Input: The idea is that the state must be worshiped, and no argument will be tolerated. Because of the power of the government or system, the third beast is able to do many powerful works, which make people want to worship the beast all the more. He deceives them because they look to the beast as the source of salvation instead of looking to Christ. They look to the system to get them revenge instead of trusting in God. Finally, notice that he makes them all get a mark, if they want to do business.

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Input: She added, “Going forward, the best way for me to accomplish those goals is to step down as party chair at the end of this convention.” Donna Brazile, a vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, will be the interim chairwoman through the election, the committee said. Ms. Wasserman Schultz has faced a flurry of negative stories during her five-year tenure as the committee’s chairwoman, with critics charging that she was more focused on promoting her career than on the party, but she had resisted calls to quit. Ms. Wasserman Schultz announced her resignation after a private meeting with advisers and senior aides to Mrs. Clinton at a hotel here a day before the party’s convention was set to begin. She had faced growing calls for her resignation over the weekend.

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Input: “Some hint that the ‘buzzing’ of USS Donald Cook by Russian Su-24 fighter-bombers on April 14, 2016 was meant to be part of a broader series of Russian confrontations against Western ships in the Baltic,” says international affairs analyst Peter Coates. “But the Russian Baltic Fleet in April, however, refused to follow such dangerous orders — hence Putin’s retaliation against his own naval officers.” AP: Associated Press 3 Purged … Russian President Vladimir Putin with Vice Admiral Viktor Kravchuk who is reportedly among 50 senior naval officers who have been sacked in mysterious circumstances ‘DERELICTION OF DUTY’ News of the purge has been trickling out through official Russian news agencies including TASS and Interfax.

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Input: He said that across the country, one in four schools had shut down, more than 52,000 teachers had left their jobs and over 2 million children remained out of school." And another 400,000 are at risk of dropping out as the horrors of this brutal and savage war continue unabated," he said." What future do these children have -- illiterate, orphaned, starved and maimed? What future does a country have when its next generation is a lost generation? These children do not have the luxury of waiting for another Geneva, Vienna or Lausanne to succeed.

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Input: Clinton witnessed how the leaders of other Latin American countries were perplexed by the United States ' antiquated policy toward the island nation of Cuba and how our treatment of the country was hurting our reputation in the eyes of our allies. President Obama heeded Clinton's sound advice and the workings for what became a thawing of the relationship with Cuba were based on recommendations that Clinton had made while Secretary of State. Even now as a candidate for president, Clinton remains fighting for this cause and has continuously called for the trade embargo with Cuba to be lifted as a further sign of the newfound goodwill between our two nations. People like Bernie Sanders, Jorge Ramos, and Chris Matthews know that Hillary Clinton is the most polished political candidate when it comes to foreign policy that many of us have seen in our lifetime. It is undoubtedly a strength of hers and something that sets her head and shoulders above her Democratic opponent when the topic is broached at any debate or town hall.

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Input: (Abha Bhattarai) A Pennsylvania college student convicted of raping an unconscious woman in her dorm room will spend six to 12 years in prison. The strong sentencing of the 20-year -old comes in the wake of ex-Stanford swimmer Brock Turner receiving only six months for a similar crime. (AP) Two New Hampshire state troopers who were caught on video repeatedly punching a suspect were arrested and charged. (Mark Berman) Duke basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski (Coach K) condemned North Carolina’s “bathroom bill” legislation, calling the state’s H.B. 2 “an embarrassing bill."

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Input: A letter addressed to Manafort from one of Firtash’s representatives said Firtash’s company was "prepared to provide $ 112 million in equity for the [Drake hotel redevelopment] project." One of the other partners working with Manafort on the deal was the former exclusive broker for Fred Trump's properties, Brad Zackson. Fred Trump is the now-deceased father of Donald Trump. The documents were filed in a lawsuit by the former Ukrainian prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, in 2011. The lawsuit was dismissed on three separate occasions in federal court.

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Input: _ _ _ 3:50 p.m. Russia's Defense Ministry spokesman says the deadly attack on an aid convoy in Syria the previous night does not appear to have been from an airstrike. Igor Konashenkov says that the Russian military has "carefully studied the video recordings of the so-called activists from the scene and found no signs that any munitions hit the convoy." Konashenkov remarks on Tuesday were reported by the state news agency Tass.

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Input: On the campaign trail, she has repeatedly called for an overhaul of how elections are financed and vowed to overturn the Citizens United ruling, which allowed corporations to spend money on independent political activity. She has also pledged to sign an executive order requiring federal contractors to disclose political spending and to create a matching system for small donors in federal races." More than 2.6 million Americans have donated to this campaign because they know Hillary Clinton is the best candidate to bring us toward a more inclusive society with an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top," said spokesman Josh Schwerin. But Clinton would also enter the White House deeply indebted to a group of elite donors who have backed her and her husband for decades – helping raise $ US4 billion for their political and philanthropic causes over the years. Top allies have financed not only their political causes, but their legal needs and their philanthropy.

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Input: -- THE CHECKBOOK: “Trump Jacked Up His Campaign’s Trump Tower Rent Once Somebody Else Was Paying It,” by the Huffington Post's S.V. Date: “After bragging for a year about how cheaply he was running his campaign, Trump is spending more freely now that other people are contributing ― particularly when the beneficiary is himself. Trump nearly quintupled the monthly rent his presidential campaign pays for its headquarters at Trump Tower to $ 169,758 in July, when he was raising funds from donors, compared with March, when he was self-funding his campaign. … The rent jumped even though he was paying fewer staff in July than he did in March. ‘If I was a donor, I’d want answers,’” said one prominent RNC member.

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Input: (courtesy Chapman family) An unconventional team of elites Built like a linebacker with a square jaw, narrow eyes and a sly smile, Chapman went to war as a member of what the CIA called Team Hotel — a six-man unit composed of three Special Forces soldiers, two CIA paramilitary officers and a CIA contractor. Chapman and two other Green Berets were selected from more than 1,300 soldiers in 1st Special Forces Group. For their mission in Afghanistan, the CIA needed communications specialists and medics, and almost immediately following the 9/11 attacks it tapped 1st Group to help fill that requirement, said Lt. Gen. David Fridovich, who was, at the time, the group’s commander and a colonel.

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Input: It brought the crime rate way down. But you take the gun away from criminals that shouldn't be having it. We have gangs roaming the street. And in many cases, they're illegally here, illegal immigrants. And they have guns.

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Input: Clarke: Yeah. I think John Kerry has this right. I think perhaps secretly he wished the coups had succeeded, but he’ll never say that. And in fact, if the coups had succeeded, it would have just created another host of problems for us. There’s really no place in a modern Turkey for military coups anymore.

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Input: And then there’s the expansion of power in the foreign and military arenas. During the Cold War, presidents were given broad powers that included unilateral authority over the CIA, which was behind coups in countries like Iran, Guatemala, the Congo, Dominican Republic, South Vietnam, and Chile. Presidents have also led the U.S. into many wars – every one since World War II, in fact – without having an official declaration of war from Congress, although Congress did formally authorize some of them. POSNER: The president has always had quite extensive war powers. Even before World War II, presidents would send troops off to do things without congressional authority, although they were usually relatively minor sorts of things.

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Input: Aleppo has been torn between regime and rebel forces for almost four years. Assad’s army and its allies are gearing up for a major offensive to retake the rebel-controlled suburbs, which would deal a major blow to the opposition. General Ali Abdullah Ayyoub, Assad’s chief of general staff, visited the frontlines near Aleppo on Monday to inspect the troops’ preparations. At least 250,000 people have been killed across Syria during the five-year conflict, with some monitoring groups claiming the death toll may be double that. UN investigators yesterday announced that more than 700 doctors and medical workers had been killed during the conflict, many of them in airstrikes.

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Input: Had we done nothing, we would have been in a far better position," Trump said, going on to decry Clinton's standing elsewhere in the world. Russian President Vladimir Putin, who on Tuesday Trump suggested would rather have Clinton as president," has absolutely no respect for "her, the Republican nominee declared." Sometimes it seemed like there wasn't a country in the Middle East that Hillary Clinton didn't want to invade, intervene in, or topple. She is trigger-happy and very unstable, whether we like it or not, that's what's going on," Trump said, pronouncing Clinton "also reckless, so reckless, in fact, that she put her emails on an illegal server that our enemies could easily hack and probably have." Clinton's campaign hit back later on Wednesday with Clinton's communications director Jennifer Palmieri saying in a statement," Like a schoolyard bully who can't rely on facts or issues, Trump has only one way of responding to legitimate criticism of his own vulnerabilities: ' I know you are, but what am I? '"

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Input: Read more Turkey’s shelling of the Syrian Kurds comes just days after a plan to end hostilities in Syria was presented in Munich after a meeting of the so-called International Syria Support Group (ISSG), in which Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, US Secretary of State John Kerry, and UN Special Envoy on Syria Staffan de Mistura participated. ‘We will strike PYD’ – Turkish PM Earlier on Saturday, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu threatened Syrian Kurds with military action, saying that Turkey will resort to force against the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) if it considers the step “necessary.” “As I have said, the link between the YPG and the [outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party] PKK is obvious.

