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The FBI agents investigating Hillary Clinton’s private email server don’t have access to the Clinton emails discovered on Anthony Weiner’s laptop because they lack a search warrant; the agents working the Weiner investigation apparently have seen them and told the FBI director about them. Sources at the Department of Justice say they intend to seek a warrant, but they’re also talking to Huma Abedin, which suggests another immunity deal may be under discussion.
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South Korea’s political scandal has reached the stage where President Park Geun-hye is accepting the resignations of her staff members. Park’s friend Choi Soon-sil returned from Germany today.
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Yesterday the Turkish government fired another 10,000 civil servants as part of its post-attempted coup crackdown. It also shut down 15 media outlets that covered the Kurdish areas of the country.
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The U.S. ordered the families of civilian staff stationed in Istanbul to leave Turkey due to terrorist threats.
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The Kurdish Peshmerga have a network of informants among the ISIS forces in Mosul.
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Al Shabaab seized a small town from the Somalian army’s control.