MH17's quiet, abandoned crash site 

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At the MH17 crash site there's very little action, even though there's much more work to be done. Phil Black reports.
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Ukraine Disaster in Search of an Investigation

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For all of the diplomatic frenzy that has followed the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, there is no sign of an investigation at the crash site.

MH17 not the first plane shot down 

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CNN's George Howell reports on the U.S. downing of an Iranian passenger plane in 1988.
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Human Rights Watch: Mass grave found in Ukraine

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CNN's Ivan Watson obtained exclusive video from Human Rights Watch of a mass grave in Slovyansk, eastern Ukraine.
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Officials: Jonah's tomb blown up by ISIS 

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A YouTube video appears to show the explosion caused by militants who are believed to have blown up Jonah's tomb.
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Investigators find 'huge' piece of MH17 jet in Ukraine wood - The Australian

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Investigators find 'huge' piece of MH17 jet in Ukraine wood
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INVESTIGATORS have stumbled across large, previously undiscovered parts of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, along with more bodies. The discovery of a huge piece of plane fuselage a week after the Boeing 777 was shot down underscores the urgent need ...
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MH17 investigators find more bodies and parts of passenger jet

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Experts scouring the site discovered a large piece of the plane's fuselage in a wooded area near the sprawling crash site in Donetsk Oblast.

US officials say Russia is firing into Ukraine and supplying pro-Russian rebels ... - New York Daily News

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US officials say Russia is firing into Ukraine and supplying pro-Russian rebels ...
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U.S. officials on Thursday for the first time accused Russia of firing artillery rounds from its territory at Ukraine positions across the border. The assertion represents a more confrontational tone by the Obama administration against the Kremlin. It also means that ...

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Former Venezuelan Intelligence Chief Arrested in Aruba

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Aruban officials said they arrested the former Venezuelan general at the request of American authorities, who have accused him of involvement in drug trafficking.

Washington Post Correspondent Reportedly Detained in Tehran 

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Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian, his wife Yeganeh Salehi and two American citizens appear to have been detained in Iran this week, the newspaper and U.S. officials reported on Thursday.
“We are deeply troubled by this news and are concerned for the welfare of Jason, Yeganeh and two others said to have been detained with them,” said the Post’s foreign editor Douglas Jehl in a statement.
Jehl said that the newspaper had received “credible reports” that the four people were detained in Tehran on Tuesday evening, but it is unknown who did it and why.
Rezaian has been the Post’s correspondent in Tehran since 2012 and holds both American and Iranian citizenship. Yeganeh, who is a correspondent for United Arab Emirates–based the National, is an Iranian citizen who has applied for U.S. permanent residency. The two other American citizens who were detained are freelance photojournalists and haven’t yet been identified by officials.
American journalists have been detained and imprisoned in Iran before. In 2009, freelance journalist Roxana Saberi was convicted for espionage, but successfully appealed her eight-year sentence and was released after four months. The same year, freelance journalists Shane Bauer and Sarah Shourd were imprisoned after straying over the Iranian border when vacationing in Iraqi Kurdistan. After intense diplomacy, Shourd was released after one year, while Bauer and his friend Josh Fattal were released in 2011.
Hamid Babaei, a spokesman for the Iranian mission to the U.N., told the Post in an email that Iranian diplomats are looking into the detentions of Rezaian, Yeganeh and the two photojournalists.

German Tourist Killed on Increasingly Violent Kenyan Coast

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A German female tourist was killed in the Kenyan port city of Mombasa on Thursday in the same area where a Russian visitor was murdered earlier in July by a criminal gang, police sources said. No one has claimed responsibility for the shooting. Khalid Ibrahim, a community security official in Mombasa's historic Old Town, was one of the first on the scene after the shooting, and said he had alerted police, according to the French news agency AFP. "Three men ran off after the...

MH17: the Netherlands to take responsibility for crash investigation - video 

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In a joint press conference the foreign ministers of the Netherlands and Australia announced that the Netherlands would take responsibility for the investigation into the crash of MH17. Australia's foreign minister, Julie Bishop, said the move would allow the investigation to begin 'in earnest' Continue reading...