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Input: “I’ve been working for 20 years; we could never imagine that it would be included as a doping substance,” said Sergei Sheremetiev, a physician with Russia’s ski-jumping team. Created as a treatment for heart conditions in 1975, meldonium is widely available from Russian pharmacies without a prescription, selling for $ 3 to $ 10 for about 40 capsules. It can also be purchased online. Meldonium is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration for sale in the United States, where Sharapova has been based since she was 7. The Russian tennis federation said its doctors had not known she was taking meldonium.

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Russian pharmacies


Input: "It's up to Turkey, the Turkish government, the Turkish leadership, to decide whether they want to be part of any kind of cooperation to fight terrorism. This is not the case so far," he said. Turkey has denied permitting oil smuggling by the Islamist militant group, which holds swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. The United States last month rejected Russian allegations that the Turkish government and President Erdogan's family were in league with Islamic State to smuggle oil. However, US State Department spokesman Mark Toner said last month that ISIS was selling oil to middlemen who in turn were involved in smuggling the oil across the frontier to Turkey.

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Islamist militant group

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Turkey


Input: Our exclusive investigation into leaked secret IS files suggests one piece of co-operation was over the ancient city of Palmyra. The files also show that the militant group has been training foreign fighters to attack Western targets for much longer than security services had suspected. The revelations underscore fears in the United States that a network of sleeper cells is spread across Europe, avoiding detection, and is planning further Paris- and Brussels-style assaults. IS defectors, meanwhile, have told Sky News that Palmyra was handed back to government forces by Islamic State as part of a series of cooperation agreements going back years. Video: Sky Documentary Goes Inside Islamic State

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Europe


Input: — David Plouffe (@davidplouffe) February 13, 2016 A Democratic operative thinks GOP obstruction could make it easier for Democrats to retake the Senate: What if obstruction not only starts to hurt the GOP's WH nominee but puts holding the Senate at risk as well? https://t.co/3h3KmHPow5 — Joe Trippi (@JoeTrippi) February 13, 2016 Here's more reaction from commentators, staffers and leaders:

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Input: Therefore, I'm never "falling in line," or pledging allegiance to Hillary or the DNC. I'm an American first, before any party loyalty, and I'm voting my conscience. You vote your conscience, and don't forget to ask why Donald Trump donated money to Clinton's Senate campaigns. That being said, Bernie Sanders is still the front-runner. Clinton could get FBI and Justice Department indictments at any moment, and future primaries are favorable to Sanders.

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Clinton's Senate campaigns


Input: The president and Lewinsky had "phone sex" 10 to 15 times, so Clinton told Lewinsky that, if asked, she should say "they knew their calls were being monitored all along, and the phone sex was just a put-on." This laughable "explanation" wouldn't have helped much if a foreign power had intercepted the explicit calls." I'm just horrified to think the commander-in-chief is conducting himself with such reckless disregard for his responsibilities, making himself part and parcel of every blackmail threat that one can imagine," retired Marine Lt. Gen. Charles Cooper told the Washington Times in 1998. The Code of Federal Regulations (Title 32, Chapter 1, Part 147) makes clear that a person may lose a security clearance for "concealment of information that may increase an individual's vulnerability to coercion, exploitation, or duress, such as engaging in activities which, if known, may affect the person's personal, professional, or community standing or render the person susceptible to blackmail.” Presidents have enforced such laws by issuing edicts such as Executive Order No.

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Input: The statement by Defense Secretary Ash Carter came as top U.S. and South Korean diplomats and military officials met, weeks after North Korea's most powerful nuclear test explosion to date, and days after its failed test launch of a ballistic missile — one of more than 20 such tests this year alone. The flurry of activity has deepened concern over the North's progress toward having a nuclear warhead it can mount on a long-range missile. The two sides discussed steps to strengthen the so-called "extended deterrence" provided by U.S. nuclear forces in defending South Korea and agreed to begin a high-level dialogue about it. Seoul is looking to allay calls from conservatives at home who want South Korea to develop its own nuclear arsenal." The U.S. commitment to the defense of South Korea is unwavering.

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South Korea


Input: “I don't think she understood the gravity of setting it up,” Biden said of the Clinton email server. “She thought this was okay to do. And this woman has been so battered over the last 30 years, I think that when faced with the fact this was a problem, instead of just cutting it and dealing with it immediately, there's always an inclination to overthink it. ... “When you have been on the other end of a concerted effort, justified or not justified, to undermine your credibility, I think you are probably in a different place in terms of your instinct [on] how to respond.

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Input: One slide points out that the attack works on users with an encrypted wireless connection to the internet. That trick, it seems, often involves BADDECISION and SECONDDATE, with the latter described as a “component” for the former. A series of diagrams in the “Introduction to BADDECISION” presentation show how an NSA operator “uses SECONDDATE to inject a redirection payload at [a] Target Client,” invisibly hijacking a user’s web browser as the user attempts to visit a benign website (in the example given, it’s CNN.com). Executed correctly, the file explains, a “Target Client continues normal webpage browsing, completely unaware,” lands on a malware-filled NSA server, and becomes infected with as much of that malware as possible — or as the presentation puts it, the user will be left “WHACKED!” In the other top-secret presentations, it’s put plainly: “How do we redirect the target to the FOXACID server without being noticed”? Simple: “Use NIGHTSTAND or BADDECISION.”

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

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Input: Planning a carrier visit to Taiwan “might make it less attractive for China to continue to treat the United States Navy the way they did in this particular situation,” said Mr. Forbes, who also co-chairs the Congressional China Caucus. “The time has come to consider these alternate locations going forward,” Mr. Forbes said. The Chinese denied entry to the Stennis amid increasing tensions with the United States over Beijing’s assertiveness in the South China Sea. The Stennis passed through the key waterway last month. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter went aboard the warship, which has been a symbol of U.S. power projection in a region where China has been seeking to expand its maritime control.

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Input: Everything is black or dark. There is very little traffic. Occasional trucks, transporting oil tanks, drive through the city on their way to other ISIS areas or the Turkish border. It was one o'clock in the afternoon.

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Input: One of the survivors of the Egyptian hotel terror attack has spoken for the first time about the moment a jihadist tried to stab him in the chest with a knife and slashed him in the neck four times. Sammie Olovsson, 27, from Sweden, told friends he was in a stable condition and recovering in hospital in Hurghada after he was repeatedly attacked by one of the jihadis. The two attackers, armed with a pellet gun and knives, targeted tourists at the outside restaurant of the Bella Vista Resort near the Red Sea.

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Input: Gerges is the chair of contemporary Middle East studies at the London School of Economics, and the author of "Isis: A History." Gerges said the big question is whether the guns that are scheduled to fall silent Monday would remain silent in the weeks and months ahead. The ceasefire deal lacks a political horizon, he said. Gerges ticked off three points to remember in the complicated quest for peace. 1.

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Input: Scores of such conferences take place in Turkey every year, and the 15 or so participants at this one were seasoned foreign policy experts. But Akşam labeled each foreign participant a “CIA agent,” published photographs gleaned from the internet, and claimed – inaccurately, along with many other demonstrable falsehoods – that the delegates all took a private boat to the island “to avoid being recorded by security footage.” The Wilson Center rejects “categorically” any link to the coup attempt, and said in a statement that the island meeting “was very much removed from the center of the crisis.” “Perhaps the most suspicious name in the conference,” Akşam reported, was that of this reporter, who was confused with the American death row inmate of the same name who killed his pregnant wife, Laci, in 2002. One front page showed that Scott Peterson wearing a suit and tie, in court; another wearing an orange prison jumpsuit and handcuffs, superimposed over San Quentin prison.

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Input: The man swore fidelity to Baghdadi before the shooting spree in a posting made on what was apparently his Facebook page. The attack is believed to have been inspired by ISIS. June 26, 2015 -- A man on France's terror watch list shoots selfies with the decapitated body of his boss before -- A man on France's terror watch list shoots selfies with the decapitated body of his boss before launching an attempted suicide attack at a U.S.-owned chemical factory near Lyon in southeastern France. Photos made with suspect Yassin Salhi's phone may have been intended to become part of a social media propaganda campaign for ISIS, said Paris prosecutor Francois Molins. The head was tied to the factory's fence, along with two flags bearing "the Islamist profession of faith," authorities said.

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Input: On Saturday morning, the American Embassy in Ankara issued an “Emergency Message for U.S. Citizens,” warning that power had been cut to Incirlik and that “local authorities are denying movements on to and off of” the base. Incirlik was forced to rely on backup generators; U.S. Air Force planes stationed there were prohibited from taking off or landing; and the security-threat level was raised to FPCON Delta, the highest state of alert, declared when a terrorist attack has occurred or may be imminent. On Sunday, the base commander, General Bekir Ercan Van, and nine other Turkish officers at Incirlik were detained for allegedly supporting the coup. As of this writing, American flights have resumed at the base, but the power is still cut off. According to Hans M. Kristensen, the director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists, underground vaults at Incirlik hold about fifty B-61 hydrogen bombs — more than twenty-five per cent of the nuclear weapons in the NATO stockpile.

