Input: The crash prompted the South American soccer federation to cancel all activities until further notice

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Input: Brazilian goalkeeper Marcos Danilo Padilha initially survived the crash, but "died while being transferred" to a hospital, officials said

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Input: Doctors had to amputate the leg of reserve goalkeeper Jackson Follman, while defender Helio Neto suffered cranial injuries

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Input: Real Madrid's squad stopped a training to hold a minute of silence

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Input: The Brazilian national flag along with a MERCOSUR banner fly at half-staff to honor plane crash victims, outside the Planalto Presidential Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 29, 2016

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Input: The Rio headquarters of the Brazilian Football Association flew flags at half-staff on Tuesday and halted all games in the Brazilian soccer calendar for the next seven days

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Input: The mayor of the southern Brazilian city of Chapeco, home of the ill-fated soccer team, said he and other officials barely missed boarding the plane that crashed

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Input: The team joined Brazil's first division in 2014 for the first time since the 1970s

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Input: The plane, owned by the small Venezuelan airline LaMia, had left Bolivia for Medellin, where the team was to play in the final of the Copa Sudamericana tournament

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Input: Rescue workers at the wreckage of an airplane that was carrying the Brazilian soccer club Chapecoense when it crashed outside Medellin, Colombia, Nov. 29, 2016

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Input: Deforestation Rising in Amazon as Lack of Funds Hampers Guardians-NOVO PROGRESSO, BRAZIL — -The rainforest shook with the sound of exploding tires and groaning steel as flames tore through a truck carrying giant tree trunks illegally sawn from the Amazon

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Input: Ibama, responsible for preserving Brazil's 65 percent share of the world's largest rainforest, is one of the most important groups in that fight

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Input: An aerial view of cleared land is seen during an operation to combat illegal mining and logging conducted by agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, supported by military police, in the municipality of Novo Progresso, Para State, northern Brazil, Nov. 11, 2016

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Input: Over the past four years it has risen 35 percent, as Ibama suffered from a lack of funding amid Brazil's worst recession in decades

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Input: Leaders from nearly 200 different countries met in Morocco this month to move forward on commitments to cut greenhouse gas emissions, amid concerns that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump might cut funding for the deal signed in Paris last year

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Input: Here, in the badlands of rural Para, the challenges to those commitments are all too clear

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Input: In a scuffed blue cap and muddied jeans, the 25-year-old fought back tears as he learned his truck would be set alight right there

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Input: Fallen trees are seen during an operation to combat illegal mining and logging conducted by agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, supported by military police, in the municipality of Novo Progresso, Para State, northern Brazil, Nov. 11, 2016

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Input: Three Ibama officials in Santarem were charged last month with taking bribes from logging companies

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Input: The situation should be helped by 56 million reais secured from the Fundo Amazonia, a fund principally financed by Norway and Germany

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Input: But officials say a broader strategic change is also needed

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Input: "The effectiveness of our current measures and enforcement has reached its limit," said Everton Lucero, the government's undersecretary for climate change

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Input: Ibama helped to reduce the rate of deforestation by over 80 percent between 2004 and 2012

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Input: A Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources agent measures a tree trunk during an operation to combat illegal mining and logging in the municipality of Novo Progresso, Para State, northern Brazil, Nov. 11, 2016

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Input: Now, there is a sense that Brazil's target of zero deforestation by 2030 will not simply be achieved with more 4x4s and semiautomatic rifles

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Input: A carrot is needed alongside the stick, officials say

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Input: One option being discussed with other ministries, according to Lucero, is to create economic incentives for landowners and communities to preserve their forests

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Input: Pioneers-Persuading towns like Novo Progresso to preserve the rainforest means transforming their culture and economy

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Input: When able to do their job, agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, are decisive, punishing illegal loggers on the spot

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Input: It lies on the BR-163 highway that runs north to south through the rainforest to join frontier farms with ports in the southeast

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Input: Environmental groups estimate 60 percent of Brazil's Amazonian deforestation happens along this stretch

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Input: Novo Progresso was one of many towns founded during Brazil's drive deep into the Amazon during the military dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s

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Input: Jose Carlos Rovaris, 62, bought his land near Novo Progresso in 1984, leaving his home in the southern state of Santa Catarina for a new life on the forest frontier

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Input: In 1933, British explorer Peter Fleming described neighboring Mato Grosso state as "huge tracts of jungle which no white man has even attempted to enter.

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Input: But this seizure was the only success in four days of operations this month near the town of Novo Progresso in Brazil's vast northern state of Para

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Input: With that has come increased power in Congress, and environmentalists fear President Michel Temer's government will bow to pressure to ease environmental licensing laws as it aims to rekindle economic growth

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Input: No jobs-Ibama operates on the limits of a law its agents regard as too soft

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Input: They do this if the vehicle is on protected land inhabited by indigenous groups or if the truck cannot be removed because the driver has fled or the vehicle is damaged

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Input: But those caught cutting down the rainforest never see the inside of a jail cell unless convicted of a more serious, related crime, such as money laundering or violence

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Input: An agent of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, looks at a GPS device during an operation to combat illegal mining and logging, in the municipality of Novo Progresso, Para State, northern Brazil, Nov. 10, 2016

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Input: Trucks loaded with tree trunks are burned by agents of the Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources, or Ibama, during an operation to combat illegal mining and logging, in the municipality of Novo Progresso, Para State, northern Brazil, Nov. 11, 2016

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Input: Many in Novo Progresso see no other way to get by

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Input: "There is nothing else," said Elis Pereira, 25, at the Ibama office after his truck was burned

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Input: Sleep-deprived and famished after days in the forest waiting for the rain to pass, he said the fine and loss of his truck meant he would be "pushed into crime.

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Input: With no new land legally available and farming so mechanized it requires little labor, Pereira is part of a generation growing up in towns like Novo Progresso with scant job prospects

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Input: He bought the truck that is now charred steel for 60,000 reais just six weeks ago

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Input: Hampered by poor radios with a maximum range of just 2 kilometers (1.3 miles) and pickup trucks easily recognized by those who cut down the forest, the exhausted Ibama agents were too often chasing shadows

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Input: "The loggers are better equipped than we are," said Uiratan Barroso, Ibama's head of law enforcement in the state capital, Santarem

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Input: Ukrainians Want to Make a Deal with Trump-Ukrainians trying to figure out what to expect from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump may be having trouble

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Input: His praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin during the recent political campaign received a lot of media attention

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Input: In addition, Ukraine has had a self-described "phone pal" in outgoing Vice President Joe Biden, who spoke in September about his routine contacts with Ukraine's leaders

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Input: "In the last four years, I am on the phone two to three hours a week with those folks," Biden said

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Input: Such a relationship between Ukraine and the new U.S. president is unlikely, according to one high-ranking Russian official

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Input: Manafort had to step down as the manager of Trump's presidential campaign in August, following reports that he earned millions of dollars working on behalf of Ukraine's ousted pro-Russian ruler, Viktor Yanukovych, and possibly lobbied illegally on Yanukovych's behalf in the United States

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Input: Some of the damaging information came from a Ukrainian anti-corruption agency

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Input: FILE - Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort is surrounded by reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, July 17, 2016

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Input: Media reports earlier this month said Manafort may be advising Trump on Cabinet appointments

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Input: His close associate and former partner in Ukraine, Rick Gates, is now functioning as "shadow chair" of the Trump inaugural committee, according to Michael Isikoff of Yahoo News

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Input: On the other hand, Trump also criticized President Barack Obama for "not doing what he should be doing for Ukraine," tweeting that "Russia took Crimea during the so-called Obama years.

