Input: "It's in the best interest of my countrymen to maintain that relationship." On Thursday, Duterte had told Chinese and Philippine business people at a forum in Beijing's Great Hall of the People that America had "lost now", as he sought what he calls a new commercial alliance with China." I announce my separation from the United States," he had said, to sustained applause, adding he would also seek closer ties with Russia. Clarifying his comments on Friday, he said that what he meant was that Manila's foreign policy need not always "dovetail" with Washington." As in separation, what I was really saying was separation of foreign policy," he said.

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Input: A gay man from Boston has abstained from sex for eight months and plans to continue for another four so he can donate blood. Under Federal Drug Administration policy, gay men in the US are not allowed to have any sexual contact for a year before donating. In light of nationwide blood shortages, Jay Franzone, 21, will forego all sexual activity until January 2017 to demonstrate that US blood donation laws are “crazy” The American Red Cross has issued an emergency appeal for blood and platelet donors.

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Input: Call-in: The Russian leader uses the annual event to consolidate his image as a strong leader who protects Russia from foreign threats and cares about people's needs ON WHOM TO SAVE FROM DROWNING: TURKISH PRESIDENT TAYYIP ERDOGAN OR UKRAINE PRESIDENT PETRO POROSHENKO: ' If someone has decided to drown, it is no longer possible to save them. But, of course, we are ready to lend a helping hand and a hand of friendship to any of our partners if they want that themselves. ' ON THE ECONOMY:

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Input: 4:10 a.m. An official at Haydarpasa Numune Hospital in the Uskudar district of Istanbul tells The Associated Press they have admitted at least 150 wounded. The official refused to comment whether there were fatalities. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak to the media. Earlier, NTV reported that six dead were brought to the same facility.

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Input: who is not viewed favorably by the left or by other Latin American countries.” Ecuador granted asylum to Assange in August 2012, when he was wanted for questioning in Sweden on accusations of rape and sexual molestation. Correa has said that he wanted to protect the WikiLeaks founder from the possibility he might have his due process rights violated and face the death penalty if he were ever charged for his leaks in the United States. Politically, the move allowed Correa to flex his muscles on the international stage and burnish his anti-American credentials at home, according to Latin American political observers. “He thought this was a low-cost way of kind of poking the US without generating real consequences,” said J.D.

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Input: In 2007, he praised Putin for ‘rebuilding Russia’. A year later he added, in a reference to the then President: ‘He does his work well; much better than our [President George W.] Bush.’ Despite abundant evidence to the contrary, Trump denies that the Kremlin assassinates its critics. Instead, he praises the taciturn former KGB man who runs Russia for his ‘leadership’. For his part, Mr Putin has praised the bouffant-haired buffoon, terming him a ‘colourful and talented’ person (Trump termed that compliment an ‘honour’).

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Input: When you log into Elite VPN, and choose a French point of presence, you're offered a list of IP addresses in DigiCube's range to connect through. These IP addresses belong to machines that share the same aforementioned fingerprint. So, it appears, Elite VPN rents DigiCube servers, hosts a proxy service on them, and Team Guccifer used that service to connect from somewhere else in the world to AOL France to send those messages. The mystery IP address Here's where it gets weird: the specific IP address used with the AOL France webmail account is not available to normal Elite VPN customers, but seems to be part of Elite VPN's network due to the presence of the shared key.

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Input: Turkish soldiers detain Staff Sergeant Erkan Cikat, one of the missing military personnel suspected of being involved in the coup attempt, in Marmaris, Turkey, July 25, 2016. REUTERS / Kenan Gurbuz Turkish soldiers search for missing military personnel suspected of being involved in the coup attempt in Marmaris, Turkey, July 18, 2016. REUTERS / Kenan Gurbuz Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attends an interview with Reuters at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, July 21, 2016.

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Input: Iran is the subject of the agreement,” adding, “I will confront them across the board.” She said, “I will not hesitate to take military action if Iran attempts to obtain a nuclear weapon.” During the 2008 presidential campaign, Clinton promised to “totally obliterate” Iran if it attacked Israel. Clinton was, in effect, pledging to commit genocide against the Iranian people. In an August 2014 Atlantic interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, Clinton maintained, “There is no such thing as a right to enrich.” Apparently, she has not read the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which gives countries like Iran the right to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. Article IV of the treaty says, “Nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with Articles I and II of this Treaty.”

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Input: In the same exchange, longtime Clinton aide Dennis Cheng wondered how the campaign would deal with telling the lobbyists that they would n’t be accepting their money but accepting those from corporate lobbyists: The campaign’s relationship with donors is a recurring theme in the Podesta leaks. In another email, Clinton staff asked Israeli philanthropist Haim Saban, the billionaire chairman of Univision Communications, if he approved Clinton campaign language about the BDS boycott against Israeli goods. (Saban has helped raise more than $ 5 million to Clinton’s campaign, according to Mother Jones.) Of course, when Palmieri writes "take the money!!"

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Input: Dependent almost entirely on foreign aid, Afghan security forces are struggling to secure the country amid a rising insurgency. As the NATO-led coalition's military presence dwindled last year, Afghan leaders reached out to Moscow, which fought a war of its own in Afghanistan during the 1980s, for more Russian-made weapons, including small arms, artillery and attack helicopters." This donation represents a deep friendship between two nations," Afghan national security adviser Hanif Atmar said at an event marking delivery of the arms shipment." This important donation is from an important friend of Afghanistan in a crucial time for Afghanistan and the region." The guns and ammunition were provided under an existing security agreement between the two countries, he added.

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Input: History is not kind to fools, and the United States is paying an enormous price for throwing away the strategic advantages it enjoyed after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Consider the following facts: Last year, for the 16th year in a row, real median household incomes in the United States were lower than they were in 1999. Middle-aged Americans have now lost most of their careers to an era in which the standard of living for the typical household has fallen. In 1999, the year before Congress agreed to let China join the WTO, the United States accounted for 25.78 percent of world GDP.

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Input: When the United Nations Financing for Development conference was held in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa last July, African nations in particular pushed Western countries to close tax loopholes and shut tax havens. Many countries offered to forgo aid if their Western counterparts would oblige. Under heavy pressure from governments like David Cameron's in Britain, the major tax reform breakthrough of that conference was the Addis Tax Initiative, in which donor countries pledged to double their levels of aid, so as to strengthen tax systems in developing countries, without so much of a word about their own systems. Read more: ‘Hello.

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Input: The demolished monuments will be removed and transferred to museums where they can become “a witness of hard times,” Kaminsky said, the RIA Novosti news agency reported. He added that such measures would not apply to the graves of Soviet soldiers, for which Poland will continue to care. Soviet war memorials have fallen into disrepair and been regularly vandalized in Poland, where the Soviet role in World War II is viewed with ambiguity or outright hostility. In Russia, the official narrative is that the Red Army liberated Poland from Nazi occupation. Yelena Sutormina, chair of development of public diplomacy and the support of compatriots abroad chamber, has called on the UNESCO cultural and scientific agency to block the decision of the Polish government, RIA Novosti reported.

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Input: (From L-R), Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir, Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, Iraq's Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, Turkey's Foreign Affairs Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Jordan's Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, speak together around a table during a bilateral meeting where they discussed the crisis in Syria, in Lausanne, Switzerland, October 15, 2016. REUTERS / Jean-Christophe Bott / Pool LAUSANNE, Switzerland Syria talks convened by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the Swiss city of Lausanne on Saturday evening failed to agree on a common strategy with Russia to end the conflict in Syria, now in its sixth year. Kerry was seeking a new path to peace after failing to secure a ceasefire in direct talks with Moscow, one of Syria's key backers, amid mounting international outrage over the Russian and Syrian bombardment of rebel-held eastern Aleppo. Kerry hosted Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and seven foreign ministers from the region-from Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, Jordan and Egypt-weeks after the collapse of a painstakingly crafted U.S.-Russian ceasefire plan that many saw as the last hope for peace this year.

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Input: "You do n’t see that at all [inside here]. We’ve been through days where you do n’t see it," he added. Back in March, Trump canceled a rally in Chicago amid huge protests outside of the arena, and at another rally, a man was charged with assault and battery after video surfaced showing him punching a man in the face. The real estate mogul has been accused of stoking violence at past rallies. Earlier this year, Trump said he wanted to punch a protester in the face.

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Input: So for buyers with the money (and without a felony on their records), fully automatic weapons were available as investments at Knob Creek. The value of weapons on display at the range was in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, from the vintage European guns to a giant Civil War-era cannon that made its presence known with a thundering boom and a giant cloud of white smoke. To anyone troubled by the legality of private citizens owning these sorts of weapons, shooters like Jim were quick to point out that fully automatic weapons have not been involved in any mass shooting in recent memory, with the one exception, Jim conceded, of the 1997 North Hollywood Shootout, when two men attempted a bank robbery with fully automatic weapons with drum magazines and exchanged nearly 2,000 rounds of ammunition with police — and those guns, Jim noted, were semi-automatics that had been illegally modified into fully automatics, not like the licensed automatic weapons at the Knob Creek shoot. And yet, a fixture in most of the recent mass shootings, the 30-round extended magazine, was for sale inside the Knob Creek range house for $ 19.95 apiece. Should the sale of extended magazines be curtailed?

