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US Diplomat Apologizes After Being Caught Out for ‘Fake News’ Remark

US Diplomat Apologizes After Being Caught Out for 'Fake News' Remark
FILE - In this March 8, 2016 file photo, U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra R-Mich., introduces Republican presidential candidate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich in Lansing, Mich. The U.S. Senate confirmed former Republican Congressman Hoekstra to serve as the U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. First elected to Congress in 1992, Hoekstra was born in the Netherlands and moved to the U.S. with his family when he was 3. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio File)

US Diplomat Apologizes After Being Caught Out for ‘Fake News’ Remark

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The new U.S. ambassador to the Netherlands apologized Saturday after denying he once said the country was in “chaos” because of Muslims and accusing an interviewer of peddling “fake news,” only to be caught out by Dutch television in a bizarre exchange. Pete Hoekstra, who starts as ambassador to The Hague next month, made the blunder…



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O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise (each other). Verily the most honoured of you in the sight of God is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And God has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things). ~ Quran 49:13

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