He was a disaster as Brexit secretary, which he blames on the civil service and everybody else blames on his laziness.
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He also suffers from paraphilia, something he blames on his mother.
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Still, many ambassadorships remain empty, which he blames on a Senate backlog.
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All of this she blames on smartphones — and it's a superficially appealing idea.
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Instead she dwells on cases of childhood illness which she blames on vaccines.
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Mays also has diverticulitis, a digestive disease, which she blames on the lead.
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It's a personal loss he resolutely blames on the payment practices of streaming services.
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It was Group 5 that RiskIQ blames on targeting many of Ticketmaster's global sites.
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Her videos regularly appear in shaming threads, which she blames on people not understanding her humor.
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The admission follows a "bullshit" night, which Al blames on Earn's incompetency and failure to, well, manage.
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Hundreds of people have died there in recent years in unrest the government blames on militant separatists.
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The discrepancy in his views may come down to other issues that he blames on Snowden's leaks.
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But Trump is angry at the bad press he continues to receive, which he blames on Spicer.
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Meanwhile, there have been a series of attacks across the Middle East that the U.S. blames on Iran.
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Trump has gone back and forth on ways to solve the country's immigration problems, which he blames on Democrats.
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President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to bring down the gap, which he blames on bad trade deals.
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President Donald Trump has vowed to reduce America's trade deficits, which he blames on abuses by U.S. trading partners.
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In the following weeks, apartment bombings across Russia kill more than 300 people, which Putin blames on Chechen terrorists.
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In this election, too, she has been the target of underhanded campaigning that she blames on the sitting president.
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That attack, which Turkey blames on ISIS, was the deadliest in a string of blasts across the nation this year.
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Trump has been tormented by leaks he blames on Obama holdovers in the national security agencies and other entrenched bureaucracies.
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In recent years, hundreds of people have been killed in the far western region in unrest China blames on Islamist militants.
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Part of the problem is the lack of adequate drainage, which a writer for Quartz blames on the city's rapid development.
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After that evaluation, however, work on updating the rule halted, which the Environmental Defense Fund blames on "limited resources" within EPA.
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The State Department has been incensed in recent weeks because of indirect fire near U.S. facilities that it blames on Iran.
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Hester succeeds in stabbing Valentine and announce that she's seeking revenge for the murder of her mother, which she blames on Valentine.
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It ran into production snags during the third quarter, which the company blames on assembling battery packs at its factory in Nevada.
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Relations between the bitter rivals have worsened after an attack last month on an Indian Army base that India blames on Pakistan.
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In the following weeks, bombings of apartment blocks across Russia kill more than 300 people, in attacks Putin blames on Chechen militants.
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Police suspect the couple was exposed through a contaminated item left over from the attack on the Skripals, which Britain blames on Russia.
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Hickey has seen market volume decline over the years, which he largely blames on a stricter regulatory environment curtailing trading at big banks.
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Nick is motivated by some combination of overconfidence and insecurity, a lot of which What Women Want blames on his Vegas showgirl mother.
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The escalation follows attacks on oil tankers near the strategic chokepoint of the Straight of Hormuz, which the Trump administration blames on Tehran.
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Relations worsened in September after militants killed 18 soldiers in a raid on an Indian army base, an attack New Delhi blames on Pakistan.
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Turkey has been in the throes of violence since July 2015 with multiple suicide bombings that the government blames on the Islamic State group.
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The moves come days after a failed coup attempt the government blames on a "parallel state" led by self-exiled Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen.
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The most serious part of the F.B.I.'s investigation has focused on the computer hacks that the Obama administration now formally blames on Russia.
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Tensions have escalated in recent months after attacks on tankers in the Gulf and Saudi oil facilities that the United States blames on Iran.
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There's also been a trend of rising labor costs, which the bank's report blames on the stricter immigrant laws and increased opportunities in other sectors.
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Apps go down all the time, but yesterday's issues across Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram — which the company blames on a "server configuration change" — were exceptional.
