Scroll through the gallery to relive all the near-assassinations, actual assassinations, and surprise reappearances.
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"A lot of that is overblown — I think we've gone from historical assassinations to digital assassinations," he said.
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The attack was the latest in a string of assassinations and attempted assassinations in Ukraine, which the authorities in Kiev have mostly blamed on Russian special services.
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However, according to Ronen Bergman, author of "Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations," assassinations have long been a weapon in Mossad's arsenal.
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He even carried out assassinations himself, a military court ruled.
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A WikiLeaks commentary suggested this would allow "nearly undetectable assassinations".
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They have a department in charge of sabotage and assassinations.
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Assassinations of any kind get attention, and they spark fear.
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Gun battles, narrow escapes, kidnappings, disguises, torture and assassinations ensue.
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Here are 24 assassinations that have had a major impact.
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That doesn't get "rooted out" with assassinations and missile strikes.
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But Mrs May said her decision to point the finger at Moscow was based on its record of "conducting state-sponsored assassinations and our assessment that Russia views some defectors as legitimate targets for assassinations".
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Blacks had been driven out of office by beatings and assassinations.
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Gilmore said he doesn't remember anyone using the word "assassinations" specifically.
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It stepped down in 20143 after a string of political assassinations.
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Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations.
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The Taliban are undefeated, despite negotiations, drone assassinations and conventional fighting.
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Earlier assassinations may have drastically altered the course of history, too.
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That dread has been reinforced by decades of oppression and assassinations.
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The wave of violence and attempted assassinations have not deterred Trump.
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The rebels attempt to weaken the government via assassinations and propaganda.
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In 1998, 15 former military officers were convicted of the assassinations.
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STAHL: Do you agree that Vladimir Putin is involved in assassinations?
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Iran went further afield, attempting assassinations in Denmark, Sweden and England.
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Senior Qatari officials have been subjected to character assassinations and insults.
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They have even taken to eliminating rivals, in Mafia-like assassinations.
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They committed assassinations, framed high-ranking politicians and abducted Starfleet officers.
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Sixty prominent citizens are marking Martin Luther King Jr. Day by calling for new investigations into the assassinations of 4 men -- assassinations that changed the world -- John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. The group -- The Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC) -- believes all 4 assassinations were the result of conspiracies that were covered up by the government.
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These numbers include 11 assassinations and 97 attacks committed against female journalists.
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He lives his life trying to create as theatrical assassinations as possible.
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Estrada also attempted to arrange the assassinations of political rivals, prosecutors allege.
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There have also been assassinations of military personnel in the southern Philippines.
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Hizbullah's reluctance to blame Israel is also a deviation from previous assassinations.
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"Worse than all of this, assassinations—extrajudicial killings—appear normalized," Buttu continued.
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Israel is the usual suspect for any mysterious assassinations in the region.
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Chechen security forces have been linked to assassinations in Russia and abroad.
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Such assassinations, especially of leadership members, could severely damage the peace process.
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The financial system has proven resilient through political crises, assassinations and war.
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Boko Haram fighters have carried out mass kidnappings, assassinations and market bombings.
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Dread's operation sold mostly drugs and weapons –but assassinations also were advertised.
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Looking back, 1968 was a year of global revolt, Vietnam, political assassinations.
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" He added, "Things that Shabab has NOT banned: Bombings, assassinations, targeting civilians.
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Assassinations offered a tactical method for a tiny country with rudimentary defenses.
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The recent assassinations cover a wide range of personal and political feuds.
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Left to the epilogue are the assassinations, along with Joe's devastating stroke.
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The attempted assassinations in the Bronx stirred some deep emotions within me.
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Media-driven criminal investigations and character assassinations are the weapons of choice.
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Armed groups operated with impunity and assassinations of police officers were common.
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These character assassinations have caused me to suffer insurmountable stress and anxiety.
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Terrorists carried out assassinations, planted explosives and launched grenades into crowded spaces.
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High-profile assassinations in recent years have felled high-profile gang leaders.
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They indulged in illicit activities like gambling, clandestine affairs and political assassinations.
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Over the past month, nearly a dozen high-profile assassinations or attempted assassinations targeting political or military figures have been reported in Kabul, either by magnetic bombs attached to vehicles or assassins riding on the backs of motorcycles.
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I'm not sure kill-lists and pre-announced assassinations are any more acceptable.
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In 2013, after political assassinations sparked mass protests, it agreed to step down.
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Assassinations have historically played a limited part in US warfare and foreign policy.
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Then, Christian pulled data on military mutinies and emperor assassinations in ancient Rome.
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There were riots and assassinations and, in America, conscription into an unpopular war.
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They found themselves in a war zone, surrounded by bombings, assassinations and abductions.
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Violence was all too common in assassinations, bombs and campus clashes with authority.
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It did not begin with drone assassinations, or with the war on Iraq.
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They still have sleeper cells- every day there are assassinations, kidnappings and bombings.
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And he isn't sure whether or not Vladimir Putin is involved in assassinations.
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The democracy that emerged has endured assassinations, terrorist attacks and a moribund economy.
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In the Middle East, similarly, assassinations have also changed the course of history.
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U.N. reports warn of frequent kidnappings, forced disappearances and assassinations by unknown assailants.
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Likewise, years of targeted assassinations against Hamas in Gaza haven't dismantled that organization.
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The year 1968 was an annus horribilis — assassinations, riots, a bitter presidential race.
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The '21960 election was framed by mass unrest — protests, assassinations, and countercultural movements.
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Bombings and assassinations of security forces in Sinai are now a regular occurrence.
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Just in Europe, Iran-sponsored assassinations, bombings & other terrorist attacks have scarred countless lives.
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Now they&aposre chasing people out of restaurants, and they&aposre fantasizing about assassinations.
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Bangladeshi bloggers: What the world should know The assassinations are occurring with alarming frequency.
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Aside from moral objections, for-profit targeted assassinations add new dilemmas to modern warfare.
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Are we living in 1968, on the precipice of more violence, assassinations, disruption, unrest?
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Many of the fixtures of the Kennedy "curse" are public events — plane crashes, assassinations.
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And we were on a real roll as a country despite assassinations, despite setbacks.
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AS EUROPEANS know to their lamentable cost, assassinations can start wars, even world wars.
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Germany's Weimar Republic was hit by assassinations and violent left- and right-wing uprisings.
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The Hitman series has always handed players a diverse tool-set to commit assassinations.
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But the decade's relentless turmoil (civil rights, Vietnam, political assassinations, Watergate, feminism) demanded discourse.
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Political assassinations and civil unrest threatened to drag Tunisia into violence and sectarian strife.
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Dozens of countries saw assassinations, coups, revolts, bombings, political kidnappings and wars of liberation.
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Assassinations of social activists and community leaders from indigenous groups are common in Colombia.
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You had two assassinations of major American political leaders in a two-month period.
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Worse, it could invite Communist reprisal, ranging from threats and physical attacks to assassinations.
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The results were a 214-month political stalemate and a string of political assassinations.
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In 2013, after two political assassinations sparked mass protests, it agreed to step down.
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Worse, examples like law enforcement assassinations are showing a growing disregard for the law.
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The results were a 214-month political stalemate and a string of political assassinations.
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Except, it's not college these kids are preparing for, but death-defying battles and assassinations.
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Ukrainian authorities accuse Russia of trying to destabilize Ukraine through a series of targeted assassinations.
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The group honed its guerrilla tactics, including car bombs and assassinations, during Lebanon's civil war.
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The incident roiled some sections of the nation, leading to protests and even officer assassinations.
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The past 150 years have been witness to military incursions, assassinations, regime change, coups, etc.
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It accuses Moscow of stockpiling the toxin and investigating how to use it in assassinations.
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Rampant assassinations, car bombs, and conflict ravaged the populations on both sides of those walls.
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Police later found publications at Mair's home about white supremacists, Nazi Germany, shootings and assassinations.
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Often they face abuse such as sexual harassment and character assassinations, yet few report it.
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The group is infamous for a series of police officer assassinations in the Andean country.
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Those could include assassinations and campaigns to undercut the group's popular support, the source said.
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You decide to give your knife a try and see whether stealth assassinations will work.
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This triggers a long period of conflict, marked by political assassinations and suicide bombings. Dec.
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There is no Vietnam War, no draft, no Weather Underground, no spate of political assassinations.
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Combatants in Iraq and Syria continue to carry out suicide bombings, crop burnings, and assassinations.
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But Letelier-Moffitt was one of very few assassinations that took place outside South America.
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Al Shabaab has lost territory but kept up a relentless campaign of bombings and assassinations.
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Ukrainian authorities accuse Russia of trying to destabilise Ukraine through a series of targeted assassinations.
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Their assassinations and killings are not militarily significant, more acts of protest against Indian rule.
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Just as the real-world killings include innocents, the online assassinations have proven similarly indiscriminate.
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Some of Afghanistan's highest-profile assassinations have come at times when peace efforts were underway.
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It plotted assassinations and supported brutal anti-Communist governments in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
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If the legality of assassinations is endlessly debated, so is the question of their effectiveness.
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The Taliban's use of the motorcycle in hit-and-run assassinations led to a crackdown.
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For Pakistan, after so many coups and assassinations, persuading everyone of this would take time.
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"Assassinations" have been illegal under US federal law since 1981, though the definition is vague.
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That's hardly a surprise because assassinations have been illegal under US federal law since 1981.
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Is it then not fair to also acknowledge the complicity of BLM in cop assassinations?
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The Chinese government attributes scores of violent events, including bombings and assassinations, to Uighur separatists.
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Both Ukraine and Britain have blamed the Russian government for orchestrating assassinations on their territory.
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For a country already plagued by economic collapse, a war with Russian-backed separatists and, over the past year or so, a string of assassinations and attempted assassinations in the capital, the several hundred protesters and their tents add another unpredictable element to Ukrainian politics.
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We've come a long way from presidential assassinations being the most popular subject of conspiracy theorists.
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Britain had evidence Russia has investigated ways of distributing nerve agents for assassinations, May told parliament.
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And after Congress exposed CIA activities in the 26s, the US banned assassinations of foreign leaders.
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Islamic State has claimed several assassinations and bombings in south Yemen but has never held territory.
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Militiamen and politicians alike predict a return to assassinations and a Shia-on-Shia civil war.
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Assassinations and car bombings carried out by the group have become the city's steady background noise.
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But the nouveau chattering classes of the pro-Trump internet swamped those voices with character assassinations.
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From 2000 to 2017 nearly 300 political assassinations have been recorded, many of them ANC members.
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Residents have also reported a spate of assassinations of SDF fighters and commanders in recent months.
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That had involved assassinations, house bombings and, some claim, involvement with the island's murderous mafia networks.
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The church had been outspoken about gun control since the assassinations of people like the Rev.
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She takes on contracts that Corvo and Emily would balk at: petty assassinations, burglary, item retrieval.
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The center still held, despite the roiling years of protest, war, and assassinations that preceded Watergate.
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Also, the Jennings are just badasses when it comes to hand-to-hand combat and assassinations.
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Russia has previously targeted former spies living abroad for assassinations, like Sergei Skripal and Alexander Litvinenko.
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Its campaign included political assassinations, most notably of Franco's chosen successor, Luis Carrero Blanco in 1973.
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But then the assassinations, bombings and kidnappings started after the Islamists took control of the city.
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Since the coup in 2009, human rights organizations have documented over 130 assassinations of environmental activists.
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In interviews broadcast after the El Heraldo report, both officials denied any involvement in the assassinations.
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You'll recall Putin answered by calling out the U.S. for the assassinations of JFK and MLK.
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In other news, Zelda probably doesn't cause sword crime, and Assassin's Creed probably doesn't cause assassinations.
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Their assassinations sparked a campaign of ethnic cleansing whose scope and brutality would shock the world.
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The former vice president often references King's and Kennedy's assassinations as pivotal moments in his life.
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Where modern assassinations are concerned, such normal partisan motivations are more unusual than you might think.
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They have continued to assault civilians in bomb attacks, roadside ambushes, drive-by shootings and assassinations.
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The American military was on alert as tens of thousands mourned the assassinations of Maj. Gen.
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The militants have lost territory but have kept up a relentless campaign of bombings and assassinations.
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It is believed to be responsible for many assassinations—of Islamists, leftists, and, especially, Kurdish activists.
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From political leaders to human rights activists to former Russian spies, assassinations have changed the world.
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Those assassinations have fallen, although two journalists were among those killed in a bombing last year.
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Those assassinations have fallen, although two journalists were among those killed in a bombing last year.
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Israel has carried out assassinations of Hamas leaders in Gaza in the past, usually by airstrikes.
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The militants have lost territory but have kept up a relentless campaign of bombings and assassinations.
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The arrest comes after a series of high-profile and embarrassing episodes for Tehran's relationship with Europe, including a series of arrests and diplomatic expulsions for assassinations or attempted assassinations of opponents in the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, France, and — according to some unconfirmed intelligence reports — even Albania.
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Mr. Skripal is believed to have been the primary target of the attack — he is apparently the latest in a long string of people at odds with President Vladimir V. Putin's government who have been the victims of assassinations or attempted assassinations, in Russia and abroad.
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"Members of the Lendu community believed that these assassinations were the work of the Hema," Kakoraki said.
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Nyan Win, an NLD executive-committee member, said in a televised interview that he feared further assassinations.
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When he wrote about the assassinations of these other friends, men, he tried and charged the nation.
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And using the agents they have in the [Kurdish region] they could stir up terrorism, sabotage, assassinations.
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Islamist militants still carry out car-bombings and assassinations, while General Haftar undermines state institutions in Tripoli.
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In 2016 El Salvador's figure was 303:1—meaning some "shoot-outs" were probably assassinations by police.
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Cyber-spying, data-mining, and assassinations by drone-strikes against American citizens are now at Trump's fingertips.
