Input: Hide Caption 2 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Iraqi forces advance in tanks and armored vehicles toward the village of Sheikh Younis, south of Mosul, on Sunday, February 19. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi described the operation as a "new dawn" in the liberation of Mosul. Hide Caption 3 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city Mosul residents cross a damaged bridge in the al-Sukkar neighborhood on Saturday, January 21. Hide Caption 4 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city French President Francois Hollande and French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, right, view territory held by ISIS during a visit to a military outpost near Mosul on Monday, January 2. Hide Caption 5 of 93 Photos: Mosul operation: Iraqi-led forces push into key city A young girl takes part in a Christmas Day Mass at a church in the predominantly Christian town of Qaraqosh.

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Input: The Hyperloop, first envisioned by Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk, involves using magnets to levitate pods to shuttle people and cargo inside an airless tube Moscow has signed an agreement with Los Angeles-based company Hyperloop One to explore building a futuristic, high-speed transportation system known as a Hyperloop in the Russian capital. A Hyperloop involves using magnets to levitate pods inside an airless tube, creating conditions in which the floating pods can shuttle people and cargo at speeds of up to 750 mph (1,200 kph). Hyperloop One tests high-speed transport propulsion system Read more

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Input: “Generally they are very stretched now – their manpower on the ground in relation to the territory they’re holding is very thin,” said Hammond. He said the collapse in oil prices meant Isis oil was only selling at $ 15 a barrel, punching a hole in their finances. “We know they’ve cut stipends to foreign fighters and many foreign fighters are in arrears on pay.” Hammond also delivered his strongest critique yet of Russia’s air campaign in Syria, accusing Moscow of deliberately carrying out strikes on schools and hospitals. Hammond levelled his charges after meeting Syrian civil defence workers in Adana, southern Turkey.

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Input: Security expert and former National Security Analyst Agency analyst John R. Schindler picked up the theme in an article published in the Observer on Aug. 25, 2016, entitled “Hillary’s Secret kremlin Connection is Quickly Unraveling.” “Schweizer shows that John Podesta sat on the board of a Dutch-registered company that took $ 35 million from the Kremlin [Joule, the same company from which Podesta got the undisclosed stock options],” Schindler wrote. “The company was a transparent Russian front, and how much Podesta was compensated — and for what — is unclear. In addition, Podesta failed to disclose his position on that board to the Federal government, as required by law.” Schindler next turned his attention to Secretary of State Clinton.

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Input: You know, South Korea is very rich. Great industrial country. And yet we’re not reimbursed fairly for what we do. We’re constantly, you know, sending our ships, sending our planes, doing our war games, doing other. We’re reimbursed a fraction of what this is all costing.

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Input: Germany's foreign ministry has warned MPs of Turkish origin against travelling to Turkey, saying their security there could not be guaranteed. The German parliament's move outraged the Turkish government, which does not recognise the killings as genocide. Germany's genocide vote inflames tensions with Turkey The 11 MPs of Turkish origin who voted for the resolution have faced a backlash of negative opinion from the Turkish government and from within Germany's sizable Turkish community. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan castigated them, saying:" What sort of Turks are they?"

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Input: We'd learn nothing If all Trump does is release the top two pages of his 1040 and none of the schedules and forms he's required to attach detailing the sources of his income, we'd learn nothing. Ditto if he releases a top-line summary of his income and taxes paid." There's no way looking at the face of the return that mob ties or any other [inappropriate business relationships] will leap from the pages of the tax forms to the reader's attention," said Edward Kleinbard, who used to run the Joint Committee on Taxation and now teaches tax law at the University of Southern California. 2.

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Input: Muawiya’s sentence also included three-years of probation with an automatic ten-month prison sentence upon violation of the probation, and his family was ordered to pay a fine of 26,000 shekels (approximately $ 6,718). The sentence confirms The sentence confirms the plea bargain reached by Muawiya’s lawyer with the Israeli military prosecutor earlier this month. In November, In November, Muawiya was indicted on charges of attempted murder and possession of a knife. after the two allegedly stabbed and injured an Israeli security guard on the light rail near the illegal Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev in northern Jerusalem. Israeli forces shot and wounded Muawiya’s 12-year -old cousin Ali Alqam after the two allegedly stabbed and injured an Israeli security guard on the light rail near the illegal Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev in northern Jerusalem.

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Input: When confronted with irrefutable evidence that one of his talking points has no basis in fact, his instinct has been to deny and deflect rather than to acknowledge the truth. His disingenuous retreat from the assertion that America’s first black president was not a citizen was only the most glaring example of this ugly reflex in action. All too often, Trump has marshaled lies to scapegoat ethnic or religious minorities (as when he asserted, with absolutely no supporting evidence, the discredited allegation that Muslims citizens had conspired to conceal the burgeoning terrorist plot in San Bernardino). Demagoguery like this is rarely just about the demagogue. There are real fears and insecurities driving Trump’s popularity, and dangerous bigotry lurking just beneath the anxiety he so carelessly provokes.

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Input: He added: ' And then the police charged. They always blame the England fans but we didn't do anything. ' Fans clash in Marseille's Old Port district as violence continues for the third day in a row between English and Russian supporters An English fan is detained by French security personnel in Marseille as the square was left resembling a war zone A group of riot police officers restrain a fan among broken beer bottles and over-turned tables after three days of fighting in Marseille

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Input: Last month President Poroshenko said Motorola had shot and killed a Ukrainian prisoner-of-war, Ihor Branovytsky, and said "the monster will answer" for that crime, the daily Ukrainskaya Pravda reported (in Russian). In April last year Motorola told the Kiev Post that he had shot dead 15 Ukrainian soldiers captured by the rebels. Commenting on the assassination, Donetsk rebel leader Alexander Zakharchenko said:" As I understand it, Petro Poroshenko has violated the ceasefire and declared war on us." He described the killing as "terrorism". Russia backs the rebels, who run a self-declared "Donetsk People's Republic" (DNR).

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Input: Strike by Assad regime’s helicopters leaves residents in east of the war-torn city with next to no access to essential healthcare An unrelenting Russian and Syrian blitz of eastern Aleppo heavily damaged one of the city’s three remaining hospitals on Saturday, as Moscow warned that any American attempts to stop its assault would lead to “frightening tectonic shifts in the Middle East”. The Russian raids struck at least five areas of the opposition-held half of the city, which is bracing for a ground assault by Shia forces allied to the Syrian regime. Syrian helicopters are believed to be responsible for the strike on the M10 hospital, which has left those who remain in the east with next to no access to essential healthcare. Is despair and disbelief all we can offer to the savagery being visited on Aleppo?

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Input: Gizmodo reported that such switches do exist. WikiLeaks has n’t tweeted anything else about Assange’s Internet access or how it may have been “severed.” Various U.S. officials and pundits have made threatening statements directed at Assange in the past. WikiLeaks tweeted in early October an alleged 2010 quote from then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking if Assange could be killed in a drone strike, and, that same year, former Democrat strategist Bob Beckel said on Fox News Channel that "a dead man can't leak stuff." This month," specific information "prompted Assange to scrap a dramatic London balcony address to celebrate WikiLeaks ' 10th anniversary.

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Input: The revelations have forced Republicans into a bind: Staying with Trump could turn of swing voters angered by his comments from the video, but breaking with him would likely dampen turnout by the party's base. More than two-dozen lawmakers, including Senate GOP Conference Chair John Thune John ThuneThis week: Senate plots path on healthcare ObamaCare: Six key parts of the Senate bill Overnight Finance: Fed raises rates for second time in 2017 | GOP weighs keeping ObamaCare taxes | Tax reform becomes Wall Street obsession MORE (S.D), have called on Trump to step aside. Vulnerable senators like Rob Portman Rob PortmanFeehery: Returning to civility Otto Warmbier, US student held in North Korea for 17 months, dies These GOP senators need to stand up to their party on healthcare MORE (Ohio), John McCain John McCainGOP defense spending battle delays Republican budget Otto Warmbier, US student held in North Korea for 17 months, dies What the next round of American military base closures will look like MORE (Ariz.) and Kelly Ayotte Kelly AyotteKelly Ayotte joins defense contractor's board of directors Week ahead: Comey firing dominates Washington GOP senators pitch Merrick Garland for FBI director MORE (N.H.) have withdrawn their support, but others in tight races — including Pat Toomey (Pa.), Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight 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 Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE (Fla.) and Richard Burr Richard BurrSenate GOP shifts focus to Lynch Senate Intel Committee to hold public hearing on election meddling Sessions sequel falls flat following Comey drama MORE (N.C.) — are staying the course. Speaker Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE (R-Wis.) told his conference on a Monday morning conference call that he would no longer defend Trump and would solely focus on maintaining the House majority to ensure Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonWhat do Democrats stand for? THE MEMO: For Trump, danger signs in the polls McAuliffe touts buildup of cyber defenses in the states MORE does not have a "blank check" if elected.

