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Priest among 68 arrests as Italy cracks open mafia ring running migrant centre

Gunmen Kill Prominent Mexican Journalist Who Covered Drug Cartels

The journalist, Javier Valdez Cárdenas, 50, had chronicled bloody conflicts among rival drug cartels and the culture of violence they inflicted on the broader society.

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Award-winning journalist Javier Valdez killed in Mexico's Sinaloa - New York Daily News


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MEXICO CITY Javier Valdez, a veteran reporter who specialized in covering drug trafficking and organized crime, was slain Monday in the northern Mexico state of Sinaloa, the latest in a wave of journalist killings in one of the world's most ...

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Report: Trump Revealed Highly Classified Information to Russian Officials - The Atlantic


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Trump has sucked the lifeblood out of Sean Spicer - Washington Post


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Trump, About to Visit Saudi Arabia, Is Urged to Help Yemen

Humanitarian agencies want the Trump administration to help end the conflict between a Saudi-led coalition and Houthi rebels in Yemen, which is nearing catastrophe.

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Trump shared highly classified intelligence about Islamic State with Russians, report says - Los Angeles Times


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Trump shared highly classified intelligence about Islamic State with Russians, report says
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President Trump revealed highly classified information about Islamic State militants to Russian officials during a meeting at the White House last week, the Washington Post reported Monday. The newspaper cited current and former U.S. officials who said ...

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Clinton launches political action group "Onward Together" - CBS News


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Hillary Clinton on Monday launched her anticipated political action group, Onward Together, which will collaborate with and fund political organizations supporting the Democratic Party. In an email announcing the nonprofit's installation, the former ...

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Report: Trump shared secret info about IS with Russians

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National security adviser denies Trump revealed classified information to Russians video

Donald Trumps national security adviser is denying a report that claims Trump shared highly classified intelligence with a top Russian diplomat. HR McMaster told reporters in a brief statement that the Washington Post report published Monday is false and at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed during Trumps meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. I was in the room, it didnt happen, he said. McMaster did not take questions.
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At Least Two People Have Been Killed in the Latest Venezuela Protests 

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(CARACAS) — A day that began with largely peaceful protests against Venezuela’s socialist government took a violent turn Monday as fierce clashes between state security and demonstrators killed at least two people.
Thousands hauled folding chairs, beach umbrellas and protest signs onto main roads for a 12-hour “sit-in against the dictatorship,” the latest in a month and a half of street demonstrations that have resulted in dozens of deaths.
The protest in Caracas against President Nicolas Maduro was largely peaceful, but outside the capital demonstrators clashed with police and national guardsmen. In the western state of Tachira near Venezuela’s border with Colombia, two men were reported dead in separate demonstrations: Luis Alviarez, 18, and Diego Hernandez, 33.
Witness videos taken in Tachira showed authorities launching tear gas and demonstrators throwing rocks and setting an armored truck on fire. In another video, a young woman stands on a street, her face covered in blood.
Elsewhere, three police officers were shot in the central state of Carabobo, including one left in critical condition after being struck in the head, authorities said. In Lara, a vehicle ran over three protesters.
The violence added to a mounting toll of bloodshed and chaos as Venezuela’s opposition vows to step up near-daily demonstrations and Maduro shows no intention of conceding to opposition demands. Maduro is vowing to resolve the crisis by convening a special assembly to rewrite the nation’s constitution, while the opposition is demanding an immediate presidential election.
Polls indicate the great majority of Venezuelans want Maduro gone as violent crime soars and the country falls into economic ruin, with triple-digit inflation and shortages of many basic foods and medical supplies.
International pressure on the troubled South American nation is continuing to increase, with European Union foreign ministers calling Monday for Venezuela to hold elections and warning that “violence and the use of force will not resolve the crisis in the country.”
The Organization of American States will hold another special session to discuss Venezuela’s spiraling political crisis later this month.
Venezuela announced in late April that it would be leaving the Washington-based OAS, which seeks to defend democracy throughout the hemisphere, and its representative was not present at Monday’s meeting scheduling the upcoming event. Maduro and top administration leaders contend the OAS is meddling in Venezuela’s domestic affairs, infringing on its sovereignty and trying to remove the government from power.
The protests were triggered by a government move to nullify the opposition-controlled congress in late March, but the demonstrations have morphed into a general airing of grievances against the unpopular socialist administration.
As demonstrations take over Caracas almost daily, normal life has continued, but the atmosphere is suffused with uncertainty. At fancy cafes, patrons show each other the latest videos of student protesters getting hurt or defaced statues of the late President Hugo Chavez on their phones. Working class people who have to traverse the capital for their jobs have adjusted their schedules to account for traffic shutdowns and take siestas to wait out clashes between protesters and police.
On Monday, demonstrators assembled a giant rosary with balloons hanging from a Caracas highway overpass. A group of flamenco dancers dressed in black performed for the crowds. Others simply sat and held signs declaring their resistance.
Former presidential candidate Henrique Capriles said the opposition would take its protests “to another stage” as Maduro continues his push to convoke a special assembly tasked with rewriting the nation’s constitution.
“We are against this fraudulent process,” Capriles said on his radio broadcast.
Foro Penal, a Venezuelan nonprofit group whose lawyers are representing many of those detained, said there were 35 arrests Monday.
More than three dozen people have been killed, hundreds injured and as many as 2,000 arrested in nearly seven weeks of demonstrations. Those killed are largely young men in their 20s and 30s, protesters or those who happened to be in nearby areas during clashes.
Maduro blames the opposition for the violence, claiming its leaders are fomenting unrest to remove him from power. The opposition maintains state security and civilian-armed pro-government groups known as “colectivos” are responsible for the bloodshed.
Few arrests have been made and the death toll is fast approaching the violence seen during protests in 2014.