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"They still fire bomb embassies; they still engage in targeted assassinations," he said in a phone interview.
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It is believed that the victims' gender was a primary motive in the majority of the assassinations.
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"Those who order assassinations are often the ones who fear that loopholes will be closed," she said.
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Militants, particularly sectarian groups, have also launched a campaign of suicide bombings and assassinations of minority Shias.
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A German court concluded in 1992 that Iran was involved in at least one of those assassinations.
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The communist dictatorship has been condemned worldwide for the political prisons, assassinations and starvation in the country.
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The Rwandan government has previously accused French officials of complicity, and French soldiers of rape and assassinations.
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It was an age of assassinations, civil unrest and unjust wars, but also a time of progression.
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What's easier to ascertain is that assassinations, massacres, and intimidation by the Klan and other groups worked.
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Mr. Zakharchenko became the latest in a long list of separatist leaders to die in mysterious assassinations.
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Assassinations happen frequently enough in Ukraine that they are often just blips in the local news cycle.
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FARC rebels attacked police stations and military posts, ambushed security patrols, hijacked airplanes, and carried out assassinations.
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But as drinks and appetizers flow, the play reveals a world of corrective beatings and everyday assassinations.
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Its members are believed to carry out clandestine operations including assassinations, and are experts in asymmetric warfare.
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These character assassinations have caused me to suffer insurmountable stress and anxiety, which I still experience today.
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They talk about a successful jailbreak, targeted assassinations of a colonel and other officials, and general mayhem.
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And sadly, under the very likable Obama, these assassinations have become normal, and people have accepted that.
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The BLA's assassinations of two NYPD cops, Greg Foster and Rocco Laurie, shocked the nation in 1972.
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In this regard, it resembles the assassinations that the presidential bans have sought to steer clear of.
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These days, there are consequences for literal political assassinations and even for character assassination based on lies.
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In 19683, President Lyndon Johnson honored both Dr. Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy after their assassinations.
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Hydra has been using Barnes in special missions and assassinations, including the assassination of Tony Stark's parents.
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Nor does any official explanation for the rash of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists in recent decades.
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There were assassinations of local Republican politicians — black and white alike — as happened in Alabama in 1875.
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He attributed his issues to his parents' bitter divorce and the assassinations of his uncles John and Robert.
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Mr Zakir insisted that the party had made Xinjiang safe from "bombings, assassinations, poisoning, arson" and other perils.
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In an era racked by political espionage, merciless assassinations and ninja attacks, Yasuke was seen as an asset.
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This election cycle has been the most violent on record, with over 130 political assassinations since last September.
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It was 1968, a year of political assassinations, civil unrest, and a lingering National Guard presence in Wilmington.
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Its campaign included political assassinations — most notably of Franco's chosen successor, Luis Carrero Blanco in 1973 — and bombings.
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In 2014, Holleeder was charged with ordering the assassinations of multiple people, including his kidnapping coconspirator van Hout.
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Idlib has seen a wave of lawlessness and assassinations among the various factions, including shootings and car bombs.
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This scenario allows the leaders to bypass the echoes of condemnation that follow brazen assassinations and mass disappearances.
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" They went on to urge Americans to "ease up on the character assassinations and stop weaponizing mob mentality.
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Penalties for use of CBRN, whether as tools of war, terrorist tactics or for assassinations must be absolute.
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The attack is the latest in a series of assassinations or attempts in Aden over the last month.
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He said he felt "total disgust" regarding anti-police sentiments and police assassinations over the past few years.
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The Russian government has previously targeted former spies living abroad for assassinations, like Sergei Skripal and Alexander Litvinenko.
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She also pointed out that the Kremlin has conducted "state-sponsored assassinations" before and considers defectors legitimate targets.
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When police are targeted for assassinations or brazenly attacked, the disruption in public order profoundly affects the community.
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He must deliver three "kills" for Crain, in his signature style: making the assassinations appear to be accidents.
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Assassinations, bioterror plots, and Rolls-Royces abound in brothers Maclain and Chapman Way's engrossing six-part documentary series.
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Both of these companies allegedly sold their devices specifically to criminals, and Ennetcom facilitated violent robberies and assassinations.
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The group continues to carry out bombings, ambushes and assassinations in both countries, as well as in Libya.
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Riots in Tunis and two political assassinations by a Qaeda-linked group, Ansar al-Sharia, followed in 2013.
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The assassinations set off an outcry at home and abroad and underscored the deepening political polarization in Brazil.
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It arrived amid what must have seemed like never-ending turmoil — race riots, political assassinations, the Vietnam draft.
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There are some fictional depictions of attempted retroactive Hitler assassinations that explain how this principle works in practice.
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Their duties included guarding high-level Islamic State leaders as well as teams conducting targeted assassinations, he said.
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Trump spoke about his recent assassinations of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and Iranian general Qassem Soleimani.
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She said that the tumult of that decade, with the Vietnam War and the assassinations of the Rev.
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From Tom Mboya to Josiah Mwangi Kariuki and Robert Ouko, Kenya has a long history of political assassinations.
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Sometimes that involves a reaffirming kiss on the forehead, and sometimes that involves making light of historic assassinations.
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Most people know about the assassinations of President Kennedy and his brother Robert F. Kennedy in the 1960s.
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"Trump is not the first president to carry out drone assassinations in violation of international law," she noted.
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Islamist militants, particularly sectarian groups, have also launched a campaign of suicide bombings and assassinations of minority Shi'ites.
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With organized assassinations having become a routine part of war in the region, the UAE developed its own appetite.
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"There have been 25 to 30 assassinations," he said, though a few appear to be the work of ISIS.
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A whole building of hard-nosed journalist who cover floods, fires, assassinations and everything else just stunned into silence.
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Resistance For several months there have been sporadic assassinations of ISIS fighters, often at night, but not widespread resistance.
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Previous and later assassinations in my family shaped the way I see activism and the need for political change.
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As you come to master your environment, the need for guides or even scripted assassinations fades into the background.
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Targeted attacks had been suspended as an olive branch; in previous conflicts, Palestinian critics have called the attacks assassinations.
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And every day, through assassinations, cyber-attacks, and malign influence, Russia is assaulting democratic institutions all over the world.
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Second, early 20th-century China was a violent place of rampaging militarists, political assassinations, foreign invasion and crushing poverty.
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Indigenous territories – the best defense against deforestation – are seeing land invasions and assassinations of their leaders when they resist.
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In Guatemala, where union organizers have suffered violence and assassinations, she said a case filed by the A.F.L.-C.
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We'd put a man on the moon and witnessed the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy.
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After the shooting, Feinstein helped police identify both bodies, and announced the grisly assassinations in a public press conference.
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RISE AND KILL FIRST The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations By Ronen Bergman Translated by Ronnie Hope Illustrated.
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Assassinations and bombings have become regular occurrences that are no longer confined to the hostile turf of the Sinai.
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Iran's adversaries have accused elite Guard Corps units of having plotted and sometimes carried out assassinations in foreign countries.
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In the nation it left behind, a tumultuous year was ending: The Tet offensive, the assassinations of the Rev.
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So deep was the pain from three assassinations in five years that America craved some music to mourn by.
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After two political assassinations in 2013 prompted protests, he led a movement to oust the increasingly unpopular Islamist government.
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But he took the catastrophes of the 1960s hard: Vietnam, assassinations, racial violence, Aquarian self-destruction — Joplin's, for example.
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Over the past two years, the United Nations has documented hundreds of summary executions, assassinations, torture and other offenses.
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"Iraq called on the Security Council to condemn the bombing and assassinations," a Ministry of Foreign Affairs statement said.
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A Middle Eastern official said that a retaliation by Iran – known for its own assassinations abroad – could occur anywhere.
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He's suspected of ordering assassinations of dissidents, like Boris Y. Nemtsov, who are both his enemies and Mr. Putin's.
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It was the latest in a string of assassinations of opponents and critics of Russia in the Ukrainian capital.
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Over the past two years, the United Nations has documented hundreds of summary executions, assassinations, torture and other crimes.
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Another chapter is titled "JFK"; assassinations and death were also part of the world the author grew up in.
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Despite widespread corruption scandals and political assassinations, the U.S. has stuck by Honduras's military and police time and again.
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The Vietnam War and Watergate combined with the trauma of assassinations and riots corroded public trust in authorities and institutions.
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It makes those flawless assassinations feel all the better, like fate was as much on your side as thorough preparation.
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These gangs are increasingly sophisticated and commercialised operations, which use a mix of street muscle and assassinations to amass power.
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The Kennedy Family Curse, as it's called, features four plane crashes, two assassinations, and an alarming number of young deaths.
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Other presidential assassinations have received far more attention, but this one, the program reminds us, had its own particular pathos.
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The 1960s and 1970s, today remembered as a golden age of bipartisanship, were rife with bombings, street battles and assassinations.
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Without all the beheadings, poisonings, and assassinations, Game of Thrones is missing a considerable percentage of its pivotal plot moments.
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There also are records from the Justice and Defense departments, the House Select Committee on Assassinations and the National Archives.
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That view has already fuelled a new cold war and led to rows over manipulated elections and political assassinations abroad.
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Counterfactual history often revolves around political assassinations happening or not happening, or military battles going one way or another way.
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So, we should probably resist the urge to read his tweets as 140-character assassinations of Trump, or anyone else.
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The group's fighters have burned villages, mosques and churches; carried out mass kidnappings, assassinations and market bombings; and killed soldiers.
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Additionally, the Afghan Taliban's leadership is based in Quetta, and infighting, militant-driven assassinations and kidnappings have scarred the city.
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So deep was the pain from three devastating assassinations in five years that America craved some music to mourn by.
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About a third of the police force has been dismissed following revelations of some officers' roles in drug-related assassinations.
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Assassinations in Ukraine have been carried out with bombs and pistols, and some of the attackers have demonstrated careful preparation.
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Earlier, Mr. Tydings had fought for President Lyndon B. Johnson's proposed firearms control bill after the King and Kennedy assassinations.
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I was a federal prosecutor, worked on three congressional investigations, worked for the House Select Committee on assassinations, for example.
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"When you lose territory, smart groups shift to guerrilla strategy and tactics, including targeted assassinations, ambushes, raids, bombings," he added.
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He's one of nearly 90 victims of political assassinations in South Africa since 2016, a sharp rise over previous years.
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Political violence of the sort we saw in 1968, assassinations of political leaders, it doesn't happen anymore in this century.
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The lawyer flatly rejected the plan, and the businessmen told the Saudis they would not take part in any assassinations.
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As long as there have been power structures and people teetering at the top of them, there have been assassinations.
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Isis-linked terrorists have slaughtered hundreds in targeted assassinations, cafe shootings, a music hall hostage-taking and a truck hijacking.
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Even for Kandahar's long history of complex political assassinations, the bombing attack on the governor's guesthouse in January was daring.
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After decades of war games, missile tests, bombings, assassinations, and threats, it will likely take baby steps to get there.
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Those organizing the assassinations discussed dozens of names, but planned on eventually picking just a few of them, Enin said.
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As with most political assassinations in Lebanon, there have been no investigations or arrests in his father's killing, he said.
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They numbed a country witnessing mass carnage in Vietnam, a grueling fight for civil rights, political assassinations, and a sexual awakening.
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To echo the words of another American poet who chose assassinations as a topic, Hayes's work is large; it contains multitudes.
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As well as suicide and tactical attacks, the offensive would include assassinations of "enemy" commanders in urban centers, the Taliban said.
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Abroad, he orchestrated assassinations and the bombing of a Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires, said prosecutors in Germany and Argentina.
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Buzzfeed reported that the committee would also uncover Russian-sponsored assassinations, investigate 'front' groups, media manipulation, covert broadcasting, and secret funding.
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Kennedy's assassination — and, just months before the 20 bill was passed, the assassinations of both Martin Luther King Jr. and Sen.
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And of course the evidence of widespread malevolent Russian activity, ranging from assassinations to hacking to social-media bombing, is copious.
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Since 2014, 34 Dutch investigations, including those involving attempted assassinations and international drug trafficking, have involved PGP phones, according to Politie.
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Both Ukraine and Britain have blamed the Russian government for orchestrating assassinations on their territory, including the failed attempt on Babchenko.
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In South Asia, women have historically come into power through dynastic succession, or in the aftermath of assassinations or coups d'etat.
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In Hitman, you're rewarded not for performing signature assassinations quickly, but by exhausting every possible scenario to discover an optimal path.
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The group continues to carry out bombings, assassinations and ambushes in different areas of Iraq, and remains active in neighboring Syria.
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Censorship, arrests, assassinations, abductions, the banning of the Crimean Tatars' representative body — the Mejlis — all threaten another tragedy and ethnic cleansing.
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They included one of the most brazen assassinations, that of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri, on a seaside Beirut boulevard.
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Already, since its defeat in Mosul, ISIS has set up checkpoints and carried out abductions and assassinations in several Iraqi provinces.
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Biden told the crowd the dual assassinations of Kennedy and King helped spark his own political awareness as a young man.
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In the first story, Afghanistan is a country of endless war, wracked by targeted assassinations and rising numbers of suicide bombs.
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And we learn even less about most of the migrants before they are killed, the assassinations depicted with wince-inducing graphicness.
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Sri Lanka has a long history of political assassinations in decades of civil war, making Sirisena's allegations all the more explosive.
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But mob hits are assassinations too, and so there were old F.B.I. documents about these guys I knew about from Providence.
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When I spoke to Sanders on Monday, he compared the possible killing of Khashoggi to Russia's assassinations of defectors in England.
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Mr. Johnson said Russia had been actively researching the use of nerve agents for use in assassinations within the past decade.
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It consigns Israel to endless repression, endless assassinations, endless criticism and endless racking internal debate like that which Bergman diligently recounts.
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Francisco Franco's dictatorship, a separatist group known as E.T.A. pressed for Basque independence with a violent campaign of bombings and assassinations.