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Input: Speaking on Saturday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu threatened Syrian Kurds with military action, saying that if there is a threat to Turkey, “we will strike the PYD [Kurdish Democratic Union Party] like we did Qandil,” referring to a violent bombing campaign waged by Turkey against the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) in its Qandil mountain stronghold in northern Iraq. Later in the day, the Syrian government sent an official letter to the UN, strongly condemning Turkish actions and describing it as supporting terrorist groups. “In addition, Turkish artillery bombarded the towns of Maraanaz, al-Malikiyah, Minagh, Ain Dakna and Bazi Bagh, which are home to the civilian population,” the complaint addressed to the UN Secretary General and the UN Security Council said. The letter added that 12 trucks mounted with heavy machine guns and carrying around 100 fighters entered Syrian territory from Turkey through the Bab al-Salam checkpoint on Saturday. The claim was later denied by the Turkish government.

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Input: Erdogan added that Germany is the “last country” to make judgements on genocide, given its “history of massacres.” The German Empire carried out racially-motivated mass killings of tens of thousands of Namibians during colonial wars waged on the territory of modern-day Namibia from 1904 to 1907. According to various estimates, between 24,000 and 100,000 ethnic Herero and 10,000 Nama tribal people died as a result of starvation, abuse, and diseases during the course of the warfare and in concentration camps. However, in contrast to Ankara’s defiant stance on the Armenian Genocide, the German parliament admitted that the Namibian killings were a part of a “race war” that should be considered a “genocide” in 2015. Erdogan praised Turkish history as one “of mercy and compassion,” while blaming the West for exploiting millions of African immigrants for cheap labor.

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Input: The Donald has managed to surge in the polls despite asserting that Vietnam War POW John McCain was “not a war hero,” drawing public condemnation from the Republican base, as well as a racist announcement speech blanket labeling Mexican immigrants as drug dealers, criminals, and rapists that led to NBC and numerous other companies severing business ties with the finger-jabbing real estate mogul. For a man who puts the “brag” in braggadocio, it comes as little surprise that Trump has a colorful and at times troubling past. The Daily Beast recently unearthed that during his divorce from Ivana Trump, his first ex-wife had accused him of “rape” (she’d later rescind the claim), leading Trump consigliere Michael Cohen to say last week, “You can not rape your spouse. There’s very clear case law.” (This is, of course, patently false.) Trump has also never met a camera he did n’t like, which is how he’s ended up on the Howard Stern Show on numerous occasions — a venue where subjects are grilled (and usually open up about) their sexual pasts and proclivities, and a couch that anyone with legitimate White House aspirations would n’t touch with a 10-foot pole.

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Input: So we will watch closely and hope that goes in the right direction.” Scaparrotti’s comments came amid a widespread crackdown against government opponents in Turkey that followed the military mutiny. During the past two weeks, thousands of military officers and soldiers have been arrested, scores of judges detained and dozens of media organizations shut down. Turkey has long been a difficult but important ally to the U.S. The country is at the crossroads between Europe and the Middle East, putting it on the front lines of counterterrorism efforts and making it a key player in containing the flow of migrants into Europe.

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Input: Perjury is set forth in Title 18 of the U.S. Code, section 1621: “Whoever having taken an oath before a competent tribunal, officer, or person, in any case in which a law of the United States authorizes an oath to be administered, that he will testify, declare, depose, or certify truly, or that any written testimony, declaration, deposition, or certificate by him subscribed, is true, willfully and contrary to such oath states or subscribes any material matter which he does not believe to be true … is guilty of perjury.” Punishment for perjury calls for a fine and/or up to five years’ imprisonment. Stated a bit differently, the elements of perjury that would apply in Secretary Clinton’s situation are (1) knowingly and willfully making a (2) false (3) material declaration (4) under oath (5) before a properly constituted proceeding of Congress. The essence of the crime is the willful untruth of a material statement made when under oath. In passing, from the public record it is not clear that Secretary Clinton was given the oath before a properly constituted committee, which would require a quorum. Chairman Trey Gowdy mentioned in his opening remarks that Secretary Clinton had already been sworn.

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Input: Firmly convinced that Trump’s candidacy is being advanced by the Kremlin, they have also turned against leftists, claiming that they are doing Putin’s bidding. A fellow at the Center for American Progress, for example, accused Intercept journalist Glenn Greenwald of being a “Russia troll.” Josh Marshall pondered how many online “Sanders supporters” and “Trump supporters” were actually being run out of a Russian operation, while a writer at The Atlantic confronted a Bernie fan on Twitter about their suspicious interest in Ukraine. And the Democratic Blue Nation Review, run by longtime Clinton operative David Brock, warned that online “Bernie or Bust” supporters could instead be “sophisticated agitators” in the pay of the Russian government. Jonathan Chait, a liberal writer for New York magazine, suggested that leftists are reflexive defenders and enablers of the Russian state: Just as the left of the’ 40s and’ 50s saw anti-Stalinism as an excuse for Jim Crow, a Glenn Greenwald today casts Russia’s human-rights record in an implausibly favorable light, and reflexively dismisses any contrary view as simple hypocrisy.

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Input: You create a separate foreign “charity.” In this case one in Canada. 2. Foreign oligarchs and governments, then donate to this Canadian charity. In this case, over 1,000 did — contributing mega millions. I’m sure they did this out of the goodness of their hearts, and expected nothing in return.

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Input: WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than three years, lobbyist Jim Slattery worked in Washington to secure the release in Ukraine of the imprisoned political rival of the country's then-president. He said the work was sometimes harder than expected." I had a sense that there were people working on the other side," he said," but they were doing it pretty secretively."

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Input: In essence, there would then be little to stop the President from a simple power move: firing all bureaucrats who disobey his orders, and replacing them with loyalists. 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.

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Input: (Photo by Alex Wong / Getty Images) Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, listens as Janet Yellen, chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, testifies during a Senate Banking Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, June 21, 2016. Yellen offered a subtle change to her outlook from less than a week ago, saying she and her colleagues were on watch for whether, rather than when, the U.S. economy would show clear signs of improvement. (Photographer: Pete Marovich / Bloomberg via Getty Images) Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., greets guests during a rally on the east lawn of the Capitol to urge Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to hold a vote on the ' Seniors and Veterans Emergency Benefits Act, ' March 9, 2016. The legislation would provide a one time payment to seniors, veterans and other SSI recipients who will not get a cost-of-living adjustment this year. (Photo By Tom Williams / CQ Roll Call) Senators Bob Corker (L) and Elizabeth Warren (R) speak before a Senate Banking Committee on the semiannual monetary report to Congress hearing in Washington, USA on February 11, 2016.

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Input: We're revolutionizing the news industry, but we need your help! Click here to get started. With Clinton’s repeated claims she employed the personal email server only for mundane communications and non-sensitive State matters having been proven outright lies, the deletions of 31,830 emails — in the new context of Napolitano’s statement — have suddenly become remarkably relevant. As the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton’s questionable email practices deepens, the question of who had access to what information previously located on the former secretary of state’s server is now more critical than ever. One such individual, Romanian hacker Guccifer, who was abruptly extradited to the United States, revealed he had easily and repeatedly accessed Clinton’s personal server — and he was n’t the only one.

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Input: A rebel commander with the Failaq al Sham group, who requested anonymity, told Reuters that most of the Islamic State insurgents in Jarablus had withdrawn, some of them surrendering. A second rebel commander estimated up to 50 percent of the town was now under control of the Turkish-backed rebels." Daesh fighters have withdrawn from several villages on the outskirts of Jarablus and are heading south toward the city of al Bab," the Failaq al Sham commander said. Many of the rebels were from Jarablus itself and were jubilant over what they saw as a long overdue intervention. Amateur video footage from one rebel source seen by Reuters showed little sign of heavy fighting in the town center, suggesting Islamic State had pulled out with little resistance.

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Input: In June, before the games even began, the Australian wheelchair basketball player Liesl Tesch warned that Rio was a “dangerous place” after two armed thieves demanded money and stole her bicycle as she trained in the city. The Australian team then had a laptop and Zika-protective team shirts stolen from their quarters in the Olympic village, after about 100 team members had been evacuated because of a small fire in the basement car park of their accommodation. Evgeny Korotyshkin, a Russian former Olympic swimmer, visiting Rio as president of the Moscow swimming association, also claimed to have been robbed by gun-toting teenagers who let him photograph them in exchange for all the money he had on him. Among non-athletes, a bus carrying journalists from the basketball venue to the main Olympic park was attacked on 9 August. Witnesses reported what sounded like gunshots hitting the vehicle, shattering windows and leaving two people with minor cuts from flying glass.

