The two fact-finding teams—the Joint Fact Finding Team (TGPF) and the Volunteers Team for Humanity (TRuK)—soon found compelling evidence that the rapes had indeed occurred.
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Here is a primer: The fact finding is largely done.
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Some are at earlier stages — essentially unofficial fact-finding probes.
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In March, the Council already set up a fact-finding team.
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Mr. Peters, too, has emphasized the need for thorough fact-finding.
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Her team is currently on a fact-finding mission in Venezuela.
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By late 2015, talks with GM had progressed beyond fact-finding.
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I'm not on the committees that are doing the fact-finding.
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In Argentina, judges play a fact-finding role in criminal investigations.
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In fact, finding love in Fernando's seems to be basically impossible.
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He went on a one-month fact-finding mission in the Arctic.
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It merely issues fact-finding reports, with accompanying technical and policy recommendations.
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You can't do it before all the fact-finding has been completed.
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Such extreme rhetoric was never conducive to an impartial fact-finding process.
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Specifically, we need to adopt a sound methodology for reliable fact-finding.
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He managed to make fact-finding trips to Japan, Singapore, and Europe.
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We are simply a fact-finding group for information-gathering purposes. (18+).
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The Canadian agency said it is helping to facilitate the "fact-finding" mission.
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Our law enforcement sources stress there is no FBI investigation ... just fact-finding.
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That's what spurred the fact-finding mission that led to last week's stories.
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The violence has been described as genocide by a UN fact-finding commission.
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This week, the fact-finding phase of the Trump impeachment inquiry officially ended.
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Before we opened Parnassus, I made a fact-finding tour of American bookstores.
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Forestry officials are appointing a fact-finding team to look into the matter.
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In a statement, Lockheed Martin confirmed a fact-finding trip to Alcantara and Brasilia.
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" The Russian foreign minister reiterated calls for an investigation and a "fact-finding mission.
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Committees, once a place for fact finding and collaboration, have seen their authority wane.
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Blum frames his visits to Sommer and the soldier's mother as fact-finding expeditions.
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Our work as a neutral, fact-finding enforcement agency helps to balance the scale.
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Democrats on the panel accused Republicans of putting partisan politics ahead of fact finding.
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The violence has been described as genocide by a United Nations fact-finding commission.
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Makan Delrahim, assistant attorney general for antitrust, described it as a fact-finding mission.
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"At this fact-finding stage, no technical 'rules of evidence' apply," the report says.
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Kavanaugh had not, in fact, been subject to any trial or fact-finding proceeding.
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"Right now as an administration we're more in the fact finding phase," he said.
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The OPCW&aposs fact-finding team is not mandated to apportion blame for chemical attacks.
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"This has proved a format conducive to fact-finding during the depositions," the official said.
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"Once we finish our investigation and fact-finding, we will share the details," he said.
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This is a fact-finding mission — the men are fishing for information about Chico's whereabouts.
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With the fact-finding phase complete, investigators will now focus on identifying a likely cause.
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Then there are the parallel congressional investigations, with their own fact-finding operations and timelines.
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In fact, finding a good neutral can be more difficult that finding a great red.
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The team is on a fact-finding mission to the site of the Douma attack.
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He called it a fact-finding trip, and stated that it had no political focus.
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Then, fact-finding produced public consensus and eventually pushed Republicans to do the right thing.
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It's just a very odd political strategy for them, more than a fact-finding strategy.
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He has been on numerous fact-finding missions on behalf of international human rights organizations.
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It's their way of signaling the end of the fact-finding part of the inquiry.
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The House Intelligence Committee got to have all the fun with its fact-finding mission.
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In 2015, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum sent a fact-finding team to the region.
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The report by the OPCW Syria Fact Finding Mission is due to be finalised within weeks.
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The NATO and EU should jointly send a fact-finding mission to the Sea of Azov.
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In addition, keeping matters inside an organization is not always a recipe for successful fact finding.
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But don't worry — he went on a "week long fact-finding trip to Europe" in 2016.
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In fact, finding her way to the stage in the first place had been a struggle.
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Kushner added that the Trump administration was still in the "fact-finding" phase of the investigation.
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Another recommendation was extending the fact-finding mission for one more year until mid-September 2019.
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In both cases an OPCW fact finding mission has already determined that chemical weapons were used.
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Senate Democrats argue, however, that the investigators would serve as a more nonpartisan fact-finding body.
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Suu Kyi has said a U.N. fact-finding mission would only heighten tension in the region.
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Separately, the U.N. has ordered a fact-finding mission to examine allegations of human rights abuses.
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In these campaign circumstances, those appearances of impropriety and conflicted interest are what undermine fact-finding.
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Its fact finding mission will determine whether banned munitions were used, but will not assign blame.
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The Moscow Mechanism is used to establish short-term fact finding missions on human rights concerns.
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She responded without guile, as if the whole ordeal really were a collaborative fact-finding endeavor.
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The council also voted to extend the mandate of the fact-finding team for a year.
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The government pledged to send a fact-finding mission to investigate the reports of civilian deaths.
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Human rights groups and a UN fact-finding commission tasked with investigating atrocities in Myanmar disagree.
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A senior State Department official said it was possible that the memo was simple fact-finding.
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Oversight hearings like the one in the Judiciary Committee are part fact-finding, part political theater.
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Beyond its core fact-finding mission, the FBI also performs an essential logical and deductive function.
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"The results are consistent with the recently released U.N. independent international fact-finding mission," she said.
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The United Nations agreed last month to send an international fact-finding mission to investigate the allegations.
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In fact, finding the perfect present for everyone on your list can be a total wallet drain.
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Like Krylova, investigators say she traveled to the U.S. under false pretenses on a fact-finding mission.
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So as my first foray into fact-finding, I contacted the respective zoos in Denver and Harpursville.
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Kennedy raised the possibility of sending the case back to the lower court for more fact-finding.
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Various rights groups have urged the United Nations to carry out a fact-finding mission in Xinjiang.
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The Democrats do not even pretend that their impeachment game is fair or actually about fact finding.
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A commitment to accurate fact-finding, and to institutions who can engage in it, is not enough.
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The IG demonstrated examples of thorough, nonpartisan, dispassionate fact finding, and should have effectively ended the matter.
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Again, the letter is a broad, standardized fact-finding mission, not an investigation based on specific knowledge.
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The fact-finding mission on Myanmar was established in March 2017 by the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Now that the investigation has concluded, Epstein said, the team's obligation extends beyond a fact-finding mission.
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She recently returned from a fact-finding mission on conditions for asylum seekers on the Greek islands.
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But those fact-finding reports are going to get a lot more scrutiny in the next phase.
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In an official "fact-finding" report, an arbiter painted a jarring portrait of her dealings with teachers.
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In January, police formed a fact-finding team to investigate the attack, but came up empty-handed.
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Any reforms should account for international travel and maintain opportunities for fact finding missions and diplomatic trips.
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Authorities in the Italian port of Catania have opened a fact-finding probe into the role of NGOs.
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Those kinds of "fact"-finding missions will inevitably devolve into a painful game of she-said, she-said.
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The fact-finding potential within the process will be overwhelmed by the question of whether impeachment is merited.
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Egypt's parliament then set up a fact-finding commission to look into allegations of corruption in wheat procurement.
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A fact-finding mission from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is investigating the attack.
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A big part of conducting effective interviews is recognizing that interviews are first and foremost fact-finding missions.
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While the fact-finding portion of the investigation is complete, NTSB investigators are still analyzing all the evidence.
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"Nobody was putting their ego ahead of the importance of conducting an orderly, fact-finding process," Schiff says.
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The hearings were a model of bi-partisan fact-finding that could lead to life-saving federal legislation.
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Dedicated staff members found a toxic working environment that was hostile to careful fact-finding and sound policymaking.
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" Sony said in a statement: "We take this issue seriously and have been conducting a fact-finding process.
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Making sound judgments about whether punishment is needed, and how much, depends on intensive fact-finding and humility.
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We should be able to do fact-finding, figuring out exactly what is happening with the new administration.
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Once fact-finding begins (if things go that far) the case would hold, Mr Matz reckons, "extraordinary value".
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But it also gave risk-averse schools incentives to expel the accused without any reliable fact-finding process.
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" Nevertheless, the report said the officials had damaged the bureau's "reputation for neutral fact-finding and political independence.
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A decision to pursue the specific pathway of impeachment is not a precondition for conducting congressional fact-finding.
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An EU Parliament official confirmed a "fact-finding" mission would go to the island as soon as possible.
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But we're also in sort of an interregnum: the bridge between the fact-finding and the actual impeachment.
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The Yankees have gotten some answers the last two days, and on Thursday their fact-finding mission continues.
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The OPCW Fact Finding Mission is only responsible for determining if chemical weapons were used in attacks in Syria.
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Tulsi Gabbard recently endeavored on a "fact-finding" mission that included a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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Doing so would only fuel another article of impeachment charging Mr. Trump with obstructing Congress's fact-finding, he said.
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These too have been widely used in the Syrian war, as previously documented by the OPCW's Fact-Finding Mission.
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CHRIS HUGHES: I have talked privately with several folks in government who are really in a fact-finding stage.
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From Harry's point of view it's a fact-finding thing and he genuinely wants to see it in action.
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In fact, finding the perfect presents for those closest to you can be the toughest tasks of holiday season.
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Despite calls for an independent fact-finding mission, Saudi Arabia has thus far enjoyed total impunity for its conduct.
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"We will look at this as a fact-finding measure to ensure that we hold folks accountable," he said.
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A UN fact-finding mission has called for several top generals to face charges of genocide over the crackdown.
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The ultimate recommendations flowed from objective fact-finding and policy analysis that was driven by a trustee-engagement process.
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But it is still in the fact-finding stage, hearing witness testimony and reviewing documents related to the inquiry.
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The OPCW confirmed it planned to send a fact-finding mission to Douma, but declined to reveal a timetable.
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" Amnesty called on the UN to allow a fact-finding mission to uncover the "full extent of the violations.
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It commences, like a super-sleuth literary or political biography, with tempered gloating about the author's indefatigable fact-finding.
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A fact-finding committee made up of regional rights activists said it suspected foul play in Mr. Malhi's case.
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The council's action came a month after a United Nations fact-finding team said Myanmar's army commander, Senior Gen.
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He opened Bal Harbour Shops after visiting retail stores around the world on a kind of fact-finding mission.
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Peter, what does John Bolton represent for Democrats nearing the end of the fact finding part of the investigation?
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Today, MIT released a 63-page fact-finding report detailing the institute's involvement with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
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But since the ICJ rejected Gambia's request, it leaves the fact-finding situation in a little bit of flux.
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She said a fact-finding group that she had assembled had collected the most comprehensive record of witness testimony.
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Democrats have gotten about as much as they think they can at the moment with their fact-finding investigation.
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And to date, Congress has still not sought to implement a fact-finding mission into this deadly modern disaster.
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To be clear: The group has also been associated with traditional, fact-finding and source producing espionage as well.
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"At present, we do not know when the fact-finding mission team can be deployed to Douma," Uzumcu added.
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"We have not been able to proceed further in planning the presence of a fact-finding team on the ground until there is a clear signal from the government of Myanmar that the fact-finding mission is in fact enabled to access into the country," Marzuki Darusman told the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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Because many Google searches are simply fact-finding missions, Google's featured snippets result in largely reduced clickthrough on those searches.
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I'm not going to recount all of the details in their combined 400 pages of judicial fact-finding and analysis.
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Finally, Hawley says Congress should "eliminate constitutionally problematic aspects" of the FTC's fact-finding, which is binding in federal court.
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We're expecting hearings in other important fact-finding efforts on that and we want to be part of that discussion.
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The turnabout reflects their growing confidence that the public supports their fact-finding mission on President Trump's dealings with Ukraine.
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MSF's request for an independent and impartial investigation by the International Humanitarian Fact Finding Commission has so far gone unanswered.
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Until there's more consistency, Wilson will see these studies more as a marketing tool than a useful fact-finding operation.
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Meanwhile, MLB has filed its own inquiry and is moving forward with the fact-finding process to determine next steps.
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Money may also be required to conduct outreach programs and fact-finding operations to figure out how to leverage resources.
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A government fact-finding committee has recorded 24 deaths and Amnesty International has said that at least 40 have died.
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Comey's team says Congress is in violation of its own rules by not conducting its fact-finding hearing in public.
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A UN fact-finding mission described the assault, which included widespread reports of mass rape, murder and arson, as genocide.
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The role of this fact-finding and advisory Commission will be to research, investigate, monitor, and coordinate these bodies' activities.
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Because bipartisan investigations involve members of Congress with disparate views, they also typically produce more accurate and credible fact-finding.
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The Commission's mandate is to inform the development of U.S. civil rights policy through fact-finding and advising federal lawmakers.
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According to the US Mission to the OSCE, up to three human rights experts will comprise the fact-finding mission.
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It's also possible that the Supreme Court will send the case back to a lower court for more fact finding.
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" He added: "This is unwarranted and hardly conducive to objective fact finding and mutual agreement, let alone a final reconciliation.
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"We will conduct a fact-finding inquiry that will be the largest in scale ever," Choi told a news conference.
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As lawyers, we understood the importance of fact-finding in uncovering hard truths, and the legitimacy that fair processes afford.
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"Children should not be detained - period," said Crepeau, on a fact-finding mission in Greece from May 12 to 16.
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Furthermore, the complicated process of fact-finding and case-building typically requires hundreds of hours of work by a lawyer.
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Last year, when Urmson's team was working on unprotected turns, they first sent out human drivers on fact-finding missions.
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We went on a fact-finding trip to Granada and Valencia, but life there rhymed too closely with New York.
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This engagement can entail fact-finding missions and "good offices" to facilitate dialogue and negotiation, as well as diplomatic initiatives.
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Last July, five Americans on a fact-finding trip were detained, questioned and deported, with Israeli officials citing security reasons.
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After significant fact-finding and discussion, we think 'Rape Day' poses unknown costs and risks and therefore won't be on Steam.
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" She added, "This right required Florida to base Timothy Hurst's death sentence on a jury's verdict, not a judge's fact-finding.
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The main section of the book, chronicling Frankie's initial spell at the Foundation, is devoted to relationship-building and fact-finding.
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"I don't want to have to go and do fact-finding and find out what they said wasn't true," Brian said.
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Concluding a fact-finding mission on Friday, a group of EU lawmakers said there was a "perception of impunity" in Malta.
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But on Friday he put the plan on hold until an independent arbiter completed a fact-finding report on April 18.
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The report, issued by the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, is the harshest indictment yet of the Myanmar military.
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He said much the same thing last week after Mr. Pompeo made a fact-finding trip to Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
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They sighed loudly at times, exasperated at what they saw as political grandstanding by senators at the expense of fact-finding.
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The mechanism would look at cases where the OPCW fact-finding mission has established chemical weapons were used or likely used.
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Fact-finding in war occurred before the age of smartphones, of course, but in Somalia, old-school methods fell flat, too.
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I often tell jurors that it's a fact-finding mission with a juror's role to determine the facts of the case.
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The Syrian government, which accused rebels of firing chlorine, asked the OPCW to send a fact-finding mission to the city.
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At that dinner, the couple shared their first kiss and immediately, with scientific fact-finding at the fore, established their relationship.
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Business leaders focused on the long game could do a lot worse than starting with a fact-finding trip to Finland.
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Doug Collins, said that hearings on the issue of competitiveness would be ongoing, but that additional fact-finding was presently needed.
