Input: Rescue workers and rights groups say Russia's bombing in Syria has killed scores of civilians at busy market places and in residential areas. Russia denies this. The Kremlin launched its air strikes saying it wanted to help Assad, its main Middle East ally, defeat Islamic State and other militant groups." We are not convinced of what the Russian intentions are," the official said on condition of anonymity." For a while, very few strikes were going against ISIL and after a lot of public condemnation they turned a number of strikes against ISIL," the official said, referring to Islamic State, the militant group that controls territory in Syria and Iraq.

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Input: “That’s when we knew it was the Russians,” said a Democratic Party source who has knowledge of the internal probe into the hacked emails. In order to stem the damage, the source said, “we told her to stop her research.” A Yahoo spokesman said the pop-up warning to Chalupa “appears to be one of our notifications” and said it was consistent with a new policy announced by Yahoo on its Tumblr page last December to notify customers when it has strong evidence of “state sponsored” cyberattacks. “Rest assured we only send these notifications of suspected attacks by state-sponsored actors when we have a high degree of confidence,” wrote Bob Lord, the company’s Chief Information Security Officer, in the Tumblr post. View photos Screengrab of the Yahoo security warning.

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Input: Nor is this stance inconsistent with recapturing the ground lost in the weeks since he was running even with Hillary Clinton. The twin imperatives for the Trump campaign are simple ones. They must recreate in the public mind that Hillary Clinton, who 56 percent of the nation thought should have been indicted for lying in the server scandal and who two-thirds of the nation said was dishonest or untrustworthy. Second, Trump must convince the country, as he had almost done by Cleveland, that he is an acceptable, indeed, a preferable alternative. While the assignment is simple, as Ronald Reagan reminded us, there may be simple answers, but there are no easy ones.

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Input: Another Trump voter, Dan Bowman, told the Boston Globe: “If she’s in office, I hope we can start a coup. She should be in prison or shot. That’s how I feel about it.

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Input: He has done the bare minimum — send a few hundred special operations forces to Syria, order some additional airstrikes — he thinks he can get away with. He looks like he’s “doing something” while really not doing much at all, particularly given the obscenely restrictive rules of engagement. After the November Paris attack, I wrote, “ISIS certainly intends to strike the U.S. homeland, so unless it is annihilated, it’s just a matter of time before it will be able to carry out a domestic attack of the kind it recently executed in Paris, Beirut and aboard a Russian jetliner.” Sadly, this was prescient. We must fight this war the way we fought the Nazis in World War II and Soviet communists during the cold war: comprehensively and strategically, using every available military, economic, ideological, diplomatic, cyber and religious lever.

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Input: In this week's Headliner, we speak to Russian activist and Putin critic Garry Kasparov, who says the West needs to take a tougher stance on Russia and support Ukraine with weapons. Reality Check: Brazil's Dilma impeachment: A case study in hypocrisy? This week Brazil moved one step closer to removing Dilma Rousseff from office after the Senate voted to indict the suspended president over charges of violating fiscal laws. The move means the Senate will go ahead with Rousseff's trial, which is expected to begin at the end of August. Rousseff calls the ongoing impeachment proceedings a "coup".

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Input: But because of Edward Snowden, we now know the head of US intelligence was lying to the Senate committee responsible for intelligence oversight. Programs concealed from the citizenry have been declared unconstitutional by federal courts. For the first time, the country has the minimal information necessary to grapple with the benefits and dangers of a surveillance apparatus far more vast and intrusive even than the one Senator Frank Church warned 40 years ago could lead to the eradication of privacy and the imposition of tyranny. Surely in a democracy, the people have a right to know about the implementation of programs with risks as vast as that. Surely in a democracy, the people have a need to know.

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Input: The Palm Beach, Florida police and the FBI both investigated charges that Epstein consorted with underage girls used for prostitution. Court documents show that police found a ' clear indication that Epstein's staff was frequently working to schedule multiple young girls between the ages of 12 and 16 years old literally every day, often two or three times per day. ' One victim said under oath that Epstein molested her at least 50 times, beginning when she was 13. She said she and other girls were lured to Epstein's home with promises of hundreds of dollars for modeling or for massaging him. But once they were at his house, she said, Epstein ordered them to disrobe and massage his naked body – while he masturbated and abused them with sex toys.

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Input: His “America First” campaign theme has far deeper roots in the history of this country than most pundits are acknowledging. Indeed, Trump should n’t be dismissed as a mere apostate in his view of America’s role in the world; against the backdrop of all 239 years of America’s existence, he represents more a reversion to the American norm. Trump, in condemning one of the worst instances of American overreach in U.S. history, the Iraq invasion, declared in his speech: “The world must know we do not go abroad in search of enemies.” The line was an allusion to the famous injunction of John Quincy Adams in 1821 that America "does not go in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.” Adams went on to warn, somewhat presciently, America should know that “once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself, beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.

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Input: MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian military is considering the possibility of regaining its Soviet-era bases on Cuba and in Vietnam, the Defense Ministry said Friday, a statement that comes amid growing U.S.-Russia tensions over Syria. Deputy Defense Minister Nikolai Pankov told lawmakers Friday that the ministry is considering the possibility of establishing footholds far away from Russia's borders. Responding to a lawmaker's question if the military could return to Cuba and Vietnam, Pankov said the military is "reviewing" a decision to withdraw from them, but didn't offer any specifics." As for our presence on faraway outposts, we are doing this work," he said. In 2001, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the military to pull back from Cuba and Vietnam as he sought to bolster ties with the United States.

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Input: "Planned Parenthood’s brave medical professionals and staff members know all too well how violent rhetoric can lead to real tragedy." It’s a pattern that abortion providers in particular have seen play out time and again. Public figures or advocates demonize a person or group as a loathsome, inhuman monster, often using violent imagery and righteous rhetoric — like comparing abortion to slavery, or saying it’s worse than the Holocaust. Then when someone commits the act of violence that many people would consider an appropriate response to such extreme atrocities (who would n’t kill Hitler if they had the chance?), those same public figures react with shock and say that no one could have predicted this.

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Input: GETTY Russia told its citizens to find their nearest nuclear bunker amid WW3 fears A terrifying Russian television broadcast explicitly told civilians to find out where their nearest bomb shelter is and repeatedly asked viewers if they were ready for nuclear war. One apocalyptic broadcast told viewers on Moscow's state-owned TV channel NTV:" If it should one day happen, every one of you should know where the nearest bomb shelter is. It’s best to find out now." The enraged host, Evgeny Kiselyov, blasted America's "impudent behaviour" and spent two hours warning that a conflict could take "nuclear dimensions".

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Input: Four more years of this? No way!" During his subsequent telephone interview with "Fox & Friends," Trump said Clinton's insistence that his temporary ban on Muslims promoted terrorism "one of the dumber statements I ever heard." "I just think it's absolutely dumb," Trump said when asked why." In fact, if anything, it's just the opposite because they're going to have to learn we can't take this anymore.

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Input: As a doctor you would n’t just throw a diagnosis at people without a treatment plan. The ‘catastrophism’ charge is just dumb. You can not fight life-threatening illnesses or life-threatening environmental problems or militarism or the rest unless you’re clear about both the extent of the problem and how to fix it.” A key thing “left” critics of “catastrophism” fail to appreciate, Stein added, is that climate change is “eminently fixable.” Affordable technologies and methods for a sustainable, zero-carbon renewable economy are now in place. The real problem is political -- the “corporate stranglehold” and “oligarchy” that we can break by going beyond the self-fulfilling “politics of fear” to form a great independent social and political movement for transformative social, political, economic, and environmental justice.

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Input: Sweden took in more than 160,000 asylum applications last year, by far the largest number in proportion to its population of 9.5 million, approximately equal to the population of Michigan or North Carolina. Sweden followed Denmark in closing the door to refugees. Sweden now requires identification of each migrant, and says it will confiscate the assets of arrivals to pay for their accommodation. Norway has begun deporting arriving migrants through its Arctic border with Russia. The interior minister of Finland, with its long history of resisting Russian aggression, says it will expel about two-thirds of the 32,000 asylum seekers it originally accepted in 2015.

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Input: The second former member who spoke to The Daily Beast (and also asked to not use his name because of concerns about his family) said that corporal punishment is rampant. He told me he was hit 30 to 40 times a day growing up in the church." I remember getting whipped so hard I didn't know if I was going to survive. I couldn't breath, I was gasping for air." They used to teach that anyone in the group could spank any children, so some random, creepy motherfucker could grab you and beat your ass."

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Input: — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 1, 2016 You were “dead broke” when you exited the White House, then bartered influence for donations to the scam Clinton Foundation. Trump's candidacy is built on his business "credibility." But his business record matches his character: His only concern is his own profit. — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 1, 2016

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Input: “Several sections of the speech were intended as a return to several foreign policy directives from our founding generation,” he said. Among them were a “Hamiltonian emphasis on having financial independence through manufacturing,” and “seeking to avoid complex foreign entanglements.” Most modern internationalists, both Democratic and Republican, have long since relegated John Quincy’s injunction to history, that of a 19th century America that was still a developing country and wanted only to be left alone. The internationalists have been, until now, so dominant and sure of themselves and the postwar system that in recent years no one has questioned it (though the unilateralist George W. Bush administration did an effective job of largely ignoring its institutions — especially NATO — in its first term). Unwinding this system today is almost unthinkable: American power overlays every region of the planet, and it supplies the control rods that restrain belligerents and arms races from East Asia to Latin America (if not always successfully, as we’ve seen in the Mideast and Afghanistan).