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Input: "I'm not active in the transition, but I'm watching," Manafort told CBS News last week

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Input: He said the allegations against him were "not true," but that he quit as Trump's campaign manager four months ago because he "became a block to his ability to communicate his message.

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Input: Berezovets told VOA that Manafort will likely "advise Trump on Ukraine, whether in a formal or informal capacity," and may hold a grudge against Kyiv

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Input: Still, he said a telephone conversation between Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and Trump just days after the U.S. election was ground for optimism

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Input: The two leaders agreed to hold a future bilateral meeting, and according to the Ukrainian president's website, Poroshenko also stressed the need for "Washington's resolute support of Ukraine in countering the Russian aggression and implementing crucial reforms.

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Input: This, the Ukrainian analyst said, is "evidence that Trump has zero prejudice with regard to Ukraine at the moment.

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Input: FILE - President-elect Donald Trump talks to the media as he stands with retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster clubhouse in Bedminster, N.J., Nov. 19, 2016

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Input: James Mattis, picked by Trump to lead the Pentagon, called Putin a threat to the United States and its allies, described the events in Ukraine's Donbas and Crimea regions as "a war," and said the conflict there could destabilize the region

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Input: Jeff Sessions, Trump's choice to head the Department of Justice, has stated that the United States and Europe "have to unify" to push back against Russian overreach

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Input: What will Trump actually do regarding Ukraine

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Input: Sessions also co-sponsored a bill that would authorize the U.S. president to arm Ukraine with lethal military aid

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Input: Horbach, the analyst from the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kyiv, told VOA: "A lot will depend on Trump's choice for the secretary of state.

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Input: Several names floated for top U.S. diplomat may be music to Kyiv's ears

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Input: Mitt Romney famously warned Obama about the danger posed by Russia back in 2008

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Input: Senator Bob Corker stressed the need for the U.S. to continue to support Ukraine and called for lethal aid for Ukraine's military

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Input: Former U.S. Ambassador the U.N. John Bolton has called for supplying Kyiv with weapons and fast-tracking Ukraine for NATO membership

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Input: FILE - A billboard showing a pictures of U.S. president-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen through pedestrians in Danilovgrad, Montenegro, Nov.16, 2016

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Input: Strength, respect-While Trump's alleged "bromance" with Putin remains a popular trope in the U.S. media, the president-elect has made it clear that he wants the United States to be respected, and sees strength as a means to get respect

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Input: "Part of the problem that Ukraine has with the United States is that Putin does not respect our president whatsoever," Trump said about Obama in a video address to the Yalta European Strategy meeting in September 2015

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Input: "An optimistic scenario for Ukraine is that Trump will eventually discover Ukraine as a country that is key to resolving the Russia issue in international affairs," Horbach told VOA

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Input: Taras Berezovets, a Kyiv-based political expert, put forward what he sees as a best-case scenario: The United States will remain Ukraine's security guarantor during Trump's presidency; boost financial assistance to Kyiv; provide it with lethal weapons, military trainers and intelligence (to deter Russia from escalating violence in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region); and join the Minsk peace process, aimed at ending the conflict between Ukraine's government and separatist forces backed by Russia

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Input: Asked how relations between the Trump administration and Ukraine are likely to develop, Berezovets told VOA: "The U.S.-Ukraine relationship will become more pragmatic.

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Input: Pragmatism may mean that the author of The Art of the Deal will meet Ukraine somewhere in the middle — between its worst fears and its rosiest dreams

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Input: FILE - A mannequin soldier holding a rifle represents the "little green men" whom Russia dispatched to help annex Ukraine's Crimea

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Input: "What we want to do is we want to arm the Ukrainians not with just night-vision goggles and uniforms," Hunter said

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Input: We already gave some of the radars, but we want make it so that if Russians decide to push the West again, it is very costly for them.

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Input: Hunter, a Republican from California who was one of the first members of Congress to endorse Trump, also is a former Marine who visited the Ukrainian military's front lines in Donbas

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Input: He contends the U.S. could provide lethal weapons to Ukraine and work with Moscow to secure Russia's withdrawal from Donbas, while giving Putin a free hand in Syria

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Input: Volodymyr Horbach, a political analyst at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation in Kyiv, offered a worst-case scenario: "Ukraine will be treated and used as a bargaining chip in relations with Russia," he told VOA in an email response

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Input: Regarding Crimea, the Ukrainian Black Sea peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014, Hunter suggested Ukrainians should look at the facts: that Crimea is a Russian stronghold

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Input: "Do the Ukrainians want the United States to invade Crimea?

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Input: If Russians are not willing to leave Crimea but they are willing to leave the east of Ukraine, is that a bad thing

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Input: FILE - Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Ukraine Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman in Biden's ceremonial office on the White House complex in Washington, June 15, 2016

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Input: Broad US assistance for Kyiv-The United States has championed Western sanctions against Russia and has committed more than $1.3 billion in direct assistance to Ukraine and $2 billion in loan guarantees

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Input: A $17.5 billion financial package for Kyiv came from the International Monetary Fund, headquartered in Washington

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Input: The U.S. also plays a key role in Ukraine's anti-corruption, military and law enforcement reforms

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Input: UN Human Rights Chief ‘Appalled’ by Faltering Aleppo Evacuation Deal -U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein says he is “appalled” by the apparent collapse of a cease-fire deal in Aleppo that would have allowed civilians to evacuate the war-torn Syrian city, where heavy fighting resumed on Wednesday

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Input: “While the reasons for the breakdown in the ceasefire are disputed, the resumption of extremely heavy bombardment by the Syrian government forces and their allies on an area packed with civilians is almost certainly a violation of international law and most likely constitutes war crimes,” Zeid said in a statement Wednesday

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Input: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said it was government forces who attacked first

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Input: Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin were due to discuss the situation in Aleppo sometime Wednesday

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Input: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, spoke by phone Wednesday afternoon and Lavrov told Kerry the Syrian government was willing to provide a safe exit for civilians and rebel fighters, but the rebels refused to adhere to the ceasefire, according to a statement from the Russian foreign ministry

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Input: Russia, which backs Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and Turkey, which supports rebels who want to oust him, brokered the deal, which also set up the evacuations that were expected to begin early Wednesday morning

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Input: Aleppo has been the subject of numerous efforts to bring a halt in fighting and to get aid to thousands of people in need of food and medicine

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Input: But repeatedly those initiatives, including brokered cease-fires by countries such as Russia, the United States and Turkey, have fallen apart

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Input: The plan, according to Russia's U.N. ambassador, Vitaly Churkin, was for most of the fleeing opposition fighters to move to Idlib, a city of 165,000 residents 60 kilometers southwest of Aleppo

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Input: Buses wait to evacuate people from a rebel pocket in Aleppo, in the government-controlled al-Hamadaniah Stadium of Aleppo, Syria Dec. 14, 2016

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Input: Churkin described the deal as the end of a “very difficult chapter" for Aleppo, and said his government hoped it would lead to the "relaunching [of] political negotiations.

