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Syrian mass graves, Mayotte, Trump’s defamation claims and Tulsi Gabbard
Syrian mass graves expose “machinery of death” under toppled Bashar al-Assad, according to a top international war crimes prosecutor. Mayotte authorities fear hunger and disease after a devastating cyclone. President-elect Donald Trump sues the Des Moines Register newspaper and its former top pollster and threatens more news outlet lawsuits. And Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to become the Director of National Intelligence might be on shaky ground as eight Republican senators are on the fence about supporting her.
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Moscow assassination, Canada crisis, RFK and drone mystery
Ukraine says it was behind the assassination of a top Russian general in a bomb blast in Moscow. The sudden resignation of Canada's finance minister has left Justin Trudeau’s government on the brink. An expanding coalition of health and consumer advocates is campaigning against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to the top U.S. health job. And President-elect Donald Trump has weighed into the mystery of increased drone sightings that have plagued the East Coast in the last few weeks.
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Mayotte, Golan Heights, Canada’s border and Trump vs EVs
Hundreds or even thousands are feared dead after a powerful cyclone slams into the French overseas territory of Mayotte. Israel wants to double its population on the ccupied Golan Heights, just over a week after the fall of the Assad regime in neighboring Syria. President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is looking at cutting off federal support for electric vehicles. Plus, Canada’s promised border crackdown is easier said than done.
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Inside Syria’s security apparatus by a journalist once held
Reuters journalist Suleiman al-Khalidi was arrested by Syrian security police in 2011 during an uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Hear what al-Khalidi witnessed back then and what it was like to see prisoners freed after Assad’s downfall.
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Trump’s day 1 plans, UAE and Sudan and Ukraine’s teen dilemma
Time magazine names President-elect Donald Trump ‘Person of the Year’ - and his accompanying interview gives clues about his day one plans. Cargo planes from the UAE have been landing at a small airstrip in Chad that some U.N. experts suspect is being used to funnel arms across the border into Sudan. And the dilemma facing Ukrainian teenage boys ahead of their 18th birthdays.
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