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Russian military likely reluctant participants in Ukraine: U.S. general

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ASPEN Colorado (Reuters) - Russia's military is likely a reluctant participant in Ukraine's conflict, the top U.S. military officer said on Thursday, adding that although he had not spoken to his Moscow counterpart in about two months he was keeping an open line of communication.







  

To mock President Putins pride and test his paranoia is folly

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The downing of flight MH17 was clearly an accident. This tragedy should not be used as an excuse to punish Russia. Continue reading...

Hackers exploiting Internet Explorer to expose security flaws on a huge scale 

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Exploits can expose software and security systems, researchers warn, helping hackers attack remote machines undetected
Hackers and cybercriminals are using flaws in Microsofts Internet Explorer to search computers to discover what kinds of security software they are running and how to take control of them, security researchers claim.
The exploits are allowing digital reconnaissance to be performed on a massive scale, across whole companies, computers, web servers and users without their knowledge, exposing holes in their security and allowing criminals to intelligently attack vulnerable machines.
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Netherlands to step up efforts to recover MH17 remains in Ukraine

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The Netherlands is stepping up efforts to try to ensure that remains of all the victims of the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 return home from Ukraine, the Dutch prime minister told CNN.
    

Obama administration: Russia firing artillery at Ukraine military targets - Fox News

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Obama administration: Russia firing artillery at Ukraine military targets
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Obama administration officials said Thursday that Russia is firing artillery from its own territory into Ukraine to hit Ukrainian military sites, pointing to escalating Russian involvement in the deadly conflict. "This clearly is a military escalation," Pentagon ...
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Australian police head into Ukraine - Daily Mail

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Australian police head into Ukraine
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More human remains have been found and wreckage uncovered during a visit of three Australian officials to the MH17 site in eastern Ukraine. Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Friday inspected the Australian Federal Police operations room in Canberra where ...

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Israel Keeps Up Offensive; Death Toll Exceeds 800

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Israel continued its military offensive against Hamas, bombing several houses in the Gaza Strip on Friday. Palestinian officials said among those killed Friday were an Islamic jihad propagandist and two of his sons, adding to a death toll that has already soared past 800. Israel's security cabinet was to meet Friday to decide whether to expand the 18-day-old military campaign or explore a five- or seven-day truce during which negotiations can take place. Also Friday, Palestinians...

Ukraine reports overnight rebel attacks on border - Businessweek

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 — The Ukrainian army has reported rebel attacks overnight throughout the restive east, claiming that at one border crossing the rebels were supported by artillery fire from the Russian side. Ukrainian forces are trying to close in on the rebels,  ...U.S. Says Russia Firing Artillery Into UkraineBloomberg

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Australia to Send 100 More Officers to MH17 Crash Site

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Australia is close to finalilzing a plan to send 100 additional police and some defense force personnel to Europe to join a planned Dutch-led international security force to secure the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crash site, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday. Armed pro-Russian separatists control the area and have hampered investigators' attempts to access the site. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers, some of whom will be armed, will join a contingent of 90 AFP...


Investigators Examine Shrapnel-Like Holes in MH17 Debris

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Investigators have found shrapnel-like holes in pieces of the fuselage belonging to the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed in eastern Ukraine last Thursday, allegedly after being struck by a missile.
Michael Bociurkiw, spokesman for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), described the punctures as “almost machine gun-like holes,” and said that Malaysian aviation-security officials had inspected the damage before leaving the site on Thursday.
A second plane carrying bodies from the ill-fated jetliner arrived Thursday in the Netherlands. With 194 of the 298 people on board being Dutch, the Netherlands was the country that lost the most citizens in the crash. Confusion remains over how many bodies have actually been recovered, though. Russian-backed separatists in control over the crash site claim to have handed over 282 bodies, plus more than 80 body parts. However, Dutch officials estimate that the figure handed over could be lower. Meanwhile, monitors in Ukraine keep finding human remains in the area.
There’s still concern that the 12 km-long area over which plane debris has been scattered hasn’t been adequately secured. Farmers are operating agricultural equipment in fields that could contain further evidence or even human remains. Serhiy Bochkovsky, the head of State Service of Emergencies Ukraine, said the separatists were preventing his team from doing their job.
“They took away our tents, the ones which were at our base camp,” Bochkovsky told a news conference. “We were allowed only our equipment and machinery and we were chased away at gunpoint.”
The Netherlands has officially taken charge of the investigation. “Now that … Ukraine has transferred legal responsibility to the Netherlands, we feel we’ll get more progress from the separatists,” Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said in Kiev. With 38 passengers, Australians comprised the third-largest nationality on the flight after the Netherlands and Malaysia. Both the Netherlands and Australia are sending additional teams to help with the investigation in Ukraine.