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Input: Under these conditions, Obama — with the help of an equally arrogant 38-year -old national security fabulist, Ben Rhodes (with whom he’s said to “mind-meld”)—succeeded in remaking the Middle East to empower America’s most hated enemy, the only United Nations member state committed to the annihilation of another state: the theocratic Islamic Republic of Iran. Rhodes and Obama knew that, for anyone but the hard-left to accept a deal with America’s bitter enemy in Tehran, a new narrative needed to emerge, even if it was relatively transparent nonsense. As Rhodes explained to his bemused interviewer, David Samuels, in a New York Times Magazine profile this weekend, it was first necessary to lie to a corrupted and inexperienced American media about all sorts of things, beginning with the nature and intentions of the enemy Iranian regime. Subsequent lies were caked on, as the White House took advantage of a dangerous mix of journalists’ ignorance, their ideological and partisan commitment to the administration, and, finally, their career aspirations. Rhodes said, “The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns … They literally know nothing.” Thus they will believe what he tells them.

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Input: His campaign is also keen on reminding people that Clinton hasn't had a press conference in months -- and therefore hasn't had to answer repeated questions on each new development. Trump's attacks aside, stories emerging over the past few days from a federal courtroom, Capitol Hill and an event on Long Island show it doesn't take much to get the issue of Clinton's emails and the Clinton Foundation back into the news cycle. Clinton got some bad news from a federal judge Monday, who gave the State Department until September 23 to determine a plan on how to release nearly 15,000 documents the FBI had obtained as part of its investigation into her private email server -- possibly creating a timeline where thousands of emails could be made public right before Election Day. Trump's focus on Clinton may help take the spotlight off of himself ever so slightly. Having restructured his campaign team last week, Trump was expected to deliver a speech later this week outlining his immigration policy.

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Input: LOUISIANA SHERIFF 'S DEPUTY DAVID F. MICHEL JR. The Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputy was shot dead on June 22 during a confrontation with a man he had approached on the street, authorities said. SHERIFF 'S DEPUTY BRAD GARAFOLA Sheriff's Deputy Brad Garafola

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Input: The helicopter came down roughly mid-way between Aleppo and Russia’s main air base at Khmeimim in the western province of Latakia, near the Mediterranean coast. Russian air power began supporting Syrian President Bashar al Assad late last year, an intervention which tipped the balance of the war in Assad’s favor, eroding gains the rebels had made that year. The Russian defense ministry said the Mi-8 military transport helicopter was shot down after delivering humanitarian aid to Aleppo as it made its way back to Khmeimim. No group has claimed responsibility for downing the helicopter. Government and opposition forces have both denied using chemical weapons during the five-year-old civil war.

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Input: MOSCOW: A nanny accused of decapitating a young girl in her care then walking through the street brandishing the head, on Wednesday said "Allah ordered" the killing as she appeared at a Moscow court. Suspect Gyulchekhra Bobokulova from Muslim-majority Uzbekistan — whom the press have dubbed "the bloody nanny" — was detained on Monday as she was waving the child's severed head outside a Moscow metro station. She was sent for psychiatric examinations." It was what Allah ordered," the 38-year -old told journalists as she was brought into the district court to have her arrest confirmed and extended. Speaking in broken Russian from the suspect's cage, Bobokulova said:" Allah is sending a second prophet to give news of peace "and also complained that she was" hungry ", had not been fed and would" die in a week ".

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Input: It was a perfectly executed heist. Here’s how she did it: Drastically reduce the number of polling locations to make voting nearly impossible For starters, polling places were almost non-existent: As reported by The Arizona Republic’s Mary Jo Pitzl, Maricopa County reduced the number of polling places from more than the 200 available for the 2012 presidential election to … 60.

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Input: ' The Americans ' wars, the Syrian war, Germany helps pay for all of this stupidity. ' The child protection services are so quick to take children away from their parents. They get paid to do it, and it's almost like child trafficking .. We were worried it would happen to us. ' And the children are sexualised far too early through clothes and pictures and books. There's no way to fight against it.

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Input: As for the oil and gas lobby, “Greenpeace has tracked $ 2,650,580 in bundled and direct donations from lobbyists currently registered as lobbying for the fossil fuel industry.” 5. As president, Dr. Jill Stein will abolish all student debt. There’s no need to even discuss Clinton or Trump on this issue, since neither will abolish all student debt. If you feel this goal is unattainable, I explain here why almost all of Trump’s policies will be blocked by Congress.

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Input: Peter Sprigg, a senior fellow at the FRC who will have a speaking slot at this weekend’s summit, has perhaps been the most clear about the organization’s views on the subject. Asked by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews in 2010 if he thinks “we should outlaw gay behavior,” Sprigg replied, “Yes.” In a 2008 television interview, Sprigg mused, “I would much prefer to export homosexuals from the United States than to import them into the United States because we believe homosexuality is destructive to society.” The American Family Association, another sponsor of the Values Voter Summit, likewise backed Texas in the Lawrence case, writing in the amicus brief that a law like Texas’ could prevent the “injury caused to the public by same-sex sodomy” and would even protect the gay people it targeted by sparing them “illness, disease and death resulting from [their] conduct.” That same year, the AFA published an essay lamenting that the disappearance of sodomy laws showed that “Judeo-Christian views” were being abandoned in favor of “moral relativism.” In 2011, then-AFA spokesman Bryan Fischer said that homosexuality should be a “criminal offense.” First Liberty, another sponsor of the event, likewise backed Texas in the Lawrence case (under its previous incarnation as the Liberty Legal Institute), with the group’s leader Kelly Shackelford — also a speaker at this year’s VVS — declaring that there is “no constitutional right to engage in homosexual sodomy.” Other figures at the Values Voter Summit have also supported criminal bans on homosexuality.

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Input: Read more Last week the Syrian government and Russia launched an effort to evacuate civilians wishing to leave Aleppo, establishing safe corridors and providing food, medical assistance and transport for those who chose to use them. Scores of people, mostly women and children, rushed to abandon the battered city, which has been contested by several armed forces. The Syrian opposition decried the move, claiming it was an attempt to depopulate the city, a part of which remains one of its strongholds. Terrorists in the eastern part of Aleppo have executed four people over an attempt to flee the city via humanitarian corridors, said Rudskoy.

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Input: Yes, they are,” Mr. Sanders said. “He is more conservative than I am.” Ms. Wasserman Schultz’s decision to resign could help tamp down open dissent by Sanders delegates at the convention. Immediately after her announcement, top party leaders praised her work in an effort to show solidarity on the eve of the four-day event. “I am grateful to Debbie for getting the Democratic Party to this year’s historic convention in Philadelphia, and I know that this week’s events will be a success thanks to her hard work and leadership,” Mrs. Clinton said.

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Input: Human Rights Watch interviewed three Palestinians, ages 14, 15, and 16, two of whom were arrested in East Jerusalem and a third in the West Bank city of Hebron, in October and November 2015. Each reported being subjected to unnecessary force during arrest or detention or both. Human Rights Watch also interviewed witnesses to all three of these arrests and viewed a security camera video in which police officers can be seen using what appears to be unnecessary force to arrest the 15-year -old boy. Human Rights Watch also interviewed criminal defense lawyers working in East Jerusalem, submitted a list of questions to the Israeli police minister through a Knesset (parliament) member, and submitted questions to the Israeli military spokesperson’s office and the Israeli police. In two of the three cases, the police interrogated the children without a parent or guardian present; in the third, a parent was able to be present only after the interrogation had begun.

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Input: "But if we truly are in a war against terrorism and we are truly looking for ways to shut off their funding, shut off the flow of foreign fighters, then we've got to shut off their means of communicating." This was no heat-of-the-moment hyperbole. Earlier that same day, the former secretary of state was even more explicit about what she would demand from American technology companies:" We're going to need help from Facebook and from YouTube and from Twitter," she declared on ABC's This Week, announcing a strategy of fighting terrorists "in the air," "on the ground," and "on the Internet." "They can not permit the recruitment and the actual direction of attacks or the celebration of violence. They're going to have to help us take down these announcements and these appeals."

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Input: It would destroy our balance sheet, totally destroy the balance sheet. So you'd be paying so little interest right now. This is the time to borrow. SCOTT WAPNER: Mr. Trump, you said you would at least double what Hillary Clinton wants to spend on infrastructure. That would imply some $ 500 billion.

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Input: “He sees China as a pretty likely source of that.” Duterte’s trip is the strongest hint yet of a stunning diplomatic volte-face towards China from the Philippines. 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.

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Input: In February 2015, Clinton lawyer and chief of staff Cheryl Mills sent a list of potential hires to campaign chairman John Podesta. Among the suggestions was "Political Director-Hispanic Woman." They eventually hired Amanda Renteria, who is Latina. Mills sends "Robby's List of the top 10 or so positions," referring to Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. The email breaks it down:" four ' POC, ' or people of color, four women ' assuming COO is a white woman ' and six white men."