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Factbox: Levels of Classification for Government Information

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On Monday, U.S. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster and other members of the Trump administration responded to published reports that President Donald Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian officials in the Oval Office earlier this month. What are the levels of classified information? Top Secret Secret Confidential What do the levels mean? The levels indicate the importance of the classified information to national security, including military plans...

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Frida Ghitis is a world affairs columnist for The Miami Herald and World Politics Review, and a former CNN producer and correspondent. The views expressed in this commentary are her own. (CNN) The Washington Post published yet another bombshell ...

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'WannaCry' ransomware shares code with Sony hack, raising possibility of North Korea connection

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Another Trump crisis craters GOP agenda

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Another Trump crisis craters GOP agenda

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Washington (CNN) President Donald Trump's governing agenda, which only 10 days ago showed signs of gaining steam, appears to have derailed after he allegedly shared classified information and dismissed FBI director James Comey, both of which ...

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Here’s how the Russians might have snuck a recording device into the Oval Office

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This photograph was unexpected.
It shows President Trump meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Wednesday, with a coterie of other officials — including Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak — in attendance. Although the meeting wasn’t unexpected, the photograph was, taken by a photographer who was accompanying Lavrov and was subsequently pushed out by Russia’s state news agency.
As The Washington Post reported, the White House wasn’t aware that the photo would be released publicly. “We were not informed by the Russians that their official photographer was dual-hatted and would be releasing the photographs on the state news agency,” one official told The Post’s Carol Morello and Greg Miller.
When the photo became public, people were quick to question the wisdom of allowing into the Oval Office at least one Russian who hadn’t been screened enough to identify that dual role. Much less, one who brought with him electronic equipment in the form of his camera. The Russians would love to place a recording device in the Oval Office, of course, and have a track record of using innocuous-seeming methods to bug their opponents. (Gizmodo noted that the Russians had once had schoolchildren present the U.S. ambassador to Russia with a decorative carving that included a listening device.)
But, really, how much damage could be done? Could an agent actually get away with planting a device in the Oval Office?
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Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) asked NSA Director Mike Rogers on May 11 about the risks of "cyber penetration" from the Russian media crew allowed into the Oval Office to photograph President Trump meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on May 9. "I'll be honest, I wasn't aware of where the images came from," Rogers said. (Reuters)
Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) asked NSA Director Mike Rogers on May 11 about the risks of "cyber penetration" from the Russian media crew allowed into the Oval Office to photograph President Trump meeting Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on May 9. "I'll be honest, I wasn't aware of where the images came from," Rogers said. "I'll be honest, I wasn't aware of where the images came from," Rogers said. (Reuters)
An expert we spoke with said they could — but perhaps not for long.
Todd Morris is founder and chief executive of Brickhouse Security, a company based in New York that works with law enforcement and corporate customers on surveillance and counter-surveillance techniques. Some of Brickhouse’s clients are financial firms that are looking to prevent surveillance of confidential information that could be used to their disadvantage.
When we spoke by phone, I asked Morris to explain how he would plant a recording device in the Oval Office — and how the information would make its way back out.
“I would bring in a device roughly the size of a book of matches, very small,” he said. “It would be set up to record on audio record, audio activated. It would store that data locally. And then, within a certain amount of time and in a burst of transmission, it would transmit that to a server.”
Here’s what that accomplishes.
First, it’s small enough to be hidden easily from the Secret Service. (In The Post’s initial report on the meeting, we note that former intelligence officials say that a standard visitor screening on entering the White House might not detect a sophisticated device.) Once in the Oval Office, the device could be slipped out of sight fairly easily.
“Go to any magic show, and you can see that sleight of hand is not all that hard to master,” Morris said. “To take a device the size of a matchbook and slip it between some couch cushions or drop it under the carpet as you’re tying your shoe? Not impossible.” Or, say, if you’re standing next to a bookshelf in a small group of people.
Which brings us to the second goal of Morris’s device: recognizing that it’s not going to be there forever.
“It would eventually be found,” he said. “It is an office that does get an extensive sweep by well-trained professionals” — although not necessarily after every meeting. Such a sweep, he said, would include far more than simply holding up some electronic gizmo that would ping if it detected a signal. It would mean looking in every imaginable place — behind electrical outlets, inside cushions — for anything that might be used to spy on Oval Office meetings. “They really disassemble most of the room,” Morris said.
In some cases, spies can drop off devices that don’t need to transmit out, because the device can simply be picked up again later. That’s pretty clearly not the case here. Reporting indicates that Russian President Vladimir Putin asked Trump to host Lavrov in the White House, emphasizing how unusual such access would be. It also makes clear that the Russian government actively sought that access, which is relevant to the current discussion.
Knowing that the device would be found, then, Morris’s would transmit a signal out in as quick a burst as possible. This is meant to prevent White House security from detecting the burst — and then tracking down its point of origin. Morris figured that he’d send out the data after about 12 hours, although it would also be useful to send a burst after only a few hours, given that you’d then have captured the conversation debriefing the Russians’ visit.
This raises the question of whether a signal could escape the Oval Office. Morris was confident that it could. The room itself isn’t a SCIF — a specially designed secure location that’s meant to contain electronic communication and prevent eavesdropping. But it does have certain counter-surveillance technologies. For example, Morris said, it probably has a special device attached to the windows that causes them to vibrate, preventing someone from remotely training a laser on the glass to detect the vibrations caused by people speaking in the room.
There are two options for transmitting out: using a normal cell-tower transmission or using a low-frequency signal that would stand a better chance of passing through the walls of the White House. Nor would the Russians need to park a white van subtly labeled “VLADIMIR’S FLOWERS” on Pennsylvania Avenue to detect the emission. Such a signal could travel a mile, Morris said, allowing them to camp out in a nearby hotel, for example.
Morris, too, was amazed that this was even an issue.
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“Obviously the first line of defense for White House security is pre-screening of guests,” he said. “The White House is known traditionally as being one of the most secure places on the planet. The fact that someone got in who it sounds like held a dual role without good screening … is a little bit shocking.” You don’t get frisked when you enter the White House grounds, he said, because they don’t invite in people who might need to be frisked.
For what it’s worth, the photographer who has been the focus of the speculation wrote a Facebook post about denying that he was up to anything nefarious — calling such speculation “hysteria” — and emphasizing that he’d been a member of the media for years.
“I passed the routine check on the scanner, a personal inspection, then your sniffing dogs,” it reads, according to Facebook’s rough translation (which we’ve cleaned up a bit). “On the footage, I went with only two cameras. All things, including cellphone, I left in the other room” before entering the Oval Office.
He didn’t offer any information about what he or others in his party may have accidentally left behind.
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Trump shared highly classified intelligence about Islamic State with Russians, reports say

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The White House, already embroiled in a self-inflicted crisis, lurched into a new one Monday as administration officials and members of Congress reacted to reports that President Trump had shared highly classified intelligence with visiting Russian ...