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Input: Financing problems "Western sanctions have taken away the possibility for our banks and companies to borrow money from abroad, not only in Europe but also all over the world," said Wladimir Milow, director of the Moscow-based Institute of Energy Policy, in an interview with DW." No one is loaning us money any more, not even China." Milow is also founder and top executive of "Democratic Choice," a Russian opposition party. Loans taken out in the past ten years are said to have laid the foundations for Russia's economic growth.

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Input: It’s honest. And it’s not misogyny that makes people oppose her positions (see: Trans-Pacific Partnership, fracking, immigration, welfare reform). It was extremely demoralizing and frustrating to see how much of the media and political establishment hijacked feminism and trivialized genuine sexism as they sought to delegitimize valid criticism of Clinton. Much of what Bernie Sanders did, said or gestured was framed as a symptom of the entitlement and insensitivity endemic of straight, white men, at best, or overt misogyny, at worst. Perhaps the greatest, or most egregious, example of this was when a New York Times reporter asked Sanders, “What do you say to women that say you staying in the race is sexist?” Our concerned fellow feminists diagnosed women who dared to defend the more feminist vision of Sanders or criticize the hawkishness of Clinton as having internalized misogyny.

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Input: American Presidents -- including some who hated their opponents -- have never dreamed of doing such a thing.” Only time I've ever heard a candidate threatening to jail his opponent was in the Congo. He lost & was later convicted of war crimes. — stuart stevens (@stuartpstevens) October 10, 2016 Trump's "President Day 1" checklist: 1 Jail opponent.

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Input: Very, disturbingly similar.” The populist candidacy that upended the GOP order and has torn through many of the norms of American politics is now raising a concern among critics in both parties: that Trump is, in effect, running to be a strongman with dictatorial powers. In addition to vowing to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton and put her in jail, Trump has also pledged to “open up our libel laws” so when reporters write “purposely negative and horrible and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money.” He has also talked of establishing a religious test on immigrants and about setting up a national stop-and-frisk program, despite the fact that policing policies are considered to be in the purview of state and local governments. The Fix's Aaron Blake breaks down Trump's extraordinary call to jail Hillary Clinton over her handling of a personal email server. (Daron Taylor / The Washington Post)

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Input: In a Democratic debate in October, Clinton said Snowden should return and be put on trial. Bernie Sanders, now the only other Democratic contender, agreed, though he said he thought Snowden “played a very important role in educating the American public”. In 2013, Trump implied that Snowden should be executed. In March, he said the US should get Snowden back from Russia because he is a spy. The Kremlin said it would not entertain such a plan.

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Input: Some chose to use their trials solely as an opportunity to make public statements. In the current era, one of the imprisoned members of the protest-art group Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, used this approach: she would come to court with short prepared speeches and deliver them, in turn, every time she was asked a question. Others chose to point to the court’s lack of legitimacy and refused to engage with it — in the current era, another imprisoned Pussy Riot member, Maria Alekhina, made the act of turning her back to the court’s video camera an art form (she was meant to testify via an uplink from jail). Nadiya Savchenko has used both of these strategies. She has given speeches and sung the Ukrainian anthem in her cage, and supporters in the courtroom have joined her in what might be called a rousing rendition.

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Input: The most notable refrain from the RNC crowd last week: “Lock her up.” The evening also hammered home the stark tonal difference between the two conventions. After Trump painted America as a downcast country in need of a billionaire savior, night after night of all-star DNC speakers preached a sermon of American exceptionalism, with values that unify us all – talking points once exclusively owned by Republicans. It was enough to give a lot of conservatives whiplash. Here are just a few of them praising the DNC and bemoaning the state of affairs in their own party.

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Input: This is "America first" at its most shortsighted, sacrificing an international system that is the basis of American power and American security. Trump's foreign policy is a little like calling for the United States to abolish all government so we can save money on taxes. At some point, every high school civics student learns that taxes fund the government, which provides security and infrastructure, which allows us to have jobs and income in the first place, as well as live past the age of 30. This is much like how the international order works: Countries pay into it such that there is a functioning and basically stable world. Trump doesn't seem to understand this, rather seeing the world as just a place where countries go to make deals.

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Input: Trump, who averaged just 2 percent support among black voters in several recent polls after last month's conventions, rattled off crime and poverty statistics in several communities, blaming Democrats for issues facing those in the nation's inner cities. Intertwined with his appeal to black voters was his rebuke of a "rigged" political system, accusing Democrats of tilting the scales for Clinton and praising himself for emerging as the GOP nominee despite political and monetary opposition." Eventually we're going to break that system," Trump vowed. Trump said he was fighting for "a peaceful regime change in our own country," defining a new agenda focused on "government of, by and for the people." "It's time to stop making the special interests rich.

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Input: France Image copyright Le Figaro In comments to Europe 1 radio, Mr Ayrault said:" I am not at all worried about Boris Johnson, but ... during the [referendum] campaign he lied a lot to the British people and now it is he who has his back against the wall." Newspaper Le Figaro says Mr Johnson "gives the impression of being guided by opportunism". The newspaper says the UK's new foreign secretary's political career has seen him change his mind on gay marriage and on Turkey joining the EU.

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Input: Incoming flights were diverted to Paphos on the island's western edge. The Larnaca airport operator later said it had reopened "after the end of the unfortunate incident" and that flights had resumed. Israel scrambled warplanes in its airspace as a precaution in response to the hijacking, according to an Israeli military source. Egypt's vital tourism industry was already reeling from the crash of a Russian passenger plane in the Sinai in late October. President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has said it was brought down by a terrorist attack.

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Input: (Picture: Riot police hold an LGBT activist during a Moscow rall.) AFP / Getty 2/7 Mauritania Men who are found having sex with other men face stoning, while lesbians can be imprisoned, under Sharia law. However, the state has not reportedly executed anyone for this ‘crime’ since 1987. (Picture: Chinguetti Mosque, Mauritania.)

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Input: (Part III) Sometimes it seemed that they were, like me, just slightly spoiled Americans, imbued with unreasonable boomer expectations for autonomy, glory, and ascension, and that their grievances were more theoretical than actual, more media-induced than experience-related. Before the rally in San Jose on June 2nd, I talk to a group of construction workers, each of whom is in some state of layoff: current, recent, chronic. One, who’s hoping to get a job working construction on the Wall, rails against millennials, the unions, a minimum-wage hike for fast-food workers, and “these people” who get fired, then turn around and sue. I ask for examples.

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Input: By Robert Parry The father of Quinn Schansman, the only American citizen to die in the 2014 shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine, has asked Secretary of State John Kerry to release the U.S. data that Kerry cited in claiming precise knowledge of where the suspected anti-aircraft missile was fired. One of the mysteries of the MH-17 case has become why the United States after asserting that it possessed information implicating ethnic Russian rebels and the Russian government has failed to make the data public or apparently even share it with Dutch investigators who are leading the inquiry into how the plane was shot down and who was responsible. Quinn Schansman, who had dual U.S.-Dutch citizenship, boarded MH-17 along with 297 other people for a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur on July 17, 2014. The 19-year -old was planning to join his family for a vacation in Indonesia.

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Input: Konashenkov said two jets of the U.S.-led coalition were involved in the raid, apparently mistaking the procession for militants of the Islamic State group. The IS on Friday launched an attack on the city of Kirkuk, about 30 km north of Daquq. Daquq Mayor Amir Khodakram says an airstrike hit a funeral procession in the city center on Friday, killing 17 people, mainly women and children, and wounding another 50. He says it was not clear who carried out the airstrike and that an investigation is underway. Russia has welcomed the U.S.-backed Iraqi forces ' push to dislodge the IS from Mosul, Iraq's second-largest city.

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Input: Akhmed Chataev is said to be the brains behind the attack after three suicide bombers launched a co-ordinated assault on Ataturk Airport on Tuesday, according to Turkish media. The Chechen warlord has risen to become an ISIS commander, with at least 130 militants at his disposal, with security sources claiming he was creating terror cells to be sent into Russia. One-armed Chechen warlord Akhmed Chataev (pictured) has been named as the mastermind behind the Istanbul airport massacre, it has emerged It comes as pictures emerged of the three suicide bombers-seen smiling together just moments before they carried out the deadly massacre, killing 42 and injuring hundreds Attack: CCTV shows the moment a deadly blast went off at Ataturk Airport in Istanbul late on Tuesday

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Input: WASHINGTON -- Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) had a hard time coming up with a reason why he supports presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump when pressed by Chuck Todd on "Meet the Press" on Sunday morning. Cotton, a leading proponent of an aggressive neoconservative foreign policy, was asked by Todd whether he is closer in foreign policy terms to presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton than Trump, who, while promoting a bombastic and confrontational foreign policy for the United States, has also called for the country to pull back from some international conflicts and commitments. Cotton had a hard time mustering up an answer. “Well, I can assure you that I'm not very close to Hillary Clinton,” Cotton said.

