The South Korean intelligence service said the charge was "groundless".
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The argument that the individual mandate is unconstitutional is groundless.
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The Chinese embassy in Malaysia dismissed the claims as "groundless".
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A spokesman for the bank said the claim was groundless.
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"The news is completely groundless," Autogrill said in a statement.
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Russia denies the allegations and has called the sanctions groundless.
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But Trump's claim that Hood "supports illegal immigration" is groundless.
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"This fact alone would make the analysis groundless," the spokesperson said.
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" He adds, "I will vigorously fight these fabricated and groundless claims.
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These statements are groundless but he's free to have his opinion.
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Groundless fears: four of his films were nominated for Academy Awards.
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I am innocent of the groundless charges and accusations against me.
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The Clinton campaign has dismissed such calls as groundless political smears.
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The government has denounced as "groundless" accusations arising from the documents.
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"This is a distortion of facts, therefore groundless," the ministry said.
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He warned against "groundless speculation" but declined to give further details.
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Many feel groundless and displaced, existing between two cultures and languages.
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Moscow has called the murder charges against the Russian suspects groundless.
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China's U.N. Ambassador Zhang Jun rejected the U.S. accusation as groundless.
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"The cases were considered groundless," the court said in a statement.
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" Charlie goes on ... "These radically groundless and unfounded allegations end now.
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Deripaska has called the sanctions on him "groundless, ridiculous and absurd".
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said the charges were groundless.
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Those alterations also end up leaving parts of the story groundless.
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All allegations mentioned in your query therefore are totally false and groundless.
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Deripaska has described the sanctions against him as "groundless, ridiculous and absurd".
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In an emailed comment sent to Reuters, Facebook called the fine groundless.
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The Guptas' lawyer said on Monday suspicions of money-laundering were groundless.
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In the past the bank has repeatedly said the claim was groundless.
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The ICIJ's findings have been dismissed as "groundless" by China's foreign ministry.
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Saipem has said it could prove the allegations were groundless in court.
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China welcomes all well-meaning suggestions, but we reject all groundless accusations.
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Alan's emphatic certitude is probably sincere but is groundless and deeply misleading.
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Aliyev's lawyer, Fuad Agayev, told Reuters the case was groundless and "fabricated".
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" Zhao has persistently maintained that the accusations leveled against him are "groundless.
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S. relations by making groundless criticisms about Chinese trade and security issues.
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Pimco has called the lawsuit "legally groundless" and is seeking its dismissal.
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The standoff continues, with leaders in Qatar claiming the accusations are groundless.
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A federal judge dismissed the case earlier this month, calling it groundless.
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A Kremlin spokesman told journalists on Thursday that the claims were groundless.
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He said, though, that expectations of any significant crown strengthening were "groundless".
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Rhetoric attaching regulatory policy to large-scale economic harm is largely groundless.
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Huawei said in a statement on Thursday the allegations against Xu were "groundless".
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Hu dismissed Washington's concerns that its products pose security threats as "groundless suspicions".
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Rezaian is coming home after a year and a half of groundless imprisonment.
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To outsiders, Sicilians claimed that the Mafia was a fable, a groundless slur.
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China on Monday blasted the "groundless accusations" in the New Zealand defense paper.
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Deutsche Boerse Chairman Joachim Faber backed Kengeter, saying the prosecutor's suspicion was 'groundless'.
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" He added that his inclusion on the list was "groundless, ridiculous and absurd.
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The aversion to paid plasma rests on three reasonable-sounding but largely groundless propositions.
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" Yu regards US warnings and security concerns as "groundless suspicions," and "quite frankly unfair.
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Even more harmful are some groundless — or outright false — rumors circulating on social media.
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Nor does it prove that the FBI was prejudiced against Trump, another groundless charge.
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China has called criticism of its policies in Xinjiang groundless smears of deradicalization efforts.
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Both the Justice Department and Mr. Trump's lawyers have said the suits are groundless.
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"I believe I have shown the accusations made against me are groundless," he said.
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In Dallas, he attached something new to the pledge: a groundless attack on his predecessor.
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Bill Nelson by fewer than than 13,000 votes amid Scott's groundless claims of voter fraud.
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Weijing W. also said that the charges against him are "completely groundless and terribly hurtful".
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Also in January, another court in the country dismissed a separate patent claim as groundless.
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Sergei Kushchenko, former executive director at the RBU, said the latest cheating allegations were groundless.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday denounced "groundless accusations" by others about the case.
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A spokeswoman for Mitsubishi Aircraft said on Monday the company believed Bombardier's claim was "groundless".
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"These allegations look absolutely groundless," Mr. Peskov told Russian news agencies in a conference call.
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Okai said Friday Lime's claims are "groundless" and the faulty scooters come from another supplier.
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" The Chinese Embassy in D.C. told The Journal its report was "full of groundless speculations.
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According to Reuters, Alitalia said that media reports over a deal with Lufthansa were "groundless".
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What explains the appeal and staying power of a groundless claim about systemic pay injustice?
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"Telecom Italia categorically denies the report, it is groundless," a spokeswoman for the company said.
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The NIS said earlier the North's accusation of its involvement in a plot was "groundless".
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This argument, too, is groundless: Capital punishment is far more expensive than life prison terms.
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"I feel crushed by all these misunderstandings and allegations," she said, calling the accusations groundless.
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HONG KONG GOVERNMENT SAYS LEGISLATION INTERFERES WITH CITY'S INTERNAL AFFAIRS AND IS UNNECESSARY AND GROUNDLESS
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FIAT CHRYSLER CHAIRMAN SAYS GM LAWSUIT GROUNDLESS AND FCA WILL PROVE IT IN APPROPRIATE MOMENTS
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China's foreign ministry spokesman said U.S. accusations that China was stealing intellectual property were groundless.
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Government spokesman Phay Siphan said allegations the election and its monitors were biased were groundless.
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In Williams's world, we are all wandering interlopers—adrift, trapped, groundless—looking for visitors' privileges.
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Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, says the turnout campaign is "absolutely objective" and criticism of it groundless.
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All three grievances were judged groundless by HUD but proved the hazards of an inflexible approach.
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"The security risk concerns are based on groundless suspicions and are quite frankly unfair," Yu adds.
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But it is central to their narrative, and, if groundless, why should it have such potency?
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Tiscali also said allegations of an agreement with Fastweb regarding "actions towards other operators" were groundless.
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Little wonder that social media buzzed with (groundless) speculation that Mr Zavascki's death was no accident.
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The Kremlin says U.S. media reports about Russian intelligence connections to Trump's presidential campaign are groundless.
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Sistema has rejected the claim as groundless and said it would appeal against the court decision.
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The U.S. replied that the move complied with Norwegian policies and that Russia's worries are groundless.
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Peskov said only that Russia was against "groundless" accusations about who was responsible for the attack.
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Seoul has angrily denounced the reports as groundless and on Friday called for an international investigation.
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But a person familiar with the matter told Reuters, without elaborating, that the rumors were groundless.
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They called these "groundless accusations used to hide a deliberate targeting of Shias in the country".
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The court ruled ING's appeal was "totally groundless", acknowledging the legitimacy of Bank of Italy's action.
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Better yet, his record of bipartisanship is not a matter of delusion or of groundless aggrandizement.
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And in fact, a Harvard study from 2006 found that 40 percent of malpractice suits are groundless.
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Fullshare Glaucus Apr- Stock Allegations are Has gained 10.5 25 manipulation misleading and pct since. alleged. groundless.
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"I think a politician should avoid making groundless conclusions," said the 52-year-old resident of Beijing.
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Its boss said this week that Western Digital's charge, that Toshiba was violating its agreement, was "groundless".
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Mousavi dismissed Trump's comments as "repetitive, groundless and paradoxical" and said they did not merit a response.
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"Even if Canada succeeded on these groundless claims, other countries would primarily benefit, not Canada," he said.
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Like the lower court in Lliuya v RWE, many courts have peremptorily dismissed climate lawsuits as groundless.
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The central bank's governor dismissed the reports of new board appointments as "groundless" in an emailed statement.
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"The tariffs were groundless when they were announced in June, and remain so now," Ms. Pekcan said.
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"Any attempts to link the American scandal to Poroshenko is groundless and unjustified manipulation," the statement said.
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Supervisory board Chairman Joachim Faber said late on Wednesday that the accusation of insider trading was groundless.
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Valladares told Reuters the allegations against him were groundless and that the probe was based on unreliable witnesses.
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"Facing these illegal and groundless requirements from the government, we as family members didn't give in," Wang says.
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Monday that accusations that Moscow had struck hospitals were "groundless".
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A Monsanto joint venture with a local company says it is confident the allegations will be proved groundless.
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Hua said the United States was pushing "groundless worries" about freedom of navigation to carry out such patrols.
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Japan should "stop making groundless claims immediately," South Korean Industry Minister Sung Yun-mo told a news briefing.
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It described the charges against him as "groundless"—a strong hint that the party was having second thoughts.
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"These allegations look absolutely groundless," Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, told reporters in a conference call on Friday.
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China on Monday called on other countries to end "groundless fabrications and unreasonable restrictions" against technology giant Huawei.
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No evidence supporting the rumor has been produced, and prosecutors said they had investigated and found it groundless.
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"Such accusations are absolutely groundless and aimed at trying again to smear our country," the ministry statement said.
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"An evidence-based approach is needed, so we were disappointed to hear some groundless accusations asserted," Zhang said.
