditional refugee supporters by making them feel uncomfortable about speaking out against it.”

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Input: No one is quite sure what the Middle East will look like in a month let alone in four years. However, I doubt there is a single expert that would disagree that the entire situation is one sour bottle of Jack Daniels away from all out war. Russia is currently on a scorched-earth bombing campaign in Syria with the U.N. Security Council approving their military conquest. However, Russia has only been given the go-ahead for targeting ISIS, which with their recent bombings of schools, hospitals, and rebel infrastructure, they have shown they don't care what the U.N. says and they are actively working to keep Assad in power and their influence intact. With the Iranian Nuclear Deal emboldening Iran's position in the Middle East, Russia is in a quite powerful position to expand their sphere of influence and push back against the West.

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Input: 31/42 Rob Ford Rob Ford, the former controversial mayor of Toronto, has died following a battle with a rare form of cancer. The 46-year -old passed away at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto on 22 March 32/42 Joey Feek Joey (left) passed away in March after a two-year cancer illness. She was part of country music duo, Joey + Rory, with her husband Rory (right) Jason Merritt / Getty Images 33/42 Umberto Eco Italian writer and philosopher Umberto Eco died 19 February 2016 aged 84 EPA

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Input: Pakistan condemned the attempt to undermine democracy and rule of law and China's Foreign Ministry called on Turkey to restore order and stability as soon as possible. The Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Turkey's democracy must be respected, according to the Kyodo news agency. Turkey closed the three border crossings with Bulgaria, the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry said, reiterating its appeal to Bulgarians to avoid traveling to its southern neighbor. Mexico, Japan, South Korea and India also urged nationals not to travel to Turkey, while countries including Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand urged citizens in Turkey to be vigilant, stay indoors and keep tabs on local media. (Additonal reporting by Parisa Hafezi in Ankara, Lesley Wroughton and Mark Hosenball in Washington, Kinda Makieh in Damascus, Tsvetelia Tsolova in Sofia and Vladimir Soldatkin in Moscow, Leika Kihara in Tokyo, Ben Blanchard in Beijing, Natalie Thomas in UlaanBaatar, Robin Emmott in Brussels, Editing by Mary Milliken, Lincoln Feast and Elaine Hardcastle)

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Input: Was there ever any request for air support? At any time was the use of air support not authorized out of concerns for collateral damage? How long did the firefight last? What was the distance between the location of the firefight and the nearest QRF? Why did it take so long for a QRF to reach the engaged US and Afghan personnel?

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Input: Hide Caption 2 of 20 Photos: Orlando nightclub shooting Friends and family react after a list of hospitalized victims is released June 12 outside a hotel near the Orlando Regional Medical Center. Hide Caption 3 of 20 Photos: Orlando nightclub shooting Pastor Kelvin Cobaris embraces Orlando City Commissioner Patty Sheehan, right, and Terry DeCarlo, executive director of the LGBT Center of Central Florida, on June 12. Hide Caption 4 of 20 Photos: Orlando nightclub shooting Jeremy Glatstein donates blood in Orlando on June 12. He drove an hour to the donation center to show his support for the shooting victims. Hide Caption 5 of 20 Photos: Orlando nightclub shooting A bomb disposal unit checks for explosives around the apartment building where Mateen is believed to have lived in Fort Pierce, Florida.

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Input: In one scene, video shows how the faces of female models used to advertise hair products have been scribbled out with black marker pens by shopkeepers terrified of their hard line ISIS rulers. One of the women in the video, which was commissioned by CNN's Swedish affiliate Expressen TV, told how ' everyone's left ' the city and foreign ISIS fighters are stealing ID cards from Syrians in an attempt to flee to Turkey. Describing one of the many executions carried out by ISIS fanatics, another woman in the film, who calls herself Oum Mohammad, reportedly said: ' I could see there was a man sitting on the ground. The executioners were lined up, they were dressed in black. ' They execute with bullets, desecrate the body, decapitate it, stick the head on a spike and put it on display at the roundabout or they will put the body on the road and force cars to run it over until nothing is left. '

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Input: But it had been plain for nearly as long that the proto-fascist Erdoğan intended to turn this policy to his own purposes, which no one of any decency could countenance. Seymour Hersh’s pieces in the London Review of Books have been revelatory in this context. In April 2014 he gave persuasive evidence that, in an attempt to frame Assad, Erdoğan provided extremist Sunni militias with the crudely concocted poison gas that exploded in a Damascus suburb the previous August. In his latest piece, Hersh documents the Pentagon’s many failed efforts to pull the administration off its obsession with developing a coup in Damascus and recognize Islamic terrorists as the threat that matters in Syria. “The assessment was bleak,” Hersh writes of a classified document the Joint Chiefs brass sent the White House in 2013.

