Input: If Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping read the New York Times on Thursday morning, they must be hoping and praying for the election of Donald Trump. And if serious Republicans read the same paper, they must be sickened with fear — if they were n’t nauseated already — that their party’s presidential nominee is a threat to national security. For on the front page of the Times, in an interview on foreign policy, Trump says that, despite our treaty obligations, he would not defend NATO allies from an invasion if they have n’t been reimbursing us for the cost of protecting them; that he would abandon our military bases in Asia; and that he would n’t pressure Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to relax his crackdown because “the world looks at how bad the United States is” on civil liberties, too. Advertisement Thursday morning, Trump spokesmen disputed the Times story, claiming that he was n’t quoted accurately.

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Input: Before Hillary: Kosovo, which became independent in 2008, initially granted its Serbian minority in northern Kosovo and Metohija some degree of self-government. After Hillary: In 2009, Kosovo increasingly became a state ruled by criminal syndicates and terrorists of the former Kosovo Liberation Army. The rights of Serbs were increasingly marginalized and Kosovo became a prime recruiting ground for jihadist guerrillas in Arab countries subjected to Clinton’s “Arab Spring” operations, including Libya and Syria. Clinton pressured states receiving U.S. aid and other U.S. allies to recognize Kosovo’s independence. These included Pakistan, Palau, Maldives, St. Kitts-Nevis, Dominica, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Burundi, East Timor, Haiti, Chad, Gambia, Brunei, Ghana, Kuwait, Ivory Coast, Gabon, St. Lucia, Benin, Niger, Guinea, Central African Republic, Andorra, Oman, Guinea-Bissau, Qatar, Tuvalu, Kiribati, Honduras, Somalia, Djibouti, Vanuatu, Swaziland, Mauritania, Malawi, New Zealand, Dominican Republic, Jordan, Bahrain, and Comoros.

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Input: After that time it’s plausible that China will have the major hub of international activity in low-Earth orbit. NASA has said it is moving beyond low-Earth orbit in the late 2020s to transition to a deep-space exploration program, first with missions to the vicinity (but not the surface) of the Moon, followed by human crews being sent to the Martian system in the 2030s. However there are significant questions about the viability of this long-term strategy given NASA’s present funding and approach. Authoritarian systems of government have an advantage over democracy in that carefully planned programs can be implemented over years — decades — of development with sustained funding and eyes on a long-term goal. That benefits China’s space program, whereas NASA and its exploration goals undergo presidential reviews every four to eight years, with constant smaller changes from Congress along the way.

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Input: are the same people who are writing analyses of the Syrian opposition on which decisions are based on the future of that program?” the first U.S. official said. Amid the setbacks in Syria in recent months, key figures in the administration have advocated prioritizing the fight against the Islamic State, rather than against the Assad government. But agency officials disagree with this rationale, saying that the Islamic State ca n’t be eradicated until a new government emerges capable of controlling the terrorist group’s territory in Raqqa and elsewhere. “You ca n’t defeat ISIL without removing Assad,” the second U.S. official said, using an alternative name for the Islamic State. “As long as there is a failed state in Syria, ISIL will have a homeland.”

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

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Input: As an Apple executive told The New York Times, “We do n’t have an obligation to solve America’s problems.” Donald Trump is right to worry about American sovereignty. But the real threat to our sovereignty is n’t imports or immigrants. It’s global money influencing our politics. Protecting our democracy requires two steps that Trump and his leading supporters oppose:

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Input: The Israeli Defense Forces devastated Gaza. For 51 days, Israel bombarded Gaza with more than 6,000 airstrikes. The United Nations Human Rights Council subsequently convened an independent, international commission of inquiry, which concluded that Israel, and to a lesser extent Palestinian armed groups, had likely committed violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, some constituting war crimes. “The scale of the devastation was unprecedented” in Gaza, according to the commission. Yet Clinton was puzzled by what she calls “this enormous international reaction against Israel,” adding, “This reaction is uncalled for and unfair.”

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Input: An Australian politician has condemned “opportunistic” calls for a ban on Muslim immigration following the murder of a British woman at a hostel. Queensland’s policing minister Bill Byrne called for calm after Smail Ayad allegedly stabbed Mia Ayliffe-Chung to death at the Shelley’s Backpacker hostel in the small town of Home Hill on Tuesday evening. Local police confirmed he screamed “Allahu Akbar” -or “God is greatest” -when he was arrested. He has been charged with one count of murder, two of attempted murder and 12 counts of serious assault following the incident.

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Input: Yet yellow fever is a grave illness, incurable once contracted. It kills 80,000 Africans a year. And that is a scandal, both because it can be prevented by a single inoculation and also because yellow fever now risks spreading to Asia, where it has never before taken hold. This is the background to the latest epidemic of the disease, in Angola. Since December, around 2,300 suspected cases have been reported there, with nearly 300 deaths.

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Input: Albin Lohr-Jones / Pacific Press / Zuma One afternoon during the Republican convention, I ran into one of the more nefarious members of the far right, longtime Trump consigliere Roger Stone. Nattily dressed in a seersucker suit and red suspenders, he was roaming the bar of Cleveland's Renaissance hotel, posing for fan photos. At one point, Stone briefly looked up at a shot of Clinton on TV." That evil witch," he said, narrowing his eyes.

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Input: Ahmed says she supports Trump despite his call to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the country. She said Trump’s proposal is nothing more than election-year rhetoric that has no chance of ever becoming law. “Something like that could never be enacted so I can ignore it,” Ahmed said. “He’s toned down his rhetoric lately and I’m focused more on the positive messages he has about the economy and balancing the budget and improving U.S. standing in the world. Ahmed requested a meeting with Trump late last year, but said the campaign indicated that was too politically fraught a proposition in the midst of a heated Republican primary.

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Input: Related: Report Prompts Pence to Call for Probe of Clinton ‘Pay-to-Play ' Practices Consider also the curious case of Victor Pinchuk, a Ukrainian steel magnate who donated over $ 8 million to the Clinton Foundation and had committed to giving as much as $ 20 million more to its initiatives. The Washington Post’s Tom Hamburger reported last October that Pinchuk had used his Clinton Foundation connections to get a meeting with a “top Clinton aide” at State, but that’s hardly all his $ 8 million bought. While Secretary of State, Clinton hosted a dinner for her foundation’s donors, including Pinchuk, who had hired longtime Clintonista Douglas Schoen to lobby the State Department on behalf of the Yanukovich government – the pro-Russian regime that Ukrainians sacked in late 2013, a change that was supported by the Obama administration. But wait, as television pitchmen say – there’s more!

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Input: A businessman being investigated by federal officials for possibly engaging in private discussions with Russia is no longer working with Donald Trump's presidential campaign, Trump's campaign manager said Sunday. Carter Page, a former Merrill Lynch investment banker in Moscow, hasn't participated in Trump's foreign policy briefings for some time, Kellyanne Conway said on CNN's "State of the Union." "He's not part of our national security or foreign policy briefings we do now at all," said Conway, who was hired in August." He's certainly not [been part] since I became campaign manager." Yahoo News reported Friday that U.S. intelligence officials are investigating whether Page is privately communicating with senior Russian officials, including discussing whether the U.S. might lift economic sanctions if Trump becomes president.

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Input: It is the first withdrawal from the bank, which was built in 2008. Those researchers would normally request the seeds from a bank in Aleppo. But that centre has been damaged by the war — while some of its functions continue, and its cold storage still works, it has been unable to provide the seeds that are needed by the rest of the Middle East, as it once did. 19/20 A team of filmmakers in the US have made the first ever scale model of the Solar System in a Nevada desert Illustrations of the Earth and moon show the two to be quite close together, Mr Overstreet said. This is inaccurate, the reason being that these images are not to scale.

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Input: Turkish news agency Dogan has reported that soldiers have opened fired on people trying to cross Istanbul's Bosporus bridge in protest of the attempted coup, and some have been wounded. TV footage showed people running for cover as shots rang out. Earlier, a statement attributed to the military said that Turkish armed forces have "fully seized control" of the country. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan then called on citizens to take to the streets in a show of support for the government. _ _ _

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Input: one man asks. Egypt's Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou visited the resort today and said that the attackers aim was to damage the country's tourism industry. He also promised greater security measures will be announced in the coming days Egypt's Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou visited the resort today and said that the attackers aim was to damage the country's tourism industry. ' Over the coming days we will announce even greater security measures to safeguard all tourists visiting Egypt.

