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AMMAN, Jordan (CNN) -- In the sunbathed schoolyard of the Shmisani Institute for Girls in Amman, Jordan, principal Sanaa Abu Harb makes an announcement over the speaker system.

Iraqi students at the Shmisani school in Amman gather around a teacher. One in 5 students there is Iraqi.

"All Iraqi girls come outside now. All Iraqi girls. Iraqi girls only!" she repeats several times, making sure the message is clear and waving away Jordanian pupils attracted by the commotion.

Dozens of girls in green apron-like uniforms pour out into the courtyard and cluster on the top level of a stone staircase overlooking a concrete playground.

Harb wants the CNN crew to see how many Iraqi refugee girls her school is accommodating. This school year, she says, 145 students are Iraqi -- roughly 20 percent of the students at this state-funded institution -- with another 40 Iraqi children on a waiting list.  Watch Iraqi girls describe a long way from home Â»

The reason behind the jump in the number of Iraqis at the school is a new government policy: For the first time since the start of the Iraq war, Jordan is allowing all Iraqi children -- regardless of refugee status -- to enroll in state-funded schools.

Simply, this means that even illegal refugees with no paperwork can send their kids to school with no questions asked.

The move is cementing a massive population shift in the Middle East. More than 2.2 million Iraqis have fled the violence in their homeland, most of them seeking refuge in neighboring Jordan and Syria, according to humanitarian officials.

Jordanian Minister of Education Khalid Touqan says he expects Jordan to accommodate 40,000 to 50,000 Iraqi students this year. That's more than double the number of Iraqi children enrolled in public school two years ago.

Harb, on the front line of the phenomenon, says the influx is putting a strain on her school. Even with some U.N. and U.S. aid to Jordan, there's still not enough money.

"We need more teachers here, more resources, more buildings, more chairs for all Iraqi students and our students," she says.

In a nearby neighborhood, in the study room of the Ahmed Toukan School for Boys, a handful of Iraqi kids talk of their experience living far from home. Seated at a rectangular table covered with a red and white tablecloth, the boys tell stories of horror and displacement.

Eighteen-year-old Qutaiba lost five immediate family members before moving to Jordan to try to live a normal life. Matter-of-factly and with a straight-ahead stare, he repeats the number: "Five members."

Most of the boys and young men from Iraq have missed several years of school -- up to a four-year educational gap that will delay not only their high school graduation, but also their entry into the workforce.

All say, though, that they feel lucky to have gotten out, even if the violence in their country means always having to be on the move, ready to live far from home and away from loved ones.

"It's not strange for me to be in the middle of people I don't know," says eleventh grader Ziad Tarek Al Shamsi. "I had friends in Iraq when I was small, I left them. In America, I left them. I came here, I left them."

He pauses: "But you have to miss your country."

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates up to 250,000 school-age Iraqi children are in Jordan.

Many of them are enrolled in private institutions. But as families run out of money they had when they left Iraq, they turn to public schools.

Even so, more than a month into the new academic year, fewer Iraqi families than first anticipated enrolled their kids in schools this year. According to the charity Save the Children, 21,000 Iraqi children have so far enrolled in Jordanian classrooms.

As a result, the government extended the deadline for student applications and cut down on the required paperwork for Iraqi families.

The lower registration numbers were attributed in part to illegal refugees' fears of being identified through their children's school records.

Regardless of what the final number will be this year, the population shift in the Middle East is, according to UNHCR head Antonio Guterres, the largest urban refugee situation in the world.

Iraqi families are changing the social fabric of Jordanian society. About 10 percent of Jordan's population is now made up of Iraqi refugees -- the estimates range from 500,000 to 750,000 of them.

The schoolchildren are living examples of how the Iraq war may permanently change the Middle East.

"Iraqi children will be incorporated and integrated within our mainstream line of education," says Touqan, the education minister. "We will not run a parallel system of education." E-mail to a friend

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Editor's Note: This is the last in a five-part series exploring Judge Sonia Sotomayor's background and life with those who know her, revealing the experiences that might shape her views as a Supreme Court justice.

Sotomayor was nominated to U.S. district court in 1991 and federal appeals court in 1997.

(CNN) -- Sonia Sotomayor had been a federal appeals court judge for about four months when Ellen Chapnick got a phone call in 1998.

The Columbia Law School lecturer's students had worked and studied with Sotomayor as part of a program at the school, but Chapnick figured the partnership had come to an end with the judge's new job.

