Input: Accepting international disaster assistance would not set a precedent and has happened in the past, but Babcock did n’t provide examples. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said Canadian authorities have a handle on the crisis and what’s truly needed is a break in the weather. “The decision was made by the firefighters in the emergency management system that (foreign help) was n’t necessary because of the nature of this blaze,” Goodale said following question period. “This beast is so big the only thing that will fix it is rain.” READ MORE: ‘Ocean of fire’ destroys 2,400 structures but 85% of Fort McMurray still stands

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Input: The phalanx of privately supported settlement houses and other institutions that met the great immigration wave around the turn of the twentieth century, along with the public school system, aimed to “Americanize” the new arrivals — teaching them our language, manners, and customs, and especially our republican civic ethic. Culture, after all, is as important an element of national identity as political institutions. To become an American in those days meant little more than learning English and subscribing to a broadly shared creed of self-reliance, self-government, self-improvement, and allegiance to a tolerant nation that most people agreed was unique in the freedom and opportunity it afforded — as well as in its readiness to confer citizenship on newcomers who almost universally desired it. But today’s legal Hispanic immigrants often do n’t apply for American citizenship, or retain dual nationalities: Americanization often is not high on their agendas. Moreover, our new doctrine of multiculturalism gives today’s immigrants nothing to assimilate to, since current intellectual fashion — set by the universities, Hollywood, and the mainstream media — celebrates everything that makes us different rather than the creed that once made one nation out of many individuals.

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Input: But Putin has sympathisers on the French right. Some, including Front National leader Marine le Pen appreciate his authoritarianism and fight against Islamic extremism. The former president Nicolas Sarkozy, who met Putin in June, has promised to lift economic sanctions against Moscow. He has derided François Hollande’s refusal to meet Putin in Paris last week as irresponsible. By contrast, his rival for the nomination on the French right, Alain Juppé – the favourite to win the race for the Élysée – said the weakness of the US has been a “source of disquiet”, and that he would welcome the election of the more interventionist Hillary Clinton.

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Input: Given low enough temperatures and high enough pressure, methane and water can freeze together into what’s called a "methane hydrate." Permafrost keeps everything bottled up, but when it thaws, so does the hydrate. Methane is released as a gas, building up pressure — until the ground explodes. Scientists gained more evidence for this theory after an expedition to the bottom of the crater. It revealed the air had an extraordinarily high concentration of methane.

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Input: The most important business stories of the day. Get Bloomberg's daily newsletter. In the case of Soros’s Open Society, hackers stole a trove of documents after accessing the foundation’s internal intranet, a system called Karl, according to a person familiar with its internal investigation. On August 3, the DCLeaks.com Twitter account tweeted “Check George Soros’s OSF plans to counter Russian policy and traditional values,” attaching a screenshot of a $ 500,000 budget request for an Open Society program designed to counter Russian influence among European democracies. The hackers may have had access the foundations’ network for nearly a year, according to another person familiar with the investigation.

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Input: Russia may not be panicking, but it's clearly worried. Worried enough for the pro-Kremlin media here to admit there's a problem: a full-blown economic crisis. The state-controlled media blames the crisis, principally, on low oil prices and, to a lesser extent, on western sanctions. What you don't hear on TV is anyone blaming President Putin for the problem. Yet, in the decade and a half that Mr Putin has ruled Russia as president or prime minister, Russia failed to prepare for the possibility of low oil prices and did little to diversify its economy and reduce its reliance on energy exports.

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Input: “The children of Aleppo are trapped in a living nightmare,” said the Unicef deputy chief, Justin Forsyth. “There are no words left to describe the suffering they are experiencing.” Health workers said the 4 am attacks at the M2 killed two staff members and a civilian whose heart was pierced by shrapnel. The hospital’s intensive care unit was extensively damaged, as were power generators, fuel storage and water tanks that kept the hospital running. Damage was also sustained by an ambulance that had replaced another that was destroyed in a bombing two days ago.

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Input: Sanctions against Russia should be lifted as soon as possible, France’s Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday following a meeting with his Russian counterpart, while insisting that implementation of the Minsk agreements still remain key to the process. “Sanctions is not a goal in and of itself,” Jean-Marc Ayrault said in Paris, adding that his country looks forward to scrapping the restrictive measures against Moscow. Read more

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Input: "The real muslims will never accept the filthy ways of the west," Mateen wrote, according to the letter from committee chairman Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican. Johnson did not say how he learned of the posts other than to cite "information obtained by my staff." As he did in his call to a 911 operator during the massacre, Mateen pledged his allegiance on Facebook to the leader of the Islamic State and, in his final post, warned:" in the next few days you will see attacks from the Islamic state in the usa." Omar Mateen, right, with his wife, Noor Zahi Salman, and their son. (Facebook) Omar Mateen, right, with his wife, Noor Zahi Salman, and their son.

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Input: We rate Trump's claim that policies allowed and encouraged offshoring as accurate, but Trump left out his own role in that process with his businesses. For that reason, we rate his claim as true, but misleading. Reality Check: Trump started off with a ' small loan ' By Jeremy Diamond and Sonam Vashi, CNN "I started off in Brooklyn, New York, not so long ago, with a small loan and built a business that today is worth well over $ 10 billion," Trump said.

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Input: Where are the voters in Nevada — are they torn as well? My prediction is Clinton with a mid single-digit win. Owens represented New York's North Country from 2009 until retiring from the House in 2015. He is a partner in the Plattsburgh, N.Y., firm of Stafford, Owens, Piller, Murnane, Kelleher & Trombley, PLLC.

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Input: Facebook Twitter Pinterest Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel. Photograph: Yasin Bulbul / AP In Turkish eyes, the move stems from a Putin vendetta that began last November after a Russian warplane entered Turkish airspace from Syria and was shot down. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s president, rejected Putin’s demand for an apology and compensation and has called on Nato for support. On Monday, Putin said he would not back down.

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Input: The Russian Defense Ministry on October 27 issued a statement saying that neither Russian nor Syrian government aircraft had conducted any air strikes in the Aleppo area over the last nine days. Aleppo's ' Apocalyptic Horror ' Later, in a tumultuous meeting of the UN Security Council on the siege of Aleppo, UN humanitarian chief Stephen O'Brien accused Russia and Syria of using starvation tactics and turning the city into a "kill zone." Describing what he called an "apocalyptic horror" in the city, where 400 people have been killed in less than a month, O'Brien accused Syria and Russia of waging a deliberate campaign to "make life intolerable, make death likely." O'Brien said leaflets dropped on rebel-held areas of Aleppo by Syrian and Russian aircraft made their intentions "chillingly clear."

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Input: The administration’s “inability to stand tall and destroy ISIS” is bleeding into other sectors of the country’s foreign policy, she argued. “Russia is taking advantage of our lack of leadership in Eastern Europe and the Middle East right now,” Ernst said, adding: Over the past seven years, the Obama-Clinton foreign policy strategy has been to give ground to Vladimir Putin from Ukraine to Syria, [and] to retreat from making tough choices in the defense of American interest in our national security. Rallying young conservatives in the room, Ernst said the time is now to elect new leadership. “We need to make this happen,” she said.

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Input: But until we change the system those are always going to be, honestly, the exception, not the rule.” As an example of how she might leave her mark on Washington, Teachout points to ex-Rep. Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who used his hearings and oversight powers to highlight corporate and governmental malfeasance. Teachout joked that she is a “journalism groupie,” but she very earnestly believes there is a similarity between good reporting and good legislating. Some of her previous work falls under the umbrella of investigative advocacy — she spent time in Bosnia researching a Russian oligarch for the International Center for Investigative Journalism, and she later served as the national director of the Sunlight Foundation, which tracks the worlds of campaign finance and lobbying. Her other hope is that aspects of her agenda, such as rural broadband access and agriculture reforms, might create cross-partisan alliances.

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Input: “I have a daughter, she’s American, she’s born here. And she has rights and I want to be here. And I want to vote, and I ca n’t say to my community, ‘OK, we need to be stronger,’ or ‘We need to be together’ and ‘We need to go in to vote,’ if I ca n’t vote,” she said. She has appeared at a campaign event with Bill Clinton and joined civil rights leader Dolores Huerta for an anti-Trump event hosted by People for the American Way. And she spreads her message about the campaign to her 815,000 Twitter followers and 373,000 Instagram followers.

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Input: Schroeder and Putin, who spoke German after serving in the KGB in East Germany, understood each other well and established close diplomatic and personal ties. But in 2005, Schroeder was replaced by Angela Merkel, whom Putin did n’t understand — and does n’t understand to this day. In the intervening 12 years, he started suspecting Merkel of deceiving him, spinning intrigues and weaving conspiracies against him. He showed his distrust by bringing his dog to meetings with Merkel, knowing full well that she had an intense fear of canines. Now, Putin seems to be experiencing déjà vu: In the upcoming U.S. election, the battle is, once again, between a Gerhard Schroeder and an Angela Merkel — but with the differences and the stakes hugely amplified.