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Input: Syrians evacuated from Fuaa and Kafraya, two Shiite villages under rebel siege, are welcomed by pro-government forces as they arrive in Jibrin, on the eastern outskirts of Aleppo. Dec. 19, 2016 Syrians evacuated from Fuaa and Kafraya, two Shiite villages under rebel siege, are welcomed by pro-government forces as they arrive in Jibrin, on the eastern outskirts of Aleppo. George Ourfalian / AFP / Getty Images

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Input: Bear parts are in high demand at black markets throughout Asia and are used in Chinese soups It is not clear how the animals were killed but the goods were bound for Tongjiang city in the Heilongjiang province of China An unnamed man, part of an alleged gang of smugglers, was arrested and accused of two counts of smuggling. He also allegedly had a mammoth tusk weighing four kilograms. It is not clear how the animals were killed but the goods were bound for Tongjiang city in the Heilongjiang province of China, the Siberian Times reported.

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Input: (The Hill) The police chief for the D.C. Metro system was grilled over his department’s continued employment of Nicholas Young, the officer accused of attempting to provide material support to ISIS. Officials were notified of a federal probe in 2010, but they did nothing because they said Young “never posed a threat” to employees or passengers. (Faiz Siddiqui) The Department of Homeland Security said it is investigating the hacking of Leslie Jones’ website, after a torrent of the comedian’s personal info – including her driver’s license, passport and intimate photos, was exposed online. (USA Today) Former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli injected himself into the debate over Mylan’s EpiPen price increase, hinting that he may plan to give congressional testimony on the issue. Shkreli, widely known as the “pharma bro” who hiked up the cost of life-saving medication earlier this year, asked the House Oversight committee to allow him to appear on Twitter.

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Input: The presidency’s most crucial duty is the protection of American national security. Yet, interviewed by Hugh Hewitt months into his campaign, Donald Trump did not know the key leaders of the global jihad. The man who would be commander-in-chief was unfamiliar with Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader who has been murdering Americans for over 30 years; Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s longtime deputy who has quite notoriously commanded al-Qaeda since the network’s leader was killed by U.S. forces in 2011; and Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, self-proclaimed caliph of the Islamic State (ISIS) and a jihadist so globally notorious that many teenagers are aware of him. Of course a man who wants to be president should make it his business to know such things. But even the casual fan who does not know the players without a scorecard at least knows who the teams are and why they are competing.

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Input: All those directly or peripherally involved in the investigation of the Clinton email issue know very well that it could have a direct impact on who is likely to become the next President of the United States, and they will be making decisions with that reality in mind. They know that it is with you that “the buck stops,” and they are sensitive to signs of your preferences. Those were not difficult to discern in your commencement address at Howard University on May 7, in which you strongly advocated the same basic policy approaches as those espoused by one Democratic presidential candidate – Hillary Clinton. Your White House has also made excuses for deliberate security violations by Secretary Clinton that would have gotten senior officials like us fired and probably indicted. We look with suspicion at what we see as contrasting and totally inappropriate attempts by the administration and media to play down the importance of Secretary Clinton’s deliberate disregard of basic security instructions and procedures.

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Input: On Capitol Hill, the more immediate concern appears to be forcing a reckoning on Clinton for her use of the server. Following the Justice Department announcement that Clinton would not face charges, Republicans pivoted to multiple new lines of attack. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn John CornynDems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo MORE (R-Texas) on Thursday threw his weight behind a bill from Sen. Cory Gardner Cory GardnerThese GOP senators need to stand up to their party on healthcare Trump having lunch with senators to talk healthcare McCain strikes back as Trump’s chief critic MORE (R-Colo.) that would “prohibit any officer or employee of the federal government who has exercised extreme carelessness in the handling of classified information from being granted or retaining a security clearance.” The same day, a group of 10 senators sent a strongly worded letter urging Secretary of State John Kerry John KerryTillerson: ' My view did n’t change ' on Paris climate agreement CORRECTED: Three members of Mueller's team have donated to Democrats Kerry: New Iran sanctions may be dangerous MORE to revoke any standing privileges held by Clinton, Abedin, Mills and Sullivan, arguing that “failure to impose any sanctions for these clear violations of State Department procedure undermines the integrity of the State Department’s system for handling classified information.” Meanwhile, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz Jason ChaffetzThe Hill's 12:30 Report Chaffetz: Trump administration ' almost worse ' than Obama's on transparency Utah GOP narrows field for Chaffetz seat MORE (R-Utah) vowed to send a criminal referral to the FBI demanding that the agency investigate whether Clinton perjured herself when discussing the server during her 11-hour testimony before the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

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

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

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Input: We see this played out every day. In soviet Russia, you either worshiped the state through party participation, or you were executed. In Rome, you either burned incense to Caesar, or you were executed. In China, you either show obeisance to the government, or you will be punished. In many Islamic states, you either obey Islamic law (no matter your religion) or you will suffer.

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Input: The Obama administration does have more drastic options. If the U.S. wanted to truly damage Russia’s economy, it could bar American banks from buying Russian ruble bonds, or cut the country off from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT. The “nuclear option” would be an embargo on Russian energy exports. The U.S. official said that option was n’t on the table. Europe gets about one-third of its energy supplies from Russia, so any such embargo would deal a severe blow to already struggling European economies.

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Input: You can also go after the 287 U.S. officials who opened Panama bank accounts to launder money with this company; http://www.scam.com/entry.php?3345-The-Biggest-Wall-Street-crime-in-hist .... Otherwise you and Hillary can both retire in shame for selling out on the American people. If you were blackmailed or extorted by the Bush or Clinton families, you only need to swear to it under oath and most all Americans can forgive and forget. We the People will save America from the cancer of corruption, one way or another. You still have a chance to help us and do the right thing sir.

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Input: Challenging the EU’s political correctness, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said he will not allow a large Muslim community in his country. Fico’s anti-immigration rhetoric has boosted his Direction-Social Democracy party (SMER-SD) ahead of the 5 March elections. Fico announced “shifts in (the) Slovak position to the EU migration crisis” in the light of the New Year’s eve rampage in the centre of Cologne, during which 90 women reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested by young, mostly drunk, men, described by some of the victims as North Africans. “Many things are being said and written, but the Slovak government sees a direct link between the current migration flows and the (November) attacks in Paris and recent events in Germany,” said the prime minister at a press conference in Bratislava yesterday (7 January). > > Read: Germans debate responsibility for sexual assaults

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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: “Get a heavy lead pencil and scratch out the word ‘Democrat,’ and scratch out the word ‘Socialist,’ and let the two platforms lay there.” Claiming the mantle of Jefferson and Jackson as his own, Smith compared New Dealers to Marx and Lenin; he warned that “there can be only one capital — Washington or Moscow.” Still, Roosevelt was undaunted. In his 1944 State of the Union address — part of which he called a “second Bill of Rights” — he invoked the founders’ spirit and asked Congress to establish the right to “useful and remunerative” employment; a regular paycheck that provides “adequate food and clothing and recreation” and ensures “a decent living”; adequate housing, education and medical care; and “protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident and unemployment.” Today, most conservatives accept that the government is responsible for some public welfare, universal education, Social Security and even some job creation and health care. The next generation of reformers wanted to go much further. If there ever was a genuine threat of revolution in America, it came during the late 1960s as an answer to the war in Vietnam.

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

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Input: They include his campaign manager Paul Manafort, who has worked for Ukraine’s deposed pro-Russian president; his foreign policy adviser Carter Page and the former secretary of state and national security adviser Henry Kissinger. In the days after Putin annexed Crimea in mid-March 2014, for instance, Trump expressed strong opposition to the move. Appearing on NBC’s “Today” show on March 13, he said that the land grab — which Obama and top European leaders denounced as a gross violation of international law — “should never have happened.” “We should definitely be strong,” Trump added. “We should definitely do sanctions.”

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Input: The laptop remained in Hanley’s apartment. Hanley moved at least once, and brought the MacBook with her to her new apartment, but she never recovered the thumb drive, the FBI report said. After Hanley left the State Department in 2014, she realized she still had the laptop in her desk drawer, and she mailed it back to Platte River Network with directions to migrate the emails back to Clinton’s existing server and return the MacBook to Clinton’s current aide. When the FBI first contacted Hanley in November, 2015, to schedule an interview, she reached out to Clinton’s current aide to ask for the whereabouts of the laptop, but the assistant told Hanley “she did not recall receiving it from Platte River Network.” Also missing were all of Clinton’s emails sent and received between January and March 2009, the FBI report showed. The entire Clinton team used unsecured BlackBerry phones to communicate and Clinton also used her iPad to review email and news reports.