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Australia to send troops to Ukraine to secure MH17 crash site: PM Abbott - Zee News

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Australia to send troops to Ukraine to secure MH17 crash site: PM Abbott
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Sydney: Australia will send 100 additional police and some defence force personnel to Europe to join a planned Dutch-led international security force to secure the Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 crash site, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Friday.

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Border crisis: Central American leaders convening at White House - Fox News

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Border crisis: Central American leaders convening at White House
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July 24, 2014: House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., center, is seen with Guatemalan President Otto Molina, right, and Honduran President Juan Hernández on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP). WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is ...

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Islamic State tells Iraqi women: wear full veil or face harsh punishment

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State, the al-Qaeda offshoot that seized large swathes of northern Iraq last month, has warned women in the city of Mosul to wear full-face veils or risk severe punishment.
  

US says new evidence shows Russia 'firing artillery into Ukraine' - The Independent

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US says new evidence shows Russia 'firing artillery into Ukraine'
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US officials claim to have evidence that Russia has been firing artillery from within its own territory across the border into Ukraine. The US state department said it had evidence from “human intelligence information” that Russia intends on supplying separatists ...
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No Survivors of Air Algérie Crash, Hollande Says

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French President François Hollande said there were no survivors found at the site of the Air Algérie crash in Northern Mali, adding that French troops recovered one of the jetliner's black boxes.

Latin America reacts to Gaza 

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Latin American countries with large Palestinian populations see anti-Israeli protests. Rafael Romo reports.
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Washington Post's Tehran reporter and three other journalists arrested in Iran 

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Jason Rezaian, his wife who works for a UAE-based newspaper, and two American photojournalists detained in unknown location
The Washington Post's correspondent in Tehran has been arrested along with his Iranian wife and two
US photojournalists.
Iranian judicial offficials confirmed on Friday that Jason Rezaian, who holds dual
US and Iranian citizenship, had been detained and is under investigation.
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Op-Ed Contributor: The E.U. Can’t Let Russia Get Away With Murder 

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If America and the E.U. don’t stand up to Russia, they’ll cease to be relevant global players.
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State media promoting China’s leader Xi with intensity unseen since Mao era 

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BEIJING — For decades, China has shunned the cult of personality, a result of the tumultuous years when Mao Zedong elevated his personal brand to mythic proportions.
But state worship of leaders appears to be making a comeback, according to a new study by University of Hong Kong media researchers. They say China’s state-controlled media have been promoting the image of President Xi Jinping with a frequency and intensity unseen since the Mao era.
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Obama administration: Russia firing artillery at Ukraine military targets - Fox News

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Obama administration: Russia firing artillery at Ukraine military targets
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Obama administration officials said Thursday that Russia is firing artillery from its own territory into Ukraine to hit Ukrainian military sites, pointing to escalating Russian involvement in the deadly conflict. "This clearly is a military escalation," Pentagon ...
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U.S. confirms shots fired from Russia 

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The U.S. says it now has proof that Russia is actively firing into Ukraine. CNN's Phil Black reports.
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How to choose the best value, good-quality party wines