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It remains unclear how many more assassinations will be mentioned at the trial — and just how explicit the details will be.
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Some came in reaction to a moment in time that defied understanding — the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and the Rev.
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The Russian President's answer covered a lot of ground ... including calling out the U.S. for the assassinations of JFK and MLK.
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Here are some of the tragedies that have killed prominent family members: Assassinations President John F. Kennedy and his brother, Sen.
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Sanders and Warren: The senators labeled the strike "an assassination," an important choice given that an executive order outlaws such assassinations.
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US officials believed the attack was retaliation for a string of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists, which Iran blamed on Israel.
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A massacre of indigenous people and continued assassinations of community leaders exposed the government's helplessness before security problems in its countryside.
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Drones were used to carry out assassinations far more extensively — and with far more collateral damage — than the government had acknowledged.
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Before then, a brother had been killed in war, a sister in a plane crash and two other brothers in assassinations.
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Carrying out the assassinations is sexy sharpshooter Armando Armas (Jacob Scipio), the son of escaped convict Isabel Aretas (Kate del Castillo).
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Additionally, the film provides contemporary audiences with a reminder that targeted assassinations are not the only way to achieve international justice.
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The Iraqi parliament's human rights committee has demanded the government investigate "assassinations and kidnappings" of activists and bloggers, including Rustum's death.
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It's hard to know how many assassinations have been thwarted through improvements in the way the Secret Service protects presidents and candidates.
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Ukrainian officials said the fake murder was to trace a trail back to Russia, and expose plans for other state-sponsored assassinations.
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The bombing was the first salvo in a string of unsolved assassinations that killed more than two dozen of the group's leaders.
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Agent 47 is back to bring the pain in Hitman 2, and this time he's getting even more creative with his assassinations.
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Then it did something more important: it stepped down in 2014 after a series of political assassinations plunged the country into crisis.
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New People's Army rebels were using the city as a testing ground for urban guerrilla warfare; assassinations, bombings and disappearances were common.
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This film looks as though it'll fit nicely alongside those films, featuring sweeping visuals, men in smokey back rooms, and brutal assassinations.
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Haftar launched his "Operation Dignity" in Benghazi in May 2014, promising to crush Islamists blamed for a wave of assassinations and bombings.
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For example, enabling and extending armed drone assassinations as a staple in America's arsenal and foreign policy in a half dozen countries.
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The emirate has also seen assassinations of political figures in recent years, including a senior Hamas official and a Chechen rebel leader.
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WikiLeaks also claimed in its release that the CIA had the ability to carry out "nearly undetectable assassinations" by hacking into cars.
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But, says Ms Bindi, the civil society groups remain focused on the sort of trigger-happy mobsters responsible for the 1992 assassinations.
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The country is dotted with what remains of the Khmer Rouge's so-called killing fields, where the soldiers carried out group assassinations.
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It's also working to decrease government stability and increase civlian distrust of the government by carrying out targeted assassinations of local officials.
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The bombing was the first salvo in a string of unsolved assassinations that killed more than two dozen of [Al-Islah's] leaders.
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Islamic State, however, continues to carry out bombings, assassinations and ambushes in different areas of Iraq, and remains active in neighboring Syria.
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Dutch authorities said organised crime groups, such as those allegedly involved in assassinations, armed robbery, and drug trafficking were using Ennetcom devices.
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I kept typing, and found a trove of records from a website that focuses on assassinations, especially that of John F. Kennedy.
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The War on Terror has constantly evolved, using measures ranging from assassinations, extraordinary rendition, drone attacks, sanctions and surveillance on the citizenry.
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Targeted killings, assassinations and violent crime have become a growing problem in Afghanistan in recent years, compounded by the country's economic struggles.
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"it was behind many assassinations, and the killings which happened between the groups in Ghouta," Mr. Adel said in an online interview.
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There was no peace or end in sight in Vietnam, nor on the streets at home, roiling with protests, assassinations and riots.
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Blending history and investigative reporting, Bergman has written a judicious book about an incendiary subject: secret assassinations committed by Israel's intelligence services.
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Her long-running case has also led to the 2011 assassinations of two Pakistani politicians who had spoken out in her support.
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He attacked police stations, he recruited new fighters and he supplied pistols to young men to carry out assassinations, Officer Tak said.
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The assassinations made news around the world, and the second one made the Mafia a new enemy: Rita Borsellino, Paolo's younger sister.
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In 1968 the nation, and the war, seemed to be spinning out of control: The Tet offensive, the assassinations of the Rev.
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He later told federal investigators that he had considered a strategy of targeted assassinations of people involved in Waco (including Janet Reno).
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The Y.P.G. has also engaged in targeted assassinations against Kurdish oppositionists such as Nasreddin Birhek, another senior official in Mr. Dorsen's party.
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The ongoing violence, combined with a recent spate of assassinations and assassination attempts in Ukraine, does not bode well for regional stability.
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Since 2013, assassinations and small-scale attacks had been taking place every few weeks, typically targeting foreigners or non-Muslims, including atheists.
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Officials in both the US and UK have warned that the Russian government appears emboldened to carry out assassinations in western Democracies.
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Their alleged methods included not just assassinations but also industrial sabotage, or "wrecking"—even putting ground glass in the nation's butter supply.
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Its activists operated with discipline and clarity, training in paramilitary camps and undertaking assassinations, mercenary soldiering, armed robbery, counterfeiting and weapons trafficking.
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It has been racked by more rebellion, assassinations, civil war, suffering and death than just about any other country on the continent.
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But they set the tone for this year's spate of attempted assassinations or failed abductions -- and, possibly, a new era of impunity.
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Law-enforcement authorities believe that he had a strong hand in the assassinations of the mob bosses Albert Anastasia and Joey Gallo.
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The 1960s — rife with assassinations, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and counterculture rebellion — were among American history's most turbulent years.
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You're inside of Civil Rights and the Great Society program, all the political assassinations taking place, and massive changes in the culture.
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Valdez noted that it has become increasingly common for women to traffic arms and drugs, launder money, and commit or order assassinations.
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Assassinations and "the worst kind of vigilantism" became commonplace, said Sarah Leah Whitson, who was tracking abuses in Libya for Human Rights Watch.
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He cast the assassinations as part of an ISIS strategy aimed not at seizing cities again but at maintaining a long-term presence.
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He used his media connections to spy on and betray fellow journalists, identifying reporters with negative opinions of Al-Shabaab and facilitating assassinations.
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Against a backdrop of bombs, assassinations and riots, in 1987 Sinn Fein attracted less than 2 percent of the vote in Irish elections.
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There is no way to verify the report, but if true it would mark more bolder resistance than the sporadic assassinations to date.
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Yet as the litany of assassinations in the 20th century suggests, its use as a weapon of war returned to popularity soon enough.
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The global war on terror is an American invention, one used to justify disastrous foreign invasions, illegal drone assassinations, and obscene defense spending.
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Rangers and rights activists say the party has used violence and political assassinations to control the port city in the past few decades.
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The United States has continued to support successive administrations in Honduras, even though elections have been biased by vote buying, fraud, and assassinations.
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Most recently, Biden, 76, referred to the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy as having taken place in the 1970s.
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Haftar launched his military campaign in Benghazi in May 2014, in response to a series of bombings and assassinations blamed on Islamist militants.
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He described the Black Lives Matter movement as a "fuse-lighter" for assassinations of police officers, further stoking a sense of looming chaos.
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His fate: a heartbreakingly narrow loss in the year of Tet and of the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy.
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His murder is considered one of the most important assassinations of the 19593th century; it took place seven months after Congo won independence.
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The group, called the Order, carried out armed robberies and assassinations, including the 1984 killing of a Jewish talk show host in Denver.
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Notably, they claim that administration aides have taken extraordinary measures to prevent the president from embarking on more trade wars or ordering assassinations.
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General Assiri's interest in assassinations was unsurprising but unrepresentative of official policy, said one Saudi familiar with the inquiry into the Khashoggi killing.
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In presidential politics, the Vietnam War, assassinations and civil rights struggles shaped the 1968 campaign and seemed to reveal a country coming apart.
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In presidential politics, the Vietnam War, assassinations and civil rights struggles shaped the 1968 campaign and seemed to reveal a country coming apart.
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Again, cyberterrorism, assassinations — I think those things are being cooked up and may come, but we just don't know when they will come.
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They came of age in the 21950s and '21969s, in the traumatic aftermath of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and the Rev.
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In one post, Mr. Talley defended the Ku Klux Klan, denying its early pursuit of white supremacy through assassinations and threats of violence.
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"Having committed grave breaches of int'l law in Friday's cowardly assassinations, @realdonaldtrump threatens to commit again new breaches of JUS COGENS," Zarif tweeted.
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People accuse us at the Deep State D.M.V. of maintaining our power by orchestrating everything from sham road tests to bus-driver assassinations.
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Might one of them care to rise above the paranoid imaginings, the mad rants, the noxious conspiracy theories, the cruel, crazy character assassinations?
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And meanwhile in Ukraine, Russia is continuing to execute terror attacks and assassinations in Kyiv, Khar'kiv, Odessa and wage economic warfare against Ukraine.
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" The actors continued, "We hope Americans from across the political spectrum can ease up on the character assassinations and stop weaponizing mob mentality.
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The paramilitary group is known to carry out assassinations and cyberattacks around the world and has been penalized by the United States government.
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Since rising to power in 2007, Kadyrov has been linked to various assassinations and has waged a "virtue campaign" to restrict women's rights.
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Are we regressing into something akin to what we saw in the 22013s, an era marked by assassinations, civil unrest, and political chaos?
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Its subject line reads "ORGANIZED CRIME, ASSASSINATIONS, FOREIGN LEADERS," and it reveals the CIA had some very wacky schemes for taking him out.
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"More money in the hands of the ayatollah means more money to conduct assassinations in those very European countries," Hook said in his statement.
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As well as suicide and tactical attacks, the offensive would include assassinations of "enemy" commanders in urban centres, the Taliban said in their statement.
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The United Arab Emirates hired US ex–special ops soldiers to carry out targeted assassinations in war-torn Yemen, a BuzzFeed News investigation reveals.
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While such assassinations are not everyday occurrences, Greenvald noted how "unconcerned" the soldiers in the video appear as their comrade calmly shoots Sharif dead.
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But hundreds of jihadists are hiding out in the east, where they slip into SDF-controlled areas to carry out attacks, assassinations and kidnappings.
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According to press reports he was an extremist planning false-flag terror attacks, including the assassinations of Germany's ex-president and its justice minister.
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Despite the means with which she achieves it — including high profile assassinations — Maya has always prioritized her own autonomy and freedom over anything else.
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In 1968—the year of the King and Kennedy assassinations, The Tet Offensive, and Hair on Broadway—the pageant chose Cinderella as its theme.
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If it instead recommends large-scale money laundering and targeted assassinations of Reebok customers to strike fear in the consumer markets — that's less great!
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Municipal elections would not usually cut much ice in a city that has seen it all; massacres, assassinations and a 15-year civil war.
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The ongoing war in Vietnam and the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy in 1968 shook our faith in ourselves.
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By June, the city had experienced a string of assassinations, as well as attacks on the Red Cross and on a British envoy's motorcade.
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Amid the ructions of that awful decade – from Vietnam to civil rights to riots and assassinations – here was the notion that hope was conceivable.
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Political assassinations and protests of secular Tunisians against Islamists had escalated until a consensus was reached on a constitution enshrining women's and democratic rights.
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The Russian government approved a law in 2006 that authorizes foreign assassinations of anyone believed to be a "terrorist threat" to the Russian state.
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Warren cited BuzzFeed's earlier reporting that said the UAE in 85033 hired U.S. defense company Spear Operations Group to carry out assassinations in Yemen.
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Brazil is one of the world's deadliest countries for environmental and climate defenders, with Global Witness having documented 333 assassinations between 85033 and 2018.
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" Trump: Pyongyang guilty of repeated acts of terror Trump said that North Korea has "repeatedly" sponsored acts of terrorism, including "assassinations on foreign soil.
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Prior to the Turkish incursion in early October, a Pentagon report indicated that ISIS was already beginning to regroup, committing assassinations and extorting civilians.
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Tobacco smoke contains about 250 harmful chemicals, including heavy metals, arsenic and polonium-210, a highly radioactive substance that has been used in assassinations.
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Kyiv and Moscow have both been accused of several assassinations in the Donbas and Ukraine as a whole since the war began in 2014.
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He had enraged the National Rifle Association by supporting the registration and licensing of firearms in the aftermath of the assassinations of the Rev.
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Witnesses claimed that members of the program's teams and their American advisers routinely carried out torture, murders and assassinations, accusations that American officials denied.
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I am a lifelong Democrat who has been deploring Donald Trump's election since November 2016, but this is no time to joke about assassinations.
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There are assassinations (four or possibly five), a mass shooting, a suicide and of course there is a fire that leads to more deaths.
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Founded in 1924, Cumhuriyet is almost as old as the Turkish Republic itself, and has survived military coups, explosions and assassinations over the years.
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Experts say that outsourcing assassinations helps the Russian government avoid the sort of geopolitical blowback that followed the poisoning of Mr. Skripal last year.
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I am a 69-year-old retired woman who has lived through three impeachment inquiries now, the Vietnam War, the assassinations of the Rev.
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Between Vietnam, the assassinations of MLK and JFK, and Johnson's decision to leave office in the midst of it all, '76.63 was much worse.
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Organised crime had become so entrenched in Serbian football that 11 club chairmen were murdered in Sopranos-esque gangland assassinations between 1995 and 103.
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Opponents accuse his Badr organization of assassinations and widespread abuses against Sunnis detained in secret prisons run by the group following the U.S.-led invasion.
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And then there were assassinations: Tsar Alexander II, the Italian king, the Spanish prime minister, the Empress of Austria and the American president William McKinley.