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Input: Turkey's deputy prime minister, Mehmet Simsek, said on Twitter his country would set up a tent city to accommodate as many as 80,000 refugees fleeing Aleppo

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Input: In this still image taken from video released by a Syrian activist Wednesday smoke rises in the distance alongside the sound of heavy bombardment in east Aleppo, as a cease-fire deal to evacuate the city’s residents begins to collapse

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Input: Failed diplomacy-At an emergency council session Tuesday, Western envoys fiercely criticized Russia for its ongoing military support of the government of President Bashar al-Assad and the months of atrocities inflicted on residents of the once-vibrant city

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Input: A Lebanese woman holds a paper with "Aleppo" written in Arabic as she chants slogans during a sit-in to express solidarity with residents of the Syrian city of Aleppo, in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 13, 2016

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Input: U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power asked

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Input: “Is there no act of barbarism against civilians, no execution of a child that gets under your skin, that just creeps you out a little bit

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Input: Britain’s envoy, Matthew Rycroft, echoed the words of Secretary-General Ban, saying the Security Council had failed

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Input: “It’s failed because Russia has used and abused its veto time and again, even to prevent a seven-day cease-fire,” Rycroft said

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Input: Russian envoy Churkin dismissed Western accusations of widespread atrocities, calling them part of a “propaganda, disinformation and psychological” war

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Input: (Salah Ashkar via AP)-Zeid called on the Syrian government to provide medical aid to those wounded during the recent bombardment, which he said was required by international law, and called the government’s apparent blocking of a convoy of buses sent to evacuate civilians “inexcusable.

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Input: Atrocities-Earlier, in Geneva, U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville called on Syria to allow U.N. monitors or another organization such as the International Committee of the Red Cross immediate access to Aleppo

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Input: “Civilians have paid a brutal price during this conflict, and we’re filled with the deepest foreboding for those who remain in this last hellish corner of opposition-held eastern Aleppo,” he said

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Input: Separately, the ICRC warned Tuesday that thousands of civilians in eastern Aleppo “have literally nowhere safe to run” and urged those involved in fighting there to protect them

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Input: Once complete, the recapture of eastern Aleppo would end four years of fighting between a loose alliance of rebel factions and the Syrian army, which is backed by Shi’ite Hezbollah fighters, Russian forces and Shi’ite militia supported by Iran

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Input: A year-long government offensive intensified in September, when Assad’s forces were bolstered by Russian air power

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Input: Monitors described the Russian air war on Aleppo’s eastern sector as methodical and said entire neighborhoods were flattened street-by-street under the onslaught

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Input: Rebel commanders and opposition politicians insist the loss of Aleppo will not mark the end of the uprising

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Input: However, few doubt battlefield fortunes have swung heavily against them and with the regime possibly hours away from seizing what is left of insurgent controlled eastern Aleppo, the dynamic of resistance will have to change to guerrilla warfare to keep the revolution alive

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Input: Margaret Besheer and Jamie Dettmer contributed to this report

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Input: Zeid's comments came after heavy fighting resumed Wednesday in Aleppo and various parties and their backers traded blame for shattering a cease-fire, effectively scuttling a plan to evacuate civilians and rebels

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Input: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the violence included airstrikes on the remaining parts of opposition-held Aleppo, which the rebels seized four years ago

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Input: Rebel areas were also hit by shelling, while Syrian state television reported that shelling by the rebels killed six people in a district that was recently recaptured by the government

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Input: Analysts See Trump Comments on One China as Part of Bigger Game-BEIJING — -President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion that the United States doesn’t necessarily need to be bound by a “One China” policy, which was key to the establishment of diplomatic ties between Washington and Beijing, has the Chinese leadership on edge and some wondering whether a rethink is on the horizon regarding relations with Taiwan

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Input: Analysts say a Trump presidency could see ties with democratically ruled Taiwan enhanced, but doubt there will be a serious departure from the policy, noting the wide range of areas where the world’s two biggest economies cooperate and how much they need each other

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Input: Taiwan and China-Trump’s recent phone call with Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, a first by any president or president-elect since Washington switched ties to Beijing, and now remarks about the “One China” policy — which has been a centerpiece of relations for decades - has some feeling that just might happen

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Input: Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a political scientist at Hong Kong Baptist University, said there are those in the United States who would like to make relations with Taiwan more transparent and more like “state to state relations.

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Input: “Of course the Chinese will not be happy, but I think it is a way of telling the Chinese, the ‘One China’ policy that the Chinese adhere shouldn’t be taken for granted,” he said

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Input: “There are a number of things that were decided for convenience in the 1970s and in the 80s, which may be revisited today because the reality on the ground is very different.


Input: The United States and China established ties at a time when both Taipei and Beijing were under authoritarian rule

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Input: Still, just how many politicians in the United States might support a complete overhaul is unclear, Cabestan adds, as the policy has long enjoyed bipartisan support

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Input: Tseng Chien-yuan, an associate professor at Chung Hua University in Taiwan, said it seems that Trump is treating the “One China” policy more like a political bargaining chip

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Input: "I think he [Trump] will have to adjust his policies in accordance with China's reactions and look after the U.S.'s best interest,” Tseng said

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Input: No good option-Zhang said that when Trump spoke with Taiwan’s president it was like he was starting to take bets, but now with his remarks about “one China” and trade, he has clearly put his cards on the table

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Input: Trump’s comments have sparked a strong backlash from Beijing, with the foreign ministry voicing its “serious concern” and state media suggesting that if he did dump the policy as president, China could sell weapons to “forces hostile to the U.S.” The remarks have also whipped up concern from foreign affairs experts in the United States and abroad because Beijing sees the policy as the “political bedrock of Sino-U.S.” relations

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Input: Branstad would later be named the United States ambassador to China

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Input: (R. Taylor / VOA)-“He is not president yet and speaking as president-elect he can say what he wants,” Zhang said

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Input: “I don’t know why we have to be bound by a One China policy unless we make a deal with China having to do with other things, including trade.