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Input: The State Department spokesman, John Kirby, declined to comment on the memo, which top officials had just received. But he said Mr. Kerry respected the process as a way for employees “to express policy views candidly and privately to senior leadership.” Robert S. Ford, a former ambassador to Syria, said, “Many people working on Syria for the State Department have long urged a tougher policy with the Assad government as a means of facilitating arrival at a negotiated political deal to set up a new Syrian government.” Mr. Ford, who is now a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, resigned from the Foreign Service in 2014 out of frustration with the administration’s hands-off policy toward the conflict. In the memo, the State Department officials wrote that the Assad government’s continuing violations of the partial cease-fire, known as a cessation of hostilities, will doom efforts to broker a political settlement because Mr. Assad will feel no pressure to negotiate with the moderate opposition or other factions fighting him.

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Input: advertisement Under the supervision of Obama crony and Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker — a billionaire heiress and campaign bundler with no technological experience, and a history of failure in the subprime loans industry — the administration has ignored critics of the plan. They point out that transferring control of domain names to a body like the UN’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU) could leave autocratic nations like Russia, China, and even Iran in charge of the world’s most important free medium. Breitbart News noted in 2014: U.S. control of domain names has guaranteed freedom of speech and commerce across the Internet, against the strenuous efforts of countries like China and Iran to suppress Internet traffic and content.

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Input: "All forms of terrorism are bad. All forms of terrorism are evil," Erdogan said, then mentioned the names of a Kurdish group with which the US is allied in Syria but is regarded by Ankara as a terrorist organization. As he headed to Laos, Obama professed to being undeterred by the unpredictable unfriendly international environment at the end of his presidency." I think we all to have recognize these are turbulent times. A lot of countries are seeing volatile politics," he said at his news conference.

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Input: The greatest threat to our homeland security today is the National Rifle Association, a front group for the firearms industry that derails gun-safety measures and perversely profits with each new mass shooting. Related 7 Things That Are Harder to Get Than an Assault Weapon In Florida, it's easier to obtain a gun than an abortion Responding to Orlando — the deadliest attack by a gunman in our history — the NRA blamed the massacre on "the Obama administration's political correctness" and not the terrorist's access to "so-called ' assault weapons '" — while advertising that "semi-automatics are the most popular firearms sold in America for sport-shooting, hunting and self-defense." Make no mistake: The NRA paved the way for the Orlando attack, during which Omar Mateen killed at least 49 people. Here's how:

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Input: “It would be a farewell to arms control. And the Middle East would soon be crisscrossed by nuclear tripwires. A region where small skirmishes can trigger big wars would turn into a nuclear tinderbox.” As yet, no bigger wars have been triggered by the Iran deal, and early indications show the deal will have a positive impact on strengthening relations with the West. But as a report by PressTV alleges, the Israel lobby paid off Republican Senators in Congress to oppose the deal.

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Input: We sought further comment from the Trump Organization about the basis for Trump’s claim, but did not receive a response. The Pinocchio Test Trump’s remarks are artfully deceiving. He says he had nothing to do with Russia, pointing only to a Florida real estate sale. It may be possible that he has no current investments in Russia, but not for lack of trying.

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Input: Under the chronic duress of hypervigilance and paranoia, both the sheeple and the so-called “awakened” can become more easily controlled, and certainly the trusting diehards will automatically be predisposed to seek protection and security in the face of real or perceived rising dangers from their Big Brother government, the very same perpetrator responsible for their mass brainwashing, mind control and pervasive harm. That said when bits and pieces of information are leaked and astute observers who are aware of historical patterns of deceptive US government behavior repeated ad nauseam by our enslavers, a clear picture of connected dots emerges of what may actually be unfolding. And it’s with this intent that the current presentation has been assembled. It will ultimately be up to the reader to process this information to decide if it’s true or not. Perhaps the anonymous source to the “Russians Are Coming” story is but part of the Clinton-Obama blitzkrieg falsely blaming Putin for everything gone wrong in this world as yet more propaganda used to justify a US war against Russia.

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Input: Obama's project — dubbed his Asia pivot — has yielded uneven results, as conflict in the Middle East has continued to demand attention and China has bristled at what it views as meddling in its backyard. Obama said America's interest in the Asia-Pacific isn't new and is not a passing fad. Laotian President Bounnhang Vorachit and President Barack Obama inspect an honor guard at the Presidential Palace in Vientiane, Laos on Tuesday. Gemunu Amarasinghe / AP "The United States is more deeply engaged across the Asia-Pacific than we have been in decades," Obama said.

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Input: From the perspective of someone born in the friendly’ 50s in the USA, it has become normal to witness the uncovering of classified information over time ... Living in this day in age one would imagine that we – so connected now – could’ve found a way to share resources in a more socially responsible way. It’s absolutely perplexing to me to try to understand people involved in The Bilderberg Group, or see people, even friends and colleagues in places such as Los Angeles, spending hours and hours and hundreds of dollars bleaching their hair every week and purchasing absurdly priced designer clothing whilst in travels on the same tours through Europe and witness to young Syrian refugees or young disenfranchised children and kids in Detroit or Mexico City or even London on the streets, starved. There is an obvious and embarrassing injustice. We are grateful for the courage and the conscience of the whistleblowers.

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Input: By Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States is prepared to consider imposing sanctions or an arms embargo on South Sudan's leaders if they fail to cooperate in a proposed unity government to end conflict in the country, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday." We have everything at the table, we are prepared to look at sanctions, we're prepared to look at an arms embargo," U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, Donald Booth, told lawmakers. The fighting in South Sudan, whose 2011 secession from Sudan was supported by the United States, has torn apart the world's youngest country. The country's rebel leader Riek Machar was sworn in as first vice president on Tuesday after he returned to the capital Juba for the first time since conflict broke out two years ago.

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Input: “People do n’t come to vote on what they fear,” Stein observes. “They vote on what they’re for.” With the Teapublican right wing victories of 2010 and 2014, the corporate Democrats under Obama helped create their own excuse for failing to advance a progressive agenda: newly empowered Republican “obstruction” in Congress. Beyond Simple Identity Politics What, I asked Jill Stein, about the identity politics and gender-representation argument for Hillary Clinton -- the notion that a first female president is long overdue and that that is in and of itself a good enough reason for getting behind Hillary Clinton next fall?

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Input: Donald Trump Donald TrumpRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Press: Worse than Nixon What do Democrats stand for? MORE's running mate Indiana Gov. Mike Pence Mike (Michael) Richard PenceDems threaten to gum up Senate over ' secret ' ObamaCare bill This week: Senate plots path on healthcare Pence family adopts new kitten, puppy MORE said Tuesday that he disagrees with Speaker Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Overnight Finance: Warren to Fed: Kick out Wells Fargo board | Senators raise questions about Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi bashes GOP on budget MORE's decision to back away from Trump and is disappointed in the significant number of Republicans revoking their support. ADVERTISEMENT In an interview with NBC News ' Kelly O'Donnell, Pence said that “Paul Ryan is my friend but ...

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Input: She had a private server and secret email accounts transmit classified government information. For years. She pushed the United States to invade Libya and destabilize it, turning it into a hellhole where a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed in an organized terror attack she suggested should be blamed on a YouTube video. Hillary has a resume that would make even the most accomplished crony capitalists blush. While being president is a big job, many Americans are qualified to hold it on account of their understanding of the Constitution, prudence, experience doing their given jobs well, leadership qualities, and intellectual rigor.

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Input: Particularly since nobody was willing to back up Mrs. Clinton’s story. The White House insisted today that Mrs. Clinton received no improper financial assistance on the trades from the lawyer, James B. Blair, a close friend who at the time was the top lawyer for Tyson Foods of Springdale, Ark., the nation’s biggest poultry company. Mr. Blair has said that he had suggested that she get into the commodities market, and that he used his knowledge of trading to guide her along the way. During Mr. Clinton’s tenure as Governor, Tyson benefited from several state decisions, including favorable environmental rulings, $ 9 million in state loans, and the placement of company executives on important state boards. … brokers in the Springdale office of Refco where Mrs. Clinton executed the trades, including the one she describes as her personal broker, said in interviews in recent weeks that they have no recollection of ever talking with her about the trades.

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Input: He also said electing Clinton as president would mean four more years of Obama's policies. If that happens, Trump says, the country would be "finished." Clinton suspended her campaign Tuesday to attend the funeral in Rhode Island of her friend Mark Weiner, a Democratic party donor and fundraiser. Weiner died of cancer last week at 62. Clinton plans to resume her campaign Wednesday in Commerce City, Colorado.

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Input: 5/6 A Free Syrian Army fighter is wounded during a fight with forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in downtown Aleppo REUTERS / Goran Tomasevic 6/6 A man carries belongings from his shop destroyed by shelling from forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in downtown Aleppo REUTERS / Goran Tomasevic Inside the siege barricades, protesters gathered in the neighbourhood of Shaar on Thursday night with banners reading ‘Revolutionaries do n’t give up’, ‘No to displacement’, and ‘No to Putin’ to demand a permanent end to the shelling, rather than just a ceasefire. Similar reports emerged during last month’s US- and Russian-brokered ceasefire, when UN aid was prevented from reaching civilians inside the siege barricades both by the Syrian government, who claimed the trucks did not have permission permits from Damascus, and by protesters who gathered to block roads, demanding the siege be lifted. Analysts expect the Syrian operation to retake the entire city to intensify after the current truce ends.