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Input: to escape responsibility for arresting 15 of his constituents in his office one week ago for the crime of wanting to talk to him without an appointment by blaming those arrested for their arrest, as if they went out and brought the police in to arrest themselves. Sanders was repeatedly unresponsive to questions put to him. He evasiveness

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Input: 10:28 p.m. — Abortion Kaine's Claim: Eventually the debate turned to abortion, and again Kaine quoted Trump. KAINE: I think you should live your moral values but the last thing, the very last thing, that the government should do is have laws that would punish women who make reproductive choices. And that is the fundamental difference between a Clinton-Kaine ticket and a Trump-Pence ticket that wants to punish women who make that choice.

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Input: Ukrainian anti-corruption officials have confirmed that Donald Trump's campaign chairman's name appears in a list of so-called black accounts made by the country's toppled president. Paul Manafort, who is playing an important role in this year's U.S. presidential election, has denied that he received any off-the-books payments from the Ukrainian government. Accounts of the controversial payments surfaced this weekend when The New York Times reported that Manafort's name appears on a list of payments amounting to $ 12.7 million from 2007 to 2012. A spokesman for the Ukrainian Anti-Corruption Bureau confirmed the details in the Times story. In the period covered by the payment list, Manafort worked for former Ukrainian President Viktor F. Yanukovych, who was supportive of Russia's President Vladimir Putin and was ousted in 2014.

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Input: These seven masters of deception incurred their guilt by debasing their solemn oaths of office on behalf of undisclosed domestic and foreign principals without any apparent qualms or misgivings, to enhance their political fortunes totally oblivious of the threat to United States security and survival. These seven masters of deception knowingly and willingly in effect and in fact "poisoned the wells" of security and survival for the United States. Without any evident scruples, they individually betrayed the sacred traditions enshrined in the letter and spirit of their oaths of office, that precious heritage bequeathed to each of these seven masters of deception as successors to that high office exalted by the immortalized first president of the United States, the venerated George Washington. The disclosures which follow here are now revealed for the first time anywhere. They now expose for the first time to the grass roots population of the United States the secret un-American, non- American and anti-American strategy to which these seven masters of deception knowingly subscribed.

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Input: (Missy Ryan) Obama is giving the military more control over the drone program, but the CIA will retain a role. (Wall Street Journal) The GOP-led House and Senate tacitly approved a 1.6 percent pay raise for federal employees by failing to take action to stop it. The arcane federal pay law requires that Congress legislate a figure by the end of the year. If it fails to do so, Eric Yoder explains, the White House recommendation will take effect. The Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Veterans Affairs must set aside more contracts to be filled by veteran-owned small businesses, a decision that will help them compete for billions in additional contracts awarded by the federal government.

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Input: The world’s oldest person, Susannah Mushatt Jones, a woman from New York City, has passed away at the age of 116 years and 311 days, according to NBC 4 New York. Robert Young, a senior consultant for the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group, a group that verifies and tracks the most elderly people in the world, said that Jones passed away at 8:26 p.m. Thursday at her senior home in Brooklyn where she had lived for more than three decades. He further added she had been ill for the past 10 days.

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Input: The selling of assets would prevent them from being frozen by U.S. courts if American victims are able to sue. The terrorism bill, which President Obama is threatening to veto, would weaken legal immunity of foreign governments in cases “arising from a terrorist attack that kills an American on American soil.” The language could cause problems for Saudi Arabia if the country is found to have links to 9/11, when hijacked planes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon outside of Washington. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were of Saudi Arabian descent. Separate from the legislative push, members of Congress are discussing the declassification of 28 pages from the 2002 congressional inquiry that reportedly examined the link between forces in Saudi Arabia and 9/11.

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Input: There were also images of what appeared to be a classroom reduced to rubble. Bloodstains were visible among crumpled bench seats. A video, broadcast by an Arab network but seemingly shot by activists, showed several children being treated for injuries at a makeshift hospital. The activists blamed the carnage on Russian warplanes, but CBS News could not immediately verify those claims, nor the authenticity of the images posted online. Riad Hijab, the coordinator for the Western-backed Syrian opposition, said in Paris that three schools were hit in total near Ain Jara and that 35 children were killed in all, according to the Reuters news agency.

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Input: Another 265 are currently being given treatment either in group or individual sessions. The German initiative is unique because it deals with potential sex criminals, or those who have already committed abuses but have managed to escape justice. Other programmes deal with convicted paedophiles who have also been issued specific orders to seek medical care. Klaus Beier, who leads the prevention network as well as Charite's sexual medicine institute, has no illusions about the programme. “Paedophilia is not curable,” he said.

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Input: * * * I should add here that we found no evidence that any of the additional work-related e-mails were intentionally deleted in an effort to conceal them. Our assessment is that, like many e-mail users, Secretary Clinton periodically deleted e-mails or e-mails were purged from the system when devices were changed. Because she was not using a government account — or even a commercial account like Gmail — there was no archiving at all of her e-mails, so it is not surprising that we discovered e-mails that were not on Secretary Clinton’s system in 2014, when she produced the 30,000 e-mails to the State Department. It could also be that some of the additional work-related e-mails we recovered were among those deleted as “personal” by Secretary Clinton’s lawyers when they reviewed and sorted her e-mails for production in 2014. This full statement by the director made clear that it was not possible Mrs. Clinton or her attorneys knew there were more work-related emails, rather she turned over everything her attorneys had recovered.

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Input: Thus, Debbie Wasserman Shultz, Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and every other top Democratic leader can act with impunity, and expect The Daily Banters and Beasts of the world to defend them, regardless of whether or not Democrats morph into moderate Republicans. I'm never voting for anyone who believed Bush's intelligence on Iraq, because Bernie Sanders used the same intelligence and voted against the invasion. I'm never voting for a political dynasty that incarcerated more Americans than any presidency in history, because unlike Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders doesn't take prison lobbyist donations and addressed prison reform long before 2016. I'm never voting for a person I consider a liar. If you consider me a liar for my support of Warren, Webb and O'Malley before Sanders, or even an article on a Republican I wrote simply to protest perpetual wars, then don't vote for me when I run for president.

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Input: So it would provide nearby air bases including Incirlik, which is already used by the United States and other countries for anti-Islamic State operations. Sill, it’s unclear whether Turkey still holds to its pro-no-fly-zone positions. Following the failed coup in July, U.S .- Turkish relations have suffered a downturn as Ankara demands that Washington extradite Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, who it accuses of orchestrating the coup. Meanwhile, Turkey has drawn closer to Russia, with two recent meetings between presidents Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin. The administration would also seek to include Arab members in a no-fly-zone coalition, mainly to bolster legitimacy.

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Input: If Hillary Clinton as the first woman president is supposed to be empowering for women and girls, why do I feel so powerless? CATHERINE LIU, writer, chair of film and media studies at University of California, Irvine, and contributor to “False Choices” I’m not voting in the presidential elections. I wo n’t vote Green, Republican or Democrat. I live in California, where my vote does n’t matter very much for the presidential elections, but I will be voting on most of the down-ticket elections.

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Input: The latest warning sign comes from a tricky source, the conservative activist-journalist James O’Keefe and his Project Veritas Action, which specializes in goading opponents into discussing illegal or unethical schemes while secretly recording them. In a video Mr. O’Keefe released last week, a Democratic operative, Scott Foval, brags about sending troublemakers to Mr. Trump’s rallies, to provoke Trump supporters into attacking them. Mr. O’Keefe has a history of selectively editing his videos to create misleading or false impressions. As The New York Times and The Washington Post have noted, it is unclear whether Mr. Foval accomplished what he boasted about. But the party strategist Mr. Foval was working for, Robert Creamer, fired him and then ceased his own work for the Democratic National Committee.

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Input: It was based on our desire to complete what has been a lengthy process of moving towards normalization with Vietnam," he said. Obama later added his visit to a former foe showed "hearts can change and peace is possible." In 2014, the Obama administration eased the decades-old arms embargo to allow its former Cold War enemy to buy maritime surveillance and "security-related" systems to strengthen it with China in mind. Now Hanoi will be able to buy a full range of U.S. weapons and military equipment. Immediate big-ticket purchases are not expected, but Vietnam's military strategists are likely to seek U.S. drones, radar, coastal patrol boats and possibly P-3 Orion surveillance aircraft.