In one explosive Russia story, two of the worst fears about Trump collide

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Reports: Trump Gave Classified Info To Russians During White House Visit

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WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump disclosed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister about a planned Islamic State operation during their meeting last week, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the situation said on Monday.
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Эксперты предупреждают о возможной новой волне кибератак 

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Компании ряда азиатских стран сообщили о нарушениях в работе компьютеров. Ранее эксперты предупредили, что масштабы хакерской атаки, начатой в пятницу при помощи вируса-шифровальщика WannaCry и принявшей глобальный характер, с началом новой рабочей недели могут увеличиться.
Президент американской корпорации Microsoft Брэд Смит заявил, что хакерская атака служит подтверждением необходимости неотложных коллективных действий в целях обеспечения безопасности пользователей интернета. Речь, в частно…
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Exploring Jewish life in Iran | DW English

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As Iran prepares to hold presidential elections on Friday, DW's Theresa Tropper visits the capital, Tehran, to find out how members of the Jewish community feel about their country's future.

Россия и Саудовская Аравия призвали продлить сделку о сокращении добычи нефти на 9 месяцев - economy

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Россия и Саудовская Аравия, ключевые участники соглашения о сокращении добычи нефти, призывают другие вовлеченные в процесс государства продлить сделку еще на 9 месяцев - до конца марта будущего года. Об этом говорится в совместном заявлении министров энергетики двух стран Александра Новака и Халида аль-Фалиха, сделанном на полях форума "Один пояс - один путь" в Пекине.
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Boos And Whistles Disrupt Georgian Dream 

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A Tbilisi concert hall was filled with disharmony when Georgia's ruling party tried to explain constitutional changes to the public. (RFE/RL's Georgian Service)
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Trump revealed highly classified information to Russian foreign minister and ambassador