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Input: Making the comments now gives China some time to be angry and to contemplate its options as well as the costs associated with its choices

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Input: China has never renounced the use of force to take Taiwan and fulfill its claim that the self-ruled island is part of its territory, but Zhang said there are few good options for China’s communist leaders

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Input: FILE - Paramilitary policemen march at the Tiananmen Sqaure before the fourth plenary meeting of the National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, March 14, 2013

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Input: Analysts note that while there may be a tendency from military and party hardliners in China to call for a tough response, Chinese officials and state media have so far focused more on the economic measures China could use in response and a refusal to cooperate on a wide-range of issues from Iran to North Korea

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Input: Regardless of whether it is Washington or Beijing, in a globalized world and economy, there are few options that don’t cut both ways

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Input: Taiwan is also watching all of this closely to make sure its interests are looked after

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Input: There are concerns in Taiwan that Trump’s approach could do more harm than good

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Input: But that really depends on how it all plays out, said Chung Hua University’s Tseng

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Input: “If closer economic cooperation between the U.S. and Taiwan can be forged, a Trump presidency will help Taiwan break away from China’s military and economic containment,” Tseng said

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Input: Nixon in reverse-U.S. President Richard Nixon's visit to China in 1972 spearheaded the beginning of what led to the switch in ties from Taiwan to China

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Input: FILE - Chinese leader Mao Zedong shake hands with Richard Nixon after their meeting in Beijing 22 February 1972 during the U.S. President's official visit in China

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Input: “The Trump administration is trying to start with China as a way of maybe putting more pressure on China, isolate China from more countries, from key partners like Russia, bringing back Russia,” said Hong Kong Baptist University’s Cabestan

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Input: He added that while there are many uncertainties, what is clear is that Trump is prepared to play hardball with China on both trade and strategic issues

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Input: On the campaign trail, president-elect Trump sent clear signals that he wants to improve ties with Russia

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Input: One China rethink-When the United States established ties with China in 1979, it cut diplomatic relations with Taiwan, recognizing the communist-led People’s Republic of China as the sole government of China, or “one China.

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Input: On Tuesday, he appointed ExxonMobil Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Rex Tillerson as his Secretary of State

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Input: Tillerson is friendly with Russian President Vladimir Putin

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Input: FILE - President Nixon sits between Chinese Premier Chou En-lai and Chiang Ching, wife of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, at a cultural show in the Great Hall of the People, Feb. 22, 1972 in Peking as an interlude in the talks between the two countries leaders

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Input: From Beijing’s perspective, “One China” means Taiwan is part of its own territory

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Input: The United States acknowledges that position, but also maintains close cultural and commercial ties with Taipei

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Input: Protesters' Plans Present Challenges for Inauguration Security-Preparations and security operations are well underway a month before Donald Trump's inauguration as president of the United States, which is expected to draw an unprecedented number of protesters

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Input: Though many members of the military and the National Guard have been planning this inauguration since 2012, the local armory building in Washington, D.C., opened its doors to display a large map of the city and explain the plan and movements of the president on Inauguration Day

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Input: Their commander will decide at 4:30 a.m. January 20 which one they will wear

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Input: In 1985 at Ronald Reagan's second inauguration, the ceremony outside the Capitol was canceled because of snow, wind, and record low temperatures; it took place inside the building instead

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Input: As Trump prepares to take office, though, police, military and security personnel are facing an added challenge

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Input: "Clearly, the biggest concern at this point is the number of potential protesters," said Major General Bradley Becker, commanding general of the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region

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Input: Women's march-According to a Facebook event page, hundreds of thousands of people plan to participate in the Women's March on Washington the day after the inauguration

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Input: The march, the largest of more than a dozen planned in Washington over inauguration weekend, was the first to receive its permit Friday

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Input: "The Women's March on Washington will send a bold message to our new administration on their first day in office and to the world that women's rights are human rights

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Input: Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence will start at St. John's Episcopal Church, after which they will head to the White House to meet with outgoing President Barack Obama, who will hand Trump a physical, albeit symbolic, key to the White House

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Input: The Facebook event page has about 150,000 people marked as "attending" and another 240,000 people marked as "interested" in marching on January 21

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Input: The ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism) coalition is one of many groups seeking permits to protest on Inauguration Day

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Input: Construction continues on the inaugural platform in preparation for the swearing-in ceremonies for President-elect Donald Trump on the Capitol steps in Washington, Dec. 8, 2016

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Input: Both organizations cite hateful rhetoric against marginalized groups during Trump's political campaign, saying their mission involves countering this hate and making sure the new government knows that minorities and women are united in "numbers too great to ignore.

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Input: Many pro-Trump groups also are expected to convene to watch the inauguration in Washington

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Input: One of those is Bikers for Trump, made up of motorcyclists who staged rallies throughout the country leading up to the election, and who plan to ride through the city on Inauguration Day

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Input: A GoFundMe campaign for Bikers for Trump has raised over $18,000 to pay for lodging and fuel for those riding to and through Washington

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Input: After administrative documents are signed, a motorcade will begin from the White House to the Capitol for the swearing-in ceremony

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Input: Hotels throughout the capital are almost fully booked just with just those expected attendees, but Fuller said many protesters would either be making day trips or finding alternate lodging

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Input: A model of the Capitol is displayed on a giant planning map during a media tour highlighting inaugural preparations being made by the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region for military and civilian planners at the D.C. Armory in Washington, Dec. 14, 2016

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Input: Though the number of protesters expected in Washington is unprecedented, Fuller said, the general number of attendees, in whatever capacity, is similar to the number for Obama's inauguration in 2009

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Input: "I think the Obama inauguration in 2009 is a good model, because security is basically crowd management," Fuller said

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Input: "Generally speaking, the inauguration is taking shape as it has in the past, though things are subject to change," Brigadier General George Degnon, deputy commanding general for the presidential inauguration, said at a news conference Wednesday at which he addressed questions about how this inauguration would be different than those before it

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Input: One of the biggest security concerns for Inauguration Day is securing the president-elect himself and preparing for "the one oddball with a gun," according to Fuller

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Input: "But the next day is simple," he said, referring to the women's march, which will occur long after the parade and ceremony, when Trump presumably will be secure inside the White House

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Input: "They don't have to guard him against this; they have to guard protesters from each other," Fuller said

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Input: Directional signs are displayed on a giant planning map during a media tour highlighting inaugural preparations being made by the Joint Task Force-National Capital Region for military and civilian planners at the D.C. Armory in Washington, Dec. 14, 2016

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Input: The National Park Service is in charge of clearing permits for protests, because most of them occur on the National Mall and around monuments

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Input: The reason many demonstrations still lack permits is that the sheer number of groups protesting presents new challenges to the park service, not to mention security forces that will have a harder time keeping the large influx of people within designated areas, as well as quelling any potential tension between them and supporters of the new administration

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Input: Contingency plans-The Joint Force Committee, which includes members of the military and some District of Columbia National Guard members, cited the most basic, but also the most real, threats to the inauguration parade: getting all their members properly credentialed, and having a contingency plan for hundreds of thousands of people in case of inclement weather

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Input: Thousands of National Guard members will be deputized by the D.C. Police Department, giving them the power to make arrests

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Input: At Obama's first inauguration in 2009, which saw one of the largest crowds in history, troops made no arrests, said Major General Errol Schwartz, commanding general of the D.C. National Guard

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Input: In India, Cafe Run by Acid Attack Survivors Celebrates Second Anniversary-AGRA, INDIA — -Oblivious to the sound of blaring horns as evening traffic rushes by on a busy road in India’s tourist hub of Agra, acid attack survivors sing songs and stomp their feet to lively Bollywood numbers inside a cafe decked out in strings of yellow marigolds

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Input: There is much to celebrate on the second anniversary of Sheroes Hangout, the cafe they run: their emergence into the social mainstream from the shadows where they had hidden their scarred faces; the rekindling of hopes and dreams, a perceptible shift in public attitudes towards them; and the launch of two more cafes in the cities of Lucknow and Udaipur this year

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Input: The acceptance she received at school is in large measure due to the impact of the Sheroes Hangout, which was launched in 2014 by Stop Acid Attacks, a Delhi-based nonprofit group