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Among them was a 2007 air strike that destroyed a suspected Syrian atomic reactor and assassinations and cyber-sabotage targeting Tehran's nuclear scientists and technologies.
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Despite operating in a legal and political gray zone, Golan heralds his brand of targeted assassinations as a precision counterterrorism strategy with fewer civilian casualties.
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Argentina had been in turmoil for years, with radical leftist guerrillas carrying out hundreds of assassinations, which Perón attempted to crush with increasingly bloody tactics.
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In both countries, ISIS fighters carried out targeted assassinations, ambushes, suicide bombings in public places, and set fire to fields of crops, the report said.
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Abadi declared victory over Islamic State within Iraq in December, although the militants have continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings across the country.
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The number of assassinations and bombings in Aden has increased dramatically despite the presence of the Yemeni president and his government in the coastal city.
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The backdrop of Nixon's election was a nation absorbing the seismic upheavals of the Vietnam War, the Voting Rights Act, the assassinations of the Rev.
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In the 22016s, the United States experienced rising murder rates, devastating urban riots and the assassinations of some of the era's most prominent public figures.
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The complaint reports that at total of 1,466 workers have experienced threats or acts of violence, including 85033 assassinations, six kidnappings and 955 death threats.
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It was, especially from the perspective of Anderson's childhood, an era characterized by ideological aggression: campus uprisings and urban riots, assassinations and increasingly fruitless debates.
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"We're looking for Iran to behave like a normal country," Mr. Pompeo said, one that does not sponsor terrorism and assassinations and develop offensive weapons.
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In recent years political assassinations have skyrocketed as corruption became endemic in the A.N.C., by far the dominant political party in post-apartheid South Africa.
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At least four scientists were killed between 2010 and 2012 in what Tehran said were assassinations meant to sabotage its efforts to develop nuclear energy.
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Since the 1970s, there have been flare-ups of political violence in Corsica, including bombings and assassinations carried out by groups supporting the independence movement.
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In Washington, lawmakers were holding new hearings on the J.F.K. and M.L.K. assassinations, and looking into abuses of power by the C.I.A. Conspiracy theories flourished.
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According to ProPublica, federal investigators came to suspect that their killings were political assassinations ordered by a group led by former South Vietnamese military commanders.
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Disillusioned by what he saw as the agency's unchecked excesses and its increasing involvement in attempted assassinations, coups and cover-ups, he resigned in 1969.
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Rarely are policymakers held to account when they offer bad advice, such as supporting a disastrous war in Iraq or helping organize torture or assassinations.
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Alshaibi analyzed the documents for the assassinations of female academics and chose some of the most frequently used words to inscribe on the ceramic vessels.
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But our earliest consciousness had to do with the assassinations of people who upheld beliefs that we were just beginning to learn to hold dear.
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The 1960s and 1970s saw a number of high-profile assassinations -- especially in New York City -- during the period of social unrest and domestic terror.
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And then there is the regime's model of neo-Stalinist repression, replete with imprisonment of dissidents, assassinations, torture, forced television confessions, censorship and state propaganda.
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Mystery assassinations in eastern Ukraine: Half a dozen commanders in the Russian-backed separatist army have been killed far from the front lines since 2015.
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But he is responsible for throwing America's moral weight behind Russia's strongman, praising Mr. Putin's "leadership" and downplaying accusations of political assassinations under his watch.
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Elections are a rare event in Congo, which has been plagued by authoritarian rule, assassinations, coups and civil wars since independence from Belgium in 1960.
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They were washed away by wars and assassinations and riots long ago, and if you don't understand this, you are huffing stronger drugs than we possess.
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As missile tests and alleged political assassinations deepen international concern about North Korea, the rogue nation may turn to the world's second-largest continent for help.
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Israel rarely comments on such claims, but it's the latest in a series of assassinations of leading figures in Syria blamed on Hezbollah's neighbor and adversary.
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But in 1968, against a backdrop of urban riots, a war in Vietnam that dragged on inconclusively, tumultuous antiwar demonstrations and the assassinations of the Rev.
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The period until 2012 was marked by a series of car bombings and assassinations—and an increase in the frequency of religiously and politically motivated censorship.
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Have a look at the way the CIA historically manipulated elections – assassinations, massive demonstrations, paid off protesters and journalists, serious stuff directly affecting leaders and votes.
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For example, Dutch Foreign Minister Stef Blok said on Tuesday that Iran was behind two assassinations — one in 2015 and another in 2017 — in the Netherlands.
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He was freed in 2009, and within a year became the leader of Iraq's al Qaeda affiliate, heading up a renewed campaign of bombings and assassinations.
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Some people believe there is more to the story around the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis and President John F. Kennedy in Dallas.
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The title and date of the piece suggest the work could be in reference to the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
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Have a look at the way the CIA historically manipulated elections - assassinations, massive demonstrations, paid off protesters and journalists, serious stuff directly affecting leaders and votes.
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Irek Murtazin, who worked closely with the G.R.U. and now covers military affairs for Novaya Gazeta, said that the agency's assassinations tended to be unshowy affairs.
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It was beginning to take off when I arrived there — assassinations of government officials, sniper attacks on U.S. soldiers, IEDs hitting convoys driving through the city.
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There were summary executions of villagers, abductions and sexual violence, political assassinations, raids on health clinics, attacks on civilian buses, and even reports of mass graves.
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Major events (wars, public ceremonies, assassinations, elections) blend with private joys and griefs, and with offbeat assertions, wild boasts, intimate details and moments of unforced lyricism.
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The elusive MI6 agent has a fascinating life, from his time uncovering political assassinations to his current role as a defining figure in the Russia probes.
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He's the author of The Death of Caesar, a book that chronicles one of history's most infamous assassinations and dispels a lot of half-remembered myths.
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More, the actions of the Ku Klux Klan and white Citizens' Councils, which included car bombings, church burnings, and targeted assassinations, added teeth to this warning.
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A spokesman for Mr. Prince, Marc Cohen, declined to give specifics about the meeting but said that Mr. Prince had no discussions with Saudis about assassinations.
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Meanwhile Islamic State militants are still carrying out insurgent-style attacks against security forces and have been blamed for car bombs and assassinations of local notables.
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As a legal matter, Executive Order 120023 bans government officials from engaging or conspiring in assassinations, but neither it nor any federal law defines the term.
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On Saturday, in Bayonne, France, the group ETA, whose assassinations and bombings killed more than 800 people between 1968 and 2010, surrendered its stockpiles of weapons.
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This is, in part, because US law does not define "assassinations" with precision, and there are other laws that administrations have used to justify their actions.
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The assassinations could ease peace talks; Ukraine had refused direct negotiations with the rebel leadership as long as men it deemed war criminals held senior posts.
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Terror on a Tokyo subway, 1995; attacks on Syrian civilians, 2013 and 2017; assassinations in an airport in Kuala Lumpur, 2017; attempted assassination in London, 2018.
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The attack, known as the "Maguindanao Massacre", was chilling even by Philippine standards, where political assassinations are commonplace in elections for mayors, governors and even congress.
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From 2.83 until 22.8, the United States listed it as a terrorist group, owing to a campaign of bombings and assassinations that it led in Iran.
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But crime was more of a problem in 1968, and the country was in turmoil because the Vietnam War and because of two high-profile assassinations.
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In January, Muthanna was run out of eastern Dara'a after rebels accused it of engineering a wave of assassinations and abductions in the rebel-held south.
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The organization purports to provide a variety of illegal services, involving "weapons, drugs, bombings, assassinations, new identities, and trafficking," according to a 2015 report by Motherboard.
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On Tuesday, the Netherlands said it had "strong indications" that Iran was behind the assassinations of two Dutch nationals of Iranian origin, in 2015 and in 2017.
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But it is not just Syria; the world also seems unable to deal with the excesses of the North Korean dictatorship, with its assassinations and missile launches.
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US intelligence officials told BuzzFeed News they had been watching the pattern of suspected assassinations across the Atlantic with increasing alarm, and Lesin's death intensified those fears.
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Mr. Schiller had envisioned a modest 40,000 words to contextualize a lavishly illustrated volume to memorialize the assassinations of King and Kennedy 50 years ago this spring.
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He also sits at the center of the clandestine world in which Washington conducts its war on terror — one of gun-running, nighttime raids, and targeted assassinations.
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US intelligence officials told BuzzFeed News they had been watching the pattern of suspected assassinations across the Atlantic with mounting unease, and Lesin's death aggravated their fears.
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But anecdotal evidence suggests sporadic resistance in the form of assassinations of ISIS members, met with savage reprisals against those deemed to be spies, informers and deserters.
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There's no hidden blade, no white robes, no eagle-peaked hoods, and assassinations themselves are just a small piece of the gameplay, instead of the main event.
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As Mr Atran recalls, there was a rash of high-level assassinations inspired by the anarchism that started in the late 19th century, from Russia to America.
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"What I'm looking for is a President who has a good sense of humor about ISIS, assassinations, and Russian cyber warfare," Murphy said on Twitter Friday morning.
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UN figures show that in just the last month 31 people were killed in string of assassinations, a sharp rise from the nine deaths recorded in March.
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Ukraine has seen multiple assassinations and attempted killings in the last two years, often of figures involved in its war with Russia or outspoken against Moscow's influence.
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"Occupied" goes for big dramatic strokes — assassinations, gun battles on oil platforms, escapes into the safety of the United States Embassy (where the Americans aren't very helpful).
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Both men were at the mysterious heart of some of the most consequential assassinations of the twentieth century, and the stories of both remain mired in conspiracy.
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Agents are basically espionage and support units that can provide bonuses to friendly targets or inflict various forms of harm on enemy targets (think sabotage and assassinations).
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Afghan officials said the elite guard's priority is the protection of the president in a country where even the most secure corners have been infiltrated for assassinations.
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That was before the assassinations, before the violence in Chicago — there was a real sense that America could not survive that year, that America was falling apart.
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In 2010, to mark the 18th anniversary of the 1992 assassinations, statues of Ms. Borsellino's brother and Mr. Falcone were placed in a public square in Palermo.
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He has resumed Russian expansion of its sphere of domination, repressed his critics and, almost certainly, ordered or condoned "wet affairs" (assassinations) for dealing with political enemies.
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The hit men carried out hundreds of acts of violence, including murders, assaults, kidnappings, assassinations and acts of torture at the direction of Guzman, according to prosecutors.
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Al-Abadi ordered the Interior Ministry and Iraq's intelligence department to investigate the assassinations and kidnappings in Basra, Baghdad and elsewhere, the ministry said in a statement.
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How can we recapitulate all of the traumas and lost dreams — especially the assassinations and descent into violence and despair — without wandering into a muddle of confusion?
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Iran has also shown a longstanding interest in assassinations, a tactic that could match the vows of Iranian officials to take "proportionate" measures to avenge General Suleimani.
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We see it in the increase in brazen political assassinations in Malta and in Turkey, and in China signaling its own ambition for increasing global political influence.
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No Pakistani prime minister has ever completed a full term since the state's inception in 1947, with most leadership tenures halted by coups, resignations, arrests, or assassinations.
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The events of 1968 — the assassinations, the protests, the violence and volatility — preceded some institutional changes, like the McGovern-Fraser reforms and the reevaluation of presidential power.
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Students have been killed in drive-by assassinations, shot in cold blood on train stations, as well as routinely beaten and chased through the streets of Bangkok.
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Foreign invasions, ousters by rebel forces, assassinations and resignations due to popular pressure are also not counted as coups (although they are tracked in the same data set).
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Kim may be no stranger to planned assassinations as he is believed to be behind the death of his estranged brother, Kim Jong Nam, in Malaysia in 2017.
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For 40 years, separatists waged a militant campaign, blowing up police stations and mansions owned by mainlanders and carrying out assassinations, before laying down their arms in 2014.
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This record pales in comparison to Putin's brutal reign, which has seen allegations of political assassinations, which Putin has called "ungrounded," but the record suggests a common sensibility.
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Kennedy Smith, who has four children with her husband Steve Smith (who died in 1990), chose not to write in-depth about the assassinations of JFK or Bobby.
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Russia is the only country on Earth other than North Korea that would dare use a toxic nerve agent to attempt to carry out assassinations on foreign soil.
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If it wasn't for a handful of unlikely events, things could've ended up very differently: It could have been one of the deadliest political assassinations in US history.
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As head of Panama's secret police and head of all its defence forces from 1983, he could capably lend a hand, as he offered, with sabotage and assassinations.
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The campaign, which included political assassinations as well as bombings aimed at the general populace, escalated in the 1960s into violence that was reciprocated by the Franco dictatorship.
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During the Cold War, that meant toppling democratically elected governments—such as the US-sponsored assassinations of Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba and democratically Chilean president Alvador Allende.
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But the main grievance of southerners is the government's extraordinarily heavy-handed response to what began, at any rate, as sporadic assassinations by gunmen riding pillion on motorbikes.
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At least four scientists were killed between 2010 and 2012 in what Tehran said was a program of assassinations meant to sabotage its efforts to develop nuclear energy.
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One year after the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., murders were at an all-time high -- more per capita than the current rate.
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Some of those approaches are scripted into "Mission Stories," where you can set off a chain of events that lead to Hitman 2's set piece-style assassinations.
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Bell imagined that the anonymity afforded by modern encryption techniques and the advent of digital money would allow for political assassinations to be incentivized and carried out anonymously.
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The Islamic State remains as active as ever in North Sinai, most recently driving hundreds of minority Christians out of the peninsula after a spree of horrific assassinations.
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Reading through Hofstadter and Wallace's book, one is reminded anew that American history has consisted of slave revolts and their violent crushing, race riots, labor clashes, and assassinations.
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Her death added to a litany of tragedies that have befallen the Kennedy family, including the assassinations of Ms. Hill's grandfather and her great-uncle, John F. Kennedy.