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Input: 1/10 The Mini The 1959 classic, that is, perhaps our greatest piece of industrial design, a miracle of packaging and revolution in motoring. Its genius designer was Sir Alec Issigonis, who was an asylum seeker. His family, Greek, fled Smyrna when Turks invaded this borderland in around 1920, and he wound up studying engineering at Battersea Polytechnic. He went on to create that most English of motor cars, the Morris Minor, as well as the Austin-Morris 1100, all much loved products of his fertile imagination. Getty Images

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Input: A rare exception came after Mr. Trump decided to demolish a department store to make way for his Trump Tower in Midtown Manhattan. Mr. Trump’s demolition contractor hired about 200 unauthorized Polish laborers, paying them as little as $ 4 an hour to work 12 hours a day, seven days a week. The case ended up in federal court after some workers were shortchanged even these wages. Mr. Trump protested that he knew nothing about the use of unauthorized workers — even though workers testified that they saw him visiting the site and some witnesses said that Mr. Trump and the executive he assigned to oversee the demolition were well aware of what was going on. In 1991, a federal judge, Charles E. Stewart Jr., ruled that despite Mr. Trump’s denials, there was “strong evidence” that he and his subordinates and his contractor had conspired to hire the Polish workers and deprive them of employment benefits.

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Input: From the perspective of someone born in the friendly’ 50s in the USA, it has become normal to witness the uncovering of classified information over time ... Living in this day in age one would imagine that we – so connected now – could’ve found a way to share resources in a more socially responsible way. It’s absolutely perplexing to me to try to understand people involved in The Bilderberg Group, or see people, even friends and colleagues in places such as Los Angeles, spending hours and hours and hundreds of dollars bleaching their hair every week and purchasing absurdly priced designer clothing whilst in travels on the same tours through Europe and witness to young Syrian refugees or young disenfranchised children and kids in Detroit or Mexico City or even London on the streets, starved. There is an obvious and embarrassing injustice. We are grateful for the courage and the conscience of the whistleblowers.

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Input: The spike in violence in Chicago this year has been particularly vexing. Homicides in Chicago are up 49 percent, according to Chicago Police Department figures, with 441 homicides as of Monday. In comparison, Chicago recorded 473 homicides for all of 2015. So far this year, at least 2,702 people have been shot in Chicago, according to data kept by the Tribune. All of last year, there were 2,988 shooting victims.

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Input: MOSCOW, June 1 (UPI) -- Russia is extending its ban on imports of food from the EU and other countries through the end of 2017, with exceptions for meat and vegetables for baby food. The embargo, restricting imports of most food from the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia and Norway, was instituted in 2014 in response to economic sanctions placed on Russia for its military and political involvement in Ukraine. In 2015 Russian president Vladimir Putin extended the embargo through Aug. 5, 2016 and added four more countries to the list: Albania, Montenegro, Iceland and Liechtenstein. The government is preparing documents for another extension, and will deliver them to Putin, the state-owned Tass news agency said Tuesday.

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Input: Manafort ca n’t be fully blamed for this opaque situation, since he’s one of countless Washington lobbyists and PR professionals who advocate for clients without filing, whether they should or not. “There are a lot of very high-profile insiders who go to the Hill and to government agencies and you will not find them in the lobby disclosure forms,” McGehee told me. “There’s very little incentive to do so since no one ever gets prosecuted for violating the rules.” She said she’s been shopping a package of tougher lobby disclosure rules drafted by an American Bar Association panel — the last full reform took place in the mid-1990s, after more than 50 years without any significant revision — but “there’s very little appetite for reform.” Meanwhile, one lobbyist with extensive overseas experience — and who does file with the U.S. government regularly — expressed resentment that Manafort and some of his competitors do not disclose their work. “It’s a pain in the ass to file, there’s a lot of paperwork and it makes you an open book for your clients’ political enemies, but you’re supposed to do it,” he said.

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Input: A 2015 report by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research shows Thailand has the fourth highest number of women imprisoned in the world, after the United States, China and Russia." We know from meeting and interviewing prisoners, including female prisoners, in Thailand, that the impact is profoundly negative for families," said Jeremy Douglas, the UNODC's Asia-Pacific chief. One former female inmate, who declined to be named because of the social stigma attached to drug offenders in Thailand, said she was jailed for three years after being caught with 20 methamphetamine pills." My boyfriend was the dealer. I was carrying the pills for him.

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Input: The Wall Street Journal ran a full-page ad on Wednesday containing links to a Turkish project that denies the Armenian genocide – the 1915 massacre of 1.5 million people by Ottoman Turks. The newspaper says it accepts ads with “provocative viewpoints.” The ad features the words “Truth = Peace” printed in large letters and shows a hand colored like the Turkish flag holding up a peace sign, while two other hands colored like the Russian and Armenian flags have their fingers crossed.

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Input: If they are successful, it could trigger a cascade, an avalanche of similar cases in other places.” Last week, another 32 members were dismissed from the state council for nature conservation, an advisory body which had opposed the logging plan and has been accused of “inefficiency”. “We were sacked because the new government needs scientists who will applaud increased logging, to convince public opinion that this insane idea is okay,” said Przemysław Chylarecki, one of the dismissed scientists. Most of the new council member are foresters, or colleagues of the environment minister, he added. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Białowieża is home to Europe’s largest bison population.

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Input: "We are conducting a comprehensive dialog on a wide scale of international issues, in which Indian and Russian approaches are close to each other or coincide," said Putin. Modi also praised Putin's support for the fight against international terrorism, which India accuses its neighbor and rival Pakistan of sponsoring." Russia's clear stand on the need to combat terrorism mirrors our own," Modi said. MULTIPLE DEALS The Rosneft-Essar deal will be the biggest foreign takeover in India, and Russia's largest outbound deal, according to Thomson Reuters data.

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Input: It can also damage blood vessels which can later cause gangrene if left untreated 4/10 7. Crack cocaine Crack cocaine first came about in the 1980’s when cocaine became a widespread commodity within the drug trafficking world. Originally cocaine would have attracted a high price tag due to its rarity and difficulty to produce, but once it became more widespread the price dropped significantly. This resulted in drug dealers forming their cocaine into rock like shapes by using baking soda as a way of distilling the powder down into rock form.

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Input: Aleppo, Syria's largest city before the war when it had more than 2 million people, has been divided for years into rebel and government sectors and the city. In recent weeks, government forces backed by Russian air strikes have intensified their military campaign against the city's rebel-held areas. The hospital attacks come as airstrikes by the United States and France inside Syria have killed as many as 140 civilians in a northwestern city and on its outskirts over the past couple of days. The Syrian Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that French warplanes had targeted the village of Tukhan al-Kubra in the northern suburb of the city of Manbij in the Aleppo Province, killing 120 civilians. Tens of other civilians remain unaccounted for following the attack, the ministry added.

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Input: The federal Bureau of Justice Statistics once calculated, based on crime victimization rates from 1975 to 1984, the lifetime chances of being raped, robbed, or assaulted. The numbers were astounding. If crime rates remained the same (which, of course, they did n’t), 83 percent of all Americans aged 12 at the time would, in their actuarial lifetimes, be victimized by an attempted or completed violent crime, and 40 percent would be injured as a result of a robbery or assault. These are the kind of numbers that the public, media, and lawmakers worried about in the ' 60s through ' 90s. Rates of violent crime and drug use, particularly during the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, really were unusually high, as federal statistics show.

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Input: Massive industry and banking deregulation? Refreezing Cuban relations? Abandoning the Iranian nuclear agreement and reintroducing sanctions? No one, that’s who. Because the most dangerous and potentially destructive of Trump’s domestic and international agenda were goals Republicans had been championing since before Trump ever started running for office!

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Input: “The [moderate] Syrian Free Army will then be able to take back the Castello road. That is all we need. “The regime is using starvation as a weapon and the west does not seem bothered by it. Our food and water is not going to last. There is so much destruction from the Russians – the attacks are non-stop.

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Input: He said he was ready to implement a temporary truce as long as there were guarantees what he called "terrorists" would not use it to improve their positions. Separately, Amnesty International has criticised Turkey for refusing entry to some Syrians wounded in the latest fighting, urging it to keep its border open. Amnesty's crisis response director, Tirana Hassan, said:" Turkey's highly selective practice is appalling-only severely injured people are allowed entry to seek medical treatment while everyone else fleeing the violence is left unprotected."

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Input: The body of Alexander Shchetinin, founder the Novy Region (New Region) press agency, was found at his flat after friends tried to visit him on his birthday. A police spokesperson said Kiev forces were alerted of Ms Shchetinin’s death at around midnight on Saturday. He is believed to have died a few hours earlier, between 8 and 9.30pm. Officials have speculated that his death was caused by suicide, after a gun was found near his body along with spent cartridges, and the door to his apartment was said to be locked. Local news source Kyiv Operatyvni reported:" Alexander was sitting on a chair, with a gunshot wound to his head, the gun was lying under the chair.