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This would be the first of two fact-finding missions -- both of which were unable to determine what had really happened.
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The international community must also establish independent investigations and fact finding missions now, so violations of these protections are alleged and documented.
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Cammarata said they have not been able to depose or to make any fact-finding discovery from Cosby during the criminal proceedings.
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An independent U.N. fact-finding mission in August concluded that Myanmar's military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya.
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In October, a parliamentary commission, comprised of 2000 elected officials from Ituri, conducted a fact-finding mission on the region's security situation.
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If we're going to believe all of this stuff in the media, we have to go on our own fact finding mission.
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The Fund said its visit to Baku was strictly a fact-finding one and would not lead to an IMF board discussion.
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A U.N. fact-finding mission last year said the 2017 military campaign that pushed out the Rohingya was orchestrated with "genocidal intent".
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The U.N. fact-finding delegation that came to document what happened said the Olympics had set Korea's "neurotic development" on warp speed.
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The recently concluded fact-finding review was conducted by a Stanford faculty member and an outside investigator, according to a press release.
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It's significant because, as anyone who spends any time with the justice system knows, it's a very bad system for fact-finding.
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The government rejects the allegations and has refused to cooperate with a U.N. fact-finding mission to look into abuses in Myanmar.
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Responding to the pull-back and premium hikes Oklahoma's Insurance Commission has scheduled a "fact-finding hearing" in late May, Doak said.
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What's next: This kicks off a year-long process of fact-finding on Chinese dumping/subsidization and "material injury" to U.S. manufacturers.
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During the five-day conflict, nearly 200 serviceman and 228 civilians from Georgia were killed, according to an EU fact-finding report.
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The family said they are cooperating with investigators and will make no other public comments until the fact-finding stage is completed.
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I have just returned from a fact-finding mission to northern Iraq, one of many I have made over the past decade.
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But Roberts and his colleagues swapped out the legislative fact-finding process with their own policy assessment and found the law wanting.
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A special counsel investigation is not a criminal investigation; it has fact-finding and reporting components that are supposed to force transparency.
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By engaging in joint fact-finding or pilot tests together, inventors and investors can reach grounded understandings that might otherwise elude them.
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Because contempt of Congress can't be pardoned, Trump could do little to obstruct congressional committees from engaging in broad-reaching fact finding.
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In 2001, Lankesh visited the site as part of a delegation of literary figures on a fact-finding mission about the controversy.
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Fact-finding on the recent history in Clark's show is still in full swing, whereas the first exhibition's history is more settled.
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He drew ire for his candor and passion, particularly when his opinions and fact-finding ran afoul of the intentions of diplomats.
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Myanmar has flatly rejected charges that its security forces committed mass atrocities, and it refused to cooperate with the fact-finding team.
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The Hague-based OPCW set up fact-finding mission in 2014 to determine cases where chemical weapons had been used in Syria.
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It may come down on them continuing to rely on the very solid fact-finding work the UN investigators have already done.
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Thus, it is essential that the Senate trial have a genuine fact-finding function, and not be a mere political rubber stamp.
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Generally, though, Mr. Trump has the authority to order a fact-finding investigation — call it a commission, task force or working group.
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"Rumor, innuendo and out of context messages, emails and comments have no place in a true fact-finding mission," Briles wrote Thursday.
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That offer "will not keep pace with inflation," said arbitrator Najeeb Khoury, who wrote an independent fact-finding report about the dispute.
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"We are conducting our own fact-finding mission, but we are not confident that these perpetrators will be brought to justice," she said.
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We have statutes, we have rules, we have a fact finding process and a judicial system that is the envy of the world.
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With Thursday's Halloween vote behind them, party leaders are aiming to conclude public fact-finding hearings in the Intelligence Committee by around Thanksgiving.
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The official stance coming from leadership and the committees of jurisdiction on the impeachment inquiry is they are still in fact-finding mode.
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In 2015, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide sent a fact-finding mission to the region.
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The defense claims will go back to the trial court for fact finding, Kate Black, who is assisting Wood's legal team, told CNN.
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A recent UN Fact-Finding Mission concluded that social media has played a "determining role" in the crisis, which Facebook the chief actor.
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OPCW experts still carry out fact-finding missions in Syria after chemical attacks, but are not allowed to investigate who is to blame.
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But on a recent fact-finding trip, researchers from the NYU Stern Center visited two subcontracting factories of 150 and 200 workers each.
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There remains a need for additional fact-finding and deliberation before any reasoned judgement could be made as to the propriety of impeachment.
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"I am deploying ... a fact-finding mission headed by Undersecretary Ciriaco Lagunzad to meet with the workers, employers and competent authorities," she said.
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The report, compiled by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, had called for the six generals to be tried for genocide.
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MORE — "was an attempt to dot all the i's and cross all the t's," said one source familiar with the fact-finding mission.
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A United Nations fact-finding mission recently accused Myanmar's military of pursuing a campaign of "genocide" against the Muslim minority since August 2017.
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Let's look briefly at those other investigations that are allegedly being done by fact-finding committees and see how the SSCI report compares.
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It is also set to carry out a fact-finding mission in Douma, though it has so far declined to provide a timetable.
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The president then appointed a fact-finding commission that quickly concluded Mr. Geneina had misled the public by overestimating the scale of corruption.
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In the past, the burden for uncovering misconduct was almost always on victims, but now some companies are assuming a fact-finding role.
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The fact-finding potential of the case expanded further on Monday, when Avenatti filed a revised complaint in Federal District Court in California.
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China has stood behind Myanmar as it has thwarted a United Nations fact-finding mission to Rakhine to investigate human rights violations there.
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The Silicon Valley "justices" adjudicating questions of online speech will need fact-finding powers that we don't give to their counterparts in Washington.
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He was, however, forced to accept the creation of a fact-finding mission to investigate the most egregious human rights abuses in Venezuela.
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Finally, what happens to judicial fact finding under the de novo standard, especially if agency rule review is venued in the district courts.
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The Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons said that a fact-finding mission was working to establish whether chemical weapons were used.
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After a few days of "fact-finding and understanding of implications," officials halted research in the lab, said Thomas W. Skinner, a spokesman.
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" She also had harsh words for her fellow Democrats, arguing that their "extreme rhetoric was never conducive to an impartial fact-finding process.
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While Myanmar has long claimed to have been targeting terrorists, the atrocities have been described as genocide by a UN fact-finding commission.
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The verdict is due on the same day that a U.N mandated fact-finding mission will release its report on the Rohingya crisis.
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As with so many other moments of the Trump era, the hearing seemed to be as much about partisan theater as fact-finding.
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"We know that a number of civilians, including women and children have been killed but we are sending a fact finding team," he said.
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The United Nations has established a fact-finding mission to investigate crimes against humanity allegedly committed by the security forces during the counter-offensive.
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Kobach said the commission has two goals: a "nationwide fact-finding effort" on voter fraud followed by recommendations to states based on the findings.
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As long as a defendant intended to subvert, undermine or impede the fact-finding ability of an official proceeding, that's enough to convict him.
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A U.N. fact-finding mission last year said the military campaign, which refugees say included mass killings and rape, was orchestrated with "genocidal intent".
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Zuma also said the Southern African Development Community (SADC) would send a ministerial fact-finding mission to Lesotho on Thursday to assess the situation.
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Their absences underscored dilemmas impeachment investigators face as they wrap up weeks of private fact-finding and look toward public hearings beginning next week.
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If it's dismissed, the Democrats wouldn't be able to engage in the fact-finding about Trump campaign discussion that they seek in this suit.
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A second Russian resolution that only supported the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons fact-finding mission in Syria also failed to pass.
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As we reported, DCFS is still investigating the airplane incident and the FBI questioned Angelina and the kids Tuesday in a fact-finding mission.
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"Atrocities continue to take place today," Marzuki Darusman, chair of the U.N. Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, told reporters ahead of the council briefing.
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Washington (CNN)The Justice Department inspector general's report released Monday amounted to a massive fact-finding that shaded in contours of the Russia investigation.
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The African Union has called on both sides to exercise restraint and said it would deploy a fact-finding mission to the disputed area.
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"There were dead bodies on the floor: young boys from our village," Loewenstein quoted from one survivor's testimony to the U.N. fact-finding mission.
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While you're at it, investigate what work opportunities may be available by adding a dose of low-key professional fact-finding to your exploration.
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In fact, finding the launch ethos a bit frosty can drive people raised within it to partner across cultures with someone more family-centric.
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Should the president next take the step of firing Mr. Mueller, he would end professionally conducted fact-finding on this crucial question of motive.
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"The damage caused by (the agents') actions ... goes to the heart of the FBI's reputation for neutral fact-finding and political independence," says the report .
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An urgent desire for societal change and a chaotic media environment is driving a renewed interest in fact-finding, according to Edelman's 2019 Trust Barometer.
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Gervilla said a further 216 allegations were made against Burundian, Gabonese and French forces during an OIOS fact-finding mission at the end of August.
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Russia vetoed a push in the UN Security Council to give the ICC a role in Syria, but agreed to an international fact-finding mission.
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Myanmar's foreign ministry said on Tuesday the U.N. had exceeded its mandate in setting up the Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, which produced the report.
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But that conclusion, reached by a fact-finding mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), did not say who was responsible.
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Douvere said she and her partners at IUCN met with the plant's developers and government officials during a fact-finding mission to Bangladesh in March.
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Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, told reporters that social media had played a "determining role" in Myanmar.
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The Saudi disclosure came after CIA director Gina Haspel heard an audio recording of the killing during a fact-finding visit to Turkey this week.
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Schneiderman's office emphasized to TechCrunch that the endeavor is a "fact-finding inquiry" and not an "investigation" as it's not apparent there is any wrongdoing.
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A U.N. fact-finding mission said reports about the destruction of villages raised "serious concerns" that Myanmar was trying to destroy evidence of its actions.
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A UN fact-finding commission called for Myanmar's military leaders, including the commander-in-chief, to be investigated and prosecuted for war crimes and genocide.
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The council agreed last month to set up an international fact-finding mission to document violations in Venezuela, including torture and thousands of summary executions.
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The state argued that the Texas law only reached the Supreme Court after it went through a laborious fact-finding process in the lower courts.
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In a court filing, House counsel Douglas Letter, referring to McGahn's testimony, said that while impeachment proceeds, investigators must continue their work and fact finding.
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Human rights experts and diplomats said a fact-finding mission supported by the United Nations rights office in Geneva would achieve essentially the same objectives.
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Conservatives involved in the search for a Trump alternative describe their discussions as decentralized, with various groups holding conference calls and conducting fact-finding missions.
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It should come as no surprise that we can expect their "fact-finding" as to the president's motives will likely synchronize with their political affiliation.
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Mr. Trump retaliated by grounding the military plane that was supposed to take Ms. Pelosi and other lawmakers on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan.
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He retaliated by grounding a military plane that had been scheduled to take Ms. Pelosi and other lawmakers on a fact-finding trip to Afghanistan.
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Just two weeks into the job as U.S. President Donald Trump's new aid administrator, Green is on a fact-finding mission to Sudan before an Oct.
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And if Horowitz doesn&apost see great fact finding job he does in that one as he did on this one that will really be something.
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"They have said that they have nothing to hide, but their lack of cooperation with my mandate and the fact-finding mission suggests otherwise," she said.
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Where the initial murder investigation was, officially, a fact-finding mission, the post-conviction phase can seem largely about process and interpretation — a hunt for errors.
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Early in the film, there's a whole sequence where Cage goes on a fact-finding mission to reclaim the coat he wore in the first movie.
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Three U.S. officials in Washington and several people involved in the investigation on the ground in Bangladesh disclosed details of the fact-finding operation to Reuters.
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There is a very nebulous feeling in the air about just how Big or Important AR is going to be and people are out fact finding.
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But the grand jury's investigation, focusing on a state long seen as a heartland of blue-collar Catholicism, was the broadest fact-finding exercise to date.
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Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, said in March that social media had played a "determining role" in Myanmar.
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"These actions were the product of unconstitutional agency and legislative processes and unfairly targeted the company without any meaningful fact finding," Kaspersky said in a statement.
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Campaign officials also showed them new focus-group research that voters want a fact-finding investigation — not a process designed to arrive at a foregone conclusion.
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Castro was part of a 13-member congressional delegation that toured CBP's facilities as part of a fact-finding mission into the circumstances surrounding Caal's death.
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On Tuesday, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that a "fact-finding mission" was currently underway to investigate claims made against an unknown number of UN peacekeepers.
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The fact-finding mission will be unable to depart until it is given a green light for departure by the U.N. security detail, the source said.
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Khamenei met families of Iranians killed in last year's disaster on Wednesday and called for a fact-finding committee to investigate the cause of the crush.
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The FTC also required that regular third-party assessments of Facebook's privacy practices not rely on company materials but instead on the auditor's own fact-finding.
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McCarthy even had Jordan temporarily join the House Intelligence Committee as the panel conducted the fact-finding phase of their probe into Trump's contacts with Ukraine.
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Lee also called on Myanmar to "fully cooperate" with a recently established U.N. fact-finding mission to investigate the alleged human rights violations by the military.
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He took up the independent U.N. role this month, succeeding Juan Mendez, whose fact-finding mission to Turkey scheduled for October was canceled by the government.
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Kerry and Gadoury reminisced about their time flying over Laos in 1992 looking for remains during Kerry's first fact finding trip to the Southeast Asian nation.
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A fact-finding mission of the OPCW last month concluded that banned chlorine munitions were likely dropped in an attack on a Syrian neighborhood in February.
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The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is also going to send a fact-finding mission, said Steinmeier, whose country is chair of the OSCE.
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Filibeck was in the country in October 2017 together with an international human rights fact-finding mission, which denounced the killings under Duterte's anti-drugs campaign.
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That conclusion was echoed by Chaloka Beyani, a U.N. expert on internally displaced people, who just concluded a fact-finding visit to several camps around Afghanistan.
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While Myanmar has denied entry to a U.N. fact-finding mission, a U.N. special rapporteur on human rights, Yanghee Lee, is visiting Rakhine State this week.
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In fact, finding out now what companies will be hiring in the near future can help you have a more focused and productive job hunting process.
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Uzumcu's report said his agency's fact-finding mission in Syria was looking into charges by the Syrian government that chemical weapons were used in 11 instances.
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KIGALI (Reuters) - The U.N. subcommittee on torture prevention has suspended a visit to Rwanda, citing obstructions imposed by the government that compromised its fact-finding mission.
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She was in her late 20s and working in an office in Lower Manhattan when she called the American Booksellers Association on a fact-finding mission.
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The report, published Monday by the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, identified six generals, including the commander in chief of Myanmar's army, Senior Gen.
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In June, the United Nations sent a fact-finding mission to several of the sites and conducted interviews with 21 local people, according to its report.
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There is one more day of hearings scheduled this week, and it's up in the air whether the fact-finding stage of the process is over.
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A team of administration officials is in California on what was described as a "fact-finding" mission as they weigh proposals to address the burgeoning crisis.
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The fact-finding mission commissioned by WADA will end, but the International Olympic Committee has undertaken its own investigation, and penalties have yet to be resolved.
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The National Transportation Safety Board is also looking into the fire and its investigation is still in the fact-finding phase, spokesman Eric Weiss told CNN.
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Syria's U.N. ambassador said the fact-finding mission would begin its work in Douma on Wednesday if the U.N. security team deemed the situation there safe.
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It accuses Bachelet of conducting the vast majority of fact-finding interviews outside of Venezuela, and emphasizes the role of US economic sanctions in its humanitarian crisis.