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Input: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is crafting a new storyline about who may have provided the material he published that caused an implosion in the Democratic National Committee's leadership this summer. U.S. officials and private sector cyber-experts have said they're highly confident that hackers associated with Russia's intelligence services compromised the DNC's email system and extracted emails that embarrassed the party's leadership. But it appears Assange wants to puncture the narrative that he's a cat's paw for Russian President Vladimir Putin, and that to do so he has seized upon an unsolved homicide in Washington, D.C. Assange has insisted there's no proof the DNC material came from Russia. Then he told an interviewer on Dutch TV this week that he wouldn't reveal the source of the DNC material, but said that WikiLeaks ' sources face all kinds of dangers.

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Input: “It matters in terms of turnout, energy, volunteering, all those things.” The Clinton campaign said it would not confirm the accuracy of the documents released by WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange. “We are not going to confirm the authenticity of stolen documents released by Julian Assange, who has made no secret of his desire to damage Hillary Clinton,” said Glen Caplin, a campaign spokesman. “Guccifer 2.0 has already proven the warnings of top national security officials that documents can be faked as part of a sophisticated Russian misinformation campaign,” he said, referring to the hacker or hacking group that altered some data stolen from the Democratic National Committee before making it public earlier this year. The U.S. government on Friday formally accused Russia of a campaign of cyber attacks against Democratic Party organizations ahead of the election.

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Input: Through the Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act, Congress erected an impenetrable firewall between commercial and investment banks. It was designed to shield commercial bank depositors from high-risks speculative ventures. On Nov 12, 1999 President Bill Clinton Bill ClintonTrump legal team spokesman used Twitter to criticize Trump Jonathan Taplin misses the mark on corporate dominance in tech Senate GOP shifts focus to Lynch MORE signed into law legislation that repealed Glass-Steagall. According to economist Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate, that repeal not only facilitated "too big to fail" but expanded the high-risk and all too often fraudulent behaviors that brought the world's financial system to the brink of collapse in 2008. Both Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth WarrenSanders to GOP on healthcare bill: ' What are you afraid of? '

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Input: The training program is based in Jordan because of the country’s proximity to the Syrian battlefields. From the beginning, the C.I.A. and the Arab intelligence agencies relied on Jordanian security services to transport the weapons, many bought in bulk in the Balkans and elsewhere around Eastern Europe. Advertisement Continue reading the main story The program is separate from one that the Pentagon set up to train rebels to combat Islamic State fighters, rather than the Syrian military.

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Input: The EU meanwhile is grappling with the worst migrant crisis since the end of World War II and the bloc wants increased cooperation with NATO to tackle the problem, notably in bolstering the UN-backed government in Libya where ISIL has recently gained ground. Russia's intervention in Ukraine and its 2014 annexation of Crimea stung NATO into action after years of complacency and defence cuts following the fall of the Soviet Union. Moscow says NATO's response is just a cover for encroaching on its borders, while Washington builds a European missile defence shield which undercuts Russia's nuclear deterrent." I think you have to remember where this started," said a senior US official." NATO took these measures because Russia chose to invade and occupy Crimea and then move into eastern Ukraine.

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Input: Pally went on to cite Canadian tax rules as the reason for the discrepancy. But as the Times reported: However, interviews with tax lawyers and officials in Canada cast doubt on assertions that the partnership was necessary to confer a tax benefit; an examination shows that for many donors it was not needed, and in any event, since 2010, Canadians could have donated to the foundation directly and received the same tax break. Also, it is not at all clear that privacy laws prohibit the partnership from disclosing its donors, the tax lawyers and officials in Canada said. The hidden $ 2.35 million in Clinton Foundation donations from the former Russian uranium chief were part of a larger $ 145 million given from nine uranium investors involved in the deal approved by Hillary Clinton to transfer 20% of all U.S. uranium to the Russian government.

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Input: Trump has been advocating violence and oppression directly and indirectly against literally billions of people for months on end and inching closer to the power that will allow him to execute it every day. Did you really think the 11 million immigrants he plans on deporting weren't going to be angry? Did you really think that barring an entire religion from entering the united states wasn't going to piss off billions Muslims?

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Input: Washington has consistently refused to join forces with Russia in Syria ever since Moscow launched its campaign of air strikes in September last year, accusing it of acting solely to prop up Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The United States has called on Assad to step down. Communication between the U.S. and Russian militaries on Syria has been limited to contacts aimed at avoiding an accidental clash as they carry out rival bombing campaigns and small numbers of U.S. forces operate on the ground. Western officials suggested that the proposal, which the Pentagon said had not been formally presented to the U.S. Defense Department, was an attempt by President Vladimir Putin to raise Russia's profile on the international stage. "There is no agreement to conduct joint air strikes with the Russians in Syria," said U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby.

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Input: A 2008 Memorandum of Understanding between the Clinton Foundation and Valerie Jarrett, then-vice-chairwoman of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team attempted to limit and in some instances to ban foreign government to the Clinton Foundation and its many projects. The FBI currently has two criminal investigations involving Clinton and the foundation, with one focused on her use of a private email server located in her New York home to conduct official diplomatic business instead of a secure government communication channel. The second investigation is focused on allegations of “pay-to-play” efforts in which Clinton traded policy or other official actions in return for contributions by foreign donors to the foundation. DiGenova and Mitchell were also critical of Schneidermann for his inaction on the foundation’s filing. “One has to wonder what the New York State Attorney General is doing,” DiGenova said.

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Input: He faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty. (Boston Globe) Microsoft is breaking the corporate taboo on pot use this week, announcing new software that can track marijuana plants from “seed to sale.” The software is aimed at helping states that have legalized the drug to keep track of sales and commerce. (New York Times) Two small bush planes are flying to the South Pole this week in a high-stakes rescue mission to evacuate sick employees in the middle of the Antarctic winter. The mission is only the third of its kind. In 1999, a woman was forced to conduct her own chemotherapy and breast cancer biopsy until a thaw allowed her to get out.

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Input: Clinton then noted that Trump talked about his “deep admiration” for Russian President Vladimir Putin at the same forum. “Maybe he did it with a smile and I guess the RNC would n’t like that,” she quipped. Chelsea Clinton also waded into the debate on Thursday, criticizing Trump’s remarks about a “presidential look.” “Everyone can see that as the sad, misogynistic, sexist rhetoric that I hoped we had moved beyond in the 21st century,” the former first lady's daughter said. This is n’t the first time accusations of sexism have bubbled up during the campaign.

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Input: "The Russians are trying to hack everything." The ban on the Apple Watch is by no means unusual. Mobile phones are already prohibited in cabinet meetings in the UK, and extending the injunction to smartwatches is logical. They contain the same basic electronics and thus the same vulnerabilities. It was also reported today that the Apple Watch has been banned from Australian cabinet meetings as well.

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Input: I’m not too upset that Trump has been labelled an agent of the Kremlin. It could n’t happen to a nicer guy. But the zeal with which many have seized on a foreign explanation for a domestic problem sets a worrying precedent for how any future event or movement that challenges our understanding may be processed, in a time when malevolent actors, foreign or domestic, can influence perceptions more easily than ever, and we can all see it unfold in real time. Russia’s use of propaganda, dirty tricks, leaks, and hacks in foreign affairs works a lot like a troll farm on a larger scale. The aim is to promote an atmosphere of uncertainty and paranoia, heightening divisions among its adversaries.

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Input: The Wall Street Journal reported last July that Hillary Clinton intervened on behalf of Swiss banking giant UBS AG, which the IRS was suing to get the identities of Americans with offshore accounts. After that intervention in 2009, donations by UBS to the Clinton Foundation increased from less than $ 60,000 to a total of $ 600,000 by the end of 2014, according to the Journal’s report. Additionally, the bank lent $ 32 million to the foundation to jump-start its entrepreneurship and inner-city loan program, and Bill Clinton received $ 1.5 million to do question-and-answer sessions with UBS Wealth Management Chief Executive Bob McCann. However, the Journal’s report acknowledges that there is “no evidence of any link between Mrs. Clinton’s involvement in the case and the bank’s donations to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, or its hiring of Mr. Clinton,” while characterizing it as a “prime example of how the Clintons’ private and political activities overlap.” “Any suggestion that she was driven by anything but what’s in America’s best interest would be false.