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Input: Her co-defendant, Raymond Gates, 29, also pleaded not guilty, with a judge setting his bond at $ 300,000. A public defender representing Gates did not comment about the allegations. Lonina and her friend-who attends the same high school-met Gates at a Columbus mall for the first time the day before where he bought them a bottle of vodka and encouraged them to meet him the following day, her lawyer Sam Shamansky said. He acknowledged his client filmed the February assault of her intoxicated friend but said she was trying to get the girl out of the house where the attack happened. It was a friend in another state who saw that livestream and called police, reports CBS affiliate WBNS in Columbus.

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Input: Erdoğan set Sunday’s bombing, the second in Ankara in two months, in his preferred narrative context: as part of a life-or-death national struggle against shadowy forces bent on victimising and destroying Turkey. This is the only tune on his playlist. He uses its fearful message to win elections, rally nationalists and delegitimise opponents. “Our state will never give up using its right of self-defence in the face of all kinds of terror threats. All of our security forces, with its soldiers, police and village guards, have been conducting a determined struggle against terror organisations at the cost of their lives,” Erdoğan said, ignoring the fact that Sunday’s victims were civilians.

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Input: It’s not definition-ally possible. But even beyond that, with the degree to which the federal government’s involved in every aspect, there’s no market-based aspect of Obamacare. It’s total top-down, command-and-control. But under the circumstances everybody’s forced to play — the insurance companies and the consumers — there’s no way it could work as designed. By design.

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Input: Clinton and Biden have a long history together, going back to her days as first lady. They both lost to Obama in the 2008 primaries and went on to serve together in his administration — and though they had regular lunches and a warm personal relationship, feelings became rougher as her 2016 run came into focus and the chances of his running again faded. Biden bristled at being portrayed as a holdout in greenlighting the raid that killed Osama bin Laden while Clinton was a seen as a strong advocate, and the day before he pulled the plug on running, publicly corrected the record to say he’d privately advised Obama to go ahead with it. In Biden, Clinton would be tapping a seasoned hand on foreign policy, a glad-handing pol with a long memory and a well of deep relationships around the globe. But she’d also be choosing someone with whom she repeatedly clashed as secretary of state, with the vice president often playing the skeptic while she supported more aggressive action.

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Input: Spanish media say it is the furthest south such an operation has had to take place. How to spot a Russian bomber Russia in battle for US respect The incident happened on 22 September but the full extent only came to light recently in a statement by the French ministry of defence (in French). It referred to it as an Air Policing [Baltic support] mission by the four countries involved.

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Input: Later on Saturday, the Isis-operated radio station Bayan claimed that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel was a soldier who had completed a “new, special operation using a truck”. It also warned western nations that no security measures would spare them “from the blows of the mujahideen”. The claim of responsibility, which came 36 hours after the attack, will increase pressure on French authorities investigating the massacre. No evidence was presented to support the claim that Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had been acting in Isis’s name. Although President François Hollande has spoken of France facing “the threat of Islamist terrorism”, François Molins, the Paris prosecutor leading the investigation, said Lahouaiej-Bouhlel had no obvious links to radical Islam.

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Input: “For the past two years, the United States has been trying to deny its responsibility for the coup in Ukraine and, currently, for the destructive consequences of the rule of its clients in Kiev,” Thursday’s statement said. “The United States which is methodically weakening the framework of bilateral relations should heed the fact that it is therefore undermining opportunities for cooperation on key international issues, all the more so as the U.S. side is regularly asking Russia to help address these issues.” Among those affected by the U.S.-imposed sanctions are members of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration and that of Mr. Yanukovych, the former Ukrainian president, as well as the self-proclaimed leaders in portions of eastern Ukraine that have claimed allegiance to Russia after Crimea’s annexation. In a separate statement released by the ministry this week, officials thanked the U.S. for its help in returning a cache of historic Russian documents that had been stolen in the 1990s. “We hope that this experience of depoliticised hands-on cooperation will prove useful in many other areas of Russian-U.S. relations, which have been undermined by the U.S. administration’s sanctions policy over the past two years,” the Foreign Ministry said.

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Input: Going back to the Soviet era, Russian political prisoners have struggled with the legal, ethical, political, and philosophical conundrum of being tried by a court whose legitimacy they can not recognize. Some chose to use their trials solely as an opportunity to make public statements. In the current era, one of the imprisoned members of the protest-art group Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, used this approach: she would come to court with short prepared speeches and deliver them, in turn, every time she was asked a question. Others chose to point to the court’s lack of legitimacy and refused to engage with it — in the current era, another imprisoned Pussy Riot member, Maria Alekhina, made the act of turning her back to the court’s video camera an art form (she was meant to testify via an uplink from jail). Nadiya Savchenko has used both of these strategies.

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members of the protest-art group Pussy Riot


Input: He also cited the deal with Iran to curtain its nuclear program, and reopening of ties with Cuba and Myanmar, as examples of a successful global approach. But the array of places where Obama's approach hasn't yielded the outcomes he projected during his first appearance here in 2009 were also unavoidable. That includes his inability to negotiate peace between Israel and the Palestinians -- a major topic in his first four UN addresses that was entirely absent during last year's speech. This year, the President took issue with both sides ' actions toward one another. He criticized Israeli settlements, saying the only path to Mideast peace will come when the two sides reconcile deeply held differences.

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UN


Input: Yelena Sutormina, chair of development of public diplomacy and the support of compatriots abroad chamber, has called on the UNESCO cultural and scientific agency to block the decision of the Polish government, RIA Novosti reported. This is not the first time Poland has moved to dismantle Soviet monuments and faced a strong negative reaction from Russia. Last year the Russian Foreign Ministry accused Poland of unleashing a “war on monuments” after they demolished a monument that had been erected to commemorate the camaraderie between Polish and Red Army soldiers, RBC reported.

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Input: [Washington’s foreign policy elite breaks with Obama over Syrian bloodshed] If so, Obama’s successor will inherit an array of unattractive options. Critics of the proposal to increase arms shipments warn that it would only worsen the violence in Syria without fundamentally changing the outcome. But inaction has its own risks — increasing the likelihood that Aleppo will fall, that tens of thousands of CIA-backed fighters will search for more-reliable allies, and that the United States will lose leverage over regional partners that until now have refrained from delivering more-dangerous arms to Assad’s opponents. The proposed expansion of the agency program — dubbed “Plan B” because it was seen as a fallback for failed diplomatic efforts — still has supporters, including CIA Director John Brennan and Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter.

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Input: Uzbekistan is a major cotton exporter and is also rich in gold and natural gas. SUCCESSION A hint at who will succeed Karimov may come with the government's announcement of his death-which one source said was expected later on Friday-and whoever it names to head the commission in charge of organizing the funeral. The funeral appeared likely to take place in Karimov's hometown of Samarkand, where his mother and two brothers are also buried. Municipal authorities there mobilized public workers to clean the central streets late on Thursday.

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Samarkand


Input: One last thing to note about the persistent American fascination with lawless antiheros: They are very rarely women. Women are expected to abide by the laws. Of course Hillary Clinton is held to a different standard when it comes to claims of lawlessness: Only men get to ride into town with guns a-blazing. Finally, the whole Hillary-as-criminal narrative is a painfully familiar one: People have been claiming that she and her husband killed a guy and got away with it for decades. She’s been tagged as her husband’s bag-man from the day he took office.

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Input: “But in fact, it was easy, very easy.” The name Guccifer refers to a Romanian hacker named Marcel Lehel Lazar who breached Clinton’s personal email server in 2013. He has been extradited to the U.S., where he awaits sentencing after pleading guilty to identity theft and unauthorized access to protected computers. This new hacker, Guccifer 2.0, is warning that more breaches could come. “Guccifer may have been the first one who penetrated Hillary Clinton’s and other Democrats’ mail servers.

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Input: Schoolchildren in Russia will soon be taught a variety of military skills such as maintaining firearms as part of a new drive by the country's defence ministry. The training will be provided by a revived Soviet-era organisation called Yunarmiya-or Young Army-and will be launched on 22 May as a pilot scheme in the city of Yaroslavl, before going nationwide in September, according to the state news agency RIA-Novosti. It will include things like assembling assault rifles, shooting and parachute jumping, but also theoretical subjects such as military history and tactics, the Gazeta.ru news website reports, quoting defence ministry officials. Students will wear uniform, and units will have their own "headquarters" and banner. The age group is likely to be 14 to 18, but could start as soon as 10.

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Schoolchildren

assault rifles

Russia


Input: After 30 minutes of this, Kwan steps up on one of the vinyl-upholstered benches in the corner of the room and is introduced by a local organizer to the crowd. “As I have been on the campaign trail now for over a year, every day I’m reminded about my personal story, about what’s at stake in these elections. I think of my parents, and as I look around the room, we probably share similar stories, of how our parents, grandparents, or great-grandparents might have immigrated to the U.S. … I often think, what’s the motivation for Hillary Clinton? It’s so the next generation of Americans have the ability to dream that dream,” she says. As Kwan speaks, the crowd is silent, craning their necks to look up at her.