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

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Input: The army was now trying to dismantle booby trap bombs in some of the city's neighbourhoods, sources told Al Jazeera." We know from previous battles that ISIL may try to plant IEDs (improvised explosive devices) and booby traps in some homes before they leave," Al Jazeera's Omar al-Saleh, reporting from the Syrian-Turkish border, said. In May, ISIL took Palmyra in a matter of days and later demolished some of its best-known monuments. The fate of the remaining artifacts is unknown. The group also destroyed the infamous Tadmur prison, where thousands of government opponents were reported to have been tortured.

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Input: This is True. According to media reports and gun violence experts, there have been more than 3,000 shooting victims in Chicago so far this year. Clinton:" It's just a fact that if you're a young African-American man and you do the same thing as a young white man, you are more likely to be arrested, charged, convicted, and incarcerated." The research suggests that when you compare what happens to black and whites who are engaging in the same illegal activity and have the same criminal history, African Americans are more likely to be arrested, more likely to face tougher charges, and more likely to receive longer sentences than their caucasian counterparts. This claim is True.

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Input: But the key to its implementation lies with China, which accounts for nearly 90 percent of North Korea's total trade and provides the impoverished nation with an economic lifeline, they said. So far, U.N. Security Council resolutions have been unsuccessful in preventing the North from advancing its nuclear and missile programs, even though they could have slowed the programs ' progress, due in large part to China's reluctance to press Pyongyang. Undeterred by U.N. sanctions, Pyongyang kept forging ahead to a point where it claimed the January test involved a hydrogen bomb, a much more powerful and sophisticated nuclear weapon than conventional atomic bombs, even though the U.S. say its analysis is not consistent with Pyongyang's claims." We've got to be honest that, while previous multilateral efforts, including the four previous sanctions resolutions adopted by this Council, have undoubtedly made it more difficult for North Korea to advance its weapons programs, the regime continues to plow ahead, as it demonstrated the last two months," U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power said during the council meeting.

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Input: Related: Eni Hopes To Develop Supergiant Gas Field By 2017 U.S. LNG will have hard time competing with cheaper natural gas from Russia for the European market. Russia’s state-owned Gazprom said a few months ago that it wants to push gas exports to Europe to record levels and the company is confident that U.S. LNG wo n’t steal market share. Gazprom already supplies about one-third of European gas demand, and the Russian company wants to ramp up gas flows by 2 percent in 2016, with more increases coming in the years ahead. The vision is to continue to hold onto about 30 percent of the European market through 2035, according to a budget obtained by Bloomberg earlier this year.

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Input: “That seemed unthinkable a year ago.” Trump on Tuesday declared that he would throw off his “shackles” and run the final month of his campaign in open warfare with Ryan and the GOP leaders and candidates who have abandoned him. Trump ripped Ryan as a “weak and ineffective leader.” He attacked “foul mouthed” Sen. John McCain John McCainMcCain: North Korean regime murdered Otto Warmbier GOP defense spending battle delays Republican budget Otto Warmbier, US student held in North Korea for 17 months, dies MORE (R-Ariz.), who is in a tight race for reelection to his Senate seat, and blasted party leaders for their “disloyalty.” Shell-shocked Republicans in battleground states are scrambling to get the GOP nominee to drop the feud and get back on message. “I spoke to Mr. Trump about it yesterday and will again today,” Ohio GOP Chairman Matt Borges told The Hill.

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Input: But Syria is a war zone and people do get killed – my advice to anyone still out there would be to get out as fast as you can.” But experts warn that it is almost impossible for women to leave Isis, with its interpretation of Sharia law meaning they can not leave the house without a male guardian. While Turkey has closed its border along Isis territory, the terrorist group itself has launched a brutal crackdown on defectors, publicly executing anyone accused of trying to flee or attempting to smuggle people away. For Western female jihadis, Syria is one-way journey Sara Khan, the co-founder of the counter-extremism Inspire group, told The Independent the chance of jihadi brides returning to the UK was “zero” once they are inside the group’s territory.

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Input: A copy of the Crisis Cell’s instructions was found in Raqqa with a handwritten note: “We did that a long time ago.” Under international law, governments are obligated to investigate reports of human-rights abuses. In September, the public attorney in Deir Ezzor sent three faxes — later retrieved by the CIJA’s investigators — to the governor, the Syrian minister of justice, and the head of the province’s joint investigation committee, urging them to stop violating Syrian law. In one, he wrote, “Parents and relatives of the arrested persons are asking daily about the fates of sons, fathers, and brothers. You ought to listen to what they have to say.

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Input: Baraka added that the media was too quick to blame Russia, despite plausible evidence supporting the country’s involvement. ASSOCIATED PRESS Supporters cheer as Jill Stein speaks at a rally in Philadelphia on July 27 during the third day of the Democratic National Convention. Stein rightly criticized Hillary Clinton for not holding a press conference in over seven months, but the journalists convened that afternoon were primarily from amateur and activist outlets sympathetic to her agenda, and their questions dominated the proceedings. One attendee asked about the “unbelievable election fraud” in the Democratic primary and another was heard loudly cheering the convention proceedings earlier in the day. Stein dropped her criticism of the mainstream media when asked about her upcoming town hall on CNN.

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Input: To watch Donald Trump rant and rave uncontrollably on the stump and on Twitter — praising Saddam Hussein for his disregard for civil liberties, insisting the anti-Semitic propaganda he inadvertently borrowed from neo-Nazis is as innocent as a Disney poster — is to ponder the psychology of a party that would entrust supreme executive authority to a racist, nationalistic, power-worshiping demagogue. Like Hitler, Trump is a radical, authoritarian figure who lies outside the normal parameters of his country’s conservative governing class. Thus, there is a parallel between the two men’s unexpected rise to power that is worth considering: Why would traditional conservatives willingly hand power to a figure so dangerous that he threatened their own political and economic interests? Why, having failed in their halfhearted efforts to nominate an alternative candidate during the primaries, do n’t they throw themselves behind a convention coup, a third-party candidacy, or defect outright to Hillary Clinton? Why do so many of them consider Trump the lesser rather than the greater evil?

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Input: Turkey reacted with fury on Thursday (2 June) after the Bundestag labelled the World War I massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces as genocide, threatening further measures. Berlin’s lower house of parliament overwhelmingly approved a non-binding resolution on the 1915-16 killings – one MP voted against and another abstained – in a move touching a raw nerve in Turkish-European relations. Germany angers Turkey with Armenian genocide resolution German lawmakers declared the 1915 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman forces a “genocide” in a symbolic resolution on Thursday which risks hurting relations with Ankara just as Berlin and European partners need its help in tackling the refugee crisis.

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Input: It was hit by phosphorous bombs …," said Ibrahim Abu Leith, the Aleppo-based spokesman for the rescue group also known as the White Helmets. Al Jazeera could not independently verify if there were any casualties. The Sakhour hospital was put out of service earlier this year after it was targeted several different times by air strikes, but members of the Civil Defence have recently by working to repair it. Since the Syrian army's assault against rebel-held Aleppo began in late September, Russian and government bombardment has killed more than 370 people, including 68 children, according to an Observatory toll. Over the past three days, as many as 100 people have been killed in the raids, rescue workers said, as the air strikes and shelling of the city's east intensified.

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Input: Meanwhile, the Trump campaign has claimed that the recently released hacked emails show that Clinton's camp was in "collusion" with the US Department of Justice." The DOJ fed information to the Clinton campaign about the email investigation so that the campaign could be prepared to cover up for her crimes," Trump said at a rally in Panama City." This is collusion and corruption of the highest order and is one more reason I will ask my attorney general ... to appoint a special prosecutor." You see so much from the WikiLeaks, this is so much."

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Input: According to TOLOnews, two explosions rocked the protest. Some reports on social media suggested there might have been up to three explosions. # Kabul Health ministry spokesman told me that more than 50 death and wounded are taken to Istiqlal hospital near the blast scene — Khalil Noori (@KhalilNoori) July 23, 2016 Following the terrorist attack during a demonstration in Kabul, the Afghan Interior Ministry has announced a ban on "any kinds of demonstrations and gatherings" for the next 10 days, the BBC reports. The demonstration, organized by the Enlightenment Movement, gathered to protest over the Afghan government's planned 500kV power line project.

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Input: But a pro-Russian president, Viktor F. Yanukovych, was democratically elected in 2010 and remained in power until he was ousted in 2014, ultimately taking up exile in Russia. Mr. Yanukovych had hired a lobbying firm co-founded by Paul Manafort, now Mr. Trump’s campaign manager, to improve his image in the West and avoid punishment for veering toward Russia. The annexation of Crimea in 2014 was seen as both a power grab and a land grab by Mr. Putin. It was condemned by the United States and its European allies, which all issued sanctions. Since then, Russian troops, often out of uniform, have been seen, and sometimes killed, in Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine where a pro-Russia insurgency has fought the current Ukrainian government.

