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Dec 2023
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Ukraine Aid blocked by US Senate Republi...

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US Senate Republicans block billions of dollars in emergency aid for Ukraine. We hear what this means for the country’s war against Russia.

The government of the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni tells China it will exit their Belt and Road Initiative. We find out how this might affect future relations between the two countries.

And Google launches its long-awaited answer to Chat GPT, but will their new model called Gemini succeed in the AI space?

(Picture: U.S. President Joe Biden looks up while addressing the White House Tribal Nations Summit at the Department of the Interior in Washington, U.S. Credit: Reuters)

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