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Input: – Rio 2016 is 100 days away but this spectator at the city's Olympic golf course couldn't give a hoot. Hide Caption 1 of 14 Photos: Rio 2016 Olympics: Around the venues with 100 days to go Sprint finish – Rio has been hosting a series of test events to get ready for the Games, despite a maelstrom of political and economic upheaval gripping Brazil. Hide Caption 2 of 14 Photos: Rio 2016 Olympics: Around the venues with 100 days to go Treading water – President Dilma Rousseff, facing impeachment proceedings, has still made appearances at Olympic venues. She opened the aquatics venue earlier in April. Hide Caption 3 of 14 Photos: Rio 2016 Olympics: Around the venues with 100 days to go Almost ready – International Olympic Committee inspectors say Rio's venues are 98 percent complete, with just over three months to go.

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Input: The driver of the vehicle survived the blast — suggesting it originated in the middle of the bus. The incident comes at a highly sensitive time for landlocked Armenia, which has not experienced any major terrorist incidents since the 1990s. Four days of clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops in early April in Nagorno-Karabakh claimed over 100 fatalities — the greatest loss of life in the conflict since a 1994 ceasefire ended a bloody ethnic war that erupted in the dying days of the Soviet Union. The violence threatens to destabilize a sensitive region bordered by Turkey, Russia and Iran. Photo: REUTERS / Vahan Stepanyan / PAN Photo

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Input: U.S. authorities also alleged that the bank had been used between 2002 and 2006 to funnel money to a unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard that has sponsored terrorist attacks — a period that overlapped with the time the bank rented office space from Trump.” -- Creepy -- > “Inside Trump’s Surveillance Operations,” by Buzzfeed's Aram Roston: “The suburban house on Water Mark Place in Sterling, Virginia, does n’t look like a [Trump] residence: no classical columns, no gold accents. But sources say it has one feature, common to many Trump properties … an extensive and closely-monitored surveillance system.” Trump’s adjacent golf club also has an extensive web of surveillance cameras that is “far beyond” what is routine for a golf club, former employees said. Two said the cameras were monitored “intently, almost invasively,” and workers reportedly occasionally get called by security in New York if they were in an unexpected place. “The elaborate surveillance arrangement is consistent with a pattern … In his bedroom at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump (reportedly) had a switchboard that allowed him to eavesdrop on any landline there.” One major surveillance equipment contractor described 360-degree “low profile cameras that look like smoke detectors,” saying the “first phase” of its contract involved installing over 100 cameras, and it continued later with even more video surveillance.

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Input: Mr. Trump additionally denounced Mrs. Clinton of more than once lying throughout the weekend when she told Chris Wallace on “Fox News Sunday” that James B. Comey, the F.B.I. chief, had said her announcements in regards to her private messages were honest. “I mean, she lied,” Mr. Trump said, inciting cries of “Lock her up!” from his supporters. “She, pure and simple, she only knows to lie. She really does.

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Input: However, Commander John Harbour, a spokesman for the EU naval force in Somalia, told the BBC that the loss of navigation equipment would not necessarily be critical and that the signal from the beacon could vanish if the battery ran out or it entered a satellite blind spot. One Somali news website reported a conversation with an unidentified pirate who claimed the men were indeed dead – but said they had all been shot before they were loaded into the skiff. There is no evidence for this account, and photographs from the Moscow University seem to support Russian reports that marines killed one pirate in a firefight, and took the other ten captive. Commander Harbour observed that the Russian navy was within its rights to release the men as it did – and it is probable that the boat they were returned to was one of their own. He congratulated the Russians on a “brave” and successful action against piracy.

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Input: Some threats are vague: “We’re going to have to do something” if Muslims in America do n’t turn over suspected terrorists, and “we’re going to do things” to end protests and division. He pretended to consider killing journalists before promising, “I would never do that.” His longtime confidant Roger Stone has talked about a “bloodbath” — rhetorical, he insists — if Trump loses, and Stone has suggested that Clinton should be “executed.” There have been a score of violent confrontations at Trump events, among supporters, opponents, journalists and staff. Shouts of “hang the bitch” are not uncommon at Trump rallies. What’s more troubling than what his backers do is how Trump backs them when they do it.

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Input: The men independently chased down the truck. One began to climb in and hit the terrorist, who tried to shoot him. (New York Times) The British government announced it will separate radicalized prison inmates from other convicts, housing criminals who preach terrorism and other forms of extreme ideology in high-security “specialist units.” (The Telegraph) Federal prosecutors plan to argue in court that Dylann Roof “self-radicalized” by reading white supremacist tracts online before carrying out the massacre at a historically black church in Charleston. The feds are seeking the death penalty. The trial will start later this year.

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Input: A Palestinian assailant killed an American tourist and wounded at least 10 other victims in a stabbing spree that began in southern Tel Aviv's Jaffa Port, in the third attack within a number of hours on Tuesday evening. The American who succumbed to his wounds sustain in the attack had been evacuated to Wolfson Medical Center in Holon. Relevant to your professional network?

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Input: He has his own set of strange beliefs. He admires dictators and may well be heavily influenced by one. Trump’s web of ties to Putin, who has a record of attempting to manipulate foreign elections, looks even more dangerous considering his green light to Russia to annex the Baltic NATO states. In light of the risks presented by Trump, who might break the rule of law and the democratic form of government, his party has offered a strange message. Rather than tamp down the fears of what he would do, they have inflamed them.

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Input: Albright opposes Republican sponsored legislation to cut US contributions to peacekeeping because it restricts the president's constitutional authority and terminates UN missions in tinderbox regions. (COLOR KEY: Albright wears blue.) AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read JOYCE NALTCHAYAN / AFP / Getty Images) WASHINGTON, DC-AUGUST 3: In testimony to a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee, US Ambassador to the UN Madeleine Albright warned that unilaterally lifting the arms embargo against Bosnia could invite other countries to violate sanctions placed on Iraq. Albright said that the action creeated ' a real risk that the checks now in place against the resurgence of Saddam Hussein's ambition will weaken or collapse. ' AFP PHOTO (Photo credit should read J. DAVID AKE / AFP / Getty Images) UNITED NATIONS, NY-AUGUST 10: U.S.

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Input: Ministry officials said they couldn't confirm whether the projectiles were those fired by the weapons system KCNA referred to. Thursday's firings were seen as a "low-level" response to the U.N. sanctions, with North Korea unlikely to launch any major provocation until its landmark ruling Workers ' Party convention in May, according to Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korean Studies in Seoul. The U.N. sanctions include mandatory inspections of cargo leaving and entering North Korea by land, sea or air; a ban on all sales or transfers of small arms and light weapons to the North; and the expulsion of North Korean diplomats who engage in "illicit activities." North Korean citizens in the capital, Pyongyang, interviewed by The Associated Press said Thursday, in an echo of official propaganda, they believe their country can fight off any sanctions." No kind of sanctions will ever work on us, because we've lived under U.S. sanctions for more than half a century," said Pyongyang resident Song Hyo Il.

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Input: Police said they received calls after she began circling a prayer room at the Islamic Foundation, pulling a package from her purse and saying “she did n’t care if they all died there.” She was not carrying an explosive device. (AP) A New York woman admitted to killing her fiancé on a kayak trip last year, removing a plug from his boat and taking away his paddle as he struggled to stay afloat in the Hudson River. His death was investigated as a tragic drowning, but investigators were stunned by the woman's lack of sadness or remorse. (New York Times) The 2015 Jeep that killed “Star Trek” actor Anton Yelchin outside his L.A. home was a model that had been recalled by the company due to gearshift issues, leading drivers to accidently leave the car in neutral when they think it is safely in park. Early reports suggest this is what happened to Yelchin.

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Input: It is treating Savchenko as a common criminal, not a prisoner of war: she is charged with murder. The prosecution has asked that she be put away for twenty-three years. Savchenko denies that she was involved in the shots that caused the journalists’ deaths; she says she was captured an hour earlier. There is also dispute about her capture: Russia claims that, after the journalists were killed, Savchenko illegally crossed into Russian territory and was captured there. Savchenko says that she was seized on Ukrainian territory and then transferred to Russia — in other words, that she was either abducted by a foreign power or taken prisoner in a war.

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Input: But every new case brings a new and imaginative way to weaponize cyberpower. Until November 2014, when North Korea hacked into the computers at Sony Pictures Entertainment in retaliation for a comedy that portrayed a C.I.A. plot to assassinate Kim Jong-un, the country’s leader, no one seriously considered a movie studio to be “critical infrastructure.” Yet the attack on Sony — which melted down 70 percent of its computing power — was the only case that brought the president to the White House press room to accuse another nation of launching a deliberate cyberattack, and to promise retaliation. Mr. Obama said he was driven to go public by the fact that North Korea was trying to suppress free speech and intimidate Americans with threats if they went to the theater.

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Input: Lawrence Mishel, president of the Economic Policy Institute. Nomi Prins, a senior fellow at the Soros-funded Demos, a progressive think tank where President Obama’s controversial former “green” jobs czar, Van Jones, has served as a long-time fellow and is currently a board member. Dean Baker, co-director of the Soros-funded Center for Economic and Policy Research and former senior economist at the Soros-financed Economic Policy Institute. Meanwhile, last July, Sanders convened a panel of three economists to discuss the Greek debt crisis. Stiglitz was on the panel, which assembled at the Hart Senate Office Building.

