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1. Trump evangelical base 'thrilled' by determination that West Bank settlements are legal

   Prominent evangelical leaders are celebrating President Trump’s decision to recognize Israeli West Bank settlements as legal, a determination that reversed decades of official U.S. policy left in place by Democratic and Republican presidents.

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2. Persecuted pastor Wang Yi stripped of defense by communist regime before his trial

   Early Rain Covenant Church Pastor Wang Yi has been deprived of his lawyer by the Chinese government.

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3. Israel to enter 21-day period in which any Knesset member can become Prime Minister

   Negotiations following Israeli elections in September have still not produced any clear leadership.

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4. White House holding up $100M in Lebanon aid, official confirms

   The United States is withholding security assistance to Lebanon to the tune of over $100 million, leaving lawmakers and policymakers in the dark, a senior State Department official confirmed on Tuesday.

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5. Sondland implicates top officials on Ukraine, but says he ‘never heard’ quid pro quo from Trump

   European Union ambassador Gordon Sondland tied top officials to the 'potential quid pro quo' involving U.S. military aid to Ukraine and investigations desired by President Trump during his highly anticipated impeachment hearing testimony on Wednesday – yet said he never heard that link from the president himself.

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6. Hostility towards Christians on the rise in Europe, report claims

   Christians in Europe experienced 325 incidents of intolerance in the past year, a new report has found.

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7. UN Security Council members critical of US policy shift on Israeli settlements

   United Nations Security Council members decried a United States policy shift on Israeli settlements on Wednesday during a meeting where they discussed recent developments in the Middle East, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s announcement two days before.

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8. Arab League to meet on US shift on Israel settlements

   The Arab League said it will hold an urgent meeting Monday on the US announcement that it no longer considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank illegal.

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9. US House Panel Backs Marijuana Decriminalization

   A divided U.S. House committee approved a proposal Wednesday to decriminalize and tax marijuana at the federal level, a vote that was alternately described as a momentous change in national cannabis policy and a hollow political gesture.

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10. Sondland Affirms ‘No One on This Planet’ Told Him Trump Was Tying Ukraine Aid to Investigating Bidens

    n an exchange with Rep. Michael Turner (R.-Ohio), Amb. Gordon Sondland conceded in testimony today that “no one on this planet”—as Turner put it—told him that President Donald Trump was tying U.S. aid to Ukraine to Ukraine's agreeing to investigate the 2016 election, the Bidens, or Burisma, the Ukrainian company that had hired Hunter Biden, the son of former Vice President Joe Biden.

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