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Since then there have been multiple reports of state-led violence against the refugees, and the UN has been leading a fact-finding mission in the country.
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Tulsi Gabbard -- a sharp critic of US involvement in Syria's civil war -- is currently on what her office is calling a "fact-finding" trip to that country.
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He made his way to Tokyo, where he perfected his cooking skills and became a chef, using his savings to fund fact-finding vacation trips to Europe.
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In 2017, she traveled to Syria on a controversial "fact-finding mission," where she met with President Bashar al-Assad, who is accused of committing war crimes.
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And hackers are all over that fact – finding those orphaned accounts to grab and log into behind the scenes without an IT admin even knowing about it.
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In the next five months, the UN fact-finding mission will re-engage with Facebook about what the company is doing and what more it can do.
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Military spokesman Major General Tun Tun Nyi said the military would investigate allegations backed by evidence but the fact-finding mission had leveled false accusations at troops.
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After nearly a month, Jonathan set up a fact-finding committee that went to Chibok to establish whether the abduction happened and how many girls were missing.
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A U.N. fact-finding mission is due to report on Monday on its initial findings, based on interviews with victims and survivors in Bangladesh and other countries.
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Indeed, a recent UN Fact-Finding Mission concluded that social media has played a "determining role" in the Myanmar crisis, with Facebook identified as the chief actor.
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The fact-finding mission (FFM) arrived in Damascus on April 14, but was delayed by a week before it could get to sites it deemed of interest.
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The talks were announced hours after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) said it was invited to visit the country for a fact-finding mission.
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In a Thursday report from EPA's Office of Inspector General (OIG), the agency said only that the results of its fact finding were handed over to Congress.
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Amanda Renteria and Ann O'Leary, two Clinton campaign veterans, are traveling to the island on a "fact-finding mission" amid an outbreak of more than 85033 cases.
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The White House said it would welcome any fact-finding by Graham and the subcommittee, which he chairs, saying the president has no business ties to Russia.
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Inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said they would send a fact-finding mission to Douma to investigate the suspected chemical attack.
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The exhibition pays deference to these fact-finding revelations with works by artists who work from public records, such as Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, and Mark Lombardi.
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The work of the seven-member panel was presented as a fact-finding mission, with no recommendations as to what actions, if any, the legislature should take.
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But the episode was an early signpost of an often tumultuous life for her son, vacillating from swashbuckling fact-finding to bursts of trauma and back again.
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In mid-January, Taiwan sent a team of experts on a fact-finding mission to China — with permission, even though Taiwanese-Chinese relations are less than stellar.
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Millions of people like Welch are abandoning traditional sources of information, from the government to the institutional media, in favor of a D.I.Y. approach to fact-finding.
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Democrats also began to release the transcripts of their closed-door depositions this week, a sign the fact-finding phase of their probe is nearing an end.
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The atrocities have been described as genocide by a UN fact-finding commission but Myanmar denies the charges and has long claimed to have been targeting terrorists.
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A fact-finding team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has already been assigned to look into whether chemical weapons were used in Syria.
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Last year, a United Nations fact-finding mission documented "consistent patterns of serious human rights violations" by Myanmar's military officials, including mass killings and gruesome sexual violence.
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The court cited the UN fact-finding mission report quite a lot in these provisional measures to establish there's a real risk to human life right now.
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The fact-finding team, led by former Indonesian attorney general Marzuki Darusman, said the death toll from the Myanmar army's crackdown following Rohingya insurgent attacks on Aug.
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Senior GOP aides are making the case that it's not the job of the Senate to do the fact-finding that the House was supposed to do.
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The clear goal is to delegitimize the Mueller investigation, to ensure that its conclusions are perceived as mere partisan propaganda rather than fact-finding by reputable investigators.
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Even as internal fact finding proceeds, this is probably the time to send out a quick "We are aware of the situation and are looking into it" statement.
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A U.N.-mandated fact-finding mission is looking into "alleged recent human rights violations by military and security forces and abuses in Myanmar, in particular in Rakhine State".
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The filing alleges the court improperly conducted their fact-finding process, deliberated based on assumptions and hypotheticals, and discussed matters that were not included in the caddie's lawsuit.
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The agency will first consider whether the allegations are credible, weigh security issues and then deploy a fact-finding team to the site if possible, a source said.
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Harry's fact-finding visit is part of his ongoing work via the Royal Foundation to help find answers to youth violence that young people themselves wish to see.
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If it moves forward, the case would turn into a new fact-finding inquiry into Trump's campaign, this one led by a judge unaffiliated with the Trump administration.
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Based on its preliminary fact-finding the Commission said today that Amazon "appears to use competitively sensitive information — about marketplace sellers, their products and transactions on the marketplace".
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Investigators with the UN's Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar told reporters on Monday that posts on Facebook "substantively contributed" to the racial tensions in the region.
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Rabbi Jason Nevarez serves Temple Shaaray Tefila in Northern Westchester, N.Y., and was recently part of a CCAR (Central Conference of American Rabbis) fact-finding mission to Berlin.
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The ongoing investigation is known inside the Navy as a "dual purpose" review, meaning it is both fact finding and will address the accountability of various service members.
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Well-placed sources tell us there is not an official investigation ... the agency is in a "fact-finding" stage to determine if there's evidence to warrant an investigation.
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The statement, issued through a law firm, says the family is cooperating with investigators and will make no other public comments until the fact-finding stage is completed.
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These concerns were central to the Jewish Institute for National Security of America's (JINSA) Hybrid Warfare Task Force and its fact-finding mission to Israel earlier this year.
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Information collected by a UN fact-finding mission "suggests that the estimate of up to 10,000 deaths is a conservative one," their extensive report from August 2018 noted.
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Fact-finding mission to start soon The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons tweeted Thursday that a team of its investigators will start work Saturday in Douma.
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"Yet again, Russia is spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation designed to undermine the integrity of the OPCW's fact finding mission," said Wilson, the UK envoy to the OPCW.
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And her efforts seem to be paying off: Officials from the World Health Organization and United Nations Environment Program are in Port Harcourt on a fact finding mission.
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A UN fact-finding report has called for top military leaders in Myanmar to be investigated for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes against the Rohingya people.
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It remanded the case brought by the prospective fracker, Wayne Land and Minerals Group, for further fact-finding on the intent of those who drafted the multistate agreement.
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Now, with the failed mediation behind them, they are in the midst of independent "fact-finding," which will give an analysis of the financial state of the district.
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Congress' August recess normally is closely guarded as a time for lawmakers to take foreign "fact-finding" trips, campaign for re-election and ramp up campaign fundraising operations.
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" He wrote that millions of people "are abandoning traditional sources of information, from the government to the institutional media, in favor of a D.I.Y. approach to fact-finding.
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Taiwan's representative office in the Solomon Islands called the report a "fallacy" in a Facebook post and said the task force members did not conduct proper fact-finding.
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I also believe that the majority of the fact finding should be done behind closed doors with regular public hearings where committee counsel testify on what they've found.
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Republicans say the Senate's role is simply to make a judgment based on the case developed by multiple House committees, not to undertake its own fact-finding inquiry.
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The House has issued several subpoenas for documents and testimony to the executive branch, and the White House largely has stonewalled Congress's legislative oversight and fact-finding endeavors.
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Either the impeachment trial will be a real, substantive fact-finding process that will move us towards the truth, or it will be a meaningless, illegitimate political whitewash.
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Mr. Htin Lynn did not say whether Myanmar would allow the fact-finding mission into Rakhine, where the government has restricted the access of journalists and aid workers.
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Syria's U.N. ambassador said on Tuesday the fact-finding mission would begin its work in Douma on Wednesday if the U.N. security team deemed the situation there safe.
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Last fall, a fact-finding delegation of curators from the Bishop Museum visited experts in London and Paris, including Mr. Meyer, to investigate the history of the sculpture.
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The FBI may not be responsible for determining how seriously to consider allegations, but the agency plays a pivotal role in fact-finding and interviewing witnesses, they argue.
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And that was already after the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide sent a fact-finding mission to the region in 2015.
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White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders told reporters in Washington that the administration was engaged in a fact-finding process to figure out how much help Puerto Rico needs.
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A U.N. mandated fact-finding mission said that Myanmar's military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya with "genocidal intent" and called for generals to be prosecuted.
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"The lack of jurisdiction over Justice Kavanaugh precludes an investigative and fact-finding process, even over conduct allegedly committed while Justice Kavanaugh was a covered judge," the council wrote.
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Scott Pruitt said research on global warming would not be especially prioritized over other EPA fact-finding work, saying that their scientific mission would be centered on rule-making.
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Abdul Kareem Abtan, a member of a parliamentary fact-finding committee formed to investigate whether fraud was linked to the devices, said the committee had concerns about the system.
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But despite news reports that cited Turkish sources that Khashoggi had been dismembered and murdered shortly after he entered the consulate, Pompeo's fact-finding mission appeared light on facts.
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Chairman Joe Simons said there are potentially "hundreds" of deals that flew under the radar, and said the fact-finding mission could lead the FTC to unwind past deals.
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Markley led a group of Senate and House members on a "fact-finding mission" to see the impact of the Trump administration's new policy on migrants at the border.
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Inspired by her address to the State Department, Congressman Representative Leo Ryan (a Democrat from California) led a fact-finding mission on November 15 to investigate the religious settlement.
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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meeting: In what her office called a "fact-finding" mission, Gabbard made a secret trip to Syria in January 2017 and met with Assad.
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His remarks, however, raised the curtain on Wednesday's meeting and contradicted comments from commission co-chairman Vice President Mike Pence about the "fact-finding" goals of the bipartisan group.
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Dinh-Zarr told reporters the NTSB team in New Jersey is on a fact-finding mission and won't come to any conclusions about what caused the crash, she said.
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"According to the fact-finding, monitoring and documentation section of NCHR, there are signs of torture and they (the victims) were shot in the chest and head," he said.
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"We will look at this as a fact-finding measure to ensure that we hold folks accountable," said Tony, who was appointed to his position about three months ago.
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Although Ottawa has sent three separate fact-finding missions to the Mali region, Canadian officials said they have yet to take a final decision on whether to send troops.
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Parliamentarians who formed a fact-finding commission to investigate the fraud have said upwards of 2 million tonnes, or 40 percent of the locally procured crop, may be missing.
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The WP29 describes the forthcoming review as "a fact-finding mission in order to collect the relevant information and necessary evidence to assess the robustness of the Privacy Shield".
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It also sheds light on how far Huawei is willing to go for a competitive edge, and on the extent of FBI fact-finding operations involved in these investigations.
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"She urged ... credible fact-finding measures, and highlighted the readiness on the part of the United Nations and the international community to cooperate in this regard," the statement said.
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The OPCW, which was unable to reach the town because of security concerns, attended autopsies, collected biomedical samples, interviewed witnesses and used environmental samples in its fact-finding process.
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He promised to personally deliver all the fact-finding committees' reports to current President Joko Widodo, and urge him to look into why the investigation never progressed any further.
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A parliamentary fact-finding commission's report into corruption in Egypt's wheat industry found the government played a key role in "wasting public funds" in its costly food subsidy programme.
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The agency does not make a definitive call about how certain allegations should factor into the review of a nominee, but it has played a fact-finding role before.
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" Speaking about Rohrabacher's contacts with Butina, Grubbs said the talks "all came under the normal, fact-finding auspices of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats.
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It is unclear when Mueller will wrap up his probe, but those who are closely tracking the developments say the investigation is likely in the late fact-finding stages.
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Based on this fact-finding mission, our assessment of the conduct of Hamas and Israel is detailed in a forthcoming task force report, and pivots on four central findings.
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The CyTech fact-finding mission is part of Chaffetz's broader effort to keep pressure on the OPM as the agency investigates the hacks and works to strengthen its networks.
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A fact-finding team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons finally collected samples from the site in Douma on April 21, after waiting days for access.
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A fact-finding team visited one site in Douma and collected samples, the group said, to help determine whether banned substances were used there in an April 7 strike.
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The advantage of prophylactic laws is that we need not engage in deep fact-finding about intentions, peering into the heart of a donor or senator who violates them.
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For the past two weeks, however, Mr. Kobach has been forced to make his case in a far more rigorous setting — the fact-finding process of a federal trial.
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Other actors have reached out through representatives "on a fact-finding journey" but Mr. Jordan was the first to go public with his support of the idea, she said.
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Kanbawza Bank has tapped Williams & Connolly, a U.S.-based law firm, to be the company's legal representatives in case U.S. sanctions arise from the U.N.'s fact finding mission.
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It was clear from the beginning that these investigations were rooted less in fact-finding than in score-settling, or, more precisely, in weakening or even destroying Clinton's Presidency.
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She has conducted several fact-finding missions to the U.S. border to look at the protection needs of asylum seekers and the effects of changes to U.S. asylum policy.
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A random group of people wouldn't necessarily be better at fact-finding than, say, a third-party fact-checker, but it could lend legitimacy and credibility to the process.
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The international chemical weapons watchdog is deploying a fact-finding mission to Syria to investigate the scene of a reported chemical strike that killed scores of people on Saturday.
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Mohammed, 70, had appealed against publication of two judgments by McFarlane on "fact-finding" and "assurances and waivers", after he decided last month that these should be made public.
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A fact-finding hearing — which takes the place of a trial in criminal court — must start within two weeks of the boy's first court appearance, though there are exceptions.
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The data comes after the Trump administration sent a team of officials on a "fact finding" trip to California in September to learn more about homelessness in Los Angeles.
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But few experts have studied the issue as in-depth, and in such an official way, as the fact-finding mission with a mandate from the 46-nation council.
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But the real question is, can we look at fact-finding, have a level of confidence as to what the facts are, and then proceed based on those facts?
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. fact-finding mission probing violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state said on Tuesday he is still waiting for permission to enter the country.
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In the meantime, Pompeo traveled to Saudi for an inconclusive fact-finding mission that included a photo op with Saudi King Salman and a meeting with the crown prince.
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Philip Alston, the United Nations' special rapporteur for extreme poverty and human rights, described the problem as a "social calamity" on a fact-finding mission to Britain last year.
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The Democratic memo indicates that the FBI's fact-finding contradicted Page's testimony to the House Intelligence Committee in November about his meetings with Russian officials during the 2016 campaign.
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" The chair of the U.N. Human Rights Council fact-finding mission Marzuki Darusman said overall social media networks "substantively contributed to the level of acrimony and dissension and conflict.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seems to be trying to strike a balance: Move forward slowly, play down the impeachment talk, and characterize your investigations as regular old fact-finding.
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The U.N. Human Rights Council extended the mandate of a Myanmar fact-finding mission by six months, until September 2018, over the objections of Myanmar, China and the Philippines.
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It has since carried out a fact-finding exercise, but has yet to provide any details and, according to industry sources, has warned insurers not to discuss the issue publicly.
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The Fact-Finding Mission that produced the 2019 report had not been mandated to identify perpetrators, which is the task of an ongoing study by a newly-formed OPCW team.
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Samuel Tororei, a commissioner at the NLC, an independent government body that arbitrates land disputes, led a fact finding mission to the area in July and met with clan elders.
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USAID chief Mark Green had met with Sudanese authorities this week as part of a fact-finding mission to assess whether Khartoum was meeting conditions to lift sanctions on Sudan.
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The Fact-Finding Mission that produced the 2019 report had not been mandated to identify perpetrators, which is the task of an ongoing study by a newly-formed OPCW team.