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The Islamic State has organized bombings and assassinations almost everywhere in the region, as well as in Europe, though the group has not successfully staged attacks in Iran.
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It is incomprehensible that in the 21st century in the United States gangs of young males can willingly and routinely carry out assassinations of people they don't like.
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The Socialists accused the government of failing to impose strict rule of law, pointing out the brazen assassinations of a senior tax official and a businessman remain unsolved.
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It has used bomb attacks and assassinations to target government-held cities in the west, Kurdish security forces in the northeast and Islamist rebel factions in the northwest.
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Still, such politically motivated assassinations are rare in the U.S.-backed Arab kingdom, whose relative stability has distinguished it from war-ravaged neighbors such as Syria and Iraq.
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The lengthy guerrilla war over Northern Ireland's constitutional status, which began officially in 1969, saw more than 3,143 people lose their lives in bombings, indiscriminate shootings and assassinations.
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The regime in Tehran has been implicated in at least four assassinations or bombings in Europe since 2015 alone – the year in which the JCPOA came into being.
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The Pentagon report estimates that between 14,000 and 18,000 ISIS combatants remain, and they are carrying out suicide attacks, assassinations, crop burnings, and ambushes in Syria and Iraq.
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I still remember the protests over the Vietnam War, the riots and shootings on college campuses, and the assassinations of political and civil rights leaders during the 1960s.
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One of the factions is the New People's Army, an armed wing of the Communist Party of the Philippines that has a history of assassinations, kidnappings and attacks.
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"Vladimir Putin does not deserve any benefit of the doubt here, given how commonplace political assassinations and poisonings have become under his regime," he said in a statement.
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In 2016 and 2017, two separatist field commanders, Arsen Pavlov, who went by the nom de guerre Motorola, and Mikhail Tolstykh, known as Givi, were killed in assassinations.
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After the assassinations, with the perpetrators quickly killed in their turn, the rest of the year seemed to play out as a long public trial of satire itself.
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A. Free Press editor Art Kunkin passed out cider and marijuana before presenting an inventory of plots, crimes and assassinations he said had been ignored by daily newspapers.
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The memos found that either the C.I.A. or the military could kill al-Awlaki without violating his constitutional right to due process or the federal ban on assassinations.
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Political assassinations are rising sharply in South Africa, threatening the stability of hard-hit parts of the country and imperiling Mr. Mandela's dream of a unified, democratic nation.
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In 1968, in the wake of the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., federal laws were passed banning mail-order gun sales.
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The city is filled with Iranian spies, secret agents and hit squads, local officials say, and it has been plagued by multiple assassinations and kidnappings in recent years.
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In Margolick's formulation, the greatest tragedy of 1968 lies in the political devastation wreaked by the dual assassinations of King on April 4 and Kennedy on June 6.
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"Having committed grave breaches of int'l law in Friday's cowardly assassinations, @realdonaldtrump threatens to commit again new breaches of JUS COGENS," Zarif tweeted, referencing the death of Gen.
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"Having committed grave breaches of int'l law in Friday's cowardly assassinations, @realdonaldtrump threatens to commit again new breaches of JUS COGENS," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted.
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In their motion to hold him before trial, prosecutors laid out a disturbing plot by Hassan to carry out a wave of assassinations against prominent Democrats and journalists.
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Mafia assassinations are usually carried out by a team of gunmen in a place far from the target's home and family — a restaurant, a barber shop, a cafe.
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The election will mark Congo's first transfer of power at the ballot box since independence from Belgium in 1960, after decades of coups, dictatorship, assassinations and civil wars.
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From cunning assassinations to dragon-based adventures, here are my Season 43 predictions... I read a post on Reddit recently arguing that Theon is now essentially the drowned god.
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"Vladimir Putin does not deserve any benefit of the doubt here, given how commonplace political assassinations and poisonings have become under his regime," said Rubio, a frequent Putin critic.
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The U.S. military has long used drones for targeted assassinations, and an increasing number of other militaries have begun to deploy their own drones of varying levels of sophistication.
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This is concerning because many of these were assassinations of local leaders, which was a hallmark of the 2009–13 insurgency led by ISIS's precursor, according to the report.
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According to the organisation, 1094 civilians were killed by the leftist armed fighters between 1970 and 1979 either as victims of targeted assassinations and bombings, or as collateral damage.
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The 1960s and 1970s—which featured assassinations, Watergate and Vietnam in America, and left-wing uprisings in Europe—led people to mistrust their "betters" and their lofty, crafted rhetoric.
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The long-awaited JFK files are out in part, 2,800 never before seen record on the assassinations of JFK were released by the national archives, but hundreds remained classified.
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They say militants who have reverted to guerrilla tactics after the loss of territorial control are behind a rise in hit and run attacks on SDF checkpoints and assassinations.
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The aims of these town-square assassinations were the same as those of the Islamic State's YouTube beheading: to send a signal to as large an audience as possible.
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While Greek politics no longer features assassinations by violent urban guerrilla movements, some members of self-described anarchist groups still sympathize with the aims of older generations of militants.
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There are usually multiple Mission Stories per target, so as you play through Hitman 2's most scripted assassinations, you're also getting acquainted with the totality of each environment.
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Yet as totalitarian leaders have always known — and as recent Saudi and Russian assassinations of journalists remind us — killing even one prominent member of a group terrorizes countless others.
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SAN FRANCISCO — In this season of random assassinations and political uproar, who could resist the temptation to supplement a high-strung and frightening reality with some gentle make-believe?
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Condor also spoke to the transnational nature of right-wing militaries, since Townley took part in several assassinations and usually connected with a different fascistic group in each country.
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The following March, he told team members that they would have the opportunity to do "bonus work" — that is, assassinations — for which they would be paid extra, prosecutors said.
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Last year, Oscar Chinchilla, the Honduran attorney general, asked the United States for help in solving the assassinations and Washington provided advisers, Joseph Crook, a State Department spokesman, said.
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The first FARC attempt to found a political party, called the Patriotic Union, resulted in the assassinations of some 5,000 party members by right-wing paramilitaries in the 1980s.
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"We have a really sad history in this country of attempted and successful assassinations and it's irresponsible for a musician or artist to encourage murdering the president," Cruz added.
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They have also shed light on Operation Condor, a network of South American intelligence services in the 1970s and '80s that shared information, traded prisoners and orchestrated assassinations abroad.
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It's particularly jarring when the petite, gray-haired Ms. Stork acknowledges that she volunteered to carry out assassinations — twice — while serving the spiritual leader known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
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On Sunday, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson sharply escalated the case against Russia, saying that Britain had proof that Russia had been stockpiling Novichok and researching its use in assassinations.
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Their discussions, more than a year before the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, indicate that Saudi officials have considered assassinations since the beginning of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's ascent.
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Their discussions, more than a year before the killing of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, indicate that top Saudi officials have considered assassinations since the beginning of Prince Mohammed's ascent.
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Iran gets different treatment: On Sunday, Mr. Pompeo accused Iran of plotting assassinations in Europe as part of his claim that the country is the largest exporter of terrorism.
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Fighting between H.T.S. and other rebel groups has left many civilians dead, and a spate of assassinations and kidnappings for ransom has left the local population fearful and angry.
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According to Ronen Bergman, an Israeli journalist whose history of the subject, "Rise and Kill First", was published in 2018, Israel's security services have carried out some 2,700 assassinations.
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L fall under "endurance art," a type of performance that rose in the 1960s and '70s, symbolically referring to the Vietnam War or high-profile assassinations during that era.
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The Church Committee's investigation prompted President Ford, in an effort to preempt more extreme congressional action, to sign an executive order reorganizing the intelligence agencies and banning political assassinations.
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The report turned out to be the tip of rather sizable iceberg in 1968, a blood-soaked year marked by political assassinations, racial uprisings and domestic and international rebellions.
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And even after Eichmann, especially in the aftermath of the massacre of its Olympic team at Munich in 1972, the Israelis, too, resorted to targeted assassinations to achieve justice.
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They have been regrouping underground in provinces north of Baghdad and have carried out a stream of ambushes, bomb attacks and assassinations in the latter half of this year.
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Mugenzi's arrest is just the latest in a series of accusations of arbitrary arrests, politically motivated assassinations, and instances of torture made against the government in the months since.
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To compensate for the loss of territory, the ultra-hardline militants are now expanding hit-and-run assassinations of SDF fighters and commanders and attacks on checkpoints, security analysts say.
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All players, however, will be receiving a raft of improvements for free: major lighting improvements, a reworking of the UI, new ways of creating and playing the game's Contract assassinations.
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ISIS, judging from past examples, could wage a campaign of attacks — assassinations, raids, ambushes, suicide bombings — partly meant to mobilize the organization and keep it together under a new leader.
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He tweeted about a 144-page record, titled "Material Reviewed at CIA headquarters by House Select Committee on Assassinations staff members," that had writing on only a handful of pages.
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But it also highlights some of the best of what the series has to offer: assassinations, deep (semi-fictional) dives into history, and even the triumphant return of naval battles.
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Seven months after rebel fighters from the Iranian-allied Houthi militia were driven out of the strategic southern port, there are almost daily assassinations of judges, security officials and police.
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According to Ronen Bergman, a prominent Israeli journalist, whose history of the subject, "Rise and Kill First", was published this year, Israel's security services have carried out some 218,21806 assassinations.
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The country's intelligence agencies found "strong indications that Iran was involved in the assassinations of two Dutch nationals of Iranian origin," Blok wrote in a statement to the country's parliament.
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While they may be driven from territory they hold, they are unlikely to be driven from Syria and could revert to insurgency tactics such as ambushes, assassinations and suicide bombings.
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I think a lot of the writing that deals with this issue never looks at it next to all the coups and assassinations and interventions that made Americans so unpopular.
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"In addition to threatening the world by nuclear devastation, North Korea has repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism, including assassinations on foreign soil," Trump told reporters at the White House.
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"Vladimir Putin does not deserve any benefit of the doubt here, given how commonplace political assassinations and poisonings have become under his regime," he said in a statement last week.
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Last year, investigative reporters from BuzzFeed News identified 14 deaths of Russians or Russian-linked individuals in Britain and quoted U.S. intelligence officials as saying they appeared to be assassinations.
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The Shabab are expected to stage more assassinations and suicide missions, possibly in June, during the holy month of Ramadan, when being martyred is considered especially auspicious for the afterlife.
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Many of these killings appear to be "targeted criminal organization assassinations," but the State Department warned also of "turf battles" that could break out in areas frequented by US citizens.
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The O.A.S., the colonial secret army, continually attempted assassinations, and the Algerian guerrillas, the F.L.N., continued, bizarrely, to commit terrorist acts in Paris long after the game was essentially won.
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These essays track Cole's journeys around an explosive world of drones, wars and diseases, including the kidnappings of young girls in Chibok and assassinations of terror suspects by drone warfare.
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In Ennetcom's case, authorities previously said they found in the company's users' messages evidence for investigations into assassinations, armed robbery, drug trafficking, money laundering, attempted murder, and other organized crime.
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Their discussions, more than a year before the killing of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, indicate that top Saudi officials have considered assassinations since the beginning of Prince Mohammed's ascent.
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He was later part of its armed wing, known as the Special Apparatus, which carried out a series of assassinations and attacks in response to the British occupation of Egypt.
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The separatist group ETA formally dissolved itself this year, after killing more than 800 people during decades of bombings and targeted assassinations in its push for an independent Basque homeland.
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"I say and I say again that I have nothing to do with the assassinations that my brother carried out," Mr. Merah told the court on Thursday before the verdict.
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In another video, Christopher Maher describes how the eradication campaign stopped the assassinations of vaccinators by the Pakistani Taliban: staffers recruited additional vaccinators from the same clans as the attackers.
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A southeastern province, Sistan and Baluchistan, is home to several extremist Sunni groups that have committed bombings, assassinations and other attacks on Iranian security forces and officials in recent times.
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In 2017, a commission of the Russian Orthodox Church investigated the assassinations of Czar Nicholas II and his family and several members concluded that they had been Jewish ritual murders.
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Plagued with bombings and assassinations, the city, once known for its handmade carpets, is now better known as the underground channel for fighters, weaponry, funds, and supplies crossing into Syria.
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This was one of the US's more successful assassinations, Iain King wrote for NBC, because he was a leader of a terror organization and not part of a recognized state.
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Later, as the United States grappled with Islamist terrorism, executive branch lawyers under both parties wrote secret memos developing the idea that targeted killings in self-defense are not assassinations.
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In April, Avigdor Lieberman, the defense minister, took the unusual step of saying that Hamas is "known for internal assassinations" and that Israel was not looking for "adventures" in Gaza.
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She created a model of President John F. Kennedy's head, which the House Select Committee on Assassinations used in 1978 to test the trajectory of the bullets that struck him.
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His sudden death unleashed an opera-worthy drama of assassinations, suicides and civil war, until another imperial power, called Han, took its place, and held it more than four centuries.
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In a separate operation in the eastern province of Nangarhar, the NDS arrested 10 suspects over involvement in assassinations and transporting weapons, ammunition and explosives, it said in the statement.
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As retaliation for joining protests against the state-sanctioned assassinations of a number of artists, which began in 2006, the government decreed a three-year gallery ban on Ahi's work.
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MS-13, along with its rival Mara 18, are among the most powerful gangs operating in Central America, with most of their activities dedicated to extortion, assassinations and drug trafficking.
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The constitutional court ultimately sided with the president and he won re-election in July, with the situation subsequently shifting to politically motivated violence, disappearances, and assassinations on both sides.
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We are already seeing the adaptation of ISIS in Iraq into a low-level insurgency, with ambushes and assassinations against government forces and Shia militia in several Sunni areas this year.
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This saw the assassinations of John Kennedy and Medgar Evers (1963), Malcolm X (1965), American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell (1967), and Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. (1968).