"She called me up and said, 'You know, I really miss your students. Isn't there something we can do about that?'" recalled Chapnick, now Dean of the Social Justice Program at the school. "And, of course, a judge rarely asks a question when she doesn't know the answer."

That call, and the partnership that would continue another six years, captures the essence of the woman who has spent years on the federal bench, friends and colleagues said.

They remember a tireless worker spending late hours in her chambers or on projects like the college course: A tough decision-maker who would pick apart any lawyer foolish enough to come to court unprepared; a thoughtful jurist whose years as an aggressive prosecutor endeared her to law enforcement even as she developed a reputation as a social liberal; and a child of the Bronx who maintained a heart for people from all walks of life as she ascended to the legal world's loftiest positions.

"Her hobby is people," said Chapnick, who became friends with the woman now going through Senate confirmation hearings on her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. "I've been in situations with her when everybody else around the table is a lot 'less important' -- if you define importance by positions of power and prestige -- and she's asking them questions."  Watch Chapnick on how Sotomayor put students 'through the wringer' Â»

In 1984, Sotomayor, now 55, worked at Pavia & Harcourt, a "boutique" law firm in New York that focuses on international business issues.

Her job included representing Fendi, the Italian luxury goods company that wanted to crack down on imposters selling knockoffs of its high-end handbags.

Steven Skulnik, a colleague at the firm, remembered tagging along with Sotomayor on a police raid of a counterfeit operation in Harlem.

He waited in the van. Sotomayor charged out alongside the officers.

"She had no fear," said Skulnik, now with the New York firm Squire Sanders. "That's just her personality. She's the first one in."

He and others also recall her working long hours with a laser-like focus as she prepared for a case.

"[Co-workers] would walk by in the morning, and she'd be reading something or writing something," he said. "You'd say, 'Hi, Sonia,' and she wouldn't even look up. She didn't notice.

"She would really bore in and make sure there was nothing about the case that she didn't understand."

That dedication hit her private life, Sotomayor has admitted. She told ABC's "Good Morning America" in 1986 that her workload "was a contributing factor" in the divorce three years earlier from Kevin Noonan.

Work also made it difficult to date then, she said: "A man who calls you three times and all three times you answer, 'I've got to work late.' ... After the third time he begins thinking, 'Gee, maybe she's not interested.'"

She left the law firm to take up President George H.W. Bush's nomination in 1991 and served as a U.S. District Court judge from 1992 to 1998.

President Bill Clinton nominated her for a seat on the 2nd District U.S. Appeals Court in 1997, and she was confirmed more than a year later by the Senate to the position she still holds.  See Sotomayor's life in pictures Â»

Sotomayor's most high-profile moment on the bench -- and the one that probably brought her as close as a judge ever comes to winning fans -- came in 1995, when, with a stroke of the pen, she ended the Major League Baseball strike.

The 1994 playoffs and World Series had been scrubbed because of the strike and the following season was threatened.

Sotomayor, a lifelong Yankees fan, ruled in New York district court in favor of the players against the owners who she said were trying to undermine the league's labor system.

She told lawyers she didn't need to hear witnesses or see more documents after their arguments.  See some of Sotomayor's high-profile decisions Â»

Chapnick said Sotomayor later talked about the case with a touch of irritation about some of the attention that came with it.

Sotomayor remembered critics saying it was "outrageous" that a woman was deciding a case about baseball, Chapnick said.

"She said, 'Why don't they ask me? I'd tell them I had a mitt growing up,'" Chapnick recalled Sotomayor saying.

In her attorney and judgeship years, Sotomayor has made a good living, but not an extravagant one. She earned about $230,000 in her last year at Pavia & Harcourt and not much more as a judge, according to a questionnaire filed with the Senate.

Of about $1.1 million in assets, nearly $1 million is the home she owns in Manhattan -- nice, but not exorbitant by the borough's standards.

At Blue Ribbon Bakery, nearby her Greenwich Village home, workers say Sotomayor, who was diagnosed with diabetes as a child, stops in almost daily for sturgeon toast or breadsticks and a cup of decaf.

She's thought of as just another neighbor and customer, Sasha Acosta-Cohen said.

At work, Sotomayor the judge is described as straightforward, direct and no-nonsense.  See how Sotomayor might fit in with the Supreme Court justices Â»

A former clerk said she can be "prickly from the bench" but is friendly away from it.