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The clerics' fact-finding document mentions at least four other women who've reported inappropriate conduct by Khan, including one who was in a secret marriage with him for two years.
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They would be opening up the door to detailed discovery and fact-finding on their personal lives, and doing so in a very public manner, possibly even in open court.
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The Philippine government has consistently blocked efforts by the United Nations special rapporteur on summary executions, Agnes Callamard, to conduct a fact-finding mission into the drug war death toll.
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An independent fact-finding team that visited the state this week said farmers desperate to save their investments were resorting to "various misadventures", including use of larger dosages than recommended.
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Last week, a committee of directors said it had completed most of the fact-finding portion of its internal review but was continuing to examine related-party real estate transactions.
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"There was no objections raised in the organizational call to asking for this information and beginning the fact-finding process," said Lotter about the controversy in response to the letter.
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"The AU Commission, in close consultations with the authorities in Djibouti and Eritrea, is in the process of deploying a fact-finding mission to the Djibouti-Eritrea border," he said.
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A U.N. mandated fact-finding mission said that Myanmar's military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya with "genocidal intent" and called for top generals to be prosecuted.
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"For nearly a year, critics of this Panel's fact-finding investigation have repeatedly called for it to be disbanded, saying there's nothing to see here," Blackburn said in a statement.
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Standard subcommittee practice was for the Democratic and Republican staffs to do all of their fact finding together, using a joint investigative plan, joint document requests, and joint witness interviews.
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The United Nations recently completed a fact-finding mission in Burma and produced a 400- page report documenting the full extent of shocking crimes by the Tatmadaw, the Burmese military.
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A team of inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons went to Syria on a fact-finding mission to get more information on the suspected chemical attack.
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Lam added that a police-complaints council would conduct a "fact-finding study" into protests that took place between June 9 and July 2 to address claims of police violence.
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Syrian state TV and the White Helmets volunteer rescue group said separately that a fact-finding team from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons had come to Douma.
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Some former FBI and Justice Department officials say the tactics observed in recent months illustrate a clear desire by House Republicans to score political points instead of genuine fact-finding.
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" The graphic nature of the fact-finding was a joy for Arnett, who described her fondness for things that are "very gross and visceral and tactile and about the body.
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Following a rare tear gas free weekend earlier this month, Lam gestured towards future reconciliation, saying she would launch an "important fact-finding study" into the causes of the protest.
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The president's critics are clearly hoping to find a federal judge who will agree that the plaintiffs have enough standing to let a case proceed to the fact-finding stage.
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It is reckless and capricious, reversing the Clean Water Rule which was firmly based on sound legal and scientific analyses, extensive fact-finding and stakeholder input, and broad popular support.
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Why it matters: The depositions signal that the fact-finding phase of House Democrats' impeachment inquiry is still not over, despite the first public impeachment hearings kicking off on Wednesday.
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The Rules Committee hearing comes shortly after the Intelligence and Judiciary panels moved through the fact-finding part of the nearly three-month inquiry to drafting and debating the articles.
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The rules require only a simple majority — 51 senators — to call witnesses, meaning that Republicans unwilling to publicly protest more fact-finding can break ranks on motions that Democrats introduce.
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It was reportedly focused on documents disseminated to employees that were perceived within the department as threats of retaliation should employees speak to Congress as part of impeachment fact-finding.
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Skills in applying complex fact-finding, analytical and problem solving methods and techniques to identify problems, draw conclusions and recommend appropriate action or solutions to improve program efficiency and effectiveness.
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"Walmart Canada has done some preliminary fact-finding on this issue, but we do not have plans to carry CBD products at this time," Walmart spokeswoman Diane Medeiros told Reuters.
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Judges routinely instruct jurors not to abandon their common sense when they assess the evidence in a criminal trial, and the same should hold true in any fact-finding endeavor.
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Although a U.N. fact-finding mission found that "the gravest crimes under international law" had been committed in Myanmar and called for genocide trials, no court has previously weighed evidence.
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Democrats are still in the "fact-finding" phase of their investigation — and some members have said they're surprised by how many witnesses are still lining up to spill their secrets.
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Ms. James has said that she did not think there was a need for another Moreland Commission, a fact-finding body that Mr. Cuomo authorized to investigate corruption in Albany.
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The Qassim case will now go to an ordinary three-judge panel, which may send it back to Judge Hogan for additional fact-finding in advance of a renewed appeal.
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It's torture masquerading as affection and belongs as much to the brutal "fact-finding" methods of the colonial and postcolonial era as to our own era of state-sanctioned violence.
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A U.N mandated fact-finding mission said Myanmar's military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with "genocidal intent" and called for top generals to be prosecuted.
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According to press reports, CIA director Gina Haspel heard an audio tape of an alleged recording of Khashoggi's interrogation and murder during a fact-finding mission to Turkey last month.
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Nine months ago, following a fact-finding mission, the Council of Europe's Committee for the Prevention of Torture gave Mr Erdogan's government a detailed report on ill-treatment in Turkish prisons.
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The three winners of the 2017 Democracy Award, announced by NDI Chairwoman and former Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, at a ceremony in DC, were the Ukrainian fact-finding website Stopfake.
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The Tripoli-based government blamed his self-styled Libyan National Army for the airstrike and called for the U.N. support mission in Libya to establish a fact-finding committee to investigate.
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Her sense of this unfairness led to additional fact-finding, then a coalition and eventually helped persuade Congress to ensure that all children with disabilities nationwide had access to an education.
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Now there's a full record for the Supreme Court to review, in the form of 277 pages of fact-finding and legal analysis that's entitled to deference from the high court.
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Here's the thing about underreacting: Problems often do go away after the first catalyst so sometimes downplaying the chances of a full-blown crisis are rational responses to initial fact-finding.
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UN Investigators with the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar interviewed 875 witnesses for the report, and gathered chilling firsthand accounts of abuses against the Rohingya and other marginalized groups.
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The day-to-day work of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, traveling the globe on fact-finding trips, meeting with scientists and policymakers, has left the couple bullish on the future.
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After a two-week fact-finding mission, U.N. special rapporteur Pablo de Greiff said such delays raise questions about the determination of the government to undertake a comprehensive transitional justice program.
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The fact-finding mission was sent by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague to gather biometric samples and interview survivors, sources told Reuters on Thursday.
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OPCW head Uzumcu denied there had been a reluctance to investigate reports of chlorine attacks, pointing out that in 2014 he set up a fact finding mission to look into them.
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Up to 8,500 people were displaced in the fighting, he said, and the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs plans to lead an inter-agency fact-finding mission there.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - The death toll from protests in Sudan that began last month has risen to 24, the head of the Sudanese government fact-finding committee Amer Ibrahim said on Saturday.
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During an undercover fact-finding mission that took her into Nigeria's hospitals, Afulukwe and WARDC colleagues discovered multiple cases where women—often those who had given birth—were being illegally detained.
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This was an exercise in fact-finding in a way that the decision-makers in the House — so we can produce the facts, and then everyone can draw their own conclusions.
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But a spokesman for Bashir's ruling party said that the Khartoum governor has set up a "fact-finding committee to investigate what happened at Omdurman Hospital on Wednesday night, January 9".
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Lawmakers who formed a fact-finding commission to investigate the scandal said upwards of 2 million tonnes, or 40 percent of the locally procured crop in 2016 may have been missing.
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If this commission seeks to be taken seriously as a fact-finding entity it will have to earn the states' trust and demonstrate it's willing to work to restore its credibility.
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Their support for continued fact-finding, along with the imposition of punitive measures for offenses against religious freedom as envisioned in IRFA, is complimented by their commitment to promote religious pluralism.
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Parliamentarians who formed a fact-finding commission to investigate the suspected fraud have said upwards of 2 million tonnes, or 40 percent of the locally procured crop, may be unaccounted for.
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Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, made the comments on Thursday at the end of an 11-day fact-finding mission in the country.
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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said in a statement that he fully supported the OPCW fact-finding mission and urged all parties involved in Douma to grant experts unrestricted access.
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Later on Monday a U.N mandated fact-finding mission will release a report on the crackdown, which triggered the exodus of more than 700,000 stateless Muslim Rohingya, according to U.N. agencies.
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An Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) fact-finding mission is already investigating the attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in a rebel-held area of northern Syria.
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"It is our concern that they may have tampered with it with the intent of thwarting the efforts of the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission to conduct an effective investigation," he said.
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There is confusion about the Mueller report's fact-finding because he used the wrong coordination standard, obstruction probably obscured the evidence of crimes, and the summary was unclear about evidentiary standards.
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Amid the fact-finding and the legal rationale, the report also described the toll that the investigation took on Mr. Trump and chronicled private conversations between the president and his associates.
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MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Two Vatican officials charged with investigating accusations of sexual abuse by clergy will visit Mexico for a fact-finding mission later this month, the Church said on Tuesday.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations Human Rights Council agreed on Friday to set up an international fact-finding mission to document violations in Venezuela, including torture and thousands of summary executions.
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Gabbard, who earlier this month announced she would seek the presidency in 2020, has come under fire for the meeting with Assad, which she has described as a "fact-finding" mission.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top allies say they're still firmly in fact-finding mode and have promised a deliberate approach to the House's Ukraine investigation with no ironclad time limit.
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The report did not finger the Assad regime as responsible for the attack — the fact-finding mission was only tasked with determining whether chemical weapons were used, not identifying who was responsible.
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The Catania court opened a fact-finding probe in February, saying traffickers may be funding non-governmental organizations involved in rescuing migrants who attempt the dangerous crossing from North Africa to Europe.
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" In January 20153, Gabbard traveled to Syria to meet with Assad for a "fact-finding" mission and, at the time, referred to Syrian rebels, then backed by the US government, as "terrorists.
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"The invention of an authority to review panel fact-finding... has added complexity, duplication and delay to every WTO dispute," he told the meeting, according to a transcript of his prepared remarks.
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In Myanmar, a UN-backed fact-finding mission found that members of the Myanmar military used Facebook as a tool in the government's campaign of ethnic cleansing against the country's Rohingya population.
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Humanitarian rescue ships have come in for criticism in Italy in recent months, with Catania chief prosecutor Carmelo Zuccaro opening a fact-finding investigation into possible ties between NGOs and people-smugglers.
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Their day-to-day work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, traveling the globe on fact-finding trips, meeting with scientists and policy makers, has left the couple bullish on the future.
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The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), an independent, nonpartisan fact finding federal agency examined the economic impact on the United States of bilateral and regional trade agreements reached between 2900 and 220006.
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A U.N. mandated fact-finding mission said last week that Myanmar's military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Rohingya with "genocidal intent" and called for top generals to be prosecuted.
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Via The Hill's Kristina Wong: Gabbard secretly visited the capital of Syria on a "fact finding" mission to find an end to the six-year civil war there, according to Foreign Policy.
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Myanmar's government, led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has denied most of the claims, and is blocking entry to a U.N. fact-finding mission tasked with looking into the allegations.
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Relentless GOP caterwauling about closed-door hearings looked particularly absurd considering that roughly a quarter of Republicans in Congress were allowed to participate in the fact-finding portion of the impeachment process.
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"His CODEL [congressional delegation] as well as his meeting with Torshin all came under the normal, fact-finding auspices of the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats," he added.
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"They are using numbers trying to make it seem that the average cost will just go away if these people aren't here," NAS study author Kim Reubens told fact-finding site Snopes.
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Our visit was a follow up to a July fact-finding mission to Cuba, when Louisiana delegates – including myself -- met with Cuban government and trade officials and toured the Port of Mariel.
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Myanmar's government, led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has denied most of the allegations, and has denied entry to a U.N. fact-finding mission tasked with looking into the allegations.
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It also said Engelmayer engaged in "impermissible fact-finding" by objecting to the plaintiffs' use of the 12-month Silver Indicative Forward Mid Rates as a benchmark for determining proper spread levels.
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Though the appeals court said the validity of funding contracts will have to be decided through case-by-case fact-finding in litigation or arbitration, funders took that outcome as a win.
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The second revelation isn't surprising, either, since members of both parties on the Intelligence Committee travel frequently at taxpayer expense to conduct on-the-ground fact-finding about complicated issues they oversee.
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The fact finding mission was sent from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague to gather bio-metric samples and interview survivors, sources told Reuters on Thursday.
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The investigation into the March 16 airstrike will be conducted under Army rules in a so-called "15-6" fact-finding investigation, named after the regulation governing how it will be conducted.
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Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission in Myanmar told reporters that social media had a "determining role" in spreading hate speech in the country, according to Reuters.
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The inquiry kicked off the Office of the Attorney General's Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative, which a Tuesday announcement described as "a fact-finding inquiry into the policies and practices" of cryptocurrency exchanges.
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"The fact finding mission and this report has been really crucial in building up the evidence for the prosecution, and there's nothing stopping the international community to gather (more) evidence," she said.
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The OPCW's fact-finding mission "will continue its deployment to the Syrian Arab Republic to establish facts around the allegations of chemical weapons use in Douma", the agency said in a statement.
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It asks U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to report monthly on whether the Syrian government is cooperating with an international investigation and a fact-finding mission into chemical weapons use in Syria.
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Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) — said the trip was simply a "fact-finding" mission designed to bring a peaceful end to the bloody civil war that's devastated Syria for more than five years.
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He also decried the pervasive code of silence within the game that made fact-finding so challenging, and urged owners to join him in rooting out the dual problems inside their organizations.
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Adam Schiff of California: The chairman of the Intelligence Committee was the early face of impeachment for the Democrats, conducting charged witness hearings and leading the fact-finding portion of the inquiry.
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He said Myanmar's government had previously "disassociated" itself from the UN's fact-finding mission, referring to a position taken by Myanmar authorities due to concerns it would "inflame" rather than "resolve" issues.
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In terms of this fact-finding process, is there a difference between that happening under the impeachment power and what would happen in the normal course of typical congressional oversight and investigation?
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These findings are consistent with a report by the U.N. Fact-Finding Mission published this week, which called for senior generals to be prosecuted for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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Worse yet, you may be able to show up and make your point, but rarely able to engage in the kind of fact-finding and dialogue that leads to consensus and action.
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The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Wednesday that recent allegations of chemical weapons use were of "grave concern" and that its fact-finding mission in Syria continued to investigate.
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As federal investigators continue their fact-finding inquiry into multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, a more public investigation is underway: Has Kavanaugh repeatedly lied to Congress?
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The ministry said in its statement it would continue to investigate the allegations surrounding Fukuda through an external law firm, given that the initial internal fact-finding had been conducted by Fukuda's subordinate.
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The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said a fact-finding mission collected samples on Saturday at an eastern Ghouta site where an alleged chemical weapons attack took place on April 7.
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Ultimately, the question for Democrats is whether they need a series of hearings, fact-finding and documents in order to accuse Trump of high crimes and misdemeanors, the squishy constitutional requirement for impeachment.
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on Tuesday said it was preparing to deploy a team on a fact-finding mission to Douma, the town where the suspected attack took place.
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"The SEC is required by statute to determine there is a problem, not go on a fact-finding mission," Ed Tilly, chief executive officer of Cboe, said in an interview on Feb. 8.
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The head of its fact-finding committee said the violence was the result of a "pre-planned conspiracy", and criticized local authorities for allowing the demonstrations that triggered the rioting to go ahead.
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Myanmar's democratic transition has ground to a standstill as authorities seek to silence critics while allowing hate speech, particularly against Muslim Rohingya, the head of a U.N. fact-finding human rights mission said.