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Input: His goal is to find dirt in the servers of powerful individuals or organizations he sees as corrupt or dangerous, and bring them down by exposing it. As he memorably told Der Spiegel in 2010, “I enjoy crushing bastards.” His recent focus on “crushing” Clinton but not Trump has led some to ask Assange if he is worried about helping to elect someone who might be even more hostile to him — let alone to the causes of justice and peace that have motivated Wikileaks’ previous disclosures. Asked recently by Amy Goodman of “Democracy Now” if he does prefer Trump over Clinton, Assange replied, “You’re asking me, do I prefer cholera or gonorrhea?” Speaking to Bill Maher on Friday night from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been effectively confined for more than four years, Assange joked about hacking Trump’s tax returns, but added, “from the perspective of WikiLeaks trying to protect its sources, you have really two very bad presidential candidates.” In an address to the American Green Party convention on Saturday, Assange reiterated that both major party candidates for the presidency were “horrific,” but argued that “it certainly does n’t make as much difference as people say,” which of them gets elected. What is important, he said, is to build political pressure “to discipline and hold to account and check the abuses of power during the next four years.” Standing ovation for Julian Assange of @wikileaks at the # GNCinHOU pic.twitter.com/duXmSrAFF3 — Green Party of MN (@MnGreens) August 6, 2016

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Input: The alt-right has been the topic of much discussion recently, especially after Donald Trump hired Steve Bannon from Breitbart to run his presidential campaign. Everyone, including us here at Modern Liberals, has been examining the faction of the Republican Party that one of our followers aptly coined as “hipster Nazis.” If you are n’t familiar with the alt-right, we have a recap here for you to get caught up with. Just as the conservative movement has the alt-right, liberals have their own faction that I like to refer to as the alt-left, and there are some similarities between both.

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Input: EgyptAir operates from a hub at Cairo International Airport and is based in Heliopolis, Egypt. It offers passenger and freight services to more than 75 destinations. In March, EgyptAir Flight 181 en route to Cyprus was hijacked by a passenger claiming to be wearing a suicide belt. The hijacker surrendered at Larnaca International Airport in Cyprus and all passengers were released safely. No one was hurt in the incident, which Cypriot authorities said was not terrorism related.

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Input: And Russia, which has killed hundreds of civilians in Syria — many of them children — was not fingered in Ban’s most recent report. The Houthis, as this month’s report does make clear, are also responsible for gross violations of human rights. On June 9, after days of outcry from human rights groups, Ban gave his news conference in which he essentially conceded that the decision to take the Saudis from the annex was made to protect U.N. financing, and not because of the merits of Riyadh’s complaints. On June 9, Ban essentially conceded that the decision to take the Saudis from the annex was made to protect UN financing. A flummoxed Mouallimi spoke soon after, and, once again, rebutted Ban.

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

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Input: The beauty pageant impresario’s coarse comments to Howard Stern, rating women on their breasts, fading beauty and ability to take the kids off his hands, reverberate through the campaign. In Indiana, Trump boasted that “Iron” Mike Tyson and “all the tough guys” had endorsed him. The chair-throwing Bobby Knight backed Trump with the brass-knuckles encomium that Trump, like Harry Truman, would have the guts to drop the bomb. When his rallies become Fight Club, Trump boasts that it adds a little excitement. Hillary Clinton’s rallies, by contrast, can seem like a sorority rush reception hosted by Lena Dunham, or an endless episode of “The View,” with a girl-power soundtrack by Katy Perry, Taylor Swift and Demi Lovato.

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Input: Others Marllory Chacón Rossell, Guatemalan drug trafficker. Jorge Milton Cifuentes-Villa, Colombian drug trafficker, head of the Cifuentes-Villa Drug Trafficking Organization and partner of Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán. Rafael Caro Quintero, Mexican drug trafficker and one of the founders of the now-disintegrated Guadalajara Cartel. Iqbal Mirchi[73] (died 14 August 2013), right-hand man of India’s most wanted criminal, Dawood Ibrahim

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Input: In recent years the two countries repeatedly clashed over territorial disputes in the South China Sea, with Beijing reacting furiously in 2014 after Duterte’s predecessor, Benigno Aquino, compared its activities in the region to Nazi Germany’s expansionism. “At what point do you say, ‘Enough is enough’? Well, the world has to say it – remember that the Sudetenland was given in an attempt to appease Hitler to prevent world war two,” he told the New York Times. In July, just weeks after Duterte’s landslide election victory, an international tribunal issued a thorough rebuttal of China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea when it ruled on a case originally brought by the Philippines government, in 2013. But Duterte – who has described his trip to China as “a key turning point in both our histories” – has not pressed Beijing over the tribunal’s ruling, apparently seeking to use that verdict as leverage with which to extract concessions from Beijing.

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Input: The US State Department has accused Israel of using “excessive force” against Palestinians, adding that the Israeli Army killed Palestinians even when they did not pose extreme danger. The statements were made in a newly released annual report. “There were numerous reports of the ISF (Israel security forces) killing Palestinians during riots, demonstrations, at checkpoints, and during routine operations; in some cases they did not pose a threat to life,” the report states.

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Input: On June 7, India cleared all hurdles to become a member of the 34-member Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR), a non-proliferation regime of which China is not a member. June 6 was the deadline for any member to object to a new entrant, and none had. BrahMos's range means it falls short of the 300 km limit set by the MTCR India's accession to the MTCR may also strengthen its case for joining another non-proliferation body, the Nuclear Suppliers Group, a move China has effectively blocked. Both groups would give India greater access to research and technology. BrahMos Aerospace, co-owned by the Indian and Russian governments, said discussions were underway with several countries on missile exports, but it was too early to be more specific." Talks are going on, there will be a deal," said spokesman Praveen Pathak. India is still a marginal player in global arms exports. The unit cost of the missile, fitted on Indian naval ships, is estimated at around $ 3 million. India has been steadily building military ties with Vietnam and is supplying offshore patrol boats under a $ 100 million credit line, its biggest overseas military aid. This week defence minister Manohar Parrikar held talks with his Vietnamese counterpart General Ngo Xuan Lich in Hanoi and both sides agreed to exchange information on commercial shipping as well as expand hydrographic cooperation, the Indian defence ministry said in a statement on Monday. A source at the defence ministry said India was hoping to conclude negotiations on the supply of BrahMos to Vietnam by the end of the year. The Indian government is also considering a proposal to offer Vietnam a battleship armed with the BrahMos missiles instead of just the missile battery, the source said.

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

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Input: Sanders has adopted tough rhetoric in vowing to galvanize international allies — particularly Saudi Arabia and other allies in the Middle East — to “crush” ISIS. And he frequently cites his House vote in 2002 against a U.S. invasion of Iraq as evidence of his sound judgment on foreign policy, in contrast to Clinton’s support of the effort to topple Saddam Hussein. Clinton has admitted she was misled by the administration of President George W. Bush in supporting the invasion, but has argued that being right on one vote does n’t qualify you to become the next commander in chief, or assure you have the experience and know-how to deal with international crises. “I know from my own experience that you've got to be ready on day one,” she said. “There is just too much unpredictable threat and danger in the world today, you know, to try to just say ‘Wait, I'll get to that when I can.’ That is just not an acceptable approach.”

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Input: That’s not a call for a federal minimum wage hike. It’s an explicit suggestion that there should be no federal minimum wage, so that the states can set it in order to compete with one another. (Of course, given that Trump had said in the same interview that he’d like the states to set a higher minimum wage, perhaps he meant that the states could compete by out-raising one another.) What’s more, even in very recent days, Trump has continued to slide back and forth randomly between saying there should be a federal minimum wage hike and that only the states should do it. That’s what happened in both his O’Reilly interview and at yesterday’s Florida presser.

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Input: Police have said Rich, 27, was shot twice in the back as part of an attempted robbery while walking to his home in northwest Washington, D.C. in the early hours of July 10. But nothing was found missing from his person, which fired up the internet conspiracy machine. Wikileaks founder Julian Assange fanned the flames by suggesting Rich was the group’s source for embarrassing DNC emails the group published online, emails which lead to former chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s (D-FL) ouster. “Whistleblowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often very significant risks. A 27-year -old, who works for the DNC, was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons as he was walking down the street in Washington,” Assange told an interviewer.

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Input: Horrible, despicable crime. Ukr police shld look into all motives — tanya cooper (@TanyaCooper _) 20 July 2016 Alyona Pritula, the founder and chief editor of Ukrainskaya Pravda media outlet, was not inside the car at the moment of the explosion. The explosion took place at about 7:45 am, after the journalist got into the car, started the engine and drove about several dozen meters. The vehicle has burnt out completely.

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Input: — David Jackson and Donovan Slack Trump ad reveals go-it-alone strategy During the debate, a pop-up ad on conservative Breitbart.com appears to reflect the candidate’s strategy at this point, trying to build on his anti-establishment candidacy and cult of personality. Trump's new ad out Sunday night ahead of the debate. (Photo: Screenshot)

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Input: At the same time, the Tax Policy Center found his tax plan would add nearly $ 10 trillion to the national debt. Nevertheless, Grover Norquist believes he has the potential to be the most fiscally conservative president in modern history. The president of Americans for Tax Reform is the man behind the infamous pledge to not add a single new dollar in revenue to the U.S. government, which arguably brought down President Obama’s attempts at a grand bargain with then-House Speaker John Boehner and brought us the fiscal cliff. He says he not only supports Trump, but has faith that the New York real estate mogul will be a game-changing president for the cause of small government. In turn, Trump has verbally agreed to the pledge, though Norquist is still waiting for a signed copy to put on his website.