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Input: The king did not look at the group but at a giant television screen hanging from the ceiling of the room on which was appearing prompts. Simon Henderson, the Saudi expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who tells the story, writes that off to one side in the room was an aide who “furiously hammered talking points into a keyboard". Of course, King Salman is not the only world leader past or present whose inability to cope has been artfully concealed by aides and courtiers. But eyewitness accounts of his incapacity does put in perspective the claim by the White House that President Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia and two hour meeting with the king on 20 April was “cordial” and cleared the air after a troubled period in Saudi-US relations. Obama to meet Saudi king in Riyadh amid strains

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Input: MARYINKA, Ukraine -- Framed by a tiny cutout in the fortified bunker, this particular piece of no-man's land is tinted a blood-reddish orange by the setting summer sun. It's hot as hell, and it's about to get hotter. When the sun goes down, the guns start blazing. And all that separates the men at their triggers is a grassy patch of land the size of a soccer field that is heavily mined. If you're a Ukrainian soldier here, you don't need binoculars to observe the enemy -- you just look in his direction.

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Input: You cherrypick what he says and you want to talk about it for days on end with a breaking news tag on it. I do n’t think that counts as breaking news.” Trump was widely criticised for his remarks at the debate, with many commentators saying they were evocative of “tinpot dictators” and authoritarian regimes where political opponents are arrested and incarcerated. Speaking at a rally in Pueblo, Colorado, Clinton assailed Trump’s “scorched earth” strategy as a sign of desperation from a campaign in turmoil. “That just shows how desperate they are,” Clinton said on Wednesday.

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Input: Bribe-takers like bribes, to be sure, but they also hate those who wo n’t take them — not just because the refusers threaten their livelihoods, but because such refusals remind the corrupted of that they had a choice. Every day I hear from people who accuse me of thinking I’m better than them for not bending the knee. I will, in all honesty, plead guilty to sounding like that sometimes (though it is not my intent). In Cleveland, more than a few delegates told me I need to “man up” or put my “big-boy pants on” and get on board the Trump Train. I hear such hectoring hourly on Twitter and in e-mail (it’s a strange definition of manhood that requires abandoning one’s convictions and hopping aboard the bandwagon).

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Input: “That said, Speaker Ryan directed the [House Appropriations defense subcommittee] to follow the [House Armed Services Committee] gimmick and they have. He is therefore an active participant with the gimmick.” The memo also assesses that Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen Rodney FrelinghuysenBipartisan group of lawmakers urge Treasury to keep state and local tax deduction Trump’s transportation budget runs into resistance from both parties Overnight Energy: Zinke defends Trump’s Interior budget proposal MORE (R-N.J.), chairman of the defense appropriations subcommittee," may be less enthused "about the House funding tactic, but went along with it at Ryan's direction." Capitalizing on his discomfort could help prevent the gimmick from surviving," the memo says of Frelinghuysen. In his statement, Ryan called the memo “shameless.”

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Input: • World Cup host will allow alcohol to be drunk in fanzones • Hassan al-Thawadi vows tournament will be ‘fun’ Qatar is considering special World Cup courts to deal “very gently” with fans breaking rules on public consumption of alcohol, according to the chief executive of the 2022 organising committee. Along with a string of other issues, Qatar’s laws prohibiting public drinking have been a source of constant questions for organisers since it won the right to host the tournament in December 2010.

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Input: MOSCOW — Vladimir Putin's government accused Barack Obama of "Russophobia" on Wednesday after he criticized Donald Trump for cozying up to Moscow. Obama said Tuesday that Trump sees Putin as a "role model" — someone who "invades smaller countries, jails his opponents, controls the press and drives his economy into a long recession." Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Barack Obama meet on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Sept. 28, 2015. MANDEL NGAN / AFP-Getty Images, file Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov dismissed Obama's remarks as "electoral-style rhetoric," Russia's state-run news agency TASS reported.

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Input: In fact, it was a FSA soldier who cut out the liver of a Syrian man and ate it live on video. It became such an international sensation, that a well known British journalist was sent to Syria to personally interview the “moderate cannibal”. On March 21, 2014 at 6 am, the Turkish military began using heavy canons to bombard Kessab. The unarmed civilians were fast asleep in their own beds. The Turkish military helicopters began shooting rockets at the light contingent of Syrian Arab Army soldiers stationed there.

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Input: Because the rally inside the center was a private event, the Trump campaign had a right to ask attendees to leave. The campaign could also ask police to become involved, Quinn said. Earlier in the afternoon, Asheville officers confiscated a firearm from someone outside the center. In an interview, Teter said she was originally from Minnesota and went to San Francisco as a 16-year -old where she protested they war in Vietnam. Later in Milwaukee, she said she also joined the Civil Rights movement.

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Input: For most of this time, the United States seemed immune to the rise of European style-nationalist populism and all of its bigoted and Islamophobic overtones. Nativists like Pat Buchanan found some electoral success but never came close to winning national elections. It was easy to believe that America was, for some ideological reason, immune to the fever raging in Europe. But the truth was that America was sheltered more by an accident of political institutions than anything else. America’s electoral system strongly favors a two-party system, more so than any European country.

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Input: They said that the party still owes Manafort’s company a significant amount of money. One person with direct knowledge of the unpaid bills would n’t say how much was owed to Manafort, but said, “It’s an amount you would definitely want it in your bank account.” Another person who has discussed the unpaid bills with people close to Manafort said the amount was in the “millions” of dollars. When the party stopped paying its bills, Manafort’s Kiev office, which was being run by Kilimnik, began running late on its rent and employees’ salaries, according to several people familiar with the situation. “They did n’t pay the Ukrainian office. They did n’t pay rent or salary for people,” said a person who worked in the office.