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Both the Justice Department and Mr. Trump's lawyers have said the accusations of violating the Constitution are groundless.
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Social media was serving as an incubator for groundless theories and inspiring followers to take action, it said.
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The company has said it is confident the allegations levelled at it by prosecutors would be found groundless.
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One of the Trump tweet stories The Times covered was this groundless one: The headline for the story?
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In a statement on Thursday, Ghosn said he was innocent of the "groundless charges and accusations" against him.
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Russia has said it regretted the crash investigation findings and called the murder charges against Russian suspects groundless.
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"We believe that this proposed claim is groundless and we will defend ourselves vigorously," a Morgan Stanley spokesman said.
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Her current account was invented several years later in connection with her first of several groundless litigations against Peyton.
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It called the Commission's concerns groundless and noted that judiciary was the competence of national governments, not the Commission.
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"Any speculation tied to the current geopolitical climate is groundless," the retailer said in a statement sent to Reuters.
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In a statement released on Thursday, Ghosn said he was innocent of the "groundless charges and accusations" against him.
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The Chinese government has repeatedly insisted Washington has exaggerated the problem for political reasons, dismissing espionage allegations as groundless.
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"Thus, the speculations about the conduct of certain 'military operations' by Russia in Venezuela are absolutely groundless," she added.
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Qualcomm has had a patent lawsuit against Apple dismissed by a court in Mannheim, Germany, as groundless (via Reuters).
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The Chinese government has repeatedly insisted Washington has exaggerated the problem for political reasons, dismissing espionage allegations as groundless.
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"I believe that we cannot withdraw this bill, or else society will say that this bill was groundless," Mrs.
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Top Croatian officials called the allegations groundless, saying they were an effort to damage ties between the two countries.
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"We were always puzzled about these groundless and unsubstantiated accusations of Russia's alleged involvement in American elections," he said.
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They also say the health rumors are groundless and no such issues have been reported at other THAAD sites.
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Representative Sylvia Garcia of Texas used her time to explain what she called "groundless" corruption accusations against the Bidens.
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The documents describe Corfman's lawsuit as "frivolous and groundless" and "strongly" denies the allegations of sexual misconduct by Moore.
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Mousavi on Friday dismissed Trump's comments as "repetitive, groundless and paradoxical" and said they did not merit a response.
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China's foreign ministry spokesman, Hong Lei, said that complaint was "groundless" and reiterated that China had sovereignty over the area.
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The states should never have been allowed standing to sue in the first place, and their substantive claims are groundless.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters that Britain's allegations were "difficult to explain... groundless and slanderous".
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"You can remind people in the U.S. they should pay attention to facts and not make groundless accusations," she said.
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The bank told the paper it had not been informed of the matter and that it considered the idea "groundless".
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The president also pushed Ukraine to back a groundless conspiracy theory alleging that Ukrainian officials hacked the 2016 presidential election.
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The host of fears and uncertainty about the future of artificial intelligence is groundless, Salesforce's chief scientist said this week.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the British accusation that Russia was to blame for holding up the inspections was "groundless".
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But she has not said she knew of any extortion, and her office last week called the prosecutors' findings groundless.
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This was a perfectly groundless fear, but I'd been spooked anyway and like a fool I'd canceled the side trip.
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The Hong Kong government expressed regret about the passage of the two U.S. acts, saying they were unnecessary and groundless.
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The Afghan Football Federation issued a statement, calling the allegations "groundless" and said it would fully cooperate with any probe.
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And, as you suggest above, music is my causa sui project, providing me with a (groundless, illusory) sense of purpose.
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But to reward descendants for an accident of birth is "not only groundless and absurd but often hurtful to that posterity".
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Deutsche Telekom and its competitors Vodafone and Telefonica Deutschland use Huawei gear extensively and also dismiss the cyber claims as groundless.
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The United States should refrain from making groundless accusations and instead break down barriers while creating conditions for smooth Sino-U.
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Moscow criticized the EU's decision as an unfriendly and groundless act and said it reserved the right to take retaliatory steps.
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But, she added, our analysis is that Comey's letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum.
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Philadelphia officials said Mr. Trump's insinuation that widespread fraud in past elections would merit fears of a stolen election were groundless.
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They have said AIG was required to cover Cosby's defense costs against the women's claims, even if those claims were groundless.
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We realize in retrospect that Santelli's fears were groundless, because no shift toward collectivism was on the Democrats' agenda under Obama.
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It said it was confident the allegations leveled at it by prosecutors in the Milan court case would be found groundless.
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Hua said "some people" seek to use groundless accusations about security threats to "suppress and restrict Chinese technology companies' development abroad".
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"I believe that we cannot withdraw this bill, or else society will say that this bill was groundless," the chief executive said.
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The defamation suit was thrown out as groundless, and Ramos often railed against current and former Capital staff in profanity-laced tweets.
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The defamation suit was thrown out as groundless, and he often railed against current and former Capital staff in profanity-laced tweets.
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He filed a defamation suit in 2012 that was thrown out as groundless and often railed against them in profanity-laced tweets.
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We hope Mr Trump proves our doubts groundless or that, if he fails, a better president will be along in four years.
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Twitter denied on Thursday rumors that the social media messaging service will be shutting down in 2017, denouncing the claim as groundless.
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Anatoly Antonov, Russia's ambassador to the United States, warned Washington on Thursday against what he called "groundless and illegal aggression against Syria".
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The publisher took the step because the "groundless incarceration" of the Welt correspondent made direct reporting from Turkey impossible, Die Welt said.
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"I am confident that this will allow us to confirm reliably ... the true source and purpose of this groundless fake," he said.
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Central bank chief Elman Rustamov said on Tuesday that rumours the manat might tumble further, to 1.8-2.0 per dollar, were groundless.
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But his wife, Lin Ru, and other rights lawyers have said the charges are groundless and an attempt to silence Mr. Xia.
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The judge deemed the accusations against the managers groundless and accepted the request by prosecutors to dismiss the case, the document showed.
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According to some historians, the Founding Fathers were moved to write the Declaration of Independence by groundless fears of a British plot.
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Dr. Ablow, who declined to speak to me directly for my article, referred to Monique's claims as "groundless" in a legal filing.
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"We repeat, all allegations against her we consider to be absolutely groundless," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call.
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The Chinese government dismisses the criticism as groundless, even though American and European firms operating in China frequently complain about the issues.
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China's representative said the new tariffs are "groundless" and violate several WTO rules, according to a trade official who spoke with Reuters.
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The group added it held a board meeting to define the actions to protect itself against the procedure which it considers groundless.
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov called the sanctions as well as other U.S. steps over alleged hacking, groundless, and promised a response.
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Last week, Poland invited the European Commission's Warsaw representative to the foreign ministry to discuss EU concerns, which the government says are groundless.
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But talks with Poland have gone nowhere: last week, as the latest Brussels deadline whooshed by, the government dismissed its concerns as "groundless".
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But most subsequently turned around and returned home after local police assured them that fears of reprisals were groundless, a Reuters reporter said.
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While some Italian's fear the prospect of a more powerful leader given the country's history, the government argues that these concerns are groundless.
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Trump administration officials and their allies have charged that the system is rife with fraud and groundless claims and have demanded stricter standards.
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If the latest claim proves groundless, analysts say, it would be among the most egregious false statements the terror group has ever issued.
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The caveat of "nearly" applies, though, because inside the locker room of the United States National Team, there is only optimism, however groundless.
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It's not a groundless idea -- a small group of lawmakers threatened to do just that in the 1990s, but their efforts ultimately failed.
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"These allegations look absolutely groundless," Dmitry S. Peskov, the spokesman for President Vladimir V. Putin, told Russian news agencies in a conference call.
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Their power paled in comparison with the groundless vacuum that they sought to mask, and my restless mind would have nothing of consolation.
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Earlier this week China's government defended Huawei, calling for an end to "the groundless fabrications and unreasonable restrictions" on Huawei and other firms.
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"Rumors that the group (the post office) is interested in buying Monte dei Paschi are totally groundless," a Treasury source said on Sunday.
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The Shenzen-based company, which competes with Finland's Nokia and Sweden's Ericsson has denied the U.S. charges and dismissed the concerns as groundless.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Wednesday described as "groundless" accusations that Russia bears some of the blame for civilian deaths in eastern Ghouta.
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Shincheonji has said they are the "biggest victims" of the outbreak, and warned people against "groundless attacks" against them because of the outbreak.
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"This sets a devastating precedent for scores of other journalists charged with similarly groundless charges," said Sarah Clarke, of writers organization PEN International.
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The report, released the day before by the Justice Department&aposs inspector general, Michael Horowitz, had found such a characterization to be groundless.
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For Abigail Spanberger, it is a groundless suggestion of ties to terrorism when actually she spent eight years as a CIA counterterrorism agent.
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At a news conference in Myanmar on Friday, military spokesman Major-General Tun Tun Nyi called the accusations "groundless" and based on "talking stories".
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Most recently QAnon fans pushed groundless theories online linking the liberal billionaire George Soros to the issues with the app in the Iowa caucuses.
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Villagers there said they feared that the powerful radar from the missile defense system might harm their health, a concern the government called groundless.
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In the "Halftime Report " interview, Cooperman also repeated that civil charges of insider trading against him by the Securities and Exchange Commission are groundless.
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On Tuesday, China's state-run Xinhua news agency said Canada should not let "groundless concerns" about human rights stand in the way of cooperation.