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Input: The bedroom-sized pod offers a new way of living in space and on other planets A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship delivered the first inflatable room for astronauts to the International Space Station on Saturday, two days after launching from Cape Canaveral. Astronauts, including the UK’s Tim Peake, orbiting 250 miles above Earth used a robotic arm to capture the Dragon, which holds three tonnes of freight and had as part of its payload a soft-sided compartment built by Bigelow Aerospace. The pioneering pod, packed tightly for launch, should swell to the size of a small bedroom once filled with air. It has been attached to the space station but wo n’t be inflated until May.

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Input: A quarter of the town's 20,000 people work at the Crimea Titanium chemical plant, riding in dozens of identical green passenger buses to the factory from the town each morning, and back again in the afternoon. When Crimea was controlled by Ukraine, goods and services were affordable, and the plant's workers were able to treat themselves now and then, they say. But after Kiev blocked freight supplies last year prices soared." I can only buy food and it's hard to buy clothes," said Pavel, a technician, who said he was paid 17,000 rubles ($ 265) a month. That is only around half the average monthly income in Russia.

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Input: “The authorities need to redouble their vigilance on our territory. This contraband from the Middle East and Libya is not only expensive for our economy, but also directly threatens the life of French people,” he added." After all, in one region of Seine-Saint-Denis revenues from smuggling (particularly of cigarettes) were 350 million euros. This is a great amount of lost profit for our companies."

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Input: Last year, Islamic State troops moved into the ancient city of Palmyra and began waging war on what the terrorist group labeled as "false idolatry." More likely, ISIS aimed to erase a large part of Syria's rich cultural history, which was remembered by monuments of Christian, Sufi, and Shiite origin. The desert oasis was once known as a melting pot of faiths and ethnicities, and by demolishing its artifacts, the jihadists also hoped to eradicate knowledge of its diverse legacy. Now, more than one year after the occupation of Palmyra began, the group has released previously unseen video footage of ISIS fighters looting and smashing artifacts, and even crushing Syrian mummies under the wheels of bulldozers. Soldiers are shown entering one of the city's museums and smashing limestone busts resembling classic Syrian funerary reliefs.

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Input: The newly disclosed email, part of the thousands of hacked documents being made public by WikiLeaks, gives a sense of the scale of that giving from one U.S. ally with, at times, complicated relations with the American government. [Foreign governments gave millions to foundation while Clinton was at State Dept.] Seven countries, including three Persian Gulf states, donated millions of dollars to the Clinton Foundation when Hillary Clinton was secretary of state. (Bastien Inzaurralde / The Washington Post) According to an email sent to Clinton Foundation officials, the ambassador to Qatar requested a meeting with former president Bill Clinton in 2012, apparently so that he could present a $ 1 million check that Qatar had promised in honor of Clinton’s birthday in 2011.

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Input: “The FTA would undermine existing U.S. policy tools against tax haven activity,” warned consumer watchdog group Public Citizen at the time, saying the agreement would encourage corporations to thwart any U.S. efforts to combat financial secrecy. The group also noted that U.S. government contractors, as well as major financial firms supported by taxpayer bailouts, stood to gain from the trade deal's provisions that could make it harder to crack down on financial secrecy. Despite the warnings from watchdog groups, some Democratic lawmakers urged the Obama administration to aggressively push for the Panama agreement. According to a 2009 email sent to Clinton by her top State Department aide, high-ranking then-Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., was pushing for passage of the Panama and Colombia free trade pacts, and Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., said "the president had to lend his star power to pushing them through." Obama ultimately did just that, hosting Panama's president at a 2011 Oval Office event touting the proposed trade pact.

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Input: Killing the people who are providing aid to your enemies is effective 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?

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Input: It took three more weeks, but on March 17, 2011, Secretary Clinton got her wish for a “no-fly zone” approved by the UN Security Council, acting under the military authority of Chapter Seven of the UN Charter. The vote was ten in favor, zero against, and five abstentions. The five abstentions were: Brazil, Russia, India, China and Germany; Russian and China, which as permanent members could have vetoed the motion, complained later that they were deceived as to the real purpose of the “no-fly zone,” not realizing that it was a pretext for another “regime change,” which involved slaughtering much of the Libyan army before driving Gaddafi from power. When Gaddafi was captured in his home town of Sirte on Oct. 20, 2011, he was tortured with a knife, which was used to sodomize him. Then he was murdered.

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Input: DUBNER: OK. Talk about President Obama’s policy initiative on universal health care. POSNER: So here, in one sense, he followed constitutional norms. He obtained a statute that we call Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act. But once the statute was in place, and Congress turned hostile, he had to aggressively use administrative powers to implement it. And so famously, he has, in several instances, delayed the administrative rollout of the statute for both practical and political reasons in ways that many people think are constitutionally questionable.

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Input: Join 159 other nations in signing the Ottawa treaty banning the use of anti-personnel land mines. Lead on global nuclear disarmament: Rejoin the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which the US dropped out of in 2002 when it installed missiles and missile bases in Turkey, Romania, and Poland. Agree to Russia’s proposal to jointly reduce US and Russian nuclear arsenals to 1,000 nuclear weapons each. Also call for all countries to the table to negotiate a treaty for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.

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

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Input: The quid pro quo is there, with evidence to prove it, but punishing the Clintons for it may be impossible. The Canadian company, UrAsia, was purchased by the Russian Atomic Energy Agency, Rosatom, in January 2005. The Uranium stakes in this purchase reached from Central Asia to Western America, making Rosatom one of the largest producers of uranium in the world. The Clinton Foundation received a donation from various leaders of the Canadian mining industry in the excess of $ 25 million. Prior to the deal, Frank Giustra, a “major mining investor in Canada and owner of UrAsia” won an enormous uranium deal with Kazakhstan with the help of Mr. Clinton.

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Input: Swedish police issued an arrest warrant so that Assange could answer to allegations of rape and several less severe sexual crimes. He disputes that he committed rape, and the time to prosecute Assange in connection with the other allegations has now expired under Swedish statutes of limitations. Assange has characterized the investigation as part of a broader conspiracy on the part of the U.S. government to incarcerate him, extradite him, and have him killed in prison—“Jack Ruby style,” as he put it to the Guardian. A former WikiLeaks employee suggests that this scenario is a fantasy. “The way he is selling the situation is completely overblown,” says Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who worked at WikiLeaks for three years and later wrote a tell-all book about the organization, Inside WikiLeaks.

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Input: John McCain (AP Photo / Ralph Freso) -- John McCain said President Obama was “directly responsible” for the terror attack in Orlando due to his failure to combat the rise of the Islamic State terror group. From Mike DeBonis: The Arizona senator answered a question about the debate over gun control by citing Obama’s culpability for the attack through his foreign policy: “Barack Obama is directly responsible for it, because when he pulled everybody out of Iraq, al-Qaeda went to Syria, became ISIS, and ISIS is what it is today thanks to Barack Obama’s failures.” When pressed by a reporter on the claim that Obama was “directly” responsible, McCain reiterated his point — that Obama should not have withdrawn combat troops from Iraq. “He pulled everybody out of Iraq, and I predicted at the time that ISIS would go unchecked, and there would be attacks on the United States of America,” he said. “It’s a matter of record, so he is directly responsible.”

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Input: Delegates to the Republican National Convention are divided this week over a crucial question: Should Hillary Clinton be summarily executed? Or merely imprisoned without trial? Most favor the latter position, judging from the nightly chants of “Lock her up!” from the convention floor and the regular calls from convention speakers to outfit Clinton in jumpsuit or stripes and place her behind bars. But a minority would deal more decisively with the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

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Input: The Syrian conflict has now become a “proxy war” between the two Cold War superpowers, believes Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey, Numan Kurtulmus, who warned that that the conflict could escalate beyond the Middle East. “If this proxy war continues, after this, let me be clear, America and Russia will come to a point of war,” Kurtulmus told the state’s Anadolu news agency, adding that the world was “on the brink of the beginning of a large regional or global war.” Read more

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Input: In one email, a DNC official suggests the party could damage Sanders in the South by pressing him on his religious beliefs. In another, Wasserman Schultz refers to Sanders’ campaign manager as a “damn liar.” The FBI announced it was investigating a hack involving the emails. The New York Times reported that researchers at CrowdStrike, a California-based cybersecurity firm, linked the breach to Russian intelligence agencies. Crowdstrike declined a request for comment from USA TODAY.

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Input: However, if we take the top seven of these companies and add all of their assets under management (AUM) together, it adds up to only $ 18.9 trillion. 3. The U.S. national debt is 25x larger than all global oil exports in 2015. Yes, countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Russia make a killing off of selling their oil around the world. However, the numbers behind these exports are paltry in comparison to the debt.