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Input: He described Nato as the world’s most successful military alliance. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a Trump opponent, said he was certain that Trump’s statement would make Russian president Vladimir Putin “a very happy man”. The Nato alliance agreement was crystal clear, said its secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg. “We defend one another. Two world wars have shown that peace in Europe is also important for the security of the United States.”

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Input: Fawaz said that he returned to Oz and asked again to be present at his son’s interrogation. He said he was made to wait another hour, until 10 p.m., when officers allowed him to enter the room where his son’s interrogation was underway. Fawaz said his son had handcuffs on his hands and feet and wept as police interrogators screamed at him, accusing him of trying to stab security forces. “I could see marks on his face,” Fawaz said. “It was blue, and his neck had the mark of fingertips … it was red and blue.

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Input: Then, in October, the resort’s director said at an International Ski Federation meeting that Rosa Khutor plans to double in size by building around the upper Mzymta. According to a map Greenpeace claims it obtained from a June 2015 closed meeting between resort operators and the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry, Rosa Khutor and its sister company, Ober Khutor, plan to build two resorts in the valley that would occupy territory not only in the Sochi sanctuary, but also in the UNESCO-protected Caucasus reserve. The Rosa Khutor expansion, by some accounts, has already started: A “citizens’ inspection” by activists from the group Environmental Watch on North Caucasus (EWNC) in May 2015 revealed what it says is an illegal road going from Rosa Khutor through virgin territory toward the site of one of the planned resorts. The resort expansion threatens not only the leopard program, but also Sochi’s drinking water, which comes mainly from the Mzymta River, according to EWNC. The map obtained by Greenpeace also indicates that state gas giant Gazprom, which owns the Laura ski resort in Krasnaya Polyana, plans to build its own two resorts in the Caucasus reserve.

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Input: We do n’t know for sure.” She said she would push for release of all classified government records and files on UFOs and Area 51, the remote Air Force base in Nevada where, according to members of the UFO community, the government is keeping alien technology recovered from UFO crash sites. Clinton reiterated her commitment to the UFO disclosure during a recent late night TV interview with Jimmy Kimmel. She said that if elected as president, she would try to open all classified UFO files provided that the move does not compromise national security. Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta, well-known in UFO circles as an enthusiast, also confirmed in a number of interviews that he has spoken with Clinton about the issue of UFO disclosure and secured her commitment to push for UFO disclosure if elected president.

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Input: Image copyright Twitter Czech MEP Pavel Telicka tweeted:" People say PM May does not have a sense of humour. By appointing B Johnson she proved the opposite." Financial news website kurzy.cz describes the appointment of Mr Johnson as "at the very least questionable and very surprising. She has appointed to the post of foreign minister one of the leaders of Brexit, former London mayor Boris Johnson, who is famous, among other things, for his often extremely ' undiplomatic ' conduct."

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Input: The war hawks contend that if the United States had acted, in some theoretical yet farsighted fashion, there would have been no vacuum to be filled by the Islamic State. The “moderate” rebels would have triumphed, and members of all factions would have joined to sing “Kumbaya” while creating a democratic, peaceful and liberal future for Syria. Unfortunately, Washington’s early insistence on Bashar al-Assad’s overthrow thwarted hope for a negotiated settlement. The conflict quickly exploded with multiple factions, most representing varying degrees of bad. The claim that the United States could have provided just the right amount of assistance to just the right groups to yield just the right outcome is a fantasy, belied by America’s failure to get much of anything in the Middle East right.

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Input: A similarly violent attack on the UK embassy in Moscow was unlikely, he added, but “we need to be careful about the consequences of things we call for”. Johnson had called for demonstrations outside the Russian embassy in a Commons debate on Tuesday, partly as a rhetorical device to criticise leftwing groups such as Stop the War Coalition for failing to denounce the Russian bombing of Aleppo, the second city of Syria. He also reiterated allegations of Russian involvement in an attack on aid convoy last month, prompting an accusation of “Russophobic hysteria” by the Russian defence ministry. On the ground in besieged eastern Aleppo, residents said air raids using powerful bunker-buster bombs resumed on Tuesday and continued into the early hours of Wednesday morning. Doctors said they had documented 34 dead and 216 injured on Tuesday alone, adding that the total number was likely to be higher as some families retrieved their dead from bombarded sites without taking them to local hospitals.

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Input: The crash of EgyptAir flight 804 in May was initially suspected to have been caused by a terrorist attack, forcing many tourists to reconsider their travel plans. It's still not clear what brought the plane down, but investigators have found evidence of a fire on board. On top of that, an EgyptAir domestic flight was hijacked in March, and terrorists brought down a Russian plane that took off from an Egyptian tourist airport in late October. Tunisia This small country wedged between Algeria and Libya in northern Africa experienced a near 20% drop in international visitor arrivals in the first quarter of 2016 following two shocking terrorist attacks that targeted tourists.