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She was charged with "terrorist criminal association to commit crimes against people" and "attempted assassinations as an organized gang in connection with a terrorist enterprise," according to the Paris prosecutors' office.
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In the letter, which hit social media last week, the film's stars bemoaned the "character assassinations" and "weaponizing of mob mentality" that have become increasingly common during the Donald Trump era.
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"While most of these homicides appeared to be targeted criminal organization assassinations, turf battles between criminal groups have resulted in violent crime in areas frequented by US citizens," the agency says.
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But that began to change in the '218s, with multiple assassinations — of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. — and the rapid increase in crime at the time.
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In September, a self-proclaimed hit man testified to having heard Duterte order assassinations and to having watched him kill a man with a machine gun while a mayor in 1993.
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According to British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, May wants to set up a "rapid response unit to identify Russian malfeasance… whether it's cyber warfare, assassinations, calling it out and identifying it,"
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Some officials are demanding an end to Tehran's malign behavior, its terrorist attacks, assassinations and support for militias from Lebanon to Yemen; others, like John Bolton, may still want regime change.
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The Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 6900, were shaped by the JFK, RFK, and Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinations as well as the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.
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It cites the decline starting with the Vietnam War in the 1960s, the civil rights movement, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy and the Watergate scandal.
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The subtext is that after 210 years of social tumult, assassinations, riots, scandal, an unpopular war and gas lines, Mr. Reagan returned the United States to the tranquillity of the 235s.
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That checking was often achieved by corralling autocrats into the Western orbit, a maneuver fraught with moral hazard and willed blindness to the quotidian authoritarian customs of suppression, torture and assassinations.
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Curtailing access to energy, spreading disinformation, targeted political assassinations, cyber-attacks and elections interference have been the new weapons deployed by Russian leadership to bring its neighbors back under its orbit.
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Tragically, Mr. Duterte's solution to the crime and drug problems — extrajudicial assassinations — will not only add to the misery of the poor, it will do grievous harm to the country's democracy.
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Haftar casts himself as a foe of extremism but is viewed by opponents as a new dictator in the mould of Gaddafi, whose four-decade rule saw torture, disappearances and assassinations.
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According to the documentary, it was a war the Rajneeshees fought with mass poisonings, drugs, rigged elections, attempted assassinations, and an arsenal of assault weapons they practiced with on their land.
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"Don't Bother Me" then proceeds to sketch, often in humorous or uplifting terms, the daily insults and systemic disasters that have shaped black life, from slavery to assassinations to substandard housing.
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A month earlier the FBI announced the arrest of six members of The Base, another neo-Nazi terror group linked to Atomwaffen Division, on charges of planning assassinations and mass shootings.
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And while most of it is sterile and non-threatening, a notable exception is the surgery "spider robot," which is responsible for one of the most graphic assassinations in the game.
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Moreover, while the pursuit of this goal included efforts to capture enemy operatives or to persuade them to surrender, it also involved plenty of intimidation and deadly force — including some assassinations.
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A half-century ago, 1969 capped a radical, idealistic decade that saw the rise of the hippie generation and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev.
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Mr. Knights, who tracks these low-level assassinations, estimates that more than three moktars are killed or wounded every week in Iraq, undermining official declarations that the militants have been vanquished.
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"These bands are closely connected to the issue of assassinations, which are usually related to problems with rival bands over the local drug market, but also for international clients," Jiménez added.
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Borman concluded: "And God saw that it was good" — astonishingly hopeful words in 1968, a year shattered by violent protests and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy.
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North Korea, on the other hand, views them as much more threatening, particularly components that include plans for assassinations of the country's leadership in the event of an outbreak of war.
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The 1960s presented young people with constant challenges to American ideals: attacks on civil rights, traumatic political assassinations, the war in Vietnam and government lies that allowed that war to continue.
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In June of 1968, following the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, President Lyndon Johnson set up the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.
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More than a century later, Nixon's near-impeachment in 1974 was the climax of a decade of social upheaval — the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev.
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"Having committed grave breaches of (international) law in Friday's cowardly assassinations, (Trump) threatens to commit again new breaches of JUS COGENS," he said, referring to the phrase for international law norms.
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While this slowed traffic, Houthi security measures have put a stop to the suicide bombings and assassinations that used to be frequent in the capital, perhaps their greatest achievement in governing.
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The killing of Kem Ley, 46, in broad daylight in July has gripped Cambodia because of the prominence of its target and its chilling similarity to political assassinations of years past.
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At least six activists have been shot dead in or near their homes over the past year in what appear to be targeted assassinations, according to activists and one government official.
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We did a study in the Secret Service about people who either commit assassinations or try to kill someone, and we found that the common thread is ... there's no common thread.
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In a statement, the army said the information in its possession in addition to ongoing arrests and investigations had not revealed "the presence of any plan for assassinations in the country".
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A darker possibility is that, given an apparent series of Russia-linked assassinations in the West, Manafort fears violent reprisals against himself or his family should he give information implicating Russians.
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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - As an undercover operative for Somalia's al Shabaab militia, Nasteh spied on the insurgent group's senior commanders to ensure their loyalty and planned bombings and assassinations in government-controlled territory.
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However, after the summer of 1968 brought the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy, and rioting ensued in cities across the US, the author's legacy took a U-turn.
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That moment of hope was soon eclipsed as Libya fell into turmoil and Benghazi witnessed a campaign of bombings and assassinations, followed by a war that lasted from 2014 until late 2017.
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It is about believing the women who have been bold enough to brave storms of scrutiny, character assassinations, and death threats like Ford, Deborah Ramirez, Julie Swetnick, and before them, Anita Hill.
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Appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson after the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, the commission conducted a landmark study of gun ownership and gun violence.
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The foiled plot to seize control of the northern Amhara region and the assassinations in the national capital Addis Ababa underscored the threat of spiralling violence in Africa's second-most populous nation.
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Police deny involvement in the other killings and reject allegations by human rights groups that many of them, mostly unsolved and in mysterious circumstances, were assassinations of drug users with police complicity.
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And the biggest problem with character assassinations like the one currently being waged on Dao is that they derail us from having frank conversations about how to finally break that system down.
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Although local politics had been racked by bombings, assassinations and a long conflict with Tamil separatists, democracy itself did not seem to be in peril until the end of the civil war.
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The assassinations feel like stealth missions in any other open-world game, and since I spent most of the game on horseback, the parkour traversal wasn't a huge part of the experience.
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These analogies are a bit overdrawn: Fortunately, this year hasn't seen a repeat of the major assassinations of 237 (Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy) nor mass riots in many cities.
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The ELN is considered a terrorist group by the United States and European Union for engaging in kidnapping, assassinations, drug trafficking, attacks on economic infrastructure and extortion of oil and mining multinationals.
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We're years away from the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X), Martin Luther King, Jr., and the conservative turn of the 1970s.
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Alongside the gang and drug violence, a steady drumbeat of assassinations of journalists, lawyers, labor and peasant leaders and environmental activists has come to mark Honduran politics ever since a 2009 coup.
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Especially given the momentousness of next year's anniversaries: the women's march, the King and RFK assassinations ... we need to be at full strength as media entities, and Joan belongs in the mix.
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Iranian-inspired terrorism has never had the global reach of Sunni Islamic terrorism, but Iran has engaged in assassinations in Europe and elsewhere, and certainly Germany is no stranger to that threat.
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"While most of these homicides appeared to be targeted, criminal organization assassinations, turf battles between criminal groups have resulted in violent crime in areas frequented by US citizens," the State Department says.
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More than a dozen candidates and officials, most of them belonging to the African National Congress, have been killed in assassinations believed to have been orchestrated by rivals in the same party.
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Local armed groups have been competing for power and Sunni extremists belonging to the Islamic State and Al Qaeda have carved out a presence, punctuated by assassinations and larger-scale deadly attacks.
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They also haven't really addressed the military invasion, the alleged assassinations of royalty, or the fact that I can summon swords, axes, and fishing rods into my hands from the ether itself.
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Cossack supporters blamed Russian government-backed forces for several assassinations and attacks, lending credence to the idea that Russia has used targeted killings to retain control over local militias in eastern Ukraine.
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"The Bourne Ultimatum," the third and best of the series, follows Bourne (Matt Damon) as he discovers a secret C.I.A. black-ops mission to use agents like himself to carry out assassinations.
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He retaliated against the Italian government's campaign to crush the Mafia by striking back hard, ordering in 1992 the bombing assassinations of two leading anti-Mafia magistrates, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.
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The Greek leftist terrorist group November 17 carried out a similar campaign of targeted assassinations in the 1970s, though in later years they broadened their attacks to include bombings of ordinary citizens.
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"Shabab is waging a relentless campaign of bombings and assassinations targeting local government forces," Russell Travers, the acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center, told the Senate Homeland Security Committee last week.
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Seven members of The Base were arrested in a nationwide FBI operation last week, some for plotting assassinations and others for a plan to open fire at a gun rally in Virginia.
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"Assassinations on their own do not remove long-term strategic and political threats or dilemmas," Dahlia Scheindlin, an Israeli analyst, wrote in a policy brief for the Century Foundation, a think tank.
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Iran, which considers Israel an illegitimate country, has called Israel's accusations specious and has blamed Israeli operatives for attacks inside Iran, notably the assassinations of five nuclear scientists, mostly by car bombs.
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The assassinations have caused enough worry among rebel commanders that a year ago Aleksandr Khodakovsky, leader of the Vostok battalion, insinuated a Russian role in a post on the social network LiveJournal.
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"It used to be coups and assassinations and now it's the busy politics of coalition and all sorts of political maneuvering," said Vincent Foucher of the French National Centre for Scientific Research.
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His actions directly led to his death – one that has affected his family and friends and fueled the anti-cop rhetoric and hatred that resulted in three cop assassinations in Baton Rouge.
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Yet since its inception in the 1980s, South Africa's minibus taxi industry has been governed in large part by violence, with documented links to political assassinations and other forms of organized crime.
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Beyond the ballpark, the riots and assassinations were taking their toll on the public psyche, and the Mets, our safety valve, our comic relief, were becoming just another black hole of despair.
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Hired to protect the nation's business and political elite from kidnappings, robberies, and assassinations, these bodyguards are a key part of the private security industry that is among Mexico's fast growing sectors.
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Pakistan has executed a former police bodyguard who killed the Punjab province governor over his call to reform strict blasphemy laws, in what was one of the country's most high-profile assassinations.
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Global Health Two polio vaccinators — a mother-daughter team — were shot dead in Pakistan on Thursday, the first time in two years that the polio eradication drive had been shaken by assassinations.
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Yet, Zoolander 2 appears to down the ante by making the cameos even more central: It's the assassinations of national treasures like Justin Bieber that serve as the movie's plot-shaped sleeping pill.
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Fiercely loyal to the Empire, believing that it saved them, he and his fellow Noghri commandos carried out assassinations and other missions at the bequest of Darth Vader, and later, Grand Admiral Thrawn.
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After a series of public revelations that the Iranian government targeted dissident movements in Europe with a series of bombings and assassinations throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Western European intelligence services cracked down.
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"In the US, civic education and conventional wisdom tells us that America is exempt from crude forms of power (rackets, networks of intimidation, gang control of resources, even violence like assassinations)," Bratich added.
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An explosion of political assassinations in Mexico has cast a pall over nationwide elections slated for July 1, when voters will choose their next president and fill a slew of down-ballot posts.
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Trump has encouraged his fans to exploit open and concealed carry laws as they target those whose appearance indicates they might vote the "wrong way"; there's talk of coups, violent uprisings and assassinations.
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The ELN is considered a terrorist group by the United States and European Union for engaging in kidnapping, assassinations, drug trafficking, attacks on economic infrastructure and extortion of oil and mining multi-nationals.
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A recent post drew parallels with the first great era of globalisation in the late 19th/early 20th centuries which also led to a backlash; anarchist assassinations, industrial unrest and restrictions on immigration.
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Its target is the more sweeping amnesty law passed a year later, after the truth commission issued a report accusing leaders from both sides of participating in massacres, assassinations, torture and other atrocities.
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Announcing the designation, Trump told reporters at the White House: "In addition to threatening the world by nuclear devastation, North Korea has repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism, including assassinations on foreign soil."
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These notifications have tipped off Congress to ill-advised offers like the proposed sale of rifles to the police in the Philippines, which have been implicated in assassinations of their own citizens. Sen.
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Here in New York City, in December 2014, two police officers, Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos, were targeted by a depraved individual who claimed his criminal assassinations were some twisted act of revenge.
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MOGADISHU, Somalia — Car bombs, grenade attacks, assassinations and abductions by Shabab insurgents shatter the fragile veneer of calm in Somalia with such regularity that barely a week goes by without a deadly assault.
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It describes the midnight assassinations of socialist leaders and the kidnapping and murder of Giacomo Matteotti, the early fascists' most vocal opponent, but also intimate episodes like Mussolini's concern over his sick child.
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But in fact, throughout terrorism's long and tragic history, there have been numerous periods in which terrorist groups employed targeted assassinations and kidnappings of specific individuals as their preferred method of political violence.
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Along the way, white power activists also carried out assassinations, attacked infrastructure targets, formed and acted in leaderless resistance cells, attempted to undermine federal currency and stole military weapons from posts and armories.
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The Taliban have also stepped up assassinations in the countryside, targeting doctors delivering polio vaccinations, workers on demining teams and religious leaders who preach against the group, among others, the United Nations said.
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Targeted attacks and assassinations against advocates of indigenous, gender, sexual, peasant, and environmental rights have been high, with over 200 recorded last year, but law enforcement has been woefully inadequate and even complicit.
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The circumstances of King's death have been reexamined over the years by the U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations; the Shelby County, Tennessee, district attorney's office; and (repeatedly) by the U.S. Justice Department.
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Her account was reported in The Daily News of New York in 1977 and repeated in testimony around that time before the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which concluded that it was unreliable.