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Input: Ankara has given Russia the go-ahead to use its Incirlik air base for operations in Syria, though no official request from Moscow to use the strategic military facility has been made, Turkey’s Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Saturday. The base, located some 100 kilometers from the Syrian border, is currently being used by the US-led coalition against the Islamic State to launch airstrikes against the jihadist group in neighboring Iraq and Syria. “Turkey opened Incirlik airbase to fight Daesh [Islamic State] terrorists. It is being used by the US and Qatar.

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Input: Presidential candidate Donald Trump Donald TrumpLewandowski near ' high six-figure book deal ': report GOP fires opening attack on Dem reportedly running for Heller's Senate seat Overnight Tech: Trump seeks tech's help for ' sweeping ' IT overhaul | FTC looks to block sports fantasy merger | Firm exposes nearly 200 M voters ' data MORE is calling on his supporters to boycott Apple until it agrees to help the FBI unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. “What I think you ought to do is boycott Apple until such time they give that security number,” Trump said at a rally in South Carolina on Friday. “I just thought of it,” the GOP frontrunner added. “Boycott Apple.”

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Input: The Republican nominee also urged his supporters to ‘watch’ cities with big African American populations on election day to prevent a ‘rigged’ election Donald Trump has said he would use the US presidency to impose term limits on members of Congress as part of a drive to “drain the swamp” of Washington corruption. Currently, House members can serve an unlimited number of two-year terms, while senators can serve an unlimited number of six-year terms.

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Input: Hide Caption 24 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests People hang a sign near what they say was sacred burial ground disturbed by bulldozers in Cannon Ball. Hide Caption 25 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Marlo Langdeau of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe joins hundreds of Native Americans for a march near Cannon Ball on Sunday, September 4. Hide Caption 26 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Protesters march on September 4 in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline. Hide Caption 27 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Native Americans march to the site of a sacred burial ground on September 4. Hide Caption 28 of 32 Photos: North Dakota pipeline protests Native Americans ride with raised fists to the sacred burial ground on September 4 to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline.

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Input: ISIS and its brethren must be eliminated: no quarter, no hesitation. But we will need to engage all civilized peoples in our mutual defense. We must abandon foolish skirmishes and petty jealousies. We must end our reflexive efforts to dominate other developed nations, especially Russia and China. President Kennedy told us over and over that our own peace and security, in this dangerous world, would depend upon peaceful and cooperative relations with Russia and the Russian people; indeed, at the end of his presidency, Ronald Reagan said the same.

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Input: "If she were to step down, the nation would allow itself to back down a little bit, and let this investigation run its course, with her not in the lime light and making this such a big big deal," Flynn said." I really do believe that the severity and the number of resources that are applied — despite what the outcome is — I just think the lack of accountability frankly, and a person who should have been much more responsible in her actions as the secretary of state of the United States of America." "Jake, if it were me I would have been out the door and probably in jail," Flynn added. In January, former U.S. attorney Joseph DiGenova told the Washington Examiner that he was told 150 agents were working on the FBI's reported investigation into Clinton's private server that she used during her time as secretary of state, expanded into looking for "public corruption" at the Clinton Foundation in its involvement with the State Department. He said that it was "a very unusually high number" of investigators to be working on a single case.

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Input: This morning, at around 6:00 GMT, the Pulse nightclub, a popular gay bar in Orlando, was attacked by a lone gunman. Currently there are 50 confirmed fatalities, including the gunman, and 53 injured. This is now the worst mass shooting in US history. Ordinarily, /r / worldnews does not cover US news, and that rule remains.

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Input: The information contained in the more than 800 pages of documents paints a deceptive picture of those within the government handling the Snowden revelations. From the White House press secretary to various leaders within the National Security Agency, there has been an effort to deceive the people about the handling of the entire situation. It’s not only disturbing the things Snowden revealed in the last few years, but also the lengths that various levels of power have gone to to protect power and deceive the people.

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Input: Bennet Omalu, the famous pathologist who discovered chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brains of deceased American football players, made the disturbing suggestion on Twitter. ‘I must advise the Clinton campaign to perform toxicologic analysis of Ms Clinton’s blood,’ he wrote. ‘It is possible she is being poisoned.’ Then, in a second tweet, he added: ‘I do not trust Mr Putin and Mr Trump. With those two all things are possible.’

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Input: And if the incumbent foreign government complains about the “benevolent US assistance”then it can be toppled because it is “siding with the terrorists”. This is, of course, the whole rationale behind the so-called War on Terror that Washington crafted in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Just uttering the phrase War on Terror gives Washington license to invade and ransack any foreign state it chooses, as in Afghanistan and Iraq, where more than one million people were killed by US forces “hunting down terrorists”. Before that, the official pretexts were “War on Communism”or “War on Drugs”. But with the collapse of the “Evil Soviet Empire”, the first of these pretexts became redundant.

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Input: The book, “a 186-page investigation of donations made to the Clinton Foundation by foreign entities — is proving the most anticipated and feared book of a presidential cycle still in its infancy,” according to the newspaper. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), now a declared presidential candidate, said the book contains “big news” that will “shock people” and make voters “question” Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy. The volume “asserts that foreign entities who made payments to the Clinton Foundation and to Mr. Clinton through high speaking fees received favors from Mrs. Clinton’s State Department in return,” the Times reports. “We will see a pattern of financial transactions involving the Clintons that occurred contemporaneous with favorable U.S. policy decisions benefiting those providing the funds,” Schweizer writes. Paid by radical billionaire George Soros, the leftists at the Center for American Progress and Media Matters for America are doing their best to smear Schweizer, who serves as president of the Government Accountability Institute.

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Input: Hopeful, exciting, but ultimately deflating and disappointing. When Hillary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic nominee, I was distraught. Months before I had written about her on Huffington Post, explaining that I despised her not for her gender -- as some of her supporters accused -- but for her hawkishness, her center-left policies, her husband's crime bill that incarcerated so many people of color, her support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and her inability to get progressive on climate change policy. I've spent almost every waking hour of every day following this election, reading about Hillary, Donald Trump, both parties ' platforms, and the under-qualified Libertarian and Green Party candidates running. During these months of obsessing over my choice, I've watched my position slowly shift.

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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: Provide full protection for workplace rights, including the right to a safe workplace and the right to organize a union without fear of firing or reprisal by passing the Employee Free Choice Act. Ensure equal pay for equal work, ending discrimination based on race, gender, or generation. Enact paid sick leave and family leave, strong overtime protections. Take action against wage theft. Oppose two-tier wage systems (e.g., for young people and individuals with disabilities).

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Input: ' When we looked outside we saw a lot of police cars going past. Hotel staff told us the hotel [Bella Vista] was about 30 minutes away-but I can see it from here-it's the next one along, ' he said. ' The only updates we're getting is from my mum who's worried sick, ' he told MailOnline from his hotel. Mr Hadden, who works for the ambulance service said he had reported their concerns to holiday company Thomas Cook before they traveled and had asked to go to Turkey instead because of safety concerns. ' We spoke to Thomas Cook before we came saying we didn't want to go.

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Input: “In most, perhaps all, other countries of the world, the underground resources belong to the crown or the government,” she explains. The fact that property owners did n’t stand to profit from drilling on their land ignited public outrage in some parts of the world, especially Eastern Europe. U.S. officials speculate that Russia also had a hand in fomenting protests there. “The perception among diplomats in the region was that Russia was protecting its interests,” says Mark Gitenstein, the former U.S. ambassador to Romania. “It did n’t want shale gas for obvious reasons.”

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Input: “I am calling on her to immediately return the $ 25 million plus she got from them for the Clinton Foundation!” Donald Trump said. | Getty Trump demands Clinton Foundation return $ 25 million from Saudis Donald Trump on Monday demanded that Hillary Clinton return $ 25 million the Clinton Foundation reportedly received from Saudi Arabia. “Crooked Hillary says we must call on Saudi Arabia and other countries to stop funding hate,” Trump posted to Facebook. “I am calling on her to immediately return the $ 25 million plus she got from them for the Clinton Foundation!”

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Input: This is unprecedented in the history of the world, especially in the absence of a clear agreed threat that would motivate such an alignment. The stakes are very high. Trump is apparently willing to disband NATO as well as our key Asian alliances, and to withdraw from the Middle East as well — a “Trexit.” At risk is a core principle of America’s post-World War II strategy — that trying to stay out of others’ business did not work and, in fact, helped lead to the world wars. Trump in particular seems to reject the core elements of America’s strengths in the world market and international security system. With the tumult roiling Europe today, it is worth reviewing the basics on why our unparalleled alliance structure pays off.

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Input: As he frequently does, Trump conflated "radical Islam" with Islam in general, and warned that "Radical Islam is coming to our shores." The Orlando shooter was a U.S. citizen who was born in the United States in 1986, at a time when the United States and guerrillas in Afghanistan were allies in the fight to contain communism. Nevertheless, Trump said that the correct response to attacks like the one in Orlando is to ban Muslims from visiting or immigrating (Trump regularly confuses these two ideas) to the United States. He also attacked presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who Trump said "wants to allow radical Islamic terrorists to pour into our country -- they enslave women, and murder gays. I do n’t want them in our country."