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Input: The news comes after Dutch investigators on Monday released an update on their inquiry to the families of the victims. It included pictures of fragments of the BUK missile found at the crash site. The same pictures were also included in the final conclusions of the initial Dutch-led international investigation, which determined in October that the flight was shot down by the Russian-made missile, fired from an area in eastern Ukraine held by pro-Russian separatists. Now a criminal investigation in the Netherlands is underway to identify exactly who fired the missile and where from, even though many believe that those to blame will never be arrested and tried. The first official findings by the criminal investigators are now expected after the summer, as they await further information from Russia.

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Input: Hundreds of thousands of Christian Armenians died in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, whose empire was disintegrating Many of the victims were civilians deported to barren desert regions where they died of starvation and thirst. Thousands also died in massacres Armenia says up to 1.5 million people were killed. Turkey says the number of deaths was much smaller

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Input: When Berezovsky openly criticized Putin’s anti-democratic behavior, particularly his push against press freedom and the Kremlin’s posture during the sinking of the Kursk submarine in August 2000, the new president moved to seize the oligarch’s assets in Russia. Berezovsky went into self-imposed exile in London. After losing a major court battle with another Russian oligarch — Roman Abramovich — Berezovsky hanged himself in 2013. Like Berezovsky, Zygar is himself a victim of Putin and his Kremlin handlers. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the independent Dozhd news channel, which came to prominence in 2011 as the only network to cover the massive protests against Putin.

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Input: NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down by a missile fired from a launcher brought into Ukraine from Russia and located in a village held by pro-Russian rebels, international prosecutors said on Wednesday. The findings counter Moscow's suggestion that the passenger plane, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur in July 2014, was brought down by Ukraine's military rather than the separatists. All 298 people on board, most of them Dutch, were killed. The conclusions were based on thousands of wiretaps, photographs, witness statements and forensic tests during more than two years of inquiries into an incident which led to a sharp rise in tensions between Russia and the West. Among the key findings were: the plane was hit by a Russian-made Buk-9M38 missile; the missile was fired from the rebel-held village of Pervomaysk in eastern Ukraine; and the launcher was transported into Ukraine from Russia.

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Input: She said it's upsetting that so many countries are closing their borders to refugees. If countries like the U.S. and Canada would take in more people "then we would get much closer to a solution," she said." Fewer people would have died in the Holocaust if the world had accepted more Jewish refugees," she added. Otto Frank, Anne Frank's father, tried to get visas to the U.S. in 1940 to save his family from the Holocaust but got denied, Schloss wrote. At the time, America didn't want to take any more refugees.

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Input: Team questioned email investigation amid reports that he sought to withhold evidence of Russian support for Trump for fear of influencing the election The Clinton campaign blasted the FBI director, James Comey, for “jaw-dropping” double standards on Monday after claims that he had sought to withhold evidence of Russian support for Donald Trump for fear of influencing next week’s US election. In a sharp escalation of their unprecedented war of words with federal law enforcement authorities, Clinton’s key aides contrasted this apparent caution with Comey’s controversial decision to release new details of its investigation into Clinton’s private email server to lawmakers on Friday. “It is impossible to view this as anything less than a blatant double standard,” her campaign manager, Robby Mook, told reporters, claiming the decision “defied all logic”, especially as other intelligence agencies had favoured disclosure of suspected Russian involvement.

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Input: PARIS — Japanese banks drew on close commercial ties to Qatar when they lent funds that helped Doha pay last year’s down payment for Rafale fighter jets and missiles worth € 6.3 billion ($ 6.8 billion), financial specialists said. A bank loan to Qatar, a nation rich in oil and gas reserves, signaled an economic shift for the Arabian Gulf nation and its strong business ties to Japanese lenders and construction companies. “Qatar can borrow relatively cheaply on the international bank market as there is huge collateral with the Qatar sovereign fund,” said Stéphane Audrand of the consultancy Sylmaris. There is also long-term collateral with Qatar’s export energy contracts. The sovereign fund is valued at $ 256 billion, according to the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute, which specializes in institutional investors.

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Input: Which is why it’s time for responsible political observers to say what has been commonly understood among those who have followed Stein for years: Friends do n’t let friends vote for Jill Stein. To be clear, this post is not meant as a criticism of Stein’s supporters. In my experience, many of these well-meaning individuals imagine they are voting for a bold, progressive changemaker who wo n’t pander to special interests and who will demonstrate the knowledge and political courage to enact real reform. Even if Stein wo n’t win, these idealists believe that they are voting their conscience by backing the candidate who best represents their values. The only problem is, upon closer inspection, Jill Stein bears no resemblance to such a candidate.

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Input: From Wednesday onwards it is illegal to preach, teach or share faith outside state-controlled settings. Senior Protestant church leader in Russia, Sergei Ryakhovsky, said the law ' creates the basis for the mass persecution of believers '. Russian officials insist it is to tackle terrorism and is aimed at Islamic hate preaching. The new law was passed almost unanimously by Russian MPs and means anyone caught sharing their faith outside church faces a fine of at least £ 600. Some fear it's a way of clamping down on the growing number of house churches across the country.

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Input: All it would take is a few viral image macros playing to partisan confirmation bias, and someone with a knack for manipulating the masses could quit their day job and become well-off, simply by spreading hysteria and exaggerated half-truths. Nobody in the Republican Party understood this better than Donald Trump. As a businessman, he knew how to find a niche market, and exploit it for every penny and outrage vote that he could get. The Republican Party wanted desperately to take back the White House, even if it meant putting another Bush on the ticket. Coming into the primaries, Jeb Bush was their man and he had a huge campaign bank account to do it.

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Input: Viktor Krasnov also wrote the “Bible is a collection of Jewish fairy tales" during the discussion on European social networking site Vk.com in 2014, lawyer and human-rights activist Pavel Chikov posted on his Facebook page. Krasnov, whose offending posts have been deleted, is on trial in his native city of Stavropol in southern Russia, according to the local magistrate’s website. Charges were filed in the fall of 2015 and the trial began on Monday, according to his lawyer. Russia's Investigative Committee — the equivalent of the FBI — charged Krasnov with “offending believers’ feelings,” which was criminalized in Russia after a notorious performance by punk band Pussy Riot in Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Savior in February 2012. Two band members were jailed in 2012 for performing an anti-Vladimir Putin song at the cathedral.

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Input: The Democratic presidential candidate promised Friday to impose tougher sanctions on the country. She also said that the latest test provides an opening to pressure China, which sees the country as an important. Clinton said she will protect allies and treaty partners in the region including equipping them with missile defense systems. It was the country's fifth atomic test and second in eight months. She spoke after meeting with a bipartisan group of national security experts in New York City.

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Input: “We never had a desire or a deliberate intention to down an aircraft belonging to Russia,” the letter read, according to a statement published on the Kremlin website. According to the statement, Erdogan’s letter stressed that “the Turkish side undertook all the risks and made a great effort to recover the body of the Russian pilot from the Syrian opposition, bringing it to Turkey. The organization of the pre-burial procedures was conducted in accordance with all religious and military procedures.” Ankara has treated the family of the dead Russian pilot as if it were a Turkish family and is “ready for any initiatives to relieve the pain and severity of the damage done,” the letter said. The address by the Turkish leader also informed that a criminal investigation has been launched against the person suspected of killing the Russian pilot, the Kremlin said.

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Input: Russia has refused and promised to launch legal proceedings against Ukraine in a London court by the end of the month. Poroshenko repeated that "Ukraine's position (toward Russia) can not differ from the restructuring conditions that we struck with other investors." But "we also demonstrate our utmost transparency and willingness to negotiate," the Ukrainian leader added." If the Russian side deems it possible, we will immediately begin (new debt) negotiations," Poroshenko said.

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Input: The country’s envoy to NATO, Alexander Grushko, told state newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta that the Black Sea would not become a “NATO lake.” Russia sees the region as vital to its foreign policy — since the annexation of Crimea two years ago more than a dozen warships have been stationed there. Earlier this month Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the Financial Times that Russia was trying to tighten its grip on the Black Sea and the area is one of several zones where NATO allies will discuss reinforcement in the upcoming summit in Poland. Erdogan expressed fear that Russia is trying to encroach on the Black Sea and treat it as a “Russian lake.” NATO has three members with Black Sea ports in Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey, as well as two more aspiring members in Ukraine and Georgia. Both have faced serious challenges from Russia in response to their NATO and EU aspirations.