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Peskov, on a conference call with reporters, said the allegations were groundless and part of a "Russophobic" campaign being conducted in some Western countries.
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" In a statement, North Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said such claims were "groundless" and accused the US of attempting to "cook up untruths.
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Referring to state-owned enterprises (SOEs), he said China opposed groundless criticism of "normal SOE and industrial subsidies" and "normal sharing of technological innovations".
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said remarks by a U.S. Treasury official about the yuan's depreciation CNY=CFXS were groundless and irresponsible.
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Hongqiao has rejected all the allegations as groundless and misleading and said in April it would seek legal remedy against Emerson for alleged defamation.
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"Our analysis is that Comey's letter raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be, stopped our momentum," Clinton said days after the election.
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The clause is specifically there to protect members of Congress from groundless prosecution by the executive for speech that the executive does not like.
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Rumours about a possible tie-up between Italy's Banco BPM and UBI Banca are groundless, Banco BPM Chief Executive Giuseppe Castagna said on Friday.
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"There is no state housing plan that has been discussed with either the Assembly or the Senate, so this is pure groundless speculation," he said.
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He filed a defamation suit against the paper in 2012 that was thrown out as groundless and often railed against them in profanity-laced tweets.
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The build-up to the bill, however, ignored the empirical research by organizations like Amnesty International, instead focusing on celebrity campaigns and groundless scare numbers.
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Society has a long history of wild, groundless speculation when it comes to assessing the merits, or otherwise, of any new tech on the horizon.
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Sistema has rejected Rosneft's demands as groundless, saying state-controlled Rosneft was pursuing a policy of blackmail which was aimed at destroying the company's value.
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The allegations in the complaint filed against Dualstar are groundless, and Dualstar will vigorously defend itself against plaintiff's claims in court, not before the media.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Sistema said on Tuesday a demand by oil major Rosneft to apply a freezing injunction on some of Sistema's assets was groundless.
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But Hermes, like Gucci-owner Kering and other players targeting the same clientele, such as cosmetics firm L'Oreal, said those worries were groundless for now.
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" Peskov said the production was made "in a hysterical and emotional way, based on opinions that are groundless and often nothing but figments of imagination.
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HONG KONG, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Greenland Hong Kong described investor statements that prompted a share price slide on Friday as "inaccurate, groundless, misleading and unfair".
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At the time, Huang told the Australian Financial Review that the decision was based on nothing more than "unfounded speculations that are prejudiced and groundless".
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Earlier on Tuesday, Sistema rejected the asset freeze demands as groundless, saying Rosneft was pursuing a policy of blackmail aimed at destroying the company's value.
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Speaking briefly with reporters on Monday, Trump simultaneously suggested he would accede to the House Democrats' requests for documents and that such demands were groundless.
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The Economy Ministry said reports circulating on social media that Italy had asked for ESM help, following an article in German newspaper Handelsblatt, were "groundless".
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A Chinese embassy spokesperson called the accusations "groundless" and of a "cold-war mentality," and said China's strategy aims to integrate defense and economic sectors.
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He has been a stabilizing force while Ms. Ambrose has tried to make a life in acting, "this difficult, impossible, groundless, shifting thing," she said.
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After the February report from Emerson, Hongqiao called the allegations "untrue and groundless" but, with its share price tanking, the company asked to suspended trading.
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A spokeswoman for China's Foreign Ministry said the report was based on "groundless accusations," and a spokesman for the African Union issued a similar denial.
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"Certainly the grounds for putting my name on the list of SDNs as provided by US officials are groundless, ridiculous and absurd," the statement said.
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"We hope relevant parties stop their groundless accusations against China and interference in China's domestic affairs and contribute more to bilateral trust and cooperation," it added.
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"The deal is groundless because China, which sticks to a defensive defense policy, has never coerced any country on the South China Sea issue," it said.
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And they reveal the deliberate bad faith with which Assange fed the groundless claims that Rich was his source, even as he knew the documents' origin.
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"The deal is groundless because China, which sticks to a defensive defence policy, has never coerced any country on the South China Sea issue," it said.
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"We also reject any groundless accusations parroted by some delegations as they are politically motivated in pursuit of ulterior purposes rather than human rights," Han said.
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Certain forces in the United States have been making groundless criticisms against China about trade and security issues, which has poisoned the atmosphere for Sino-U.
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The deputy speaker of Turkey's parliament, Ahmet Aydin, accused the Council of Europe of "severe criticism based on groundless claims," state-run news agency Anadolu reported.
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"Based on all that, we can call such statements groundless, unobjective, and not having anything in common with the real circumstances of this tragedy," Peskov said.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said earlier on Thursday that the U.S. human rights report was as usual filled with "ideological prejudice" and groundless accusations.
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"I believe that we cannot withdraw this bill, or else society will say that this bill is groundless," she said, according to The New York Times.
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The apparently groundless inclusion of "unknown Middle Easterners" to the caravan echoes Mr. Trump's longstanding practice of amplifying fears about Islamic militants on the campaign trail.
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"I think all these accusations about how China has developed are groundless and not fair to the Chinese people," Mr. Cui told Fox News last month.
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The scientific findings, however, did not prevent the rumor mill from spinning, nor did the repeated attempts by authorities to stamp out the wholly groundless accusations.
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" Speaking Sunday, a Shincheonji representative told reporters that practitioners are the "biggest victims" of the virus, and urged people to "refrain from hate and groundless attack.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Twitter Inc denied on Thursday rumors that the social media messaging service will be shutting down in 2017, denouncing the claim as groundless.
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Not only is the standard almost impossible not to satisfy but, unlike standard warrants, the surveillance — even abusive or groundless searches — can be kept secret forever.
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"It was a good piece of propaganda because it was produced for prime-time television, it was emotional, and it was totally groundless," Mr. Fedchenko said.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's top oil producer Rosneft said on Tuesday that U.S. statements that it had violated U.S. sanctions in its Venezuela activities were "groundless accusations".
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In a statement on the Russian foreign ministry's website, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov called the latest sanctions groundless and promised a response from Moscow.
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His endless tweets and groundless attacks, including about President Obama, have forced Republicans to spend much more time talking about his behavior rather than their legislative agenda.
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After last week's announcement, Russia said the United States had acted without evidence on the basis of groundless accusations and said it was working on retaliatory measures.
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Chung's lawyers said after a warrant hearing on Wednesday the charges against her were groundless and that she should be allowed to stand trial without being detained.
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In 2017, what we learned essentially advanced the idea that the Trump campaign could have colluded with Russia from groundless speculation to something that's far more plausible.
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Rosneft, which is involved in upstream projects in Venezuela and is receiving oil from PDVSA under pre-payment deals from past years, called Pompeo's statements "groundless accusations".
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The report was immediately denied by the president's office, which called it "groundless", while a source close to Macron told Reuters there was "nothing true in this".
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The allegations that connected these people to the Robert Kennedy assassination seemed groundless, but looking deeper there seemed to be a potential connection to the King assassination.
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Pyongyang quickly issued a statement denying the report, calling its findings "groundless" and threatening to "take revenge" on the US for spreading what it dismissed as bunk.
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" Mr. Koskinen was unavailable for comment last week, but in an interview in April he called the House impeachment resolution, which was introduced in the fall, "groundless.
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"When he does this by the circulation of unfounded and unjust charges and the arousing of mean and groundless fears, his fault is more to be condemned."
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The claims are groundless, and medical authorities warn members of the public not to ingest the substance, which is actually a type of toxic bleach, chlorine dioxide.
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The company has denied that characterization, and China this week called for other countries to end "the groundless fabrications and unreasonable restrictions" on Huawei and other firms.
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A spokesman for Sistema, which is controlled by Russian businessman Vladimir Yevtushenkov, said on Monday that Rosneft's demands were groundless and that Sistema was facing unprecedented pressure.
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" The Afghanistan Football Federation issued a statement on Tuesday calling the allegations "groundless" and saying it had "a zero-tolerance policy toward any type of such behavior.
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Twitter removed a message by Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump's personal attorney, for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus and making groundless attacks on Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
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We are sincerely urging everyone recognize that the Shincheonji Church and its devotees are the biggest victims of Covid-19, and refrain from hate and groundless attack.
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The government says the migrants persistently refuse help due to groundless fears that they will be deported, and that warm beds are available for whoever wants one.
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At first, Mr. Gillis said, he kept quiet about Ms. Phan-Gillis's detention and hoped that Chinese investigators would release her after realizing the charges were groundless.
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"Our analysis is that Comey's letter — raising doubts that were groundless, baseless, proven to be — stopped our momentum," she told donors a few days after the election.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said on Wednesday that the U.S. accusation that foreign firms are forced to transfer technology to China is groundless.
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He filed a defamation suit against the paper in 2012 that was thrown out as groundless, and he often railed against its staff members in profanity-laced tweets.
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"This is a groundless and venomous indictment aimed at threatening myself and others with similar goals," said Hao, according to a copy of the letter, seen by Reuters.
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He laid down, for example, that party members may not make "groundless" criticism of the leadership—and then arraigned his predecessor's top aide for having broken the rule.
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"Moreover, they promised to perform their defense obligations even if allegations against Mr. Weinstein proved to be groundless, false or fraudulent," the Weinstein lawyers said in the document.
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Putin, speaking during his annual televised question and answer session, said Moscow believed Tehran was in full compliance with its nuclear commitments and called sanctions against Iran groundless.