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Input: Ice is the life support platform on which Inuit and local wildlife depend. Sea ice allows indigenous people to travel on snowmobiles to visit relatives in winter. Last week the Guardian reported on one couple in Alaska who narrowly escaped when their snowmobile plunged into soft ice that would normally have been frozen hard. Similarly, permafrost is melting and buildings are collapsing while wildlife species – including polar bears – are suffering from the disappearance of the ice platforms on which they once relied for hunting or protection. Across the Arctic, the fabric of life is disintegrating.

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Input: Fourth, this is an FBI criminal investigation, not a security review. Most importantly, former attorney general Michael Mukasey explains that "gross negligence," not simply intent, is all that's needed to prosecute Hillary Clinton under certain laws. Attorney general Mukasey's argument is presented in a Wall Street Journal op ed titled Clinton's Emails: A Criminal Charge Is Justified: The current news, reported in the Journal and elsewhere, is that her server contained information at the highest level of classification, known as SAP, or Special Access Program. This is a level so high that even the inspector general for the intelligence community who reported the discovery did not initially have clearance to examine it.

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Input: The group also said they were responsible for downing the Russian A321 airliner, above the Sinai desert in October 2015, killing all 224 people on board. The destruction of ancient sites have been condemned as war crimes by the United Nations (UN) and world leaders have expressed their disgust. During the nine-minute video the Great Pyramid of Giza near Egypt's capital, Cairo was coupled with a pledge to destroy "ancient sites built by the infidels". In a separate propaganda film, a militant vows to destroy the 2,500-year -old temple of Nabu in the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud, currently under IS control, before an explosion razes a building. The video, entitled ' The Axe of Ibrahim, the Intimate Friend of Allah ' shows information signs on the Nabu temple wall before the blast is shown from a number of different angles.

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Input: You either worship the kingdom or concept, or you die. We see this played out every day. In soviet Russia, you either worshiped the state through party participation, or you were executed. In Rome, you either burned incense to Caesar, or you were executed. In China, you either show obeisance to the government, or you will be punished.

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Input: Earlier in January public broadcaster ARD reported that there had never been as many attacks on refugee homes as in 2015, which saw a huge rise in such criminality in comparison with the previous year. Whereas in 2014, 199 acts of criminality against refugee home were recorded by the Federal Office of Criminal Investigations (BKA), in 2015 that number shot up to 924. Of the nearly 1,000 attacks, 76 were attempted arson. One of those cases went before a court in Hagen on Friday, where an ex-fireman is accused of attempted murder after setting fire to a refugee home in the west German town in October 2015.

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Input: Talmudists were held responsible for Germany's defeat and for every disadvantage that resulted from that defeat. The New York Times of August 7, 1933, published the Talmudists ' declaration of their "holy war" against Germany in a three-column report of Mr. Untermeyer's address to the nation from the Columbia Broadcasting Company's studio on the night of his arrival home from Europe. Mr. Untermeyer, among other things, stated:" ... holy war ... in which we are embarked .. it is a war which must be waged unremittingly ... the Jews are the aristocrats of the world ... the economic boycott against all German goods, shipping and services ... boycott is our only really effective weapon ... bring the German people to their senses by destroying their export trade on which their very existence depends ... we shall force them to learn ... it is not sufficient that you buy no goods in Germany ... you must refuse to deal with any merchant or shopkeeper who sells any German-made goods ... we will drive the last nail in the coffin ... "That statement was made on August 7, 1933, when not a hair on the head of a Talmudist in Germany had been touched. Germany was plunged into a depression difficult to describe in a few words, Germany's export business suddenly ending as if by magic. Talmudists hoped that way to stop Germans from continuing to talk about why they lost the war.

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Input: The worst pundits will say Pence won because Kaine could n’t stop running his mouth and Pence could. Over the course of 90 minutes Pence argued, again and again, that Kaine’s invocation of Trump’s racist, sexist, and demeaning remarks against women and minorities and his ignorant comments about foreign policy was typical political smearing. He implied that Kaine was intentionally misleading the American people by simply describing his running mate’s positions and that, by doing so, Hillary Clinton and Kaine were the ones running an “insult-driven” campaign. Most remarkably, Pence argued that Trump never held any of the positions he has held or said any of the things that he has said. Pence lied about Trump’s immigration proposals, his comments about abortion, his tax policy, his feelings toward (and possible business ties to) Russia and Vladimir Putin.

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Input: They have, I guess we send 2,300 Humvees over, all armor-plated. So we have wounded warriors, with no legs, with no arms, because they were driving in stuff without the armor. And the enemy has most of the new ones we sent over that they captured. And he said, it’s so discouraging when they see that the enemy has better equipment than we have – and it’s our equipment. HIATT: I’d like to come back to the campaign.

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Input: It also has less money to spend because of air attacks on its exports of crude oil, combined with the fall in the price of oil. Iraqi security forces in Baghdad on Monday, preparing to travel to Mosul to fight Isis (Reuters) The Baghdad government continued to pay the salaries of public servants in Mosul even after Isis took over, but Ibrahim said that money stopped coming through nine months ago. “I have spent almost all my savings,” he said. “Last year, $ 500 a month was enough for a family to live on, but now even $ 1,000 is not enough because prices are twice or even five times what they used to be.”

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Input: A little over a week ago, Syria's embattled Assad regime used chemical arms against ISIS east of Damascus, despite the 2013 agreement to dismantle the regime’s chemical weapons. The regime apparently decided to use the lethal gas sarin after ISIS fighters attacked two Syrian air force bases considered vital military assets. In 2013, Assad used chemical weapons against rebel groups several times.

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Input: And his latter-day conversion to social conservatism has been perhaps the most transparently craven aspect of the entire campaign. Perhaps the greatest whopper of the election (no mean feat) was Trump’s claim that the Bible is his favorite book. Once a man who boasted of being “very pro-choice,” during the primaries, Trump insisted (only to walk it back a few hours later) that women who have abortions should be punished, an extreme position that even hard-core pro-lifers are reluctant to endorse (paradoxically, Trump supports continued government funding of Planned Parenthood, a heresy social conservatives were unwilling to tolerate in every other presidential candidate). Trump, a longtime supporter of gay civil unions, expects his social conservative followers to believe that he will appoint Supreme Court justices who will repeal last summer’s decision legalizing gay marriage. While evangelicals have welcomed Trump’s promise to protect “religious liberty,” their endorsement of him looks utterly self-serving in light of the fact that he has no respect whatsoever for the religious liberty of Muslims.

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Input: There were no trends that show increasing numbers of hurricanes, tropical storms or strength. The only unusual year was 2005 (ENSO neutral) where there were 15 hurricanes and 28 tropical storms. In the next part of Al’s weather section he says that tornadoes are getting worse. Al’s claim that global warming is increasing the number of tornadoes is also misleading because new radar and satellite technology allows us to see more of them. The numbers of severe tornadoes, the ones we have been able to track, are decreasing. The graph below is from NOAA and shows the number of strong tornadoes since 1950.Al then says that Japan set an all time record for typhoons in 2004.

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Input: At the same time that it began to rely on other people’s money, the Trump Foundation sometimes appeared to flout IRS rules by purchasing things that seemed to benefit only Trump. In 2007, for instance, Trump and his wife, Melania, attended a benefit for a children’s charity held at Mar-a-Lago. The night’s entertainment was Michael Israel, who bills himself as “the original speed painter.” His frenetic act involved painting giant portraits in five to seven minutes — then auctioning off the art he’d just created. He painted Trump. Melania Trump bid $ 10,000.

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Input: So, happy birthday! The first hour of the event was dedicated to reviewing WikiLeaks’ biggest document leaks, and a review of the legal pressure and threats the organization has received from the United States. Founder Julian Assange, currently trying to avoid extradition for a rape case in Sweden, is currently a refugee at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. After the first hour, Assange finally appeared at the event via a livestream. And he began his remarks by offering his thoughts on the impact WikiLeaks has had.

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Input: Amidst a presidential primary, it is untenable for Republicans to look like rubber stamps for Obama. Chris Christie offers a cautionary tale for GOP members. His bubble in New Hampshire was punctured when opponents began attacking him for offering support of Sonia Sotomayor while he was running for governor of New Jersey in 2008. Christie denied making comments he had made. Allies and rivals agree that the Sotomayor hit was a turning point for his campaign.

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Input: If countries like the U.S. and Canada would take in more people "then we would get much closer to a solution," she said." Fewer people would have died in the Holocaust if the world had accepted more Jewish refugees," she added. Otto Frank, Anne Frank's father, tried to get visas to the U.S. in 1940 to save his family from the Holocaust but got denied, Schloss wrote. At the time, America didn't want to take any more refugees." The situation today is worse than it was under Hitler because at that time all the Allies — the U.S., Russia and Britain — worked together to combat the terrible threat of Nazisim.