"When she's in oral arguments, and when attorneys show up and they're either unprepared or are maybe raising a weak argument, she's very quick, and she's very exacting and intellectually demanding," Robin Car said. Away from the bench "she's really just a warm, extremely kind and caring person."

Car recalled a 2001 conference at Hofstra University at which Sotomayor introduced Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the court's most conservative members.

"I think he was a little bit unsure what she was going to say or what she was going to do," Car said. "She went, and she did the introduction, and he responded, 'Wow, that was the most thoughtful introduction I've ever received.'"

"Thoughtful" is a word Chapnick also used to describe Sotomayor. She remembers a letter from a former student telling her how, as a Hispanic woman from a poor background, she'd been inspired by Sotomayor during the course the two taught together.

In reviews of the course, students wrote "not just how it shaped their view of the law but how it shaped their view of themselves," Chapnick said.

She said the last time she saw Sotomayor, the prospective Supreme Court justice joked with her about their course, saying a possible move to Washington was no reason to quit.

At least, Chapnick said, she thinks it was a joke.

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question: where did she go to college?

answer: Columbia Law School

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question: What is Sotomayor's hobby?

answer: people,"

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question: what did  the former Columbia University colleague say about her

answer: "Her hobby is people,"

text: "Her hobby is people,"

question: What ended the baseball strike?

answer: a stroke of the pen

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question: In what way do colleagues recall Sotomayor?

answer: tireless worker spending late hours in her chambers or on projects like the college course: A tough decision-maker who would pick apart any lawyer foolish enough to come to court unprepared; a thoughtful jurist whose years as an aggressive prosecutor endeared her to law enforcement even as she developed a reputation as a social liberal; and a child of the Bronx who maintained a heart for people from all walks of life as she ascended to the legal world's loftiest positions.

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question: who is sotomayor?

answer: federal appeals court judge

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question: what team is sotomayor a fan of?

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(CNN) -- Lionel Messi produced a performance of stunning brilliance, scoring all four goals as holders Barcelona beat Arsenal 4-1 to reach the semifinals of the Champions League 6-3 on aggregate on Tuesday.

Messi turned on the style in the Nou Camp with one of the most devastating individual displays the competition has ever seen, as an injury-ravaged Arsenal side were torn apart.

The match started started brightly for the Londoners who actually took a shock 18th-minute lead.

Theo Walcott's pace had troubled Barca in the 2-2 first leg at The Emirates and the England winger created the opener with a break down the right.

His pass inside for Nicklas Bendtner was a poor one, but somehow the Dane managed to pounce at the second attempt to stab his shot past Victor Valdes in the Barca goal.

Arsenal's lead lasted barely three minutes before Messi began his one-man show. Mickael Silvestre failed to clear the ball on the edge of the area and it fell to Messi, who curled home a superb equalizer.

Messi added his and Barca's second on 37 minutes. Eric Abidal's cross from the right was cut out by Thomas Vermaelen.

However, the rest of the Arsenal defense were slow to react and Pedro found Messi, who smashed his shot past Manuel Almunia.

The striker completed his stunning hat-trick four minutes before the break when he raced onto a header from Abidal to sprint clear of the Arsenal defense before superbly chipping the ball over Almunia.

By now, Arsenal needed two goals to go through and, in truth, they never looked likely to get them.

Bendtner struck the post with a fierce header from Gael Clichy's cross, but he was flagged offside, and Tomas Rosicky fired over the bar when in a great position.

Messi completed the job three minutes from time, beating two defender on the left hand side of the area before firing the ball through Almunia's legs.

The result means Barcelona will now face Italian champions Inter Milan, who they were drawn against in the group stages, in a mouth-watering semifinal clash.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was full of praise for Messi's performance. "For me, he is the best player in the world, and by a distance," he told Sky Sports.

"When he's in the game, he's really dangerous. Once he is on the run with the ball, he is unstoppable.

The Frenchman added: "I believe that we lost against a team that is better than us and have the best player in the world."

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(PEOPLE.com) -- For some people, owing $11 million in back taxes to the IRS and facing foreclosure may be no laughing matter, but Chris Tucker is not one of them.

In a stand-up performance in Miami recently, the "Rush Hour" star, 39, cracked a few jokes about his financial struggles.

"That's the last time I let Wesley Snipes help me out with my taxes," Tucker quipped, according to the Miami New Times, referring to the actor whose failure to file returns landed him a three-year prison sentence.

