U.S. commanders planning for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria are recommending that Kurdish fighters battling Islamic State be allowed to keep U.S.-supplied weapons, four U.S. officials said, a move that would likely anger NATO ally Turkey.
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Far-right activists clash with youths of African appearance at St Kilda beach
Fascists becoming bolder – ugh

Far-right activists film a group of men of African appearance playing soccer at the beach and refuse to stop when asked, sparking a dispute which results in a 25-year-old man allegedly assaulting police.
Americans blame Donald Trump for the US Government shutdown, according to a new poll

A new poll finds that more Americans blame the President for the partial shutdown, despite Donald Trump repeatedly lashing out at Democrats over the funding freeze.
Scramble for Manbij: ‘US pullout leaves an extremely volatile and dangerous situation’
Turkey was Genocide 2.0 for Kurds

The Syrian army said it had deployed forces to Manbij in northern Syria on Friday after the Kurdish YPG militia urged Damascus to protect the town, where US forces operate, from the threat of a major Turkish offensive. FRANCE 24’s international affairs editor Douglas Herbert discusses the implications of America’s planned withdrawal from the area.
Native Americans want Sweden to return museum clothing
Red fox, White fox and White eagle in 1874.
Lyssna: Pawnee suing Swedish state over clothing in museum
The Swedish state is being sued in a US court, reports Swedish Radio’s Culture News department, after Sweden’s National Museums of World Culture refused to return clothing, shoes and jewelry said to have belonged to a Pawnee man named White Fox, who died in Sweden in 1875.
Today is the deadline for the Chancellor of Justice, which is representing Sweden, to respond to the lawsuit.
To find out more about why White Fox had come to Sweden and about the dispute over the personal items, you can listen to the report.
Radio Sweden
english@sverigesradio.se
Emma Engström
emma.engstrom@sverigesradio.se
Japan’s Nikkei posts first annual loss since 2011
The benchmark Nikkei stock index has fallen on its final trading day of 2018. Other Asian stocks have ended the day in positive territory.
Trump ‘accidentally reveals location and identities of US Navy Seals in Iraq’
Trying to make himself look good without thinking of the consequences – just looking good.

- Video posted on Twitter appears to show covert special ops team
- Typically such images would be blurred to protect members
After making a holiday visit to US troops in Iraq, Donald Trump posted a video on Twitter of himself posing with Navy Seals – apparently revealing the special ops team’s deployment in the country, which is typically kept secret.
At War: My Husband Was Killed in Niger. His Death Only Became Real to Me When I Saw His Coffin.
The wife of an American soldier killed in the Niger ambush recounts the day she and her sons collected his remains at the airport.
People don’t post facts to Twitter, Elon Musk claims in ‘pedo’ defamation defence
Being a jerk in public and defaming a non-public figure is a no, no.

Elon Musk’s lawyers ask a judge to dismiss a defamation lawsuit by a British diver who the Tesla chief executive had labelled a “pedo guy”, arguing the comments were “just imaginative attacks” protected by the US constitution’s first amendment.
Inside Facebook’s Secret Rulebook for Global Political Speech
no easy answers but people should not die because of people using it to encourage violence and hate. Under fire for stirring up distrust and violence, the social network has vowed to police its users. But leaked documents raise serious questions about its approach.
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