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Input: Mr Cotton supports Mr Trump and is sure that a key to navigating an era of “populist insurgencies”, from Britain to continental Europe and America, lies in acknowledging the “reasonable, legitimate concerns” of working families about low-skilled migration and its effects on society and on wages — even if a “transnational cosmopolitan elite” is left unscathed by them. Addressing the party faithful, moments later, Mr Cotton presented himself as a member of the generation moved by the patriotic spirit that America showed after the September 2001 terror attacks, leaving civilian careers to join the army and learn a “warrior ethos”. He combines that pitch with Trumpian vows to secure the border and reject a “new normal” that, he says, sees riots on the streets and “cops assassinated on the beat”, while sneering liberal elites “live behind high walls with armed guards”. After the speech Jeff Kauffman, chairman of the Iowa Republican Party, reported praise from the party faithful for Mr Cotton’s “freshness”. The challenge for his party, whatever the result in November, is to keep the new voters brought in by Mr Trump and to capture his populism, “but package it so it is more mainstream”, Mr Kauffman says.

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Input: NK News reports Russia has warned North Korea that threats to deliver “preventive nuclear strikes” could create a legal basis for the use of military force against the country, suggesting that even Pyongyang’s few remaining friends are growing concerned about its increasingly confrontational stance. The Russian foreign ministry statement, which follows a North Korean threat to “annihilate” the US and South Korea, also criticises Washington and Seoul for launching the largest joint military drills yet to be held on the peninsula. North Korea threatens to reduce US and South Korea to ' flames and ash ' Read more “We consider it to be absolutely impermissible to make public statements containing threats to deliver some ‘preventive nuclear strikes’ against opponents,” the Russian foreign ministry said in response to North Korea’s threats.

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Input: The “nuclear option” would be an embargo on Russian energy exports. The U.S. official said that option was n’t on the table. Europe gets about one-third of its energy supplies from Russia, so any such embargo would deal a severe blow to already struggling European economies. “What really hurts the Russians is the U.S. control over the international banking system,” retired General James Jones Jr., Obama’s former national security adviser, said in an interview. “if you want to change Russian behavior this is one way to do it.”

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Input: Gates assailed Clinton’s opposition to a pending Asian trade agreement she once supported, said she had been vague on dealing with Vladimir Putin’s Russia, said she offered few specifics about North Korea, and had no clear strategy toward “a Middle East in flames.” But on credibility, Gates added, “Trump is in a league of his own.” “He has expressed support for building a wall between the US and Mexico; for torturing suspected terrorists and killing their families (and) for Mr. Putin’s dictatorial leadership.” Trump had expressed support “for withdrawing US troops from Europe, South Korea and Japan,” while being “cavalier about the use of nuclear weapons.” He had insulted servicemen, their families and military leaders, Gates wrote. Trump is “willfully ignorant” about the world, the US military and “about government itself,” Gates said.

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Input: Donald Trump Jr. tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review his father isn't releasing his tax returns because they would create a distraction. See more videos The whole point of releasing tax returns is to create some transparency — letting voters know where your financial interests lie, where you may have conflicts of interest, whether you have paid an appropriate share of taxes, whether you have, in fact, donated money to charities. Trump has shown again and again — Politifact estimates that 70% of his statements have been mostly or completely false — that his oft-repeated phrase “believe me” should, in fact, not be believed. Trump, through repeated lies and misstatements, invites cynicism.

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

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Input: Snowden has repeatedly said he would be willing to return to the United States if the federal government would provide him a fair trial. However, Snowden says he is concerned that under federal espionage laws he would not allow him to present a whistleblower defense, arguing in court he acted in the public interest. In stoking a national debate about secret domestic surveillance programs, but he should still return to the U.S. to stand trial, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said in a podcast released on Monday. As a National Security Agency contractor, Snowden leaked classified details in 2013 of the U.S. government's warrantless surveillance of its citizens before fleeing the country. He now lives in Russia and faces U.S. charges that could land him in prison for up to 30 years.

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Input: But they need to fight on, with any tactic at hand, all the way to the bitter end. The Republican delegates who are trying to protect their party from the whims of an outsider demagogue are, at this moment, doing what they ought to be doing to prevent civil and racial unrest, an international conflict, and a constitutional crisis. These GOP elites have every right to deploy whatever rules or procedural roadblocks they can muster, and they should refuse to be intimidated. And if they fail in Indiana or Cleveland, as they likely will, they need, quite simply, to disown their party’s candidate. They should resist any temptation to loyally back the nominee or to sit this election out.

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Input: Ordinary Russians are paying the price. New lows for the ruble could put more pressure on Russian prices. Inflation reached 12.5% in 2015 while real wages kept dropping, leaving many people much worse off. Official statistics show that over 20 million Russians, roughly 14% of the population, are now living in poverty. That compares with 16 million in 2014.

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Input: A new Breitbart / Gravis poll released Wednesday shows that more than two-thirds of registered voters oppose President Barack Obama’s surrender of control over the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to a multi-stakeholder group that includes foreign governments. The transfer happened last weekend, on Oct. 1, despite vocal opposition from Congress and concern that regimes such as China, Russia or Iran could eventually censor free speech on the Internet. advertisement

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Input: The third argument against liberals supporting Rubio is that America will benefit if Trump destroys the Republican Party. If the GOP splits, or loses massively this fall, then perhaps moderates will regain influence and the Republican Party — or whatever supplants it — will stop denying climate change, stop refusing to vote on judges, and stop pushing the United States to the brink of financial default. Maybe as a result of Trump, the party’s “fever may break.” I understand the argument’s allure, but it’s reckless. Although it’s highly likely Trump would lose a general election, there are no guarantees. Hillary Clinton could be indicted.

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Input: Internet phone company executive Jonathan Kaplan pleaded guilty in Bridgeport, Conn., in 2007 to accepting more than $ 400,000 in a commercial bribery scheme. Kaplan received probation. A law enforcement source, speaking on condition of anonymity because of pending legal matters, confirmed that prosecutors did not know that Kaplan had established an offshore company in the British Virgin Islands in 2004 called SGA Wireless. It remained active until May 2010. Reached by phone in New Jersey, Kaplan was asked whether he told authorities about SGA Wireless.

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Input: Some witnesses reported hearing shots fired and shouts in Arabic before the two explosions. Others said that people fled the first blast, only to get caught in the second. A third bomb failed to detonate and was destroyed by the security services. A local firefighter, Pierre Meys, described seeing "war injuries"." I think this is the worst thing I've ever seen in my career," he said.

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Input: But just as in Trump's tax return, those disclosure documents don't reveal how many Russian investors may have put money into any Trump properties, Scott said. Related: Will the public get to see Mike Pence's tax returns? Trump on Tuesday told CNN affiliate WFOR in Miami that he has "nothing to do with Russia whatsoever," including no loans from Russian banks or investors. He reiterated that assertion in a controversial press conference on Wednesday, in which encouraged Russia to hack Hillary Clinton. A trade publication reported, however, that his son Donald Trump, Jr. in 2008 said," Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets.

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Input: Turkey blackmailed EU: either € 3bn per year & EU accession or we send buses full with refugees to Europe In internal EU memo obtained by Greek media reveals the blatant Turkish blackmail on the refugee crisis. The memo contains a summary of the dialogue between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with European Commissioner Jean Claude Juncker and President of the European Council Donald Tusk on 16th November 2015 during the G20 Summit in Antalya, Turkey.

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Input: The files also include the FBI’s forensic investigative process and never-before-seen details of the staff decisions that led to the server, the mechanics of Clinton’s email system, and the confusing and balky State Department processes that led a technophobic Clinton to embrace her own BlackBerry. The FBI interviewed both those who supported her and those who questioned her decisions, as well as plenty of disinterested public servants who had no allegiance or beef with her either way. While the interviews were not technically conducted “under oath” — lying to federal agents is itself a crime, as is obstruction of justice — they do open a uniquely candid window into how the decisions around Hillary Clinton’s email server unfolded. They may be as close to the actual truth as we may ever get. The interviews — taken together and reconstructed for this article into the first-ever comprehensive narrative of how her email server scandal unfolded — draw a picture of the controversy quite different from what either side has made it out to be.

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Input: He said he would call summits in Europe and Asia to discuss "a rebalancing of commitments." He previewed a substantial shift toward two of America's most important global rivals, China and Russia. He vowed to reverse China's "assault on America's jobs and wealth" and to use America's "economic power" over China to bring Beijing into line. But he also pledged to fix relations with the rising Asian giant, saying that a stronger America would win more respect from its Communist leaders. But if that didn't work, Trump said he would be prepared to walk away, without offering specifics on the economic and national security consequences that would entail.

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Input: The debate took on new significance this week when John McCain boasted during a radio interview that Republicans would automatically oppose whomever Clinton nominates. “I promise you that we will be united against any Supreme Court nominee that Hillary Clinton, if she were president, would put up,” the Arizona senator said. “I promise you!” Attacked by his Democratic challenger, McCain’s spokeswoman released a statement walking back his comment. The senator will “thoroughly examine the record of any Supreme Court nominee put before the Senate,” she said.