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A U.N. fact-finding mission last year said the military campaign was orchestrated with "genocidal intent" and recommended charging Min Aung Hlaing and five other generals with the "gravest crimes under international law".
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A United Nations investigator said Thursday after a fact-finding trip to Turkey that evidence in the death of U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi indicates that Saudi officials "planned and perpetrated" his killing.
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The questions from White House officials were interpreted by those on the receiving end as oriented toward fact-finding, not as an attempt by the administration to influence the state House committee's work.
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The Berkeley seismologist pointed out he's traveling to Mexico City next week as part of a fact-finding team to talk with both the operators and the users of the early warning system.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. investigators have started collecting testimony from fleeing Rohingya Muslims pointing to human rights violations by Myanmar's military and security forces, the head of the fact-finding mission said on Tuesday.
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On Monday a United Nations fact finding mission investigating Myanmar's treatment of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who fled to neighboring Bangladesh last year recommended the country's military leaders be prosecuted for genocide.
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Last year a U.N. fact-finding mission said the military campaign was orchestrated with "genocidal intent", and recommended charging Min Aung Hlaing and five other generals with the "gravest crimes under international law".
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The U.N. Security Council then established a joint team of U.N. and OPCW investigators in 2015 to assign blame in cases where the fact-finding mission had determined chemical weapons had been used.
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The depositions will most likely be conducted by committee staff and will take place out of public view to speed up the fact-finding process and avoid the political implications of public hearing.
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Congress has already moved to convene hearings, undertake fact-finding delegations and push legislation that includes approximately $21625 billion in low-cost Community Disaster Loans – on top of federal grants – for Puerto Rico.
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Gambia's case, which it began presenting to the court on Tuesday, relies on testimony from numerous witnesses and human-rights experts, along with reporting from a United Nations fact-finding mission on Myanmar.
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The lack of White House inclusion, the refusal to bring in fact-finding witnesses, the preference for biased professors no one has ever heard of nor ever will again — this isn't some mistake.
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A U.N mandated fact-finding mission said last week that Myanmar's military carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with "genocidal intent" and called for top generals to be prosecuted.
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On Monday, a U.N. fact-finding mission released a damning report accusing Myanmar security forces of genocide, including allegations that they killed people indiscriminately, gang-raped women, assaulted children, and burned entire villages.
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You&aposre talking about, you know, the FBI that is, you know, held to the highest regard in terms of justice and supposed to be truth seeking and fact finding without any ideological bent.
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So, without further ado—after months of research, number-crunching, and fact-finding—allow the expats who live there to introduce you to the benefits of the world's top 10 retirement destinations in 2017.
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Gabbard has been criticized for meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whom the US has accused of using chemical weapons against his own people, during a fact-finding trip to Syria in 2017.
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In his first public comments since the crisis unfolded, Kushner insisted that the administration is still in the "fact-finding phase" and will determine how to proceed once all the information has been gathered.
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A United Nations fact-finding mission reported last month that the Myanmar military has systematically killed thousands of Rohingya civilians, burned hundreds of their villages and engaged in ethnic cleansing and mass gang rape.
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Bacre Waly Ndiaye, a U.N. investigator from Senegal, will lead a fact-finding team that includes Luc Cote, a Canadian who worked on a previous U.N. inquiry into Congo atrocities, and Mauritania's Fatimata M'Baye.
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Accompanied by his wife, Jane (Margot Robbie), and George Washington Williams (Samuel L. Jackson), an American politician on a fact-finding mission, Tarzan stumbles into a trap masterminded by Captain Léon Rom (Christoph Waltz).
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Benny Wenda, chairman of the United Liberation Movement for West Papua (ULMWP), said he hoped the United Nations would send a fact-finding mission to the province to substantiate allegations of human rights violations.
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Members of European Parliament who recently visited Malta on a fact-finding mission said they arrived "seriously concerned" about the rule of law on Malta and left "even more worried," according to The Guardian.
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Some legal analysts and colleagues of Ms. Mitchell have questioned the use of a prosecutor to question an accuser in a case that has not been subject to a fact-finding law enforcement investigation.
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A separate OPCW fact-finding mission determined in June that the banned nerve agent sarin had been used in the attack, which prompted the United States to launch missiles on a Syrian air base.
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The list makers say they have given summaries of their findings, along with repatriation demands, to most foreign delegations, including those from the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission, who have visited the refugee camps.
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The atrocities have been described as genocide by the UN fact-finding commission, which called for Myanmar's military leaders, including the commander-in-chief, to be investigated and prosecuted for war crimes and genocide.
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But instead aides have fixated on one another: Advisers began a fact-finding review that some fear is a hunt for a scapegoat, according to White House aides and other people familiar with it.
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The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced that its fact-finding mission in Latamneh concluded that "sarin was very likely used as a chemical weapon" in a March 24, 2017, attack.
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The revelation comes hours after the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons announced that a fact-finding mission was en route to Syria and would begin investigating the suspected chemical attack on Saturday.
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As we have been urging since our fact-finding earlier this year, it is imperative the United States and her allies take clear and immediate action to avert a new war ahead of time.
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The OPCW has recorded more than 390 allegations of chemical weapons use in Syria since its fact-finding mission was created in 2014, the U.K.'s envoy to OPCW told the council on Monday.
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Now, the UN investigators are training their sights on Facebook, which Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, said has played a "determining role" in the country's crisis.
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In 2014, allegations of chemical weapons use in Syria prompted the group to dispatch a fact-finding mission to the country, the first time it had sent a team to an area of active conflict.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is dispatching two top aides to Puerto Rico this weekend for a fact-finding trip to learn more about the Zika virus, her campaign said on Tuesday.
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By the afternoon, Speaker Nancy Pelosi added to that sense of urgency, announcing that after weeks of private fact-finding, the full House would vote on Thursday to initiate a public phase of the inquiry.
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But one Democrat acknowledged that Republicans are doing more than just pushing GOP talking points behind closed doors, noting that lawyers for the Republican side in particular have also been in a fact-finding mode.
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ME: That was Christopher Dominic Sidoti, who's a member of the UN fact-finding mission that just issued a report on what they saw as they investigated the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar of Rohingya people.
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Soldiers murdered, tortured, raped, and enslaved members of the long-persecuted minority as part of a "widespread and systematic attack on a civilian population," a report by the UN fact-finding mission on Myanmar found.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - A fact-finding commission investigating corruption in Egypt's domestic wheat supplies has delivered its final report to parliament, a lawmaker said on Monday, amid mounting pressure on the minister of supplies to resign.
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After about three hours the attorneys were finished with us and sent us home with lots of homework and last-minute fact-finding missions, omissions to the official statement, and lots of material for memorization.
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The OPCW's fact-finding mission, which was already investigating the use of chemical weapons in Syria's civil war, was gathering all available material to establish whether chemical weapons were used, it said in a statement.
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The dispute halted a fact-finding hearing at a military base outside Washington about whether Ibrahim al Qosi, 57, who reportedly rejoined al Qaeda after his 2012 release from Guantanamo Bay, was an enemy belligerent.
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As the Trump administration moves to consolidate Environmental Protection Agency offices, remove environmental regulations and bring more industry voices into fact-finding processes, environmentalists are accusing the government of putting science on the back burner.
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The National Commission for the Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR), a government organization, conducted a fact-finding mission in Jharkhand's Koderma and Giridih districts in June and found children as young as eight mining mica.
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After seven weeks of fact-finding conducted almost exclusively in private, they will offer most Americans their first glimpse of House Democrats' case against Mr. Trump, and the administration witnesses whose accounts have bolstered it.
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A government-commissioned, fact-finding mission concluded in 2011 that some jailbreaks were inside jobs carried out by prison guards -- confirming a belief many Egyptians had at the time -- while others were attacked by gunmen.
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The announcement, after six weeks of fact-finding that largely took place in the Intelligence Committee's secure chambers, was a sign that Democrats now feel they have assembled a strong enough record to present voters.
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The statement was unlikely to change the position of Doctors Without Borders, which has been demanding an independent inquiry led by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission and has called the airstrikes a war crime.
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"We have dispatched a fact-finding mission to Kween which will hopefully provide us with more background on this unexpected surge," Alain Sibenaler, UNFPA country director in Uganda told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by email.
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"As we would for any new industry, Walmart Canada has done some preliminary fact-finding on this issue, but we do not have plans to carry CBD products at this time," a spokeswoman told Reuters.
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Myanmar officials have rejected outright fact-finding reports that were submitted on Monday to the United Nations Human Rights Council that documented severe violations of the rights of ethnic minorities in Myanmar, including the Rohingya.
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She also quietly embarked on a trip that took her to the border with Mexico on July 1 and 2, a fact-finding mission organized by another retired Marine, Representative Seth Moulton, Democrat of Massachusetts.
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Although its internal committee has wrapped up fact-finding associated with its audit, the company is still the subject of an investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which Reuters first reported in October.
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But the seeming abdication of fact-finding and decision-making to the Saudis gave Democrats a moment to argue that the president was willing to let the Saudi monarchy make decisions for the United States.
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In March, widespread reports of state-sanctioned rape and killing in Rakhine led the United Nations to call for a fact-finding mission to investigate accusations of rights violations by Myanmar's Army and security forces.
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To undercut Mr. Wilson's criticism, administration officials told reporters that he had been sent on a fact-finding mission to Niger because his wife worked for the C.I.A., not at the behest of Mr. Cheney.
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The European Union called on Thursday for the United Nations to send an international fact-finding mission urgently to Myanmar to investigate allegations of torture, rapes and executions by the military against the Rohingya Muslim.
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The resolution adopted on Friday calls for a fact-finding mission, not a commission of inquiry — a change made by the measure's sponsors, which include the United States, after Myanmar objected to the original language.
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The House Intelligence Committee, which led the fact-finding phase of the impeachment inquiry, issued a report Tuesday alleging Trump abused his power by soliciting foreign interference in the 2020 election in contacts with Ukraine.
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"Peace will not be achieved while the Tatmadaw remains above the law," Marzuki Darusman, chair of the UN fact-finding mission said in a statement Tuesday referring to the Myanmar military by its Burmese name.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A Swiss environmental expert will make a fact-finding trip this week to the site of the Vale dam disaster in Brazil to start work on setting new dam safety standards for miners.
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In a recent report on the Rohingya crisis, Marzuki Darusman, head of the United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, said Facebook "substantively contributed to the level of acrimony and dissension and conflict" in Myanmar.
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Libya's weak, U.N.-backed Government of National Accord has accused Haftar's self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA) of carrying out the airstrike and called on the U.N. to establish a fact-finding committee to investigate.
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Universities were told the "fact-finding" sweep was of great importance and they must accurately fill in a chart detailing titles and authors of the books they used, with "no omissions", according to the ministry's posts.
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The FBI might not be able to weigh in on the credibility of their allegations, but the agency can conduct a fact-finding review that could help shed more light on the alleged incidents, Democrats say.
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A separate OPCW fact-finding mission determined in June that the banned nerve agent sarin had been used in the Khan Sheikhoun attack, which prompted the United States to launch missiles on a Syrian air base.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - It is not clear when an Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons fact-finding mission will be able to travel safely to Douma, Syria, the British ambassador to the body said on Wednesday.
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The inquiries appear to be part of a fact-finding mission and it would ultimately be up to Mueller to decide whether there is enough evidence to recommend pursuing charges on any part of the investigation.
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At the EPA, Administrator Scott Pruitt has been blunt about his desire to change the way many scientific boards are run, including adding fossil fuel industry voices into the early stages of the fact finding process.
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Democrats are rushing to call the last of the witnesses they are seeking to interview as they wrap up the fact-finding phase of their inquiry and move toward public hearings as soon as next week.
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Internal U.N. case files handed to Code Blue - a campaign by a non-governmental organization seeking greater accountability for U.N. troops - detail 14 initial fact-finding inquiries into complaints made against MINUSCA peacekeepers from nine nations.
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It reads as an honest fact finding study, as every investigation should, and as I and many other former federal prosecutors are taught to strive for, regardless of the client on whose behalf we are working.
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A president who knew and a staff who helped conceal Epstein's donationsLast week Reif announced the school hired private law firm Goodwin Procter to conduct a fact-finding mission into Epstein's financial dealings with the school.
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India's decision to block an American fact-finding mission on religious freedom from entering the country is the latest illustration of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's dubious track record on religious freedoms, said experts and activists.
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On the very same day as Sharif's comments, a judicial fact-finding panel found evidence that police helped to cover up the murder of an Islamabad schoolteacher, burned alive in revenge for refusing a marriage proposal.
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The inquiry focused on nine attacks in seven areas of Syria where a separate fact-finding investigation by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons had already determined that chemical weapons had probably been used.
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NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The United Nations said on Friday it had sent a fact-finding team to eastern Uganda to investigate a "surge" in the number of women and girls undergoing female genital mutilation (FGM).
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The appeals court took the unusual move of engaging in some fact finding, a task often handled by district courts, and concluded that the doctors had not made a good faith effort to get the credentials.
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Damascus and its ally Russia have denounced the Western action, in particular for refusing to wait until the results of the fact-finding mission sent by the OPCW in the wake of the April 7 incident.
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If such a motion were to pass before evidence is introduced, the Senate would effectively endorse the president's conduct toward Ukraine without doing even the most basic fact-finding to determine the truth of the matter.
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The Rules Committee hearing comes shortly after two other House panels — Intelligence and Judiciary — moved through the fact-finding part of the nearly three-month inquiry to the drafting and debate over the articles of impeachment.
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So far all of these UN fact-finding reports have been based on work that has been done outside of Myanmar, such as extensive interviewing of the Rohingya who've had to flee to Bangladesh and elsewhere.
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As the Trump administration makes moves to consolidate Environmental Protection Agency offices, remove environmental regulations and bring more industry voices into fact-finding processes, environmentalists are accusing the government of putting science on the back burner.
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State Department official David Holmes is scheduled to appear Friday for a closed-door deposition, a sign Taylor's evidence has breathed new life into Democrat's fact-finding investigation, even as the public sales pitch has begun.
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"I think that's all part of the fact finding that members of the six committees need to pursue, and as a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, it's something that I'm very interested in," said Rep.
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Yet there are enough questions about the handling of the Clinton and Trump matters that a thorough fact-finding investigation is warranted [ …]" The members of National Review's editorial board believe it's time to "investigate the investigators.
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Schiff has said that the committee will release transcripts and hold public hearings, but said they are conducting the fact-finding part of the investigation, like a grand jury before a trial, that's done behind closed doors.
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Myanmar has refused to grant access to a U.N. fact-finding mission but Suu Kyi last year appointed a team led by former U.N. secretary-general Kofi Annan to draw up recommendations on solving problems in Rakhine.
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"As we would for any new industry, Walmart Canada has done some preliminary fact-finding on this issue, but we do not have plans to carry CBD products at this time," Walmart spokeswoman Diane Medeiros told Reuters.
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"Looking ahead, economic growth and balance of payments pressures are likely to remain major challenges for the authorities in the near term," Mohammed El Qorchi, the head of the IMF's fact-finding mission, said in a statement.
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As Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the U.N. independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar, stated those findings: [Social media] has …substantively contributed to the level of acrimony and dissension and conflict, if you will, within the public.
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Clinton allies and Democrats embraced Podliska's charges in the lead-up to her high-stakes hearing before the committee as evidence that the investigation into the Benghazi attack was politically motivated and not a fact-finding mission.