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Input: Indeed, a kind of American exceptionalism does seem to underpin much opportunity-focused political rhetoric.” This preference for insider politics (rather than mass movements involving direct action) and limited, means-tested social programs speaks to a broader truth about modern liberalism: it functions in a way that not only does n’t challenge the basic tenets of American exceptionalism, it often reinforces them. Whether vindicating war and torture and civil liberties violations, talking past the War on Drugs and the carceral state, or exhibiting coolness toward the type of popular protest seen during of Occupy Wall Street, with its direct attacks on a sort of American Sonderweg, establishment Democrats are adept at using a more “realistic” brand of Americentrism to consolidate power and anchor the party in the status quo. Now the 2016 Democratic Primary has seen progressive ideas including universal health care, tuition-free college, and a living minimum wage, all hallmarks of large swaths of the rest of the developed world, delegitimized through some mutation of liberal exceptionalist thinking. These broadminded reforms are apparently off limits, not because they are not good ideas (though opponents make that appraisal too), but because somehow their unachievability is exceptional to the United States.

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Input: U.S. President Barack Obama said in his weekly Saturday address "no terrorist group has yet succeeded in obtaining a nuclear device or producing a dirty bomb using radioactive materials," but al-Qaida has tried. The president delivered his address from the Nuclear Security Summit where world leaders gathered to discuss what Obama described as "one of the greatest threats to global security-terrorists getting their hands on a weapon of mass destruction." Obama says Friday that global efforts to stop terrorists and others from using nuclear weapons are by "no means finished."

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Input: From calling President Barack Obama the "founder of ISIS" to saying Russia wouldn't enter the Ukraine — after it already had — Trump has complained that the media intentionally misunderstands his sarcasm, or he simply denies that he has misspoken. Trump's suggestion that crime in Chicago could be fought with tougher tactics comes on the heels of months of national turmoil and protests over use of force by police throughout the country, including Chicago. Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with murder in November in the fatal shooting of 17-year -old Laquan McDonald, and just last week the Police Department announced plans to seek the firing of seven officers for allegedly lying about the shooting. The release of a video of that shooting set off major protests in the city, prompted the firing of the department's top cop and the U.S. Justice Department's launch of a civil rights investigation of Chicago police. That federal probe is ongoing.

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Input: It’s one thing to appeal to voters by pretending to be an average guy. It’s another to be an average guy who does n’t know the first thing about governing or public policy. The Trump acolytes claim it does n’t matter; he can hire experts to advise him. But experts always disagree with one another and it is the president alone who must make the most difficult decisions in the world. That’s not something he can do since he lacks the most basic grounding in the issues and is prey to fundamental misconceptions.

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Input: But as she waited to board her return flight from Manhattan, Kan., an airline agent approached her and asked “in a condescending tone, ‘ummm, are you going to fly with that?’” the suit states. Thus began a 48-hour nightmare, in which McCombs says she was unable to return to her home in Gulfport, Miss., while she was repeatedly interrogated, stressed and humiliated, causing her mental health to suffer. After missing her scheduled flight, the suit claims, McCombs was “verbally assaulted” by two agents who loudly demanded, in “rapid succession,” that she tell them the nature of her disability and explain how her service dog helps. Their conduct implied that McCombs was falsifying her disability, the suit claims, adding that their tone was so harsh that strangers began scolding the agents and trying to comfort McCombs. “I have PTSD, look at me, I’m an anxious mess!” McCombs replied, according to the suit filed in federal court in Mississippi on Monday,

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Input: "In terms of the political battle that we're seeing play out right now, the White House is saying the Republicans have no business obstructing a nominee the president puts forward. But I'm asking if the president, as a Senator, participating in a filibuster against a duly elected president's nominee to the Supreme Court. Did the president not lay the groundwork for the Republicans obstructing him on this?" Kornacki asked Ogletree." He might have," Ogletree responded.

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Input: Google’s “Project Loon” aims to provide internet access to populations in the global south using wireless access points mounted on fleets of high-altitude balloons and aerial drones, having acquired the drone companies Titan Aerospace and Makani Power. Facebook, which bid against Google for Titan Aerospace, has similar aspirations, having acquired the UK-based aerial drone company Ascenta. See Adi Robertson, “Google X ‘moonshots lab’ buys flying wind turbine company Makani Power,” Verge, 22 May 2013, archive.today/gsnio. See also the Project Loon website: archive.today/4ok7L. See also Sean Hollister, “Google nabs drone company Facebook allegedly wanted to buy,” Verge, 14 April 2014, archive.today/hc0kr.

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Input: “There’s got to be a landing strip. There’s got to be a cushion — and there’s not for these kids. We don't need Bible reeducation, we need a helping hand out of the mess so that we can build a solid support system to help the children and ex-members.” * * * The former female member I spoke with, said one of her first memories was of being beaten so badly with a 2x4 that she went home black and blue from her neck to her kneecaps.

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Input: Facts have rarely gotten in the way of dubious suggestions about Clinton's health. In a letter released Wednesday, her physician made a point of stating that the candidate "is in excellent mental condition." Here -- quite apart from any legitimate concern stemming from her recent illness -- are a few of the more ludicrous and resilient theories: Whatever might be wrong, it's now being covered up by ... a body double! In the aftermath of the Sunday incident, web sleuths turned up a series of images they believe show the Clinton campaign used a "body double" to reassure the public and trick the press.

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Input: The memo, likely one of many intelligence reports on what was then an incipient civil war, does not necessarily reflect the consensus of U.S. intelligence agencies then or now. In denouncing Obama's response to the threat of radical Islamic terrorism on Monday, Trump said in a telephone interview on Fox News that the president either "doesn't get it or he gets it better than anybody understands." Trump later barred the Washington Post from covering his rallies after the newspaper ran an article about those comments with the headline," Donald Trump suggests President Obama was involved with Orlando shooting." “Based on the incredibly inaccurate coverage and reporting of the record setting Trump campaign, we are hereby revoking the press credentials of the phony and dishonest Washington Post,” Trump posted on Facebook Monday, pointing to the Orlando story. Authors:

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Input: The United States military said the coalition stopped the attacks against what it had believed to be Islamic State positions in northeast Syria after Russia informed it that Syrian military personnel and vehicles may have been hit. The United States relayed its "regret" through the Russian government for what it described as the unintentional loss of life of Syrian forces in the strike, a senior Obama administration official said in an emailed statement. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in an emailed statement that Russian officials did not voice concerns earlier on Saturday when informed that coalition aircraft would be operating in the strike area. The 15-member Security Council met on Saturday night after Russia demanded an emergency session to discuss the incident and accused the United States of jeopardizing the Syria deal. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, chastised Russia for the move.

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Input: During the bombing in that area, 20,000 refugees lived in the quarries. Hide Caption 18 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures U.S. troops assault Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944. On D-Day, Allied forces landed on five beaches -- Utah, Omaha, Juno, Gold and Sword -- taking the first step in establishing the Western Front in Europe. The landing included more than 5,000 ships, 11,000 airplanes and 150,000 soldiers.

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Input: USA Swimming Executive Director Chuck Wielgus makes $ 854,000, and national swim team director Frank Busch makes $ 346,000; their swimmers competing in Rio next month can make monthly stipends that cap at $ 42,000 per year. USA Triathlon CEO Rob Urbach makes $ 362,000 while Team USA triathletes compete for stipends that range from about $ 20,000 to $ 40,000 a year. The coach of the USA Rowing women’s team makes $ 237,000 while his rowers vie for stipends that max out at about $ 20,000 per year. (U.S. Olympic athletes are given an additional stipend if they win a gold, silver or bronze medal.) “I’ve never thought it was fair,” said rower Caroline Lind, a two-time gold medalist who recently retired after a back injury.

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Input: But other Republicans say it's not a good idea for him to spend any time at all in New York, which Hillary Clinton represented in the Senate for eight years. 2) A legal win for Democrats Democrats are big fans of same-day voting registration and early voting, and are thrilled with court decisions this past week they believe will help their turnout efforts this November. JUST WATCHED Could the NC ruling tilt the Tar Heel state for Clinton? Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Could the NC ruling tilt the Tar Heel state for Clinton?

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Input: "But unfortunately the banks have him. Goldman Sachs will call, ‘Ted, this is what we want this week, make sure you get it. Remember the loan you got, Ted.’" Trump also confirmed that he asked Fox News to give a $ 5 million donation to veterans groups before he would consider attending Thursday’s debate. A network representative told The Hill in a statement that it would not accept a “quid-pro-quo.”

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Input: (Most people agree the auction was a clever — and successful — ploy to attract attention.) See also: These 10 Companies Are the Top Cybersecurity Startup Acquirers Meanwhile, whistleblowing website WikiLeaks also said that it had acquired and would publish a copy of the "cyber weapons" cache shortly. We had already obtained the archive of NSA cyber weapons released earlier today and will release our own pristine copy in due course. -WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 16, 2016

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Input: [After the Wars: A legacy of pain and pride] Army officials say McCombs enlisted in 2005 and did tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. By the time she was honorably discharged, in 2009, she had reached the rank of captain, according to military records. McCombs received multiple awards for service, including the Afghanistan Campaign Medal with Campaign Star, the NATO Afghanistan Service Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. The Department of Veterans Affairs has estimated that PTSD afflicts 11 percent of veterans of the war in Afghanistan and 20 percent of veterans of the war in Iraq.