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Top Benchmark Co. analyst Daniel Kurnos acknowledges the stock's troubles, which he blames on weaker ratings and some licensing revenue shifting from Q3 to Q4.
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The Defense Department has said those strikes were a response to an attack that killed a U.S. contractor that the department blames on the militia.
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Iranian ship seizures, as well as oil tanker explosions that the U.S. blames on Iran, saw America create a new coalition to protect Mideast waters.
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Poverty and poor economic growth, he says, are a result of laissez-faire economics and an allergy to deficit-spending that he blames on Merkel's Germany.
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In charge since the height of Greece's financial crisis in 2015, Tsipras has promised to crack down on corruption, which he often blames on his predecessors.
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She says the bullet incapacitated her, and fleeing concertgoers ended up trampling her, which she partly blames on Live Nation for having an inadequate exit plan.
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The crackdown has coincided with widespread purges of state institutions after July's failed coup, which the government blames on followers of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric.
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The revelation comes amid a standstill on denuclearization talks between Washington and Pyongyang, which Kim Jong Un blames on the Trump administration refusing to loosen sanctions.
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After authorities quashed Shi'ite-led "Arab Spring" protests in 2011, militants have launched deadly bombing and shooting attacks against security forces that Manama blames on Tehran.
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The U.S. face-off with Iran reached a new pitch following attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf in May and June that Washington blames on Tehran.
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The official border crossings were abruptly ordered closed last month after a series of attacks Pakistan blames on militants sheltered in Afghanistan, heightening tension between the neighbours.
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The U.S. trade deficit and the loss of manufacturing jobs that Trump blames on unfair advantages enjoyed by other countries have been centerpieces of his economic policies.
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And it runs afoul of López Obrador's campaign pledge to end the long-running drug war, which he blames on former President Felipe Calderón, his political nemesis.
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Luckily, the movie is not being presented in Odorama, which spares viewers the aroma of decaying flesh that Honka (Jonas Dassler) repeatedly blames on his neighbors' cooking.
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Despite suffering from depression that she blames on the stress of pursuing a complaint against the professor, she says she's going to finish her master's degree at FIT.
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He cuts a disturbing figure, one who is made even more so by that constant laughing tic he blames on a brain injury and his greasy, uncut hair.
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Zambia's economy has been depressed for years by low commodity prices, mine closures, rising unemployment, power shortages and soaring food prices that Hichilema blames on mismanagement by Lungu.
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Problems that the company partially blames on the gearbox of the aircraft's large turboprop engines have disrupted deliveries of the already delayed military plane and driven up costs.
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But the neighborhood started to decline, a trend Graves blames on a lack of public investment and renters who she said didn't care as much about the community.
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Verbund, 51 percent owned by the state, has been hit by low prices in Europe's electricity market, which it blames on overcapacity and subsidies for other renewable energy sources.
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That could complicate efforts by the British government to target the London assets of Russian oligarchs, part of Britain's retaliation for the nerve-agent attack it blames on Russia.
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The crackdown against Kurdish politicians has coincided with widespread purges of state institutions after July's failed coup, which the government blames on followers of a U.S.-based Muslim cleric.
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It wasn't a great fit, which Mr. Naharin blames on himself: "I think it had a lot to do with me totally unprepared for the big world," he said.
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Venezuela has been in the grip of an economic crisis for years, with citizens struggling to find enough food and medicine — a crisis that Guaido blames on Maduro's mismanagement.
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Growing up, he devoted himself to a game until he mastered it, which Mr. Schwartz, a former psychology and anthropology double major, blames on mild strain of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Jane has now filed a counterclaim, seeking at least $25,000 to cover lost wages, therapy, and a delay in graduation that she blames on time spent fighting the legal battle.
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Zambia's economy has been depressed for years by low commodity prices, mine closures, rising unemployment, power shortages and soaring food prices - all of which Hichilema blames on mismanagement by Lungu.