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President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said that Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State.
The information Trump relayed had been provided by a U.S. partner through an intelligence-sharing arrangement considered so sensitive that details have been withheld from allies and tightly restricted even within the U.S. government, officials said.
The partner had not given the United States permission to share the material with Russia, and officials said that Trump’s decision to do so risks cooperation from an ally that has access to the inner workings of the Islamic State. After Trump’s meeting, senior White House officials took steps to contain the damage, placing calls to the CIA and National Security Agency.
“This is code-word information,” said a U.S. official familiar with the matter, using terminology that refers to one of the highest classification levels used by American spy agencies. Trump “revealed more information to the Russian ambassador than we have shared with our own allies.”
The revelation comes as Trump faces rising legal and political pressure on multiple Russia-related fronts. Last week, he fired FBI Director James B. Comey in the midst of a bureau investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Moscow. Trump’s subsequent admission that his decision was driven by “this Russia thing” was seen by critics as attempted obstruction of justice.
One day after dismissing Comey, Trump welcomed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak — a key figure in earlier Russia controversies — into the Oval Office. It was during that meeting, officials said, that Trump went off script and began describing details about an Islamic State terrorist threat related to the use of laptop computers on aircraft.
For most anyone in government discussing such matters with an adversary would be illegal. As president, Trump has broad authority to declassify government secrets, making it unlikely that his disclosures broke the law.
“The president and the foreign minister reviewed common threats from terrorist organizations to include threats to aviation,” said H.R. McMaster, the national security adviser, who participated in the meeting. “At no time were any intelligence sources or methods discussed and no military operations were disclosed that were not already known publicly.”
The CIA declined to comment and the National Security Agency did not respond to requests for comment.
But officials expressed concern with Trump’s handling of sensitive information as well as his grasp of the potential consequences. Exposure of an intelligence stream that has provided critical insight into the Islamic State, they said, could hinder the United States’ and its allies’ ability to detect future threats.
“It is all kind of shocking,” said a former senior U.S. official close to current administration officials. “Trump seems to be very reckless, and doesn’t grasp the gravity of the things he’s dealing with, especially when it comes to intelligence and national security. And it’s all clouded because of this problem he has with Russia.”
In his meeting with Lavrov, Trump seemed to be boasting about his inside knowledge of the looming threat. “I get great intel. I have people brief me on great intel every day,” Trump said, according to an official with knowledge of the exchange.
Trump went on to discuss aspects of the threat that the United States only learned through the espionage capabilities of a key partner. He did not reveal the specific intelligence gathering method, but described how the Islamic State was pursuing elements of a specific plot and how much harm such an attack could cause under varying circumstances. Most alarmingly, officials said, Trump revealed the city in the Islamic State’s territory where the U.S. intelligence partner detected the threat.
The Washington Post is withholding most plot details, including the name of the city, at the urging of officials who warned that revealing them would jeopardize important intelligence capabilities.
“Everyone knows this stream is very sensitive and the idea of sharing it at this level of granularity with the Russians is troubling,” said a former senior U.S. counterterrorism official who also worked closely with members of the Trump national security team. He and others spoke on condition of anonymity, citing the sensitivity of the subject.
The identification of the location was seen as particularly problematic, officials said, because Russia could use that detail to help identify the U.S. ally or intelligence capability involved. Officials said that the capability could be useful for other purposes, possibly providing intelligence on Russia’s presence in Syria. Moscow and would be keenly interested in identifying that source and possibly disrupting it.
Russia and the United States both regard the Islamic State as an enemy and share limited information about terrorist threats. But the two nations have competing agendas in Syria, where Moscow has deployed military assets and personnel to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
