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  1. Basically the existence of commercial air travel in the United States right now rests on the willingness of a bunch of security guards to show up to work to do a thankless job, for no pay, indefinitely, in the middle of the hottest private sector job market anyone can remember.

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  2. Amb James Jeffrey has taken over the role of special envoy for the coalition to defeat , filling in behind Brett McGurk who resigned after Trump's surprise decision to pull troops out of . Adding it to his current role as Pompeo's Syria envoy

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  3. State Dept officials say SecState will use next week's trip to the Mideast to reassure allies that the US is not pulling out of the , despite Trump's decision to pull troops out of

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  4. Ahead of 's trip to the Mideast, a State Dept official says the US is still dissatisfied w/ 's response to murder: "the Saudi narrative or legal process has yet to hit the threshold of credibility & accountability"

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  5. Jan 2

    Thus began the Great Historian Meltdown of 2019.

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  6. Jan 2

    There are unconfirmed reports in Seoul that a senior North Korean diplomat in Italy is seeking asylum. All anonymous sources which were first quoted in the JoongAng Daily. This would be a very high profile defection.

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  7. Jan 3

    Thae Yong-ho tells South Korean TV that Jo Song-gil, the acting NK ambassador in Italy who has disappeared, has family who were also diplomats. Jo's father-in-law was a leading diplomat in Thailand and Hong Kong, says Thae

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  8. Jan 3

    South Korea’s spy agency has told Congressmen in Seoul that North Korea’s ambassador to Italy has gone into hiding with his wife. The announcement comes amid reports that Pyongyang’s top diplomat in Italy has sought asylum from an unidentified western country with his family.

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  9. Jan 3

    Middle East this a.m • FBI team in Turkey to discuss Gulen • Saudi opens 1st Khashoggi trial, 11 suspects • UK: Assad’ll be around for a while! •UK-Iranian prisoner on hunger strike in Iran • Qatar introduces Sin Tax on Alcohol • China seeks deeper ties w Egypt in Africa

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  10. State Dept confirms that US ambo to has visited & expressed support for detained Amn citizen Paul Whelan, arrested by Moscow last week on spying charges

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  11. In 's description of how is struggling to survive he throws in this intriguing aside: "they're pulling people out of , but they can do what they want there frankly..."

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  12. Trump: we will pull our troops out of "over a period of time"

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  13. Trump on : 'I don't want to be in Syria forever: it's sand, and it's death."

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  14. Jan 1

    The most disturbing thing about Jair Bolsonaro's presidency is what he plans to do to the Amazon rain forest - the largest carbon reserve on earth, barring the sea.

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  15. In the wake of the Kaepernick ad, Nike announced that it had crushed earnings expectations, leading to a market surge Friday that found Nike's stock as the sole gainer in the entire Dow.

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  16. 22 Dec 2018

    I had a lot of respect for Paddy Ashdown. During the Bosnian war most politicians pontificated from a safe distance. I would see Paddy when he came into besieged Sarajevo across a risky mountain route. He used his own eyes and ears to work out the war’s rights and wrongs

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  17. 22 Dec 2018

    McGurk, incredibly, managed to be a key official for Middle East policy under GW Bush, Obama, and Trump. It says something about this moment that he essentially just said: “This is where I get off the bus.”

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  18. "Trump adopted a bellicose stance towards Tehran long before he became president. But he was never comfortable with an indefinite stay in yoked to ." via

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  20. Breaking: Brett McGurk, the president's envoy to the anti- coalition, has resigned in protest at 's abrupt decision to w/draw US troops from . Seems he was as blindsided as everyone else, here's what he told me just last week

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