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Input: The cafe was set up to bring acid attack survivors out of isolation and create awareness about the plight of girls and women who had simply vanished from public view

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Input: India not only has the highest number of acid attacks in the world, they have also been on the rise – about 350 were reported in 2014

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Input: In a male dominated society, the assailants are usually men seeking revenge for spurned marriage proposals, sexual advances or even failing to bring enough dowry

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Input: (A. Pasricha for VOA)-Among those dancing with the most fervor at the Agra cafe is Laxmi Agarwal, 28, who was attacked with acid in 2005, and today is one of India’s most prominent campaigners for the survivors of such horrific assaults

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Input: “People knew about victims of rape and domestic violence, but little about acid attack survivors,” she said as she joined the more than dozen women who run the three cafes

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Input: That has changed in the past two years as hundreds of customers, Indian and foreign, got to know the women who cook, serve and manage Sheroes Hangout

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Input: The youngest woman, 17-year-old Dolly Kumari Singh, has gone back to school

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Input: Now we have come out as fighters, not as victims,” said Agarwal

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Input: Sheroes Cafe run by acid attack survivors in the tourist hub of Agra recently celebrated its second anniversary

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Input: So much has changed,” said Anshu Rajput

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Input: The 18-year-old works at the recently opened cafe in Udaipur

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Input: Another feisty young woman, Farah Khan, says that although she never let her spirit die after her former husband sprayed acid on her face six years ago, she feels good when customers talk to her

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Input: “In those years, comments people passed only made me stronger, but I could never discuss this topic with anybody, talk to anybody," said Khan

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Input: Like other acid attack victims, she did not dare show her face outside her home after a man burnt her with corrosive chemicals two years ago

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Input: Indeed, much has been achieved since Sheroes Hangout was launched in Agra

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Input: At least 10 private sector organizations have offered jobs to acid attack survivors, who earlier could not have imagined finding employment, which is one of the key reasons the cafe was started

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Input: Farah Khan (left) and Dolly Kumari Singh (right) celebrate the second anniversary of Sheroes Hangout in Agra

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Input: In Udaipur, where Sheroes Hangout is located in a shopping mall, which gives it more visibility

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Input: Other shops have offered to employ them after noticing people streaming into the cafe in a gesture of support

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Input: But the time she spent working at the cafe gave her the courage to venture back into the classroom

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Input: Alok Dixit, founder of Stop Acid Attacks, which launched the Sheroes cafes

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Input: Many of the girls here are inspired by Laxmi Agarwal’s story, who stopped covering her face four years after being attacked in 2005

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Input: The public gaze was initially not easy to handle, but as she emerged at the forefront of the campaign, she walked the fashion ramp in London to raise awareness of violence against women, modeled for an Indian clothing label, and found love

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Input: “When I walk with Laxmi here in Agra, the [public’s] eyes are already comfortable

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Input: Chinese Naval Drill Near Taiwan Draws No US Protest-WASHINGTON — -The United States says China has the right to sail in international waters after a Chinese aircraft carrier cruised past Taiwan and into the contested South China Sea

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Input: Taiwan's Defense Ministry reported Monday that the aircraft carrier and five warships sailed 90 nautical miles south of Taiwan, a self-governing island claimed by China

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Input: State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Tuesday that the U.S. recognizes lawful uses of the sea, and that the same rights apply to the U.S., China and other nations

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Input: Women's Rights Face Daunting New Year Worldwide, Activists Warn-NEW YORK — -Women's rights face enormous challenges worldwide in 2017, according to activists, who expect fights to keep health clinics open, to save programs preventing unwanted pregnancies and to enforce laws protecting women from violence

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Input: Globally, women's rights are in the crosshairs of rising isolationism and right-wing politics in Western Europe and the United States, where President-elect Donald Trump has promised to unravel an array of policies

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Input: The United States also could pull funding from the United Nations Population Fund, which provides access to reproductive health services but does not fund or support abortion

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Input: FILE - A woman protests against underage marriages in Lagos, Nigeria, July 20, 2013

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Input: Several countries have enacted laws pressuring such groups by making them register as foreign agents if they get funding from international donors, said Janet Walsh, acting director of women's rights division at Human Rights Watch

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Input: "I'm afraid for those who take a stand for women's rights, that their security and their ability to register and operate as organizations will be undercut," she said

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Input: FILE - A photo of Lucia Perez,16, who was raped and killed in Argentina, is projected on a building as women participate in a demonstration against gender violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 25, 2016

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Input: An estimated one in five will become a victim of rape or attempted rape, according to the United Nations, and high rates of femicide and domestic abuse grip many countries

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Input: "There are major challenges facing women's rights coming up, not the least of which is a global cultural understanding ... that women are, in essence, second-class citizens," said Tarah Demant of Amnesty International USA

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Input: It is a cultural crisis," said Amnesty's Demant

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Input: "We fear a rollback on international agreements on women's rights and a rollback of commitments by governments on women's rights," said Francois Girard, president of the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC)

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Input: The IWHC intends to press governments not to cave to U.S. pressure to backpedal on women's rights, a strategy used during the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush that also sought to undermine women's rights, she said

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Input: "Governments didn't like to be bullied," she said

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Input: FILE - Renee Bracey Sherman of Chicago, Illinois, celebrates at the Supreme Court in Washington, June 27, 2016, after the court struck down Texas' widely replicated regulation of abortion clinics

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Input: Trump will have an opportunity to name one or more justices to the highest court and has vowed they will be abortion opponents

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Input: In the meantime, state laws are chipping away at abortion rights

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Input: "This is a global phenomenon," said Demant, senior director of Amnesty's identity and discrimination unit

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Input: Texas lawmakers approved a law requiring burial of aborted fetal tissue, a measure estimated to cost hundreds of dollars per procedure, and Ohio signed into law a ban on abortions after 20 weeks

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Input: "The number of abortions never goes down very much, regardless of the law," said Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women

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Input: FILE - A health care enrollment fair, co-sponsored by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, is held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Nov. 9, 2013

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Input: Known as Obamacare, it pays for most birth control methods for women

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Input: "That funding, by enabling women to avoid unintended pregnancies, saves the federal government a ton of money that they would otherwise have to pay for medical care, pregnancy care, child care, etc.," said Ann Starrs, head of the Guttmacher Institute, a leading reproductive rights group

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Input: Planned Parenthood relies on public funding for at least half its revenue, much of it from the Medicaid health insurance program for the poor

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Input: Congress also could stop funding Title X programs that provide family planning services to low-income women and from an array of teen pregnancy prevention programs

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Input: "To eliminate them as a provider either through Medicaid or the Title X family planning programs would leave millions of people in this country without regular health care," said Gretchen Borchelt, vice president for reproductive rights and health at the National Women's Law Center

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Input: Here are what activists see as some of the biggest challenges to women's rights in 2017:-FILE - A community health worker holds up contraceptives during a lecture on family planning at a reproductive health clinic run by an NGO in Tondo city, Manila, Jan. 12, 2016

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Input: First imposed under former President Ronald Reagan, the rule prohibits groups getting U.S. aid abroad from providing abortions or counseling patients about abortions, even if their funds for those activities come from other sources