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Voloshyn said allegations of Kilimnik's ties to Russia were groundless and that Kilimnik, whom Reuters has not been able to reach, did not want to talk to media.
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The chief executive's office dismissed the reports as "groundless," and Lam said Monday that she was committed to staying in the job until her term finishes in 2022.
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Trump has argued that his subordinates have "absolute immunity" from complying with congressional subpoena stemming from House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, an argument that Democrats say is legally groundless.
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Clinton's own missteps, her former aides say, but most generally groundless — others worry that an even darker turn is possible, given the advisers now guiding Mr. Trump's campaign.
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Speaking at a press conference in Brussels Tuesday, he said criminal charges brought against him and other Catalan politicians for their role in the independence bid were groundless.
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I think my mind felt betrayed: I'd come here to find some solidity, some meaning in a suddenly meaningless world, but instead I felt more groundless than ever.
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In a friend-of-the-court brief filed with the Nevada Supreme Court in the Dozier case, 15 other states contend that the drug companies' arguments are groundless.
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Xiyue Wang was a graduate student at Princeton who had been sentenced to 10 years in prison on two charges of espionage that U.S. officials have called groundless.
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the allegations of Russia engaging in hacking, as well as illegally supplying oil to North Korea, were groundless, according to Reuters.
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In recent weeks Republican lawmakers and the president have defended a groundless theory reportedly seeded by Russian intelligence that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
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MOSCOW, March 12 (Reuters) - Russia's top oil producer Rosneft said on Tuesday that U.S. statements that it had violated U.S. sanctions in its Venezuela activities were "groundless accusations".
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Trump has argued that his subordinates have "absolute immunity" from complying with congressional subpoenas stemming from House Democrats' impeachment inquiry, an argument that Democrats countered was legally groundless.
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And in today's digital age where any moron can claim anything they want and spread it across the Internet we're already seeing the damning effects of groundless accusations.
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MOSCOW, April 14 (Reuters) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters on Friday that accusations that Russia was trying to interfere in French elections were groundless.
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The chairman of the international affairs committee of Russia's upper house of parliament, Konstantin Kosachev, described the air strikes as a groundless attack on a sovereign government, Interfax said.
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MOSCOW, April 6 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said it was unacceptable to make "groundless" accusations over this week's suspected chemical weapons attack in a Syrian province.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that it regretted the findings of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash investigation and called murder charges against Russian suspects groundless.
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"This is one more unfriendly and groundless action that will not go unanswered," TASS agency cited a Russian foreign ministry official as saying in an initial reaction from Moscow.
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MOSCOW, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Russia's Domodedovo Airport said on Thursday it considered the detention of its owner, Dmitry Kamenshchik, "groundless" and hoped for an objective investigation into the situation.
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In China, where the figures identified in the leaked papers include a brother-in-law of President Xi Jinping, the government denounced reports about them as a groundless attack.
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Ironically, only fellow liberals will be cowed by terror of being branded a racist (a pejorative lobbed at me in recent days — one that, however groundless, tends to stick).
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They also worked on a groundless conspiracy theory that Ukraine secretly interfered in the 2016 election to help secure a Democratic victory and then pinned the blame on Russia.
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Residents, many of them melon farmers, fear that the presence of the powerful radar system will threaten their health and their crops — fears that the government said were groundless.
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Sellers said any attempt by the Trump campaign to pursue sanctions against the DNC would be "wholly groundless" and could ultimately result in sanctions being placed against the campaign.
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In his groundless telling -- 232014 times through May, by our count -- foreign governments are deliberately forcing their problem citizens into the lottery to foist them upon the United States.
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BEIJING, April 4 (Reuters) - China's Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said on Wednesday that the U.S. accusation that foreign firms are forced to transfer technology to China is groundless.
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But they go beyond most other opponents by launching a groundless assault on the career civil servants who worked on the delay, and who are powerless to defend themselves.
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"The act does not contain a 'wholly groundless' exception, and we are not at liberty to rewrite the statute passed by Congress and signed by the president," he wrote.
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It's a story of corruption and abuse, set in 1969, in which a bored and groundless California teen-ager joins a Manson-like cult, with bloody, Manson-like results.
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Voloshyn said allegations of Kilimnik's ties to Russia were groundless and that Kilimnik, whom Reuters has not been able to reach, did not want to talk to news media.
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ALGERIA DENIES RIGHTS ABUSES IN MIGRANT EXPULSIONS Prosecutor Richard Horwell told jurors that the couple&aposs "unhealthy, myopic, all-consuming and groundless" obsession with Walton had deprived them of reason.
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Morgan Stanley says the claim is groundless, and in August, 2016, the bank rejected a settlement proposal from an Italian prosecutor for a one-off payment, a securities filing showed.
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The U.S. accusations that China did not buy U.S. agricultural products were "groundless," state broadcaster CCTV on Monday reported an official from China's National Development and Reform Commission as saying.
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Thursday that the United States had acted without evidence on the basis of groundless accusations when imposing sanctions on the Russian company.
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The bank also notes that the disclosure of groundless reports, in such a complex context, can only cause further instability and damage to the banking system, the market and investors.
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"Soon, images captured by the Guards drones from the U.S. warship Boxer will be published to expose to world public opinion as lies and groundless the claim," the Guards said.
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Morgan Stanley says the claim is groundless, and in August, 2016, the bank rejected a settlement proposal from an Italian prosecutor for a one-off payment, a securities filing showed.
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"All those who knew Sir Edward Heath or worked with him are, without exception, convinced that the allegations of child abuse will all be found to be groundless," they said.
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China's Foreign Ministry fired back at what it called "groundless accusations" against Chinese firms by the United States and lamented the "politicization" of what it said was a commercial takeover.
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The deputy minister added that Tehran's statements that external influences fomented the protests were not groundless and that the United States uses any possible method to destabilize governments it dislikes.
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"The U.S side made new groundless accusations against the Chinese side, and China finds it totally unacceptable," Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng told reporters at a news conference in Beijing.
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"We view the German claims regarding the expulsion of two employees of the Russian Embassy in Berlin to be groundless and unfriendly," Ms. Zakharova said, according to Russian news agencies.
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North Korea has long contended that the United Nations investigation of human rights abuses is groundless and part of a malicious plot instigated by the United States and its allies.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Jan 5 that Lee is "first and foremost a Chinese citizen" and called on others not to make "groundless accusations" on the case.
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Russia's Defence Ministry said statements by Turkey and other Western countries regarding the flow of refugees and a humanitarian crisis in the region were groundless, the Interfax news agency reported.
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Apple is suing Qualcomm for roughly $1 billion, saying Qualcomm has been "charging royalties for technologies they have nothing to do with," an action the chip maker sharply dismissed as groundless.
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Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and even Mailchimp all put the kibosh on Jones's groundless war for your mind, in favor of their own battle for more money and less public outrage.
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"Sokolovsky's actions may have offended some or indeed many, but they present no public danger and criminal sanctions against him are groundless incursions on the right to free expression," Gorbunova said.
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Google explained that it historically has never promoted the president's first address to Congress, which is not an official State of the Union address, and that the president's complaint was groundless.
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The U.S. accusations that China did not buy U.S. agricultural products were "groundless," state broadcaster CCTV on Monday reported an official from China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) as saying.
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Russia has repeatedly said that anti-Russian politicians in the United States are using groundless fears of closer ties with Moscow to sabotage any rapprochement and damage Trump in the process.
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"The way to close the dark pages in your own history is not by besmirching the history of other countries with irresponsible and groundless parliamentary decisions," tweeted Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
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Former Trump administration officials said they repeatedly warned the president that claims that Ukraine was responsible for hacking the 2016 US election were groundless, The New York Times reported on Sunday.
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It's a dark, strange place made up almost entirely of groundless, a-factual conspiracy theories, alternative pseudo-legal explanations of the Constitution, and frequently bizarre explanations for how the world operates.
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Asked whether Chinese Belt and Road investments in ports in Greece, Pakistan and Sri Lanka had a covert military intention, Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Ren Guoqiang said such speculation was "groundless".
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"I believe that we cannot withdraw this bill, or else society will say that this bill was groundless," Carrie Lam, Hong Kong's chief executive, said at a news conference on Saturday.
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"It is the same strategy adopted by many death-row inmates with an impending execution: bring last-minute claims that will delay the execution, no matter how groundless," Justice Thomas wrote.
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MOSCOW, June 19 (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that it regretted the findings of the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crash investigation and called murder charges against Russian suspects groundless.
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Patrick Poon, a Hong Kong-based China researcher for the rights group Amnesty International, said the decision to hold a closed trial raised the suspicion the allegations against him were "groundless".
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China called the allegations against Huawei "groundless fabrications" last month as the Trump administration and Chinese officials attempt to negotiate an end to the ongoing trade dispute between the two countries.
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Le Thi Thu Hang, a spokeswoman for the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry, called the findings of the report "groundless" and said the country looked forward to working internationally to fight digital breaches.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Friday that allegations against Maria Butina, a Russian woman accused of acting as an agent of Russia's government in the United States, were absolutely groundless.
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"Obviously, by pumping out groundless multibillion lawsuits, Rosneft is just trying to compensate the costs of (buying) Bashneft, in other words, get the asset for free, at Sistema's expense," he added.
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Mark Levin of the University of Hawaii argues that the catering lobby's fears are groundless: laws requiring smoke-free premises do not reduce business at most venues, and sometimes even increase it.