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Input: Roosevelt died on April 12, 1945, in Warm Springs, Georgia, just weeks before Germany's surrender. Hide Caption 26 of 38 Photos: World War II in pictures Harry S. Truman takes the oath of office on April 12, 1945, as he becomes the 33rd president of the United States. Standing beside him are his wife, Bess, and daughter Margaret. Hide Caption 27 of 38

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Input: They may be on the point of abandoning much of Aleppo province, with the latest reports speaking of senior figures leaving the main IS-controlled town there, Manbij. The seriousness of the situation-even the possibility of defeat-was acknowledged in late December in an audio message purportedly from IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi." If we are victorious then God has promised it to us," he said." But let us not get bewildered if death, injuries and defeat overcome us because it's God's promise to us as well." ' Muslim against Muslim '

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Input: I know you voted for McCain in 2000 and in 2008 in part for that very reason. I don't agree with many of McCain's politics but I hope that when tested, I could exhibit one iota of the courage that that man has. And yet here we are discussing a Republican candidate who insulted John McCain in front of the entire world -- claiming that John McCain isn't a hero because he was captured and spent time in a POW camp. Donald Trump, who got out of serving with a series of draft deferments, said he only likes the veterans "that weren't captured." That this pathetic encounter has been nearly forgotten in the campaign is not because Donald addressed it or apologized, but rather because nearly every day since he either said something worse or piled on with some other obscene gesture or gaffe.

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Input: “Seizures? Really?” As we drove through the vacated lot, we passed abandoned trailers with doors flung open, tall grass pockmarked with holes where mailboxes once stood. Unable to pay an astronomical water bill, Sharon had been forced to close the trailer park, giving residents a month’s notice and provoking their resentment. In truth, Sharon felt relief.

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Input: Russia and Georgia already deal with mosquito-borne diseases such as malaria, said WHO officials. Asked whether they were engaging with WHO on the issue of Zika, Dr Nedret Emiroglu, who heads WHO Europe’s division of communicable diseases and health security, said: “We are in close touch with them.” they and Madeira have been invited to a meeting in Portugal in June to discuss the control of Zika across the region. Countries with a high or moderate risk are being urged to take stronger measures to stop the spread of mosquitoes and reduce their numbers, including encouraging communities to get rid of pooled water that can form a breeding ground. Health professionals should be trained and equipped to detect Zika infection and report it within 24 hours. Pregnant women should be enabled to protect themselves from infection, including through sexual transmission.

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Input: Dan Sanchez reports: The Saudis Go Full ISIS In Their US-Backed Takfiri War on the Shia Saudi Arabia has perpetrated a mass execution that puts ISIS’s beach beheadings to shame. Forty-seven heads rolled on Saturday. One of them belonged to Nimr al-Nimr, a revered Shi’ite cleric who had been sentenced to death for sermons in which he criticized the government (especially for its persecution of the country’s Shi’ite minority).

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Input: "The only thing I would add is to simply say she had a private account on a public server before becoming SecState and continued to use it when she became SecState. On the other hand this might to lead to questions about the basement," Powell said. JUST WATCHED Report: Colin Powell advised Clinton on email Replay More Videos ... MUST WATCH Report: Colin Powell advised Clinton on email 01:59 On August 28, he said that Clinton "could have killed this two years ago by merely telling everyone honestly what she had done and not tie me into it. I told her staff three times not to try that gambit."

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Input: The third plane, a Saudi F-15, came down in international waters in the Gulf of Aden at the start of the war, with officials citing mechanical issues. A second source, who has close links with the Saudi intelligence service, said that the missile which brought down the Emirati jet this month was acquired by AQAP in raids on military bases that have occurred over the past year. “Al Qaeda has confiscated huge amounts of weapons from bases in Yemen,” he said. He cited two such bases, one at al-Aryan along the southern coast east of Aden and another at Ataq, the capital of the southern governorate of Shabwah. Using alliances with local tribes, al-Qaeda now controls the oil rich governorate of Hadhramaut together with the coastal city of Mukalla.

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Input: Even with the growing tensions in American-Russian relations, the United States has argued that agreements regarding weapons of mass destruction should be sacrosanct because they are in both sides’ interest, the official said. “The Kremlin has not bought that argument,” said the official, who requested anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations. Mr. Putin’s decision to withdraw from the treaty may not have much practical effect beyond depriving each side of the opportunity to verify what the other is doing. The Russians had interpreted the treaty as requiring that the plutonium be irreversibly transformed into nonexplosive materials by being used in civilian nuclear power plants as mixed oxide fuel, or mox. Russia has signaled that it plans to press ahead with that undertaking despite Mr. Putin’s order today.

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Input: Islamic State uses fear and coercion. It’s flashy and seeks a lot of attention but al-Qaeda is laying low and playing the long game.” The source also said that what he called “co-operative army officers” were making it easy for the jihadists to get weapons, many of them supplied by the Americans to the Yemeni army during the presidency of Ali Abdullah Saleh. Mr Saleh who ruled Yemen with an iron hand for several decades was forced out in 2012 in the wake of popular protests. The source claimed that soldiers loyal to Mr Saleh, who is allied to the Houthis, as well as soldiers supporting the current Saudi backed president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi are selling arms to AQAP.

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Input: (Toshifumi Kitamura / AFP / Getty Images) (Toshifumi Kitamura / AFP / Getty Images) An apology could trigger unneeded political fallout Devin Stewart, a noted expert on Japan, and senior program director at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, suggests that an apology could “open a can of worms on many, many issues.” There’s concern, for instance, it might undermine Abe’s initiative to give Japan a more nimble, capable military and clear the way for troops to fight overseas, something that has n’t happened since the end of World War II. Abe’s primary goal, Stewart says, is to strengthen the military and everything else, including his economic platform of Abenomics, is a means to achieve that goal.

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Input: “Look, Saudi Arabia is going to be in big trouble pretty soon,” the billionaire businessman predicted. “And they’re going to need help.” On Friday, Trump said, if elected president, he would consider stopping American oil purchases from Saudi Arabia unless the Saudi government provide troops to fight the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group." And yet, without us, Saudi Arabia wouldn't exist for very long," Trump said during a lengthy foreign policy interview published by the New York Times on Saturday." We’re not being reimbursed for the kind of tremendous service that we’re performing by protecting various countries.

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Input: Separately, rebel leaders told reporters that they would not accept emergency medical evacuations if food and medicine were not also delivered to people trapped inside. United Nations officials have said that forcing people to leave their homes in order to receive aid is against international law. But in practice, the government has taken back a number of areas with starve-or-surrender tactics, bombarding and starving people until they agree to leave. In any case, without guarantees and a halt to shelling and shooting by all sides, aid agencies can not begin to provide the medical evacuations and humanitarian aid deliveries to eastern Aleppo that United Nations officials said they would aim to carry out after Russia agreed to extend its cease-fire. Advertisement Continue reading the main story

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Input: She also brought Mark Cuban, the billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner who has sparred with Trump this year after initially warming to his campaign in 2015. Cuban said before Monday's debate that he wouldn't apologize for airing multiple seasons of a pornographic ' Girls Gone Wild ' reality show on his cable TV network, despite his status as a high-profile backer of the feminist and ground-breaking Clinton. A live audience of about 1,000 people gathered to watch the first Clinton-Trump debate, with a television audience predicted to reach as high as 100 million Americans. Meanwhile, police on Long Island said about 2,000 protesters gathered outside the debate hall-and were confined to an area several blocks long. Some of the diverse groups protesting Monday night's showdown at Hofstra University included Hardhats for Hillary, socialists and activists calling for a living wage, and Green Party supporters.

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Input: Yes, it does, but I knew that already, and if you follow the issue, so did you. Very few people are voting in this election on matters of conventional governmental policy. A great many will vote for the team they’ve long been signed up with, while everybody else will be voting against one of these two extremely unattractive and unpopular candidates. Trump just told us he knows she has more people voting in her favor and he has more people voting against him. He just told Hillary to measure the drapes.

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Input: She did not go to the police, she said, because “everyone told us that no one would deal with it.” By the time four debt collectors wearing black balaclavas smashed into her small wooden shack on March 30, that debt had bloated to more than $ 3,600. The men put bags over her head and those of her husband and 17-year -old son, beating and kicking them while demanding repayment. Advertisement Continue reading the main story They pushed Ms. Gorbunova facedown on a couch, stripped off her pajamas and began “poking” her with some kind of wooden object, she said.

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Input: The most recent one does it in spades, but it’s more than that. My daughter and my son-in-law and I made a film about the Central Park Five. He took out full page ads asking for the death penalty to be brought back and applied to five innocent children and on Friday he doubled down on that. It’s only the sex tape that’s kept that relatively quiet, but I was very impressed by Sen. McCain who finally disavowed Trump and not only mentioned the completely off-the-rails sex tape, but also the Central Park Five as one of the reasons. He had the trifecta last Friday because he also said while being endorsed by border control folks that the Obama administration under the direction of Hillary Clinton was letting in immigrants so they could vote against him.