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Bilateral cricketing ties between the neighbours remain suspended after gunmen killed 166 people in Mumbai in a three-day rampage in 2008 which India blames on a Pakistani militant group.
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He leaves the service after witnessing a genocide he blames on the U.N. He saw his fellow soldiers die horrifically and he blamed leadership, but not necessarily the power structure.
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More than 50,000 people, including security personnel and civil servants, have been jailed pending trial in the aftermath of the failed putsch, which the government blames on Islamic preacher Fethullah Gulen.
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Footfall in London's shops was 1.5% lower in May than a year earlier—a slump that the British Retail Consortium blames on the growth of online shopping and weak consumer confidence.
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Skripal, who survived the March attack that Britain blames on Russia, told Reuters on Wednesday that she wanted to return to her country one day and felt lucky to be alive.
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But Britain has led an international diplomatic backlash against Russia following the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in an English city - an attack which the government blames on the Kremlin.
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And in October, he discovered a rusted sewage pipe that will cost $10,3.83 to replace — a defect he blames on saltwater corrosion that isn't covered by his flood or homeowners insurance.
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The coalition's decision comes after a U.S. contractor and several Iraqi security forces personnel died in attacks on Iraqi and American bases that the U.S. blames on an Iranian-backed militia.
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Ms. A completed her undergraduate studies but took a leave of absence from her graduate program at Stanford in 2015, which she blames on Stanford's failure to address allegations against her assailant.
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After years of international sympathy, the people of Myanmar now face Western criticism for their country's treatment of the Rohingya, a minority whose presence Mr Than Swe blames on British colonial rulers.
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In some ways, concedes Anthony Scaramucci, a Trump loyalist who briefly served in his White House, it "has gotten extra swampier"—a state of affairs he blames on both Democrats and Republicans.
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Historically fraught relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors deteriorated this month after 18 Indian soldiers in Kashmir were killed in an attack on an army base that New Delhi blames on Pakistan.
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Attempts at a peace deal with Assad in recent months have failed, which the Syrian Democratic Council blames on Assad being unwilling to concede meaningful political autonomy to the Kurdish-held region.
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Hundreds of people have been killed in Xinjiang in the past few years in violence between Uighurs, a mostly Muslim people, and ethnic majority Han Chinese, which Beijing blames on Islamist militants.
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One result of Mr Ghosn's imprisonment, which he blames on a corporate power-struggle, is that his strategy of chasing sales and hoping that economies of scale would bring profitability is out.
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London (Reuters) - Britain's foreign minister, Boris Johnson, said on Wednesday Russia had underestimated the international response to the nerve agent attack on a Russian spy in England which London blames on Moscow.
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But officials have to weigh the cost of further straining tensions with Turkey, which have been rocky since a coup attempt in July that Ankara blames on a cleric living in Pennsylvania.
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Saturday's attack comes with Turkey still in shock just a month after the government survived an attempted coup by rogue military officers, which Ankara blames on U.S.-based Islamist preacher Fethullah Gulen.
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His three-year-old daughter Zainab was hooked up to an outdoor drip 80 km from home after developing cholera symptoms that Habab blames on a lack of clean water and nutritious food.
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Many of the problems Carr blames on digital culture—that it makes us more distracted, less focused, and less able to form cohesive linear culture—echo Postman's account of the impact of television.
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After authorities quashed Shi'ite Muslim-led "Arab Spring" protests on the Sunni-ruled island in 2011, militants have launched deadly bombing and shooting attacks against security forces that Bahrain blames on Tehran's Shi'ite theocracy.
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Other forms of shipments and aid have been suspended under sanctions imposed after the sinking of a South Korean navy ship in 2010 that Seoul blames on the North, although Pyongyang denies any role.
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In recent months bilateral relations have worsened significantly after attacks on tankers in the Gulf that the United States blames on Iran, a charge denied by Tehran, and Iran's downing of a U.S. drone.