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In some of the sharpest comments yet, South Korean Industry Minister Sung Yun-mo urged Japan to "stop making groundless claims immediately," an apparent response to a Japanese media report last week.
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In a statement published by the WTO on Monday, India said it had changed its rules to conform with the ruling and that a U.S. claim for punitive trade sanctions was groundless.
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The second report "has made further allegations which again are groundless and contains various misrepresentations, malicious and false allegations and obvious factual errors of the group", Sinosoft said in its latest statement.
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"We will prove that Bosch's claims are groundless should the lawsuit proceed," Mando said in its statement, adding the dispute would not affect the stability of supply of its products to customers.
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"Once again, absolutely groundless accusations are being made against the Russian side, aimed at discrediting the Russian Federation in the eyes of the international community," the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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A Kennedy retirement this week would also make good on Trump's to-date groundless boast that he has accomplished more in a few months than many presidents do in a few years.
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Morgan Stanley has repeatedly said the claim is groundless, and in August 2016 the bank rejected a settlement proposal from an Italian prosecutor for a one-off payment, a securities filing showed.
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Without a finding of collusion, they were left trying to find obstruction of justice in the president's public exercise of his powers and his caustic views on an investigation he considered groundless.
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Alexander Vindman, a key witness in the impeachment probe, has demanded that Fox News retract a groundless claim made on the network that the decorated Iraq war veteran is a foreign spy.
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In some of the sharpest comments yet, South Korean Industry Minister Sung Yun-mo urged Japan to "stop making groundless claims immediately", an apparent response to a Japanese media report last week.
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The first was an unprecedented condemnation of his judicial chief, Tunde Hando, whom a panel of senior judges accused on Wednesday of "groundless" interference in the way judges are hired and promoted.
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The statement described as groundless opposition allegations that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were violating an agreement on a cessation of hostilities and on granting access for humanitarian supplies.
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Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group said on Monday a report claiming its billionaire chairman, Wang Jianlin, was prevented from leaving the country was "groundless" and that it planned to take legal action.
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Rebels and some eastern Ghouta residents contacted by Reuters have said people there do not want to come back under Assad's rule for fear of persecution, an idea the government says is groundless.
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"We hope and expect that any decision on Huawei's participation in Britain's build-out of 5G networks will be based on solid evidence, rather than on unfounded speculation and groundless accusations," it said.
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Warsaw has said its overhaul of the judiciary is in line with European standards and that the European Commission's concerns about rule of law in the country of 38 million people are groundless.
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MILAN, June 22 (Reuters) - Quaestio, the asset manager running Italian bank rescue fund Atlante, said on Wednesday press reports that the fund was studying the sale of Banca Popolare di Vicenza were groundless.
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The Russian statement described as groundless opposition allegations that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were violating an agreement on a cessation of hostilities and on granting access for humanitarian supplies.
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At the meeting, Moon dismissed reported remarks by a politician in Japan that South Korea illegally shipped hydrogen fluoride imported from Japan to North Korea in violation of international sanctions, calling them "groundless".
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Edison Vargas, the vice president of Fuerabamba, said by phone that the arrests last week of the community's president and lawyers on accusations of extortion were groundless and aimed to delegitimize their complaints.
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Moore wants a state judge to stop all proceedings in Corfman's defamation lawsuit, calling the suit "frivolous and groundless," according to the countersuit filed late Monday in Circuit Court in Montgomery County, Alabama.
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"Once again, absolutely groundless accusations are being made against the Russian side, aimed at discrediting the Russian Federation in the eyes of the international community", the Russian Foreign Ministry said on its website.
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Please be advised that I will not continue such an exchange of correspondence and that I will not respond further to groundless accusations directed against me personally and/or against my fellow members.
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"The claim that the operation conducted against terrorists in Afrin would endanger the combat against DAESH is completely groundless," said a statement from the Turkish Foreign Ministry, using the Arabic name for ISIS.
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But advocacy groups and many Democratic leaders have called it a Potemkin exercise intended to validate President Trump's groundless claim that millions of illegal ballots cost him a popular-vote victory in November.
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MEDIASET Italian private broadcaster said on Monday that Vivendi's complaints over the governance structure of a Dutch holding company which is part of its MFE pan-European expansion plan, are "groundless" and "biased".
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But on Tuesday Eni said that any suggestion that it might pick up a stake in the carrier was "groundless" and that it would not play a role in the rescue, a spokesperson said.
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But while he appears hell-bent on achieving self destruction, we will prevail in defeating this groundless lawsuit and ending the continued vile harassment of my client by Mr. Depp and his legal team.
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SHANGHAI/MANILA (Reuters) - China's Baosteel Group said on Friday that accusations by U.S. Steel Corp against the company, including that it had stolen commercial secrets, were groundless and vowed to protect its legal rights.
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Moon's office says the spying accusations are groundless but it sacked all of the anti-corruption team members, citing wrongdoing including being treated by businessmen to rounds of golf in breach of the law.
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Our groundless criticisms were then written into "big character" posters -- a popular way of criticizing "class enemies" and spreading propaganda -- 60 of them in total, which covered the exterior walls of our classroom building.
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"On the question of Alitalia, the company's position has not changed ... so news reports of presumed deals, even preliminary, of an eventual investment in the new Alitalia are groundless," Atlantia said in a statement.
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Worries that with Mr Putin he might promise to roll back sanctions or recognise Russia's annexation of Crimea proved groundless—as far as we can tell (the presidents met with only their interpreters present).
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that Western allegations the Russian Air Force was responsible for civilian deaths in the rebel-held district of eastern Ghouta outside the Syrian capital Damascus were groundless.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Monday described as groundless and unobjective an assertion by Poland's defense minister that foul play was behind a 2010 plane crash that killed the then Polish president.
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Toshiba CEO Satoshi Tsunakawa told a news conference the complaint was groundless and that Toshiba would push on with the sale, sticking to its plan to complete the second round of bidding on Friday.
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Likewise, having a clear understanding of your strengths enables you to shake off some of the more groundless feedback and criticism you can get in a busy, competitive work environment —and that builds confidence.
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At the same time, close Republican allies of the president argue a speedy dismissal would convey to the public that the Democratic claims against him are groundless and unworthy of even the barest consideration.
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Democrats spent more time talking about groundless claims regarding Kavanaugh's behavior in high school than about his nearly 700 opinions that he wrote or joined during a dozen years on the federal appeals court.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd, China's biggest state-owned semiconductor group, on Thursday said media reports that it bid for Toshiba Corp's chip business were groundless, reiterating a similar statement made in February.
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Porter's case was more than a "mere allegation," his life was far from destroyed, and the president himself has a loooooooooong history of making groundless accusations and becoming enraged when no one takes action.
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States have been increasingly eager to work with the Trump administration on cyber issues but many have criticized the voter fraud initiative, saying it is groundless and distracts from legitimate issues, like hacking threats.
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Although he had a record of petty crime, violence and drugs, when the police investigated the complaints they usually found them groundless and that Mr. Nuttall was under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
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" — Seth Meyers on "Late Night," June 14 "Trump's groundless insinuations hit a new low last week, after the mass shooting in Orlando, when he repeatedly suggested that President Obama secretly supports the Islamic State.
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Monte dei Paschi replied in a statement that Passera's claims were groundless, adding his proposal was non-binding, had been put together for investors who had not been named and was not yet "solidified".
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On Saturday Saudi Arabia's consul-general in Istanbul, Mohammad al-Otaibi, opened up his mission to Reuters to show that Khashoggi was not on the premises, and said talk of his abduction was groundless.
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Speaking in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said the U.S. report was as usual filled with "ideological prejudice" and groundless accusations, and that China had lodged a complaint with Washington about it.
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Some media outlets had reported last month, without citing sources, that Wang had been stopped from leaving China's Tianjin airport with his family and detained for a few hours, which Wanda said was "groundless".
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call that Facebook's Russia-related allegations made no sense to Moscow and said they looked similar to previous groundless allegations from other sources like Microsoft.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - China dismissed U.S. security warnings against its telecoms equipment maker Huawei as groundless and "abnormal" on Monday, as the Chinese government's top diplomat went to Brussels to cool growing European frustration over trade.
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His report, which he presents to the UN's Human Rights Council this month, triggered a peppery riposte from the hurriedly created Academics' Alliance for Correcting Groundless Criticisms of Japan, a group of uptight university professors.
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It films itself spitting out POTUS's groundless accusations and whimpering loser bullshit onto what looks like receipt paper, sheers them off with scissors, sets them aflame, and gingerly drops the burning embers into an ashtray.
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TASHKENT, June 24 (Reuters) - Russia did not influence Britain's vote to leave the European Union, President Vladimir Putin said on Friday, rejecting British Prime Minister David Cameron's remarks that he would welcome Brexit as groundless.
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MOSCOW, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Moscow considers United Nations allegations of human rights violations committed by Russia in Crimea to be "groundless", the Interfax news agency quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov as saying on Wednesday.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The latest U.S. sanctions imposed on five Russians and Chechens are grotesque and groundless, and Moscow will hit back with tit-for-tat sanctions, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Monday that British allegations chemical weapons inspectors were not being allowed access to Syria's Douma were groundless, adding Russia has consistently supported an investigation into the suspected gas attack.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran denied on Friday it had violated an international convention by not fully declaring its chemical weapons capabilities to the U.N., describing a U.S. allegation to that effect as groundless, state TV reported.