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Input: In my 30 + years of reporting I’ve seen my fair share of man’s inhumanity to man. There was 9/11, Vince Foster’s “suicide,” and the time I was held hostage by Russian security forces. But this weekend, I saw a sea change in American politics when Cliven Bundy’s sons took over a rural wildlife refuge in Eastern Oregon. This kind of angry armed uprising represents a new chapter in our politics, a departure from the days when responsible leaders like Tip O’Neill and Ronald Reagan could set aside the parenthetical letters at the end of their names and share a laugh. No, this is a new politics, a rancorous time of low-intensity warfare, partisanship, and complete disregard for the importance of balanced budgets.

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Input: One French official who spoke on condition of anonymity said the government could not confirm any of the details released by the Ukrainians, and echoed initial suspicions of other government officials that Kiev may have orchestrated the incident to serve its own interests. Ukraine is frustrated at the European Union's delay in granting its citizens visa-free travel amid fears of illegal immigration. French officials say Kiev might be wanting to demonstrate it can be a reliable partner at a time when it is also trying to block a lifting of EU sanctions against arch-foe Russia. (Additional reporting by John Irish in Paris and Gilbert Reilhac in Strasbourg; writing by Richard Lough; Editing by Paul Taylor and Mark Trevelyan)

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Input: As the Free Thought Project has reported extensively in the past, the presidential candidate has ties to international criminal cartels who’ve been funding her and her husband for decades. When Hillary Clinton became secretary of state in 2009, the William J. Clinton Foundation agreed to disclose its donors at the request of the White House. According to a memorandum of understanding, revealed by Politifact, the foundation could continue to collect donations from countries with which it had existing relationships or running grant programs. The records would show that of the 25 donors who have contributed more than $ 5 million to the Clinton Foundation throughout the years, six are foreign governments, with the largest contributor being Saudi Arabia. The importance of Saudi Arabia’s role in funding Clinton is tremendous, as the Syria / Saudi relationship over the last half century is what this civil war is all about.

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Input: Why wo n’t they let it out of committee? Because they rely on fear. They rely on fear in order to intimidate your vote, because they ca n’t win your vote, because fundamentally, it is the big corporate powers that call the shots in the Democratic Party. Whatever party dominates a state would be against that.

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Input: Three times over the past 20 years the Iranian reformists and moderates have tried to improve the relations between their nation and the United States, and in each case the Clintons have either prevented the rapprochement or, as it is happening now, try to scuttle it. In May 1995 former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, considered a pragmatist then but allied firmly with the reformists now, made a gesture of reconciliation toward the US by awarding the American oil company Conoco a major contract to develop a large offshore oil field in the Persian Gulf, although a European oil company had actually won the bidding for the contract. But, instead of responding in kind, Bill Clinton imposed total trade embargo on Iran in 1996 as part of his absurd, and ultimately failed “dual containment” policy according to which both Iran and Iraq were supposed to be contained and put in a strategic box. Then, in 1998 former reformist President proposed “dialogue among civilizations” as a cautious approach to open dialogue between the two nations. Not only had Khatami won the presidential elections in 1997 in a landslide, his allies would sweep the first nationwide elections for city councils in fall of 1998 and for the Majles [Iranian parliament] in February 2000.

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Input: The talk centers around whether these emails will be released before the election to damage her or if she is elected President to be used as blackmail. Although Putin and the Russians are extremely adept at manipulating information for their benefit I believe they have totally underestimated the Clintons. In either case Hillary Clinton will not be influenced by the threat of any type of exposure or blackmail because she has demonstrated that she does not care what information comes out. From the Rose Law Firm billings to the Benghazi situation and everything in between, including her husband’s impeachment and loss of law license for perjury, she will simply deny it and tell people to “move on.” And as recent history has shown, many will eagerly move on, actively supporting her. The only things that drive the Clintons are greed and the lust for power.

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Input: According to this report, Nadiya Savchenko is a former Ukraine Air Force pilot who in 2014 joined the neo-Nazi Aidar Battalion, which is a volunteer military detachment of Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense currently fighting against Russian separatist factions in their eastern regions and has been the target of many war crimes investigations. On 6 June 2014, this report continues, Nadiya Savchenko entered into the Federation from Ukraine and presented herself before Federal Migration Service (FMS) officials stating that she was a refugee and requesting she be granted Russian identity documents — which were approved. On 17 June 2014, this report notes, while on Federation soil and in the possession of (legal) Russian identity documents, Nadiya Savchenko used her cellular phone to secretly adjust mortar fire from her Aidar Battalion terrorist allies in Ukraine onto a militia roadblock in the vicinity of Metallist village in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) killing Russian television reporter Vladimirovich Kornelyuk and his sound engineer Anton Voloshin. With the facts relating to Nadiya Savchenko’s terrorist crimes and neo-Nazi affiliations having been fully documented during her trial, FSB legal analysts in this report state, the “beyond top secret” emails belonging to former Secretary Hillary Clinton are critical for the court’s “understanding / consideration” in sentencing as they “directly relate” to the causes as to why this murderer has become the West’s latest cause célèbre against Russia. According to these FSB analysts, the specific emails obtained from former Secretary Hillary Clinton involving Nadiya Savchenko were written by US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland who masterminded what the private American intelligence firm Stratfor (known as the Shadow CIA) called the “most blatant coup in history” in toppling Ukraine’s legitimate government.

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Input: "If the American side does not take the necessary measures to carry out its obligations ... a breakdown of the ceasefire will be on the United States." Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Syrian rebels Saturday of using the ceasefire to regroup, as diplomatic tensions between Moscow and Washington simmered over a lack of humanitarian aid access. Fresh shelling and clashes were reported overnight in some areas of the war-torn country, but the US-Russia brokered truce which took effect on Monday appeared to be largely holding. In New York, the UN Security Council cancelled an urgent meeting that had been called to discuss whether to endorse the ceasefire, billed as the "last chance" to end the five-year war that has killed 300,000 people. The closed-door consultations were scrapped after Moscow and Washington failed to agree over disclosing details of the ceasefire to the council. Putin, a key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, said he remained "positive" about the truce but lashed out at rebels.

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Input: BRUSSELS Turkey has fired hundreds of senior military staff serving at NATO in Europe and the United States following July's coup attempt, documents show, broadening a purge to include some of the armed forces ' best-trained officials. In a classified military dispatch seen by Reuters, 149 military envoys posted to the alliance's headquarters and command centers in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Britain were ordered on Sept. 27 to return to Turkey within three days. Most were dismissed from service on their arrival, arrested and imprisoned, according to a Turkish military official at NATO and two farewell letters sent by departing Turkish officials emailed to colleagues at NATO and seen by Reuters. One of those letters wrote of a "witch-hunt" of senior air force commanders serving overseas. In total, about 400 military envoys have been fired so far, the Turkish military official said.

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Input: (CNN) There is "little doubt" Russia is behind the hack of Democratic National Committee emails, a US official told CNN on Wednesday. The remarks follow a week-long episode where leaked DNC emails showed Democratic officials giving preferential treatment to Hillary Clinton. The emails inflamed supporters of her primary opponent, Bernie Sanders, during the Democratic Party's national convention, which led to widespread protest and the ousting of DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Asked about potential consequences for the hack, the White House described "a full range of options available to us in the government." "That includes economic sanctions out of Department of Treasury.

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Input: BRENNAN: Well, I think the results of that event are still being assessed. But I think it just underscores that the United States, and our partners and allies, will take action when we believe it is necessary. We've seen, particularly in that part of the world, the bloody massacre on the beaches of Tunisia, and how ISIS and some of the other organizations in that area, really just try to kill as many people as possible. So actions that the United States takes, these are based on very good intelligence, and are designed to eliminate the threat to life and limb. KELLY: The White House came out on the record yesterday and confirmed the strikes, and confirmed who the target was.

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Input: Screams, threats, and beatings are no way for the police to treat a child or to get accurate information from them. Lawyers and human rights groups told Human Rights Watch that Israeli security forces routinely interrogate children without a parent present, violating international and domestic Israeli laws that provide special protections for detained children. The protections include requirements to arrest or detain a child only as a last resort and to take precautions to ensure that children are not compelled to confess guilt. The Convention on the Rights of the Child requires security forces to make the best interests of the child a primary consideration in all aspects of the juvenile justice system. In July 2015, Human Rights Watch documented six cases of abuse of children whom Israeli security forces had detained in East Jerusalem and other parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

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Input: This is a disgraceful yet fitting end to a sleazy, deeply polarizing campaign during which the sexual predilections, self-deceptions and lunacies of Trump and two other men who are not candidates have attracted opprobrium and ridicule and could decide the fate of the presidency. The tomcatting of Hillary Clinton’s husband, Bill, and the husband of an aide that Clinton has described as a “surrogate daughter” have been righteously mined by the Republicans to besmirch her reputation. And the Democrats have sanctimoniously harpooned Trump for his many outrageously vulgar comments about women and over multiple allegations of sexual harassment and sexual assault by women over the past few decades. The first woman to reach the Oval office may start her term under criminal investigation by the FBI. Either way, Republicans will be braying for her impeachment the moment that Congress convenes early next year.