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Trump often cites the economy's performance at his campaign rallies, saying his policies have lifted the economy out of a decade-long slowdown he blames on the wrongheaded policies pursued by the Obama administration.
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In recent months bilateral relations have worsened significantly after attacks on tankers in the Gulf that the United States blames on Iran, a charge denied by Tehran, and Iran's downing of a US drone.
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Diplomatic efforts are underway to ease tensions following attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf in recent weeks that the United States blames on Iran and the shooting down of the American drone last week.
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SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - Inspectors from the world's chemical weapons watchdog on Monday began examining the poison used to strike down a former Russian double agent in England, in an attack that London blames on Moscow.
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Attacks on tankers near the Strait of Hormuz, which the United States blames on Iran, have unsettled crucial shipping lanes that link Middle Eastern oil producers to markets in Asia, Europe, North America and beyond.
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Outside of international tournaments, cricket matches between India and Pakistan have been suspended since gunmen killed 166 people in Mumbai in a three-day rampage in 2008, which India blames on a Pakistani militant group.
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Berlin is sending four diplomats back to Russia, joining other European states and Washington in a concerted response to a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in England which Britain blames on Russia.
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Serkan Golge was visiting family in southern Turkey when he was arrested in a crackdown following a failed military coup in 2016 which the government blames on supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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It also came amid ongoing tensions between Iran and the United States that has included six strikes against oil tankers in May and June of last year, acts of terrorism that Washington blames on Tehran.
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Shortages of everything from fuel and medicine to consumer goods have become common this year in Cuba, which the government blames on sanctions and the United States counters are due to the country's economic inefficiencies.
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - It's much easier to snag a seat in Nairobi's popular Strollers bar these days - a problem that manager Stephen Ngatia partly blames on Kenyan consumers hoarding their money during the turbulent election period.
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India said on Thursday it had conducted "surgical strikes" on suspected militants preparing to infiltrate from Pakistan-ruled Kashmir, making its first direct military response to an attack on an army base it blames on Pakistan.
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The teachers have said their hunger strike aimed to highlight the plight of around 150,000 state employees suspended or sacked after the July putsch, which president Tayyip Erdogan blames on followers of a U.S.-based cleric.
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The rival Koreas' usual animosity occasionally erupts in bloody skirmishes — 50 South Koreans were killed in attacks in 2010 that Seoul blames on the North — and there is always a worry about an escalation of violence.
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Owen's family is a horrible identikit set of WASPs, while Annie is unemployed and lonely, unable to put together her life after the terrible car accident that killed her sister and that she blames on herself.
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For example, among the numerous interviews in the podcast that you'll hear is with Rochelle Gibbons, the wife of a former chief scientist at Theranos [Ian Gibbons] who'd committed suicide, an act she blames on Theranos.
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Relations between Turkey and the United States have been strained since last year's failed coup, which Turkey blames on Fethullah Gulen, an Islamist cleric who lives in self-imposed exile on a large estate in Pennsylvania.
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In his original (lie) Facebook post, Witt says he was attacked because "sooooooo apparently I look like a neo-Nazi and got stabbed for it…" which he blames on his high-and-tight-and-alternate-right haircut.
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They also fault the ministry for improperly hiring outside help under an umbrella IT contract, something the ministry blames on a mistaken assessment by experts at its procurement agency and the failure to properly document the process.
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Maduro has promised an "economic miracle" for a nation struggling with triple-digit inflation, snaking supermarket lines, and a deep recession that he blames on an "economic war" led by his adversaries with the support of Washington.
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Istanbul, Turkey (CNN)Turkish tanks entered northern Syria on Wednesday to help Syrian rebels clear ISIS from a border town, Turkish state media reported -- a move that follows recent attacks that the republic blames on terror groups.
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Austria was in the minority of European Union states not to expel any Russian diplomats over the poisoning in Britain of Russian former spy-turned-British-mole Sergei Skripal and his daughter, which London blames on Moscow.
