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2016 Campaign

VOA NEWS
Clinton-Trump Standoff Over Russia Plays Key Role in Election |

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Cindy Saine

Views of Russia are playing a surprising role in the 2016 U.S.
presidential elections. The U.S. government has formally accused
Moscow of conducting cyber-attacks on the Democratic National
Committee to influence the elections in favor of Republican nominee
Donald Trump. Russian President Vladimir Putin denies any meddling.
That is just one issue, however, involving Russia where Republican
candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton
bitterly disagree.

THE HUFFINGTON POST
Clinton and Trump's Foreign Policies Share Common Principles |

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Tania Cohen

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's proposals for fighting the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and their beliefs that
ISIL presents a greater threat to American security than Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad are strikingly similar. Consequently, they
each prioritize defeating the terrorist organization over a political
transition in Syria. Clinton and Trump also believe that nuclear
weapons are the world's greatest threat, although their proposed
strategies for fighting that threat differ significantly.

ABC NEWS
Policy Prescriptions: Clinton and Trump on the Islamic State |

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Vivian Salama

If there's one thing Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump can agree on,
it's that the Islamic State group is a global threat that needs to be
eradicated. However, the two presidential nominees seem to disagree on
just about everything else about it, from how to defeat the militant
group, to which of them the militants prefer for America's next
commander-in-chief. Their proposals include mentions on: how to defeat
the Islamic State group, should the U.S. send more troops to fight,
and what should Russia's role be.

Who's in the News

THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTE
U.S. Aid Transparency: Looking Back but Pressing Forward

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George Ingram is a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development
program at the Brookings Institution. He also serves as chair emeritus
of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition.

Over the past decade aid transparency has moved from being a
little-known concept to the norm. The value of making timely and
accurate aid data publicly available is now widely accepted as
essential to good decision-making. Good data is the foundation of
rigorous monitoring and real-time feedback, and is at the heart of
transparency and accountability. Without good data, it is hard for
stakeholders and citizens to follow and understand the programs of a
development agency. After less than a decade of campaigning, however,
we can be proud that the discussion has moved from whether to be
transparent, to how.

Development & Diplomacy

THE HILL
Bipartisan Support Will Be Critical to Ending Polio

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Dr. Chris Elias is the president of the Global Development Program at
the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

In a year fraught with political tensions, let me share some good
news. America's leaders agree that investing in the health and
wellbeing of children around the world is one of the best investments
our country can make. From the global eradication of smallpox in the
1970s to the development of new vaccines to tackle child killers like
diarrhea and pneumonia in the past decade, the U.S. has led the way in
expanding access to health. The global impact of these efforts is
striking: the number of children who die before their fifth birthday
has decreased by half, as has the number of mothers who die in
childbirth.

DEVEX
Opinion: Humanitarian Aid in a Global System Under Stress |

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Kate Schecter

Violent extremism has become virtually a part of life in many areas of
the world. Each week brings a new story about the deliberate and
horrific killing of civilians, including aid workers. In some
countries, state forces increasingly carry out this killing. This
violence has displaced millions of people and increased instability
beyond the immediate conflict zones in which extremists operate. Yet
the threat posed by extremist violence that takes root in failed and
fragile states goes even beyond mass human suffering and reversals in
economic and social development.

ABC NEWS

1.4 Million People in Haiti Need Food Assistance After Hurricane
Matthew |

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Catherine Thorbecke

Nearly three weeks after Hurricane Matthew roared through Haiti,
killing hundreds and leaving behind a trail of destruction, officials
fear the nation could face a food crisis. An estimated 1.4 million
people are in need of food assistance following the hurricane on Oct.
4, according to a joint statement today by the government of Haiti,
the Haitian National Coordination for Food Security, the U.N.'s World
Food Program and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations.

THE NEW YORK TIMES
UNICEF Cuts Cost of Vaccine That Protects Against 5 Diseases |

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Donald McNeil Jr.

The United Nations Children's Fund has made a deal with six
vaccine manufacturers that will cut in half the price of a shot that
protects children against five diseases, the fund announced last week.
The deal will mean three years' worth of vaccine at an average
price of 84 cents a dose; buyers currently pay about $1.84, according
to UNICEF. UNICEF will buy about 450 million doses for 80 of the
world's poorest countries. Low- and middle-income countries
purchasing vaccine for themselves can also qualify for the lower
prices, UNICEF said.

Politics & Foreign Policy

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Japan, U.S., S. Korea Agree to Step Up Pressure on N. Korea |

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Mari Yamaguchi

Senior officials from Japan, the United States and South Korea agreed
Thursday to step up pressure on North Korea as they stick to their
goal of persuading the communist state to abandon its nuclear weapons.
Their pledge comes just two days after U.S. National Intelligence
Director James Clapper publicly called that goal a "lost cause." He
said the best hope is capping its capability instead. The deputy
foreign ministers who held talks in Tokyo made clear that North Korea
now poses a new level of threat and requires broader international
pressure and tougher sanctions.

FOREIGN POLICY
Wary of a Backlash, U.S. Weighs Options to Answer Venezuela Crisis |

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John Hudson

The United States is trying to figure out how best to respond to a
deepening crisis in Venezuela after President Nicolás Maduro rejected
demands for his recall by opposition lawmakers. The constitutional
impasse comes as Venezuela suffers an economic meltdown, with food and
medicine in short supply and gangs and guns in abundance. The stakes
of a protracted standoff are high as concerns mount that the country
of 30 million could further unravel amid the tanking economy and
endemic crime, even as American attention is divided by the
presidential election and ongoing military campaigns in the Middle
East.

THE NEW YORK TIMES

Rodrigo Duterte, in Japan, Calls for U.S. Troops to Exit Philippines
in 2 Years |

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Motoko Rich

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines, on a trip to Japan, said
Wednesday that he wanted all foreign troops out of his country within
"maybe two years" and that he was willing to revoke
base-hosting agreements with the United States. The remarks, made to a
group of Japanese and Filipino businessmen in Tokyo, are the clearest
signal yet that Mr. Duterte wants to renegotiate the 2014 agreement
his predecessor reached with the United States to let the Pentagon use
five Philippine military bases, a central component of the Obama
administration's plan to bolster American influence in Asia.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
U.S. Says It Will Abstain on UN Vote on Cuba Embargo |

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Edith M. Lederer and Matthew Lee

The United States announced Tuesday that it will abstain for the first
time in 25 years on a U.N. resolution condemning America's economic
embargo against Cuba, a resolution it had always vehemently opposed.
The announcement by U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power ahead of a vote on
the resolution was greeted with applause in the 193-member General
Assembly. Power said the U.S. was abstaining because of President
Barack Obama's new approach to Cuba, but she made clear that the
United States "categorically" rejects statements in the resolution
suggesting the embargo violated international law.


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