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Input: For instance, would President Hillary Clinton push the Iranians so hard – in line with what Netanyahu favors – that they would renounce the nuclear deal and give Clinton an excuse to bomb-bomb-bomb Iran? In Ukraine, would Clinton escalate U.S. military support for the post-coup anti-Russian Ukrainian government, encouraging its forces to annihilate the ethnic Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine and to “liberate” the people of Crimea from “Russian aggression” (though they voted by 96 percent to leave the failed Ukrainian state and rejoin Russia)? Would President Clinton expect the Russians to stand down and accept these massacres? Would she take matters to the next level to demonstrate how tough she can be against Russian President Vladimir Putin whom she has compared to Hitler? Might she buy into the latest neocon dream of achieving “regime change” in Moscow?

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Input: Human rights investigators, included those staffing the commission, are routinely denied access to regime controlled areas of Syria. Much of what was previously known about conditions in regime prisons came from a horde of more than 50,000 photographs depicting dead and abused prisoners that were smuggled out by a government defector in 2013. In December 2015, Human Rights Watch was able to identify several victims who exhibited signs of torture, all of whom were detained by regime authorities between May 2011 and August 2013. The systematic photographing of detainees ' bodies lends credence to the commission of inquiry's assertions that "high-ranking" members of the Syrian regime are implicated in human rights abuses." The situation of detainees in Syria is critical, and represents an urgent and large-scale crisis of human rights protection," said commission member Vitit Muntarbhorn.

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Input: “We think it’s in the interests of the Ukrainian people and Ukraine to join the EU,” Podesta said in a telephone interview yesterday. “We’re happy to do anything we can to promote Ukraine’s aspirations to join the EU.” During the uprising that removed Yanukovych from power in February 2014, the Daily Beast reported anti-Yanukovych protesters also congregated outside Podesta’s DC office to protest his firm’s representation of the Centre. The Beast stated: Around 60 Ukrainian protesters from across the United States gathered on February 5th to protest outside the Podesta Group and Mercury / Clark & Weinstock, which are among the largest PR and lobbying firms in America.

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Input: But they need to be more involved in our efforts against ISIS as well. And I think we need fight ISIS from the air and support those fighting from the ground, the Kurds in my opinion, despite objections from Turkey and others, but we also have to keep Iran and Russia from going any further than they already have in support of ISIS. And we have to take on and defeat ISIS online, you know they are sophisticated savvy user of the internet where they recruit, where they radicalize, where the plot and they plan, and we can't let them have the entire internet to do that. And just let me quickly add, it is important that we do everything we can, working with our partners to make them safer from ISIS attacks, and we've got to get our European friends to more of what we have learned we have to do. The EU needs to more with the sharing of intelligence, passport information, border crossing, and I worked on this when I was secretary of state, we wanted their airline manifest and passport information, which we were eventually able to get because we need their intelligence information to keep us safe in America from potential terrorist attacks.

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Input: POSNER: He can do what he wants. He and Putin could agree that henceforth, the United States and Russia are military allies. And let’s suppose they entered into an agreement that if one country were invaded, then the other country will come to its aid. And then subsequently Russia’s invaded, I do n’t know, by China. He would have the power to bring the military to Russia’s aid.

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Input: This breach of objectivity in Clinton’s favor was supported by documents, statistical tables and videos attached to the emails hacked from the Democratic National Committee’s servers. To damp the crisis. party leaders, including Clinton, took two immediate steps that made the situation worse: They sacked the head of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the day she was due to open the convention and, second, they called on the FBI to investigate the hacking and find who was responsible for the embarrassing leaks. The culprit was quickly named as Russia's military intelligence service, the GRU, by "experts close to the examination" – namely, the information security company CrowdStrike, which was hired by the DNC, and the FBI. CrowdStrike said it had found two types of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) malware inside the DNC's servers that were intended to remain undetected for long periods of time, slowly spread inside the servers, and secretly send the data back to the culprits who planted the malware.

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Input: Sarkozy's relationship with Gaddafi took another odd turn when allegations surfaced that the Libyan leader had helped fund the president's 2007 electoral campaign. In 2012, French investigative news site Mediapart published an official document dating back to 2006 detailing plans for the dictator to bankroll Sarkozy's campaign to the tune of 50 million euros. The document — which was disputed by Sarkozy — surfaced among the archives of the demolished Qaddafi regime, and has been backed up by several former regime insiders. Fabrice Arfi, a French investigative journalist at Mediapart who helped uncover the alleged links between Qaddafi and Sarkozy, is skeptical that the the Blumenthal memo captures France's true motivations for war in Libya." At first glance, this hypothesis [that France's intervention was motivated by Gaddafi's plans for a Pan-African currency] seems far-fetched," he told VICE News by phone.

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Input: The total journalistic product of Omidyar’s operation has been minuscule against the core goals of the U.S. aristocracy (or “oligarchs”) — which includes themselves (and which is why those sites are censored about it). And Greenwald’s compliance with Omidyar has been total: no contributions at all regarding the U.S. operation to take over Russia by overthrowing Russia-allied leaders of other nations have been allowed onto his site, “the Intercept.” He might as well be a CIA plant, like a mole or an FBI agent, someone who works undercover for the aristocracy. But he’s an excellent lawyer, and here are some of Hillary Clinton’s lying statements pretending to be an opponent of, and to disagree with, the Citizens United decision: And let’s remember, Citizens United, one of the worst Supreme Court decisions in our country’s history, was actually a case about a right-wing attack on me and my campaign. A right-wing organization took aim at me and ended up damaging our entire democracy.

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Input: That's an average of seven deaths a month. From January to April alone an estimated 32 North Koreans are believed to have died at sites around the world. Deaths were also reported in Angola in March, when about 10 North Korean workers died of yellow fever, according to RFA. An expert on North Korea who spoke on the condition of anonymity said the data on casualties have been combined from a number of sources and press reports. Russia was the country with the greatest number of North Korean casualties with 61.

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Input: Iran wants post-sanctions’ oil contracts denominated in dollars and have buyers pay in euros, Reuters reported. Tehran is also keen to receive money owed to it since the pre-sanctions days in the European currency. The country’s crude deliveries are to be restored soon, with companies such as the French giant Total, Spanish refiner Cepsa and Litasco and the trading arm of Russia's Lukoil already holding contracts.

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Input: And of these, some 216 planets have been shown to be both terrestrial and located within their parent star’s habitable zone (aka. “Goldilocks zone”). But in what may prove to be the most exciting find to date, the German weekly Der Spiegel announced recently that astronomers have discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, just 4.25 light-years away. Yes, in what is an apparent trifecta, this newly-discovered exoplanet is Earth-like, orbits within its sun’s habitable zone, and is within our reach. But is this too good to be true?

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Input: Over a dozen of our surveillance aircraft, including drones, are working in the vicinity,” Army General Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia’s General Staff, said. The general said that the Russian military are particularly concerned with a scenario, in which militants from Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS / ISIL), who are currently holding the Iraqi city, would “try to escape Mosul or be granted safe passage out of it towards Syria.” “We hope that our partners from the international coalition realize, what would be the consequences of having bands freely roaming around the Middle East. Terrorist should be destroyed on sight, not chased from one country to another,” Gerasimov said. Read more

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Input: Europe welcomes exports produced by Jewish settlers on occupied Palestinian land, the EU’s envoy to Israel has said, while insisting that the best way to stop boycotts would be to make peace between Israel and Palestine. Lars Faaberg-Anderson made the remark at an event in Jerusalem on Monday (28 March) where speakers were criticising the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement-a Palestinian-led international campaign to stigmatise Israel’s occupation of Palestine. If you already have an account click here to login.

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Input: They, too, believe they wi1l be able to cast their ballot, but eight out of 10 are confident their vote will be counted accurately." Republicans are just more worried about everything than Democrats," said Lonna Atkeson, a professor at the University of New Mexico and head of the Center for the Study of Voting, Elections, and Democracy. FLEE THE COUNTRY? Additionally, seven out of 10 Republicans are concerned about issues such as vote buying, faulty voting machines, or confusing ballot designs. Six out of 10 Democrats feel the same way.

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Input: Frank Giustra, a billionaire mining magnate from Vancouver, pledged $ 100 million to the foundation in 2005 — and then reaped a fortune from the relationship. Giustra had dinner in 2010 with Bill and Hillary Clinton right before the Clintons met with the president of Colombia. Shortly afterward, a company Giustra partially owned acquired the lucrative rights to conduct logging operations in an ecologically sensitive area along the Colombian coast. Giustra and Bill Clinton also jetted off to Kazakhstan in 2005 to meet with President Nursultan Nazarbayev, and Giustra’s mining company later signed a deal giving him stakes in three state-run uranium mines in the country. The mines were acquired by the Russian atomic energy agency, Rosatom, in a deal that got State Department approval on Hillary’s watch.