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Input: Last month, the faction severed those ties, changed its name to Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and renounced international jihad, although observers said there was little sign of a parallel shift in ideology. Instead, experts reckoned the move was probably aimed at getting it off US airstrike target lists and easing coalitions with other factions. That rebranding put the group in a strong position to capitalise on last week’s campaign, particularly if it can consolidate a victory that casts it as a champion of Aleppo’s battered civilians. “We urge our people in Aleppo to remain steadfast,” Jolani added in the audio recording released on Friday. “The mujahideen will not fail you.”

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Input: Embed Trump Campaign Chair Denies Influencing Ukraine Section of GOP Platform 0:38 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog Around the same time, companies controlled by another Russian billionaire, Oleg Deripaska, paid $ 7.35 million toward management fees for Manafort and his partners in connection with an investment fund, according to a court filing in the Cayman Islands. Deripaska once was denied entry to the United States because of alleged mafia ties, current and former officials told NBC News. Deripaska is considered by U.S. officials to be among Putin’s inner circle. The Drake deal did n’t go through, and the Deripaska investment arrangement ended in a dispute.

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Input: "In the world today, it has become almost commonplace for elected leaders to lock the door behind them once they achieve power. Vladimir Putin in Russia, Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, Yoweri Museveni in Uganda, Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey — all found ways once in power to restrict opposition, muzzle the media and erode checks and balances," they added. Presidential candidates from both parties are battling Tuesday in primary events in more than 10 states. Political pundits and commentators are predicting Trump will win big in Tuesday evening's GOP races against Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Ohio Gov.

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Input: "It requires discussion and examination to be seen what has been their point," Iranian news agency Shana quoted Zanganeh as saying on Tuesday." What is important is that, first, the market is oversupplied, and, second, that Iran will not overlook its quota," he added. The comments by Zanganeh revived memories of the last OPEC meeting in December which ended without a decision after Zanganeh said he rejected any plan to curtail Iran's production before it rises to pre-sanction levels. However, two non-Iranian sources close to OPEC discussions told Reuters that Iran may be offered special terms as part of the output freeze deal." Iran is returning to the market and needs to be given a special chance but it also needs to make some calculations," said one source.

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Input: China was reviewed under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) in October. The committee expressed concerns over the lack of judicial independence and access to justice for women and retaliation against women rights activists. Chinese authorities prevented two activists from participating in the review: Ye Haiyan, China’s most prominent sex worker rights activist, was placed under administrative detention, while HIV-AIDS activist Wang Qiuyun’s passport was confiscated. Next we have: 5.

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Input: Advertisement On Wednesday, a judge in US District Court in Oregon will consider whether a constitutional challenge to federal actions that underwrite fossil fuel emissions may proceed. Brought by youth plaintiffs, and by me, on behalf of future generations, the lawsuit alleges that by permitting, authorizing, and subsidizing the exploitation, production, transport, and burning of fossil fuels, our government has caused or substantially contributed to the present emergency in which the very viability of a hospitable climate system is at stake. We argue that such federal actions infringe upon the fundamental guarantees of the Fifth Amendment, including the rights to life, liberty, property, and equal protection of the law. Industry intervenors and the government urge the court to duck the fundamental issues, alleging they are “political,” or encroach on executive prerogatives now that the president has begun to act, however inadequately.

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Input: Last year, Thales also won a security contract for Qatar Hamad port, a large commercial facility which will also be the site for a naval base. In early January, Qatar closed a $ 5.5 billion syndicated loan, arranged by six banks including three Japanese lead lenders: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho, and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp, Reuters reported. Qatar National Bank, Deutsche Bank and Barclays helped arrange the five-year loan, expected to carry a margin of 90 basis points over London Interbank Offered Rate. A basis point is 1/100 of a percentage point. Qatar had previously hoped to raise $ 10 billion with a smaller margin of some 80 basis points, International Financing Review reported.

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Input: “Due to the high mobility of herders using this site, utmost care has to be taken for preventing of anthrax being spread all over the Yamal Peninsula,” he said. Venison from this region is exported to Britain and other EU countries but local officials insisted the precautions they are taking will prevent any threat to this lucrative industry. A spokesman for the governor insisted: ‘This case wo n’t affect exports or the quality of meat.’ Will Stewart 9 The army are trying to find the source of the outbreak Will Stewart 9 he Sakha Republic, east of this region, has some 200 burial grounds of animals that succumbed to anthrax in the past

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Input: The protections include requirements to arrest or detain a child only as a last resort and to take precautions to ensure that children are not compelled to confess guilt. The Convention on the Rights of the Child requires security forces to make the best interests of the child a primary consideration in all aspects of the juvenile justice system. In July 2015, Human Rights Watch documented six cases of abuse of children whom Israeli security forces had detained in East Jerusalem and other parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. In response, the Israeli police and military denied that the abuses had taken place and told Human Rights Watch that their forces conduct arrests and detention in accordance with the law. Since then, Human Rights Watch has documented three new cases of physical abuse of children in custody and interrogation practices that violate these norms.

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

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Input: "We further assess that North Korea has been operating the reactor long enough so that it could begin to recover plutonium from the reactor's spent fuel within a matter of weeks to months." Image copyright Science Photo Library Image caption The Yongbyon nuclear facility is North Korea's main nuclear site Image copyright Reuters Image caption North Korean TV broadcast the recent launch of the rocket Mr Clapper also told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Pyongyang was committed to developing a long-range, nuclear-armed missile "capable of posing a direct threat to the United States". He said it had publicly displayed a mobile intercontinental ballistic missile system and had taken "initial steps toward fielding this system, although the system has not been flight-tested".

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Input: Trump also said the "Sultan of Brunei has pushed oppressive Sharia law, including the punishment of death by stoning for being gay. Brunei became the first East Asian nation to adopt Sharia law in 2014. Our verdict on the jewelry: true, but misleading. Although she received the gift, she turned it over to the U.S. government as required by law. Reality Check: Trump claims Clinton support for ' regime change ' caused Syrian bloodshed

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Input: Mr. Snowden’s defenders do n’t deny that he broke the law — not to mention oaths and contractual obligations — when he copied and kept 1.5 million classified documents. They argue, rather, that Mr. Snowden’s noble purposes, and the policy changes his “whistle-blowing” prompted, justified his actions. Specifically, he made the documents public through journalists, including reporters working for The Post, enabling the American public to learn for the first time that the NSA was collecting domestic telephone “metadata” — information about the time of a call and the parties to it, but not its content — en masse with no case-by-case court approval. The program was a stretch, if not an outright violation, of federal surveillance law, and posed risks to privacy. Congress and the president eventually responded with corrective legislation.

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Input: Unknown hackers still managed to get away with about $ 80 m, one of the largest known bank thefts in history. The hackers breached Bangladesh Bank’s systems and stole its credentials for payment transfers, two senior officials at the bank said. They then bombarded the Federal Reserve Bank of New York with nearly three dozen requests to move money from the Bangladesh Bank’s account there to entities in the Philippines and Sri Lanka, the officials said. Four requests to transfer a total of about $ 81 m to the Philippines went through, but a fifth, for $ 20 m, to a Sri Lankan non-profit organisation was held up because the hackers misspelled the name of the NGO, Shalika Foundation. Hackers misspelled “foundation” in the NGO’s name as “fandation”, prompting a routing bank, Deutsche Bank, to seek clarification from the Bangladesh central bank, which stopped the transaction, one of the officials said.

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Input: Hijab called the strikes in Ain Jara a "massacre" and ruled out any negotiations for peace with the Syrian government while there were still "foreign forces bombing the Syrian people." Russian planes have hammered rebels and rebel-held areas since September in a clear effort to shore-up President Bashar Assad's beleaguered military, which had been losing ground to the opposition prior to Moscow's intervention. Russia insists it chooses its targets carefully to avoid civilian casualties, but rescuers on the ground, human rights groups, and Western governments have all chastized Moscow for bombarding crowded public places in opposition territory since its campaign in Syria began. The U.S. says Russia's strikes use far less precise weaponry than the missiles launched by the American-led coalition fighting against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Both sides, however, have been accused of killing civilians.

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Input: It is the kind of statement usually made in despotic countries, where losing candidates often end up in prison. The town hall format allowed Trump to stalk the stage, lurking behind Clinton as she answered questions, and he muscled his way into directly confronting the Democratic nominee on issues such as her emails and her modest record of accomplishment in Congress. He proudly admitted that he had indeed used $ 916 million in tax write-offs against his income, but attacked Clinton for not changing the very law he used. Asked by a Muslim woman what he would do to reassure her community, Trump defiantly ― almost contemptuously ― told her that it was her duty to inform the police if she saw any evidence of “radical Islamic terrorism.” He almost sneered when he said it. It was an in-your-face “politically incorrect” statement designed to warm the hearts of his core supporters on the right ― and turn off everyone else.

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Input: Make Wall Street, big corporations, and the rich pay their fair share of taxes. Create democratically-run public banks and utilities. Provide full protection for workplace rights, including the right to a safe workplace and the right to organize a union without fear of firing or reprisal by passing the Employee Free Choice Act. Ensure equal pay for equal work, ending discrimination based on race, gender, or generation. Enact paid sick leave and family leave, strong overtime protections.