Tucker even used his interactions with bill collectors as fodder for his act.

"They calling you acting like you owe them the money personally!" he said, according to the paper. "I don't owe you s---! This is between me and the company!"

Tucker is also quoted as making a crack about being so bad with money that he bought two houses next to each other and then had to ask neighbors to borrow a cup of sugar.

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(CNN) -- When protests swept across Tunisia and Egypt at the beginning of this year, history student Jabbar Savalan was inspired.

A 19-year-old in oil-rich Azerbaijan, he did what many activists in the Arab world were doing: He got online, posting a call on Facebook for a "Day of Rage" against the authoritarian government of the former Soviet republic.

The next day, February 5, he was arrested, handcuffed and forced into a police vehicle without being informed of his rights, according to Amnesty International. He has been in custody ever since.

He says he was interrogated for two days before he saw his lawyer, slapped, and threatened into signing a confession, the group says.

Police say they found a small amount of marijuana in his jacket pocket, according to Amnesty. Three months after being arrested, he was sentenced to prison, despite a blood test which showed no presence of drugs, and the testimony of his family and friends that he is not a drug user.

He's due to get out in August 2013.

Savalan is one of at least 17 Azerbaijanis considered "prisoners of conscience" by Amnesty International, which released a damning report Wednesday accusing the country of suppressing dissent and the press.

Self-censorship has increased and criticism of the state "is punished in all sectors of society," Amnesty's Azerbaijan researcher Natalia Nozadze said in the capital, Baku, on Wednesday.

The "report shows lengths that the government goes to to silence" opponents, she said.

The "government has criminalized peaceful protests by banning them" and "defamation of the government continues to be criminal offense," she said.

The government of President Ilham Aliyev -- whose father, a one-time member of the Soviet Politburo, was president before him -- uses techniques described as despotic in other parts of the world, said a top Amnesty official.

"Azerbaijan has achieved the bones but not the meat of a democracy -- opposition are allowed to exist but not to function," said John Dulhuisen, the deputy director of the agency's Europe and Central Asia program.

He said Amnesty's researchers had not been able to meet government representatives while preparing the report, which is called "The Spring That Never Blossomed: Freedoms suppressed in Azerbaijan."

An opposition journalist who served four years in prison also spoke at the press conference.

Eynulla Fetullayev, founder and editor-in-chief of Gundalik Azerbaijan and Realny Azerbaijan newspapers, was sentenced to eight years and six months in jail in 2007, but Amnesty International helped him win his freedom earlier this year, he told the press conference.

Pro-government media, including the main television channels, did not attend the press conference, local journalists told CNN.

The head of the International Press Institute expressed some support for Azerbaijan's government, saying it had displayed a willingness to engage in dialogue.

But she said self-censorship was a concern.

"Journalists in Azerbaijan fear retribution from businesses and government officials over what they write. They fear jail or physical attack and that is unacceptable," said Alison Bethel McKenzie.

The government rejected Wednesday's report.

"The Amnesty report was not fair at all. Its task was to criticize Azerbaijan. I don't think this is fair," said Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Elman Abdullayev.

"Democracy is a process. Things that have been achieved here and done so far should be mentioned," he argued.

He said the media are free to say whatever they like, and he rejected the idea that there were prisoners of conscience in his country.

Azerbaijan is strategically important because of pipelines that bring oil and gas from the Caspian Sea and Central Asia to the West via Turkey.

Amnesty insisted that the international community is more interested in Azerbaijan's oil and gas sectors than in a democratic government that supports human rights.

Located between Russia, Iran and Turkey, Azerbaijan cooperates with NATO and is a member of the Council of Europe -- which has also been critical of Azerbaijan in the past.

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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Janelle Monae is a girl from another planet, and she's invading your world.

Janelle Monae creates "cool, futuristic soul with a real '80s quality," says a DJ.

Sightings of the singer-songwriter will include this week's "American Idol" finale, the Hollywood Bowl and concert stages across America this summer and TV's Sci Fi Channel this fall.

Monae insists that her real identity is Cindi Mayweather, an android traveling through space and time to escape destruction ordered because she fell in love with a human, a fatal infraction of robots' rules.

Along the way, she's making music that moves into the future while drawing from decades past.

"It is cool, futuristic soul with a real '80s quality," said Garth Trinidad, a disc jockey at Los Angeles, California, radio station KCRW.

