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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton – as senator, secretary of state, and active partner in the Clinton Foundation – has had the privilege of influencing major players in governments across the globe.

MUKWONAGO, Wisconsin — House Speaker Paul Ryan introduced Republican vice presidential nominee and Indiana Gov. Mike Pence to a significant crowd at Field Park in Wisconsin’s Waukesha County on Saturday.

REUTERS – Two Italian workers and a Canadian kidnapped in Libya in September have been freed and were flown to Italy early on Saturday, Italian and Libyan officials said.

The State Department informed Breitbart News that the estimated completion date was now February 2017 in a September 7, 2016 email, responding to an inquiry made several days earlier. Breitbart News subsequently asked the State Department to accelerate the estimated completion date to before the presidential election on November 8, but has not received a response to several such requests.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — Republican nominee Donald Trump told a rally of thousands of supporters inside at the Champion Center Expo that he would win Ohio, and save America from Obamacare’s sharp increases in health insurance premiums.

“The newly revealed link between Clinton’s private email server and Romanian actors further underscores the need to ensure her reckless behavior will never be allowed again – especially without punishment,” the congressman says.

“Without the media, Clinton wouldn’t have a chance,” states the ad. “End the media’s corrupt collusion with extremist liberals who silence dissent and persecute religious believers.”

Contents: France to demolish ‘The Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais; Italy struggles with the ‘mini-Calais’ refugee camp in Ventimiglia

An October 19, 2015 email from Mandy Grunwald, however, does give input in the email discussion about what to include in a statement from Clinton on Benghazi and it reads as follows: “Seems odd to put the tributes to the four guys into this statement, since it is mostly the repackaged testimony. We can’t overdo the tributes to them and I think they should be done in person.”

Armed men have attacked an overcrowded dinghy carrying migrants off Libya, leaving at least four dead and up to 25 missing, the German NGO Sea-Watch said Friday.

Patricia Smith, one of the bereaved mothers who lost a son in the Benghazi terror attack of Sep. 11, 2012, told Breitbart News that the third presidential debate on Wednesday “stunk.” “They didn’t even mention Benghazi,” she said with evident disgust.

In a discussion with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein in 2013, Hillary Clinton asserted that the 2011 uprising in Libya that led to the demise of dictator Muammar Qaddafi resulted in “very few civilian casualties,” comparing it favorably to the Syrian Civil War.

Multiple missiles were fired Saturday at three US warships in the Red Sea, though none was hit and there were no casualties, the US military said, amid rising tensions with Yemen’s Houthi rebels.

(Reuters) – Britain’s Ministry of Defence has paid compensation to two people who suffered sex attacks in 2014 by Libyan cadets who were being trained at a British army barracks. Over 300 cadets had been taking part in the programme

The WikiLeaks dump of those very expensive speeches Hillary Clinton fought to keep secret from the public for so long include some remarkable comments on Libya and Benghazi.

Center for Security Policy President Frank Gaffney reviewed the national security segments of Tuesday night’s vice presidential debate on Wednesday morning’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.

Between Monday and Tuesday, a record number of over ten thousand mostly African migrants were rescued in the Strait of Sicily and brought to Italy, bringing the year’s total to over 142,000.

President Barack Obama’s Department of Justice has dropped charges against a man who sold weapons that he claimed were supposed to arm the rebels in Libya during Hillary Clinton’s aggressive intervention in that volatile Middle Eastern country.

Pete Hoekstra, former chairman of the U.S. House Intelligence Committee, appeared on Breitbart News Daily Tuesday morning to discuss his Washington Examiner op-ed, “Obama Rolls Dice on Foreign Policy in Secretive Presidential Decree.”

Thomas Joscelyn, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and Senior Editor of the Long War Journal, told the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade on Tuesday that the Islamic State has suffered major setbacks in its Libyan stronghold of Sirte.

VIENNA, Sept 24 (Reuters) – The European Union should set up a “giant refugee city” on the Libyan coast and process asylum claims from refugees arriving from Africa there with the help of a new Libyan government, Hungarian Prime Minister

During his September 19 address to supporters in Fort Meyers, Florida, Trump said that Hillary Clinton has been such a disaster for America’s national security that if he had to make the choice again, even President Barack Obama wouldn’t pick her as his secretary of state.

Contents: Tunisia remains the #1 source of foreign fighters for ISIS; Tunisia’s town of Ben Guerdane on Libya border exemplifies problems; Escalating economic protests across Tunisia threaten country’s stability; France’s new ambassador to Tunisia commits huge gaffe

Italian anti-drug units, over a 32-month period, intercepted 20 enormous freighters used to traffic a collective 280 tons of hashish valued at about $3.2 billion through territory near Libya believed to be controlled by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), reports The New York Times (NYT).

Contents: UK politicians debate the 2011 Libya intervention; Libya and Syria illustrate the intervention dilemma for policy makers

The head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, Martin Kobler, has warned that there are 235,000 migrants in Libya “just waiting for the opportunity to go to Italy, which they will.”

The Foreign Affairs Select Committee of the British Parliament has published a scathing report on David Cameron’s intervention in Libya, finding it was “carried out with no proper intelligence analysis, drifted into an unannounced goal of regime change and shirked its moral responsibility to help reconstruct the country following the fall of Muammar Gaddafi,” as the UK Guardian puts it.

(AFP) – Former British prime minister David Cameron launched a bombing campaign in Libya based on “erroneous assumptions” and failed to adequately plan for the aftermath, according to a damning parliamentary report released on Wednesday. The Foreign Affairs Committee analysed

Several Arab and Western espionage agencies have set up a joint situation room to trace thousands of Islamic State fighters who went missing in Syria, Iraq and Libya, an Arab intelligence official told Breitbart Jerusalem.

Breitbart News National Security Editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka, author of the best-selling book Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, appeared with retired Lt. General Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency and a national security adviser to Donald Trump, on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program to discuss Wednesday night’s national security forum.

Hillary Clinton’s “hawkish foreign policy” was questioned during NBC’s “Commander in Chief Forum” by a progressive female voter who served as an intelligence analyst specializing in counter-violence extremism.

NEW YORK – During NBC’s Commander-in-Chief Forum, host Matt Lauer numerous times asked Donald Trump hard-hitting follow-up questions and raised additional challenges to the Republican presidential candidate’s responses to questions from Lauer and the audience.

Do not expect Lauer to ask about Clinton’s email server, or Syria (she called dictator Bashar Assad a “reformer”), or how she took foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation while in office. Indeed, expect him to avoid her record.

The Italian Coast Guard oversaw the rescue of more than 2,700 migrants who were attempting to cross the perilous Strait of Sicily from North Africa to Italy Monday.

(REUTERS) – Fifteen bodies were recovered and more than 2,700 boat migrants rescued off the coast of Libya on Monday, the Italian coastguard said, in another day of mass departures from north Africa.

In the combined efforts of six separate rescue operations Monday, Italian Navy patrollers rescued some 500 migrants off the coast of Libya, as well as recovering eight lifeless bodies.