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Let's just say he detonates one as an 'accident', a so-called 'failure' of a missile test, which he then promptly turns around and blames on the U.S. sabotage campaign recently reported by the New York Times?
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The group's statement, carried by its Dogan news agency, came after state media said the Dogan's Ankara representative had been detained in an investigation related to July's failed coup, which Ankara blames on U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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It's the mysterious death of the Principal (which Alice blames on the Gargoyle King) that separates the group... and throws Penelope into the arms of Cliff, with whom she would go on to marry and have twins with.
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The formal arrests take to seven the tally for the cafe attack, which the government blames on local militants, along with another, on July 26, in which police killed nine militants believed to be plotting a similar assault.
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The teachers have said their hunger strike is aimed at highlighting the plight of around 150,000 state employees suspended or sacked after last July's failed putsch, which president Tayyip Erdogan blames on followers of a U.S.-based cleric.
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He pointed to New Jersey's credit downgrades and problems with the state's pension fund -- two issues that Christie blames on his Democratic predecessors -- while highlighting Florida's AAA bond rating and job growth during his tenure from 1999-2007.
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Siddiqui, who left Pakistan after a failed abduction attempt he blames on the powerful military over his frequent social media criticism, now lives in France and says he believes the complaint to Twitter came from his home country.
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Diplomats also said EU governments were under more pressure to protest against Iran's role in Syria's civil war following an April 7 suspected chemical weapons attack near Damascus which the West blames on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
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The former head of the national rail company has been chancellor for less than 18 months and already cuts an embattled figure, his party having been involved in a smear scandal it blames on an adviser he hired.
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The race ends up at Mr. Hariri's tomb; he was killed in 2005 in a bombing that roughly half the country blames on the powerful militia and political party Hezbollah, and the other half insists was a setup.
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Frankly, other than washing our hands and staying inside, no one knows what the hell we're supposed to be doing right now, a deficit that Knowles blames on the Trump administration's initially almost nonexistent response to the pandemic.
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Some European officials worry the Trump administration is cool on efforts to hold Russia to account for misdeeds including election meddling and the nerve-agent poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal in England, which the U.K. blames on Moscow.
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The alliance last week expelled seven diplomats from the Russian mission to NATO and cut the maximum size of the delegation to 20 from 30 after the attack, which the West blames on Moscow, although the Kremlin denies it.
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"It sends a very clear message to Russia that it has costs," Stoltenberg said of the March 4 attack on a former Russian double agent and his daughter, which the West blames on Moscow although the Kremlin denies this.
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Xinjiang, a huge region bordering Central Asia, has long been a security worry for Beijing, which has led a massive clamp down after deadly bouts of ethnic violence it blames on Islamist and separatist extremists amongst the Uighur population.
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In total, Ankara has jailed more than 50,000 people pending trial and suspended or dismissed some 150,000 state workers including teachers, judges and soldiers since the coup, which Turkey blames on the movement of U.S-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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Some 13 ethanol plants have shut since November 228, roughly 245% of the nation's capacity, in a decline the biofuel industry blames on the Trump administration's expanded use of waivers to exempt oil refineries from blending ethanol into gasoline.
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Some 2300 ethanol plants have shut since November 22020, roughly 268% of the nations capacity, in a decline the biofuel industry blames on the Trump administrations expanded use of waivers to exempt oil refineries from blending ethanol into gasoline.
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In his first few weeks back in office, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has put the brakes on projects and cut ministers' salaries to tackle about 1 trillion ringgit ($249.19 billion) of national debt he blames on past corruption.
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Some 2300 ethanol plants have shut since November 22020, roughly 268% of the nation's capacity, in a decline the biofuel industry blames on the Trump administration's expanded use of waivers to exempt oil refineries from blending ethanol into gasoline.
