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The Closing Of Clinton Case Precedent To Drop Charges Against WikiLeaks

The Clinton case went on only for a year and was closed as FBI Director James Comey last month said they could not establish there was an intent to damage the US national security, something WikiLeaks had also never tried to do, according to Assange.

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MOSCOW — The closure of the case of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over the use of private emails for correspondence on state issues as the state secretary should serve as a precedent for dropping charges against WikiLeaks since no threat to the national security was posed by its revelations, the website founder Julian Assange

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US Lawmakers Question Wisdom Of Weapons Deal With Saudi Arabia

With the UK already facing a legal challenge over its continued arms sales to Saudi Arabia, senators in the US have proposed blocking the latest sale of weapons to the Gulf kingdom, raising questions about the future of Western military support for Riyadh.

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A Royal Saudi Arabian Air Force pilot adjusts his oxygen mask while in the cockpit of a an American-made F-5 Tiger II aircraft prior to flying a training mission at Williams Air Force Base.

Less than a week after the US government approved the possible sale of US$1.15 billion worth of tanks, machine guns and other military equipment to Saudi Arabia, Republican senator Rand Paul is now considering blocking the deal. "I will work with a bipartisan coalition to explore forcing a vote on blocking this sale," he said a statement

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Ukraine Ammases Troops On Crimean Border

The move comes a day after the Russian Federal Security Service said it had foiled terrorist attacks in Crimea organized by the Ukrainian main intelligence directorate.

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Soldiers from the Ukrainian army ride on tanks in the port city of Mariupol, southeastern Ukraine, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014.

Ukraine has built up its armed forces on the border with Crimea in accordance with President Poroshenko's combat readiness order, the country's chief of the general staff said. "Divisions and units of the Ukrainian armed forces which are stationed in the vicinity of the administrative border with Crimea are on high alert. A build-up

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Taliban Pledges Support To Afghan Government In Anti-ISIS Fight

The Taliban is supporting Afghanistan in its fight against the Daesh jihadist group, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Monday.

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A Taliban fighter guards a gathering in Shindand district of Herat province, Afghanistan.

MOSCOW  — The spokesman stressed that most Daesh members present in Afghanistan are foreigners and occupy a small territory in the east of the country with no presence elsewhere. “In cooperation with the nation, [the Taliban] has prevented the terrorist group from gaining a foothold in Afghanistan,” Mujahid added, in an interview with the

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US Detention Of Asylum Seekers Increased Nearly Threefold Under Obama

Human Rights First said in a report that the number of persons seeking asylum imprisoned in the United States increased by close to a factor of three during the Obama administration.

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WASHINGTON — The number of persons seeking asylum imprisoned in the United States increased by close to a factor of three during the Obama administration, a US human rights group said in a report. "The number of asylum seekers sent to and held in immigration detention has increased nearly threefold from 2010 to 2014," the report, released

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In Landmark Decision, Court Refuses To Consider Secret Police ‘Stingray’ Evidence

A federal judge, for the first time, has thrown out evidence obtained without a warrant through the use of the controversial “Stingray” cellphone surveillance system, stating that it violated the rights of the defendant.

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In a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, US District Judge William Pauley made the unprecedented decision to refuse Stingray evidence presented by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), determining the use of the device to be an unreasonable search. The device is designed to mimic a cellphone tower, tricking the phone belonging to suspect Raymond

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EU-US Personal Data Privacy Deal ‘Cracked Beyond Repair’

A leading European consumer group said that the EU-US deal over the use of personal data on US servers – known as Privacy Shield and which was signed Tuesday (July 12) – is “cracked beyond repair.”

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Privacy Shield is the proposed new deal between the EU and the US that is supposed to safeguard all personal data on EU citizens held on computer systems in the US from being subject to mass surveillance by the US National Security Agency. The data can refer to any transaction — web purchases, cars or clothing — involving an EU citizen whose data

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