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Input: I speak, of course, of 4chan. 4chan is mostly still a forum for trolling and random nonsense. It was started to discuss anime, and insofar as it's been political it's been in a not strictly left-right way, and usually through the avenue of Anonymous, the activist group that split off from 4chan to do direct action. Protesting Scientology and leaking information on the Steubenville rapists are definitely political acts, but they're not identifiably left-wing or right-wing. But in recent years, a vocal right-wing contingent has popped up.

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Input: Or vast quantities of information. Exposed in such a way as to sporting inference of intentional misconduct. Or indications of disloyalty to the United States or efforts to obstruct justice we do not see those things here. To be clear. This is not to suggest that in similar circumstances a person engaged in this activity would face no consequences.

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Input: These countries are some of the worst violators of human rights in history. China operates its own “gulag” system of labor camps for political prisoners. The Castros in Cuba — the Obama administration’s newest friends — routinely throw their opponents in prison, despite Raúl Castro’s misleading comments at his news conference with Obama on Monday. There remain more than 50 political prisoners in Cuba, which the Castro government denies. Maybe we should have seen this loss of historical memory coming nearly 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Input: It was strikingly similar to an attack on NPR and us four years ago by the conservative Free Beacon that claimed "Ploughshares Fund gives millions to slant coverage on Iran." Over the past few days, I have personally been the target of harassing hate tweets slandering me, reporters who have interviewed me, and Ploughshares Fund. The goal is clear: intimidate us into backing down; intimidate journalists from talking to us; smear the administration and major media as liars and paid tools. Setting the Record Straight Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Input: Nemmouche was arrested with a Kalashnikov, a handgun, an audio recording claiming responsibility and a white sheet emblazoned with the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, according to the Institute for the Study of War. The attack is believed to have been inspired by ISIS. December 20, 2014-A man-A man stabs three police officers in the French city of Tours. The attacker was a 20-year -old French citizen who was born in Burundi. He was shot dead by police.

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Input: to train rebels trying to oust Mr. Assad. The decision was made in part to try to gain control of a chaotic situation in which Arab countries were funneling arms into Syria for various rebel groups with little coordination. The Qataris had paid to smuggle shipments of Chinese-made FN-6 shoulder-fired weapons over the border from Turkey, and Saudi Arabia sent thousands of Kalashnikovs and millions of rounds of ammunition it had bought, sometimes with the C.I.A.’s help. By late 2013, the C.I.A. was working directly with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other nations to arm and train small groups of rebels and send them across the border into Syria.

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Input: "I believe the international community has totally failed in all its experiments, and must take real, practical measures towards the (Syrian) regime," Zoubi said, without elaborating. He said there were no signs of any preparations for peace talks, which the United Nations wants to reconvene on March 7. Talks in Geneva in early February collapsed before they started, with rebels saying they could not negotiate while they were being bombed. HNC spokesman Salim al-Muslat said the truce was a step in the right direction, but a mechanism was needed to stop such violations and encourage negotiations." There has to be a power that really stops what Russia and what the regime is doing," Muslat said in a television interview with Reuters in Riyadh.

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Input: His first two points highlight that Trump has literally no understanding of the details of Cuba policy — an issue that matters greatly to Florida's politically influential Cuban-American community. The last part of his answer is the kind of hard line on Cuba that's popular among Cuban-American conservatives, many of whom fled the revolution and haven't forgiven the Castro regime for their dispossession. Substantively, Rubio's position — keep up the US embargo on commerce with and travel to Cuba until they democratize — is a proven failure. The US embargo has been in place for decades, in various forms, and has had no discernible effect on Cuba's human rights record. It is currently opposed by 97 percent of the world's countries as well as a majority of Americans.

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Input: Such illegal activity, the FSB said, was carried out at an inter-regional level. While the investigation continues, authorities have launched a criminal case into the “illegal entrepreneurial activity” of the church’s members. Russian news agencies reported that a number of members of the church were brought in for questioning. At least 10 were reportedly detained in St. Petersburg. Scientologists receive revenue by providing “consultation services” in fields such as education, “without any official registration,” therefore evading taxes, a source in the security services told RIA.

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Input: Would any of us be able to weather that-certainly not my browsing history. If China or Russia have the equivalent of the Monica Lewinsky scandal in their backpocket, how can Clinton or her aides properly negotiate with these governments. There is a reason the intelligence community actively looks for infidelity, debts, personal vices when trying to flip or blackmail foreign officials and protecting our own. Okay, that is about as conspiracy theory as I will get, but again, the State Department thought it was a serious issue. In regards to the FOIA lawsuits from Vice News and Judicial Watch.

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Input: ” What would happen: Like with immigration, it unlikely that Trump could actually implement his main policy pledge. But the legitimacy that his campaign gives to racism and homophobia is still far from ideal. Women’s rights

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Input: That this includes cracking down on a free press by toughening libel laws, engaging in the ethnic cleansing of 11 million people (“ illegals”), stripping away citizenship of those seen as illegitimate members of the nation (children of the “illegals”), and committing war crimes in the protection of the nation (killing the families of suspected terrorists) only enhances his stature among his supporters. The discrepancy between their love of America and these brutal and undemocratic methods does not bother them one iota. To borrow from Paxton again: “Fascism was an affair of the gut more than of the brain.” For Trump and his supporters, the struggle against “political correctness” in all its forms is more important than the fine print of the Constitution. To be fair, there are many differences between Italian Fascism of interwar Europe and Trumpism of (soon to be) post-Obama America. For one, Mussolini was better read and more articulate than Trump.

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Input: But few Americans would rally to a war fought to keep North Africa under France’s thumb. So, the winning approach was to demonize Gaddafi with salacious rumors about him giving Viagra to his troops so they could rape more, a ludicrous allegation that was raised by then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, who also claimed that Gaddafi’s snipers were intentionally shooting children. With Americans fed a steady diet of such crude propaganda, there was little serious debate about the wisdom of Clinton’s Libyan “regime change.” Meanwhile, other emails show that Clinton’s advisers were contemplating how to exploit Gaddafi’s overthrow as the dramatic moment to declare a “Clinton Doctrine” built on using “smart power.” On Oct. 20, 2011, when U.S.-backed rebels captured Gaddafi, sodomized him with a knife and then murdered him, Secretary of State Clinton could n’t contain her glee.

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Input: -- Breanne Deppisch and Elise Viebeck contributed to this special Sunday edition of The Daily 202. GET SMART FAST: Turkey pledged to contribute ground troops to an anti-ISIS coalition in Syria and to allow Saudi Arabia to launch airstrikes from its bases. (Karen DeYoung) France's prime minister rejected the idea of a permanent quota system for distributing asylum seekers across Europe, and refused to take more than 30,000. This puts Paris at odds with Berlin shortly before a summit of European leaders to discuss the crisis.

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Input: In 2008, the Trump Organization inked a branding deal with one of the most politically connected developers in Turkey. When the Dogan Group opened Trump Towers Istanbul in 2012, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan presided over their ribbon-cutting. But Aydin Doğan was indicted in a fuel-smuggling scheme back in March. With the family falling out of political favor — and Trump rebranding himself as America’s leading Islamophobe — Erdogan called for the mogul’s name to be removed from the towers this past June. Turkey is a key ally in America’s fight against ISIS.

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Input: They matter not because they are democracy’s enemy but because they provide the critical ingredient to save democracy from itself. The political Establishment may be battered and demoralized, deferential to the algorithms of the web and to the monosyllables of a gifted demagogue, but this is not the time to give up on America’s near-unique and stabilizing blend of democracy and elite responsibility. The country has endured far harsher times than the present without succumbing to rank demagoguery; it avoided the fascism that destroyed Europe; it has channeled extraordinary outpourings of democratic energy into constitutional order. It seems shocking to argue that we need elites in this democratic age — especially with vast inequalities of wealth and elite failures all around us. But we need them precisely to protect this precious democracy from its own destabilizing excesses.

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Input: Take, for example, this Washington Post column on the Republican Party’s national platform, which Team Trump largely ignored – except for the part about Russia. The Trump campaign worked behind the scenes last week to make sure the new Republican platform wo n’t call for giving weapons to Ukraine to fight Russian and rebel forces, contradicting the view of almost all Republican foreign policy leaders in Washington. […] Republican delegates at last week’s national security committee platform meeting in Cleveland were surprised when the Trump campaign orchestrated a set of events to make sure that the GOP would not pledge to give Ukraine the weapons it has been asking for from the United States. These details have not been independently confirmed by NBC News, though the New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza, reporting today from the Republican convention, said he’d spoken to a GOP congressman who believes the “most under-covered story of convention” is Team Trump’s efforts to change the party platform “to be more pro-Putin.” In his much-discussed convention speech last night, New Jersey Gov.

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Input: US officials say that the CIA has trained thousands of rebels in the past three years, and that the fighters made substantial advances on the battlefield against Syrian government forces until Russian military forces-launched last year in support of Assad-compelled them to retreat. The training programme is based in Jordan because of the country's proximity to the Syrian battlefields. From the beginning, the CIA and the Arab intelligence agencies relied on Jordanian security services to transport the weapons, many bought in bulk in the Balkans and elsewhere around Eastern Europe. The programme is separate from one that the Pentagon set up to train rebels to combat fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), rather than the Syrian military. That programme was shut down after it managed to train only a handful of Syrian rebels.