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"It's wildly inappropriate and dangerous for an American diplomat to openly threaten individual assassinations of Iranian military commanders," Suzanne Maloney, an Iran expert at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, told me.
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That era saw its own "shadow war" with a host of suspected Israeli assassinations of Iran's nuclear scientists provoking suspected but deniable Iranian attacks on Israeli embassies and diplomats in Thailand and India.
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Regardless of his position, Badreddine was lionized in Hezbollah and infamous for his alleged role in some of the most politically significant bombings and assassinations in the region during the past 30 years.
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There are the obvious displays, like military museums with case after case of Civil War-era rifles, or historic sites such as Ford's Theatre that are preserved due to their connections to assassinations.
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Haftar casts himself as a foe of extremism but is viewed by opponents as a new dictator in the mold of Gaddafi, whose four-decade rule was marked by torture, disappearances and assassinations.
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They found the seeds of national violence in the "un-civil disobedience" of direct action, and traced a single line from sit-ins to urban uprisings to the assassinations of King and Kennedy.
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But after the conflict in Syria broke out in 2011 and a wave of new bombings and assassinations shook the city, business tapered off and the tourists were gradually replaced by aid workers.
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The momentum of post-war progress and the hope of early 60s counterculture had all but evaporated in the year of the Watts riots and assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy.
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The kingpin behind the site, California man Ross Ulbricht, was later sentenced to life in prison—a hefty sentence probably not helped along by revelations he had attempted to order at least five assassinations.
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The senator's request comes after BuzzFeed News revealed that the United Arab Emirates, a Middle Eastern monarchy, hired a private American company, Spear Operations Group, to carry out targeted assassinations beginning in December 2015.
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Chor first came to the attention of local security forces in late 2002 after he had joined a militant group called Ansar al-Islam, which menaced locals in northern Iraq with assassinations and bombings.
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Afrasiab Khattak, a former senator for the A.N.P. and the president of the Roshaan Democratic Institute, said 1,000 members of his party had been killed in the Taliban's attacks on party gatherings and assassinations.
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Singer Elton John has waded into a furor about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's use of private jets, calling on the British media to stop what he called "assassinations" of the couple's characters.
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The systematic pattern of assassinations and attacks has extended from atheist bloggers to Shiite, Hindu or Christian minority groups, foreign nationals, university professors, and the editor of the first homosexual magazine in the country.
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Matar's long-exposure, black-and-white images of trees and seemingly empty landscapes at once evoke the feeling of absence and depict the foliage as witness to these kinds of political kidnappings and assassinations.
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The network -- so secretive that many of its own members do not know each other's identities -- carries out hit and run strikes, targeted assassinations, and bombings on ISIS targets in and around the city.
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Beirut's cooler climate and less restrictive social mores are a big draw for people from conservative Saudi Arabia, but bouts of civil strife, assassinations, deadlocked government and regional rivalries are still taking their toll.
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Assassinations of Palestinians suspected of planning or perpetrating violence against Israelis have been relentlessly conducted also in the West Bank and Gaza, territories controlled by Israel that seek to become an independent Palestinian state.
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I was also concerned that the shootings by police that happened before Thursday night's assassinations would get lost, and that as a country we'd forget that people are hurting, and it's not just cops.
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For the next few years, he waged a bloody war against the government in a series of assassinations and terrorist attacks, including the 143 bombing of Avianca Airlines Flight 203 that killed 110 people.
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The overture was vague but widely interpreted as a signal that North Korea is willing to behave — no missile tests, nuclear detonations, or assassinations — if its athletes are allowed to compete at the games.
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Many EU countries, along with Russia and Turkey, can be expected to raise their opposition to them while agreeing with you that Iran is engaged in dangerous activities -- including attempted assassinations on European soil.
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Mr. Lane also worked with Representative Thomas N. Downey, a New York Democrat, to draft legislation that in 1976 established the House Select Committee on Assassinations to investigate the murders of Kennedy and King.
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A bomb — the weapon of choice in a half-dozen recent, and mysterious, assassinations in the territory — tore apart a car carrying Igor V. Plotnitsky, the leader of the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic.
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CIA-mafia plot on Castro A 1975 document from the Rockefeller Commission detailing the CIA's role in foreign assassinations said plans to assassinate Castro were undertaken in the early days of the Kennedy administration.
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But the possibility of North Korea doing something to tarnish the Olympics cannot be ruled out since the regime has shown a history of disregard for international norms, including resorting to assassinations and kidnappings.
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At the end of 2013, Mr. Bonilla's replacement as police chief, Ramón Sabillón Pineda, ordered special guards to protect the case files on both assassinations, as well as documents on other high-profile killings.
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In terse language, the documents paint a chilling portrait of impunity at the very top of Honduras's police hierarchy: the unchallenged power to carry out assassinations and force a cover-up of the investigation.
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Even so, analysts say, Britain's friends would have little appetite for taking on a Russian government that has demonstrated a willingness to lash out with cyberwarfare, disinformation, assassinations and the manipulation of energy exports.
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"Having committed grave breaches of int'l law in Friday's cowardly assassinations, [Trump] threatens to commit again new breaches of JUS COGENS," Javad Zarif tweeted, with "jus cogens" referring to the norms of international law.
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Rhee, who has been training to avenge her parents' assassinations, escapes her own apparent murder to fulfill that quest, with feuding planets on the brink of war as a result of her presumed death.
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By 2013, insurgents were embedded in the mountains on the western border with Algeria, and groups in the cities began a campaign of political assassinations, ambushes on the police and army, and suicide attacks.
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These include reportedly forgetting which state — Vermont or New Hampshire — he was in, when the Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King assassinations occurred, and that he was not vice president when the Parkland, Fla.
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Driving on the 22-mile road from Jalalabad to Achin, Waheedullah, a cab driver from Mohmad Dara district, pointed to the areas where ISIS fighters put up checkpoints and staged assassinations on security forces.
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In the 219s, with the civil rights movement in full swing and news media paying attention, white America finally started to learn about racial violence: the fire hoses in Birmingham, the bombings, the assassinations.
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A southeastern Iranian province, Sistan and Baluchistan, is home to several extremist Sunni groups such as Jaish al-Adl that have committed sporadic bombings, assassinations and other attacks on Iranian security forces and officials.
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Since then, the U.S. has given more than $111 million in security assistance to Honduras's military and police, even after the Honduran government was implicated in massive corruption scandals and high-profile political assassinations.
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Why Trump likes the Biden clash Trump has spent the last two years searching for a foil -- and is more effective politically when there's a target for his torrent of political attacks and character assassinations.
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Related: Assassinations, Curses, and Stolen Jewels: The 'Blue Diamond Affair' Is Still Darkening Saudi-Thai Relations A spokesperson for Natural Fruit could not be reached by VICE News prior to the publication of this article.
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Of course all of your favorite activities from past games will be there too: covert assassinations, toppling authority, and exploring for new weapons and armor will factor heavily into Odyssey when it arrives Oct. 5.
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Former BBC Panorama producer and investigative journalist, Chris Woods, is the author of Sudden Justice, an examination of the development of drones and their use in combat, secretive assassinations, and covert strikes since 9/11.
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Players get a month or two to master each mission and its many opportunities for creative assassinations, with Escalation mode and limited time Elusive Targets contracts letting players apply what they've learned to different challenges.
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After a string of sweeping indictments and arrests, court documents have illustrated how the neo-Nazi terror group The Base discussed derailing trains and plotted the assassinations of anti-fascist activists in the United States.
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The UP, the FARC's first attempt at forming a political party, lost more than 3,000 members and two presidential candidates to assassinations carried out by paramilitary gunmen sometimes backed by members of the Colombian military.
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The 14 men now facing charges were followers of the Ansarullah Bangla Team, a hard-line Islamist group that has claimed responsibility for a series of gory targeted assassinations of secular writers, Mr. Islam said.
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It's the heart of the Obama administration, and it seems like much of America has forgotten about the CIA's habit of torturing potential witnesses and orchestrating assassinations in order to stage coups in other countries.
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According to the nun, Ethel wondered if the third generation inherited the trauma of the assassinations of JFK and his brother Bobby — and if that could be one explanation for much of what went wrong.
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Abadi declared final victory over the hardline Sunni militants in December but the group still operates from pockets along the border with Syria and has continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings across Iraq.
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The deal that ended the crisis contained several elements, according to former U.S. officials: Israel did not take responsibility for the assassination but said it would not pursue assassinations on UAE soil in the future.
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While not nearly as popular as the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. or JFK, the 1961 plane crash which claimed Hammarskjöld's life has nonetheless spawned numerous conspiracy theories whispering that it was no accident.
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The racial progress of the civil rights era led to a series of political assassinations and, shortly thereafter, to the election of Richard Nixon — who quickly caused a democratic and constitutional crisis of his own.
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Built as an ironic and crass simulation of the modern life of crime, Grand Theft Auto 5 is replete with downtown bank robberies, cold-blooded assassinations, and expensive therapy on the shore of Laguna Beach.
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The assassinations of major figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln — to say nothing of less well-known activists who paid for their convictions with their lives — did not come out of nowhere.
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Although the sisters had always been competitive with each other, things got even more complicated after Lee introduced her sister to Onassis, before the dual assassinations of John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy.
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The assassinations of John and Bobby Kennedy inevitably color every depiction of them, given that their legacy is partly built on what might have been, particularly in regard to the Vietnam War and civil rights.
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It has also proved able to carry out bombings and assassinations in areas controlled by the Iraqi and Syrian governments, U.S.-backed Kurdish militias and rival jihadist rebel groups, signaling an ability to survive underground.
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His closest political ally is the now-deputy president, a former provincial governor so sleazy he's been credibly accused of stealing money meant for poor schools and faces questions about his role in political assassinations.
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Asked why so many of his rivals end up dead or injured, Putin said, "First of all, all of us have many political rivals" before noting there had been assassinations in the U.S. as well.
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There, young boys linger around street lights, selling newspapers with headlines that scream the previous day's bloody murders: Police Unable to Stop the Wave of Assassinations; Panic at a Funeral; El Teo Has Been Captured.
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Operating in what some historians have deemed the "era of assassinations," many of the individuals whose likenesses are included in Unlikely Historians took the risk of being harassed and even killed for their political activities.
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Robert Jay Mathews was the leader of The Order, a highly skilled white terrorist group that carried out major armed robberies and assassinations, including the 1984 assassination of a Jewish talk show host in Denver.
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Several Western countries expelled Russian officials, and denounced the attack as a violation of international norms, like Russia's aggression in Ukraine, its interference in other countries' elections, and assassinations and cyber attacks carried out abroad.
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Militants have been carrying out "assassinations, suicide attacks, abductions, and arson of crops in both Iraq and Syria," according to a report this summer by the Pentagon inspector general for operations against the Islamic State.
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His confession is fraught with irony and his history is tragicomic; unlike the refugees of "The Refugees," he regards himself with the distance of self-loathing, for he has participated in assassinations while following orders.
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But an investigation published in The New York Times last month identified them as operatives from Unit 29155, an elite group within Russia's military intelligence agency that carries out assassinations and disruption operations in Europe.
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The Order, a white power terrorist group that robbed armored cars and carried out assassinations in the US in the 1980s, had Canadian members, as did the major white US-based separatist organization Aryan Nations.
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The timing of the shooting, during a church service in the village of Pansi in the Yagha region, mirrors other recent attacks on Christians, including assaults on churches and the assassinations of pastors and priests.
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But other Kenyans, particularly on social media platforms, wrote about how Mr. Moi presided over an administration that stoked ethnic violence and committed gross violations of human rights, including massacres, unlawful detention, torture, and assassinations.
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The regime may also decide to target U.S. interests at a time of its own choosing through terrorist attacks and assassinations — not only in the Middle East, but across the globe and even in America.
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It is incumbent on Myanmar's authorities to launch a thorough, independent investigation into Mr. Ko Ni's death, bring the perpetrators to justice, and send a strong message: assassinations will not be tolerated or go unpunished.
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"This is the heaviest blow to Islamic State in terms of assassinations because Qaduli was at the heart of (its) ...administrative structure," said Hisham al-Hashimi, an analyst who advises the Iraqi government on the militants.
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The academics combine data on assassinations—some 25 emperors were assassinated, roughly one-fifth of the total—with precipitation data collected from rainfall-sensitive oak-tree rings across the Roman frontier in France and eastern Germany.
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Haftar launched his military campaign in Benghazi in May 2014 in response to bombings and assassinations blamed on Islamist militants, part of anarchy that ensued after a NATO-backed uprising ended Muammar Gaddafi's rule in 2011.
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When the series first came out, its stealth-based assassinations and parkour movement felt brand-new, and its twists on the initial Grand Theft Auto-inspired open world design gave the series its own unique flavor.
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Abadi declared final victory over the hard-line Sunni militants in December, but the group still operates from pockets along the border with Syria and has continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings across Iraq.
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Murphy suggested that Trump's hints at lifting sanctions against Russia and his efforts to create "moral equivalences" between Kremlin-sanctioned political assassinations and U.S. military activities indicate a suspicious relationship between Trump and the Russian president.
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Protests led by the Black Lives Matter movement, the assassinations of police officers in several U.S. cities, a stagnant economy, and years of political bickering over gun control and immigration reform have left many Americans exasperated.
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"I think assassinations ... they're against international law to start with and to that effect, I think I would not have assassinated Osama bin Laden but would have captured him and brought him to trial," Stein said.
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The United Nations and rights groups have accused Burundian forces of committing gross human rights violations and possibly crimes against humanity, including summary executions, targeted assassinations, arbitrary detention, torture and sexual violence - charges the government denies.
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The Gun Control Act was a response to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy and to the riots that were sweeping through the country, from Newark to Watts.