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Input: The rule was lifted by President Barack Obama in 2009, but can be reinstated with the stroke of a pen

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Input: Under the gag rule, many groups turned down U.S. aid, leaving them short of money for health services from cancer screenings to flu shots, advocates say

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Input: Attack Against Police in Kenya Highlights Rising Threat of Female Extremism-In September, three people attacked a police station in Mombasa, Kenya

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Input: They stabbed one police officer and set fire to the building before being shot dead, according to Kenyan police

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Input: Islamic State has deployed female suicide bombers around the world, including 10 would-be suicide bombers arrested in October in Morocco

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Input: An IS affiliate claimed responsibility for the Mombasa attack, according to media reports

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Input: The incident drew international attention, not only for the brazenness of the attack, but for the gender of the attackers: all three were women

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Input: FILE - Children stand near the scene of an explosion a day after two female suicide bombers targeted a busy marketplace in Potiskum, Nigeria, Jan. 12, 2015

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Input: Muema said the Mombasa attack was particularly stunning because the perpetrators were local students who had graduated with high grades

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Input: "It was like a reawakening of the fact that more attention needs to be given to girls and to women," she said

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Input: Fredrick Ogenga, founding director of the Center for Media, Democracy, Peace and Security at Rongo University in Kenya, recently completed a study examining female extremism in Kenya while serving as a Southern Voices Network for Peacebuilding scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C

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Input: He found that women who become what he calls "jihadist brides" tend to come from middle-class or upper middle-class families, and have an average to above average education

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Input: FILE - Rescue workers transport a victim of a suicide bomb attack at a refugee for treatment at a hospital in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Feb. 10, 2016

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Input: Two female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a northeast Nigerian refugee camp, killing dozens of people

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Input: "I can tell you, in West Africa most women who get involved in violent extremism are women who get coerced," he said

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Input: Experts say female extremism is on the rise in Kenya and across the continent, as terror groups look for recruits who are less likely to elicit suspicion and can move through cities and checkpoints without being searched by police

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Input: "What you've witnessed in Kenya is a different trend

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Input: He added that the government should support moderate Muslim clerics, who are sometimes victims of terrorist attacks for their work in "the true teaching of Islam," and who play a vital role in educating youth about the dangers of extremism

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Input: He also said the media needs to do a better job of informing the public, while not sensationalizing or glorifying acts of terror

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Input: For instance, in northeast Nigeria and Cameroon between June 2014 and April 2016, officials recorded more than 200 female suicide bombers killed more than 1,000 people

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Input: Phyllis Muema is the executive director of the Kenya Community Support Center based in Mombasa that works with young people and their families at risk of being indoctrinated by violent extremist groups

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Input: Muema said she has noticed in the past year that extremist groups are focusing more attention on recruiting women

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Input: Fears Grow Turkey Is Getting Sucked into Syrian Conflict-ISTANBUL — -Turkish media report thousands more soldiers will be sent into Syria, as Turkish forces struggle to recapture the strategically important town of al-Bab from so-called Islamic State

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Input: Last month, 16 Turkish soldiers were killed in one attack in al-Bab, where jihadists increasingly are using suicide bombers and truck bombs in the fight over the town

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Input: With the Turkish military ravaged by ongoing purges of its ranks since a failed coup in July, there are questions over its ability to step up its commitment in Syria, warned Solmazturk

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Input: "In a country like Turkey, involved in actual military operations in more than one foreign country, as well as large-scale anti-terror operations with the country itself, to ... reinforce ... an existing Turkish unit in Syria around al-Bab itself, I doubt if such thousands are available or can be made available by the Turkish army.

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Input: Image made from militant video posted online by the Aamaq News Agency, a media arm of the Islamic State group, Jan. 9, 2017, purports to show the moment of a Turkish missile strike, in the northern Syrian town of al-Bab, in Aleppo province, Syria

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Input: Analysts say a sign of Ankara's growing frustrations is the fact it chided Washington for failing to provide air support for the Turkish military operation in al-Bab

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Input: "it is realizing that it cannot do this on it own, that it needs support, wherever it ... comes from, even [the] Russian side or American side or some kind of Middle East power group," said Idiz

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Input: Operation Euphrates Shield targets the Syrian Kurdish militia the YPG along with Islamic State

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Input: Turkey says both groups are terrorist organizations; but, the YPG is seen by Turkey's Western allies and Moscow as important to fighting IS

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Input: "It [Turkey] needs international support," said Idiz

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Input: Sunday, military leaders from 14 countries in the Middle East and Africa offered support for Turkey at a meeting in Riyadh, but did not specify what form it would entail

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Input: Despite such steps, concerns remain over the ongoing Syrian operation

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Input: "If a country's military forces are involved in a foreign country, in major military operations, I would ask for a clear-cut political aim," said Solmazturk, "This does not exist

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Input: Analysts say the main motive of Turkey's military intervention in Syria could be to give Ankara a say over that country's future, but warn Turkey could end up paying a considerable price

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Input: He argued the battle for the town has become politically important

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Input: "Although statements from the [Turkish] president recently were suggesting it was imminent, it was a matter of time; it still has not happened," he said

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Input: We know it from Vietnam, we know it from all over the place, the first reaction is to pour in more soldiers.That already shows you are being sucked in.

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Input: Turkish military vehicles drive by Free Syrian Army fighters, backed by Turkey, in the Syrian rebel-held town of al-Rai as they head towards the northern Syrian town of al-Bab, Jan. 9, 2017

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Input: The Turkish Army launched Operation Euphrates Shield last August, ostensibly to support the Free Syrian Army, or FSA, the rebel group fighting with Turkish forces in Syria

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Input: Retired Brigadier General Haldun Solmazturk heads the 21st Century Turkey Institute, an Ankara-based research group

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Input: Chief Suspect in Istanbul New Year’s Attack Captured -ISTANBUL — -Turkish security forces are claiming a breakthrough in their battle against Islamic State, with the capture of the chief suspect in the New Year’s shooting rampage on an Istanbul nightclub that killed 39 people

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Input: In a late night raid Monday, anti-terror seized Abdulkadir Masharipov, a 34-year-old Uzbek, in what is described as a luxurious apartment in the Esenyurt suburb of Istanbul

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Input: The Istanbul governor said more than 2,000 police officers were involved in what he called a difficult and complex investigation

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Input: An Iraqi and three women from Egypt, Senegal and Somalia also were detained

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Input: "Our war with terror and the powers behind it will continue to the end," tweeted Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus on news of the arrest

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Input: Kurtulmus repeatedly has accused foreign intelligence services of being involved in the New Year’s attack without naming any specific country

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Input: Turkish media, citing intelligence sources, say the manhunt for Masharipov has revealed as many as 20 Islamic State networks within Turkey

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Input: The Istanbul governor said more than 160 foreign jihadists had been detained, along with 50 Turkish citizens during the two-week investigation

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Input: FILE - Turkish police stand guard on a road leading to the Reina nightclub by the Bosphorus, which was attacked by a gunman, in Istanbul, Jan. 1, 2017

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Input: Turkish security forces and Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu had faced growing criticism over the failure to find the attacker, given that a clear image of the suspect existed