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Input: This order, as far as we see, is used against Palestinian children in political cases only, and it gives the interrogators the freedom to harass, scream, threaten the children and push them to confess to crimes they have not committed out of fear. Although denying the right to have a parent present during an interrogation is supposed to be exceptional, such practice threatens to become the rule for Palestinian children, for whom acts such as throwing stones are defined as security crimes. According to a 2015 study by Military Court Watch, a nongovernmental group, just 3 percent of Palestinian children arrested in the West Bank reported that their parents were present throughout their interrogation by security forces. In November 2015, the Israeli Knesset passed a law that authorizes longer prison sentences for children convicted of throwing stones and that allows the government to suspend social welfare payments to their families while the children serve their sentences.

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Input: Last week IS-linked media said that five Russian special forces were killed near Palmyra, publishing pictures from their cellphones and a video showing a bloodied corpse. However Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov at the time denied that Russian officers were participating in the advance on Palmyra, saying that "the advance is carried out by contingents of the Syrian army". Syrian troops on Thursday entered the ancient city of Palmyra, which had been controlled by IS since last May, and clashes were ongoing in the city. Backed by Russian warplanes and allied militia on the ground, the Syrian army advanced into Palmyra after launching a desert offensive early this month, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The defence ministry in Moscow said Russian aircraft carried out 146 strikes on "terrorist targets" in the Palmyra area between Wednesday and last Sunday.

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Input: It started out well. The two countries made progress on nuclear proliferation issues, and expanded use of Russian territory to resupply American forces in Afghanistan. Keeping Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon was among the United States’ top priorities, and in June 2010 Russia signed off on a United Nations resolution imposing tough new sanctions on that country. Two months later, the deal giving ARMZ a controlling stake in Uranium One was submitted to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States for review. Because of the secrecy surrounding the process, it is hard to know whether the participants weighed the desire to improve bilateral relations against the potential risks of allowing the Russian government control over the biggest uranium producer in the United States.

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Input: She does not know what the feds know about her. She faces a damned-if-she-does and damned-if-she-doesn’t choice here. Any lie and any materially misleading statement -- and she is prone to both -- made to the FBI can form the basis for an independent criminal charge against her. This is the environment that trapped Martha Stewart. Hence the standard practice among experienced counsel is to decline interviews by the folks investigating their clients.

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Input: READ MORE: US asks Russia not to target Al-Qaeda branch in Syria – Russian FM Lavrov These shelling and attacks, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, became possible due to the fact that the terrorists’ positions were not targeted for some time by Russian air forces at the request of the United States. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Washington asked Russia not to target Al-Nusra Front precisely because the terrorist group is sharing territory with some “moderate” opposition groups that might also potentially be hit in airstrikes.

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Input: Trump and Clinton were tied at 48 percent in a similar sampling last September, CNN / ORC reported. Sanders, meanwhile, has slipped from his best showing, last July, when he was ahead 59 percent to 38 percent. Clinton is the underdog against the other GOP hopefuls, 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 and Ted Cruz Ted CruzAccess to palliative care needs to stay in new health bill Dems step up attacks on GOP ObamaCare bill Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE, in other theoretical pairings in the new poll. Rubio tops Clinton, 50 percent to 47 percent; Cruz edges past her, 49 percent to 48 percent. Sanders fares more favorably against them, however.

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Input: "I don't think the upcoming round will reach any real decisions on the political process, he added. Gerges says the partial pull-back sent a message to the Americans that Russia is a rational and credible force that is interested in a diplomatic settlement. It was also intended as a jolt to Assad, by then so emboldened at the way Russia and Iran had transformed his weak position that he was announcing plans to recapture all of Syria." The message to the Assad regime was that Russia does n’t play by Assad’s playbook, it does n’t want to get down in Syria’s quagmire (but) wants to cut its losses," Gerges believes.

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Input: “I understand it went to one of his golf courses,” Israel said of the painting. The Trump Foundation paid the $ 20,000, according to the charity that held the benefit. Something similar happened in 2012, when Trump himself won an auction for a football helmet autographed by football player Tim Tebow, then a quarterback with the Denver Broncos. The winning bid was $ 12,000. As The Post reported in July, the Trump Foundation paid.

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Input: On Wednesday, Trump claimed that Clinton and Obama were to blame for a “reckless, rudderless and aimless foreign policy” in the Middle East. Saudi Arabia is so disenchanted with Obama after his “pivot” to arch rival Iran and his vacillation over Syria that it would welcome almost anyone else in the White House – though Trump certainly gives them pause. On top of his notorious pledge to ban Muslims, the candidate suggested that America would stop buying Saudi oil unless Riyadh provided troops to fight Isis. “Trump is too polarising,” said one Riyadh analyst, hedging bets on what is evidently an alarming prospect. “But if he does win he will be different.

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Input: The great and the good in America agree, because they think being part of the ten-country AU will prevent war, boost trade, help smaller nations compete with the behemoths of Europe and China, enable free movement of people, stand up to Russia, encourage scientific co-operation and ensure environmental protection. Above all, we argue, it would show the world that America is not small-minded, xenophobic, protectionist and isolationist. To this end we think the AU should — er — agree a common tariff against imports from the poorer countries of South America and have free movement of peoples within but not from outside the union. We also think the United States should give up the dollar and use a common currency issued in central America, called the auro, sometimes known as the oreo, or if it is not ready to do that, should encourage others to use the auro, even though there is limited fiscal harmonisation, which bodes ill for the single currency. Oh, and the flag of the AU, consisting of ten radial yellow stripes on a blue background, should be prominently displayed alongside the Stars and Stripes.

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Input: In this political universe, the biggest bank in Russia — a U.S. enemy — is joined by the theocratic dictatorship in Saudi Arabia — a close U.S. ally. The Podesta Group has a hefty contract with the Saudi regime, for which the firm provides “public relations” services on behalf of King Salman’s royal court. Saudi Arabia paid the Podesta Group an initial “project fee” of $ 200,000, along with unspecified further payment, according to documents filed with the Justice Department Foreign Agents Registration Act office. Tony Podesta, CEO of the Podesta Group, co-founded the public affairs firm in 1998 with his brother John, himself a prominent Clinton operative. John Podesta has played a variety of roles in the Clinton machine.

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Input: Informed sources in Mosul told ARA News that the woman was, in reality, sentenced to death for refusing to marry an ISIS militant. “The adultery accusation was completely baseless. This woman was executed for escaping her family’s house after an ISIS jihadist asked for her hand in marriage and her father agreed,” Raafat al-Zarari, head of the Nineveh Media Centre, told ARA News. “She preferred death instead of marrying one of ISIS’ jihadists, who are known for their brutality towards women.” Reporting by: Raman Yousef | Source: ARA News

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Input: In growth rates, Florida ranked eighth, seventh and third respectively in those three years.”: “Florida had the highest number of net jobs three out of the eight years of his term, in 2002, 2003 and 2004. In growth rates, Florida ranked eighth, seventh and third respectively in those three years.” On Trump’s adamancy he never went bankrupt: “Trump personally has not gone “bankrupt” but as a result of his corporate bankruptcy restructurings, he did have to give up personal assets to help make loan payments, and his equity stake in various casinos was greatly reduced.” -- Last night felt more like a three-ring circus or a wrestling match than a debate. That could help John Kasich, who largely stayed above the fray.

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Input: slogan in less than 24 hours. Not that it was a surprise: This is the same candidate who tweeted," Appreciate the congrats for being right on Islamic terrorism," while the bodies of mass-murder victims in Orlando were still warm. Back in the barn, Trump mentions "Dwyane Wade's cousin" again and then plunges into an even more protracted and detailed plea for the black vote. If Bernie Sanders had won the nomination and had made an attempt to change his anti-business image through a series of banker-friendly speeches delivered to undergrads at Oberlin and UC-Berkeley, it would feel something like this. Here, Trump lays out two policy arguments for that theoretical poor inner-city African-American voter who would somehow be listening to this speech, delivered to a crowd of white bikers and farmers in an Iowa barn.

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Input: Kill them on the streets of Brunswick, Broadmeadows, Bankstown, and Bondi. Kill them at the MCG, the SCG, the Opera House, and even in their backyards,” the article reads. “Stab them, shoot them, poison them, and run them down with your vehicles. Kill them wherever you find them until the hollowness of their arrogance is filled with terror and they find themselves on their knees with their backs broken under the weight of regret for having waged a war against the believers, and by Allah’s will, and then through your sacrifices, this Ummah will be victorious.” It refers to Australia as “a land cloaked in darkness and corrupted by kufr, fornication, and all forms of vice”.