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Trump and Newsom have traded insults on occasion, and the president has previously threatened to take federal money away from California for so-called "sanctuary" policies protecting undocumented immigrants as well as over wildfires the president blames on "poor" forest management.
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China has long been concerned that instability in Afghanistan could spill over into its violence-prone far western region of Xinjiang, home to the Muslim Uighur people, where hundreds have died in recent years in unrest Beijing blames on Islamist militants.
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He's held monthly vigils in central Warsaw in which he pledges to his supporters that Poland is "nearing the truth" about the crash that he blames on the Kremlin and his domestic foes ever since — 89 of them so far.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - At least 262 Turkish diplomats and army personnel have applied for asylum in Germany since a failed July coup that Turkey blames on supporters of a U.S.-based cleric, a spokeswoman for the German Interior Ministry said on Monday.
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Golge was visiting family in southern Turkey when he was arrested in the sweeping crackdown that followed a failed military coup in 2016 which the government blames on supporters of exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who lives in the United States.
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When Trump boasts about rising stocks, or laments declines that he blames on Democrats, remember: higher stock prices actually make America poorer, because they don't add anything to our real wealth while increasing foreign claims on the nation as a whole.
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WASHINGTON — President Trump is sending a modest deployment of American troops to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, along with air and missile defense systems, in response to the attacks on Saudi oil facilities, which the administration blames on Iran.
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Erdogan has been running Turkey under emergency rule since a July 2016 coup attempt - which he blames on Gulen - and along the way has imprisoned tens of thousands of Turks from the ranks of the civil service, military, judiciary, and education systems.
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More than 50 people were killed last month in demonstrations against the extension of Kabila's term - which the government blames on the logistical problems of organizing a November election - and opposition leaders have vowed to give him a "red card" on Dec.
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The amendment is not specifically aimed at Russians, but it comes at a time of crisis in relations between Britain and Russia following a nerve agent attack in England on a Russian ex-spy and his daughter, which London blames on Moscow.
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ASMARA (Reuters) - Europe's migration crisis and the conflict in Yemen have created opportunities for Eritrea to draw closer to the European Union and Gulf Arab states, offering the poor Horn of Africa nation the chance to end isolation it blames on U.N. sanctions.
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Dutch authorities say they disrupted an attempted hack into the Hague-based OPCW in April, when the watchdog was looking into both the attack on ex-spy Sergei Skripal in Britain and chemical strikes in Syria which the West blames on Assad.
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Data put out this week by Strategy Analytics records a 9 per cent fall in global smartphone shipments in Q4 2017 — the biggest such drop in smartphone history — which the analyst blames on the floor falling out of the smartphone market in China.
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Johnson & Johnson and a woman seeking to sue the company over injuries she blames on a generic version of one of the brand-name manufacturer's drugs are each seizing on a recent Massachusetts ruling to bolster their case before West Virginia's top court.
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The teachers, who now both use wheelchairs because of their deteriorating health, say their hunger strike is aimed at highlighting the plight of 150,000 state employees suspended or sacked after the failed putsch, which Erdogan blames on followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen.
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The result has been a series of attacks in the Gulf that the United States blames on Iran or its proxies, despite Tehran's denials, as well as Iran's threat on Monday to breach the 265 deal's limit on its uranium hexafluoride stocks within 10 days.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A California city has filed a lawsuit against 29 oil companies seeking damages to pay for the costs of rising sea levels it blames on climate change, the ninth U.S. community to take the fossil fuel industry to court.
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SACRAMENTO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out once more at California on Wednesday for a series of devastating wildfires he blames on poor forest management, threatening to withhold federal disaster aid in a Twitter blast that drew rebukes from lawmakers in his own party.
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WannaCry, which the Trump administration blames on the cyberterrorism unit of North Korea as of December 2017, attacked mainly via a critical Windows vulnerability, and its spread starting last May caused widespread alarm, with hospitals in the UK crippled in the initial wave of the attack.