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Input: “Within a few days, I have accepted pre-empts and I expect to close in Germany, Israel, Sweden, Italy, and other territories before the London book fair [in April],” said Zitwer. Bandi’s stories are set in 1990s North Korea and include stories about a wife attempting to make breakfast during a famine and a factory supervisor trying avoid denouncing a friend while staying on the ruling party’s good side himself. They were smuggled out of the country with the help of the Happy Reunification Road Organisation, which works to help North Koreans and for the reunification of the country. It was published in South Korea in 2014 by Chogabje. Zitwer, who has worked with major Korean authors on titles including Kyung-Sook Shin’s Please Look After Mother and Han Kang’s The Vegetarian, said it was “unheard of until now” to find a work of fiction from North Korea.

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Input: In 2012, said Oxfam, US firms reported $ 80bn of profit in Bermuda, more than their combined reported profits in Japan, China, Germany and France, four of the world’s five largest economies. The charity called on the US government to pass the Stop Tax Haven Abuse Act, including a requirement for firms to report their tax contribution on a country-by-country basis. Country-by-country reporting has been recommended by a host of non-governmental organisations and charities to prevent companies from artificially shifting their income out of the poorest countries.

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Input: The border will be closed by force, and Swedish refugees will be rejected without the possibility to seek asylum." We are prepared for the worst," says Prime Minister Erna Solberg. There is such an imminent danger that the Schengen agreement, and the asylum system in Sweden will break down, that Norway must have an emergency legislation in place in case it happens, believes Norway's Prime Minister Erna Solberg. Therefore, she has crafted a law that will allow for Norwegian authorities to reject asylum seekers who do not come directly from a conflict area. This means that asylum seekers who want to come to Norway from Russia, but also from the other Nordic countries, will be denied the right to seek asylum, which otherwise is anchored in the UN Refugee Convention." It is a force majeure proposal which we will have in the event that it all breaks down, that the flow (of refugees) just comes, and they all end up in Norway, because we are at the top of Europe. Norway is the end point, is not it," says Erna Solberg in an interview with Berlingske The legislation will soon be presented to the Parliament, where it is expected to meet broad support, like the government's other tightenings of the asylum policies lately. According to Berlingske, the Norwegian government has been heavily criticized by several commentators.

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Input: He also said there was “no daylight” between what Trump and Pence said about Russian hacking.) Trump’s comments come weeks after FBI Director James Comey said investigators had found no direct evidence that Clinton’s server had been hacked, but said the agency probably would not likely see that trail. “We assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal email account,” Comey said, as he announced the FBI did not intend to recommend charges against Clinton. The FBI did not, however, have access to Clinton’s entire email trove. As she prepared to hand over her emails to the State Department after House Republicans discovered her private account, her staff deleted more than 30,000 emails from her private server that they determined were personal in nature.

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Input: Russia has said that it would continue to strike at "terrorists" in Syria even during a cease-fire." The deadline set in Munich for a cessation of hostilities has passed without response from Russia or the regime, who show disdain for the international community and disregard for the lives of Syrians," said HNC spokesman Salem Al Meslet in a statement. He said Assad and Russia have spent "yet another week annihilating defenseless Syrians" and called on the international community to implement a new approach that holds them to account. Saudi Arabia's foreign minister meanwhile said he favors equipping Syrian rebels with surface-to-air missiles to "change the balance of power on the ground." In an interview with the German weekly Der Spiegel published Saturday, Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said the moderate opposition could "neutralize" helicopters and aircraft that have been bombing them.

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Input: Still, you never know. The NRA, which, in the words of its CEO, Wayne LaPierre, regards the ATF as “jackbooted government thugs,” demands that Congress keep an eye on things. “Hitler and Stalin, like every dictator who perpetrated genocide during the 20th century, assiduously confiscated guns before starting the genocide,” wrote gun-rights activist Dave Kopel in a recent NRA publication. “Registration. Confiscation.

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Input: The warnings remain in place even though Turkish airports reopened following President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's pre-dawn announcement of victory over discontented army officers who mounted a bloody attempt to overthrow him. Forces loyal to Turkey's president quashed the coup attempt in a night of explosions, air battles and gunfire that left at least 161 people dead and 1,440 wounded Saturday. Authorities arrested thousands as Erdogan vowed that those responsible ' will pay a heavy price for their treason. ' The chaos came amid a period of political turmoil in Turkey-a NATO member and key Western ally in the fight against the Islamic State group-that critics blame on Erdogan's increasingly authoritarian rule. Staying in power by switching from being prime minister to president, Erdogan has shaken up the government, cracked down on dissidents, restricted the news media and renewed fighting with Kurdish rebels.

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Input: Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid Email A live hand grenade was hurled towards a refugee camp in Germany as anti-migrant violence continues to increase. The horrifying attack took place just after midday at the Baden-Württemberg hostel. It houses 170 refugees who have fled terror at the hands of Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria.

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Input: Those efforts, the president said, involved intense negotiations and are backed by strong sanctions. Related: Fact Sheet: Who Has Nuclear Weapons, And How Many Do They Have? “The countries represented in this room achieved what decades of animosity and rhetoric did not — a long-term deal that closes off every possible path to building a nuclear weapon, and subjects Iran to the most comprehensive nuclear inspections ever negotiated,” Obama said. The summit, and by extension Obama's efforts at shoring up his legacy on nuclear policy, began early in his presidency during a 2009 speech on the need for a global effort to secure nuclear material and atomic weapons. The administration cites the Iran nuclear deal and an arms reduction treaty with Russia as major steps toward exactly that type of non-proliferation.

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Input: It was the trophy of a Boston-area nursing home magnate, until he lost his fortune in 2004. That’s when Donald Trump scooped it up. After paying $ 41 million for the place in November 2004, Trump called it “the finest piece of land in Florida, and probably the U.S.” He vowed to upgrade the structure into “the second-greatest house in America.” (Second, of course, to his nearby Mar-a-Lago resort.) But Trump had no intention of living there. He intended to flip it for a quick — and huge — profit.

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Input: The Trudeau government has yet to respond to an offer by Russia to dispatch massive water bombers and fire fighting specialists to battle the growing inferno around Fort McMurray, Alta. The proposal was made late last week by Vladimir Puchkov, the Russian minister of emergency measures. A spokesman for Russia's embassy in Ottawa, Kirill Kalinin, said Sunday that they continue to stand "ready to help our Canadian partners to fight the ongoing wildfires in Alberta."

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Input: The Supreme Court’s ruling came on September 1, 2016, the 77th anniversary of Hitler’s invasion of Poland, 17 days before the anniversary of the Soviet invasion from the east. Henry Reznik, the well-known lawyer who was representing Luzgin, commented that the Supreme Court has discredited itself through this ruling and promised to appeal further. He added that an application to the European Court of Human Rights was simply demanded. As reported here, 37-year -old Vladimir Luzgin was convicted in July this year by the Perm District Court and fined 200 thousand roubles. The charge was under Article 354.1 of Russia’s criminal code (‘ rehabilitation of Nazism’) and concerned Luzgin’s repost of a text on his VKontakte social network page entitled’ 15 facts about Bandera supporters, or what the Kremlin is silent about’.

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Input: "Donald Trump's ideas aren't just different. They are dangerously incoherent. They're not even really ideas, just a series of bizarre rants, personal feuds, and outright lies," Clinton declared." He's not just unprepared. He's temperamentally unfit to hold an office that requires knowledge, stability, and immense responsibility."

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Input: Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has called on British Remainers to organise and push for a second referendum. After Iraq, he’d be more helpful to the anti-Brexit cause by shutting up, especially if he is going to use terms like “insurgents”. Kristalina Georgieva is reportedly quitting the Commission for a job at the World Bank. LOOK OUT FOR … The Lénaïc Fund for Journalism offers young female Europeans bursaries and fellowships to cover the EU institutions.

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Input: The sentiments of prominent German leaders were expressed in the Jewish Daily Bulletin of New York City on October 30, 1934, in an article reprinted on page three from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency dispatch from Berlin which stated:" The New Germany persists toward the complete extermination of the Jew because it was Jews who instigated the United States to enter the World War, accomplishing the defeat of Germany, and who later caused the inflation in Germany, Herr Richard Kunze, a leading Nazi Parliament figure, declared at a mass meeting in Magdeburg yesterday." Talmudists throughout the world made bad matters worse on August 7, 1933, when they declared their "holy war" to destroy the German nation "by destroying their export trade upon which their very existence depends." Under the leadership of Mr. Samuel Untermeyer, Talmudists of the world declared a world boycott on all German goods and services. They asked their "Christian friends" to join their worldwide boycott of German goods and services. Mr. Samuel Untermeyer arranged for the "International Boycott Conference" in Amsterdam in July 1933.