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Input: Perhaps even scarier is what a President Clinton would do regarding Iran and Ukraine, two countries where belligerent U.S. behavior could start much bigger wars. For instance, would President Hillary Clinton push the Iranians so hard – in line with what Netanyahu favors – that they would renounce the nuclear deal and give Clinton an excuse to bomb-bomb-bomb Iran? In Ukraine, would Clinton escalate U.S. military support for the post-coup anti-Russian Ukrainian government, encouraging its forces to annihilate the ethnic Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine and to “liberate” the people of Crimea from “Russian aggression” (though they voted by 96 percent to leave the failed Ukrainian state and rejoin Russia)? Would President Clinton expect the Russians to stand down and accept these massacres? Would she take matters to the next level to demonstrate how tough she can be against Russian President Vladimir Putin whom she has compared to Hitler?

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Input: In June, the issue gained new attention when an American entering the U.S. Embassy in Moscow was tackled by a Russian guard. The American was identified by the State Department as an accredited diplomat, and said he had shown his identification to the guard under normal procedure. Russian Foreign Ministry officials, however, said the guard, who was employed by the country's main security agency, the FSB, was only doing his duty: protecting the embassy from what he deemed to be a suspicious person who, they said, was also wearing a disguise. Tit-For-Tat Expulsions Later, Moscow claimed the American was a CIA officer working under diplomatic cover, a common technique used by many countries, including both Russia and the United States.

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Input: It is the most lethal suicide bombing ever staged by the ISIS Libyan affiliate. On the same day, ISIS claims a second attack that kills six people at a checkpoint in Ras Lanouf. Photos: Deadly explosion in Istanbul Photos: Deadly explosion in Istanbul Police investigate the scene of an explosion in central Istanbul on Tuesday, January 12. A suicide bomber killed 10 people and injured more than a dozen others in a popular tourist area. Hide Caption 1 of 8 Photos: Deadly explosion in Istanbul A man takes a photograph near the site of the explosion in Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet district.

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Input: Clinton promised the people of Israel that if she were president, “you’ll never have to question whether we’re with you. The United States will always be with you.” Clinton has also voiced her opposition to the Palestinian-led nonviolent campaign against the Israeli government called BDS — boycott, divestment and sanctions. In a letter to Jewish mega donor Haim Saban, she said BDS seeks to punish Israel and asked Saban’s advice on “how leaders and communities across America can work together to counter BDS.” As secretary of state, Clinton missed opportunity after opportunity to shine as the nation’s top diplomat.

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Input: The three wounded tourists – Austrian pair Renata and Wilhelm Weisslein, both 72, and Swede Sammie Olovsson – were rushed to hospital for treatment. Sammie, 27, described how a jihadi tried to stab him in the chest and slashed his neck four times but told friends on Facebook that he was fine and recovering in hospital.

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Input: Clinton segued from a question on her leaked speech to claim the conversation was about Abe Lincoln. (Trump retorted, “That’s the big difference between Abraham Lincoln and you. He does n’t lie.”) She, however, got to the heart of the matter: Russia wants Donald Trump to win. Clinton explained that never before has a foreign power tried so hard to get one candidate elected. Trump tried to claim we do not know who hacked us (we do) and bizarrely claimed, “I know nothing about Russia.” Finally, he spoke the truth.

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Input: Clinton never had a concern with how classified information pertaining to the drone program was handled.” Sources said Clinton’s comments on neutralizing Assange fits a pattern of callousness when combined with the FBI testimony that she often considered droning individuals and then coupled with her reaction to Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi’s death in Oct. 2011. Gaddafi was tortured and killed, largely due to Clinton’s maneuvering in the Middle East and Libya. During a sit down interview with CBS News, a Clinton aide notified the room during a taping break of news reports that Gaddafi had been dragged throughout the streets of Libya and ultimately killed. Unaware the camera was still rolling, a jovial and proud Clinton pronounced: “We came.

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Input: According to prisoners’ rights organization Addameer, 414 of the 7,000 Palestinians currently held in Israeli prisons are minors. As of May, an estimated 104 of these youths were under the age of 16. Israel’s widespread practice of detaining Palestinian children, sometimes in the same prison facilities as adults, Israel’s widespread practice of detaining Palestinian children, sometimes in the same prison facilities as adults, has been criticized as breaching the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Israel ratified in 1991. The convention states that “the arrest, detention or imprisonment of a child shall be in conformity with the law and shall be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time.” The convention states that “the arrest, detention or imprisonment of a child shall be in conformity with the law and shall be used only as a measure of last resort and for the shortest appropriate period of time.” JERUSALEM (Ma’an) -- An Israeli military court on Sunday sentenced 14-year -old Muawiya Alqam to six-and-a-half years in prison, after being accused of carrying out a stab attack with his 12-year -old cousin in Jerusalem in November.

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Input: It’s all there in Trump’s commentary on U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is presiding over lawsuits against Trump University. Curiel was born in Indiana; previously, as a prosecutor, he risked his life while pursuing Mexican drug cartels. But Curiel's parents immigrated from Mexico and that, Trump stated, means the judge can not rule in the Trump University lawsuits fairly. When CNN's Tapper asked Trump whether such arguments were racist, Trump responded by saying, “This judge is of Mexican heritage. I'm building a wall.” Tapper pressed him on this a few times, and Trump kept giving versions of the same response.

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Input: Royal Navy vessels are monitoring Russian warships as they pass through the Channel, potentially bringing supplies to the bombing campaign against the Syrian city of Aleppo. Michael Fallon, the defence secretary, promised this week that the Russian fleet would be marked “every inch of the way”. No 10 confirmed that the vessels, including Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the Admiral Kuznetsov, were being shadowed by the navy as they headed towards the eastern Mediterranean via the Dover Strait.

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

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Input: GLENN GREENWALD: What she’s doing there is affirming one of the most vile slanders that currently exists. There is a campaign in the United States and in Israel to literally outlaw any advocacy of a boycott movement against Israel, similar to the boycott and divestment and sanctions campaign that brought down Israel and the United States’s closest ally, which was the apartheid regime in South Africa. Now you can certainly raise objections to the tactic of boycotting Israel, and lots of people have, but to render it illegal depends upon this grotesque equating of an advocacy of a boycott of Israel with anti-Semitism and then saying that because anti-Semitism should be banned from universities or from private institutions, that it should be literally outlawed, to ban advocating the boycott of Israel, as well. And people in Europe are actually being arrested for advocating a boycott of Israel. Students in American universities are being sanctioned and punished for doing so.

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Input: The YPG, or People's Protection Units, have close ties with the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Turkey, against which Ankara has waged a three-decade counter insurgency. Turkey fears the Kurds ' drive against Islamic State is partly aimed at carving out a Kurdish region along its own southern border. On Saturday, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Turkey would take a more active role in Syria in coming months to stop it being torn along ethnic lines-an apparent reference to the YPG gains in northern areas. Local fighters backed by the SDF, of which the YPG militia form an integral part, said on Saturday they would not advance further north-towards the Turkish border-having secured the city of Manbij, 250 km (155 miles) west of Hasaka, from Islamic State, an announcement that may have been aimed at assuaging Turkish fears. Syria's army has blamed the YPG for the Hasaka fighting and described it as a branch of the PKK, a characterization the group rejected on Saturday.

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Input: Schloss wrote in Newsweek about the Syrian refugee crisis, noting the theme of this year's Holocaust Memorial Day is "Don't stand by." She said if Trump becomes the next president, it would be a "complete disaster." Trump has called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States and wants to put some mosques under surveillance following the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, Calif. Some of the Paris attackers reportedly posed as refugees to enter Europe. Earlier this month, he also kicked a Muslim woman, who stood up in silent protest, out of a rally.

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Input: If you want to completely cripple your enemies and are not concerned with pesky things like basic human decency and morality, bombing hospitals and humanitarian aid convoys is a great idea. After all, they’re providing aid to your enemies. (Never mind the fact that they’re neutral and thus may also be providing aid to your own forces and innocent civilians caught up in the mix.) How are you supposed to eliminate your enemies or force them to surrender if all those meddlesome doctors keep fixing them up so they can go back out on the battlefield and fight another day? And how can you lay siege to a city if those obnoxious do-gooder types keep bringing in food and medicine?

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Input: The plane landed at the airport in Larnaka at approximately 8:45 a.m. local time. Ian Petchenik, a spokesman for flight-tracking website FlightRadar24, said the flight showed no signs of distress on its route to Cyprus." It looks like a completely controlled flight aside from the fact it was hijacked," Petchenik said. Reuters, citing an Israeli military source, reported that Israel scrambled warplanes in its airspace as a precaution in response to the hijacking. The hijacking again calls attention to security at Egyptian airports, five months after a Russian aircraft crashed over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula minutes after it took off from Egypt's Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

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Input: Thanks to the Clinton Foundation, nine million more people in our world have access to HIV / AIDS drugs because they negotiated contracts that made them affordable," Clinton said during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," her first in five years." And there is absolutely no connection between anything that I did as secretary of state and the Clinton Foundation," she added. However, the same pharmaceutical firms that donated to the Clinton Foundation and sought the foundation-funded contracts Clinton described were also lobbying the State Department at the same time as some pursued taxpayer-funded contracts to do similar work. Executives at those companies have also contributed heavily to Clinton's presidential campaign, complicating her attempts to attack the pharmaceutical industry as a political "enemy" akin to Republicans. The Clinton Foundation boasts of the four million patients who gained access to HIV drugs through its work negotiating pharmaceutical contracts.