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Input: In September, Cruz and Trump appeared together at a rally against the Iran deal. Cruz told the crowd, “Any commander in chief worthy of defending this nation should be prepared to stand up on Jan. 20, 2017, and rip to shreds this catastrophic deal.” Trump made no such commitment. Two months later, in his book, Crippled America, Trump wrote: “Once the sanctions are removed there is no going back, no ‘snapback.’ Putting sanctions back in place unilaterally wo n’t do any good.” Trump was right. Revoking U.S. compliance made no sense.

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Input: Airline officials later said they had been told by Cypriot authorities that the belt was fake. The hijacker's motives remain unclear but the Cypriot president said the incident was not terrorism-related. No-one was injured in the hijacking, Cypriot government spokesman Nikos Christodulides tweeted. How the hijacking unfolded Image copyright AFP / Getty Image caption A man believed to be the hijacker leaves the aircraft

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Input: That's quite a statistic. Of course, fast forward to today, and the idea that Japanese economic might somehow endangers Americans is almost laughable after two decades of deflation in Japan. But that earlier poll came at a time when Japanese-manufactured cars were being vandalized on the streets of Detroit, and anti-Japanese rhetoric was seen as a vote-winner. Indeed," Japan-bashing "was a central theme of Dick Gephardt's presidential bid in 1988. Few people remember such details in this forward-looking great nation.

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Input: Besides flares, employees at the network’s Arctic weather stations carry electronic sirens and sometimes firearms to ward off bears. They are instructed to leave the station in pairs for safety. Before the ship arrived, personnel had been advised to “use extreme caution” and to remain inside the station in all but the most serious circumstances. Meteorological work that required going outside to observation sites had been abandoned, but now has resumed. Shevchenko told TASS that the event was not without precedent.

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Input: “It’s an easy thing,” he said of the nominating process." He said some things, and he made some things up, and he took some things that were said out of context.” Reports emerged earlier on Wednesday that retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson would serve on a selection committee for finding Trump’s running mate. Carson, another former GOP presidential candidate, will help Trump make his pick before the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July. Trump on Wednesday said that Carson’s involvement stems from his reluctance in becoming the vice presidential nominee himself.

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Input: And then it turns out that Secretary of State Hillary played a role in transferring 50 percent of our nation’s uranium output to Russia’s government. With the Hillary-led State Department authorizing numerous deals, several countries in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, et al.) received arms shipments from the United States. These dictatorships (some even having ties to terrorist organizations) donated somewhere between $ 50 and $ 150 million to the Clinton Foundation. The FBI, already investigating Hillary’s unsecured e-mail transmissions, has reportedly opened up a second investigation looking into the possibility that she accepted funds and delivered political favors.

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Input: The group denied involvement in the event. -- “The killing was of the sort that has become all too common in the U.S. but is virtually unheard of in Britain: without warning, hyper-violent and ultimately, perhaps, inexplicable," Griff and Karla write from London." It claimed as its victim Cox, a widely respected 41-year -old member of the center-left Labour Party who won election last year after a career in humanitarian work and who was widely respected for her outspoken advocacy on behalf of refugees and civilians in Syria.” She was attacked outside a library near the city of Leeds." -- This has shaken Britain to the core and prompted an outpouring of grief across the political spectrum. “It came as the country heads into the homestretch of a bitter campaign to determine whether to stay in the E.U., with a vote scheduled next Thursday.

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Input: Four of the five U.N. Security Council nuclear powers — Britain, France, Russia and the United States — voted against the resolution, while China abstained, as did India and Pakistan. Japan, which has long campaigned against the use of nuclear weapons, voted against it, as did South Korea, which is facing a nuclear threat from North Korea. Opponents argued that nuclear disarmament should be addressed within negotiations on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, described the vote as a “historic moment” in the decades-long drive for a nuclear-free world. “This treaty wo n’t eliminate nuclear weapons overnight.

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Input: Ties are one thing, policy and statements are another. Here is where the links get interesting. The one time Trump’s aides intervened in the drafting of the Republican National Convention’s platform, it was to push for the deletion of a passage endorsing arms shipments to Ukraine soldiers fighting to stave off incursions from Russian forces. And of course, many of Trump’s statements on foreign policy, such as his isolationist impulses and jarring statement, in a New York Times interview, that he might not come to the aid of a NATO ally in the event of an invasion, must be sweet whisperings to Putin’s ears.

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Input: Saudi Arabia and Iran also are on opposing sides in the civil war in neighboring Syria, where fighting has killed more than 250,000 people and displaced millions. A blistering statement posted on the GCC website accused Hezbollah, a powerful Shiite Muslim movement, of “hostile acts” in the six states in the Sunni-led bloc: Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman. The statement, citing GCC Secretary General Rashid al-Zayani, accused Hezbollah of recruitment to carry out terrorist attacks, and of smuggling weapons and explosives, “in flagrant violation of [GCC members’] sovereignty, security and stability.” All Hezbollah leaders and the group’s affiliated factions fall under the new terrorism designation, said the statement, which also charged that the militia is responsible for “terror and incitement” in Yemen and Iraq. There was no immediate response from Hezbollah.