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Input: Craig Murray, Why I am Convinced that Anna Ardin is a Liar, Craig Murray (former ambassador for the United Kingdom to Uzbekistan, shown in a file photo), Feb. 7, 2016 (first published Sept. 11, 2012). I am slightly updating and reposting this from 2012 because the mainstream media have ensured very few people know the detail of the “case” against Julian Assange in Sweden. The UN Working Group ruled that Assange ought never to have been arrested in the UK in the first place because there is no case, and no genuine investigation. Read this and you will know why. The other thing not widely understood is there is NO JURY in a rape trial in Sweden and it is a SECRET TRIAL.

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Input: That goes for the Middle East and Syria – where Russia has staged its first large-scale military action outside the borders of the former Soviet Union since communism. And it goes for Ukraine, the neighbour Putin covertly invaded in 2014, and whose territory Crimea he annexed. Far from not attacking anyone in Europe, about 10,000 people have perished in eastern Ukraine in a war that the Kremlin kicked off and sustained. Russia’s armed forces play a key role, but television is important, too. At home, Russian state channels have recently floated the prospect of nuclear war with Washington.

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Input: Email contact@9news.com.au Emirates chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed al-Maktoum thanked all those who assisted in the emergency and honoured the fallen firefighter. “We pay tribute to the firefighter who lost his life fighting the blaze. We thank all teams that dealt with the incident,” he said. “We are sorry for any inconvenience caused to our customers and we really appreciate their understanding and show of support."

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Input: When tens of millions of Egyptian workers poured into the streets in February 2011, Clinton supported Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak, saying he was “looking for ways to respond to the legitimate needs of the Egyptian people,” only to later orchestrate the maintenance of power by the Egyptian military as it killed hundreds of protestors throughout 2012 and 2013. Clinton and the ruling class are not only concerned about revolution in foreign countries, but in the US as well. For this reason, Clinton has supported the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs and supports the jailing of whistle-blower Edward Snowden. Clinton’s speech, though explicitly directed against Trump, was also implicitly an attack on her competitor Bernie Sanders, who is a beneficiary of growing social opposition on account of his self-proclaimed support for “socialism.” Clinton’s speech was also aimed at convincing growing sections of the Democratic Party establishment that she remains the most reliable candidate in the primaries, and that she should not be moved aside in favor of Sanders or some other candidate. As the ruling class prepares for an intensification of the drive to war and the attack on democratic rights, Sanders remains silent.

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Input: The Russian army can outgun British troops on the battlefield after military advances by the Kremlin, a leaked report suggests. The assessment by the British army’s warfare branch, seen by the Times, warned that Russian weapons, including rocket launchers and air defence systems, were more powerful than their British equivalents. The report added that UK and its Nato allies were “scrambling to catch up” with Russia’s ability to use electronic means to hijack enemy drones and disrupt other military transmissions. The publication was produced in March under the direction of Gen Sir Nick Carter, the head of the army, the newspaper said. It is understood the report is based on one training exercise carried out in Ukraine.

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Input: Challenging the EU’s political correctness, Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said he will not allow a large Muslim community in his country. Fico’s anti-immigration rhetoric has boosted his Direction-Social Democracy party (SMER-SD) ahead of the 5 March elections. Fico announced “shifts in (the) Slovak position to the EU migration crisis” in the light of the New Year’s eve rampage in the centre of Cologne, during which 90 women reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested by young, mostly drunk, men, described by some of the victims as North Africans. “Many things are being said and written, but the Slovak government sees a direct link between the current migration flows and the (November) attacks in Paris and recent events in Germany,” said the prime minister at a press conference in Bratislava yesterday (7 January). > > Read: Germans debate responsibility for sexual assaults

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Input: The twin U.S. goals in Syria have been ending the violence that already has claimed some 400,000 lives, according to United Nations estimates, and seeking a political process to replace Assad, whom President Barack Obama has said "must go." But while Washington and Moscow have both expressed hope they can find a way to cooperate against IS, Kerry's proposal was already in trouble due to the competing objectives of the Cold War-era foes as well as resistance from U.S. military and intelligence officials. U.S. officials questioned Russian and Syrian claims that their aim in evacuating civilians from Aleppo was to clear the way for humanitarian assistance to reach the besieged city, where 200,000 -300,000 civilians remain with only two to three weeks of food on hand." Why would you evacuate a city that you wanted to send humanitarian aid to?" asked one official.

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Input: The victory is a fragile one. The area is still a conflict zone and it may be some time before a secure corridor for food and medical supplies can be set up, and the regime has called in reinforcements. “We expect revenge bombing by the regime, including, possibly, chemical weapons,” said Zaher Sahloul, a Syrian-American doctor who coordinates medical aid in the city. Still, for the rebels, it has been a remarkable triumph against the odds. After months of retreat under pressure from government forces and Russian airstrikes, they have not only broken the siege, but overrun a key base the regime had used to enforce it and apparently taken possession of a large cache of weapons and artillery.

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Input: It has provided a limited amount but important military assistance (to Afghanistan)," the Special US Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Olson, told a Washington audience at the Atlantic Council, a top American think-tank." I sometime feel that the degree of Indian influence on Afghanistan may be overestimated in Pakistan," Olson said when asked about apprehensions about Indian influence in Afghanistan. Olson who before taking up this assignment was the US ambassador to Pakistan referred to the quite often heard Pakistani narrative that there are 24 Indian consulates in Afghanistan. The fact is, he said, there are "four Indian consulates in Afghanistan" as against the Pakistani narrative. Noting that Pakistan has its own security concerns, Olson said that the United States believes that "Pakistan will not be secure, until and unless" it, in particular the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani network that take terrorist actions against its neighbours. Praising Pakistan for launching its anti-terror campaigns in Waziristan, Olson said Pakistan is now experiencing lower level of violence and its economy has stabilised. However, the challenge for Pakistan has been its reluctance to take strong actions against terrorist networks that go after its neighbours." Pakistan will not have a bright future until and unless it goes after the Taliban," Olson said, adding that in that sense it needs consolidation of its anti-terrorist actions against these groups. Taliban, he said, has consolidated itself under the new leadership. There clearly is a role for other countries in the region, but for the moment the challenge is to keep the negotiations going. Responding to a question, Olson said Pakistan remains committed to the peace process and this needs to be encouraged. He also urged Pakistan to use its relationship to bring the Taliban to the peace table. RELATED STORIES US sources

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Input: But not since the conflict began in spring 2014 has the issue of martial law and greater security measures been so seriously discussed." This war is a bulls**t," one soldier, who asked that his name not be used because he did not want his commander to view him as insubordinate, said in English. Switching to Russian, he said:" The Ukrainian Army is stronger than it was [at the start of the war], and we are ready to die if it is necessary. I say, let's make this sacrifice for our country, for its future." Kyiv appears to be listening, at least with one ear.

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Input: ISIS likely seeks to reduce Egyptian security force positions in the Sinai in order to increase its freedom of maneuver as it escalates to more aggressive campaigns, potentially involving international targets such as the Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) based in Sinai," the Institute for the Study of War reported. The attack is believed to have been conducted by ISIS or one of its affiliates. July 11, 2015 -- A -- A car bomb explodes outside the Italian Consulate in Cairo, killing at least one person and injuring nine others. Various social media accounts belonging to ISIS supporters share a statement they say is from the terror group, claiming responsibility. The attack is believed to have been conducted by ISIS or one of its affiliates.

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Input: Trump blames sexual assault claims on collusion between Clinton and media Florida’s disenfranchised voters Nearly six million Americans can not vote due to felony disenfranchisement. In Florida, 1.7 million people are disenfranchised, or 10.4% of the state’s total population. The Guardian takes a closer look at the consequences, and the fight to regain the right to vote, in the midst of a heated election season.

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Input: In August, five European partners pulled out and Gazprom now owns 100 percent. This spring, Burt helped shape Trump’s first major foreign policy address, according to Burt and other sources. Burt recommended that Trump take a more “realist,” less interventionist approach to world affairs, as first reported by Reuters. Trump’s April 27 speech sounded those themes and called for greater cooperation with Russia. “I believe an easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia — from a position of strength — is possible,” Trump said in the speech.