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Politicians who came of age during the Depression and World War II gave way to a new wave of upstarts who grew up in the wake of political assassinations, social turmoil, the Vietnam War and Watergate.
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During the interview on Fox News, Putin also invoked the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. when he was asked about the deaths of his own political opponents.
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Why it matters: Russia is already under mounting pressure over rising evidence of the hybrid war — which includes cyberwarfare, disinformation, targeted assassinations and support for proxies fighting wars abroad — that it is waging against the West.
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He played important roles in the surgical strike on Iraq's Osirak nuclear reactor in 267 and the assassinations of the Palestinian commandos who carried out the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 22018.
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Six months later, Bellingcat — a collective of hypervigilant armchair sleuths established in 2014 by Eliot Higgins, a British blogger working from home while caring for his infant daughter — began to unmask those behind the attempted assassinations.
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If anything, Bergman suggests that Israel's honed aptitude for clandestine assassinations led the country to rely on them to a fault, approaching some complex strategic and political concerns as problems that an extrajudicial killing could fix.
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The scenario came as Biden discussed the impact that the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy had on his own life and how that had prompted him to run for office.
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In its tumultuous national story, America has endured more consequential political earthquakes, including presidential assassinations, a Civil War brought on by slavery, epic conflicts abroad and the long march towards justice by the civil rights movement.
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A new book by BuzzFeed News's Global Investigations Editor connects 14 suspected Russian assassinations on British soil — first exposed by BuzzFeed News in 2017 — to a much wider campaign of Kremlin-sanctioned killing around the world.
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"The thought of placing cyanide in the hands of the North Koreans, considering their record on human rights, political prisoners, and assassinations is not only dangerous but defies common sense," Haley said in a statement Friday.
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When the troops withdrew, whites re-established slavery through the economic exploitation of sharecropping, criminalization of African-American men, black disenfranchisement, and a reign of domestic terror including lynchings, massacres and assassinations of black elected officials.
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Since forming in the late 1990s, the terror group's tactics have intensified in recent years -- from battling Nigerian government soldiers to raids on villages, mass kidnappings, assassinations, market bombings and attacks on churches and unaffiliated mosques.
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Haftar, a divisive one-time Gaddafi ally, launched "Operation Dignity" against Islamist militants who had carried out a wave of bombings and assassinations in Benghazi, though he has also fought former rebels opposed to military rule.
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The militants have waged a campaign of abductions, assassinations and bombings against those it considers non-believers, including the government of Nigeria and other muslims, especially in the region of Borno and the regional capital Maiduguri.
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Peck gained access to material from Baldwin's estate, using 30 pages written for a planned book devoted to the lives and assassinations of Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. as the film's thematic spine.
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Both these challenges were highlighted by the appearance at last year's Paris Air Show of a Chinese military drone that looked very like the American unmanned aircraft that have been used for assassinations, for example in Pakistan.
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"We are going to do everything in our power to protect them" On Monday, López Obrador reiterated his promise that his administration would do everything in its power to stop the assassinations, while stopping short of specifics.
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Choi was "a person who stood with me during the hardest moment in my life," Park said in her speech, apparently referring to the assassinations of Park's mother and later her father, the dictator Park Chung-hee.
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Whatever happens, Britain will need to boost its spy-catching efforts: if the Kremlin is really willing to conduct reckless assassinations in Western countries, it is not only intelligence veterans who will feel nervous about their safety.
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That theory was given a boost by none other than the U.S. House of Representatives, which voted in 1976 — in the wake of the Watergate scandal — to establish a Select Committee on Assassinations to reinvestigate JFK's killing.
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AMSTERDAM, March 8 (Reuters) - Thousands of people have been fatally gassed with nerve agents on battlefields since World War Two, most recently in Iraq and Syria, but they are not a weapon of choice for urban assassinations.
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Idlib province, in Syria's northwest corner, is under the control of Hayat Tahrir al Sham, a bloc of Islamist militant factions spearheaded by Syria's former al Qaeda affiliate, and has long been targeted by bombings and assassinations.
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Other episodes feature the leader of a religious cult using microwave technology to spontaneously combust anyone attempting to oppose him, a psycho scientist who releases a suicide-inducing serum, and entomologists using trained insects to commit assassinations.
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Hifter launched his military campaign in Benghazi in May 2014 in response to bombings and assassinations blamed on Islamic militants in the chaos that followed the uprising that ended longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi&aposs rule in 2011.
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A good place to start would be to double down on investigations, and to bring to justice those responsible for each of the over 100 political assassinations throughout the campaign, as well as the six journalists killed.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May will propose to world leaders that they should create an international rapid response unit to counter Russian cyber attacks and assassinations, her foreign minister Boris Johnson was quoted as saying.
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In addition to the attack on the shrine in Pakistan in February, the Islamic State bombed a Sufi place of worship in Baluchistan in 2016, and has carried out targeted assassinations of Sufi clerics, including in Egypt.
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But the commission's report also details evidence of "extrajudicial killings" and violence by the F.M.L.N., including the assassinations of American Marines in the Zona Rosa, an upscale district in the capital, and of many small-town mayors.
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The organization that once staked out a self-proclaimed caliphate across Iraq and Syria has now metastasized into a more traditional terrorist group — an atomized, clandestine network of cells engaged in guerrilla attacks, bombings and targeted assassinations.
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Its calling card is bold and complex suicide bombings, including high-profile attacks on US and foreign personnel and assassinations of high-level people in Kabul and northern Afghanistan, the Institute for the Study of War reports.
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The group's militants have burned villages, mosques and churches; carried out mass kidnappings, assassinations and market bombings; and killed soldiers, despite claims by the military that its troops have reclaimed territories previous inhabited by the militant group.
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A new book based on an investigation into 14 suspected Russian assassinations on British soil first exposed by BuzzFeed News in 2017 connects the deaths to a much wider campaign of Kremlin-sanctioned killing around the world.
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And, second, there is also an executive order issued by President Gerald Ford in 1976 and still in force, prohibiting assassinations of foreign leaders (though the Trump administration is characterizing the killing as a counter-terrorism operation).
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Drawing on memories of growing up in Baltimore in the early 1960s, he revives those charged times — characterized by the Civil Rights movement, the Cold War, assassinations — through the eyes of Arthur Mermelstein and his mother, Susan.
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The alleged killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in his country's Istanbul consulate -- if found to be true -- is only the latest in a series of blatant assassinations carried out by a nation state on foreign soil.
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Many saw parallels between Mr. Trump's law-and-order pledge and Richard M. Nixon's 1968 campaign that became a reaction to the national strife over the Vietnam War, the Voting Rights Act, the assassinations of the Rev.
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This month's highly anticipated vote could mark Congo's first peaceful transition of power since independence in 1960, after decades marked by authoritarian rule, assassinations and civil wars in which millions of people are thought to have died.
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For example, members of The Base and Atowmaffen Division, two neo-Nazi terror groups under a recent nationwide FBI probe resulting in several arrests of members who plotted assassinations and mass shootings, are major proponents of accelerationism.
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Jason Statham is reprising his role as contract killer Arthur Bishop in Mechanic: Resurrection – and now he's tasked with completing several assassinations (plus, making them look like accidents) to keep the woman he's fallen for (Jessica Alba) safe.
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Islamic State, which once occupied a third of Iraq's territory, has been largely defeated in the country but has continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings there and still poses a threat along its border with Syria.
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But for all their otherworldly visions and mass assassinations, if you draw lines from the children they were to the people they have become, you'll find them parallel and true: They have become more of themselves, not less.
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Airing in two-hour installments, and directed by Kevin Hooks, "Madiba" also pulls the curtain back on the period's South African politics, including assassinations and other tumult that almost invariably resulted in harsher crackdowns on the black population.
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Those figures do not include the FARC tally of 1003 former guerrillas it says have been killed since the peace deal, in assassinations the group attributes to crime gangs formed by former members of right-wing paramilitary groups.
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Between 2010 and 2012 Israel's intelligence agency, the Mossad, is believed to have been behind the assassinations of four of Iran's top nuclear scientists, and in 2007 it carried out airstrikes against a suspected nuclear facility in Syria.
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"The media has been steadily losing credibility over time and this finding should give pause to cable channels and news outlets that sponsor plays featuring mock assassinations of the president," said Harvard-Harris Poll co-founder Mark Penn.
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Jimmy Carter came to office during a time when the CIA was widely discredited by revelations of its involvement in overseas assassinations, and he pushed for the agency to do less covert operations and focus on providing analysis.
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Despite the increasing hardship facing journalists then--including targeted assassinations, such as those of Bashar al-Nuaimi, Mohammed Ghanem or Mohammed Karin al-Badrani--he ignored the threats and continued to cover his usual beats, politics and security.
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The country's bosses managed to keep their followers quiet during a series of bombings and assassinations, sectarian clashes and the arrival of more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees in a country with a population of about four million.
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In one of the most audacious assassinations of the 21st century, Kim was poisoned with VX nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in February on his way back to his home in the Chinese territory of Macau.
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In the 1960s, amid painful racial division and the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., a national consensus nonetheless emerged about the meaning of citizenship, democracy and America's global symbol as liberty's surest guardian.
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The rebels have long feared assassinations after demobilization, concerned there could be a repeat of some 5,000 killings of members of the Patriotic Union, a leftist party decimated in the 1980s and 1990s by right-wing paramilitary groups.
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Given the growing political divide in this country, it's safe to say instances like this will continue, although we hope Americans from across the political spectrum can ease up on the character assassinations and stop weaponizing mob mentality.
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Islamic State has been blamed for at least half a dozen attacks on civilian targets in Turkey over the past 18 months; but, other than assassinations, it was the first time it has directly claimed any of them.
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Two receptionists, a clinic escort, an off-duty police officer and others were also killed during acts of anti-abortion violence during that time, and there were many hundreds of nonlethal violent incidents, including bombings and attempted assassinations.
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The disclosure indicates that top Saudi officials have considered assassinations since the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, began consolidating power, a year before the killing last month of the dissident Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul.
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But he felt overwhelmed by the trappings of success and by turmoil in a nation caught up in conflicts over the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, the assassinations of leaders and a political drift to the right.
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The Base, which is the subject of a nationwide FBI probe that has resulted in the arrest of eight of its members, has already been implicated in conspiracies to commit mass murder and targeted assassinations of antifa activists.
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The timing of the shooting, during a church service in the village of Pansi in the Yagha region, mirrors that of other attacks on Christians in the past year, including church attacks and assassinations of pastors and priests.
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McVeigh said he initially planned a campaign of assassinations by targeting Attorney General Janet Reno, a federal judge, and an FBI sniper who was present at Ruby Ridge, but ultimately decided to strike a more symbolic target instead.
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The Senate and House Intelligence Committees were created in 1976 and 1977, in response not only to activities during the Nixon era, but also decades of CIA abuses, assassinations, and absurd schemes revealed in hearings led by Sen.
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In what might be called a noir-Pop style, the artist combines sensationalist images from Colombian tabloids (crimes, assassinations) with outtakes from Western art to chronicle a country gripped by continuous civil strife — La Violencia — since the 1940s.
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In the 1990s, a decade bookmarked by massacres, torture, assassinations, extrajudicial murders, exodus of Kashmiri Hindus and the making of mass graves in the mountains, it was almost routine for Indian troops to force civilians into encounter sites.
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The law that sought to define gun dealers was enacted in 270 after complaints by the gun lobby that the national Gun Control Act, passed two decades earlier following the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Attorney Gen.
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Writing to the Supreme Court, Shanmugam pointed out that nobody was actually killed in the murder-for-hire plots, and noted that Ulbricht wasn't convicted for any crimes related to the would-be assassinations or the fatal overdoses.
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The prime minister declared final victory over the ultra hardline group in December but it still poses a threat from pockets along the border with Syria and has continued to carry out ambushes, assassinations and bombings across Iraq.
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The tour, which Mr. Chatah gives every Sunday afternoon, also seeks to bring to life the culture and history of a Middle Eastern capital better known internationally for its wars and assassinations than for its architecture and archaeology.
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While Abraham Golan, the founder of Spear Operations Group, told BuzzFeed New that his team was responsible for a number of high-profile assassinations during the mercenaries' time in Yemen, he declined to specify how many or which ones.
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From there he made the weirdly cinematic choice to branch out into Iranian arms deals, strange agricultural aspirations in Zimbabwe, some level of involvement in the Somali drug trade, and ordering assassinations (which he is currently in prison for).
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"We call upon the Colombian state and the relevant authorities to speak out about the systematic assassinations... and to take measures so that a political genocide like that of the Patriotic Union is not repeated," the FARC statement said.
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Then the McCarthyite, security-minded, conformist 1950s yielded to the 1960s and 1970s, another bloody era of social unrest, assassinations, political bombings, riots, and police violence against civilians who were black and white and female and gay and hippies.
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"She will be putting forward a British plan that will have global support to set up a rapid response unit to identify Russian malfeasance… whether it's cyber warfare, assassinations, calling it out and identifying it," Johnson told the group.
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In 1995, for example, I led the prosecution of a dozen U.S.-based jihadists for the terrorist bombing of the World Trade Center, a plot to bomb other New York City landmarks, and plans to carry out political assassinations.
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Yet Trump continues to treat Russian President Vladimir Putin like a peer, rather than a pariah who controls a gangster state that orders the assassinations of enemies in countries that are close American allies such as the United Kingdom.
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has also determined that the North Korean regime has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism, according to a State Department official -- noting the government has been implicated in assassinations on foreign soil.
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The laboratory was found to contain such books as Deadly Substances, Handbook for Poisoning, The Perfect Crime and How to Commit It, and Let Me Die Before I Wake, as well as numerous articles on assassinations, explosives, and terrorism.
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Islamic State militants continue to carry out bombings, ambushes and assassinations in Syria and Iraq despite the collapse last year of the cross-border "caliphate" declared in 2014 by their leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, whose whereabouts are unknown.
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