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Input: That such an individual comes out publicly in support of Hillary Clinton says a great deal about the nature of the Democratic presidential campaign and the type of administration Clinton will head in the event that she wins the November election. Morell’s op-ed column appears under the headline: “I Ran the CIA. Now I’m Endorsing Hillary Clinton.” As far as the New York Times is concerned, support for Clinton from an organization that is identified around the world with torture and murder should be shouted from the rooftops. It is something to be proud of, a positive credential for the Democratic presidential nominee. The former CIA official declares Clinton “highly qualified to be commander in chief,” praises “her belief that America is an exceptional nation that must lead in the world,” and notes that in the internal discussions over US intervention in the Syrian civil war, “she was a strong proponent of a more aggressive approach.”

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Input: “Samantha, enough, I’ve already read your book,” he once snapped. Obama, unlike liberal interventionists, is an admirer of the foreign-policy realism of President George H. W. Bush and, in particular, of Bush’s national-security adviser, Brent Scowcroft (“ I love that guy,” Obama once told me). Bush and Scowcroft removed Saddam Hussein’s army from Kuwait in 1991, and they deftly managed the disintegration of the Soviet Union; Scowcroft also, on Bush’s behalf, toasted the leaders of China shortly after the slaughter in Tiananmen Square. As Obama was writing his campaign manifesto, The Audacity of Hope, in 2006, Susan Rice, then an informal adviser, felt it necessary to remind him to include at least one line of praise for the foreign policy of President Bill Clinton, to partially balance the praise he showered on Bush and Scowcroft. At the outset of the Syrian uprising, in early 2011, Power argued that the rebels, drawn from the ranks of ordinary citizens, deserved America’s enthusiastic support.

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Input: The treaty was based on the premise that if either superpower constructed a strategic defense, the other would build up its offensive nuclear forces to offset the defense. The superpowers would therefore quickly be put on a path toward a never-ending offensive-defensive arms race, as each tried to balance its counterpart’s actions. Until Bush took office, the Treaty was referred to as a “cornerstone of strategic stability” because it facilitated later agreements, reducing U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear arsenals. The US, assuming that a weakened Russia will never again be in a position to counter US hegemonic power, proceeded to encroach on Russia’s borders through its manipulation of NATO objectives. Today, there is no instrument in international law that prevents the possibility of mutually assured destruction.

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Input: The Clintons and their staff have dismissed this as dirty politics. CLINTON ACCUSERS ARE BACK Hillary Clinton's decision to advocate for victims of sexual assault has persuaded some of her husband's other accusers, including Juanita Broaddrick and Paula Jones McFadden, to wade into the political season. Broaddrick and Willey say that Clinton, who has said victims of sexual assault have the "right to be believed," is being hypocritical by doubting her husband's accusers. When asked about the accusations by Broaddrick, Jones McFadden and Willey at a campaign event in New Hampshire in December, Hillary Clinton replied that people who say they were sexually assaulted should be "believed at first until they are disbelieved based on evidence."

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Input: But it also caused him to break with two institutions that had been central to the Pence family: the Roman Catholic Church and the Democratic Party. Though the family remains close, his embrace of evangelical Christianity was long a source of disappointment.” Officers arrest protestors after a demonstrator set an American flag on fire at the main entrance of the Quicken Loans Arena. (Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post) MORE FROM CLEVELAND:

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Input: 5/40 2012 In Syria, protests (pictured here starting in Daree) have morphed into what president Assad labelled a “real war” with emergence of a coalition of forces opposed to Assad’s regime. Syria group Jabhat al-Nusra are among rebel groups who refuse to join, denouncing it as a “conspiracy”. Bombings targeting Shia areas, killing more than 500 people, spark fears of new sectarian conflict. Sunni Muslims stage protests across country against what they see as increasingly marginalisation by Shia-led government. AP

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Input: A North Korean flag flies on a mast at the Permanent Mission of North Korea in Geneva October 2, 2014. REUTERS / Denis Balibouse / File Photo South Korean soldiers and passenger watch a TV broadcasting a news report on Seismic activity produced by a suspected North Korean nuclear test, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, September 9, 2016. Kim Ju-sung / Yonhap via REUTERS A South Korean soldier watches a TV broadcasting a news report on Seismic activity produced by a suspected North Korean nuclear test, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea, September 9, 2016.

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Input: They were on the march in Asia and Africa and South America. And so we faced a choice. Either we could withdraw from the world, arm ourselves to the teeth, and make ourselves into a garrison state. Or we could pursue a forward-leaning defense. Create a community of free nations.

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Input: When Russian aircraft bombed a remote garrison in southeastern Syria last month, alarm bells sounded at the Pentagon and the Ministry of Defense in London. The Russians were n’t bombarding a run-of-the-mill rebel outpost, according to U.S. officials. Their target was a secret base of operations for elite American and British forces. In fact, a contingent of about 20 British special forces had pulled out of the garrison 24 hours earlier.

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Input: A Trump administration would continue that trend. “Everybody knows that American aggression has made China rise more rapidly. So if another American president would invade Panama, would invade North Korea, would invade Vietnam, that would give China superpower status because America would weaken itself,” Shen predicted, adding: “So [we would be] happy to see it.” Obama’s work in building bridges in Latin America, symbolised by his recent visit to Cuba, would also be jeopardised. The former president of Brazil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, told the Guardian a Trump presidency would be bad for Brazil and would push Latin America closer to China.