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Input: Bush is in some ways the perfect poster child for the theme I have in mind just now. When he launched his campaign last year, it was a letter-perfect copy of the successful presidential campaigns of the last three decades. He lined up plenty of big-money sponsors; he assembled a team of ghostwriters, spin doctors, and door-to-door salesmen to run his campaign; he had a PR firm design a catchy logo; he practiced spouting the kind of empty rhetoric that sounds meaningful so long as you do n’t think about it for two minutes; he took carefully calculated stands on a handful of hot-button topics, mouthed the conventional wisdom on every other issue, and set out to convince the voters that their interests would be harmed just a little bit less by putting him in the White House than by any of the alternatives. That sort of content-free campaign is what got George Bush I, Bill Clinton, George Bush II, and Barack Obama onto the list of US presidents. What it got Jeb Bush, though, was a string of humiliating defeats.

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Input: Thus far, when addressing the need to tighten the maritime border in the Aegean, Turkey has talked a lot but done little. Which is why Merkel brought in NATO to patrol the border between Turkey and Greece. Officially, the alliance has been charged with providing surveillance and combatting migrant smugglers. In reality, though, the presence of the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 is to increase pressure on Turkey by making it impossible for government officials to continue claiming they don't know where on the coast the refugee boats were launching from. With the German ship Bonn leading the way, the NATO fleet is to determine the starting points of refugee boats and the routes they take.

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Input: Donald Trump received an unexpected campaign contribution from Felix Kolsky, a 75-year -old Russian man, according to the Observer. The accompanying letter explains the reason for this gift of 100,000 rubles ($ 1,500). Mr. Kolsky has planned to purchase dentures with the money, his entire life’s savings, but would rather stop the potential for war from Hillary. “I could live without teeth if there would be no war. Look at Hillary, it’s clear — she is ready to storm Russia tomorrow!”

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Input: Iran denied the allegations and insisted its nuclear activities were for civilian purposes. Last year, Iran and six leading world powers reached a deal, under which Iran made its nuclear program more transparent and accepted the imposition of safeguards. In exchange US and EU economic sanctions and nuclear-related sanctions imposed by the UN will be lifted.

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Input: Juanita Broaddrick In late December, Donald Trump warned that Bill Clinton's past history with women was "fair game," for the campaign trail. In January, Clinton's lawyer David Kendall -- who called the situation a "slimefest" -- sent Podesta a series of documents related to Juanita Broaddrick, a woman who claims Bill Clinton raped her in 1978. The documents include an affidavit and cover letter from Broaddrick's lawyer, which Kendall said affirms Broaddrick says under oath that the allegations she made against the former president were not true, as well as a document showing Ken Starr, who ran the Clinton White House independent counsel, trying to provide her with immunity. Comments About Fracking and Environmentalists

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Input: Chief among his complaints? The increasing cultural currency of the Black Lives Matter movement and the notion of white privilege. MATTHEW HEIMBACH: I would dare anyone to go into the hollers of West Virginia, or Kentucky, or the communities that have been destroyed by globalism around this country, where the communities have literally been torn apart, and look in the eyes of white working-class men, women and children, and tell them that they have any power in this system whatsoever. CAROL ANDERSON, Emory University: Economic anxieties play into it. I think I would say that it’s more hyped than real.

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Input: ARMAO: But does it — is it — does it qualify to — TRUMP: So do you let him — ARMAO: — to punch him in the face? TRUMP: Again I do n’t condone it. So do you let him walk out, he’s holding up his finger, telling everybody.

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Input: The embassy cable containing the full text of Khomeini's message remains classified. It's not clear if President Kennedy ever saw the message. Two weeks later, he would be assassinated in Texas. A year later, Khomeini was expelled from Iran. He had launched a new attack on the Shah, this time over extending judicial immunity to US military personnel in Iran.

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Input: He said Melania Trump first entered the U.S. in 1996 as a visitor, and shortly after that was issued an H-1B work visa. The letter states she obtained her permanent residency through self-sponsorship and not through marriage, and became a permanent resident in 2001. Wildes was hired after a serious of reports questioning Melania Trump's immigration history. He has previously represented companies owned by Trump. _ _ _

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Input: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad (R) and his wife Asma (C) cast their votes at a polling station in Damascus on April 13, 2016 SANA / AFP Assad reportedly declined offer; fresh strikes on Syria's Aleppo kill 12 civilians: civil defense Iran offered Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and his family asylum in the Islamic Republic, from where he could continue to command his military campaign in Syria, Lebanon's al-Mayadeen news reported Saturday. Iranian intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi told al-Mayadeen that a major general in the Iranian Army's Quds Force extended the offer to Assad and his family, but he refused. According to Alavi, Assad said that "his family is like the rest of the Syrian families and will remain in Damascus."

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Input: The latest Trump stunt has all the drama of a telenovela and the effectiveness of a train wreck. — Leslie Sanchez (@LeslieSanchez) October 10, 2016 Multiple people on my Facebook feed (millennials) saying they are donating to @HillaryClinton after they witnessed @realDonaldTrump's stunt — Emily Cahn (@CahnEmily) October 10, 2016 If there was any question that Trump was temperamentally unfit 2 be POTUS before tonight, that's been proven unequivocally now. # debate — Tara Setmayer (@TaraSetmayer) October 10, 2016

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Input: In return Putin has praised Trump as “bright and talented.” Trump positively glows as he repeats reports that “Putin likes me.” The Trump-Russia links beneath the surface are even more extensive, as Franklin Foer has shown in Slate. Trump has sought and received funding from Russian investors for his business ventures, especially after most American banks stopped lending to him following his multiple bankruptcies. Trump’s de facto campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was a longtime consultant to Viktor Yanukovich, the Russian-backed president of Ukraine who was overthrown in 2014. Manafort also has done multimillion-dollar business deals with Russian oligarchs.

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Input: The daily atrocities can not continue.” She added: “It is time the Syrian regime, and their Russian backers end this conflict.” A source at the Department for International Development told The Sun: “At around 10:45am on Wednesday at least seven airstrikes hit a complex of three UK-funded schools. AP: Associated Press 13 Part of the airstrike that killed 22 children in the Syrian village of Hass Getty Images 13 Syrian children running for cover in the aftermath of the airstrikes

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Input: It is thought that this funding, reportedly given to fringe anti-establishment parties across the continent, could be designed to agitate and destablise the Nato alliance, disturb the political structures of European countries, and stifle attempts to find alternative energy sources. According to a dossier on Russian activity seen by the paper, ' influence operations ' are being conducted by the Russian Government in France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Austria and the Czech Republic. The parties who have received Russian funding have not been revealed, but the list is thought to include a number of far-right organisations like Italy's Northern League, Hungary's Jobbik, Greece's Golden Dawn and France's Front National-which received a € 9 million (£ 6.9 million) loan in November 2014 from the First Czech Russian Bank, which is believed to have ties to the Kremlin. These claims mirror Cold War fears that the USSR was providing support and funding to dissident groups across Europe, in an effort to destablise Nato. One unnamed government source told the paper: “It really is a new Cold War out there.”

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Italy's Northern League, Hungary's Jobbik, Greece's Golden Dawn and France's Front National

Italy's Northern League, Hungary's Jobbik, Greece's Golden Dawn and France's Front National

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Input: Polar bear hunting is illegal in Russia, so shooting the bears wasn't an option." We had to stop some of the meteorological observations," he said. He appealed for a new shipment of flares to be sent, somehow, to the distant outpost. The next supply ship wasn't scheduled to visit the island for another month. The head of the Sevgidromet State Monitoring Network, which owns the station, told TASS it would make sure the supply ship is stocked with new dogs as well as flares, but that it wasn't sure if it would be possible to send any supplies sooner.

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Sevgidromet State Monitoring Network

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Input: We want to mentor our young people, educate parents, identify solutions, and form closer relationships between refugees and Idahoans who have been here for generations.” Protecting Muslims against ‘bias’ Olson said that an immediate objective of the July 8 meeting was to reassure members of the refugee and Muslim communities that with the federal terrorism trial in United States v. Kurbanov scheduled to begin July 13, “law enforcement officers will be vigilant to protecting them against bias crimes.” Read Olson’s entire statement on “building resilient communities.” Olson called this meeting and issued her statement ahead of the trial that ended up convicting Fazliddin Kurbanov, a Muslim refugee from Uzbekistan, of conspiring to blow up U.S. military installations with homemade bombs being made in his Boise apartment.

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Input: What can she say? They would, of course, stone her to death, as the relationship is considered to be out of wedlock," says Om Mohammad. Illegal, smuggled abortion pills were her only chance." We've had to organise pills for her. Pills that cost us a lot of money to get them into al-Raqqah."