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Fullshare said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange late on Tuesday the allegations, which had caused its shares to plunge last week, were "misleading and groundless" and it was consulting legal advisers.
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A number of Russian scientists have been arrested and charged with treason for handing over sensitive material to foreigners in recent years, in cases that Kremlin critics have said are the result of groundless paranoia.
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"We believe firmly that it is a discriminatory act based on a groundless and misleading warning issued by NUKIB," a spokeswoman for Huawei in the Czech Republic, Magda Teresa Partyka, said in an emailed statement.
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China's representative at the WTO meeting said the tariffs were "groundless" and violated WTO rules in multiple ways, said the trade official, who gave an account of the closed-door talks on condition of anonymity.
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The European Union sanctioned on Monday two senior Russian military intelligence officials and two of their officers blamed for poisoning a former Russian double agent in Britain last year, a decision Moscow dismissed as groundless.
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"It is no surprise to hear such a groundless statement from the top U.S. diplomat, as he has never ceased wagging his tongue with criticism of China since the outbreak began," according to the editorial.
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" Proskauer rejected the claims as "groundless" and accused her of seeking "to squeeze a massive payout from our firm in exchange for her rapid departure and an agreement not to weaponize her blatantly inaccurate charges.
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HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group said on Monday a report claiming its billionaire chairman, Wang Jianlin, was prevented from leaving the country was "groundless" and that it planned to take legal action.
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"The claim that the operation conducted against terrorists in Afrin would endanger the combat against DAESH is completely groundless," said a statement from the Turkish Foreign Ministry last week, using the Arabic name for ISIS.
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"News that I am a candidate to become TIM's chairman is groundless," Franco Bassanini said in an emailed statement after daily La Stampa reported he might be appointed to replace TIM's current chairman Fulvio Conti.
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The United States Embassy in Turkey had no immediate comment but diplomats have protested strongly against Mr. Ulucay's detention, along with cases against two consular employees in Istanbul, saying the charges of terrorism were groundless.
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While many readers criticized Musk for lodging what they understood to be groundless accusations (and criticized Unsworth for disparaging Musk and his team's efforts to help), not a single reader seemed to construe Musk's statements literally.
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An Italian foreign ministry source said the news, which was reported by the Chinese agency Xinhua, was "groundless", while Health Minister Roberto Speranza wrote on Facebook that "direct air links with China are and remain closed".
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The regional court in the city of Mannheim dismissed the Qualcomm suit as groundless in an initial verbal decision, saying the patent in question was not violated by the installation of its chips in Apple's smartphones.
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The government of South Sudan on Friday denounced what it called a groundless report that accuses the president and other figures engaged in the country's civil war of fomenting violence in order to amass illegal wealth.
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Hillary Clinton's Republican rival for the White House, Donald Trump, and other Republicans have called for a special prosecutor to probe the charity for possible corruption, an accusation her campaign has called a groundless political smear.
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President Trump recently blamed environmental protections for the loss of homes and lives in wildfires in California, and followed up that groundless suggestion by strongly implying that increased logging could protect rural towns from these conflagrations.
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A federal judge dismissed one large case seeking class-action status in California last year, ruling that it was not "wholly groundless" that customers could be forced to arbitrate over accounts they had never agreed to.
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But an official in the region of Lombardy, where most of the cases (for now, over 200) are concentrated, hit back by calling the government "incapable" and saying Conte's remarks were "groundless and unacceptable," ANSA said.
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A senior U.S. Health and Human Services Department official has been placed on administrative leave after a news site uncovered a series of social media posts attacking opponents of President Donald Trump and making groundless claims.
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MOSCOW, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Former Russian finance minister Alexei Kudrin, an adviser to President Vladimir Putin, said on Friday that a court's guilty verdict for ex-economy minister Alexei Ulyukayev in a bribery case was groundless.
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That's why McCain says he handed it over to the FBI to investigate: to protect Trump from "groundless conspiracy theories," or to keep the Kremlin from using them to their advantage if the allegations were true.
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You see it in Marco Rubio's highly ideological but analytically groundless belief that dismantling the Iran nuclear deal and adopting a policy of maximal belligerence toward Tehran would advance freedom and peace in the Middle East.
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"Eni underlines that the statements made by Armanna regarding the conduct of Eni, its CEO and its management in the context of this operation are totally groundless," the company said in a statement following Monday's court session.
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China has insisted it is already making great efforts to achieve denuclearization on the Korean peninsula and Wang rejected any "groundless speculation" on its North Korea stance, following remarks from U.S. officials that China could do more.
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China has insisted it is already making great efforts to achieve decentralization on the "Korean peninsula" and Wang rejected any "groundless speculation" on its North Korea stance, following remarks from U.S. officials that China could do more.
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"We see the groundless allegations of Russia's involvement in the Salisbury incident as another attempt to paint our country as a state which approaches its international obligations in an irresponsible fashion," the ministry said in a statement.
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The report backs up a claim by the former homeland security adviser Tom Bossert, who earlier Sunday attacked Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani for keeping the flawed theory alive and said he'd warned Trump that it was groundless.
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ASTANA (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's envoy for Syria said on Thursday that there was no reason for U.S. forces to remain in Syria and that Washington's stated reasons for maintaining a military presence there were groundless.
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Monte dei Paschi said in a statement it regretted Passera's decision but added the claims he made were groundless and incompatible with the bank's duty to guarantee all investors a level playing field as regards data access.
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"Now that the wage-diversion claim has proved groundless, the government must apologize for abusing state power to suspend the complex and make utmost efforts to reopen it," the group said in a statement after the conference.
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Despite Mr. Trump's groundless claim that the ban is necessary to protect national security, no one from the affected countries has been responsible for a fatal terror attack in the United States in the past two decades.
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In dismissing one large case seeking class-action status in California, a federal judge ruled last year that it was not "wholly groundless" that customers could be forced to arbitrate over accounts they had never agreed to.
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By contrast, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal — cumulatively accounting for nearly half of the euro area economy — are some of the countries that would be devastated by Germany's groundless advocacy for the euro area's rising interest rates.
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Even if his wiretap claim was groundless, as seems all but certain, it has unexpectedly renewed a debate on the left as well as the right over whether security agencies invade Americans' privacy and could undermine democracy.
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Speaking in Moscow, Lavrov called for measures to be put in place to stop a similar situation happening in the region again and said that groundless accusations against Iran over the attacks were inflaming tensions, Interfax reported.
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The court decided 9-0 to throw out a lower-court ruling that had kept a case involving dental equipment companies from being resolved through arbitration because the court had determined the demand for arbitration was groundless.
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Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call he had no information that Russia could have been responsible and said his country was regularly accused of all kinds of crimes, most of which were groundless.
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The media buzz will be cranked up, there will be groundless allegations without any proof, and then it will all be declared secret, and neither journalists nor society nor politicians and officials will know what really happened.
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North Korea said on Friday the death of US university student Otto Warmbier soon after his return home was a mystery and dismissed accusations that he had died because of torture and beating during his captivity as "groundless".
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Moscow is in no way connected to the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Britain, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday, adding that the accusations against Russia are groundless.
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Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei, when asked if the government would investigate tax affairs of those mentioned in the Panama Papers, told reporters at a daily news briefing the ministry would not comment on "these groundless accusations".
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While Apple's decision to restock its shelves with Qualcomm-only iPhone 7s and 8s represents a momentary victory for Qualcomm, a separate German court tossed another of its patent suits against Apple last month — dismissing it as groundless.
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"Regardless of such groundless claims of hers, the special prosecutor will thoroughly carry out the investigation by law and principle," office spokesman Lee Kyu-chul told a regular briefing, adding that Choi was trying to discredit the investigation.
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Ukraine's United Nations ambassador, Volodymyr Y. Yelchenko, called Russia's accusations "completely groundless" and said the timing echoed the prelude to Russia's fight with Georgia exactly eight years earlier over the disputed breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday rejected statements by Turkey and Western countries about refugee flows and a humanitarian crisis in Syria's Idlib region, describing the information as groundless, the Interfax news agency cited the Defence Ministry as saying.
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BRUSSELS/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The European Union sanctioned on Monday the heads of Russia's military intelligence and two of their officers blamed for poisoning a former Russian double agent in Britain last year, a decision Moscow dismissed as groundless.
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MILAN, June 13 (Reuters) - The head of Italian market watchdog Consob said on Monday he acknowledged that pressure had been brought to bear on him from some members of government, but called the basis of those charges groundless.
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The Beijing Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday that rumors of an outbreak of pollution that left lingering toxins in fish were groundless, and there had been no directive telling retailers to stop selling live freshwater fish.
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He received such correspondence, eventually signed by Mr. Grillo, after it was revealed that Mr. Pizzarotti was under investigation for mishandling the appointment of the head of the city's opera house, an allegation that was later proved groundless.
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Asked on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday what information Mr. Trump had received that led him to reject intelligence assessments, Kellyanne Conway, one of Mr. Trump's top advisers, insisted that the reports about the hacking were groundless.
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"We urge relevant parties to cease the groundless fabrications and unreasonable restrictions toward Huawei and other Chinese companies, and create a fair, good and just environment for mutual investment and normal cooperation by both sides' companies," Hua said.