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Input: (Efrem Lukatsky) “We need to have a third Maidan,” said Nikolai Kokhanovsky, a leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, using the common term of the protests of 2014 and those of the 2004 Orange Revolution. New protests would “sweep away this corrupt government and pro-Russian oligarchs who have betrayed our revolution of dignity.” “Russia and the oligarchs are guilty for life in Ukraine becoming worse and worse,” said 21-year -old protester Ruslan Tymchuk, who was dressed in camouflage and wielding a bat. In recent weeks, political tensions have risen and President Petro Poroshenko this week urged Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, a key figure of the 2014 protests, to resign along with his government. But Yatsenyuk survived a parliamentary no-confidence vote.

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Input: So, for Washington, Iran would no longer be a spoiler state, but one that could play a positive role in stabilizing the region and "help put out the fires". Saudi Arabia, however, remains implacably at loggerheads with Iran. Its rigid Wahhabi Sunni Muslim clerical leaders treat Shi'ites as heretics, not far short of how Islamic State jihadis regard Shi’ites as idolaters to be exterminated. The Saudis have been badly rattled by Iran's success in forging a Shi'ite axis stretching from Iraq through Syria to Lebanon, where Tehran's paramilitary ally Hezbollah is also the strongest political force. Riyadh says Iran is also behind unrest in neighboring Bahrain, which has a Shi'ite majority, as well as the insurgency of Shi'ite Houthis in Yemen, where the Saudis launched an air war last year.

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Input: As the former chairperson alluded during that May 2016 appearance on CNN, the DNC’s Charter & Bylaws (current as of 28 August 2015) held [PDF]: The later-substantiated claim was foreshadowed during a December 2015 data breach controversy during which the Sanders campaign was accused by the DNC of accessing Clinton campaign data and swiftly blocked access to a vital campaign tool. The Sanders campaign immediately filed suit [PDF] against the DNC to restore access, maintaining in a complaint that an agreement between candidates and the Committee was violated (as it allowed for 10 days to remedy a breach) and that the Clinton campaign was not sanctioned for identical actions in 2008. In another controversial communication, a DNC staffer included “a script for a new video we’d like to use to mop up some more taco bowl engagement, and demonstrate the Trump actually is n’t trying.” The language employed was seen by critics as offensive and a cynical view of the Latino vote. What happened after WikiLeaks released the e-mails?

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Input: Voters vote and lawmakers decide. The counterpart to that is direct democracy, in which, ideally, everyone decides on everything. When the Federal Republic of Germany was established in 1949, its founders decided against direct democracy, partly out of fear of what the direct will of the people can bring about. In a sense, the media in Germany are also representative. Trained journalists have made it their profession to weigh the news and decide what is important and what is not.

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Input: "The asteroid impact threat on any given day is very very small, but the fact is that asteroids can and will hit the earth," said Bruce Betts, director of science and technology for the Planetary Society." What makes it different than any large-scale natural disaster is that we can prevent it." Rather than using a nuke — a last ditch method that could split one big deadly asteroid into many smaller deadly meteors — Betts explained that scientists would likely pummel an asteroid with spacecraft until it veered off its collision course with the planet. The US and Russia already have the capability of mounting joint asteroid defenses." The countries have worked together," said Texas A&M University historian Jonathan Coopersmith, a specialist in space exploration.

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Input: Trump’s partners on a Panama project traveled to Moscow in 2006 to sell condos to Russian investors, according to litigation filed in Florida. Trump also sold a mansion in Palm Beach in 2008 for $ 95 million to Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, according to property records. Trump had purchased the mansion at a bankruptcy auction less than four years earlier for $ 41.4 million, records show. In 2013, Trump found a new Russian partner for a Moscow real estate project, Aras Agalarov, an Azeri-born real estate developer who is sometimes called the "Trump of Russia" for his tendency to emblazon his name on his development projects. The Agalarovs are wealthy developers who have received several contracts for state-funded construction projects, a sign of their closeness to the Putin government.

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Input: Moving on, he believed that while ' Trump supporters are planning for the world's biggest party ' on election night ' Clinton supporters seem to be preparing for a funeral. ' Scott Adams warned that Hillary Clinton could spend her presidency ' taking care of a dying husband. ' There's no evidence that Bill Clinton (pictured) is sick ' I want to be invited to the event that doesn't involve crying and moving to Canada, ' he said. Adams also brought up the Clintons ' health, which became a more legitimized campaign issue after the former secretary of state nearly collapsed getting into a van leaving a memorial for 9/11 victims.

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Input: NATO's tensions with Russia have been building since Crimea and the West's decision to impose retaliatory sanctions. But the breakdown of a U.S -Russia brokered ceasefire in Syria on Oct. 3, followed by U.S. accusations that Russia has used cyber attacks to disrupt the presidential election, have signaled a worsening of ties. Even before the break down of the Syrian ceasefire, Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended a treaty with Washington on cleaning up weapons-grade plutonium, signaling he was willing to use nuclear disarmament as a new bargaining chip in disputes with the United States over Ukraine and Syria. (Additional reporting by Sabine Siebold; Editing by Tom Heneghan)

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Input: FBI Director James B. Comey announced in July that his agency would not recommend criminal charges against Clinton for her use of a private email server, though he said at the time she and her staffers were “extremely careless” in how they treated classified information. He said the decision was based largely on the fact that investigators did not find Clinton intended to mishandle classified material, though such material did traverse her private server. Ordinarily internal documents from FBI investigations are not made public. However, Comey has said the unusually high profile case warranted more robust public disclosures than is standard. The FBI found no evidence that anyone penetrated the email of the former secretary of state herself — although “hostile foreign actors successfully gained access to the personal e-mail accounts of individuals with whom Clinton was in regular contact and, in doing so, obtained e-mails sent to or received by Clinton on her personal account,” the bureau wrote.