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Input: The ISIS-led Sharia Court sentenced the victim to death on charges of ‘infidelity’, in a move contrary to every legitimate principle which says children are not held accountable for their acts, according to human rights activists. The Hisba police force shot him dead on Thursday afternoon in the Naeem Square in front of hundreds of people, including the child’s parents, who collapsed after the execution of their child, according to eyewitness. Last Thursday, ISIS executed two young men in the city of Manbij in Syria’s northern province of Aleppo on charges of spying to the US-led coalition, local sources reported. Over the past two years, ISIS has publicly executed hundreds of civilians, activists, and journalists on various charges in areas under its control across Syria and Iraq. However, it is the first time the extremist group executes a child in a blatant violation for Islamic law itself, according to observers.

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Input: The core of his approach is to keep saying the enemy is “radical Islamic terrorism,” something that he (wrongly) claims Clinton never does. “To defeat Islamic terrorism,” he said in Ohio, “we must also speak out forcefully against a hateful ideology that provides the breeding ground for violence and terrorism to grow.” But there’s a good reason why both Presidents George W. Bush and Obama have been reluctant to speak of “Islamic terrorism,” and it’s not because Obama is a closet Muslim, as Trump has insinuated in the past. It’s because they realize that in the battle against terrorism, the United States can not win unless it can get the support of most of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims. By seeming to insult Islam and Muslims as Trump does, he plays into Islamic State and al Qaeda propaganda, which posits that there is a battle between Islam and the West. But Trump does n’t care about winning Muslim hearts and minds.

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Input: Its banking sector was 10 times the GDP of the rest of the economy. Anyway, so we release this report in July last year. And the national TV station was injuncted five minutes before it went on air, like out of a movie: injunction landed on the news desk, and the news reader was like," This has never happened before. What do we do?" Well, we just show the website instead, for all that time, as a filler, and we became very famous in Iceland, went to Iceland and spoke about this issue.

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Input: It was an illiberal excuse to virtue signal, and some MPs appeared to forget that Trump has invested generously in our country. A lone, brave MP admitted that many of his constituents share Trump's views. No one pointed out that Britain might just as easily ban President Barack Obama on the grounds that his administration has deported record numbers of illegal immigrants, or that UK citizens have been denied entry to the United States apparently on the basis that they are Muslim. The ideal president for the Brits would be religiously agnostic, Keynesian and wary of intervention in foreign wars. In other words, we'd like America to elect a Brit.

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Input: It wasn't just Clinton who supported the Skolkovo effort. Condoleezza Rice, who was secretary of state under President George W. Bush, took her Stanford University students there in 2011. Many high-ranking figures in companies tied to Skolkovo have also donated to the Clinton Foundation. Schweizer cited Andrey Vavilov, the chairman of Skolkovo's nuclear research arm, who donated between $ 10,000 and $ 25,000 to the foundation. Podesta family ties

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Input: The liberals say tax rates do n’t matter”—for stimulating growth. “We say they do.” Trump’s team focussed, above all, on reducing the business tax rate. Moore said, “What I recommended to him is this should be your stimulus to the economy — do this in the first hundred days.” Economists’ reactions have been mixed. Paul Krugman, the left-leaning Nobel laureate, argued that the supply-side argument was refuted by a basic fact: job growth has been higher under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama than under George W. Bush. Moore counters that Reagan achieved job growth through tax cuts.

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Input: Throughout the 90's and 00's, NATO continued to expand its operations, accept new member countries, and analyze new tactics. This year they officially recognized cyber warfare as an action of war, which could trigger member countries to come to the aid of others. Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, the section compelling member nations to provide aid, was invoked for the first time in the history of the organization in the wake of 9/11. NATO countries took over anti-terrorism operations in Afghanistan, and later spread to Iraq as well. More recently, in 2011, NATO was swept into controversy when it began an 8 month bombing campaign in Libya during its uprising.

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Input: Details of the attacks come as it emerged police in the Swedish city of Ostersund had cancelled its annual energy saving “Earth Hour” event amid fears of assaults. The celebration, which would have seen street lighting switched off for an hour as apart of a global effort to conserve energy, will longer go ahead

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Input: Politico reported that a person familiar with the documents claimed they appeared to be from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which was hacked over the summer. Screenshots of the documents reveal how much banks donated to Democratic lawmakers and how much the banks received from the 2008 bailout bill called Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)." It looks like big banks and corporations agreed to donate to the Democrats a certain percentage of the allocated TARP funds," Guccifer 2.0 wrote. Guccifer 2.0 ended the post with a message to Wikileaks and Julian Assange." PS I'm pleased to congratulate Wikileaks on their 10th Anniversary," the hacker wrote.

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Input: Luckily for Baquet, his decision to go out with guns blazing did n’t deter Sulzberger — Baquet rejoined his former paper as Washington bureau chief just two months later. When asked to cut his own newsroom at the Globe, which his previous employer, the Times Company, had acquired in 1993, Baron chose a different path. He told colleagues he considered it more honorable to stay and manage the downsizing, preserving the paper’s reporting firepower to whatever extent possible, than to quit on principle. He eliminated the paper’s foreign bureaus, consolidated the print edition into four sections during the week, and trimmed judiciously from most of the other departments, while preserving the Globe’s investigative clout and salvaging some staff positions. “He’s sometimes willing to compromise,” said a former colleague.

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Input: The KN-08 is North Korea’s first mobile nuclear-armed long-range missile. Analysts say the vehicle transfers to Pakistan appear to violate China’s commitment to the 1987 Missile Technology Control Regime. The regime, an informal export control accord, prohibits signees from exporting missile components, including launchers, for nuclear systems. According to the Indian government, Pakistan’s National Engineering and Scientific Commission has set up an assembly line at the National Development Complex where missile TELs are being assembled. The Chinese missile vehicle transfer was first reported Wednesday by HIS Jane’s Defense Weekly.

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Input: There is no risk and no danger for the United States and all of us. For them, the greatest military build-up on the borders of Russia since World War Two has not happened. On May 11, Romania went “live” with a Nato “missile defence” base that aims its first-strike American missiles at the heart of Russia, the world’s second nuclear power. In Asia, the Pentagon is sending ships, planes and special forces to the Philippines to threaten China. The US already encircles China with hundreds of military bases that curve in an arc up from Australia, to Asia and across to Afghanistan.

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Input: "Yes," James responded, although she said she couldn't be certain whether any Russian officials were directly benefiting from the sales. Disengaging from use of the Russian engines is a priority but also far more complicated than it appears, James said. She recommended a stockpile of 18 of the RD-180s until an equally capable American-made space launch vehicle can be tested and fielded. James also said she asked senior Pentagon officials on Wednesday to work with other federal agencies to ensure that purchase of the engines does not conflict with U.S. sanctions. The Pentagon has actively tried to undermine the committee's direction to limit that risk and end the use of the Russian RD-180 engines by the end of this decade, McCain said.

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Input: (Joel Kowsky / NASA) Upon landing in Houston on Thursday morning, Kelly was greeted by his girlfriend (who works in NASA’s communications department) and his two daughters, as well as his twin brother and sister-in-law, former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.). The last time Scott Kelly came home from the ISS, it was two months after Giffords had been the victim of a near-fatal assassination attempt. Kelly has cited this period — when he was unable to return home to be with his family — as the time when the isolation of spaceflight felt most profound. In addition to the gathered family, Kelly was welcomed by second lady Jill Biden, who brought apple pie and beer for the astronaut.

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Input: The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has previously proposed setting limits on the duration that pilots can fly. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's Steve Rosenberg:" All that remains of the aircraft is debris scattered across a Russian airfield" "The attitude among crew before this crash was that it's a case of when, not if, there would be an accident," one of the pilots said." We were asking ' do we have to lose an aircraft ' for things to change? So staff, while shocked, are not surprised.

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Input: Turkish warplanes killed 20 Daesh terrorists and destroyed three buildings as well as a vehicle and a motorcycle of the terror group in northern Syria late on Saturday, the Turkish General Staff said on Sunday. The warplanes bombarded Daesh targets south of Tell al Hawa in northern Syria between 7:38 – 7:44 p.m. local time, the written statement said. The region lies to the east of the town of Al-Rai. The airstrike that came less than two days before a U.S.-Russia agreement on a ceasefire in Syria takes effect.

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Input: Julian Assange, founder of the platform hosting the documents, has said that WikiLeaks will continue to publish sensitive files "every week for the next 10 weeks". The US government believes that hackers affiliated with the Russian government are responsible for the initial hacking of numerous political entities. After being officially accused, President Vladimir Putin rejected the suggestion of Kremlin involvement.

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Input: The U.S.’s most popular third-party presidential candidate says he would “consider” pardoning the highest profile convicts of computer-related crimes in the country, including Chelsea Manning, Ross Ulbricht, and Jeremy Hammond. Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson, a former governor of New Mexico, also reiterated his possible willingness to pardon Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency analyst who gave a cache of agency documents to journalists in 2013. Snowden currently resides in Russia, which granted him temporary asylum after the U.S. charged him with violating the Espionage Act.

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Input: An employee of a Belgian state-funded charity who was denied entry into Israel said that its supporters were “inflating” Belgium’s anti-Semitism problem to distract from the Palestinian issue. Brigitte Herremans, who works as a Middle East expert for the Catholic groups Pax Christi and Broederlijk Delen, made the assertion Monday during a radio interview about her Aug. 9 experience at Ben Gurion Airport, where she was leading a group of activists seeking to “experience” life in the West Bank. Relevant to your professional network?