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Jerusalem (CNN)When US President Donald Trump travels from Jerusalem to Bethlehem on Tuesday for the final leg of his fact-finding mission to the Middle East, you can be sure he won't be taking the bus.
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The Seoul paper said Pompeo's visit is a review of the "security crisis on the Korean Peninsula" as well as a fact-finding trip to learn about the Korean presidential election and possible North Korean policy change.
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"It was only a matter of two or three years before women on the island started to give birth to things less than human," a Marshall Islands woman told diplomats on a fact finding mission decades later.
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It's instead an unmistakable message to all journalists operating in Myanmar not to expose the misdeeds of Myanmar's military leaders, who, according to a UN fact-finding mission, should face trial in an international court for genocide.
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"In similar circumstances in other countries, it would not be at all unwarranted for violations on this scale to be met with calls for a commission of inquiry, a fact-finding mission, a special rapporteur," he said.
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Many of the girls are working in hotels and nightclubs after being sold to prostitution rings by human traffickers, according to a fact-finding mission carried out by the agency in collaboration with Malian authorities in December.
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Timing: The Rules Committee hearing comes shortly after two other House panels -- Intelligence and Judiciary -- moved through the fact-finding part of the nearly three-month inquiry to the drafting and debate over the articles of impeachment.
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Michael Hayden — the retired Air Force general who has directed both the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency, now a principal in a Washington consulting group — went on a fact-finding mission in August 2017.
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In January, police formed a fact-finding team to investigate the attack, but it came up empty-handed and Widodo has ordered a new national police chief appointed in November to resolve the case by this month.
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"This is certainly not the last step, we will continue to do our own efforts, our own fact finding," Pompeo said, while adding that the US will also take into account information from Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
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In court, however, the outside hyperbole has had to grapple with Stone's previous words, including a mountain of emails and text messages that seem to drip with contempt for the House's fact-finding effort and Mueller's investigation.
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" House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Wednesday his "hope" is to wrap up the impeachment inquiry by the end of the year but acknowledged White House resistance has "made the fact-finding phase more difficult.
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Marzuki Darusman, chairman of the U.N. fact-finding mission on Myanmar, said that social media has played a critical role in the tragedy in which hundreds of thousands Rohingya Muslims have fled the country, according to Reuters.
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The rights organizations, presenting the issue as a test of the United Nations Human Rights Council's credibility, urged it to set up an international fact-finding mission during its session that starts at the end of February.
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Lynch said that reliance was understandable, but that because the FCC order was now void, Hellerstein should do more fact-finding to determine whether Time Warner Cable met the definition of an autodialer when it was calling King.
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" - OPCW establishes a Fact Finding Mission in response to persistent allegations of chemical weapon attacks in Syria, "to establish facts surrounding allegations of the use of toxic chemicals, reportedly chlorine, for hostile purposes in the Syrian Arab Republic.
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Two informed sources told Reuters on Thursday that CIA director Gina Haspel heard an audio recording of the killing during a fact-finding visit to Turkey this week, the first indication Ankara has shared its key investigative evidence.
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A fact-finding mission of the global chemical weapons watchdog (OPCW) concluded in 2014 that the use of chlorine gas has been "systematic" in the Syrian civil war, even after the country surrendered its stockpile of toxic weapons.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States on Monday called on Myanmar to allow a United Nations fact-finding mission to investigate widespread allegations of killings, rape and torture by security forces against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar's Rakhine state.
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The Competition Commission of India (CCI) is engaged in what it describes as a "fact-finding exercise" aimed at better understanding the e-commerce sector, showed a document distributed to several e-commerce firms and reviewed by Reuters.
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When the panel concludes its fact-finding, Mr. Schiff will transmit raw evidence and, potentially, a written report on his findings to the House Judiciary Committee, the venue where presidential impeachment articles have traditionally been drafted and debated.
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The IG's office has investigative powers, unlike the EPA's ethics office, which, for example, does not have the authority to demand staff come in for interviews or conduct fact-finding on the scale likely need for this review.
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If an agent of disinformation and propaganda like Trump is driven mad by fact-finding exercises—whether they be journalism, or legal discovery, or congressional hearings, or recounts—it is a strong sign they are worth the trouble.
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The offer comes as Democrats leading the inquiry are preparing this week to wrap up the private fact-finding portion of the inquiry, which has been conducted almost entirely in the closed chambers of the House Intelligence Committee.
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Since the demonstrations began, Bashir has appeared largely unperturbed, tempering his talk of conspiracies against Sudan with pledges of economic reform, calls for restraint and the announcement of a fact-finding committee – steps dismissed by protesters as symbolic.
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"Once we have a greater insight into the full assessment of damage then we'll be able to determine what additional funds are needed but we're still in that ... fact-finding process on that piece of it," she said.
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"Right now, we are still in kind of a fact-finding posture because we don't know what happened to the baby," Mr. Condlin said, adding that his office is awaiting a formal report on Macy's cause of death.
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A fact-finding team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was expected to enter the city of Douma on Wednesday to determine whether banned substances were used in a strike there 11 days ago.
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In the interim, "protracted statelessness and profound discrimination have made the [Rohingya] Muslim community particularly vulnerable to human rights violations," according to a final report on the situation by a UN fact-finding commission led by Kofi Annan.
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Myanmar Ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun said the resolution was based on the report of a U.N. fact-finding mission (FFM) that his government had categorically rejected, and which was unbalanced, one-sided and encouraged disunity of the country.
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In March, the United Nations Human Rights Council said in a resolution that it planned to send a fact-finding mission to Myanmar to determine the circumstances of the violence against civilians in the country, particularly in Rakhine.
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The United Nations has set up a three-person fact-finding mission led by a veteran Indonesian investigator, Marzuki Darusman, to look into allegations of human rights violations by military and security forces in Myanmar, particularly in Rakhine.
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Dr. Bruce Aylward, a physician and public-health expert with the World Health Organization, just returned from an independent fact-finding mission in China, along with more than 20 health counterparts from around the world, including the Chinese.
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Mr. Trump has said he wants to call Hunter Biden, as well as Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Representative Adam B. Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, who led the fact-finding phase of the impeachment inquiry.
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From there, the committee's report will go to the House Judiciary Committee, which traditionally handles impeachment and will then hold hearings of its own, but generally on constitutional and legal issues rather than fact-finding of its own.
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" - OPCW establishes a fact-finding mission in response to persistent allegations of chemical weapon attacks in Syria, "to establish facts surrounding allegations of the use of toxic chemicals, reportedly chlorine, for hostile purposes in the Syrian Arab Republic.
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Earlier on Wednesday, an IMF fact-finding team sent to Baku urged Azerbaijan to boost reforms and diversify its economy to better withstand the plunge in global crude prices that have triggered a sharp fall in the manat currency.
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From banks and insurers to warehouses and customs, processing trade credit requires the exchange of 36 original documents and 240 copies, on average; each of the 216 parties involved spends hours if not days fact-finding and form-filling.
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There have been more interrogative expeditions too: traveling to Ecuador to explore the impact the oil industry was having on the rainforest and to the Brazilian Amazon on a fact finding mission related to the Belo Monte damn project.
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In his first public comments on the subject since a report by a U.N. fact-finding mission this month, Min Aung Hlaing said Myanmar abided by U.N. pacts, but warned that "talks to meddle in internal affairs" cause "misunderstanding".
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"If they are going to send someone with regards to the fact-finding mission, then there's no reason for us to let them come," said Kyaw Zeya, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the capital, Naypyitaw.
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A fact-finding mission by Nigeria's anti-trafficking agency in January said it found that more than 20,000 Nigerian girls had been sold as sex slaves in Mali by traffickers who deceived them with offers of jobs in Malaysia.
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YANGON (Reuters) - The world must cut off financial and other support for Myanmar's armed forces, a U.N. fact-finding mission said on Tuesday, repeating a call for top generals to be prosecuted for abuses against the Rohingya Muslim minority.
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"Things may get worse before it gets better, and don't be surprised to see microcephaly reported in other parts of Brazil," WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan told reporters in Rio de Janeiro during a WHO fact-finding mission.
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The House voted to approve a formal resolution outlying the terms and parameters of its inquiry last week, but is still in the fact-finding stage of the process, hearing witness testimony and reviewing documents related to the inquiry.
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President Obama has apologized for the strike, and the military has promised to pay reparations to the families of those killed, though Doctors Without Borders has repeatedly called for an independent investigation by the International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission.
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The daughter of a minor Fascist official, who stuck by Mussolini even after the regime's implosion in 1943, she concluded that the Nazis were victims of bad P.R. and set off on a fact-finding expedition of her own.
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" At a forum hosted by Time magazine, she warned that impeachment was "one of the most divisive paths we could go down in our country, but if the path of fact-finding takes us there, we have no choice.
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In the statement, Bustos said that a preliminary fact-finding mission concluded that Deputies Pena and Asquini had arrived at the scene after Butler had been detained by officers from other agencies, and had only "brief interaction" with Butler.
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"There's very little chance of new legislation prior to the election, but legislative fact-finding is a long game," said Herbert Hovenkamp, an antitrust expert and professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, in an email to Recode.
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Trump's fireside chat suggestion comes as Democrats appear to be nearing the end of the first phase of their impeachment inquiry, a closed-door fact-finding process that has been the subject of relentless criticism by Trump and Republicans.
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But it's all a ruse: Accompanied by his wife, Jane (Margot Robbie), and George Washington Williams (Samuel L. Jackson), an American politician on a fact-finding mission, Tarzan stumbles into a trap masterminded by Captain Léon Rom (Christoph Waltz).
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Gargi College has condemned the "outrageous incidents" that took place during Reverie, saying that it was committed to the security of students and would set up a "high-level fact finding committee" to meet with the complainants and eyewitnesses.
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Do you think that being an early target of internet fact-finding, after the controversy over your reporting on George W. Bush's military service, gives you a perspective on using new media now that other people might not have?
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In a report to the United Nations top human rights body in Geneva on Tuesday, a panel of investigators, the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar, said the 660,000 Rohingya people who remain in Myanmar face systematic persecution.
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Immediately after the bodies of our colleagues were found, Monusco, the United Nations peacekeeping operation, conducted an internal fact-finding exercise, followed by a board of inquiry in New York that seeks, among other things, to identify the perpetrators.
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"An unpublished list containing additional names will be given to the High Commissioner for Human Rights who will be able to share it at her discretion with any competent and credible body pursuing accountability," the fact finding mission said.
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Shanahan's efforts come nearly a year after the completion of the first fact-finding investigation into the incident and several months after military commanders provided their own recommendations to then-secretary Mattis as to what punishments should be issued.
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The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is conducting a fact-finding trip of their own, and accusing Customs and Border Protection of violating a legal obligation by not informing Congress of Caal Maquin's death until after the Post's story was published.
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"We are concerned that they may have tampered with it, with the intention of thwarting the efforts of the OPCW fact-finding mission to conduct an effective investigation," Kenneth Ward, the U.S. ambassador to OPCW, said at the meeting.
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A fact-finding mission set up by the Council, headed by former Indonesian Attorney-General Marzuki Darusman, is due to report on Monday on its initial findings based on interviews with victims and survivors in Bangladesh and other countries.
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Dee Dee shuts the feeding tube removal down and raises even more suspicion in Dr. Chandra, who immediately begins a fact-finding mission after Dee Dee leaves, in hopes of confirming what she believes are fabricated problems in Gypsy's medical history.
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The Fact Finding Mission reported in June that sarin was used in an April 4 attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun that killed dozens of people and prompted the United States to launch missiles on a Syrian air base.
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Going after individuals, however, may involve separate fact-finding work, expensive and time-consuming litigation and, of course, the risk that after all that, the judge will rule against the FTC and officially exonerate the defendant and set an unsavory precedent.
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A U.N. fact-finding mission last year said the military campaign, which refugees say included mass killings and rape, was orchestrated with "genocidal intent" and recommended charging Min Aung Hlaing and five other generals with the "gravest crimes under international law".
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Related: House Democrats unveiled new rules that they'll vote on later this week directing the Intelligence Committee to hold open hearings and produce a written report to share findings, taking public what has so far been a confidential fact-finding process.
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Unlike in the impeachment proceedings against Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Bill Clinton, the House is not building its case on a federal law enforcement investigation, which obviated the need for the kind of primary fact finding underway right now.
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The same goes for Myanmar, where Facebook and its platforms have been leveraged "by bad actors to spread anti-Muslim, anti-Rohingya, and anti-activist sentiment," according to a 2018 report from the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar.
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Egypt's fact-finding commission has brought an unprecedented level of scrutiny to Hanafi's management of the commodities sector which has already faced criticism from grains industry officials over issues such as hacked bread distribution smart cards to subsidized rice shortages.
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The team of around 30 agents, predominantly male, help the top brass to venture far from the elegant parlors of the Bank's 18th Century Threadneedle Street headquarters for fact-finding trips on everything from wages to credit and real estate.
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Myanmar rejected the fact-finding mission when it was formed at the Human Rights Council in Geneva in March 2017, with a mandate to investigate military abuses against the Rohingya and in other conflicts with ethnic armed groups in Myanmar.
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Continuing in the tradition of 2008 fact-finding mission, the monitors—who rotate between about 30 hospitals mainly in Lagos and the northwestern state of Kaduna—report back on instances of hospital negligence, and also identify new cases of hospital detention.
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Until they do that, Democrats are making it all too easy for the potential Trump scandals to stray from any kind of fact-finding exercise and lapse into a binary partisan feud President Trump has an excellent chance of winning... again.
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Zuccaro launched a fact-finding investigation into the work of NGO boats in February, and in March told Italy's parliament he was "convinced" smugglers were in direct contact with rescuers, though at that time he said he had no proof.
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Some Democrats in Congress support impeaching Trump, but they have not managed to win traction from House Democratic leadership including Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who has preferred a more cautious approach that entails conducting congressional fact-finding investigations into Trump's conduct.
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Jennifer Riordan, the passenger whose head and torso were sucked out of the plane, later died of blunt force trauma, according to a lengthy fact-finding report that will be the basis for the NTSB's eventual findings about the accident.
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"(Russia's) supreme goal is to compromise the ability of the (OPCW) fact-finding mission to do its job professionally and without political interference," said Gregory Koblentz, a non-proliferation expert at George Mason University, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
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The committee should document the violations that have occurred through rigorous fact-finding, hold public hearings for the world to see, give a platform to survivors and advocates to tell their stories, and lay a foundation for how to move forward.
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The Salt Lake County mayor also showed an unusually hands on approach to policy when he secretly went undercover as a homeless person for three days as a fact-finding mission while searching for a location for a new shelter.
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Lt. Samuel Brinson, a Surface Warfare Officer assigned to the Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Tortuga, sailed with the Canadians aboard the frigate HMCS Ville de Quebec through the Arctic this past summer on a fact-finding mission.
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The investigation by the OPCW fact-finding team comes as Syrian warplanes continued to strike eastern Ghouta on Tuesday, despite a Russian call for a five-hour daily truce to allow the 400,000 people living there under siege to leave.
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A lack of intensity in the sales effort raised an immediate red flag with Al-Saleh, who has combined his initial fact-finding mission with a series of video blogs to try to re-energise his workforce of nearly 38,000.
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The United Nations fact-finding mission lacks the power to bring charges before the International Criminal Court or to set up an international tribunal, and any such action by the Security Council would most likely be blocked by China, Myanmar's patron.
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The British government's policies of austerity are directly linked to a rise in poverty in the United Kingdom, a United Nations expert said in a scathing report on Friday after a two-week fact-finding mission to the country's poorest districts.