“Russia could identify our sources or techniques,” the senior U.S. official said. A former intelligence official who handled high-level intelligence on Russia said that given the clues Trump provided, “I don’t think that it would be that hard [for Russian spy services] to figure this out.”
At a more fundamental level, the information wasn’t the United States’ to provide to others. Under the rules of espionage, governments — and even individual agencies — are given significant control over whether and how the information they gather is disseminated even after it has been shared. Violating that practice undercuts trust considered essential to sharing secrets.
The officials declined to identify the ally, but said it is one that has previously voiced frustration with Washington’s inability to safeguard sensitive information related to Iraq and Syria.
“If that partner learned we’d given this to Russia without their knowledge or asking first that is a blow to that relationship,” the U.S. official said.
Trump also described measures that the United States has taken or is contemplating to counter the threat, including military operations in Iraq and Syria as well as other steps to tighten security, officials said.
The officials would not discuss details of those measures, but the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed that it is considering banning laptops and other large electronic devices from carry-on bags on flights between Europe and the United States. The United States and Britain imposed a similar ban in March affecting travelers passing through airports in 10 Muslim-majority countries.
Trump cast the countermeasures in wistful terms. “Can you believe the world we live in today?” he said, according to one official. “Isn’t it crazy.”
Lavrov and Kislyak were also accompanied by aides.
A Russian photographer took photos of part of the session that were released by the Russian state-owned Tass news agency. No U.S. news organization was allowed to attend any part of the meeting.
Senior White House officials appeared to recognize quickly that Trump had overstepped and moved to contain the potential fallout.
Thomas P. Bossert, assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, placed calls to the directors of the CIA and the NSA, services most directly involved in the intelligence-sharing arrangement with the partner.
One of Bossert’s subordinates also called for the problematic portion of Trump’s discussion to be stricken from internal memos and for the full transcript to be limited to a small circle of recipients, efforts to prevent sensitive details from being disseminated further or leaked.
Trump has repeatedly gone off-script in his dealings with high-ranking foreign officials, most notably in his contentious introductory conversation with the Australian Prime Minister earlier this year. He has also faced criticism for lax attention to security at his Florida retreat Mar-a-Lago, where he appeared to field preliminary reports of a North Korea missile launch in full view of casual diners.
U.S. officials said that the National Security Council continues to prepare multi-page briefings for Trump to guide him through conversations with foreign leaders but that he has insisted that the guidance be distilled to a single page of bullet points, and often ignores those.
“He seems to get in the room or on the phone and just goes with it — and that has big downsides,” the second former official said. “Does he understand what’s classified and what’s not? That’s what worries me.”
Lavrov’s reaction to the Trump disclosures was muted, officials said, calling for the United States to work more closely with Moscow on fighting terrorism.
Kislyak has figured prominently in damaging stories about the Trump administration’s ties to Russia. Trump’s initial national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was forced to resign just 24 days into the job over his contacts with Kislyak and misleading statements about them. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced to recuse himself from matters related to the FBI’s Russia investigation after it was revealed that he had met and spoke with Kislyak despite denying any contact with Russian officials during his confirmation hearing.
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“I’m sure Kislyak was able to fire off a good cable back to the Kremlin with all the details” he gleaned from Trump, said the former U.S. official who handled intelligence on Russia.
The White House readout of the meeting with Lavrov and Kislyak made no mention of the discussion of a terrorist threat.
“Trump emphasized the need to work together to end the conflict in Syria,” the summary said. Trump also “raised Ukraine” and “emphasized his desire to build a better relationship between the United States and Russia.”
Julie Tate and Ellen Nakashima contributed to this report.
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Полицейский пожертвовал почку ребенку 

