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Ya don't say Hillary has a problem telling the truth. It’s just not something she does. There are a lot of reasons for this, but one of the biggest is that her whole career is predicated on 30 years of lying. Her life story is essentially one gigantic, tangled, web of falsehoods, half-truths, spin, and obfuscation. The thing is, when you’ve lived that way for so long, you can’t just stop. In order to push forward, you have to keep lying, and every new answer has to square with the previous set of fabrications. That’s a lot to keep straight,...

Washington: American authorities are pressuring Yemen to counter a rising internal Al Qaida threat more aggressively and improve intelligence-sharing amid growing worries that the country could become the next significant terrorist staging ground. As insurgent attacks have spiked in the embattled Middle East nation over the past year, the US has bolstered counterterrorism training there, including efforts to shore up Yemen's borders and combat terror financing and arms trafficking. Al Qaida's increased strength at organising and training new recruits in Yemen's vast ungoverned spaces has also led the US to consider boosting financial aid and sales of military equipment to...