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Input: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States of threatening Russia’s national security Sunday, saying Washington had taken “aggressive steps,” the RIA news agency reported. He made the comments in an interview with Russia’s Channel One to be aired in full later Sunday. A transcript of the interview was made available in advance of broadcast on Russia’s foreign ministry website Lavrov accused Washington of “Russophobia.” "We've noted a fundamental change of circumstances concerning the aggressive Russophobia that is currently the foundation of U.S. politics on Russia,” he said. “We're talking not just rhetorical Russophobia, but aggressive steps that really affect our national interests, threaten our security."

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Input: Meanwhile, groups of Russian fans are being deported from France as a result of trouble at the tournament. A bus carrying fans was stopped in a police operation near Cannes on Tuesday. Officials said 43 Russian supporters had been arrested and would be charged, released or expelled from the country. Russian supporters from the bus were later transferred to a Marseille police station where the fans were expected to be held overnight. Russia coach Leonid Slutsky, whose team still have to play Wales and Slovakia, is confident his squad will not be excluded.

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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: Two children were killed and at least five others wounded by the napalm-like incendiary weapons, Nedal said. Photos showed the charred remains of two children, identified as Hamzah, a four-year-old boy, and Ayah, a seven-month-old girl." We have had two child fatalities and another five children were seriously wounded by the use of napalm," Osama Abou Zeid, the head of the Homs Media Centre, told Al Jazeera." At least 20 adults have also been injured by napalm," Abou Zeid said. Homs ' al-Waer neighbourhood has been under government siege for more than three years, with residents of the rebel-held area deprived of food and aid supplies while also being prevented from leaving due to heavy shelling and bombardment.

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Input: FBI director James Comey would not comment Thursday when asked directly by Congress, under oath, whether his department is still investigating Hillary Clinton in connection with possible corruption related to the Clinton Foundation. Comey had announced Tuesday that he would not recommend prosecuting Hillary Clinton for mishandling classified information, despite the fact that her behavior was “extremely careless.” advertisement

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Input: He also too easily assumes that he will remain in control of what he started; this, too, is something we’ve seen before. When the Kremlin decided to intervene in Ukraine’s Donbass region, arming local malcontents and sending men and guns to back them, it must have looked like a shrewd tactic. Kiev, the thinking went, would be forced to capitulate, and Moscow could claim not to be involved. More than two years later, Russia is still mired in a vicious and bitter conflict, bankrolling the thuggish pseudo-states of Donetsk and Luhansk out of a shrinking state budget. In some ways, the story of Putin’s foray into American politics follows the same trajectory.

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Input: Investigators inspect a damaged car at the site where journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed by a car bomb in central Kiev, Ukraine, July 20, 2016. REUTERS / Valentyn Ogirenko An investigator inspects a damaged car at the site where journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed by a car bomb in central Kiev, Ukraine, July 20, 2016. REUTERS / Valentyn Ogirenko Journalist Pavel Sheremet talks on the air at a radio station in Kiev, Ukraine, October 11, 2015.

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Input: You can mark it down. You can put it down." When informed that Putin invaded Crimea -- an autonomous part of Ukraine -- two years ago to annex it to Russia, Trump responded," Well, he's there in a certain way. But I'm not there yet; Obama is there. And frankly, that whole part of the world is a mess under Obama.

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Input: He faces a nine-count federal indictment on computer hacking charges and, according to both Romanian and U.S. officials, is expected to be in the country for 18 months. A spokesman for the FBI’s Washington Field Office, which led the Guccifer investigation, had no comment on the extradition, the timing, and any potential intersection with the Clinton email probe. On or about March 31, Lazar was extradited 3,700 miles to Alexandria from a prison in Arad, Romania, where he has been serving a seven-year sentence for hacking crimes committed in his native country. His targets in Romania were prominent government officials and political figures whom he often taunted under the name of Micul Fum or “Little Smoke.” Following his 2014 conviction, Lazar was effectively neutralized in prison and no longer a threat, which makes his transfer to the U.S. all the more noteworthy.

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Input: And that is what scares many retired officers the most. “I don't think that Donald Trump will listen to the generals. He's said that he knows more about ISIS than the generals and more recently hinted that he would fire a number of the senior generals if he were elected president,” said retired Army Col. Peter Mansoor, a 26-year veteran who served as Petraeus’s executive officer in Iraq during the surge. “So much for getting the best military advice; what he will get in that case is a bunch of yes men (and women).” Barno, the former top commander in Afghanistan, said Trump’s talk about stepping up the fight against ISIS — something many active-duty officers oppose — likely reflects the influence of Flynn and another retired officer, Lt. Gen. William Boykin.

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Input: “There’s been a tendency for decent liberal people to capitulate. I talked to a woman who was a schools inspector. She said she knew for a fact that there were many girls being sent to the north of England to be mutilated, that the police were turning a blind eye.” The failure to prosecute some “honour killings” is “deeply wrong”. And allowing segregated seating at political meetings or university events is simply “pandering”, he says.

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Input: Earlier in September, figures suggested South Korea's domestic and export car sales hit a seven-year low of just over 250,000 in August. The figures followed strikes by workers at Hyundai and Kia throughout the summer. Unions demanded bigger wage increases, while a temporary tax cut on new car purchases was canceled in late July. The world's top four car producers are China, the United States, Japan and Germany. Germany's Volkswagen became the global leader in car sales in April this year.

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Input: By this metric, Trump’s claims of the U.S. paying a disproportionate share, or “a lion’s share,” are wildly exaggerated. The U.S. pays the most, but not significantly more than the next country — and the formula for calculating the different shares is reasonable. On the other hand, if Trump is talking about indirect spending on NATO, which exceeds direct funding, he begins to have a point. U.S. officials have long complained that other NATO members are not pulling their weight in the alliance; President Obama recently asserted to Atlantic Monthly’s Jeffrey Goldberg that some European allies are “free riders,” a term that Trump echoed in his CNN interview. NATO documents show that a majority of NATO members fail to meet NATO’s guideline, established in 2006, that defense expenditures should amount to 2 percent of each country’s gross domestic product.

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Input: Within a few years he was assembling teams that spied, stole, and smeared on behalf of presidential campaigns across Latin America. He was n’t cheap, but his services were extensive. For $ 12,000 a month, a customer hired a crew that could hack smartphones, spoof and clone Web pages, and send mass e-mails and texts. The premium package, at $ 20,000 a month, also included a full range of digital interception, attack, decryption, and defense. The jobs were carefully laundered through layers of middlemen and consultants.

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Input: Hide Caption 7 of 24 Photos: In the U.S. Air Force fleet A-10 Thunderbolt – The A-10 Thunderbolt jets, nicknamed "Warthogs," are specially designed for close air support of ground forces. Key to their armaments is a 30 mm Gatling gun. The pilot is protected from ground fire by titanium armor, and the plane's fuel cells are self-sealing in case of puncture. Hide Caption 8 of 24 Photos: In the U.S. Air Force fleet RC-135U – The RC-135U Combat Sent, based at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, provides strategic electronic reconnaissance information to the president, secretary of defense, Department of Defense leaders and theater commanders. Hide Caption 9 of 24 Photos: In the U.S. Air Force fleet An F-15 Eagle takes off from the Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, flight line as two E-3 Sentries are seen in the background.

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Input: Over the last year, the presumptive presidential nominee has feuded with his party's last two standard-bearers, John McCain John McCainGOP defense spending battle delays Republican budget Otto Warmbier, US student held in North Korea for 17 months, dies What the next round of American military base closures will look like MORE and Mitt Romney. Neither is expected to campaign for him. Trump has also feuded with the Bush family and GOP stars 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 and Marco Rubio Marco RubioOvernight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays Senators ask administration to probe possible Russian takeover of Citgo Week ahead: Obama DHS chief to testify on Russian meddling MORE, both of whom he defeated in the primary. Clinton campaign spokesman Jesse Ferguson took to Twitter on Thursday to highlight the expected lack of support for Trump from former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

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Input: The driver of the vehicle survived the blast — suggesting it originated in the middle of the bus. The incident comes at a highly sensitive time for landlocked Armenia, which has not experienced any major terrorist incidents since the 1990s. Four days of clashes between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops in early April in Nagorno-Karabakh claimed over 100 fatalities — the greatest loss of life in the conflict since a 1994 ceasefire ended a bloody ethnic war that erupted in the dying days of the Soviet Union. The violence threatens to destabilize a sensitive region bordered by Turkey, Russia and Iran. Photo: REUTERS / Vahan Stepanyan / PAN Photo

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Input: Aside from a lack of physical space in courtrooms, there is a shortage of judges and prosecutors to hear cases. Consequently, with just two or three hearings a year, inmates’ trials can take years, even decades. There are 3,800 inmates at the jail, which was built six decades ago to house 800, and they engage in a relentless contest for space (AFP / Getty)" Posting bail is often not an option because most of those who run afoul of the law are poor," Phelim Kine, Asia deputy director for Human Rights Watch, told The Independent." And even if they can afford bail, the majority of detainees in most of these jails face drug charges that are non-bailable."

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