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Input: Putin's pawn? Mr Assange fears for his future. He sought refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex assault allegations that he says are a US plot to jail him for leaking US military and diplomatic files. Image copyright AFP / Getty Image caption Mr Assange has been in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012 But the war of words has escalated dramatically this month.

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Input: Speaking to ARA News in Raqqa, rights activist S.Y. said that ISIS terrorists have executed a 7-year -old child on Thursday in Syria’s eastern city of Raqqa on charges of ‘insulting divinity’. “Islamic State’s police arrested the Muaz Hassan earlier this week in the city of Raqqa, after they heard him ‘cursing divinity’, while playing in the street with his friends,” the source quoted an ISIS member of Islamic Court as saying. “The act was considered an insult to the Caliphate, regardless of the age of the boy.” An ISIS member of the Sharia Court read a statement before conducting the execution, explaining the reasons for his execution, eyewitnesses told ARA News.

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Input: He also warned that any "guests in our country who are preaching hate will be asked to return home immediately and if they don't do it, we will return them home." At the same time, Trump said his administration "will speak out against the oppression of women, gays and people of different beliefs" and that it would be a "friend to all moderate Muslim reformers in the Middle East and will amplify their voices." To prevent the spread of radical Islamic terrorism, Trump suggested he would not push for regime change as president, and he would disrupt terrorists ' activities online to recruit and promote their propaganda and he would work coordinate with other countries interested in destroying the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). All of these proposals are already policies that the Obama administration has been pursuing." If I become president, the era of nation-building will be brought to a very swift and decisive end," Trump said, adding that he would call for an international conference focused on collaborating with U.S. allies who share the goal of ISIS's demise.

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Input: In response, Cronican sees some of her female friends as being shortsighted. “It does n’t seem to me they’re looking at the big picture,” she says. “I know a lot of very intelligent women who are voting for Trump. I do n’t understand it, and we’ve had long discussions. They’re saying, ‘I do n’t want Hillary,’ so they’re willing to accept Donald Trump.

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Input: Qatar denies the claims. The BBC says the row is actually a culmination of a complex regional schism that puts Doha on the side of Saudi Arabia's rival Iran, which ironically represents a branch of Islam that is opposed to both IS and Nusra. Qatar, a member of the Opec oil cartel, relies on the Strait of Hormuz waterway, says the Daily Telegraph, and as that passes through both Iranian and UAE waters, regional shipments could be disrupted, which would have consequences for global oil supply. The oil price has long been in the thrall of supply trends: Brent crude fell below $ 50 a barrel last week over doubts that supply cuts by Opec, Russia and others would be enough to rebalance the market. Oil price drops below $ 50 as ' game of chicken ' starts again

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Input: Military spy satellites can peer even closer. A lot of eyes in the sky can see a mobile phone in your hand from space  -but the US government limits the resolution of images that can be sold. However, companies are lobbying the US government to permit them to sell those ultra-detailed images to anyone who wants to buy them, so long as they’re cleared as non-threatening to national security. This article was originally published by Business Insider. More from Business Insider:

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Input: But this approach misses a critical global context. It's tempting to think of Trump as something uniquely American, but the truth is that his similar far-right populists are gaining popularity throughout the Western world. In Hungary, the increasingly authoritarian prime minister, Viktor Orban, has started building a wall to keep out immigrants and holding migrants in detention camps where guards have been filmed flinging food at them as if they were zoo animals. In Italy, the anti-immigrant Northern League, led by a politician who has attacked the pope for calling for dialogue with Muslims, is polling at more than three times its 2013 level, making it the country’s third most popular party. And in Finland, the Finns Party — which wants to dramatically slash immigration numbers and keep out many non-Europeans — is part of the government.

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Input: “I have to say, I do n’t understand Donald’s bizarre fascination with dictators and strongmen who have no love for America. He praised China for the Tiananmen Square massacre; he said it showed strength. He said, ‘You’ve got to give Kim Jong Un credit’ for taking over North Korea – something he did by murdering everyone he saw as a threat, including his own uncle, which Donald described gleefully, like he was recapping an action movie. And he said if he were grading Vladimir Putin as a leader, he’d give him an A. “Now, I’ll leave it to the psychiatrists to explain his affection for tyrants.”

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Input: He has been charged with one count of murder, two of attempted murder and 12 counts of serious assault following the incident. A British man, Tom Jackson, is in a critical condition in hospital with wounds to the head, chest and stomach after trying to save Ms Ayliffe-Chung. Another British backpacker, Chris Porter, is being treated for wounds to the ankles and an Australian worker at the hostel, Grant Schulz, has been discharged after being stabbed in the leg. Queensland police have ruled out extremism as a motive for the murder. Despite this, far-right senator Pauline Hanson used the murder to reissue her call for a temporary ban on all Muslim immigration to Australia.

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Input: Possible follow-up: What's the answer to the puzzle she posed, last week, at a union gathering:" Why aren't I fifty points ahead?" At that event, she suggested that she might be if her supporters told their neighbors the facts. For the debate, she needs to answer this in a way that does not imply that her voters are just smarter than certain other people's voters. Also, see notes on “deplorables,” above. 8.

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Input: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has begun back-channel discussions with congressional Republican leaders over the shape of a Clinton administration, according to several media reports Monday. Both CNN and CBS said Clinton has been calling former colleagues among Senate Republicans to discuss her agenda for the first 100 days of a new administration, based on the assumption that she will win the election two weeks from today. The plans under discussion likely include the appointment of Republicans to a number of key positions, including cabinet posts, as well as the nomination of a replacement on the Supreme Court for the deceased ultra-right Justice Antonin Scalia. Clinton is following in the footsteps of Barack Obama, who signaled the essential continuity between the administration of George W. Bush and his own by retaining Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and naming other Republicans to executive branch positions. Jeff Zeleny of CNN reported, “I’m told she’s been talking to Republican senators, old allies and new, saying that she is willing to work with them and govern.” Clinton has told these Republicans that she will be more approachable than Obama, Zeleny said, adding, “She will work with them.

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Input: “But that is not a substitute for the actions that are needed.” Republicans were not amused. 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.) accused the Democrats of exploiting the Orlando tragedy, the deadliest mass shooting in the nation's history, to raise campaign funds. “If this is not a political stunt, then why are they trying to raise money off of this — off of a tragedy?” Ryan said during his own press conference just hours before Pelosi's. Cicilline, who was also up all night, quickly dismissed Ryan’s argument as “nonsense.” He said he did n’t know how the fundraising started.

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Input: Instead she borrowed a tactic from President Obama, reeling off zingers that are catnip to cable-news channels. It won her the kind of sustained live coverage that Mr. Trump has enjoyed routinely but Mrs. Clinton has not, though the announcement by Speaker Paul D. Ryan that he planned to vote for Mr. Trump stole her thunder in the opening moments of the 30-minute address. She said she imagined Mr. Trump was “composing nasty tweets” about her even as she spoke. And indeed he was: “Bad performance by Crooked Hillary Clinton!” Mr. Trump wrote. “Reading poorly from the teleprompter!

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Input: Nonetheless, the suggestion that outrage at the U.S. banking system for its role in the financial crisis was based in “misunderstanding” and “politicizing” is risible. Here’s what one U.S. bank was up to seven years before Clinton’s speech: In April 2006, Goldman Sachs provided investors with a bullish report on Countrywide’s high-quality mortgage loans — loans the bank had helpfully packaged into AAA-rated mortgage-backed securities, thereby offering those lucky clients a low-risk way of profiting from America’s housing boom. When the bank’s head of “due diligence” saw the report, he typed a short email to his colleagues: “If only they knew …” You need both a public and a private position.

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Input: “Trump is simply wrong when he says the United States is the highest taxed nation in the world.” “Trump made a ludicrous claim that U.S. ambassador Chris Stevens made 600 requests for help before he perished in the attack on a U.S. diplomatic facility in Benghazi.” “Premiums (under Obamacare) are expected to increase overall in 2017, but Trump is cherry-picking from the highest proposed increases in the insurance marketplace.” There were several additional falsehoods they did not have time to cover. If you missed it, our video team summarized the debate into three minutes:

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Input: (CNN) The White House moved to tamp down suggestions that ties with Saudi Arabia are fraying, with administration officials saying that President Barack Obama "really cleared the air" with King Salman at a meeting Wednesday. Yet even as White House officials stressed that the leaders made progress, a prominent member of the Saudi royal family told CNN "a recalibration" of the U.S.-Saudi relationship was needed amid regional upheaval, dropping oil prices and ongoing strains between the two longtime allies. Obama landed in Riyadh earlier Wednesday for a summit with Gulf leaders and spent two-and-a-half hours meeting with the 80-year -old monarch on issues that have recently strained the alliance, including the conflict in Yemen, the role of Iran, Lebanon's instability and the fight against ISIS, U.S. officials said. Statements after the meeting made clear that deep differences remain on several of these points, with the two sides agreeing to disagree and a U.S. official characterizing the encounter as the start of a discussion rather than a venue for solutions. But the two leaders glossed over some of the thorniest matters, including a Saudi threat to dump U.S. assets if Obama signs into law a bill that could make the kingdom liable for damages stemming from the September 11 terror attacks.

