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On Sunday, GOP Sen. John Barrasso said Joe Biden's cabinet nominees are going to face a hard road towards confirmation. According to Politico Barrasson said a Republican-controlled Senate should not expect an easy pathway to confirmation. "It's not going to be a garden party," he said. Barrasso said Biden's nominees will have to "run the gauntlet" towards confirmation. He said Biden's selections resembled a "third term of the Obama administration."
In an unusual intervention into U.S. foreign policy-making, Republican senators have sent a letter to Iran warning Tehran that any nuclear deal made with U.S. President Barack Obama could last only as long as he remains in office. Justin Mitchell reports.
Congressman Henry Kronfle is elected President of the new Congress of Ecuador, with the support of former governor Rafael Correa (2007-2017) and the party of President-elect Daniel Noboa, who will be sworn November 23. IMAGES
Republicans finally rally behind a new standard-bearer as the US House of Representatives elected its 56th speaker -- ending weeks of party infighting that paralyzed Congress in a period of international and domestic crisis. Louisiana's Mike Johnson, a staunch ally of Donald Trump and who spearheaded legal efforts to overturn the 2020 election, won unanimous support from his party to lead the lower chamber of Congress and draw a line under the chaos. IMAGES
Foreign leaders, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, pose during a family photo ahead of the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road forum in Beijing. IMAGES
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