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Трогательная история из штата Висконсин – полицейский решил помочь попавшему в беду ребенку. Но речь идет не о поиске домашнего любимца, а о гораздо более серьезных вещах
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Man enters store holding severed head, stabs worker

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Deputies: Reports of man 'holding human head' at Oregon store

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Man enters store holding severed head, stabs worker

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May 15, 2017 | 9:47am
A blood-soaked man entered an Oregon grocery store holding a knife in one hand and what looked like a human head in the other, stabbed a worker and was then subdued, according to reports.
A woman was later found dead in a case that authorities said was connected to the stabbing at the store, OregonLive.com reported.
Police responded to a 911 call from the Harvest Market Thriftway in Estacada at 2:14 p.m. Sunday after the man walked in and stabbed an employee.
Other employees tackled the suspect and held him down until cops arrived, officials said. The condition of the victim, who was flown to a hospital, was not known.
The suspect was taken to a hospital after being brought into custody, according to Sandy police and the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office.
At 2:35 p.m., a 911 caller reported finding the body of a woman inside a home on Elwood Road in Colton, about 10 miles from the store, kgw.com reported.
Investigators said the woman had died at the home and that the attacker at the grocery store is suspected in her killing.
The names of the suspect and the victims have not been released.

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Man holding severed human head stabs grocery worker

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PORTLAND – Police say a man carrying what appeared to be a human head stabbed an employee at a grocery store in Oregon, and authorities later found a woman’s body at a home.
The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office said the incidents east of Portland are connected.
Sgt. Nate Thompson said the stabbing suspect was arrested Sunday afternoon after he was subdued by other employees at the grocery store in Estacada.
The victim and the suspect were both taken to a hospital.
Soon after the attack, someone called 9-1-1 to report that a woman’s body was found at a home in Colton, a short drive south of Estacada. Her name has not been released.
Police did not say whether the body was headless. An autopsy is scheduled for Monday.

Большая рыба для большого аллигатора 

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Аллигатор вышел на поле для гольфа пообедать большой рыбой
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‘Russian Meddling’: Democrat senator falls for fake news story on US elections 

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US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says there's no question that Russia interfered in last year's US presidential election, despite the lack of any published evidence. His statement directly contradicts comments made by the Russian Foreign Minister, during his visit to Washington last week. After Sergei Lavrov met Donald Trump and Tillerson, journalists seemed only interested in asking about that issue.
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Большая рыба для большого аллигатора 

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Thirty world leaders sign agreement at China's New Silk Road summit 

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Russian president Vladimir Putin says Sunday's North Korean missile test was 'counter-productive and dangerous'
He was attending a summit in Beijing on China's New Silk Road trade project.
At the summit China's President Xi Jinping urged World leaders to reject protectionism and embrace globalisation.
His call came on the final day of a two day forum promoting his bold plan to create new trading routes across parts of the developing world.
But in a setback to that effort some EU representatives are refusing to sign a communique marking the end of the summit.
They want it to contain guarantees about allowing free tenders for all the associated infrastructure projects.
Al Jazeera's Adrian Brown reports from Beijing.
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The Battle For Western Mosul 