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Input: His new "extreme vetting" would add an ideological test to his already proposed religious test. Donald Trump wants to bar any Muslim who supports the death penalty for gays from entering the United States. That’s among a long list of reasons he outlined today that a person could be denied entry — or even ordered to leave the country after already immigrating here." I call it extreme vetting," he told a raucous crowd during a foreign policy speech delivered in Ohio. Trump began the speech by rattling off a list of terror attacks and their casualties worldwide.

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Input: The investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation has uncovered a disturbing pattern of the Clintons ' raising money for the Clinton Foundation from regimes that have checkered records on human rights and that aren't always operating in the best interests of the U.S. By the way, the $ 100 million we mentioned above doesn't appear to include another $ 30 million given to the Clintons by two Mideast-based foundations and four billionaire Saudis. All told, it's a lot of money." These regimes are buying access," Patrick Poole, a national security analyst who regularly writes for PJ Media, told the DCNF." You've got the Saudis. You've got the Kuwaitis, Oman, Qatar and the UAE (United Arab Emirates).

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Input: This included the training and equipping of the elite presidential guard; employment of foreign instructors to teach SPLA recruits; development of riverine forces; training of commandos by Ethiopian troops; establishment of a noncommissioned officers academy with training from private contractors and later U.S. military personnel; deployment of a “training advisory team” to guide the overhaul of military intelligence; renovation of a training center at the SPLA Command and Staff College; and construction of the headquarters of two SPLA divisions, according to a comprehensive report focusing on the years 2006-2010 by the Small Arms Survey at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. During these years and afterward, members of the SPLA were implicated in myriad human rights abuses, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence, and torture. A 2012 report by Clinton’s State Department, for example, noted that in addition to recruiting child soldiers, South Sudan’s security forces also committed arbitrary or unlawful killings, tortured and raped women, arbitrarily arrested and detained people, and “tortured, beat, and harassed political opponents, journalists, and human rights workers.” The SPLA also broke its 2010 pledge to demobilize all of its child soldiers by the end of the year, leaving children serving in the force. “Post-2005, I think the lack of public criticism — by the U.S. — of the SPLA for its abuses and then the military assistance given to the SPLA by private contractors and others was silly,” said Alex de Waal, the executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. “It was totally counterproductive.

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Input: She was elected later that year. Hide Caption 20 of 43 Photos: Hillary Clinton's life in the spotlight Clinton makes her first appearance on the Senate Environment and Natural Resources Committee. Hide Caption 21 of 43 Photos: Hillary Clinton's life in the spotlight Sen. Clinton comforts Maren Sarkarat, a woman who lost her husband in the September 11 terrorist attacks, during a ground-zero memorial in October 2001. Hide Caption 22 of 43 Photos: Hillary Clinton's life in the spotlight Clinton holds up her book "Living History" before a signing in Auburn Hills, Michigan, in 2003. Hide Caption 23 of 43 Photos: Hillary Clinton's life in the spotlight Clinton and another presidential hopeful, U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, applaud at the start of a Democratic debate in 2007.

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

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Input: Washington’s message to Estonia would echo Moscow’s to Belarus: Pay for the superpower’s support, deliver what is demanded, or be abandoned. Like Putin, Trump would create his own global reality. Never mind that more Mexicans have returned to their country than have immigrated to the United States since 2009; in Trump’s world they flood across the border, mandating the construction of a wall. U.S. and Russian lies may well overlap — Trump and Putin concur that there are no Russian troops in Ukraine, even if they are still killing Ukrainians on a near-daily basis. Who will defend truth?

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Input: Lawyers familiar with the terminology of state secrets will refrain from using the word "classified" to describe the emails that contained state secrets, even though Clinton repeatedly does that. The word "classified" is not a legal term; rather, it is derived from the verb "to classify," and it means that the classification process has been completed. Since nothing is marked "classified"—the legal markings are" confidential," "secret" and "top secret"—Clinton has been materially misleading the public and the FBI when she claims that she never sent or received anything" marked classified." By saying that, she wants us to believe that in more than 2,000 instances, she failed to ascertain the presence of state secrets in emails she received or sent. No voter but the most hardened supporter, no federal prosecutor, no FBI agent, and no juror will believe that.

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Input: The director of the CIA told President George W. Bush, it's an obvious case. Saddam Hussein had nerve gas and used it against his own people, he had used chemical weapons against the Iranians and he almost had a nuclear bomb in 1981 and in 1991. And he had been caught with anthrax in 1995 by the UN inspections after denying that he had it. SPIEGEL: Today we know that he did not possess weapons of mass destruction at the time of the Iraq war. Wolfowitz: I wasn't in charge of the intelligence services.

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Input: A considerable sum ($ 4.3 million, according to The Washington Post) has flowed from the Clintons to the Foundation, but nothing in the other direction. play: There are no specific examples of a Foundation donor receiving some inappropriate government concession [1], and no examples of someone who was denied something, then contributed to the Foundation and got it. None of the Clintons — not even Chelsea — draws a salary from the Foundation or gets reimbursed for expenses. The Foundation does n’t own mansions the Clintons live in or fleets of cars or planes to take them places. It does n’t fund their political campaigns or buy their books or pay them speaking fees.

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Input: According to progressive fictions, police are the agents of a “white supremacist society” — a claim alone that should make one wary of the sanity of those who advance it. The facts belie the very basis of the claim that African Americans are being indiscriminately gunned down by police: African-American males, accounting for 6 percent of the population are responsible for more than 40 percent of violent crimes. But a Washington Post report on all 980 police shootings of 2015 reveals that only 4 percent of fatal police shootings involved white officers and black victims, while in “three-quarters of the incidents, cops were either under attack themselves or defending civilians,” or, as Michael Walsh observed in the New York Post, police officers were “in other words, doing their jobs.” One incident in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Mo., became the launching point for the Black Lives Matter movement and its malicious claim that innocent blacks were being wantonly gunned down by racist police. The alleged “victim,” Michael Brown, had just committed a strong-armed robbery and refused to comply with Officer Darren Wilson’s order to surrender.

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Input: With the handover of uranium complete, Iran may now be only weeks away from receiving what it wanted out of the deal -- about $ 100 billion worth of economic sanctions lifted, which will allow Tehran to re-enter the global financial system and sell crude oil on world markets." Implementation Day will come when the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) verifies that Iran has completed all of these nuclear commitments, which increase Iran's breakout time to obtain enough nuclear material for a weapon to one year, up from less than 90 days before the JCPOA," Kerry added." The shipment today more than triples our previous 2-3 month breakout timeline for Iran to acquire enough weapons grade uranium for one weapon." Kerry also thanked the governments of Russia, Kazakhstan, Norway and other nations who helped export the uranium. The IAEA now must verify that Iran has less than 300 kilograms of enriched uranium stockpiled -- the threshold agreed to by all parties to the accord.

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Input: For Sanders, there is no such thing as a noble cold war. Sanders, on the other hand, wants America to use its own rapprochement with Iran to encourage one between Riyadh and Tehran. In his campaign video, Sullivan mocked the Vermont senator for proposing that Iran and Saudi Arabia “join together in a coalition to fight ISIS.” But there are more realistic ways to encourage Saudi-Iranian détente. Last fall, for instance, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace suggested that the United States push for a new regional security organization for the Persian Gulf — loosely modeled on the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations — that includes both Riyadh and Tehran. (Right now, the region’s only security organization, the Gulf Cooperation Council, excludes Iran and Iraq.)

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Input: Trump was right. Revoking U.S. compliance made no sense. The agreement’s smartest critic, Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, explained in July that by the time a new U.S. president took office, “the international sanctions process would have been totally dismantled.” The president could restore American sanctions but not the joint European-Russian-Chinese – United Nations sanctions that had forced Iran to the bargaining table. Iran would have its money, and the Europeans would be in no mood to follow a unilateral American withdrawal from a complex agreement everyone had painstakingly negotiated. The GOP may face a choice between a businessman who understands the importance of honoring deals and two freshman senators who do n’t.

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Input: A suicide bomber killed 10 people and injured more than a dozen others in a popular tourist area. Hide Caption 1 of 8 Photos: Deadly explosion in Istanbul A man takes a photograph near the site of the explosion in Istanbul's historic Sultanahmet district. Hide Caption 2 of 8 Photos: Deadly explosion in Istanbul Turkish police cordon off a street in Istanbul. Hide Caption 3 of 8 Photos: Deadly explosion in Istanbul A man looks at the Blue Mosque near the site of the blast in Istanbul. Hide Caption 4 of 8 Photos: Deadly explosion in Istanbul Police investigate the scene.