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In our legal system, the record is developed in the lower courts long before the Supreme Court hears the appeal, and the justices don't get to do their own fact-finding to figure out what happened in the case before them.
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By contrast, constructive committee fact-finding with the agencies that were the subject of the Nunes memo — the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice — could well have headed off the distortions and omissions that have been identified upon the memo's release.
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"If they are going to send someone with regards to the fact-finding mission, then there's no reason for us to let them come," U Kyaw Zeya, the Foreign Ministry's permanent secretary, was quoted by Reuters as saying on Friday.
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White House officials said they were eagerly awaiting action by the United Nations and the results of a fact-finding mission by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the international body charged with enforcing the global chemical weapons ban.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump faced two deadlines in Congress on Sunday as Democrats prepared to shift the focus of their impeachment inquiry from fact-finding to the consideration of possible charges of misconduct over his dealings with Ukraine.
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"I have heard worrying reports of attempts at Islamization spreading in many areas of society which could lead to cultural engineering," said UN human rights expert Karima Bennoune last year following a 10-day fact-finding mission to the country.
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A veteran political reporter for The Times, Adam Nagourney, told me when I got here to try to eat dinner with someone every night as part of my fact-finding mission, but also because it would make the experience less lonely.
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"Myanmar is failing in its obligation to prevent genocide, to investigate genocide and to enact effective legislation criminalizing and punishing genocide," Marzuki Darusman, the chairman of the fact-finding mission and a former attorney general of Indonesia, said in a statement.
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Many Rohingya Muslims remain trapped in camps where they are cut off from education or health care, cannot make a living, and remained subjected to discriminatory citizenship laws that amount to a "tool of persecution," the fact-finding mission said.
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There already is a lot of scrutiny on Myanmar thanks to the work of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar, which found that top Myanmar officials should be investigated for genocide and human rights atrocities against the Rohingya.
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In June 2006, a retired Army general, Barry R. McCaffrey, who had just returned from a fact-finding mission to Afghanistan, warned that the situation was so tenuous that the entire effort could "collapse again into mayhem" without American support.
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The three-member "fact-finding mission" and their team, working under a mandate from the U.N.-backed Human Rights Council, meticulously assembled hundreds of accounts from expatriate Rohingya, as well as satellite footage and other information to assemble the report.
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NGO boats operating off the coast of Libya have come in for criticism in Italy in recent months after the prosecutor in Catania, on Sicily's east coast, opened a fact-finding probe into possible ties between NGOs and Libya-based traffickers.
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CNN's John King had an excellent analysis on "Inside Politics" about how quickly the impeachment effort is moving and how everything changes next week when they moving from fact-finding to the very public and more consequential portion of this.
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And Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump's son-in-law, has emerged as the president's foreign policy troubleshooter, playing a prominent role in the administration's talks with China, visiting Iraq on a fact-finding trip and taking over the Middle East peace portfolio.
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YANGON/GENEVA (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who remain inside Myanmar face systematic persecution and are living under the threat of genocide, a U.N. fact-finding mission said on Monday, repeating calls for top generals to face trial.
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Kamala Chandrakirana, who heads the U.N. Working Group on discrimination against women in law and in practice, said the 10-day visit later this month was the first fact-finding mission by a U.N. human rights experts group to Samoa.
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Elizabeth Benson Forer, CEO of the Venice Family Clinic, met Tuesday with a member of the Trump administration who was visiting the Los Angeles area on what the White House describes as a "fact-finding" mission on the homelessness crisis.
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"At this point, an impeachment inquiry in the House is the only appropriate way to conduct the fact-finding that Senate Republicans refused to conduct," progressive groups Demand Justice, Women's March and Center for Popular Democracy said in a joint statement.
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But no matter how your kids are insured, you'll need to do some fact-finding to make sure they can get access to health care services in their college town and figure out how much it might end up costing you.
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The arrests, which came just three days after a fact-finding team sent by the European Parliament voiced skepticism about Malta's ability to solve the murder, were the first outward sign that the authorities were any closer to finding those responsible.
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The fact-finding team has thus far been refused access to Myanmar, but the team's chairman, Marzuki Darusman, said it had still been able to collect significant information from refugees and had heard many allegations of "extreme severity," including genocide.
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The judiciary has its own internal disciplinary process, which includes fact-finding and other due-process protections, and which can lead to sanctions as minor as a reprimand or as serious as a referral to Congress for possible impeachment proceedings.
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" The Assembly also cited an independent international fact-finding mission's documentation "of gross human rights violations and abuses suffered by Rohingya Muslims and other minorities" by security forces, which the mission said "undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law.
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"We have handed to the fact-finding mission of the OPCW all the information we gathered about the chemical attack, including the exact burial place of the victims," Saleh, who is based in Turkey, told Reuters via a messaging service.
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Part of her ongoing fact-finding program about the areas she is interested in became public earlier this week when she privately attended King's College London as part of the Association of Commonwealth Universities to discuss the importance and impact of higher education.
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A government fact-finding panel said in 2007 that KCIA agents kidnapped Kim Dae-jung from a Tokyo hotel in 1973, days before he was to start a coalition of Japan-based South Korean organizations to work for their country&aposs democratization.
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The two were in Dar es Salaam on a fact-finding mission with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) when officers who identified themselves as working with Tanzanian immigration entered their hotel room and confiscated their passports, according to a statement from CPJ.
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"The crimes in Rakhine State, and the manner in which they were perpetrated, are similar in nature, gravity and scope to those that have allowed genocidal intent to be established in other contexts," said the U.N. Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar.
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Jordan was one of Trump's leading defenders during the impeachment proceedings, when McCarthy temporarily added him to the House Intelligence Committee to serve as an attack dog for the president while the panel conducted its fact-finding phase of the impeachment hearings.
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WASHINGTON — House impeachment investigators are speeding toward new White House barriers meant to block crucial testimony and evidence from the people who are closest to President Trump — obstacles that could soon test the limits of Democrats' fact finding a month into their inquiry.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has said that the committee will release transcripts and hold public hearings, but said they are conducting the fact-finding part of the investigation, like a grand jury before a trial, that's done behind closed doors.
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The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said in a statement Wednesday that its fact-finding mission in Saraqib in Idlib province, southwest of Aleppo, had found that chlorine was released from two cylinders in an attack on Feb. 4.
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House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has said that his committee will release transcripts and hold public hearings, but for now, the fact-finding part of the investigation is being done behind closed doors, like a grand jury before a trial. 5.
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This tactic involves less in the way of checklists, and more in the way of listening and fact-finding efforts by existing administrators to understand the roots of student stress, test out potential solutions, monitor their impact, and run with what works.
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Ban was "alarmed" by the initial findings of a U.N. fact-finding mission into the attack on the Hotel Terrain on July 11 during an outbreak of fighting between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and those backing former Vice President Riek Machar.
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A U.N. fact-finding mission, which has called for top Myanmar generals to be prosecuted for crimes against humanity and genocide, said this week it had seen no evidence Myanmar was trying to resolve the crisis or facilitate the safe return of refugees.
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Schneiderman's letter to the companies is part of a fact-finding inquiry called the 'Virtual Markets Integrity Initiative' that seeks to protect virtual currency investors by providing them information they need to understand the practices and risks of trading on these platforms.
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NTSB spokesman Eric Weiss did not immediately comment Sunday on the report that the NTSB had "validated" some data but said As the U.S. accredited representative to the Ethiopian-led investigation, the NTSB is a full partner during this fact-finding phase.
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A fact-finding mission of the global anti-chemical weapons watchdog has found indications that some people in Syria were exposed to deadly sarin gas, or a compound like it, according to a report the United Nations released on Monday.
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"The damage caused by [Strzok and Page's] actions extends far beyond the scope of the [Clinton email] investigation and goes to the heart of the FBI's reputation for neutral fact finding and political independence," Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in the report.
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Last year, a U.N. fact-finding mission said the 2017 military campaign in Rakhine State was orchestrated with "genocidal intent", and recommended charging the military's Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing and five other generals with the "gravest crimes under international law".
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The bottom line: Mr. Nadler has said repeatedly he does not yet see a case to justify impeachment, but the Judiciary Committee's fact-finding could put it on a different path if it uncovers a clear pattern of behavior by Mr. Trump.
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A devastating report by the United Nations human rights commissioner, Michelle Bachelet, found more than 6,000 extrajudicial executions in the past five years in Venezuela; the fact-finding mission should do its job as expeditiously as possible, in spite of Mr. Maduro's reluctance.
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Myanmar said in June that it would refuse to grant visas to three United Nations-backed experts who planned to conduct a human rights fact-finding mission to determine the circumstances of violence against civilians in Rakhine State and other restive areas.
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Various fact-finding committees should also forward the conclusions of their investigations to the Judiciary Committee, which can then quickly organize this information into a concise list of "high crimes and misdemeanors" to vote on and to communicate to the American people.
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Gambia's arguments are based on the UN Fact-Finding Mission's 2018 and 2019 reports that extensively detail atrocities carried out by the Myanmar military against Rohingya Muslims, and call for the country's generals to face an international tribunal on charges of genocide.
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Most congressional veterans would tell you that from a fact-finding point of view, you are better off following the Watergate model: Investigate in private first, then choreograph a series of public hearings that recreate for the public what the investigation found.
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Gambia's argument is based on the UN Fact-Finding Mission's 2018 and 2019 reports that extensively detail atrocities carried out by the Myanmar military against Rohingya Muslims, and calls for the country's generals to face an international tribunal on charges of genocide.
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Indeed, as Giuliani surely knows, as a longtime prosecutor, there is good reason why good prosecutors conduct investigations almost entirely in secret: a public announcement of an ongoing investigation would tip off the targets and potential witnesses, and would seriously undermine fact-finding.
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Shanahan's efforts come nearly a year after the completion of the first fact-finding investigation into the incident and several months after military commanders provided their own recommendations to then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis as to what punishments should be issued.
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WASHINGTON, Dec 1 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump faced two deadlines in Congress on Sunday as Democrats prepared to shift the focus of their impeachment inquiry from fact-finding to the consideration of possible charges of misconduct over his dealings with Ukraine.
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"I have seen much brutality in the different parts of my career but the rape and forced eviction of the Rohingya shook me to my core," said Radhika Coomaraswamy, a member of the U.N. fact-finding mission that gathered evidence on the violence.
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"It is our concern that they may have tampered with it with the intent of thwarting the efforts of the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission to conduct an effective investigation," Kenneth Ward, the U.S. ambassador to the OPCW, told an executive council meeting Monday.
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Senior White House advisor Jared Kushner on Monday sought to play down growing tensions between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia over the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, saying that the Trump administration is still "more of a fact finding phase" than a response phase.
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During a recent month-long, fact-finding visit to the country, partially supported by UNICEF, I was shaken to the core as what's been portrayed in countless reports and studies was recounted to me in tearful interviews with a wide range of female victims.
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An independent U.N. fact-finding mission in August concluded that Myanmar's military last year carried out mass killings and gang rapes of Muslim Rohingya with "genocidal intent" and the commander-in-chief and five generals should be prosecuted for orchestrating the gravest crimes under law.
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She is accused of taking part in news conferences, labor-related fact-finding missions and protests calling for political prisoners to be freed, for human rights and land rights to be respected and for martial law to be lifted on the southern island of Mindanao.
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In fact, finding rare Pokémon like the ever-elusive Pikachu or behemoths like Dragonite may be the hardest (and maybe most alluring) part of Pokémon Go. Luckily, there are a few tips and tools to help you track and find a new assortment of Pokémon.
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"Just all of a sudden an individual is thrust into a very significant and important fact-finding role, so obviously their conduct can be affected by the circumstances of the case," said Ken Magidson, a former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas.
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The South African government documents show that the purpose of the group was to build support for overturning sanctions legislation in various countries by organizing fact-finding visits to South Africa by prominent Europeans, American businessmen, and members of the US Congress and UK parliament.
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Manzou said Zimbabwe was on course with plans to rejoin the Commonwealth, which was set to send a fact-finding team to Harare in the first half of this year as part of steps to eventually readmit Zimbabwe, which left the grouping in 2003.
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Though a Justice Department official insisted that the letter was simply part of the typical fact-finding that officials do when executive branch employees plan to write about their government service, Anonymous's representatives cast it as an effort to unmask their client, and a warning.
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The timeline has come into sharper focus as Democrats have made a series of critical moves signaling they are shutting down the closed-door fact-finding phase of the inquiry and shifting now to Phase 2: making the case for impeachment to the American public.
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That's no surprise considering it was only a couple of weeks ago that Marzuki Darusman, chair of the UN fact-finding mission on Myanmar, described the situation inside Myanmar as "an ongoing genocide" against the Rohingya, a Muslim minority in a Buddhist-majority country.
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A U.N. fact-finding mission on Myanmar last year said that the military campaign, which refugees say included mass killings and rape, was orchestrated with "genocidal intent" and recommended charging Min Aung Hlaing and five other generals with the "gravest crimes under international law".
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In February, he had been briefly detained and questioned, along with two other missionaries from the United Methodist Church, when they were stopped at a police checkpoint in Mindanao while participating in a human rights fact-finding mission sponsored by a left-wing group.
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It replaces the notice and comment provisions of the APA with detailed requirements imposing a very high burden of proof on agencies that enact rules, including burdensome fact-finding and cost-benefit analyses even for rules that do not aim to correct market failures.
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Insurance firms so far have met the Irish central bank from a "fact finding perspective", director of Credit Institutions Supervision Ed Sibley said, but enquiries have hardened a little and he expects decisions could be made in the first or second quarters of 2017.
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According to state-run Syrian News Agency (SANA), an official source at the Syrian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that the government will cooperate fully with the OPCW fact-finding mission and that it would hold the West responsible for any delays in that mission.
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In her public statement announcing the largely unprecedented move, USOC CEO Sarah Hirshland said there are plans in place for the athletes to thrive as the process of decertification goes on (review panel, hearings, fact finding, etc.), but the specifics of it aren't mentioned.
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A spokesperson from Myanmar's presidential office rejected a UN fact-finding report issued on Monday, which found evidence for the military's involvement in genocide and crimes against humanity targeting the country's Rohingya Muslim minority population, more than 700,000 of whom have fled to Bangladesh.
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" Myanmar fires general in charge of Rohingya crackdown after EU sanctions Systematic campaign The report by the UN Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar concludes that human rights violations in Kachin, Shan and Rakhine states "undoubtedly amount to the gravest crimes under international law.
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The fact-finding mission took the investigator to cities like Mumbai, Belgrade and Mexico City, where she found rodent infestations, children playing on garbage heaps "as if they were trampolines" and people living in shacks or in damp abandoned buildings full of exposed wires.
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On Sunday, leaders who had gathered in Astana, Kazakhstan, for a meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation issued a statement condemning the "systematic brutal acts" against the Rohingya and asked Myanmar to allow a United Nations fact-finding mission into the country to investigate.
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The two-day fact-finding mission was part of a 212-city tour being conducted by Garber and his deputy, Mark Abbott, to determine which of the dozen cities will be chosen as home to the two expansion teams M.L.S. plans to approve this year.
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The removal of Myanmar-linked pages in August followed a U.N. fact-finding mission that called for top Myanmar generals to be prosecuted for what it said was a campaign of mass killings and gang rape against the Rohingya carried out with "genocidal intent".