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The White House has accused Russia of orchestrating hacks of Democratic-affiliated email accounts earlier this year in an attempt to interfere with the presidential election – an accusation Russia has repeatedly denied, with Lavrov calling them "groundless" on Friday.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - The decision to scale back British-Russian dialogue was a groundless and untimely decision by London, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday, on the eve of British foreign minister Boris Johnson's visit to Moscow.
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In lengthy fundraising emails and sprawling state-of-play updates in recent weeks, Stone writes that his family is facing financial annihilation from the legal bills he's incurring to defend himself in what he calls "frivolous, groundless, defamatory" lawsuits.
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ASTANA, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's envoy for Syria said on Thursday that there was no reason for U.S. forces to remain in Syria and that Washington's stated reasons for maintaining a military presence there were groundless.
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BEIJING, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Billionaire investor George Soros has "groundless fears" about the Chinese economy, China's state media said after he told Bloomberg TV last week he sees a hard landing for the country's economy contributing to global deflation.
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After President Trump made his groundless claim that he lost the popular vote in the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton only because millions of illegal ballots were cast, the White House appointed a panel to investigate claims of fraud.
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He told the representatives that "certain US forces have been making groundless accusations against China on trade and security, generating confrontational sentiments and poisoning the atmosphere of bilateral ties," according to a statement released Tuesday by the foreign ministry.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Allegations that Moscow meddled in the U.S. presidential elections in 2016 are groundless, as there have been no criminal cases brought in the United States against those who allowed such alleged meddling, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Thursday.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry on Thursday urged the U.S. Republican Party to stop making "groundless accusations" against China in its party platform, which says China practices cultural genocide in Tibet and has ludicrous claims in the South China Sea.
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"The claims made in this case by the appellant are groundless and the rejection by the district court was justifiable," high court judge Yoshihiro Toyosawa wrote in a 16-page decision for a three-judge panel, affirming the trial court's decision.
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The anonymous source emphasized that the local Hui Muslim community in Yunnan believes that the government is trying to use groundless accusations to persecute the community, and the tactics used in Xinjiang are likely to be carried over to Yunnan.
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What to watch: The bill will likely be reintroduced at some point, but Lam declined to set a hard deadline: "I believe that we cannot withdraw this bill, or else society will say that this bill was groundless," she said.
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"Today's groundless ruling is a further slap in the face for justice in Ethiopia and proof of the authorities' continued willingness ... to misuse the criminal justice system to silence dissent," said Muthoni Wanyeki, Amnesty International's regional director, in a statement.
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HONG KONG, Jan 3 (Reuters) - Sinosoft Technology Group Ltd , in which Alibaba Group Holding has a 13.32 percent stake, on Tuesday dismissed as groundless the allegations by a Chinese short-seller that the Hong Kong-listed company had inflated its revenues.
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"Soon, images captured by the Guards drones from the US warship Boxer will be published to expose to world public opinion as lies and groundless the claim ... of shooting down an Iranian drone over the Strait of Hormuz," it said.
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"If the focus is Rod Rosenstein and whether he has done something or failed to do something that could remotely warrant impeachment, I think it's just groundless," said Jack Sharman, a former special counsel to Congress during the Whitewater investigations.
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"Soon, images captured by the Guards drones from the U.S. warship Boxer will be published to expose to world public opinion as lies and groundless the claim... of shooting down an Iranian drone over the Strait of Hormuz," it read.
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Just as our Russian and Japanese economic fears proved to have been groundless as those economies burnt out, so too is there good reason to expect that we will be proved to have been worrying unduly about China's economic rise.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday denounced accusations arising from a massive leak from a Panamanian law firm as "groundless" and moved to limit coverage of documents that may have exposed financial wrongdoing by some of the world's rich and powerful.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Allegations by a former head of Russia's drug testing laboratory that dozens of Russian athletes used doping when they competed at the 2014 Sochi Olympics are "slander by a turncoat" and are absolutely groundless, the Kremlin said on Friday.
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MOSCOW, March 3 (Reuters) - Russia on Tuesday rejected statements by Turkey and Western countries about refugee flows and a humanitarian crisis in Syria's Idlib region, describing the information as groundless, the Interfax news agency cited the Defence Ministry as saying.
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He is the son of Communist Party officials and previously used his earnings from business to pay for dredging archives in Russia, after serving a two-year prison term on a charge of leaking state secrets that he insisted was groundless.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea said on Friday the death of U.S. university student Otto Warmbier soon after his return home was a mystery and dismissed accusations that Warmbier had died because of torture and beating during his captivity as "groundless".
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Now, two and a half years after Mr. Li was detained, his family in New York has broken its silence, saying that the espionage conviction against Mr. Li, an exporter of aircraft parts, was groundless and driven by political motives.
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"For some time, however, some outside forces have tried to vilify and undermine China-Africa cooperation by cooking up (accusations of) so-called neo-colonialism and debt traps, which are totally groundless and are not accepted by African people," Wang said.
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" Spain's centrist El Pais newspaper said that Trump's speech, although more "orderly" than his more impromptu utterances, was full of "half-truths and manipulated data," whereas Italy's Corriere della Sera attacked Trump's "absolutely groundless accusation that illegal immigrants would destroy America's middle class.
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An editorial on Thursday in the People's Daily, the official mouthpiece of China's Communist Party, laid in to "groundless fears" about the economy, which it said was still propelling global growth, and enjoying rising foreign investment, moderate inflation and prudent monetary policy.
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HONG KoNG, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group said in a statement to Reuters on Monday that a report claiming its billionaire chairman, Wang Jianlin, was prevented from leaving the country was groundless and it planned to take legal action.
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In a statement on Tuesday after Passera dropped his proposal, the bank said it regretted Passera's decision but added the claims he made were groundless and incompatible with the bank's duty to guarantee all investors a level playing field as regards data access.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - The European Commission's view that rule of law is threatened in Poland is groundless, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, a day after a senior Commission official said there was a serious issue with the independence of Poland's highest court.
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"The protectionist behavior taken by the U.S. based on purely groundless accusations by U.S. Steel has seriously broken the WTO rules, distorted the normal world steel trade and damaged the essential interests of Chinese steel mills and U.S. steel users," the statement said.
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"Once again America has leveled groundless accusations against Iran ... which we strongly reject," Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi was quoted as saying by Iranian TV. Washington's aim, Qasemi said, was to divert international attention from its continued support for Israeli chemical arsenals.
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The Foreign Ministry has denounced accusations arising from the release of the so-called "Panama Papers" as groundless after their leak this week revealed offshore companies linked to the relatives of Chinese President Xi Jinping and other powerful current and former Chinese leaders.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry on Monday said allegations of Moscow's involvement in the poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in the English town of Salisbury - an event which led to a new round of U.S. sanctions against Russia - were groundless.
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In the messages, US officials also discussed a drafted statement to be delivered by Ukraine's president announcing a probe into Burisima Holdings, an energy company where Hunter Biden previously worked, as well into groundless allegations Ukraine interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
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"We urge relevant parties to cease the groundless fabrications and unreasonable restrictions toward Huawei and other Chinese companies, and create a fair, good and just environment for mutual investment and normal cooperation by both sides' companies," spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in January.
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For its part, the Temple issued a statement asking critics to stop hurling "hatred and groundless accusations at them," since its members, like others who have been sickened, were "victims of the disease which originated in China and was transmitted to this country."
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Top allies of President Donald Trump are spreading groundless allegations of conspiracies and voter fraud in the Iowa caucuses, and the Republican official who heads the state's election commission has accused them of spreading "fake news" in a bid to disenfranchise Iowan voters.
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In response to a question about the attack, he said he reiterated comments made on Thursday, when he said that the allegations by a British official about 'NotPetya' attack were groundless and part of a "Russophobic" campaign being conducted in some Western countries.
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Efforts to denigrate the integrity of the Fed's work, and to inject groundless opinion, politics and ideology, must be rejected by the board — and that means governors and other members of the Federal Open Market Committee must be willing to withstand aggressive attacks.
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North Korea had provided medical care to Warmbier despite his "hostile acts" against the country, and claims of torture are groundless slander aimed at opposing the North, North Korea's foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by the state-run KCNA news agency.
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He filed a defamation suit against the paper in 2012 after it ran an article about him pleading guilty to harassing a woman — the lawsuit was thrown out by a judge as groundless — and he repeatedly targeted staff members with menacing, profanity-laced tweets.
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Related: US-Backed Rebels Struggle to Fend Off Islamic State Offensive in Northern Syria "The way to close the dark pages in your own history is not by besmirching the history of other countries with irresponsible and groundless parliamentary decisions," tweeted Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
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"The seepage of conspiracy theorizing from the digital fever swamps into life offline is one of the more unsettling developments of the Trump era, in which the president has relentlessly pushed groundless conspiracies to reshape political narratives to his liking," Mike and Kevin write.
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"China resolutely opposes the politicization of any normal commercial takeover or the wrong move of political obstruction," Lu told a news briefing, saying that China hoped the United States would stop making "groundless accusations" against Chinese firms and provide a fair environment for them.
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller seems determined to press forward with some version of the Spanish Inquisition – an increasingly indefensible, apparently groundless, objectively debilitating inquiry into what was initially one question: Did the Trump campaign knowingly coordinate with Russia to win the 2016 presidential election?
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said he had told U.S. officials earlier this week that Moscow is concerned over signs that the United States is preparing new strikes on Syria and warned against "groundless and illegal aggression against Syria".