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Input: The investigation might have ended there, but CrowdStrike discovered another, better-hidden infiltrator in the computers of the Democratic committee: A group known as APT 29, or Cozy Bear, which is considered more skillful and has been linked to the F.S.B., the main successor to the K.G.B. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Cozy Bear, it seemed, had had complete access to the committee’s systems for almost a year.

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Input: Are n’t they the ones criticizing the prison system on the grounds that putting people in jail for small crimes and treating them as criminals can actually turn them into criminals by alienating them from mainstream society and giving them new criminal associates? How could it be so hard for them to see that they’ve helped create the growth of the Alternative Right through exactly the same kind of process? When the Left makes a great show about “racism” because a village emblem supposedly displays a white man strangling a Native American, and it turns out that it actually depicts a voluntary wrestling match in which a white man earned the local Natives’ respect,[20], or because of the use of the word “Redskins” for a sports team when it turns out that 9 out of 10 Native Americans do n’t really care,[21] the Left is crying wolf. They’re desensitizing us to the very sound of the word “racist,” and showing us that people who most loudly condemn it are, more likely than not, simply wasting our time with non-issues. But then we notice that non-issues like these are given great publicity whereas on the very week I’m writing this, Google can “honor” the birthday of a so-called “anti-racist” who claimed that the U.S. is “the main enemy of the world’s people” while praising Osama bin Laden as “one of the people that [she] admire[s]” — a “strong leader who brought consciousness to [his] people.

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Input: The ECMU, however, is not a political party. It says its donors are private individuals not connected to the Regions Party; because of that, its lobbyists have the option of registering and disclosing their activities to Congress instead — revealing far less information about their activities. The Foreign Agents Registration Act was signed into law by Bill Clinton on December 19, 1995. Uranium One, Russia, Podesta and the Clintons The Centre is not the only entity represented by Podesta’s firm with questionable ties to Russia.

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Input: This is key medical history that points to a blood pressure drop, and the most common cause of that is a so-called vasovagal episode. JUST WATCHED Tight race in several battleground states Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Tight race in several battleground states 02:35 In typical vasovagal syncope, there's less blood in the upper body when you're standing because it's pooling in the lower body, and maybe you're dehydrated to boot. Your heart tries to forcefully contract to make up for the lack of sufficient blood in its chambers, so much so that it overstimulates itself into activating an arm of the nervous system that's normally responsible for bringing down the heart rate and blood pressure (the parasympathetic nervous system, which connects to the heart through the vagus nerve-the "vagal" in vasovagal). Prolonged standing is just one of many common causes of vasovagal syncope, another is overheating, which also dilates blood vessels and drops blood pressure.

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Input: “The Uefa executive committee would like to express its disgust for the violent clashes which occurred in the city of Marseille,” it said. “Such unacceptable behaviour by so-called supporters of the national teams of England and Russia has no place in football, a sport we must protect and defend.” Uefa normally argues that it can police behaviour by supporters only inside stadiums, and to that end has launched disciplinary proceedings against Russia over the scenes at the end of the match. It also acknowledged “segregation issues” inside the Stade Vélodrome, where Russians charged at terrified England fans at the final whistle, and promised to work with tournament organisers to improve matters. But in an unusual move, Uefa’s board said it would not hesitate to take additional sanctions, up to and including disqualification, against both teams if their fans were involved in violence again during the course of the tournament.

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Input: If Clinton supported the Iraq war because she thought it politically expedient, she came to regret her stance when the war turned sour and Senator Barack Obama surged forward as the candidate opposed to that war. But Clinton did n’t learn the main lesson from Iraq — to seek non- violent ways to solve conflicts. Indeed, when the Arab Spring came to Libya in 2010, Clinton was the Obama administration’s most forceful advocate for toppling Muammar Gaddafi. She even out-hawked Robert Gates, the defense secretary first appointed by George W. Bush, who was less than enthusiastic about going to war. Gates was reluctant to get bogged down in another Arab country, insisting that vital US interests were not at stake, but Clinton nevertheless favored intervention.

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Input: Friction between the U.S. and Venezuela runs deep. Last March the Obama administration slapped sanctions on several high-ranking members of President Nicolas Maduro's government. U.S. authorities also arrested and indicted two of Maduro's family members for drug trafficking late last year. Related: Christine Lagarde: Troubled oil countries keep me up at night The political tension may be weighing on economic ties.

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Input: It’s like an experiment: I want to see if he can really do anything.” Trump’s tendency to insult people and make outrageous comments might make him a better president, Pechy figures. “Sure, he’s extreme sometimes,” he said, “but maybe that lets him get something done to bring in some jobs.” Pechy has heard the accusations that Trump is anti-Hispanic or anti-black or anti-immigrant, but “that’s probably exaggerated, just like what they say about Hillary is exaggerated,” he said. “Trump just says things, like he’s going to build a wall. You know he’s not going to build a wall, and he certainly wo n’t get Mexico to pay for it, but it shows he wants to be different, get something done.”

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Input: There’s really nothing else of substance to say." That's not just to take a swat at Trump; it helps explain the prior four points I am making here. Consider, for example, this exchange with David Sanger, where Trump begins by complaining that removing sanctions from Iran will allow the country to do more business abroad, and then complains that Iran is not doing more business abroad: TRUMP: Certainly the deal is not long enough. Because at the end of the deal they’re going to have great nuclear capability.

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Input: Mass killer wins case against Norway over human rights They visited alongside troops from Nigeria, whose top military generals Amnesty say should be on trial for war crimes. The human rights group produced a 133-page dossier alleging Nigerian forces caused the deaths of 8,000 people through murder, starvation, suffocation and torture during security operations against Islamist militants Boko Haram. A senior military official told Amnesty that Nigerian solders respond to Boko Haram attacks by going “to the nearest place and kill[ing] all the youths” whether they were armed or not. Andrew Smith, of Campaign Against Arms Trade, said Britain should not be “colluding” with countries it was well aware were led by authoritarian regimes.

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Input: By creating a "smoke curtain" they hope to impede visibility from warplanes that have been carrying out bombing raids. Image copyright unknown Image caption Children in Aleppo with a pile of burning tyres behind them Rebel-held parts of Aleppo have been heavily bombarded recently by pro-government forces. Rebels have launched an offensive to try to break a government siege. Russia is a key backer of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and is supporting pro-government forces with air strikes.

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Input: Hillary, June 13, 2016 As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton worked to restore America’s leadership in the world after it was badly eroded by eight years of the Bush administration’s go-it-alone foreign policy. She oversaw significant accomplishments, from building a global coalition to impose crippling sanctions against Iran, to brokering a ceasefire in Gaza and protecting Israel, to supporting President Obama’s decision to bring Osama bin Laden to justice, and much more. Defending America and our core values is one of the cornerstones of Hillary’s campaign. As president, Hillary will:

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Input: Well, I'm talking about taking guns away from gangs and people that use them. And I don't think -- I really don't think you disagree with me on this, if you want to know the truth. I think maybe there's a political reason why you can't say it, but I really don't believe -- in New York City, stop-and-frisk, we had 2,200 murders, and stop-and-frisk brought it down to 500 murders. Five hundred murders is a lot of murders. It's hard to believe, 500 is like supposed to be good?

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Input: It is the first time Russia has deployed the SA-23 system outside its borders, according to one Western official citing a recent intelligence assessment. The missiles and associated components are still in their crates and are not yet operational, according to the officials. The U.S. intelligence community has been observing the shipment of the SA-23 inside Russia in recent weeks, according to one official. While the purpose is not clear, one US official asked sarcastically, “Nusra does n’t have an air force do they?” speaking about the Al Qaeda-linked group in Syria. The Islamic State also does not fly any manned aircraft or possess cruise missiles, in a sign that Russia is directing its actions to protect itself against any potential attack from the United States or its allies.

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Input: TRUMP: “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who were n’t captured, ok? I hate to tell you.” He praises dictators like Vladimir Putin ...

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Input: “Because you’d be in jail,” he said. So there it was. The Republican nominee for president of the United States has promised to imprison his opponent if he wins the election. “This is what happens in dictatorships,” wrote the New York Times’ Max Fisher. “Not democracies.”

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Input: We are aware of reports that documents claimed to be from our network have been released and are investigating their authenticity.” Guccifer 2.0 had been silent since WikiLeaks posted a trove of emails from the DNC, a hack he has repeatedly claimed credit for. It was around that time the intelligence community ramped up speculation that the self-proclaimed apolitical Romanian, lone wolf hacker was actually a Russian intelligence agency. Guccifer 2.0 had leaked documents and communicated with The Hill before his last three weeks of silence cut communications to The Hill, as well. His first question when he once again made contact was “What do people say about me?”