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On Friday, US President Donald Trump announced he had given the order for US forces to strike the Syrian regime in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held city in the southwest of the country, which he blames on Russia and Syria.
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HAVANA, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Cubans queued for hours for public transport on Friday at peak times in Havana, sweating in the heavy heat, while queues at gas stations snaked several blocks long, as a fuel shortage that the government blames on U.S. sanctions began to bite.
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Strains between the two countries have deepened after attacks on tankers in the Gulf that the United States blames on Tehran, and Iran's downing of a U.S. military drone that prompted preparations for a retaliatory air strike that Trump says he called off at the last minute.
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WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official on Tuesday called for a U.N. Security Council response to the attacks on Saudi oil facilities that the United States blames on Iran, but it was unclear what action he sought or whether Washington might secure Russian cooperation.
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But the warmness of Saudi's embrace of Russia can also be seen as a warning from the kingdom to the US. There is growing criticism among US lawmakers of Saudi conduct, like the brutal killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year, which the kingdom blames on rogue operatives.
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Strains between Washington and Tehran have risen more in recent months after attacks on tankers in the Gulf that the United States blames on Iran and Iran's downing of a U.S. drone that prompted preparations for a U.S. retaliatory air strike that Trump called off at the last minute.
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But, diplomats and officials said, any appetite that might have been there at the turn of the year to soften the bloc's line and seek more "selective engagement" with Moscow has dissipated after the toxin attack, which Britain, followed by the rest of the EU, blames on Moscow.
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Strains between Washington and Tehran have risen more in recent months after attacks on tankers in the Gulf that the United States blames on Iran and Iran's downing of a U.S. drone that prompted preparations for a U.S. retaliatory air strike that Trump called off at the last minute.
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WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS, Sept 17 (Reuters) - A senior U.S. official on Tuesday called for a U.N. Security Council response to the attacks on Saudi oil facilities that the United States blames on Iran, but it was unclear what action he sought or whether Washington might secure Russian cooperation.
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Ban said he "understands THAAD deployment is made as a defensive measure, as ultimately North Korea is developing nuclear missiles and accumulating ballistic missile technology," he was quoted as telling reporters at the memorial for the 2010 sinking of a navy ship that South Korea blames on the North.
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When he gets Emmit alone to ask for money, it becomes clear there is some animosity between the brothers that Ray blames on a stamp their father left them (no, seriously), but that actually comes down to general jealousies over money — Emmit has a lot of it, and Ray doesn't.
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Tusk also said he did not feel he and Trump were on exactly the same page in terms of dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin, although they agreed on efforts to end conflict in Ukraine which the West blames on Moscow and which has resulted in both EU and U.S. economic sanctions on Russia.
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In terms that evidently resonated with Mr. Trump, who is aggrieved about investigations that he blames on his predecessor, Mr. D'Souza presented himself as a victim of selective justice, hounded by Mr. Obama's attorney general, Eric H. Holder Jr., and the United States attorney in New York, Preet Bharara, because he made a movie sharply critical of Mr. Obama.
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The sources did not give specific reasons for the decision, which came after two months in which U.S.-Iranian tensions have soared because of attacks on tankers in the Gulf that the United States blames on Iran, despite its denials, and Iran's downing of a U.S. drone that prompted preparations for a U.S. retaliatory air strike that was called off minutes before it was due to hit.
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U.S. officials blame Iran, Tehran denies the charges -June 2019 - Two tankers are attacked south of the Strait which Washington blames on Iran and Tehran denies -June 2019 - Iran shoots down a U.S. drone -July 2019 - The USS Boxer destroys an Iranian drone in the Strait after it threatens the U.S. Navy ship but Iran denies it has lost a drone -July 2019 - Iran seizes British-operated oil tanker Stena Impero in the Strait Sources: Reuters/Refinitiv/Energy Information Administration Reporting by Ahmad Ghaddar; editing by Jason Neely, William Maclean
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