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When throwing a party for your best friend, the moment calls for a delicious wine with volume, value and versatility
You're throwing a party at your place to celebrate your best friend's recent engagement. There is an extremely good chance that you're in the wedding party, so taking this party on poses certain challenges one when it comes to choosing wine.
She doesn't know much about wine and she won't really care what you serve, neither will her future husband, or their friends as long as there's lots of it. Volume is the name of the game here. You, on the other hand, would prefer not to spend the entire evening drinking plonk, but you can't afford to break the bank on this party either.
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Central American leaders make border plea

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Since last October 57,000 children have entered the US illegally, but the US president’s request for funds has fallen victim to divisions in Congress

ISIS blows up Jonah's tomb

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The site is said to be the burial place of the prophet Jonah, who was swallowed by a whale or fish in the Islamic and Judeo-Christian traditions.
    
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'Disintegrated' Air Algerie jet found; official says no survivors so far

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Wreckage of an Air Algerie jet was found in a "disintegrated state" in northern Mali, France said Friday, making it the third major international aviation disaster in recent days.
    

Obama to Urge 3 Leaders to Slow Tidal Wave of Migrants

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The president will meet with Central American presidents as he grapples with Congress for more money and resources along the U.S. border with Mexico.

SAS Forces On Standby For Trip To Ukraine

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Wreckage from the nose section of a Malaysian Airlines Boeing 777 plane which was downed on Thursday is seen near the village of Rozsypne

EU reaches preliminary deal on Russia economic sanctions

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union ambassadors reached a preliminary agreement on Friday to push ahead with hard-hitting economic sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis but details remained to be worked out, diplomats said.







  

UPDATE 1-EU reaches preliminary deal on Russia economic sanctions - Reuters

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Rutte Eyes Armed Mission to Secure Site

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The Netherlands is working with other countries, including Australia, to send a military mission to eastern Ukraine to secure the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said.
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Israeli Strike Kills a Leader of Islamic Jihad

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Islamic Jihad said that Salah Abu Hassanein — a spokesman for its militia, Al-Quds Brigades — and his sons, aged 15 and 12, were killed at their home in the southern city of Rafah.

West Bank Protests Grow as Israel, Hamas Fighting in Gaza Rages

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Palestinian death toll in Gaza reaches 817, and another Israeli soldier is killed as fighting enters 18th day.

Mass grave found in eastern Ukraine

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CNN's Ivan Watson speaks with Human Rights Watch researcher Ole Solvang who has filmed a mass grave in Slovyansk.
    

Mass grave found in eastern Ukraine 

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CNN's Ivan Watson speaks with Human Rights Watch researcher Ole Solvang who has filmed a mass grave in Slovyansk.
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U.S. confirms shots fired from Russia

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The U.S. says it now has proof that Russia is actively firing into Ukraine. CNN's Phil Black reports.
    

Latin America reacts to Gaza

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Latin American countries with large Palestinian populations see anti-Israeli protests. Rafael Romo reports.
    
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Report: 4 journalists held in Tehran, 3 Americans

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Concern is growing for the wellbeing of four journalists apparently detained in Iran this week, three of them American citizens, according to the Washington Post.
    

Poland says may appeal European court ruling on CIA jail

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WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday Warsaw will probably appeal against a European Court of Human Rights ruling that Poland hosted a secret CIA jail.
  

Plane Survivor Crawls Out Of Fiery Wreckage

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After the aircraft slams into homes, the woman drags herself out of the wreckage - then calls her dad to come and collect her.

DNA Test Clears Convicted Rapist 24 Years On

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Michael Phillips pleaded guilty to the 1990 rape of a 16-year-old girl because his attorney advised him to avoid a trial.

Ukrainian Troops Recapture Rebel Stronghold

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The Ukrainian government said it had regained control of the key separatist stronghold of Lysychansk after several days of fierce fighting, raising the Ukrainian flag above the city.

Iran confirms arrest of Post correspondent

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Iran confirmed Friday that The Washington Post’s correspondent in Tehran has been arrested on unspecified charges.
Gholam-Hossein Esmaili, director general of the Tehran Province Justice Department, told reporters that the “Washington Post journalist has been detained for some questions and after technical investigations, the judiciary will provide details on the issue,” the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported.
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