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<p> • Two hundred people have been <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/imdmmfqcqgmwyyybwbgfzwtqrhwfftcbzbychzdyvddgd_izdyvbbygwymbcvnhdzm.html">arrested </a>in Ethiopia for receiving illegal military training at outposts close to the border with Sudan. </p><br /><br />
<p> • Amid tensions caused by an <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/qgpggbrdrngtmmmvtvnbhtjrcwtbbjdvhvmdwhfmsffnp_izdyvbbygwymbcvnhdzm.html?a=11395&b=Morning+Brief+OC">uptick </a>in terrorist attacks, Burkina Faso’s security forces reported that their troops <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/unmnndkckynshhhgsgydmszkjqsddzcgmghcqmfhwffym_izdyvbbygwymbcvnhdzm.html">killed</a> 146 militants in the country’s northern provinces. </p><br /><br />
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<p> • Guyana, Mexico, and St. Lucia<a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/vhyhhtzyzrhnfffknkrtmnqzcvnttqykmkfyvmgfpggry_izdyvbbygwymbcvnhdzm.html"> split </a>with the 11 other member countries of the Lima group, and declined to sign onto a declaration <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/gncrrhpmpwrdccckdkwhndjpfydhhjmknkcmyntcgttcw_izdyvbbygwymbcvnhdzm.html">offering </a>“recognition and support” for Juan Guaidó as the interim president of Venezuela. </p><br /><br />
<p> • After a one-week delay, due to the partial shutdown of the government, U.S. President Donald Trump is set to give his second State of the Union speech on Tuesday. Trump’s <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/omzwwvnqnfwdtttkdkfvmdcnpzdvvcqkmktqzmltjlltt_izdyvbbygwymbcvnhdzm.html">guests</a> for the speech include the family of a couple killed by an undocumented immigrant, and a schoolboy from Delaware who has been bullied for sharing the president’s last name. </p><br /><br />
<p> • Amazon’s plans to build a campus in Queens, New York, are up against renewed <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/tjhvvgrprwvklllbkbwgjkdrtzkggdpbjblpzjclhcclz_izdyvbbygwymbcvnhdzm.html">pressure</a> as a state senator who opposes the deal has been named to the Public Authorities Control Board that will oversee it. </p><br /><br />
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<p> • Calls for Myanmar’s State Counselor and Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to free Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been met with <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/kfrvvgqpqtvjlllrjrtgfjbqzhjggbprfrlphfslmsslm_izdyvbbygwymbcvnhdzm.html">hostility</a> by the leader, according to U.S. government officials. </p><br /><br />
<p> • The United States plans to provide 159 Black Hawk helicopters to Afghanistan’s Air Force by 2023. But a report from the U.S. Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/jfvvvdknksvwbbbtwtsdfwzkprwddzntftbnrfmbjmmbt_izdyvbbygwymbcvnhdzm.html">warned</a> that the Afghan Air Force does not have pilots or the engineers to absorb them. </p><br /><br />
<p> • In Australia, Queensland’s environment minister <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/dsmccnwjwgcftttrfrgnsflwbpfnnljrsrtjpsmthmmtc_izdyvbbygwymbcvnhdzm.html">warned</a> that significant flooding has displaced snakes and crocodiles, and cautioned residents to look out for them in “unlikely places.” </p><br /><br />
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<p> • Russia plans to <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/wznggymjmfgbdddwbwfyzbtmhlbyytjwzwdjlzsdvssds_izdyvbbygwymbcvnhdzm.html">respond</a> to the withdrawal of the United States from the INF treaty by building new missiles by 2021, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday. </p><br /><br />
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<p> • After the Norwegian intelligence community concluded that Huawei technologies could pose a threat to state secrets, the Chinese embassy in Oslo <a style="color:#ea1414;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;" href="http://click1.crm.foreignpolicy.com/fryjjflylqjwdddbwbqfrwclpswffcybrbdysrndhnndr_izdyvbbygwymbcvnhdzm.html">responded</a> on Tuesday that the assessment was “ridiculous.”</p><br /><br />
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