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Input: That criticism was stoked by the threat of further attacks by Islamic State

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Input: "Turkey will remain a target for the Islamic State militants for the foreseeable future, given that Turkey is engaged in a bitter campaign against the Islamic State in Syria," warned analyst Sinan Ulgen, a visiting scholar of the Carnegie Institute in Europe

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Input: A video purported to be put out by Islamic State currently is circulating on social media in Turkey

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Input: In it, the group specifically targets Istanbul

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Input: A member of the media uses his mobile phone to take pictures of belongings including banknotes of different currencies on a bed inside the flat where a suspect of New Year's Day nightclub attack was arrested, in Istanbul, Janv

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Input: Analysts warn Turkey is paying a price for its past policy of offering broad support to any group fighting the Syrian regime

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Input: "In recent years they [Islamic State] have exploited this permissive environment to the utmost in their abilities," said Haldun Solmazturk of the 21st Century Turkey Institute

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Input: "In a sense they were given a free hand to further radicalize Turkish society

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Input: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan dismisses such criticism, insisting his country’s record is second to none in fighting Islamic State

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Input: Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a meeting in Ankara, Turkey, Jan. 17, 2017

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Input: "In this country, no one will get away with what they have done," said Erdogan, thanking security forces and government officials for their efforts to seize Masharipov

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Input: The capture likely will give the government respite in the face of mounting opposition criticism over the failure to stem 18 months of terror attacks which have claimed more than 400 lives

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Input: Some experts caution, though, that the war against terror is likely to be long and bitter, and that all tools need to be employed

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Input: "Turkey will need to strengthen both the abilities of its intelligence and security forces, to prevent these attacks," said analyst Ulgen, "but this will need to go hand in hand with something that has been missing so far, from the Turkish government, a strategy to tackle the issue of radicalization at home.

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Input: “The vile terrorist who attacked the place of entertainment on New Year’s Eve and led to the loss of so many lives has been captured,” Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters in Ankara

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Input: The Istanbul governor, Vasip Sahin, speaking to reporters Tuesday, said Masharipov had confessed to the attack and that the suspect's fingerprints matched those found at the Istanbul club

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Input: He noted that all those detained Monday are suspected of belonging to an Islamic State cell

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Input: Istanbul Gov. Vasip Sahin, left, accompanied by Police Chief Mustafa Caliskan, talks to the media during a news conference regarding the arrest of a suspect of New Year's nightclub attack in Istanbul, Jan. 17, 2017

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Input: "It is clear that [Masharipov] staged the attack on behalf of Daesh," said Sahin, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State

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Input: Rattled Europe Debates How Best to Approach Trump-LONDON — -European governments struggled Tuesday to assess whether outspoken remarks by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, made in a weekend interview with two European newspapers, will be translated into new policies

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Input: European leaders had hoped that as Trump’s inauguration approached, the president-elect would tone down his campaign-trail criticism of the European Union and NATO, which he has dubbed “obsolete.

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Input: The characteristically guarded German Chancellor Angela Merkel, for example, limited herself to a few terse comments about the interview, and did not respond directly to Trump's assertion that her refugee policy has been a disaster

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Input: The German leader has also ignored Trump’s endorsement of Brexit and his dismissal of the EU as just a “vehicle for Germany.

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Input: "When he is in office, and at the moment that's not the case, we will work with the new American government and see what kind of agreements we can reach,” she said

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Input: German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a joint news conference as part of a meeting with the Prime Minister of New Zealand Bill English, at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Jan. 16, 2017

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Input: But other European politicians are arguing Europe needs to push back hard on the American president-elect

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Input: As she entered a meeting of EU foreign ministers Monday, the bloc’s foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini stressed that European governments intend to stand by the Iran nuclear accord, which Trump has threatened to rip up

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Input: "It is proof that diplomacy works and delivers," Mogherini said

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Input: The wait-and-see camp of Europeans argue that governing will change Trump

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Input: But members of the push-back camp doubt that Trump will change or moderate

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Input: "I hope that the Congress, even with a Republican majority, will impose some limits in the long term," said Bundestag deputy speaker Ulla Schmidt

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Input: They had thought his views would come to align more closely with those of some of his top national security nominees, such as likely defense secretary retired Gen. James Mattis, who at his Senate confirmation last week accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to foment a break-up of the Western alliance

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Input: Thev Social Democratic Party legislator told Deutsche Welle: "I hope that not the man changes the office, but the office changes the man.

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Input: NATO -During the presidential campaign, Trump warned the U.S. might not support NATO members in a crisis unless it was “reasonably reimbursed.

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Input: In his weekend interview he reiterated his frustration over the failure of many alliance members to meet their defense spending obligations, suggesting to many that his views are unlikely to change

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Input: “Anyone who thought Trump would be more moderate after he was elected will find himself disappointed," said Schmidt’s SPD colleague, Rainer Arnold

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Input: And Norbert Röttgen, chairman of the German parliament’s foreign affairs committee, wonders whether Trump even believes in the idea of the West

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Input: “Perhaps one could say that in reality in his thinking the West does not exist,” Röttgen told German public radio

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Input: “Whether the EU is divided or contested doesn't matter to him, whether NATO is there or not, doesn't matter to him

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Input: Further east, in states even closer to Russia, the fear is that a newly assertive Kremlin may feel free to challenge NATO more vigorously that in the past

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Input: “If we did not have NATO today, we would have to create it,” Mattis said at the hearing

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Input: "If Trump steps back then that will be an invitation for Putin to step forward,” worried Igor Sutyagin, a Russian arms control expert now at the Royal United Services Institute, a London-based think tank

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Input: FILE - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko talks to reporters

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Input: Ukraine -Ukrainian leaders having become increasingly alarmed at Trump’s talk of being able to make a deal with Moscow

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Input: In the weekend interview, the incoming president suggested that Ukraine-related sanctions on Russia might be lifted in exchange for a reduction in nuclear weapons

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Input: Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has urged that the sanctions remain in place as long as Russia continues to hold Crimea, seized in 2014, and provides support for pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine

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Input: “Ukraine realizes that it is not Moscow’s only enemy – all those who propound democratic values are Moscow’s enemies

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Input: That is why today the defense of Ukraine is the defense of the values of the free world,” he said

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Input: FILE- Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Russian prosecutors in Moscow, Russia

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Input: Putin -Talk of an early summit between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is further alarming the continent

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Input: According to the London Sunday Times, Trump’s first foreign trip as president could be to Iceland for a summit with the Russian leader — a summit that could happen before the new U.S. leader has met with most NATO leaders

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Input: Retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis appears before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on his nomination to serve as U.S. defense secretary., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Jan. 12, 2017

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Input: Trump aides are denying any such plans, but British officials have told VOA they understand consideration is being given to a Trump-Putin summit within a matter of weeks

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Input: But Trump renewed his criticism of NATO and the European Union in his interview with London’s Sunday Times and Germany’s Bild newspaper, prompting frustrated remarks from the likes of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

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Input: Trump’s NATO stance “contradicts what the American defense secretary said in his hearing in Washington only a few days ago,” Steinmeier complained

