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New: SDF commander Gen. Mazloum speaks with Axios after 4 days of Turkish strikes.
-Turkey is preparing a ground offensive, but stronger US pressure could stop it, he argues.
-Says Biden has a "moral duty" to do more after Kurdish efforts against ISIS.
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The Biden administration is preparing for the possibility of mass migration from Haiti by expanding a migrant center on Guantanamo Bay and looking into the Bahamas or Turks and Caicos for temporary holding sites, Axios has learned axios.com/2022/11/17/biden-h…
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New: Conservatives aren’t the only ones looking to leverage the potential narrow GOP majority.
Moderate Republican Governance Group spox says they “will be a big power broker.”
Main Street Partnership is "negotiating with leadership for some positions.”
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Overlooked amid frantic punditry about the "red ripple" in Congress: Democrats quietly won and defended majorities in state legislatures across the country, weakening GOP power on issues at the heart of the national political debate (w/ @alexi)
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A Bek Air plane crashed shortly after taking off in Kazakhstan today, killing at least 12 people. axios.com/kazakhstan-bek-air…
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🚨Over 18 years, three U.S. administrations told the public the U.S. was making steady progress in Afghanistan, despite knowing the war effort was failing, according to new reporting from the @washingtonpost.
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Sanna Marin will become the world's youngest prime minister at age 34 when she's sworn in as Finland's prime minister later this week.
She'll lead a coalition government consisting of five parties, four of which are led by women.
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JUST IN: Benny Gantz has notified Israeli President Reuven Rivlin that he has failed to form a coalition government ahead of tonight's deadline. axios.com/netanyahu-rival-ga…
Venice's mayor declared a state of emergency and closed all schools after the highest high tide in more than 50 years hit the city last night. axios.com/venice-50-years-hi…
At least 71 people onboard a train in Pakistan died today after a cooking stove exploded and engulfed multiple carriages in flames. axios.com/pakistan-train-fir…
The prime minister of Lebanon has announced he'll resign following two weeks of protests axios.com/lebanon-prime-mini…
Alberto Fernandez now takes over an Argentinian economy looking to recover from an extended recession during which its currency fell from around 15-to-1 against the dollar to nearly 60-to-1, poverty increased dramatically and inflation sky-rocketed. axios.com/argentina-debt-new…
The EU has agreed to a Brexit extension until Jan. 31, 2020 axios.com/brexit-extension-j…
British police have launched a murder investigation after 39 people were found dead in a truck container outside of London. axios.com/39-people-dead-tru…
NEW: Hong Kong has withdrawn an extradition bill that set off months of protests and sparked a greater pro-democracy movement. axios.com/hong-kong-suspends…
The British pound slipped but was much less volatile than expected after Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal was rejected by Parliament. axios.com/british-pound-rema…
More than 6-in-10 Russians consider it a "great misfortune that the Soviet Union no longer exists," according to a new Pew survey. That's 13 points higher than in 2011. axios.com/russians-nostalgic…
Rory Stewart, who challenged Boris Johnson for leadership of the UK's Conservative Party, announced he's leaving Parliament and the Conservatives to enter the 2020 race for mayor of London as an independent.
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BREAKING: Israel's president has given Benjamin Netanyahu the opportunity to form a government after negotiations for a unity government with Benny Gantz broke down.
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