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Input: The state will make more and more use of “threats of terrorism” to seize financial assets. It is already talking about expanding the definition of “terrorist threat” to include critics of government like myself. The American state already confiscates financial assets under the protection of various guises such as the PATRIOT Act. I first realized this years ago when I paid for a new car with a personal check that bounced. The car dealer informed me that the IRS had, without my knowledge, taken 20 percent of the funds that I had transferred from a mutual fund to my bank account in order to buy the car.

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Input: What kind of press environment is this going to lead to post-election? ' The American liberal press in falling over themselves to defend Hillary Clinton are erecting a demon who is going to put a noose around everyone's neck as soon as she wins the election, which she is almost certainly going to do. ' Assange accused Clinton of trying to stir up ' neo-McCarthyist hysteria ' after the leaks showed the DNC had favored her over Bernie Sanders in the primary campaign Meanwhile Assange has said his analysis of Trump's financial records show he has no links to Russia, though says he is still investigating Wikileaks, made famous by the 2010 publication of of U.S. diplomatic cables, was back in the headlines recently with the disclosure of DNC emails that showed the organisation conspiring against Bernie Sanders during the primaries.

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Input: Thailand has approximately 40 percent of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ' prison population, despite having only 10 percent of the bloc's total population, the UNODC says. Paiboon, an army general and senior member of the junta that seized power in a 2014 coup, said in an interview that Thailand would build more prisons, including 17 temporary jails for prisoners who have served at least a third of their sentence. He added that his priority was to tackle drug trafficking and addiction-an ambitious plan in a country where a record number of people use methamphetamines, known in Thai as "ya ba" or "crazy medicine", according to a 2015 U.N. report. A crackdown launched by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2003 aimed at suppressing drug trafficking killed more than 2,800 people, according to an independent inquiry chaired by a former attorney general. But the country's growing number of drug users and bulging jails have forced policymakers to think again.

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Input: “Rick Scott’s racist voter purge – which directly targets Latino voters – is so egregious that every one of the 67 supervisors of elections in the state – Democrats, Republicans, and independents – has so far refused to carry it out.” Indeed, on May 30, 2012, the Obama Justice Department had ordered Florida’s election division to halt the systematic effort to purge the state’s voter rolls of non-citizens. A few months later, in the November 2012 presidential election, Romney lost Florida by fewer than 75,000 votes, making consequential the 180,000 Hispanic voters who were on the voting roles despite serious questions about their eligibility to vote. Striking down voter ID laws While no American can board an airplane, rent a car or even cash a check without showing a valid government-issued ID, the Democratic Party charges “voter suppression” and brings lawyers to court to litigate every time efforts are made to pass basic voter ID laws.

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Input: Another indicator is there are more prisoners." CRISIS POINT A 2015 report by the Institute for Criminal Policy Research shows Thailand has the fourth highest number of women imprisoned in the world, after the United States, China and Russia." We know from meeting and interviewing prisoners, including female prisoners, in Thailand, that the impact is profoundly negative for families," said Jeremy Douglas, the UNODC's Asia-Pacific chief. One former female inmate, who declined to be named because of the social stigma attached to drug offenders in Thailand, said she was jailed for three years after being caught with 20 methamphetamine pills.

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Input: Hide Caption 8 of 22 Photos: Istanbul airport attacked Children and their relatives embrace after reuniting outside the airport. Hide Caption 9 of 22 Photos: Istanbul airport attacked A police officer sets up a security perimeter. Hide Caption 10 of 22 Photos: Istanbul airport attacked People stand outside the airport after the attack. Hide Caption 11 of 22 Photos: Istanbul airport attacked A wounded woman talks on the phone following the attack. Hide Caption 12 of 22 Photos: Istanbul airport attacked Passengers cry as they leave the airport.

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Input: A new poll shows 38 percent of 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's supporters in South Carolina wish the South had won the Civil War. Another 38 percent say they aren't sure, while just 24 percent say they are glad the Union won, the poll by Public Policy Polling released Tuesday finds. Seventy percent of Trump backers also believe that the Confederate battle flag should still be flying over their state Capitol. ADVERTISEMENT Lawmakers voted to take down the flag last summer following a mass shooting of parishioners at a black church in Charleston.

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Input: Another official said any weapons supplies would not include shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles, or Manpads, which the Obama administration fears could fall into the hands of Islamic State militants or al Qaeda-linked groups. The most dramatic option under consideration – but considered less likely – would be a U.S. air strike on a Syrian air base far from the fighting between Assad’s troops and rebel forces in the north, officials said. Other ideas under consideration include sending more U.S. special operations forces to train and advise Kurdish and Syrian rebel groups, and deploying additional American and allied naval and airpower to the eastern Mediterranean, where a French aircraft carrier is already en route. U.S. officials had considered a humanitarian airlift to rebel-held areas, which would require escorts by U.S. warplanes, but this has been deemed too risky and has been "moved down the list," one official said. State Department spokesman John Kirby said on Wednesday that U.S. officials involved in the interagency process that deals with national security had discussed other Syria options "that don't revolve around diplomacy."

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Input: Two groups of security forces, reportedly local law enforcement and French special service personnel, were taking part in the assault to neutralize the terrorists inside the hotel. Both groups entered the hotel through lobby partly set on fire. American and French soldiers were seen gathering on the scene before the counter-assault began, according to local reporters who tweeted out pictures of special forces by the hotel." Sabre Room Service ... "... French SpecOps taking order before retaking Splendid Hotel-Ouagadougou pic.twitter.com/ml0lVM0I1Z — Harry Boone (@towersight) January 16, 2016 There are some 75 American troops in Burkina Faso, of them 15 are assigned to the US embassy and about 60 have been assisting the French military to handle the hostage crisis, a source told AP.

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Input: Just before 12 midnight (ET) Trump was listed as a -2000 favorite, with Clinton's odds set at +1000. We’ve reached the final day of the 2016 presidential campaign and there are just hours to go until voting ends. The FBI announced over the weekend that its investigation into a new batch of Hillary Clinton emails has found no criminal wrongdoing. Clinton's odds to be the next president have increased with that news but her lead in the polls has not recovered to the levels of two weeks ago when she was ahead by double digits. The most recent national polls now have Clinton and Donald Trump neck and neck among likely voters.

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Input: And our local police will be so happy that they don't have to be abused by these thugs anymore. There's no great mystery to it, they've put up with it for years, and no finally we will turn the tables and law enforcement and our police will be allowed to clear up this dangerous and threatening mess. We're also going to hire 5,000 more Border Patrol agents. Who gave me their endorsement, 16,500 gave me their endorsement. And put more of them on the border instead of behind desks which is good.

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Input: In a May 2014 email, Clinton’s soon-to-be campaign manager Robby Mook called it “troubling” that Goldman Sachs had been selected to host an upcoming Clinton Foundation event. “I flagged for Tina and Cheryl as well but it's a little troubling that Goldman Sachs was selected for the foundation event,” he wrote in an email to Podesta. His comment was in reference to a New York Times story included in the email that described how “The most generous donors to the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation will convene on June 6 at the Goldman Sachs.” 2) Clinton’s Keystone response In August, 2015, senior aides to Hillary Clinton debated intensely how to react to the Obama administration’s decision to reject the Keystone Pipeline, which they had heard was imminent.

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Input: "It looks essentially like a nonprofit that has the conspicuous benefit of being a great place where people can get access to Clinton and her staff." The defense: Unlike the arguments around cybersecurity and transparency, the defense of the Clinton Foundation really just boils down to one simple point: There’s no proof Clinton ever did anything in exchange for a foundation donation. The Clintons have implicitly acknowledged that the foundation is at least a bad look — Bill Clinton has announced that he’ll step down and stop fundraising if his wife wins the election. But they’ve always insisted that there’s no connection between helping the foundation financially and the decisions the Clintons make in their governmental positions. Additionally, as Vox's Yglesias has argued, it’s hard to believe that many of the donors would n’t have been able to meet with Clinton absent the foundation.

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Input: City council leader says west must act as water, food and medical supplies are running out in the besieged city The most senior civic leader in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo has condemned the west for failing to stop Russian airstrikes cutting off the city and warned of a disastrous humanitarian crisis within weeks. A fortnight after President Bashar al-Assad’s forces, with Russian air support, cut the only road into rebel-held Aleppo, it is claimed a water shortage is affecting hospitals.

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Input: And the public knew it: Gallup’s polling shows Americans in the 1960s, ' 70s, ' 80s, and especially the early ' 90s were much more likely to say that crime was "the most important problem" facing the US. But in their fears of these statistics, policymakers embraced a tremendous escalation of the criminal justice system. This escalation had dire effects: The US now incarcerates more people than any other country in the world, including authoritarian regimes like China and Russia. Black people are nearly six times as likely to be locked up as their white peers, with only about 61 to 80 percent of that overrepresentation explained by higher crime rates in black communities. The racial disparity is one of the major explanations for black Americans’ distrust of the criminal justice system.

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Input: (Moriah Balingit) Five bicyclists were killed and four more were injured in Kalamazoo, Mich., after a truck driver plowed through the group. Officials said they received several complaints of a driver behaving erratically. (Travis M. Andrews) CDC officials are ramping up public awareness efforts on Legionnaires’ disease, after cases of the easily-preventable sickness quadrupled in the U.S. over the past 15 years. Bacteria is most commonly found in water sources such as showers, cooling towers and hot tubs. (Lena H. Sun) A retired NASA astronaut was charged with murder after killing an 11-year -old and a 13-year -old girl in a car accident.