Trinidad spotted Monae three years ago, and he's been watching her like an astronomer tracking the approach of a distant comet destined to light Earth's sky.

"I believe she's going to be a household name in the next year or two," said Trinidad, a self-described "champion of the underdog" who is credited with giving Jill Scott and Gnarls Barkley early radio airplay.

Monae -- the human -- is a striking combination of voice, style, imagination and fearlessness that defies conventional description, making it easier to buy into the fantasy of Mayweather the android.

When her song "Many Moons" was nominated for a Grammy in December, it was in the urban/alternative category.

If Monae is an android from the future, her musical programming included the past.

Trinidad compared her "very fluid, very pleasing" voice to Donna Summer, circa 1976.

At a Los Angeles show this month, she mixed 20th-century classics with her own futuristic songs. Monae delivered a sweet version of Nat King Cole's "Smile" while standing atop a barstool. Senior citizens danced the "Twist" when her band broke out into the Beatles' 1964 hit "I Saw Her Standing There."

She loves timeless music, Monae said after her show.

"We look to a lot of people whose bodies are dead and gone, but their spirit is still with us," Monae said.

Her choreography borrows from James Brown, Michael Jackson and Devo, with dance moves from the future.

Monae -- or Mayweather -- thinks she can fly.

She jumped head-first into the audience, "crowd surfing" the unlikely mosh pit in UCLA's Royce Hall. Search Monae's name on YouTube and you'll see her jumping into swimming pools to end her shows. She climbed a tree in New York -- after her swim.

Unlike some performers, her talent matches Monae's onstage antics, Trinidad said.

"It's one thing for her to perform a certain way, but she backs with it up with talent," he said.

Monae's android-on-the-run theme, reminiscent of the 1982 movie "Blade Runner," reminds Trinidad "of all the great albums from the past that had a story and concept attached."

"She was just kind of like bored with everything else going on, and she wanted to transcend it and tell a story," he said.

Monae said she is not following a formula, that she is "being led by my maker."

"I'm very similar to a terminal," she said.

Monae will inevitably capture the world's attention because she is "outshining a lot of what's happening in the mainstream," Trinidad said.

That time may be near.

Sean "Diddy" Combs signed her to his Bad Boy Records, giving her music distribution.

Coca-Cola hired Monae to sing on its "Open Happiness" ad campaign. It airs on this week's "American Idol" finale.

Her tour stops next month include at least six shows in the northeastern United States, opening for Gwen Stefani's reunited rock group No Doubt.

Monae then plays the Hollywood Bowl with the legendary jazz singer Etta James.

She plays herself in two episodes of the Sci Fi Channel's "Stargate Universe" this fall.

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(CNN) -- Soupy Sales, a comedian from the golden era of television, died Thursday. He was 83.

The funny man seen many times on popular game shows died at a New York hospice, said Paul Dver, Sales' longtime friend and manager.

"We have lost a comedy American icon," Dver said. "I feel the personal loss, and I also feel the magic that he had around him being gone. That's a much more severe loss than a loss of a friend."

Sales was known for his long-running children's show "Lunch With Soupy Sales," which started in 1953 and began his trademark slapstick pie-throwing antics. The comedy show featured skits that culminated in Sales getting walloped with pies in the face. What are your memories of Sales?

"Soupy was the last of the great TV comics when you talk about Ernie Kovacs, Red Skelton, right down to Howdy Doody," Dver said. "But it was bigger than that, because he used a children's format aimed at the kids and then he would forget he was doing a kids' show and do a wild, unrehearsed, wacky improv for a half-hour every day for 15 years."

He could also inflame the authorities. One New Year's Day, upset at being asked to work, he asked his youthful audience to send him those "green pieces of paper" from their parents' wallets. Though he didn't receive much -- he told The New York Times he received only a few dollars -- he was suspended for a week for the prank.

Later in his career, he was a regular on TV game shows, such as "Hollywood Squares," "To Tell the Truth" and "What's My Line?"

Sales recently fell backstage at a local Emmy awards show in New York and developed serious ailments after that, Dver said.

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CHEBARKUL, Russia (Reuters) -- President Vladimir Putin said on Friday security threats had forced Russia to revive the Soviet-era practice of sending bomber aircraft on regular patrols beyond its borders.

A Russian strategic bomber flies over an airfield outside Moscow during an air show.