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"It's important because the conversation about institutional obligations to the descendants of the enslaved typically gets confined to a discussion of research and fact-finding," said Craig Steven Wilder, a historian at M.I.T. who has written extensively about universities and their ties to slavery.
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Wilkinson and a State Department lawyer also objected that many of the questions asked by an attorney for Judicial Watch went beyond the areas permitted by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan, who authorized fact-finding highly unusual in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
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Jamie Raskin of Maryland said that while media reports and Mueller's indictments form members' impressions and judgments, Congress needs to do its own fact-finding investigation before starting impeachment proceedings, citing former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's recent public hearing as its first witness testimony.
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Republicans brought big props, including two giant poster boards assailing Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of California and the chairman of the Intelligence Committee, who led the fact-finding portion of the impeachment inquiry and has turned down Republican calls to testify about his work.
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"In my 17 years working with labor unions, I have been called on to help settle countless bargaining disputes in mediation," wrote Vern Gates, the union-appointed member of the fact-finding panel called in to help mediate the Los Angeles stalemate last month.
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Nobody ever believed that before — indeed, the last time a president fired an F.B.I. director, Bill Clinton versus William Sessions, the president engaged in elaborate fact-finding and broad consultations with Congress and extended the director the opportunity to testify on his own behalf.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. Human Rights Council decided on Friday to extend the mandate of a fact-finding mission in the country by six months, until September 2018, as requested by the mission's leader, but over the objections of Myanmar, China and the Philippines.
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Clinton and her campaign portrayed the committee's work as political and not merely a fact-finding mission, a characterization bolstered by a comment by House GOP leader Kevin McCarthy, who in one television interview took credit on behalf of the committee for her falling poll numbers.
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Angela Quintal and Muthoki Mumo were in Dar es Salaam on a fact-finding mission with the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) when officers who identified themselves as working with Tanzanian immigration entered their hotel room and confiscated their passports, according to a release from CPJ.
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Marzuki Darusman, head of an independent international fact-finding mission on Myanmar, said by video from Malaysia that his team has interviewed Rohingya refugees, including children in the Bangladeshi port city of Cox's Bazar, who recounted "acts of extreme brutality" and "displayed signs of severe trauma".
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" MARZUKI DARUSMAN, chair of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar "Two main issues emerge ... the categorical readiness of the government of Myanmar to receive back returnees at any time on the basis of a procedure that will have to be discussed at some point.
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Members of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar ended a five-day visit to the refugee camp of Kutupalong in Cox's Bazar where they interviewed new arrivals among the more than 700,000 Rohingya who have fled Rakhine state since an army crackdown last August.
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In 2015, the Syrian Kurds were forcibly removing people from their homes by "deliberately demolishing civilian homes, in some cases razing and burning entire villages," Amnesty International's Lama Fakih said in a report based on information the rights group had gathered on a fact-finding mission.
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"We will conduct a fact-finding review of HHS's decision related to halting (and resuming, as applicable) paid advertisements, email, social media, and other outreach efforts related to Marketplace enrollment in 2017," HHS Inspector General Daniel Levinson wrote in a letter to the lawmakers dated Thursday.
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The friend was previously charged in family court with criminally negligent homicide and nine other counts, and a fact-finding hearing, the family court version of a trial, was already underway before his admission, which is the family court version of a plea, according to the News.
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Julie Okah-Donli, director general of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), said a fact-finding team from NAPTIP and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) had uncovered the extent of the trafficking during a visit to southern Mali last month.
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While contending a teachers' strike was not legally possible until mid-May, CPS Chief Executive Forrest Claypool told reporters on Friday that the plan to end the so-called pension pickup was on hold until an independent arbiter completes a fact-finding report on April 18.
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The finding by a coroner's inquest jury, which was convened as a fact-finding process for the February 2015 shooting of Antonio Zambrano-Montes in the farming hub of Pasco, follows decisions by federal, state and local prosecutors not to charge the three officers who opened fire.
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In a statement on Monday evening, Representative Adam B. Schiff of California, the top Democrat on the committee, lamented the decision, saying that the committee had put partisan politics over fulsome fact-finding and had failed to serve American voters at a key moment in history.
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"The crimes in Rakhine State, and the manner in which they were perpetrated, are similar in nature, gravity and scope to those that have allowed genocidal intent to be established in other contexts," said the U.N. panel, known as the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar.
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Their fact-finding efforts may be stymied by the White House, however, which told the committee late Monday that it had directed Lewandowski not to discuss any post-election interactions with Trump beyond those already detailed in former special counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian election meddling.
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Like the film, these portraits reflect MacDonald's fascination with the city's history, and Last Days of Chinatown is rigorous in its fact-finding, presenting historic documents and splicing in clips of news footage to bolster the narratives of a wide range of Corridor residents, past and present.
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Modesto, California (CNN)As Joe Biden set out on his first 2020 campaign swing this week atop polls and swarmed by cameras, Beto O'Rourke traveled a gravel road here in Central California on an ATV, off on a fact-finding mission that included inspecting a series of irrigation canals.
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The vote — just the third of its kind in U.S. history — officially put the investigation on the record, a signal that the Democrats leading the proceedings are confident that, after five weeks of fact-finding behind closed doors, they have enough evidence to make their case to the public.
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Some accounts related to Myanmar's armed forces were first removed last August after a U.N. fact-finding mission called for top Myanmar generals to be prosecuted for what it said was a campaign of mass killings and gang rape against the Rohingya Muslim minority carried out with "genocidal intent".
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Among the facts the officials are looking to compile is a list of individuals involved with the call and those involved in the lead-up and aftermath of the call, though the official said the fact-finding mission is not aimed at uncovering the identity of the whistleblower.
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We are calling on Congress to conduct a bipartisan, bicameral fact-finding symposium of pediatricians, children's mental health experts, and child/family advocates to review the definitions of each age-based content rating in order to ensure that each rating category definition accurately and effectively reflects contemporary knowledge.
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Congressional sources told Reuters the hearing will largely be a fact-finding exercise focusing on the powers of the SEC and CFTC to oversee cryptocurrency exchanges, how the watchdogs can protect investors from volatility and fraud, and the risks posed by cyber criminals intent on stealing digital tokens.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Lawmakers from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) are on a fact-finding trip to Syria, said members of the anti-immigrant group, which wants Syria to be classified a safe country of origin in a move that would make it easier to deport failed asylum seekers.
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A core aim of the FCA's proposals is to create a more clearly defined two-tier market, with "advice" on investments being subject to the full panoply of regulation, while general "guidance" would be more lightly regulated as it does not include full fact-finding about the customer.
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Given the critical importance of these rules and our concern that several proposals in the Commission's NPRM have the potential to undermine the rules' effectiveness, we respectfully request that the FCC revise its item on children's programming rules as an NOI and go through a rigorous fact finding process.
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These are valid questions, but it is going to be an uphill battle for Williams to show that this fine legal point matters given the fact-finding of the lower court judge and the penchant of the state's Supreme Court to defer to the lower court on these issues.
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As the American representative among legal experts from different countries on this fact-finding mission, I participated in interviews with French government officials, members of Parliament, lawyers, judges, magistrates, police officials, union representatives and civil society groups, as well as individuals who had borne the brunt of emergency measures.
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Here's its full statement: EDiMA is dismayed by the European Commission's decision not to engage in crucial dialogues and fact-finding discussions with stakeholders before issuing the Recommendation on Tackling Illegal Content Online today, and regrets that it is a missed opportunity for valuable evidence-based policy making.
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The report of a United Nations fact-finding mission cited on Tuesday the slaughter in Min Gyi, in Rakhine, a western state of Myanmar, as evidence that the army had committed "the gravest crimes under international law" in clearance operations a year ago targeting the country's Rohingya Muslim minority.
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They feature the photo of a bespectacled man named Min Aung Hlaing, the commander in chief of Myanmar's military, who a United Nations fact finding mission has said should face genocide charges over the slaughter of thousands of Rohingya Muslims — a stateless ethnic group — in the country last year.
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Over the years, while poring through Futrelle's posts for help with magazine articles about the manosphere, I have wondered what the site would look like, and what it might accomplish, if it made more of an effort, alongside its fact-finding and analysis, to speak directly to manosphere denizens.
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"To the best of our ability, we will conduct a fact-finding investigation of these incidents as we try to cope with the unprecedented scale and pace of killings resulting from the perpetuation of this administration's so-called war on drugs," said Chito Gascon, the leader of the commission.
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If Mr. Schiff's fact-finding formed the basis for Mr. Trump's impeachment — he uncovered a campaign by the president to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rivals — Mr. Nadler's work provided the legal and constitutional case that Mr. Trump's misconduct rose to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors.
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As Democrats move the impeachment probe from fact-finding into the public persuasion phase, determining who is right about certain key episodes will be at the heart of the debate—especially as the president and his allies argue there was no quid pro quo in his diplomacy toward Ukraine.
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" "And so the concentration on the impeachment proceedings -- I don't think is going to work for the Democrats particularly because not a single Republican has crossed party lines to say that they're actually in a fact finding mode and trying to figure out what's happening with this administration.
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Our visit comes a week after a UN Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar presented its full report documenting evidence that the military carried out mass rapes, murders, and set fire to villages during what they called "clearance operations" in reaction to alleged "terrorist activities" by Rohingya militants last August.
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U.S. House members proved Thursday that they are more interested in political posturing and getting on TV with fiery soundbites than in fact-finding, as they questioned FBI official Peter Strzok about whether his anti-Trump bias influenced the investigation of the Trump presidential campaign for possible collusion with Russia.
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The firm witnessed a dramatic increase in New York federal website accessibility lawsuits after New York federal judges allowed website accessibility cases to be presented during pre-trial fact-finding and presenting process, known as discovery, in lawsuits against the businesses Five Guys and Blick Art, Seyfarth Shaw's website says.
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More than 30 years ago, as a young communist party cadre, Xi Jinping stayed in Dvorchak's Iowa bedroom on an agricultural fact-finding mission to the U.S. "He was a young man, he was in his early 30s, he was with a delegation, he was a regular person," Dvorchak told CNBC.
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Regardless of party, the president of the United States should not deny a leader of Congress the opportunity to go on a fact finding mission that involves high level meetings with our closest allies and commanders, as well as with our own troops serving in active war zone in Afghanistan.
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WASHINGTON — House impeachment investigators on Tuesday called on Mick Mulvaney, the White House's acting chief of staff, to testify this week in their inquiry into President Trump's pressure campaign on Ukraine, closing in on the upper echelons of Mr. Trump's staff as they near the end of their fact-finding phase.
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" With a Merle Haggard-invoking lede, Norris launches into a perversely fascinating discussion of the chemtrails conspiracy theory that includes the use of Wikipedia as a source, a freewheeling misrepresentation of a Smithsonian article by esteemed science writer Sarah Zielinski, and the dismissal of Snopes as a "liberal fact-finding website.
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While the public schools system and the office of Mayor Rahm Emanuel say the strike would violate laws dictating when strikes may occur — because the city and CTU are still in the fact-finding phase of contract negotiations — the teachers' union says the work stoppage is both legal and justified.
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"Today the U.N. security team entered Douma ... in order to assess the security situation on the ground and if this United Nations security team decided that the situation is sound in Douma then the fact-finding mission will begin its work in Douma tomorrow," Ja'afari told the U.N. Security Council.
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Fifteen years later, the circumstances of how that man, Mark S. Fisher, a 19-year-old college student from New Jersey, wound up dead in the driveway remain the subject of a simmering debate in spite of nearly every fact-finding method the criminal-justice system has at its disposal.
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Some council members are exploring if the 15-member body could agree a formal statement or even a resolution to call for an end to the violence, for full aid access, the safe return of refugees, access for a U.N. fact-finding mission to ensure accountability and implementation of Annan's recommendations.
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How can we get our readers to understand that the purpose of The Times is not to be a tacit partner in the so-called Resistance, which would only validate the administration's charge that the paper is engaged in veiled partisanship rather than straight-up fact-finding and truth telling?
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The United Nations panel based its conclusion on interviews with 43 victims and witnesses of the attack, logs of aircraft movements, analysis of satellite and photographs, and the findings of a fact-finding mission set up by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which analyzed medical samples from victims.
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"The military's contempt for human life, dignity and freedom — for international law in general — should be a cause of concern for the entire population of Myanmar, and to the international community as a whole," said fact-finding mission chair Marzuki Darusman, a former Indonesian attorney-general, at a news conference.
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I had my own chilling exposure to the North Korean mindset when, on a fact-finding congressional delegation trip, or "codel," to Pyongyang in 1997, I asked a senior minister what it would take to get his government to stop proliferating missile technology, something our intelligence community believed they were doing.
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They tried bringing in a fact-finding witness when special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump says he'll release financial records before election, knocks Dems' efforts House impeachment hearings: The witch hunt continues Speier says impeachment inquiry shows 'very strong case of bribery' by Trump MORE mania was all the rage.
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Pompeo "urged the government of Burma to take concrete steps to investigate the human rights abuses chronicled by the U.S. Documentation Report and UN Fact Finding Mission and to hold accountable members of the security forces and others responsible for these acts," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in Friday's statement.
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The use of closed-door witness interviews is also consistent with how fact finding for previous impeachment inquiries has been conducted, the Wall Street Journal's Natalie Andrews reports: Independent counsel Ken Starr conducted his probe of President Clinton using a grand jury, which by law conducts all its business behind closed doors.
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She is absolutely spot on when she reminds the audience that Iran hid nuclear development from the international community for years; that Iran violates Security Council resolutions with every ballistic missile it fires into the sky; and that the Iranian government obstructed the IAEA's fact-finding missions with impunity in the past.
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Myanmar's ambassador to the United Nations, Hau Do Suan, told the Council on Tuesday that the government would investigate reports of mass graves and extrajudicial killings by security forces, although it has so far blocked access to the region by a United Nations fact-finding mission and all but a few aid organizations.
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Unlike criminal investigations, which are typically aimed at solving a crime and can result in arrests and convictions, counterintelligence inquiries are generally fact-finding missions to understand what a foreign power is doing and to stop any anti-American activity, like thefts of United States government secrets or covert efforts to influence policy.
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The Justice Department has already appealed Judge's Leon's merger approval, and while judicial review is generally confined to the record of the case, the court of appeals might remand the case for more fact-finding or cite AT&T's post-merger conduct as evidence of the errors in Judge Leon's economic reasoning.
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"As much as schools are doing it better — and they are — and as much as they try to separate the fact-finding process from the provision of resources and support, many, if not most, institutions lack the resources and dedicated personnel to separate and fulfill each of these roles effectively," she added.
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The President's Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa, a 50-person strong delegation of American CEOs and senior leaders of the United States Government tasked with identifying and addressing barriers to expanding trade with African partners, recently concluded a two-week fact-finding mission to Ethiopia, Kenya, Côte d'Ivoire, and Ghana.
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The quickening bid to squelch any further fact-finding in the trial is also taking place as the White House seeks to delay publication of the former national security adviser's forthcoming book, which The New York Times has reported to be deeply critical of Trump's behavior towards the Kiev government and elsewhere.
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"How can anyone possibly expect the Tatmadaw to hold itself accountable for genocidal acts against the Rohingya, when six of its top generals including the commander-in-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, have all been accused of genocide by the U.N. fact-finding mission and recommended for criminal prosecution," he said.
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Younis says US representative for New Jersey's 4th Congressional District, Chris Smith, who chairs the US House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations, has been sympathetic and mentioned Ali Ahmed's case at a hearing in Congress after a fact-finding mission to Ethiopia this year.
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