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Input: ADVERTISEMENT So far, 19 Republicans and 17 Democrats have signed on to the letter, including's vice presidential pick, Sen.(D -Va.). The proposed increase, of $ 319.9 million, would go toward three U.S.-Israeli missile defense programs and more purchases of Iron Dome systems, which would include co-production of the systems in the U.S. The senators are urging their colleagues, who are working with House members on a final version of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), to include the funding levels authorized by the House's bill, rather than the Senate's. The House bill authorizes $ 600.7 million for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) and procurement of the systems, while the Senate bill authorizes $ 280.8 million.

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Input: Jung, who escaped to South Korea in 2004, said he was first inspired to use the technology after reading about how Amazon was testing drone deliveries and he wondered whether it would work to get small items such as flash drives and SD cards into North Korea. He has testified several times about his imprisonment in the notorious Yodok political prison and about the torture he endured in a prison camp -- experiences that caused him to lose his faith in the regime. As he has advocated from South Korea, Jung's identity has been questioned by the North Korean government -- a common tactic used to target vocal defectors. In recent months, North Korea has attracted attention after announcing that it had conducted test launches of missiles and has tested a nuclear device.

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Input: The craziness of this stems from the fact that the entire academic economics profession abandoned Keynesianism in the 1970s. Its failure to explain stagflation was considered to be the final nail in the Keynesian coffin. Franco Modigliani’s presidential address to the American Economic Association in the late ' 70s was a remarkable white-flag-of-surrender speech by one of the prominent Keynesians. He confessed that Keynesian “stabilization policy” had been a failure. Then, like a bad horror movie, Keynesianism reared its ugly head fifteen or twenty years later as though it had never been discredited.

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Input: In other words, he is saying that business wo n’t send jobs out of the country if we can make wages low enough here. His “plan” is to compete by pitting states against each other to lower wages, particularly by encouraging businesses to move to low-wage anti-union states. Once the layoffs start, workers will be willing to take big pay cuts to keep their jobs. Johnson shows how Trump believes “companies should continue this in a ‘rotation’ of wage cuts, state to state, until you go ‘full-circle,’ getting wages low enough across the entire country. Then the U.S. will be ‘competitive’ with China and Mexico.

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Input: There are only 35 doctors left in the district caring for hundreds of wounded, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday. A White Helmets representative told The Independent he estimated 2,000 people were in need of urgent medical assistance. “WHO is calling for the immediate establishment of humanitarian routes to evacuate sick and wounded from the eastern part of the city,” spokesperson Fadela Chaib said from Geneva. The Syrian regime has not attempted to retake Aleppo’s rebel neighbourhoods by means of a ground offensive since 2012. Recapturing rebel districts of Aleppo would greatly strengthen President Bashar al-Assad’s position in the six-year-long war, effectively wiping out all non-Islamist resistance from major cities and leaving just pockets of US-backed rebel groups in the far north and south of the country.

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Input: He continued the mimicry: “How dare he like Putin? How dare he?” Mr. Trump also reiterated his view that NATO, the security alliance formed as a bulwark against the Soviet Union, was “obsolete.” Advertisement Continue reading the main story Both Mrs. Clinton and her running mate, Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia, have chastised Mr. Trump for praising Mr. Putin, and Mr. Trump has raised concerns among defense experts for repeated comments that appear to signal tolerance of Russia’s aggression in Eastern Europe.

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Input: We know that there can occur a series of gas emissions over an extended period of time, but we do not know exactly when they might happen," he said. One of the most popular theories is that the craters formed as a result of global warming. As the permafrost melted from higher global temperatures, methane gas was released, leading to an explosion and the appearance of craters. The ground on Bely Island – farther north than the craters-could be the process of methane leaking into the ground caught in action, scientists say.

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Input: The Hill reported exclusively Tuesday that Bannon gave explicit orders to his staff to destroy House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.). In December 2015, weeks after Ryan became Speaker, Bannon wrote in an internal Breitbart email obtained by The Hill that the “long game” for his news site was for Ryan to be “gone” by the spring. And on editorial conference calls, the Breitbart chairman would often say “Paul Ryan Paul RyanRepublicans and the lost promise of local control in education Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax push Overnight Finance: Ryan seeks manufacturing muscle for tax reform | Warren targets Wells Fargo board | Senators raise concerns over Russian takeover of Citgo | Pelosi hits GOP for budget delays MORE is the enemy,” according to a source who worked with Bannon at the news organization. In August, he became a chief executive officer of Trump's presidential campaign after spending four years as the executive chairman of Breitbart.

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Input: They suffered higher unemployment than any other group during the downturn, and their wages fell more more than any other group after it concluded. This is the most educated generation in American history by both total degrees and share of college graduates. But whereas education once seemed to promise an inviolable social contract — a degree produced a job, and the job procured a good middle-class life or better — the rising cost of school has combined with a chilly labor market to create a perfect storm: Low youth wages that make it hard to pay off record-high student debt. One study from the San Francisco Federal Reserve found that since 2009, wages for recent college graduates have grown 60 percent more slowly than those of the general population. Given the alarmingly slow growth of overall wages, this is not unlike identifying an animal that moves 60 percent slower than a garden snail.

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Input: There was a charter travel company founded by Harry Thomason, a longtime friend and fundraiser, which had provided services in the 1992 campaign. Unsurprisingly, Mrs. Clinton lied about her efforts to turn the travel office into a goodie for a crony. All along Mrs. Clinton publicly insisted she had no knowledge of the firings. Then it became barely any knowledge, then barely any involvement. When the story blew up she said under oath that she had “no role in the decision to terminate the employees.” She did not “direct that any action be taken by anyone.” In a deposition she denied having had a role in the firings, and said she was unable to remember conversations with various staffers with any specificity.

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Input: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said on Tuesday he is willing to talk to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to try to stop Pyongyang's nuclear program, proposing a major shift in US policy toward the isolated nation. In a wide-ranging interview with Reuters, Trump also called for a renegotiation of the Paris climate accord, said he disapproved of Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions in eastern Ukraine, and said he would seek to dismantle most of the US Dodd-Frank financial regulations if he is elected president. The presumptive Republican nominee declined to share details of his plans to deal with North Korea, but said he was open to talking to its leader." I would speak to him, I would have no problem speaking to him," he said.

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Input: A damaged building is pictured after an airstrike on the rebel held al-Fardous neighbourhood of Aleppo, Syria February 18, 2016. REUTERS / Abdalrhman Ismail BEIRUT Syria's army and allies, backed by Russian air strikes, recaptured 18 villages from Islamic State fighters in eastern Aleppo province on Saturday, a monitoring group said.

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Input: Lengthy sentences for drug offences are part of the reason why Thai jails struggle with chronic overcrowding, according to both Justice Minister Paiboon and U.N. experts. Thailand has approximately 40 percent of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ' prison population, despite having only 10 percent of the bloc's total population, the UNODC says. Paiboon, an army general and senior member of the junta that seized power in a 2014 coup, said in an interview that Thailand would build more prisons, including 17 temporary jails for prisoners who have served at least a third of their sentence. He added that his priority was to tackle drug trafficking and addiction-an ambitious plan in a country where a record number of people use methamphetamines, known in Thai as "ya ba" or "crazy medicine", according to a 2015 U.N. report. A crackdown launched by former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in 2003 aimed at suppressing drug trafficking killed more than 2,800 people, according to an independent inquiry chaired by a former attorney general.

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Input: Those other programs were effectively tracking the activities and individuals in terrorist groups, drug cartels, human trafficking rings, nuclear proliferation programs, cyber crime gangs and foreign espionage agencies like Russia’s Federal Security Bureau (FSB), the successor of the Cold War KGB. After Snowden's revelations of how the U.S. tracked those activities, many of the targeted groups changed the way they communicated to evade NSA’s collection. The U.S. suddenly had less ability to prevent terrorist attacks, cocaine smuggling, and espionage. It is true that the U.S. may ultimately re-gain some of the access it lost because of Snowden -- some but not all. Gaining any new ability to track terrorists, criminals and spies will likely cost taxpayers billions of dollars.

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Input: President Barack Obama and Putin spoke over the phone Monday but the recent military encounters were not discussed, according to White House spokesman Josh Earnest The U.S. Navy told CNN Monday that the Cook continues to operate in the Baltic Sea." The United States is not going to be intimidated," Kerry said.

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Input: The last time I saw Nadiya Savchenko in court she was furious, swearing and displaying her middle finger at the judge. Back to hear the verdict, she looked relaxed, joking and whispering with her lawyers as the chief judge muttered his way through the obligatory full read-out of the verdict. Her calm could well be because she has no doubt she'll be found guilty and wants this stage of proceedings to be over. There was a big crowd in court as the process neared its conclusion. Some were wearing Ukrainian traditional shirts or the blue-and-yellow colours of the national flag; another group came in T-shirts emblazoned with photographs of the Russian journalists at the heart of this trial, and slogans blaming Nadiya Savchenko for their death.