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Input: “In ' Monday Night Football ' versus Trump and Hillary, everybody loses," says Dave Briggs, a former Fox News host who jumped over to NBC Sports in 2013 as a studio host. “Bare minimum, even a seemingly regional NFL game between Atlanta and New Orleans will draw 10–12 million viewers. The debates will win the night but never pull away many of those 10 million Falcons, Saints and, most importantly, fantasy football fans,” he said. It’s not unusual for debates to go up against sporting events. Presidential debates often compete with football games and Major League Baseball’s World Series.

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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: The case shows that domestic questions of power in Russia appear to be more important than relations with other countries." But some German commentators have criticised the Berlin police force for poor communication. Although investigators are pursuing charges of child abuse, critics say it was not clear from initial police announcements that the case was being followed up. This initial lack of clarity played into the hands of anti-migrant activists hoping to inflame tensions. Kremlin-backed media have often been accused of using propaganda to stir up trouble with Russian-speakers living in the Baltics.

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Input: George Soros George Soros, whose own foundation has given between $ 500,000 and $ 1 million to the Clinton Foundation, told a mutual friend in May 2012 he was "impressed" by the level of access he was able to gain to Clinton while she served as secretary of state. Soros apparently said he enjoyed the fact that he could "always" get a meeting or get on the phone with Clinton when he wanted to discuss his ideas for policies. Clinton's official schedule indicated she met with Soros at the State Department in March 2012.

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Input: STEIN: So let me speak to that. Yes, and there’s another major policy program that you may want to talk about here, and that is the proposal that we bail out a generation of young people who are held hostage by student debt. This is $ 1.3 trillion and the broad brushstroke there is that we managed to come up with a whole lot of money for Wall Street, which Congress learned, when the audit was actually done and the reporting by the Fed, that “Oh my God, you managed to come up with $ 17 trillion or $ 16 trillion of near-zero interest or free money in order to bail out Wall Street.” Wall Street has the unique ability to turn around and quickly lend that low interest money for seven percent and recoup it, so Wall Street was able to pay much of that back, we know, but the point remains that if we can bail out the crooks who crashed the economy through waste, fraud and abuse and predatory lending and unethical bundling of extremely insecure financial packages – if we can find a way to bail them out to the tune of a whole lot of trillions, we can find a way to bail out a whole generation that has basically been thrown under the bus and does not have a future, that arguably does n’t have a way out. HIATT: And why do you include upper-income people in there? STEIN: Well, for one thing, we know that higher education pays for itself.

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Input: Mr Hollande said 50 injured people were in a critical condition "between life and death". Many of the victims were foreigners, he said. Fondation Lenval, the children's hospital in Nice, says it has treated some 50 children and adolescents, including two who died during or after surgery. Some 30,000 people were on the Promenade des Anglais at the time of the attack, officials said. Read more: Victims of Nice attack

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Input: These are assertions of fact backed by reams of data. Hillary Clinton remains the favorite to win the Democratic nomination. If she is the pick, to prevail in November she would be well-advised to consider with the clear-eyed political clarity of Kenny O’Donnell and JFK why Sanders runs so strong in general election match-ups, why her trust numbers and the enthusiasm she generates are dangerously low and how she can change this. As the campaign approaches, the best move the former secretary of State can make is not to calculate when the time is right to move to the right but to reach out to Sanders and his supporters with sincerity and conviction and say to them, in word and deed: “I hear you.” If she does, whoever is on the ballot in November will be the most electable and will win.

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Input: The process has been hard on her, her parents told Al Jazeera, as Majd suffers from a number of health issues, including anaemia. Majd's lawyer, Tareq Barghouti, told Al Jazeera that the Israeli military had monitored his client for two months before arriving at her house to make the arrest. One year ago, such charges would have been unheard of, he said, but "it has become a common thing these days, and there has been a wave of arrests on these Facebook posts". Majd is one of nearly 150 Palestinians detained by Israeli forces over Facebook-related "incitement" since a wave of violence erupted in the region last October, according to prisoners ' rights group Addameer. The numbers are a sharp increase from the 13 cases they documented in 2014.

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Input: Embed Donald Trump Says He's Worried About Cheating on Election Day 2:29 autoplay autoplay Copy this code to your website or blog “In addition, a leading presidential candidate who has made the demonization of racial, ethnic, and religious minorities a hallmark of his campaign has recently urged supporters to challenge voters at polling sites nationwide.” The letter also urged OSCE to target its resources on states where racial discrimination in voting or voter intimidation are particular threats. It singled out Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Arizona, Wisconsin, North Dakota, and Texas. All those states have imposed restrictive voting laws or rules in recent years, though several have been blocked or softened by courts.

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Input: As was obvious on Monday, the GOP candidate has no grasp of what's required to be a global leader. He still acts like a reality TV star who's using the media and twittersphere to stoke populist anger and sell the Trump brand. He's said he consults himself on foreign policy, and he is resistant to conferring with experts. He openly scoffed at Hillary Clinton for spending several days on debate preparation." Yes, I did."

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Input: “We believe that changing the balance of power on the ground is going to open up the way to a political settlement,” Adel Al Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, said in an interview on Thursday. Mr. Jubeir did not mention the possibility of ground troops. But in a surprise statement broadcast on the Saudi-owned Al Arabiya news network, a spokesman for the Saudi Defense Ministry suggested that the kingdom could send soldiers to fight the Islamic State. “The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is prepared to participate in any ground operations that the anti-ISIS coalition might agree to carry out in Syria if there is consensus among coalition leaders,” the spokesman, Ahmed Asiri, said. It appeared to be the first time Saudi Arabia had publicly suggested such a possibility, and had done so without first discussing the matter with the other nations fighting the Islamic State.

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Input: According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the shelling came from areas controlled by the al-Nusra Front and Faylaq al-Rahman militants. In a statement cited by Russian news agency Sputnik, the ministry said: “The Russian diplomatic mission came under mortar shelling on October 3. One of the mines exploded on the embassy area near its residential department. Fortunately, no one was wounded. The diplomatic mission sustained material damage.

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Input: "The existence of nuclear weapons threatens the survival of humanity. I pledge to eliminate all such weapons as an urgent priority," stated Stein. Despite his pledge 7 years ago in Prague that the US will "seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons," Obama has supported spending $ 1 trillion over the next 3 decades to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Stein said she would cancel this program and instead dedicate those funds to meeting human needs and preventing catastrophic climate change. Stein said that as President she would forego new missile bases in Japan and the Asia pivot, ask Japan to uphold their peace constitution (article 9), and would take Russia up on its previous offer to reduce nuclear weapons to 1000 each, followed by comprehensive talks for all nuclear nations to abolish all nuclear weapons ..

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Input: In the coming weeks, Trump will no doubt try harder to appear presidential, but surely voters wo n’t forget the long litany of insults, lies, threats and ignorant statements he has made about everyone from Mexicans and Muslims to a disabled reporter to Sen. John McCain, to the family of a dead Muslim-American soldier, to a federal judge, to President Obama. Trump’s ignorance of the issues is manifest. He has called climate change “a hoax” and vowed to renegotiate the Paris climate accord. Obamacare would be repealed and replaced with “something great.” His signature proposal is to construct a wall along the southern border of the United States — and have Mexico pay the billions of dollars involved. Mexico, unsurprisingly, insists it will not.

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Input: “Our military is depleted, and we’re asking our generals … to worry about global warming,” he said, taking another jab at the Obama administration. “Our military dominance must be unquestioned, by anybody and everybody,” Trump argued, but added that not one dollar can be wasted in the process. He also promised that US troops would have “the best equipment in the world” while they fight, and “the best care in the world” when they return as veterans. Diplomacy over aggression Trump tempered his remarks about military dominance, however, by saying that war would be his very last resort.

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Input: In my recent article entitled “Russia Is Preparing For A Nuclear War With The United States “, I included a quote from a major Russian news source that demonstrates what the Russians are thinking at this point. The Russians recently deployed additional S-300 and S-400 air defense systems to Syria, and they have warned that any strike against Syrian forces “would put Russian personnel in danger” … Russia’s Defense Ministry has cautioned the US-led coalition of carrying out airstrikes on Syrian army positions, adding in Syria there are numerous S-300 and S-400 air defense systems up and running. Russia currently has S-400 and S-300 air-defense systems deployed to protect its troops stationed at the Tartus naval supply base and the Khmeimim airbase. The radius of the weapons reach may be “a surprise” to all unidentified flying objects, Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson General Igor Konashenkov said.

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Input: The mining sector is a key part of North Korea's economy, which is already largely cut off from the rest of the world. Experts believe revenue from the sector helps underwrite North Korea's military expenditures. The ministry said it would also ban coal shipments from North Korea, although it made exemptions consistent with sanctions, including uses intended for "the people's well-being" and not connected to nuclear or missile programs. North Korea delivered around 20 million tonnes of coal to China last year, up 27 percent on the year, overtaking Russia and Mongolia to become China's third biggest supplier, behind Australia and Indonesia. An exception was made for coal originating in third countries and supplied via North Korea's port of Rason.

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Input: Yanukovych (a past @PaulManafort client) did it to Tymoshenko. — Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) October 10, 2016 Countries that put losing candidates in jail: Iran Russia

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