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March 9th, 2016 
Awake Goy WASHINGTON (JTA) — The National Rifle Association praised presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for saying a law he supported kept lawsuits from driving gun manufacturers out of the United States.
“Sen. Sanders was spot-on in his comments about gun manufacturer liability,” the gun lobby said Monday in a tweet about the Democratic debate the previous evening between Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont, and Hillary Clinton, his rival to be the party’s nominee.
Clinton, who hews to Sanders’ right on most issues, including health care, foreign policy and dealing with Wall Street, has hammered him throughout the campaign on gun control, the one major issue where she stands to his left.
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Published time: 7 Mar, 2016 20:15
File photo: U.S. and South Korean marines participate in a U.S.-South Korea joint landing operation drill in Pohang, South Korea © Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters
Large-scale defense drills being conducted by the US and South Korea are an alarming attempt to put military and political pressure on North Korea, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said, while also criticizing Pyongyang’s reaction to the exercise.
“The development of the situation on the Korean peninsula and around it is causing growing concern,” the ministry said in a statement on Monday.
Despite being pre-planned, the US-South Korean exercise is “unprecedented in its scale, and the number and types of weaponry being employed,” it stressed.
On Monday, some 15,000 American troops and 300,000 South Korean servicemen commenced the annual drill, which is aimed at testing the militaries’ readiness to counter a North Korean threat.
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Published time: 7 Mar, 2016 18:49
Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (C) poses with European Union leaders © Yves Herman / Reuters
Turkey and the EU have agreed in principle on an Ankara-proposed plan to deport migrants from Greece to Turkey while resettling the same number of Syrian refugees in the EU. In return, the EU has promised Ankara more funding, but not expedited membership.
The term “potential breakthrough” was common to many of the statements voiced by EU heads of state German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande, UK Prime Minister David Cameron, and European Council President Donald Tusk, after the extended emergency EU meeting over the refugee crisis finally ended early on Tuesday.
Tusk hailed the results of the summit, predicting that the “days of irregular migration to Europe are over.”
“Turkish PM confirmed Turkey takes back irregular migrants apprehended on Turkish waters,” he wrote on Twitter.
“I think we do have the basis for a breakthrough,” Cameron was quoted as saying by Reuters after the EU-Turkey summit in Brussels.
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Published time: 7 Mar, 2016 18:45
An election poster of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party for the upcoming Rhineland-Palatinate federal state elections is pictured in Neuwied near Koblenz, Germany. © Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters
The anti-immigrant right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) scored huge gains in local elections in the German central state of Hessen over the weekend, becoming the third strongest political force in the region amid the ongoing refugee crisis.
The anti-immigrant party garnered on average of 13.2 percent of vote throughout the region, coming in behind only Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU), which received 28.2 percent, and the Social Democrats (SPD) with 28 percent, according to preliminary election results, as reported by the German media.
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Published time: 7 Mar, 2016 10:35
© Rodi Said / Reuters
Russian military facilities are offering assistance to humanitarian organizations offering aid to people in Syria, saying their facilities and logistics specialists may be able to resolve the problems they face.
The offer was made on Monday when the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that the internationally sponsored truce between rebel groups and the Syrian government in Syria is mostly holding.
“In the current conditions the issues of safe return of civilians to their homes and delivery of humanitarian aid take a higher priority,” the ministry said in a statement. “It’s known that international organizations face difficulties when organizing humanitarian deliveries to Syria, primarily in logistics: storage, packaging, delivery and local distribution.”
Russia has two major sites in Syria, a military base in the port city of Tartus and an airfield south of Latakia. The naval site could be used to store and distribute aid delivered via sea, while the Khmeimim airbase can accommodate transport planes and be used to airdrop shipments to their destinations, the military said.
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