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Exclusive: U.S. commanders recommend letting Kurdish fighters in Syria keep weapons

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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Scramble for Manbij: ‘US pullout leaves an extremely volatile and dangerous situation’

Turkey was Genocide 2.0 for Kurds

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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

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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

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.

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  • 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.

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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.

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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.