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"What Trump said is completely groundless and untrue," Liu Yuejin, China's narcotics commission's vice commissioner, told reporters Tuesday, according to the AP. Liu said that no fentanyl smuggling cases have been discovered between the U.S. and China since Beijing began regulating it in May.
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Meeting representatives of the U.S.-China Business Council and National Committee on United States-China Relations in New York, Wang said certain U.S. forces have been making groundless accusations against China on trade and security, China's Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
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It is "very disturbing when public figures of a country become subjects of punitive measures of another country based on groundless accounts and accusations in total disregard of legal and judicial independence of the country", Cambodia's foreign ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
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"What we oppose are groundless accusations for political purposes and attempts to bring down a foreign company," Wang told a news conference, although he did not name Huawei, which is seeking to sell the next generation of mobile technology in Europe, its top market outside China.
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While it's smart to distrust spammy texts from unknown numbers—don't click the link if you don't know who sent it—it's also smart to check the validity of a horrifying claim such as this one before retweeting it, further stoking groundless fears in the timeline.
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He particularly stressed that all complaints of torture are being investigated, that the garbage tip hypothesis is based on solid scientific evidence, and that no line of inquiry will be closed until it is proved groundless within the "most exhaustive" probe ever to take place in Mexico.
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Steven Smith, another black resident of Madison County who is also a plaintiff in the suit, said he was stopped for no reason by deputies who ordered him to show identification and conducted a groundless search that resulted in Smith serving jail time for a previous fine.
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"The lawsuit was a political scam about the states not wanting to resettle any refugees based on a groundless proposition that Syrians represented a security risk that was found by the court unfounded and discriminatory," Dana Rubin, the executive director for IRC's Dallas office, told me.
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"We view as groundless attempts undertaken by the U.S. and a number of other countries to shift responsibility to Russia and China, almost blaming Moscow and Beijing for indulging the missile and nuclear ambitions of the DPRK (North Korea)," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
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"The Democratic Party of the U.S. and other opponents to the negotiations move overtly and covertly to disrupt them as supported by skepticism backed by all sorts of groundless stories and misinformation even at such a crucial moment as now," state media said, the news service reported.
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"We urge relevant parties to cease the groundless fabrications and unreasonable restrictions toward Huawei and other Chinese companies, and create a fair, good and just environment for mutual investment and normal cooperation by both sides' companies," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said, according to Reuters.
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"I am devastated that my husband's appeal has been denied, and that he continues to be unjustly imprisoned in Iran on groundless accusations of espionage and collaboration with a hostile government against the Iranian state," Wang's wife, Hua Qu, said in a statement on Princeton's website.
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Most recently, the botched Iowa Democratic caucuses and the coronavirus outbreak have provided fodder for conspiracy mongering: QAnon fans shared groundless theories online linking the liberal billionaire George Soros to technological problems that hobbled the caucuses, and passed around bogus and potentially dangerous "treatments" for the virus.
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Ulyukayev, who protests his innocence, was sentenced to 8 years in prison earlier on Friday after a court found him guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Igor Sechin, the CEO of oil giant Rosneft.. "It's a terrible, groundless verdict," Kudrin said on social media.
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Like Andrea's relationship, Chris's infatuation with Dick doesn't make much sense: Dick tells Chris that her love for him is "groundless," and what we actually see or experience of him makes him (through Chris's descriptions and, finally, a letter of his own) seem like probably a loser.
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"Recently, as the U.S. side has been constantly escalating trade friction toward China, it has also adopted a series of actions on the Taiwan issue that harm China's rights, and has made groundless criticism of China's domestic and foreign policies," Wang said at a joint appearance with Pompeo.
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Days after picking up the pieces from a failed bid to take his electric car manufacturer private — an attempt seemingly initiated by an ill-advised tweet — the billionaire revisited a groundless accusation he made about a private citizen involved in a child-rescue operation that caught the world's attention.
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"Soon, images captured by the Guards drones from the U.S. warship Boxer will be published to expose to world public opinion as lies and groundless the claim ... of shooting down an Iranian drone over the Strait of Hormuz," the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement carried by news agencies.
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"We view as groundless attempts undertaken by the U.S. and a number of other countries to shift responsibility to Russia and China, almost blaming Moscow and Beijing for indulging the missile and nuclear ambitions of the DPRK (North Korea)," the ministry said in a statement, according to Reuters.
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"Recently, as the U.S. side has been constantly escalating trade friction toward China, it has also adopted a series of actions on the Taiwan issue that harm China's rights and interests, and has made groundless criticism of China's domestic and foreign policies," Wang said at a joint appearance with Pompeo.
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Rousseff has repeatedly denied that she doctored Brazil's budget to hide a massive deficit before her 2014 re-election and has gained ground politically by repeating in almost every speech that what she says is her groundless impeachment is the equivalent of staging a coup d'etat against a democratic government.
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" The Russian embassy in Washington pointed to a November 23 statement by Alexander Shulgin, the permanent representative to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons: "We consider absolutely unacceptable the groundless accusations ... pertaining to the alleged involvement of Russian nationals in the use of a nerve agent in Salisbury.
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In his report to Congress in 1998, Mr. Starr argued that among the grounds for impeachment was what the prosecutor considered Mr. Clinton's "frivolous" and "patently groundless" assertions of executive and other privileges to thwart a perjury and obstruction of justice investigation stemming from the president's affair with Monica Lewinsky.
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"What we oppose are groundless accusations for political purposes and attempts to bring down a foreign company," Wang told a news conference in Brussels in a veiled reference to Huawei Technologies Co. "We think such practices are abnormal, immoral and have no support," he said after a meeting with EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini.
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"Other people don't know better than the Chinese people about the human rights condition in China and it is the Chinese people who are in the best situation, in the best position, to have a say about China's human rights situation," Wang said, going on to label the journalist's questions "groundless and unwarranted accusations".
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They have since moved onto a new line of attack — a groundless claim that Romney is part of a cover-up linked to Burisma, the Ukrainian energy firm where former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter served as board member, and the focus of Trump's campaign to drum up dirt to hamper Biden's chances in the 2020 election.
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For its part, China's Foreign Ministry said in July that the accusations of theft are "groundless" and cited statistics, including the country's top global ranking for invention patent applications received and its payment in 2017 of $28.6 billion in royalties, to show it is not only a major innovative power but one that respects and defends intellectual property rights.
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"Contrary to Trump's delusional and groundless claim, all drones belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, including the one mentioned by the US President, have returned to their bases safe and sound after carrying out their scheduled surveillance and control operations," Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said, according to MEHR News.
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Her priorities are so groundless that she has no problem with a man going on CBS, the network where our nation's septuagenarians get Big Bang Theoried, and singing the lyric "You hate my people, your plan is to terminate my culture," yet the sight of a football player quietly kneeling sends her flying off the handle.
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"Although I am grateful to @rosemcgowan for her full apology following her groundless allegations about me, if she had issued it earlier, I may have kept my job on X-Factor and avoided the constant accusations of paedophilia [sic] which I have been subjected to in real-life and online," Argento tweeted along with the tweet of McGowan's apology.
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On a breezy afternoon in February, they stood surrounded by five large-scale paintings — including "Kishkindha Forest (Jodhpur)" (210), a vibrant landscape populated by monkeys and bears that's based on an 2100th-century Indian work by an unknown artist, and the abstract "Groundless Ground" (20173) — which they completed for "Earth Bound," their current exhibition at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.
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Trump has accused Xi of not doing enough since then to stop the flow of illicit drugs to the US. In a briefing this week, China's Foreign Ministry said it's "groundless and false" that China is the main source of fentanyl in the U.S., and that the U.S. isn't doing enough to stem demand for the drug among domestic users.
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"The point I was trying to make earlier is that, in the situation of the President, who has constitutional authority to supervise proceedings, if in fact a proceeding was not well founded, if it was a groundless proceeding, if it was based on false allegations, the President does not have to sit there, constitutionally, and allow it to run its course," Barr said during his testimony.
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" Argento rejected the apology, noting that McGowan's statement had fanned the flame of the controversy: "Although I am grateful to @rosemcgowan for her full apology following her groundless allegations about me, if she had issued it earlier, I may have kept my job on X-Factor and avoided the constant accusations of paedophilia which I have been subjected to in real-life and online.
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"Although I am grateful to @rosemcgowan for her full apology following her groundless allegations about me, if she had issued it earlier, I may have kept my job on X-Factor and avoided the constant accusations of paedophilia which I have been subjected to in real-life and online," Argento wrote, referring to the fact that she was cut from the Italian version of X Factor following the sexual assault scandal.
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And with dieting having been proven not only ineffective (an astonishing 97 percent of dieters regain at least as much weight as they lost, within three years, belying the ruthless optimism of the industry), but often also groundless (Health at Every Size is an organization working to fight the claim that all fat people are ill), and even dangerous, maybe the wellness industry isn't quite so magical after all.
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How the Vietnam War Brought High-Tech Border Surveillance to AmericaFrom 13 until 1973, the US military spent about $1 billion a year on a new computer-powered…Read more Read"Unlike Trump's delusional and groundless claim, all drones belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, including the one mentioned by the U.S. president, have returned to their bases safe and sound after carrying out their scheduled surveillance and control operations," Iranian Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi told the state-controlled news channel Press TV.President Trump opened a press event at the White House on Thursday with an announcement that the U.S. Navy had taken "defensive action" against a drone that had gotten within 1,000 yards of the amphibious assault ship, the USS Boxer.
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