November 12, 2024 10:58 GMT
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- US (BBG) – President-elect Donald Trump is poised to pick two men with track records of harshly criticising China for key posts in his new administration, a sign relations between the superpowers may deteriorate further in coming years. Senator Marco Rubio is set to become the first sitting secretary of state to have been sanctioned by Beijing. Florida Representative Mike Waltz is in line to be national security adviser.
- ISRAEL (BBG) – Israel said headway was being made in US-mediated efforts to achieve a cease-fire in Lebanon, but that it still needed guarantees on resuming military operations if there are any infractions by Hezbollah. “There is a certain progress. We are working with the Americans on the issue,” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar told reporters on Monday.
- GERMANY (MNI) – Handelsblatt reporting that lawmakers from Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats, Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck's Greens, and the opposition Christian Democratic Union have agreed on 23 February as the date for a snap general election according to unnamed CDU insiders.
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