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Input: It was a thinly veiled reference to Clinton's economic ties to Wall Street. Russia granted Snowden temporary asylum in 2013, and the controversial whistleblower has resided there ever since. Although he faces criminal charges in the United States for leaking classified information regarding global surveillance programs run by the NSA — two counts of violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and theft of government property — there's nothing to legally hinder Snowden from voting in presidential elections until he is convicted, according to his lawyer. The former NSA contractor has said he voted for a third-party candidate during the 2008 election, and given his presumed disregard for both Clinton and Trump, he might choose to do the same this year.

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Input: The debate over the transition centers on internet freedom and the United States ' international interests." This is a solution in search of a problem that poses real risks to the liberties of Americans," Cruz said." Imagine an internet run like many Middle Eastern countries that punish what they deem to be blasphemy, or imagine an internet run like China or Russia, [which] punish and incarcerate those who engage in political dissent." However, proponents of the transition argue that such fears are unrealistic and rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of the IANA function, which "is too limited in scope to be a tool for protecting internet freedom," NTIA Assistant Secretary Lawrence Strickling said." No one controls the internet. … To claim otherwise is simply not true, and people who really understand the internet know it is not true."

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Input: The plan being hatched by the White House and the CIA dramatically escalates the threat of a military confrontation between the US and Russia, the world’s two largest nuclear powers. “Plan B” is supposed to go into effect once Washington reaches the conclusion that its “Plan A” has failed. “Plan A” being the current effort to secure the collaboration of the United Nations, Russia, Iran and elements within the Assad government itself to achieve by means of a negotiated settlement what it has proven unable to secure on the battlefield over the last five years: regime change in Damascus. “If the cease-fire collapses, if the negotiations do n’t go anywhere, and we’re back to full throttle civil war, all bets will be off,” an Obama administration official told the Journal. “The outside patrons will double and triple down, throwing everything they can into Syria, including much more lethal weaponry.”

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Input: That's how feminist scholars have (I think correctly) undermined pseudoscientific attempts to paint female servility as natural, or male aggression and violence as inevitable and ultimately acceptable. Yes, the argument goes, these ideas have had elite supporters in the past, but those elites were tainted by institutional sexism. Similarly, Marxists are always alert to how media produced by big corporations can be tilted to serve those corporations ' class interests. The philosopher Paul Ricoeur once helpfully dubbed this kind of argument the "hermeneutics of suspicion." Neoreaction takes this approach and flips it on its head.

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Input: Hide Caption 15 of 15 The vast differences between the Obama administration and the Castro regime were no less evident Sunday as Havana hurried to prepare for the U.S. president's arrival. As Obama was en route, scores of anti-Castro dissidents from the group Ladies in White were arrested and detained after their weekly protest in Havana. CNN witnessed dozens of protesters being driven from the site in buses. The group consists largely of women who have been arrested and imprisoned for speaking out against the government here.

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Input: According to the extremist group’s apocalyptic creed, representations of deities and sites of pre-Islamic worship are worthy of destruction. As the group’s fighters wreaked havoc on the civilian populations caught up in their onslaught, they also pulverized what they could of the region’s supposedly apostate history. Moreover, as my colleague Loveday Morris detailed last year, the Islamic State — also known as ISIS and ISIL – developed a lucrative, illicit trade in smuggling the antiquities it chose not to smash. This also was the case in Tal Ajaja, where the militants dug tunnels in previously untouched areas of the site and unearthed hitherto unknown treasures — most of which have disappeared. “They found items that were still buried, statues, columns.

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sites of pre-Islamic worship


Input: So money has flowed from China into the United States — both from the Chinese government’s purchases of United States Treasury bonds and more recently in the form of direct investment from Chinese companies into the United States. When you see a headline about a Chinese company buying an American hotel group for $ 13 billion, you’re seeing the flip side of the trade deficit Mr. Trump bemoans. (The same when a citizen of China buys a luxury apartment in a Trump tower.) Money flowing into a country is usually considered a good thing. It makes borrowing money cheaper, drives up stock prices and can mean more investment in new businesses.

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Input: The bombing took place on al-Tharda Mountain in the region of Deir ez-Zor and caused casualties and destruction on the ground, Syria’s official SANA news agency reported on Saturday. Read more Sixty-two Syrian soldiers were killed and over 100 injured in the airstrike by the US-led coalition, Russia’s Defense Ministry spokesman, Major-General Igor Konashenkov, said, citing information received from the Syrian General Command. The Russian Defense Ministry said that the aircraft which carried out the bombings had entered Syrian airspace from the territory of Iraq. Four strikes against Syrian positions was performed by two F-16 jet fighters and two A-10 support aircraft, it added.

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Input: It added: “We have denounced the humanitarian consequences of this domino effect time and again, but European governments on this route continue to invent new and arbitrary criteria, with the sole goal of reducing the flow of people – at any cost, and in complete disregard of humanitarian needs. The failure of European governments to find collective and humane answers is only producing chaos, arbitrariness and discrimination.” The Greek government rebuked Austria for imposing the restrictions and for convening a meeting of western Balkan countries to discuss the migration crisis that excluded Greece. The foreign ministry described the meeting as a “unilateral move which is not at all friendly toward our country”. Meanwhile, a French judge deferred a ruling on a government plan to demolish part of a refugee and migrant camp in Calais near the entrance to the Channel tunnel.

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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: Most of his reports back to Washington remain classified. But on 11 February, Huyser's tone was slightly different, expressing no surprise that the military had taken themselves out of the equation." We have always urged the military to make deals," said Huyser, according to the record of the phone conversation." They must have gone to [Mehdi] Bazargan directly," he said, a moderate Islamist who had already been named Khomeini's PM. But all the concessions made by the military weren't enough for Khomeini.

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Input: Yes. KELLY: Zawahiri, would he go into — well, you tell me where you think he is? BRENNAN: Well, again, depending on if he were to be captured, depending where he was captured, the conditions, the circumstances, who did the capturing, I think that would determine the course of how he would be handled, how he would be debriefed, how he would be prosecuted, how he would be just handled. KELLY: The CIA would be comfortable with having that being done under — hypothetically saying — Pakistani government? BRENNAN: CIA would be very comfortable with however this is handled, consistent with the legal authorities, and again, the circumstances of the arrest or capture.

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Input: Their Google Plus accounts are blank, created (it seems) to add “likes” to videos on YouTube, the BBC speculates. On September 11, 2015, several still images from the video appeared on the anonymous Twitter account @ComradZampolit (which has more than 33,000 followers), and then on another even more popular account, @NovostiSPb (which has more than 81,000 followers). Both these accounts claimed that the soldier was shooting at the Quran, though the video never states this explicitly. Нашел видео, где американец простреливает Коран. Неужели, # Слёзы911 не научили, что нельзя играть с исламом?

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Input: Another number signified the intelligence branch in which the patient had been killed. There were about eleven thousand bodies. Caesar’s team sometimes catalogued more than fifty corpses a day — emaciated, mutilated, cut, burned, shot, beaten, strangled, broken, melted. According to a U.N. report, after Caesar’s team had finished their documentation a doctor at the hospital usually wrote “heart attack” on the death certificate. Then the bodies were loaded onto trucks and hauled away.

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Input: "They ordered a chocolate milkshake, and in the rush and nervousness brought on by the moment for which he had prepared himself for over a year, he broke the capsule of poison while trying to pick it up, as it had stuck to the shelf of the freezer in which it was hidden," Escalante wrote in his book "Executive Action: 634 Ways to Kill Fidel Castro." From lover to would-be assassin The CIA tried pills again, recruiting an erstwhile lover of Castro's to deliver the poison. Marita Lorenz had met and fallen in love with Castro shortly after the revolution, she wrote in her 1993 memoir," Marita: One Woman's Extraordinary Tale of Love and Espionage from Castro to Kennedy." They had a whirlwind romance, but then, Lorenz wrote, the CIA recruited her when she visited the United States.

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Input: Once the outside forces limped back through the Hindu Kush, the people of Afghanistan went right back to killing each other again. Most Popular I'm fully aware of the bloody legacy of the various imperialisms that have afflicted this battered place for almost as long as the world has been aware of Afghanistan. I'm fully aware that its impoverished people have been used as pawns by blundering Western opportunists from the Viscount Melbourne to Charlie Wilson. I'm fully aware that its impoverished people have been ground up as empire fodder by everyone from Queen Victoria to Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Input: Furthermore, Kasparov, who fled the Putin regime to the United States in 2013, suggested the Russians likely possess information on Trump that is at least as damaging as the revelations contained in the WikiLeaks releases have been for Hillary Clinton." I don't believe for a second that Trump was clean and they couldn't find anything," he said." More likely, they had plenty but they decided to use it privately to good effect, whether we are talking about debts or blackmail." "Putin sees in Trump an ideal counterpart," Kasparov continued." Trump shows no respect for democracy or rule of law."

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