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Despite suffering heavy losses, the Iraqi army's 9th division continues its slow progression inside the old city in the quest to defeat ISIS
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Putin: We need to stop intimidating North Korea, find peaceful solution 

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North Korea's latest ballistic missile test's prompted a chorus of condemnation from around the globe. Pyongyang claims a new type of rocket was successfully fired - which can carry a large nuclear warhead. The Russian President Vladimir Putin has also addressed the latest missile launch by North Korea.
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WannaCry: кибернападение на мир 

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Программа-вымогатель 12 мая заблокировала десятки тысяч компьютеров по всему миру, в том числе в государственных учреждениях и крупных компаниях.
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Дело директора ФБР 

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Белый дом начал отбор возможных кандидатов на пост директора ФБР. Однако скандал с увольнением предыдущего главы Федерального бюро расследований Джеймса Коми продолжается

Deputy AG to Brief Senate on Trump's Firing of FBI's Comey

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Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will conduct a classified briefing May 18 for the full U.S. Senate on President Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday. The top Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, said in a statement that he hoped senators would use the briefing at 2:30 p.m. EDT (1830 GMT) to seek the "full truth" about Comey's dismissal, press Rosenstein "to make way"...

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Top Shots

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Some of the most compelling photographs from RFE/RL's broadcast region and beyond for the 20th week of 2017.

WSJ What's News: Trump Poll Numbers Stable Despite Comey Firing 

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President Trump's firing last week of FBI Director James Comey generated a lot of strong feelings across party lines. But Wall Street Journal reporter Aaron Zitner says Trump's approval ratings haven't changed much, according to a new WSJ poll.



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Why Congress will probably never see Trump's 'tapes' of his conversations with James Comey

Washington Post - ‎30 minutes ago‎
This post has been updated with comments from the White House about handing over the tapes. James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, ...

Republicans are backing Trump. And that's all that matters -- for now

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(CNN) Even as Donald Trump swerves from one stunning headline to the next, his presidency is firmly planted on this rock-steady subtext: As long as Republicans in Congress support him, he is essentially invulnerable to blowback from even the most ...

The Daily 202: Loyalty is a one-way street for Donald Trump

Washington Post - ‎5 hours ago‎
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This is what it looks like when the media gives Trump exactly what he wants

Washington Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
Lester Holt's interview with President Trump last week made huge, splashy headlines when the president confirmed that he always intended to fire FBI Director James B. Comey, and that he was thinking of the investigation into Russia's influence on the ...

Three sentences worth contemplating

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I am well aware that we have a president who, as even his supporters would surely acknowledge, is less assiduous than most in his use of the English language. I've complained about it before and will continue to do so, and I will continue to try as ...
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Cyber attack's spread slows; security...

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Cyber attack's spread slows; security stocks gain

Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
LONDON/WASHINGTON The global WannaCry "ransomware" cyber attack spread more slowly on Monday with no major infections reported, as attention shifted to investment and government policy implications of lax cyber security. There were 213,000 ...

WannaCry Ransomware: What We Know Monday

NPR - ‎40 minutes ago‎
A ransomware attack that began in Europe on Friday is lingering — and hitting new targets Japan and China. The WannaCry software has locked thousands of computers in more than 150 countries. Users are confronted with a screen demanding a $300 ...

How to protect yourself from the global ransomware attack

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
Security experts are bracing for more fallout from Friday's worldwide WannaCry ransomware attack, which has so far affected more than 150 countries and major businesses and organizations, including FedEx, Renault and Britain's National Health Service.

WannaCry attacks are only the beginning, experts warn

PCWorld - ‎1 hour ago‎
Researchers believe other attackers will start to exploit the same SMB flaw as the WannaCry ransomware. Email a friend. To. Use commas to separate multiple email addresses. From. Privacy Policy. Thank you. Your message has been sent. Sorry. There was ...