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Input: “We were eating leaves and grass, but these days there are no more leaves because of the snow,” he said, speaking by telephone. “There is nothing left but salt and water.” The United Nations said in a statement that it has received “credible” reports of people dying of starvation and being killed while trying to leave the town. It welcomed what it said was a commitment from the Syrian government to allow aid to be delivered soon. Madaya is an opposition stronghold that has been besieged by pro-government forces since July.

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Input: I will recuse myself from participation on a case by case basis in any particular matter in which, in my judgment, I determine that a reasonable person with knowledge of the relevant facts would question my impartiality, unless I have been authorized to participate. Furthermore, the Obama administration entered into a formal agreement with the Clinton Foundation. The agreement was “designed to establish greater transparency and predictability with regard to the activities of the Clinton Foundation in the context of Senator Clinton’s service as Secretary of State.” The agreement stated: (emphasis mine) WHEREAS, The Parties also seek to ensure that the activities of the Foundation, however beneficial, do not create conflicts or the appearance of conflicts for Senator Clinton as Secretary of State. WHEREAS the Parties have agreed to a set of protocols that would apply to the Foundation’s activities to supplement any existing State Department protocols for managing conflicts of interests, and the appearance of conflicts of interest, as determined by the State Department’s designated agency ethics official.

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Obama administration

Clinton Foundation


Input: “Chain of custody is important, but it’s not a deal breaker,” Wiley said. “It’s not worth getting — Well, people have been killed and wounded moving this stuff.” The first casualty was a courier, shot and wounded in 2012 as he ran toward a smuggling route out of Syria with a suitcase full of documents. Since then, two others have been injured during extractions, and one — the brother of the commission’s deputy chief investigator — was killed in an ambush by Syrian troops. Also in 2012, a courier and his wife came to an unexpected checkpoint outside Aleppo.

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Input: Mr. Trump is the bold, decisive leader America needs at this time.” John Tiegen said: “It is very clear to see the groundswell of support, never seen before in recent politics. Americans want a strong leader, one who cares more about the safety and freedom of the American people than he does winning elections, or what the press might think. In honor of those we have fought with, I am proud to endorse the next President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.” 6:59: The Washington Post’s useful idiot Rubin would be at the top of any such list:

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Input: Israel seized 1,200 square kilometres of the Golan Heights from Syria in the Six-Day War of 1967 and later annexed it in a move never recognised by the international community. Mr Netanyahu's comments come amid a fragile ceasefire in Syria and indirect negotiations in Switzerland between Mr Assad's regime and the opposition. Brokered by Russia and the United States, the ceasefire deal does not include the fight against IS militants or Al Qaeda's local Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front. The truce had largely held across parts of Syria since late February, despite frequent accusations that both sides were committing breaches. But recent violence around Aleppo has sparked concerns that the ceasefire may not last, partly because rebels are involved in the battles there too.

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Mr Assad's regime

the opposition

Syria


Input: "Russia is not modernizing its military primarily to extend its capacity to pursue hybrid warfare," the 104 page report said, referring to the Kremlin's use of irregular tactics to take over Crimea." It is modernizing conventional military capability on a large scale; the state is mobilizing for war." The West has primarily responded to the annexation and Moscow's support of separatists in eastern Ukraine with economic sanctions. The prevailing wisdom is that fiscal pain will bring Putin around, but the report dismissed that notion, saying two years after war erupted in Ukraine, the Kremlin "appears to be coherent, durable and united" at the centre." Western assessments that Russia is vulnerable to economic collapse and disruptive internal discontent are exaggerated," said the assessment, titled 2018 Security Outlook.

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Moscow


Input: Two Australians were also on board – one of them a co-pilot of the aircraft. (Twitter) A spokesman for the Dubai media office said the flight was arriving on schedule when it “crash-landed’." The main priority remains with those involved and offering support to concerned family and friends. Dedicated telephone lines are now active for family members," Emirates said.

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Input: Warring supporters grapple among rows of seats in the Stade Vélodrome as stewards rush to intervene after ugly scenes break out A Russian fans rips the shirt off an England supporter as he tries to flee from the hooligans inside the ground after the match Scared children huddle together as they try and escape the violence, while other fans are helped by stewards as they jump over railings England fans flee in their droves as Russian hooligans chase hundreds of supports across the stands in the Stade Vélodrome An England fan has CPR performed on him by riot police after he suffers head injuries caused by Russian fans on the third day of violence in Marseille-he is in a critical condition

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Input: THE HAGUE: German and Swiss authorities have carried out raids seizing documents after learning a German private detective had investigated the MH17 air disaster, Dutch officials and media said Tuesday. Among the objects seized during last week’s raids were “apparently explosive papers” which Dutch investigators hope may narrow down the search for those behind the 2014 tragedy, said the daily De Telegraaf. All 298 passengers and crew -- the majority of them Dutch -- died when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was hit by a Russian-made BUK anti-aircraft missile while flying over war-torn eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. The Boeing 777 was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur. “It’s possible that the suspected culprits behind the firing on MH17 may have been in contact with” the detective’s office, de Telegraaf said, citing what it said was the Netherlands’ request to Swiss authorities for help.

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Malaysia Airlines

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Input: The suspects then pull down the 17-year -old's knickers before groping and raping her. Belgian police have seized a video which reportedly shows an unconscious girl being gang-raped by a group of Iraqi migrants (file picture of unrelated police operation in Belgium) Seven people were arrested in connection with the gang rape: two Belgian nationals and five Iraqi migrants, it was reported by Russia Today which cited Belgian media. One of the attackers reportedly told police: ' She has nothing to complain about. Women must obey men. '

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Belgian police

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Belgium


Input: It also comes after several gestures by Russian President Vladimir Putin that seem to aim at defusing East-West tensions despite NATO's summit last weekend in Warsaw. There, the alliance agreed to deploy a multinational force to the Baltics and Poland and to take over a U.S.-built missile shield that Russia sees as hostile. Putin agreed to Wednesday's meeting of the NATO-Russia Council, only the second since mid-2014, while also recently allowing a U.N. resolution authorizing the EU to intercept arms shipments to Libya in the Mediterranean. Putin has talked by telephone U.S. President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Holland in recent days." BACK TO THE COLD WAR"

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Libya


Input: Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) July 27, 2016 Trump’s comments about Russian hacking followed numerous reports this week that Russian hackers compromised the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) servers and then leaked thousands of e-mails sent by top Democratic staffers. DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was forced to resign her position as a result of the leaks. If Russia or any other country or person has Hillary Clinton's 33,000 illegally deleted emails, perhaps they should share them with the FBI! Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 27, 2016

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Debbie Wasserman

DNC


Input: According to Russia Today, Police Union Director Lena Nitz said: ' Many of the problems we are now facing help to prove the point that Swedish police have long been underfunded and understaffed. ',” Police Union Director Lena Nitz, told TT news agency. This follows the murder of Alexandra Mezher, who was stabbed to death at a refugee centre in Molndal, near Gothenburg on Sweden's west coast. A police spokesman did not give details about the man’s age or nationality but confirmed he had been arrested for murder. One report suggested the killer was 15 years old.

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Alexandra Mezher

a refugee centre in Molndal, near Gothenburg on Sweden's west coast


Input: More than 9,000 of them have been placed in custody ahead of trial over the coup, which the Turkish authorities blame on reclusive Pennsylvania-based cleric Gulen. He strongly denies Ankara's accusations and demanded Tuesday that the United States resists demands for his extradition." Turkey's president is blackmailing the United States," he wrote in a New York Times opinion piece. -Ex-editors wanted-The swoop on newspaper staff came after authorities on Monday issued another 42 arrest warrants for journalists, including prominent veteran reporters.

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Turkey


Input: A massive leak of documents shines new light on the fabulous fortunes of the Russian president’s inner circle A network of secret offshore deals and vast loans worth $ 2bn has laid a trail to Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin. An unprecedented leak of documents shows how this money has made members of Putin’s close circle fabulously wealthy. Though the president’s name does not appear in any of the records, the data reveals a pattern – his friends have earned millions from deals that seemingly could not have been secured without his patronage.

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Vladimir Putin

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his friends


Input: There is, in fact, a clear precedent for this in American history. In the so-called Saturday Night Massacre, Nixon instructed Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who had been appointed by Congress to look into his illegal activities during the Watergate scandal. When Richardson resigned his post in protest at the President’s attempt to interfere in judicial proceedings in such a blatant manner, Nixon instructed Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to do his bidding. When he, too, resigned in protest, Nixon turned to Solicitor General Robert Bork — who duly complied. By the end of the night, Cox was gone.

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Input: Trump gets the airtime, the ink and the clicks far more often than Clinton because his controversies are generated largely by his own live performances on TV for all the world to see. Witnessing his debates or speeches is far more compelling than hearing about the possible implications of old emails from another decade. And so we have all become rubberneckers, slowing down to view the car wreck as we pass it on the highway. Talking about the potential for corruption in some of Clinton's practices is serious business, but it is dull compared with watching one's daily dose of the Donald. By contrast, the implications surrounding the Clinton emails exhumed by court order are a routine species of scandal stamp-collecting.