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Input: European leaders and officials differ on how to approach Trump and they disagree about what might unfold as the real-estate tycoon’s administration begins

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Input: In New York, Fear of Deportation Propels Sanctuary Spaces-NEW YORK — -In her cozy first-floor office at Judson Memorial Church, the Reverend Donna Schaper spends hours strategizing, mobilizing, providing legal help and services for New York City’s undocumented immigrants

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Input: Immigrant-friendly organizations that played a role in protecting immigrants more than 36 years ago are again overburdened with requests

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Input: Like 40 other cities and 364 counties nationwide, New York is a sanctuary city

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Input: Proponents of tougher immigration laws, like Republican Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, object to the sanctuary cities

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Input: “We confer this special privilege on, in many cases, dangerous, violent criminals because they came here illegally,” said Toomey, who has proposed legislation that would strip cities of federal development assistance if they fail to cooperate with federal authorities

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Input: The impact of his bill, called the “Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act,” would fall mainly on low-income neighborhoods that rely on the federal aid for affordable housing and public services

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Input: asked Poonam Dass, whose family migrated from Suriname when she was 3 years old

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Input: Dass, who lives in Queens, New York, is a beneficiary of President Barack Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy, which protects undocumented immigrants whose parents brought them to the United States as children

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Input: On any Tuesday or Thursday night, several hundred people show up at the church “trying to get help about a detained relative or a relative about to be deported,” said Schaper, Judson’s senior minister and co-founder of the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City

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Input: Poonam Dass and her family migrated from Suriname when she was 3 years old

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Input: Dass, who lives in Queens, New York, is a beneficiary of President Barack Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which protects undocumented immigrants whose parents brought them to the United States as children

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Input: In 2014, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to mitigate the piece-of-paper problem by creating the nation’s largest municipal identification card program, called IDNYC, which requires proof of identity and residency, but does not ask for information regarding immigration status

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Input: But the program has come under fire in recent weeks over a provision that authorizes the city to destroy all personal data if it is pressed to turn over that information to the federal government

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Input: “The reason people were willing to trust us is that we made it very clear we would never be in a situation where it would lead to their deportation, and we’re going to keep that pledge,” de Blasio said during a press conference in December

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Input: But two Republican New York State Assembly members have filed a lawsuit to block any such purge of personal data

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Input: Assemblyman Ron Castorina, Jr. told VOA the purpose of his action is to prevent any violation of the state’s Freedom of Information Laws (FOIL) and to guard against fraud

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Input: Assemblyman Ron Castorina, Jr. is one of two Republican New York State Assembly members who filed a lawsuit to stop New York City from purging personal data from its IDNYC program rather than allow that data to be turned over to the federal government

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Input: The Rev. Donna Schaper, senior minister at Judson Memorial Church in New York and co-founder of the New Sanctuary Coalition of New York City, spends her days helping New York City's undocumented immigrant community

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Input: Sanctuary schools-The president-elect, who once spoke of deporting all undocumented immigrants, now speaks only of deporting those with criminal records

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Input: He has also indicated he may find a solution for DACA recipients

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Input: But that’s a very tough situation,” Trump said in a Time Magazine “Person of the Year” interview in December

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Input: But this has not eased the fears of DACA beneficiaries like Dass

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Input: Anand Ahuja, a lawyer and co-founder of Indian-Americans for Trump, says DACA beneficiaries should not expect to escape the consequences of their parents’ actions

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Input: “It’s the fruit of a poisonous tree,” Ahuja told VOA

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Input: Only by setting a strong precedent, he argues, can the government deter others from illegally entering the country

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Input: Anand Ahuja, a lawyer and co-founder of Indian-Americans for Trump, says beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program should not expect to escape the consequences of their parents’ actions

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Input: Because of the fear many students face, a number of New York City-based universities have joined the mayor’s sanctuary efforts

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Input: In the event DACA is either “terminated or substantially curtailed,” wrote Columbia University Provost John Coatsworth, “the university pledges to expand the financial aid and other support we make available to undocumented students.

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Input: While deeply skeptical of Trump’s intentions, immigration lawyer Victoria Campos doubts the president-elect will ultimately repeal DACA, a program she described as “very strict” with regard to criminal records

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Input: “You’re not talking about immigrants that are just being protected, these are people with credits, these are people with debts,” said Campos, who reported a post-election surge in cases involving minors

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Input: Safety concerns-One of the fundamental debates surrounding sanctuary cities — apart from their legality — is whether they put residents at danger or make them safer

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Input: “I have met with many of the great parents who lost their children to sanctuary cities and open borders,” Trump said during an immigration speech in August

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Input: But Francis Madi, a regional outreach associate with the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), said the public is at greater risk if undocumented residents are afraid to report crimes

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Input: “If people don’t feel comfortable enough to come to the police, then there’s not going to be any type of trust and the police is not going to prevent these crimes from happening in the future,” Madi said

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Input: The PICO Network, a coalition of faith communities that provide sanctuary, says five people are currently being sheltered in coalition churches as they fight to stop Obama administration deportation orders

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Input: Francis Madi, a regional outreach associate with the New York Immigration Coalition, defends the sanctuary cities movement as a public safety concern

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Input: “If [Trump] follows through with what he says he’s going to do, it will radicalize the immigration movement, and that will be a good thing.

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Input: “The first week we had our friend in physical sanctuary here, a hundred or so undocumented people showed up and threw a great party, and brought food they probably couldn’t afford and drink they probably couldn’t afford, and it was so beautiful.

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Input: The cases are in Denver, Philadelphia, Phoenix and Chicago

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Input: In New York City alone, 1 in 3 residents was born outside the United States, and half a million are undocumented

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Input: Soon after sunrise, activists on the bridge, with its two Gothic-style towers, held up pink letters reading “Act now!

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Input: A woman holds an anti-U.S. President Donald Trump placard during a rally in Tokyo, Japan, Jan. 20, 2017

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Input: In Tokyo, several hundred people, most of them expatriate Americans, marched along a downtown street holding electric candles or placards reading “Love Trumps Hate” and “Women's Rights Are Human Rights.

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Input: In the Philippines, about 200 demonstrators from a Philippine nationalist group rallied for about an hour outside the U.S. embassy in Manila

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Input: Some held up signs demanding U.S. troops leave the Philippines while others set fire to a paper U.S. flag bearing a picture of Trump's face

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Input: Anti-riot police block protesters holding placards against U.S. President Donald Trump outside the U.S. embassy in metro Manila, Philippines, Jan. 20, 2017

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Input: At the rally in Brussels, people held up signs saying “Proud to be a Pussy” and “We will fight Like a Girl.

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Input: “I have a wife and three daughters; I have a vested interest in the equality of women,” said Protestant pastor Murray Frick, 62

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Input: “I am afraid of a big step backward in terms of dehumanizing groups of people ... about my home country losing its moral compass.

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Input: FILE - A demonstrator takes part in a women's rights event protesting the inauguration of Donald Trump as the new U.S. president in Brussels, Belgium, Jan. 20, 2017

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Input: Julie Chasin, a 42-year-old teacher originally from New York who has lived in London for a decade, joined the Tower Bridge protest

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Input: while others beside parliament unfurled banners saying “Migrants welcome here.

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