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Input: His gun is only to shoot other people with guns (“ or people who support gun ownership,” he adds as an afterthought). But that is why everyone else owns guns too, you point out. You’re not an anti-gun advocate fighting fire with fire: in defending the legitimacy of your own gun carrying, you have become, to whatever small degree, a gun-rights advocate. “Not at all,” he says, “because unlike those guys, who just love to carry guns, I’m doing it because gun-owners deserve to be shot.” This caricature of an anti-gun-rights activist ceases to be a caricature when looked at metaphorically.

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Input: In July, an Mi-25 attack chopper was shot down near Palmyra, killing two Russian pilots. The aircraft had been engaging the advancing Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS / ISIL) militants at the Syrian Army's request when it was taken down, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. In April, an Mi-28N attack helicopter crashed while performing a flight near the city of Homs, with the Defense Ministry stressing it was not shot down. The crash left both pilots dead, with technical failure cited by Moscow as the likely cause of the accident. Last October, another Mi-8 helicopter was badly damaged and then destroyed by IS fighters after an emergency landing in the middle of search and rescue operation to extract a surviving co-pilot of a Su-24 M bomber jet shot which was down by a Turkish Air Force F-16.

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Input: FBI Director James Comey will present a recommendation to Loretta Lynch, Attorney General and head of the U.S. Department of Justice, that includes a compelling argument that the Clinton Foundation is an ongoing criminal enterprise engaged in money laundering and soliciting bribes in exchange for political, policy and legislative favors to individuals, corporations and even governments both foreign and domestic. Huguenard, a Bernie Sanders supporter, says that he has sources within the FBI. They say the Bureau will recommend that the DOJ file Racketeering charges against Mrs. Clinton. The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) is a United States Federal Law passed in 1970 that was designed to provide a tool for law enforcement agencies to fight organized crime. RICO allows prosecution and punishment for alleged racketeering activity that has been executed as part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.

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Input: US poll: Who will you vote to become President? — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 29, 2016 Poll of polls: Trump now favored to win election after Democrats nominate Hillary Clinton # DNCLeak https://t.co/DOooNoC7hO # DNCinPHL — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 29, 2016 Audience at DNC turns on Bernie Sanders after he says "we must elect Hillary Clinton" following # DNCLeak https://t.co/yJszgko2XK # DNCinPHL — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) July 25, 2016 Hillary Clinton's showy rewarding of corruption by DWS is an ill wind for the corruption-overton-window of a future presidency.

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Input: And you have other problems. And also, the asset is your rates are so low. What's going to happen when the rates eventually will go up and you can't borrow, you absolutely can't borrow because it's too expensive? It would destroy our balance sheet, totally destroy the balance sheet. So you'd be paying so little interest right now.

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Input: Dr. Henderson shared credit for his accomplishments with the many WHO collaborators who performed vaccinations in the field. “The obstacles were unbelievable,” Dr. Henderson told the Times in 2011, recalling the efforts of Ciro de Quadros, a Brazilian epidemiologist who later helped lead an assault on polio. “The emperor assassinated, two revolutionary groups fighting, nine of his own teams kidnapped, even a helicopter captured and held for ransom. He kept the teams in the field — and that helicopter pilot went out and vaccinated all the rebels.” Recalling their work together, Foege said that Dr. Henderson displayed profound concern for the field workers who risked their safety to carry out their work.

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Input: “What she was asking was that any information that could be transmitted on the unclassified system be transmitted,” he said. “It is wrong to suggest that she was requesting otherwise. The State Department looked into this and confirmed that no classified material was sent through a non-secure fax or email.” Security remained a constant concern. On June 28, 2011, in response to reports that Gmail accounts of government workers had been targeted by “online adversaries,” a note went out over Clinton’s name urging department employees to “avoid conducting official Department business from your personal email accounts.”

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Input: This author was in a conference with Ambassador Joseph Kennedy and Judge Landis, an associate of Ambassador Kennedy. In his private office they were consulting this author on the Middle East situation which had recently taken an ugly turn in the United Nations. President John Kennedy Pledges Zionists He Will Act in Their Favor Even at the Risk of War Ambassador Kennedy discussed the subject matter for a short while with those present. The Congressman then asked to leave as he was catching a train for Washington. This author invited the Congressman to lunch and he accepted.

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Input: No one who really wants to be commander in chief would disparage the parents of a fallen soldier, no matter how many times they pulled their worn copy of the Constitution from their pocket and challenged you to read it. And when they accused you of having sacrificed nothing, savvy politicians would have maintained a dignified silence in public while working underhandedly to deflect it onto their opponent. No one would come back at a grieving family with the ridiculous defense that you have sacrificed by employing "thousands and thousands of people." Clearly, being in a position to hire people is not a sacrifice. If someone is working for you, then you are reaping the benefits.