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Input: The UAE is part of a Saudi-led coalition that has carried out a year-long war against Shia Houthi rebels, primarily from the air. Also involved in the war is al-Qaeda’s regional affiliate, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). With the bombing war dragging on, AQAP has worked assiduously and quietly to consolidate its hold in south Yemen. Two pilots flying the jet were killed in the crash and locals reported seeing Apache helicopters and the jet engaged in an attack on AQAP forces dug into a district to the west of Aden. Security sources have estimated that some 300 jihadist fighters were under attack at the time the jet came down.

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Input: President Salva Kiir's sacking of Machar as his deputy ignited a war in December 2013 which has killed thousands and displaced millions in the world's newest country. The United States has said Machar's return is an important step toward the establishment of a unity government. But Booth said an arms embargo could only work if neighboring countries cooperated. The U.N. Security Council has long threatened to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan but veto-power Russia has been reluctant to support such an action. An effective way to cut weapons supplies to South Sudan, Booth continued, was to impose strict controls over its capital expenditure, which would also help focus spending on the neediest.

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Input: Does Donald Trump really want to be the next president of the United States? Many analysts who have watched Trump closely – and some who know him — think most of his seemingly self-destructive campaign behavior – for example his ongoing conflict with the family of a slain Muslim soldier, which has cost him his lead in the polls — is no accident. Trump, they say, does n’t actually want to win the race. In fact, he secretly hopes to lose.

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Input: It's long past the point where many of our major news publications be sent to the dogtrack with their names pinned to their sweaters, at least as far as the Clintons are concerned. Right now, there is substantial evidence that many of them will print anything as long as they can wedge "Clinton," "questions" and "e-mails" into a headline. Of course, if Hillary Rodham Clinton would just hold a press conference, at which every question would feature those three words in some order or another, then we'd all turn to discussing the comprehensive mental health plan that she released to thundering silence on Monday when most of the press was in an Anthony Weiner frenzy. Yes, and I am the Tsar of all the Russias. Advertisement-Continue Reading Below

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Input: Acute lead contamination has been found in school water in many cities during the past 15 years, including Los Angeles, Seattle, Baltimore and the District of Columbia. But the problem of undetected lead in school water is receiving new attention in the aftermath of the crisis in Flint, Mich., where a switch in drinking water sources left children exposed to high levels of lead for months, both at home and at school. “Right now there is a yawning gap in our lead-testing protocols,” Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement last week when he introduced legislation that would provide $ 100 million in grants to help schools test drinking water for lead. “It’s disturbing that Flint may have been just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to toxic lead in our kids’ drinking water.” Schumer was motivated in part by the discovery of lead contamination in schools in Ithaca, N.Y., where officials began providing bottled water to students last month after finding high lead levels in two buildings, including one classroom sink with lead levels of 5,000 parts per billion — hundreds of times higher than the level at which the federal government requires action.

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Input: A Russian judge has been reading the verdict in the case of Ukrainian pilot Nadiya Savchenko, who was charged over the death of two Russian journalists. Ms Savchenko is accused of directing the artillery fire in eastern Ukraine in which the two journalists died. It was initially thought the judge had found her guilty, but her lawyers said a final verdict would be given on Tuesday. She denies all the charges. Ukraine and some Western countries have condemned the case as a show trial.

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Input: And it’s not just congressional lawmakers: Colin Powell’s wife, for instance, maintained a charity that took big bucks during his time as secretary of state. Clinton may have stretched what’s considered acceptable, but she did n’t invent the intermingling of donors and lawmakers that’s long been a staple of Washington, DC. Controversy 4 — Cover-up: Has Clinton misled investigations into her emails? Republicans have made a lot of hay over cybersecurity, transparency, and the foundation. But they’re increasingly homing their firepower on a new question: whether Clinton has tried to cover up inquiries into her emails, or improperly deleted them to avoid scrutiny.

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Input: It’s the same with a host of other issues. Sen. Ted Cruz was exactly right when he said last week that “Trump will betray his supporters on every issue.” Indeed, as Caleb Howe noted at RedState, in a period of less than 48 hours last week Trump reversed his positions on four major issues. In addition to renouncing his own tax plan, he said he’s now open to raising the minimum wage and that he was no longer self-funding his campaign (a point he constantly bragged about in the primary debates). To lead his fundraising efforts, Trump hired Steve Mnuchin, a longtime donor to Democrats (including Clinton) and former employee of left-wing hedge fund mogul George Soros. Hillary Is No Better Than Trump

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Input: Granoff said his post only rings more true now. He’s made his devotion to Jeb clear by donating $ 2,700 to his campaign and $ 25,000 to Right to Rise, according to Vocativ’s analysis of donors’ data. The mix of donations also exposed a seemingly common practice of wealthy individuals donating at the request of clients and friends. One Wall Street donor, who asked to remain anonymous because he considered the donation to Hillary “embarrassing,” said he gave money to her Senate race after a bundler friend asked him for a contribution. He noted he asked the bundler friend to donate to a Republican in return.

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Input: The Islamic State group’s branch in the Northern Caucasus region of Russia released a video Saturday that showed the execution of an alleged Russian spy. The new ISIS video reportedly called on Russian Muslims to “kill apostates” in the country and threatened to carry out an attack on President Vladimir Putin. In the video, which was released on social media, the group’s militants in Chechen — commonly referred to as Chechnya — urged Muslims in Russia to join ISIS’ fight against the West, claiming that "the Caliphate is already here,” according to the Jerusalem Post. The video reportedly begins with a news report being broadcast on a Russian TV channel about a car bombing that hit the town of Dzhemikent in Dagestan province on Feb. 15, killing two Russian police officers.

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Input: Hide Caption 17 of 17 It was a stunning show of disrespect for an American president. And though Obama shrugged off the comments from the "colorful" leader during his own news conference Monday, the White House later canceled his meeting with Duterte, conferring instead with the President of South Korea. Duterte later apologized for any offense caused Asian troubles

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Input: Can't do it. This declaration alone will help stop the crisis of illegal crossings and illegal overstays, very importantly. People will know that you can't just smuggle in, hunker down and wait to be legalized. It's not going to work that way. Those days are over.

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Input: Hillary Clinton's campaign Saturday compared the hacking into John Podesta's emails and those from the Democratic National Committee as a new Watergate scandal while accusing GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump as being deeply involved in the plot, according to an essay posted on Medium Saturday." We’re witnessing another effort to steal private campaign documents in order to influence an election," Clinton campaign spokesman Glen Caplin writes in the essay. “Only this time, instead of filing cabinets, it’s people’s emails they’re breaking into … and a foreign government is behind it.”

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Input: It is not only by design that a flurry of Republicans are abandoning their party. Trump has had an extraordinarily bad week, beginning when he disparaged the Gold Star family of a fallen American soldier. Trump was also described by Barack Obama as “unfit” and “woefully unprepared” to become president; initially refused to endorse House speaker Paul Ryan and Senator John McCain in their primaries; falsely claimed to have watched a video showing $ 400 m being unloaded from a plane in Iran; ejected a crying baby from a rally in Virginia; accepted a purple heart from a veteran though he did not serve himself; suggested his daughter would “find another career” if she were harassed at work; and appeared unaware of that Russia had invaded Ukraine two years ago. Questions were also raised about whether his wife, Melania, had worked illegally in the US before 1996. The work in question was a collection of nude photos, republished by the New York Post.

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Input: — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 9, 2016 The editor of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, said in a statement issued through an intermediary that he would not confirm or deny whether Rich or any person was a source for the organisation, which over the years has obtained and released massive amounts of internal emails and other documents from the military, the State Department and other agencies. The statement says that policy "also covers alleged sources who were deceased." "We treat threats towards any suspected WikiLeaks sources with extreme gravity," the statement says." This should not be taken to imply that Seth Rich was a source to WikiLeaks or that his murder is connected to our publications.

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Input: Let’s unpack his argument, which is common. First, the decision to minimize her chronic dishonesty baffles me because if you elect a president you do n’t trust, you forfeit any right to complain when you are deceived. And you will be deceived by Clinton. Fish got ta swim, and Clintons got ta lie. She wo n’t change her stripes — she is what she is.

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Input: The previously unreleased Clinton emails date back as far as January 2009 and further contradict statements by Hillary Clinton that, “as far as she knew,” all of her government emails were turned over to the State Department and that she did not use her clintonemail.com system until March 18, 2009. The new Clinton emails cover topics such as: the administration’s Iran policy; Obama’s stimulus program; the sharing of “management issues” with “Maggie” Williams, former campaign manager for Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign; confusion over voice mail versus text messages; image coaching from 2008 campaign advisor Doug Hattaway; and a thank you note from Mark Hyman for “opening the door” for a Senate hearing on functional medicine; as well email detailing incoming calls from China and Russia. The new Clinton documents also include a censored email that shows Clinton and Cheryl Mills were contacted by Maria Haley, a longtime Clinton aide (since deceased) who was implicated the Chinagate scandal. The documents were obtained in response to a court order from a May 5, 2015, lawsuit filed against the State Department (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00684)) after it failed to respond to a March 18 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking:

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Input: Photos: World War II in pictures Soviet soldiers advance against the German army during the Battle of Stalingrad. The battle for the city on the Volga River (present-day Volgograd) was a major defeat for Germany and a turning point in the war. The battle lasted more than five months, ending in February 1943, at the cost of at least 160,000 German soldiers killed or captured. However, even conservative estimates of Russian casualties are much higher. Hide Caption 16 of 38

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