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Input: Hillary Clinton’s FBI investigation may have just moved one step closer to an indictment for the Democratic front-runner, with experts saying the extradition of a Romanian hacker who revealed her unsecured email server could spell deep trouble for Clinton’s presidential campaign. Last week, U.S. officials moved to extradite the hacker known as “Guccifer,’ who is accused of accessing the email of Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal. It was that hack which brought to light Clinton’s use of a personal email during her time as secretary of state, reports claim.

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Input: Nixon himself is thought to have used a backchannel to officials in Vietnam to forestall their participation in a peace agreement, telling them they'd get a better deal with him when he was elected. Neither occurred, Nixon won and the U.S. remained mired in Vietnam for another five years. Then in 1980, it was rumored that Ronald Reagan was so worried that incumbent President Jimmy Carter might secure the release of the 52 American hostages being held in Iran right before the election, either with negotiations or covert military action — which would have had potentially swung the race for him — that he, some have speculated, may have negotiated with Iranian officials for a release that would occur under his own watch. As it happened, the hostages were released on Jan. 20, 1981, just moments after Reagan was sworn in as President. The timing of the release has ever since been under question, but no definitive evidence has ever emerged that Reagan or his campaign worked to delay the release of the hostages.

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Input: Manafort said on ABC. Clinton, 68, a former secretary of state, and Sanders, 74, an independent U.S. senator from Vermont who ran for president as a Democrat, waged a bruising months-long battle for the nomination. Branding himself a democratic socialist, Sanders galvanized young and liberal voters with his calls to rein in Wall Street and eradicate income inequality. But Sanders repeatedly voiced frustration with a DNC and party establishment he felt was stacked against him, and the resentment from Sanders and his supporters threatened to disrupt the convention." I'm not shocked but I'm disappointed," Sanders said of the emails earlier on Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

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Input: Russia and China should not be “subjected to threats of deploying nuclear weapons,” former Cuban President Fidel Castro said in a letter published on his 90th birthday, urging for peace. The iconic socialist leader stressed that no world power has the right to kill millions of people. On Saturday, Castro attended a gala held in honor of his 90th birthday, although the iconic leader did n’t speak as he sat next to his brother, President Raul Castro, and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

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Input: READ MORE: Time to send ‘strong signal’ to Russia and gradually lift sanctions – Austrian FM Russia has repeatedly said that it’s doing everything in its power to facilitate the implementation of the Ukrainian peace deal, while Kiev has been hindering the process. The West should work with its “allies” in Kiev, President Putin has said, adding that direct dialogue between the parties to the conflict should be promoted. Russia’s European partners should not hold Moscow solely responsible for fulfilling the Minsk agreements, Putin said at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) earlier this month, adding that there are “issues that are beyond our abilities.” A number of the 28 countries in the European Union have expressed strong disapproval of the bloc’s restrictive measures on Russia.

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Input: French aviation investigators have begun to check and question all baggage handlers, maintenance workers, gate agents and other ground crew members at Charles de Gaulle Airport who had a direct or indirect link to the plane before it took off, according to a French judicial official. The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. Whatever caused the aircraft to crash, the tragedy will most likely deepen Egypt's difficult predicament as it struggles to revive a battered economy and contain an increasingly resilient insurgency by Islamic militants. In the five years since the country was first mired in turmoil caused by a popular uprising against longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, the lucrative tourism sector has been decimated, the value of the local currency has progressively fallen and domestic debt has mushroomed. While the latest tragedy may not reflect directly on security at Egypt's airports, as the Russian jet crash did in October, the country's association with another air disaster will impact negatively on tourism and the flow of foreign investment.

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Input: 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. The bureau spokesman emphasized that so far it has not been confirmed whether Manafort received the cash, since the bureau has not yet been able to confirm if signatures in the recipient column are Manafort's or not. The spokesman said the Anti-Corruption Bureau is conducting an analysis of the signatures.

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Input: Sylwia Sawska, serving customers behind a counter piled high with long pork sausages and cheeses, is also worried." People are so nice here, nicer than in Poland, so I'm very surprised they voted to leave," she says. While the East of England voted to leave, Cambridge bucked the trend by voting overwhelmingly to stay." I was proud of that. It's a beautiful city-small and friendly."

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Input: Trump has called on Ginsburg to resign, as have other GOP lawmakers. 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.) said her comments were "inherently biased and out of the realm." Rep. Randy Weber (R-Texas) also called for her to resign, while Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who suspended his own presidential campaign in March, said Ginsburg's comments “crossed the line.” “Justice Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court has embarrassed all by making very dumb political statements about me. Her mind is shot — resign!” Trump tweeted late Tuesday.

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Input: “We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” Paul Manafort, who is directing Trump’s campaign and was for years a close adviser of a Putin ally, former President Viktor Yanukovych of Ukraine, called the theory that Trump’s campaign had ties to the Russian government “absurd.” (On Monday, Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News reported that a DNC researcher looking into Manafort’s ties to pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine in May had been warned that her personal Yahoo email account was under attack. “We strongly suspect that your account has been the target of state-sponsored actors,” the warning from the email service security team read.) Unhelpfully for Trump, his most senior adviser with knowledge of the world of hacking, retired Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, told Bloomberg View that he “would not be surprised at all” to learn that Russia was behind the breach of the DNC network. “Both China and Russia have the full capability to do this,” he said. Later on Monday, Trump himself then attributed the attack on the DNC to “China, Russia, one of our many, many ‘friends, '” who “came in and hacked the hell out of us.” Since very few of us are cybersecurity experts, and the Iraq debacle is a reminder of how dangerous it can be to put blind faith in experts whose claims might reinforce our own political positions, there is also the question of who we can trust to provide reliable evidence.

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Input: Intermittent gunfire could still be heard. The security sources and a witness in Akcakale said war planes thought to be from the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State struck the jihadist positions and that the Turkish army had increased patrols on its side of the border. While not directly addressing the Tel Abyad attack, 14 Turkish F-16s patrolled the Turkish-Syrian border on Friday, Turkish military said. Xelil said some of the attackers infiltrated from the Turkish border to the north, reiterating accusations that Turkey was supporting the group. Turkey has consistently denied those accusations and the security sources said recent measures to stop illegal crossings meant it was impossible that the attackers had entered from Turkey.

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Input: “The Government of Ecuador respects the principle of non-intervention in the internal affairs of other states,” the statement said. “It does not interfere in external electoral processes, nor does it favor any particular candidate.” As The Intercept reported in August, since WikiLeaks began publishing emails hacked from the accounts of Democratic party officials, the site’s editor has been accused of attempting to undermine Hillary Clinton’s campaign for the presidency. While a founding principle of WikiLeaks was that its editors would not know the identity of those who supplied them with documents, the U.S. intelligence community said earlier this month that it “is confident that the Russian government directed the recent compromises of emails” later provided to the site, in order “to interfere with the U.S. election process.” Intelligence officials have not disclosed evidence to support their attribution of responsibility to Russia, but private cybersecurity experts who investigated the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s servers pointed to what they called strong circumstantial evidence. The communique released by Ecuador on Tuesday said that the country “does not yield to pressure from other states,” but WikiLeaks claimed to have learned from unnamed American sources that a request to shut down Assange’s work had come from Secretary of State John Kerry. BREAKING: Multiple US sources tell us John Kerry asked Ecuador to stop Assange from publishing Clinton docs during FARC peace negotiations.

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Input: Obama has co-opted every federal agency tasked with providing honest oversight of the election process. From the Federal Election Commission to the FBI and ultimately the Justice Department itself, the Clintons and the Democrats know that there will be no negative consequences to any and all law breaking that they undertake to steal the election. Voter intimidation by gangs of Clinton thugs will be given the response that the situation will be “investigated.” In modern day Government usage “investigation” is simply a euphemism for “we intend to do nothing.” Release of e-mails proving the corruption and collusion of the Democratic National Committee with the Clinton campaign are simply ignored by the Media and the watch dog agencies of the Government. No matter how many more e-mails are released from the DNC or how criminally evidentiary they may be the Clintons know that nothing will dampen the enthusiasm of their lemming like supporters nor in any way endanger their movement to dominance.

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Input: The new, “heavily annotated” version of Mein Kampf – republished by the Munich-based Institute for Contemporary History – hit German bookstores shortly afterwards, having sold out within hours on the Amazon website. In the United States, Mein Kampf can be found at many community libraries and can be bought, sold or traded in bookshops. The US government seized the copyright in September 1942 during World War II under wartime laws, and in 1979 Houghton Mifflin, the US publisher of the book, bought the rights from the government. Russia outlawed the book in 2010 following numerous public requests on grounds of extremism dissemination.

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