Putin said 14 strategic bombers had taken off simultaneously from airfields across Russia in the early hours of Friday on long-range missions.

"We have decided to restore flights by Russian strategic aviation on a permanent basis," Putin told reporters after inspecting joint military exercises with China and four Central Asian states in Russia's Ural mountains.

"Today, August 17 at 00:00 hours, 14 strategic bombers took to the air from seven airfields across the country, along with support and refueling aircraft ... From today such patrols will be carried out on a regular basis.

"We hope our partners will treat this with understanding."

At U.S. President George W. Bush's Texas ranch, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said he did not believe the flights posed a threat to the United States.

"Militaries around the world engage in a variety of activities, so this is not entirely surprising," he said.

But the sorties are likely to add to Western concern about Russia's growing assertiveness. That trend has prompted some U.S. policymakers to draw parallels with the Cold War.

Putin caused a stir this year by saying Russian missiles would once again be aimed at targets in Europe if Washington persisted with plans to build a missile defense shield in eastern Europe.

Russian diplomats have clashed with the United States and European governments on issues such as Kosovo, energy, and Moscow's treatment of its ex-Soviet neighbors.

Western military leaders have said this year that Russian flights near their airspace were becoming more frequent after a long quiet period.

One Western defense official called the flights "a little bit of chest-pounding, trying to let people know Russia is back in the game".

Putin said that when Russia had cut its flights in 1992, other military powers had not reciprocated.

"Flights by other countries' strategic aircraft continue and this creates certain problems for ensuring the security of the Russian Federation," Putin said.

That appeared to be a swipe at the U.S. and NATO, whose strategic bombers have continued to fly long-range missions.

As Putin spoke to reporters and television cameras, four Russian military helicopters appeared and hovered in the background while Russian tanks trundled behind him, even though the exercises had ended long before.

During the Cold War, Russian long-range bombers, which can carry strategic nuclear weapons, played elaborate games of cat-and-mouse with Western air forces.

Earlier this month Russian air force generals said bomber crews had flown near the Pacific island of Guam, where the U.S. military has a base, and "exchanged smiles" with U.S. pilots scrambled to track them.

The Pentagon said the Russian aircraft had not come close enough to U.S. ships to prompt American aircraft to react.

In July, two Russian Tu-95 "Bear" bombers made unusually long sorties over the North Sea, leading Norway and Britain to scramble fighter jets to follow them. Russia's air force said later it was a routine flight.  E-mail to a friend

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question: What did Putin state about the move?

answer: "We have decided to restore flights by Russian strategic aviation on a permanent basis,"

text: "We have decided to restore flights by Russian strategic aviation on a permanent basis,"

question: Who is going to send a bomber aircraft on flights?

answer: Russia

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question: what kind of aircraft are being flowed

answer: bomber

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question: What was the move in response to?

answer: security threats

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question: For what did president putin said the move was?

answer: security threats

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question: WHo is the man in charge to the reponse

answer: President Vladimir Putin

text: President Vladimir Putin

question: Who said the flights do not pose a threat to the United States?

answer: Gordon Johndroe

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question: what kind of threats are the air crafts to the us

answer: security

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question: What country is sending bomber aircrafts?

answer: Russia

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question: For how long will Russia send the bomber aircraft?

answer: regular basis.

text: regular basis.

question: Who uses bomber aircraft on long-range flights?

answer: Russia

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question: The white house says what is not a threat?

answer: the flights

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question: which is the aim of the bombers in Russia?

answer: regular patrols beyond its borders.

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question: what did russia send?

answer: bomber aircraft on regular patrols beyond its borders.

text: bomber aircraft on regular patrols beyond its borders.

question: WHat was The White House's response?

answer: "Militaries around the world engage in a variety of activities, so this is not entirely surprising,"

text: "Militaries around the world engage in a variety of activities, so this is not entirely surprising,"

question: what is Russia sending on long range flights?

answer: 14 strategic bombers

text: 14 strategic bombers

question: Who is going to send bomber aircraft on long range flights permently?

answer: President Vladimir Putin

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question: What did the White House say about the flights?

answer: not believe the

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question: What is not a thread to U.S.?

answer: the flights

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question: What does Putin claim was in response to security threats?

answer: revive the Soviet-era practice of sending bomber aircraft on regular patrols beyond its borders.

text: revive the Soviet-era practice of sending bomber aircraft on regular patrols beyond its borders.