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Input: Mark Von Holden / WireImage / Getty Images Sater was also a twice-convicted felon who served prison time and had documented Russian mafia connections. In 2013, when Trump was asked under oath about his dealings with Sater, Trump acknowledged he had interacted with the man in the past but said," if he were sitting in the room right now, I really wouldn't know what he looked like."

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Input: The speakers also expressed gratitude to His Holiness for encouraging the development of Ladakh and its culture since he came into exile. In his address, His Holiness referred to the historic cultural and spiritual ties between Ladakh and Tibet and expressed his appreciation of the convening of the conference." Although Thonmi Sambhota is known to have composed eight texts on Tibetan language and grammar ", he remarked," only two, dealing with grammar, the Sumchupa and Takyi Jugpa, survive. Whether you call it Bhoti or Tibetan, this written language is important because it preserves the profound Buddhist culture we share. In today's rational world the epistemological texts of Dignaga and Dharmakirti, only available in Tibetan, provide us with tools for analyzing the nature of reality.

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Thonmi Sambhota

eight texts on Tibetan language and grammar


Input: Halt any investment in fossil fuel infrastructure, including natural gas, and phase out all fossil fuel power plants. Phase out nuclear power and end nuclear subsidies. End all subsidies for fossil fuels and impose a greenhouse gas fee / tax to charge polluters for the damage they have created. Protect our public lands, water supplies, biological diversity, parks, and pollinators. Ban neonicotinoids and other pesticides that threaten the survival of bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.

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Input: The amendment would also give only Congress authority to change the Selective Service Act and require the Pentagon prepare a report for Congress July 1, 2017, about whether the selective service is still needed and if registration should be required regardless of gender. The amendment is backed by GOP Sens. Ted Cruz Ted CruzAccess to palliative care needs to stay in new health bill Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (Texas), James Inhofe James InhofeMcCain strikes back as Trump’s chief critic Turbulence for Trump on air traffic control Parliamentarian threatens deadly blow to GOP healthcare bill MORE (Okla.), Mike Rounds (S.D.), Ben Sasse (Neb.) and Roger Wicker Roger WickerTurbulence for Trump on air traffic control Trump's ' infrastructure week ' goes off the rails Senators pan Trump's air traffic control plan MORE (Miss.

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strikes


Input: The Times editorial board also made an appeal to those who characterize the business mogul as “an expert negotiator,” pointing readers toward policy plans it characterized as unclear or absent -- from how he would eliminate the threat posed by extremist groups to replacing President Obama’s healthcare system with “something much better.” Beyond his controversial comments, however, the Times argued that voters should take into consideration the things he has n’t talked about: his silence on the nation’s schools, lifting Americans out of poverty, racial progress and other “areas of national life that are crying out for constructive change.” Meanwhile, the Washington Post editorial board published its own brief opinion of the GOP nominee, with the headline, “It’s beyond debate that Donald Trump is unfit to be president.” The stakes of Monday night’s debate could n’t be higher, the Post said. Even if Trump “manages to conduct himself ‘presidentially’ for an hour and a half,” the editorial board wrote, that “could not undo the many, many instances ... in which he has insulted, acted out, lied and countenanced violence beyond even some of the most rough-and-tumble precedents of modern American politics.”

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Donald Trump


Input: Hide Caption 25 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Marlo Langdeau of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe joins hundreds of Native Americans for a march near Cannon Ball on Sunday, September 4. Hide Caption 26 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Protesters march on September 4 in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Hide Caption 27 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Native Americans march to the site of a sacred burial ground on September 4. Hide Caption 28 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Native Americans ride with raised fists to the sacred burial ground on September 4 to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline. Hide Caption 29 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests The Missouri River is seen beyond an encampment near Cannon Ball, where hundreds of people gathered to join the protest on September 4.

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Native Americans

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Input: The Kangyur and Tengyur collections created as a result have for centuries been crucial to the culture of Tibet and the trans-Himalayan region. The speakers also expressed gratitude to His Holiness for encouraging the development of Ladakh and its culture since he came into exile. In his address, His Holiness referred to the historic cultural and spiritual ties between Ladakh and Tibet and expressed his appreciation of the convening of the conference." Although Thonmi Sambhota is known to have composed eight texts on Tibetan language and grammar ", he remarked," only two, dealing with grammar, the Sumchupa and Takyi Jugpa, survive. Whether you call it Bhoti or Tibetan, this written language is important because it preserves the profound Buddhist culture we share.

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Input: Automobile products, wine and agricultural products made in France are expected to be imported to China via the train. Catering to the Belt and Road Initiative, the train is expected to further promote China's cooperation with Eurasian countries. Several Chinese cities including Chongqing, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Changsha and Shenyang have rail freight services to Europe.

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Chinese cities

rail freight

Europe


Input: And now we see the same kind of agreement being at the point of being approved with the Trans-Pacific Partnership. So, these kinds of fair — these kinds of trade issues, these kinds of economic issues are the driving force for immigration. We think that both parties are — can be criticized for their immigration, or non-immigration, policies. It is really sort of rich that the Democrats will talk about deportation, where under the Obama administration we’ve had record deportations. And the consequence has been a reign of terror in various immigrant communities.

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Input: But Fred Trump made out many other loans to his son until his death in 1999, including a $ 70 million construction loan for the Grand Hyatt and a $ 3.5 million casino chip loan to bail out Trump’s struggling gaming empire, the Washington Post Fact-Checker reported. Clinton:" In fact, Donald was one of the people who rooted for the housing crisis. He said, back in 2006, ‘Gee, I hope it does collapse, because then I can go in and buy some and make some money.’ Well, it did collapse." We rated this claim Mostly True. While Trump did not welcome the tragedy of foreclosures for millions of American, he did speak optimistically about the opportunities created for an investor such as himself.

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Input: Which is a real problem when your job is to put events into words. — Julie Pace (@jpaceDC) October 9, 2016 The latest Trump stunt has all the drama of a telenovela and the effectiveness of a train wreck. — Leslie Sanchez (@LeslieSanchez) October 10, 2016 Multiple people on my Facebook feed (millennials) saying they are donating to @HillaryClinton after they witnessed @realDonaldTrump's stunt — Emily Cahn (@CahnEmily) October 10, 2016

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Input: Trump called him “one of the great oilmen of the world.” Environmental groups and energy experts were quick to find fault with much of what Trump said. Every U.S. president from Richard M. Nixon to George W. Bush has vowed to make the country energy-independent. Yet the United States — even after a wave of shale drilling boosted U.S. domestic output by about 4 million barrels a day — still imports about half of its petroleum needs. The prospect of eliminating imports altogether is slim, although they could be reduced substantially, as has happened during President Obama’s tenure.

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U.S. president

make the country energy-independent


Input: The US embassy in Kazakhstan was asked to negotiation for them with that nation’s officials. Hillary would have been directly involved in these discussions as Secretary of State. A few days after these negotiations, a subsidiary of Rosatom purchased “17 percent of Uranium One.” Not even a year later the Russian government offered Uranium One stakeholders a “generous offer,” that would give the Russian agency a “51 percent controlling stake.” The US government had to sign off first, a decision that must go through the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, which includes executive members of the cabinet, the secretaries of the Treasury, Defense, Homeland Security, Commerce and Energy, and the secretary of state. John Barrasso, a Senator from Wyoming where Uranium One had its largest operation, wrote President Barack Obama, saying it “would give the Russian government control over a sizable portion of America’s uranium production capacity.” During this time, a Russian bank that would assign a “buy rating to Uranium one stock” paid Mr. Clinton $ 500,000 dollars to speak in Moscow. The Committee, which included Secretary Clinton, approved the deal.

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Uranium One


Input: One of the pictures portrays what appears to be the tail section of a RBK-500 cluster munition, a type of bomb repeatedly seen being used by the Russian air force since the start of its mission in Syria. According to the rights group, the strikes killed two people and injured four. [Despite supposed withdrawal, Russia building up new base in Syria, Pentagon says] “Russian aircraft have not been active in this area of southern Syria for some time, and there were no Syrian regime or Russian ground forces in the vicinity,” said a senior U.S. defense official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the recent attacks because he was not authorized to speak publicly. “Russia’s latest actions raise serious concern about Russian intentions.

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Russia

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Syria


Input: Despite Israeli protests, Russia has recently proceeded with a long-delayed sale to Iran of the advanced S-300 weapons system, which can shoot down most modern fighter jets. Israeli officials have said they would prioritise tracking the whereabouts of the systems, the position of which in southern Lebanon would pose a potent threat to their air force. The US treasury department sanctioned Badreddine in 2012 for his activities in support of the government of Assad in Syria, along with the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and its head of external operations, Talal Hamiyah. Hezbollah said it would hold funeral services on Friday in honour of Badreddine. In south Beirut, posters of Badreddine, whose image had rarely been published, were being hung from overpasses and lamp-posts.

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US treasury department

Badreddine