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Donald Trump wants allies to share burden of security

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Donald Trump wants allies to share burden of security Republican presidential nominee   Donald Trump   has said that if elected he would ensure that America's European and Asian allies meet the NATO obligation of spending two per cent of their GDP on defence. "Only five of the 28 member   NATO   countries meet their obligations to spend two per cent of GDP on defence. I will convene a summit of our European and Asian allies to make sure everyone is sharing in the burden of security. We are paying tremendous amounts of money to secure other nations, to protect and defend other nations," Trump said at an election rally in Iowa. "We are going to be made whole. We have no choice. This isn't 30 years ago. This isn't 40 years ago. And I believe properly asked, we'll be in a very good position and they will be very nice about it," he said as he slammed the foreign policy of the Obama Administration in particular that of the former Secretary of Sta...

Clinton never personally denied Benghazi security: Democrats

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Clinton never personally denied Benghazi security: Democrats Hillary Clinton   never personally denied any requests from diplomats for additional security at the US outpost in Benghazi, Libya, according to   Democrats on a select House panel who absolved the former secretary of state and the US military of wrongdoing in the deadly September 11, 2012 attacks. In a report pre-empting the Republicans, the panel's five Democrats said after a two-year investigation that the military could not have done anything differently that night to save the lives of four Americans killed in Libya. US Ambassador Chris Stevens died in one of the two assaults at the diplomatic facility and CIA annex. Democrats' release of their own report heightened the partisanship of the inquiry, which has been marked by finger-pointing on both sides. Republicans accuse the Obama administration of stonewalling important documents and witnesses, while Democrats say the panel's primary goal is to u...