A timeline of the WannaCry cyberattack

ABC News - ‎58 minutes ago‎
The so-called WannaCry cyberattack has affected hundreds of thousands of computers by exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Windows XP software, creating havoc around the world. Here's a timeline detailing how the attack spread: ...
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Hourly News Summary: NPR News: 05-15-2017 2PM ET 

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Hourly News Summary: NPR News: 05-15-2017 1PM ET 

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Is Microsoft to blame for the largest...

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Is Microsoft to blame for the largest ransomware attacks in internet history?

The Verge - ‎2 hours ago‎
Friday saw the largest global ransomware attack in internet history, and the world did not handle it well. We're only beginning to calculate the damage inflicted by the WannaCry program — in both dollars and lives lost from hospital downtime — but at ...

Cyber attack's spread slows; security stocks gain

Reuters - ‎35 minutes ago‎
LONDON/WASHINGTON The global WannaCry "ransomware" cyber attack spread more slowly on Monday with no major infections reported, as attention shifted to investment and government policy implications of lax cyber security. Earlier on Monday ...

How to protect yourself from the global ransomware attack

Washington Post - ‎58 minutes ago‎
Security experts are bracing for more fallout from Friday's worldwide WannaCry ransomware attack, which has so far affected more than 150 countries and major businesses and organizations, including FedEx, Renault and Britain's National Health Service.

Global manhunt for WannaCry creators

BBC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
As organisations around the world clean up after being caught out by the WannaCry ransomware, attention has now turned to the people behind the devastating attack. The malware uses a vulnerability identified by the US National Security Agency, but it ...

'Perfect storm' of ransomware and network worm hits unprotected computers globally

Computerworld - ‎2 hours ago‎
The cruel reality of a global ransomware attack that crippled computer systems in 150 countries on Friday is this: Attackers took advantage of under-prepared computer users and their organizations. Enterprises -- including manufacturers, car makers ...
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Global Cyberattacks Appear to Ease, Except in Asia

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The worldwide "ransomware" cyberattacks appeared to ease Monday, although thousands more computers, mostly in Asia, were hit as people signed in at work for the first time since the infections spread to 150 countries three days ago. Health officials in Britain, where surgeries and doctors' appointments in its national health care system had been severely impacted Friday, were still having problems Monday. But health minister Jeremy Hunt said it was "encouraging"...

Russian President Vladimir Putin Condemns ‘Unacceptable’ North Korea Missile Launch 

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(SEOUL) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has condemned North Korea’s latest test-firing of a ballistic missile.
North Korea on Sunday launched what it said was a new type of “medium long-range” ballistic rocket that can carry a heavy nuclear warhead.
Speaking to reporters during his visit to China, Putin said Monday that “there’s nothing good about” the launch.
The Russian defense ministry said the missile landed several hundred kilometers away from the city of Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East, but Putin said the missile “didn’t present a threat” to his country.
In comments carried by Russian news agencies, Putin said Russia considers North Korea’s missile launches and nuclear tests to be “unacceptable,” adding that “we need to return to a dialogue with North Korea, stop intimidating it and find peaceful solutions.”


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EU Renews Call for Venezuelan Peace Talks

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The European Union is pressing Venezuela’s government and opposition groups to resume negotiations toward peacefully resolving the political crisis that has convulsed the country for nearly two months.     In a statement issued Monday, the EU repeated concerns it had expressed last July seeking "an urgent, constructive and effective dialogue." The EU’s current statement calls for "all Venezuelan political actors and institutions to work in a constructive...

Trump Administration Accuses Syrian Government of Killing Thousands of Prisoners 

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(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration is accusing the Syrian government carrying out mass killings of thousands of prisoners and burning the dead bodies in a large crematorium outside the capital.
The State Department says about 50 detainees a day are being hanged at Saydnaya military prison, about 45 minutes from Damascus. It says the crematorium is being used to hide evidence of the extent of the killings.
The department is releasing newly declassified photographs showing what it says is a building in the prison complex that has been modified to support the crematorium.
In presenting the photographs, the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East, Stu Jones, said Monday that Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government “has sunk to a new level of depravity” with the support of Russia and Iran


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