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Input: "Both the November Paris attacks and the October 2015 bombing of a Russian airliner suggest a shift in IS strategy towards going global." The IS group has developed an "external action command" that was trained for "special forces-style attacks" internationally, the report said. But the report played down fears that jihadists were smuggling themselves into Europe as part of the huge wave of refugees and migrants that the continent is dealing with, many of whom are fleeing the war in Syria." There is no concrete evidence that terrorist travellers systematically use the flow of refugees to enter Europe unnoticed," it said. It warned however that many new arrivals were vulnerable to radicalisation or recruitment, with evidence that extremist recruiters were specifically targeting refugee centres.

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Input: Russian military spokesman Igor Konashenkov issued a statement about the fragile truce. “As of the third day, only the Syrian army is observing the regime of silence. At the same time, the ‘moderate opposition’ led by the US is increasing the amount of attacks on residential districts … Russia has respected its obligations to fulfill the ceasefire regime in Syria from the first minute.” The United Nations has blamed both sides for the delay of aid. The two convoys carrying necessary supplies of food have been stranded in a “no man’s land” since the start of the Syrian ceasefire, unable to proceed due to hostilities and a lack of permits from the Assad regime.

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Input: “However, he has made it clear on numerous occasions that he would ‘look seriously at’ pardoning Edward Snowden, based on public information that Snowden’s actions did not cause actual harm to any U.S. intelligence personnel. Likewise, he has said he would look favorably on pardoning Ross Ulbricht, consistent with his broader and long-standing commitment to pardon nonviolent drug offenders, whistleblowers, and others imprisoned under unjust and ill-advised laws,” Hunter said. Ulbricht is the founder of the Silk Road, the first deep web black market to achieve significant popularity, and was convicted in 2015 of drug, conspiracy, and hacking charges. His supporters have painted him as more inspired by Libertarian ideals around drug use than someone who wanted to become a drug kingpin. Though transcripts from his trial indicated he ordered six different murders on perceived enemies, he was never charged for them.

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Input: A peaceful morning stroll by a group of elderly Jewish women on a promenade overlooking sweeping vistas of Jerusalem turned into a bloody nightmare when two masked terrorists stalked and stabbed two of the octogenarians in their backs. The attack, which ironically took place adjacent to the Peace Forest, occurred at approximately 8:30 a.m. when five women, all in their 80s, were walking together on the popular Haas Promenade in Armon Hanatziv / East Talpiot, police said. Relevant to your professional network?

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Input: Just in Central America, Nicaragua’s military spending trails far behind its neighbors in the so-called Northern Triangle: Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras. And the Dominican Republic outspent the rest of the isthmus by nearly $ 100 million in 2015, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Costa Rica’s foreign minister, Manuel González, said that tanks and weapons of war were ill-suited to the problems Central America faces: poverty, organized crime, human trafficking and drug trafficking. Instead of weapons, González said the region needs to “combat poverty with education, healthcare, technology and infrastructure.”

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Input: And her support is in the media and elsewhere, are trying to distract. GREENE: Now, of course, others suggest WikiLeaks has been making an effort to distract, to draw attention away from its alleged sources in Russia. The group announced it would offer a $ 20,000 reward for information about Seth Rich, a 27-year -old DNC staffer, who was shot and killed last month in what police suspect was a late-night robbery gone bad. WikiLeaks offering that reward sparked speculation that Rich was in some way involved with the DNC emails. Some have seen that as possibly a some kind of smoke screen, maybe an effort by you to draw attention away from some relationship with your actual sources in Russia.

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Input: A Chechen national suspected of being the mastermind behind the deadly Istanbul airport terrorist attack, earlier received refugee status in Austria, which helped him to repeatedly avoid extradition to Russia on terror charges. The fatal attack on the Istanbul airport that took lives of 44 people and left more than 230 injured was allegedly organized by Ahmed Chataev, a Russian citizen of Chechen origin, who joined Islamic State (IS, former ISIS / ISIL) in 2015 and now fights in Syria, Turkish media report, citing police sources. Chataev was assigned a leading role in training extremists that would then commit terrorist attacks in both Russia and Western Europe, the Deputy Chairman of the Russian Investigative Committee Andrey Przhezdomsky said, adding that, in Syria, Chataev also commands a unit consisting “primarily of immigrants from the North Caucasus,” Russia's Kommersant newspaper reported earlier this year. Read more

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Input: What are those? Well, there are a number of them, but the basic idea can be illustrated clearly enough through one typical example: In the lead-up to 2008, many working Americans had come to hold money in so-called "money market mutual funds" (MMMFs). These funds were designed to look and act like bank accounts: one share was valued at one dollar, you could write checks and use payment cards on your accounts with them, etc. Problem was, these bank imitators were not carefully regulated as banks. Indeed, they acted much as banks had done prior to the 1929 crash and the first Glass-Steagall Act: They made short-term loans to securities firms and other high-flying financial institutions — firms like Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers — that used short-term borrowed funds to make highly speculative investments in bad mortgage products and other high-risk financial instruments.

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