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Experts no longer rule out the possibility of U.S. President Donald Trump scaling back the American military presence on the Korean peninsula. Trump questioned the advantage of keeping U.S. troops in South Korea as the two allies disagree about the cost-sharing deal for American military presence.
ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY
On December 6,1884, workers complete the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., by placing an aluminum plate at the top of the 169-meter, Egyptian-style obelisk. Fundraising for the monument started in 1832, and construction began on July 4, 1848. Construction was halted between 1854 to 1877 because of a lack of funds and the Civil War. The Washington Monument is both the world’s tallest predominately stone structure and the world’s tallest obelisk. For several years, it was the tallest structure in the world, but was overtaken by the Eiffel Tower in 1889.
Five world powers trying to save the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran from U.S. efforts to overturn it are grappling with a new setback as they met with Iranian officials in Vienna, Austria, Friday.
Indian police have shot dead four men suspected of raping and killing a 27-year-old veterinarian in the southern city of Hyderabad last week, according to police officials in Telangana state.
VIDEO: An MMA fighter of Cambodian descent has never set her foot in her mother’s homeland, but now she is using her fighting career to reconnect with the country that her mother told her about when she was a child. 
New clashes between government security forces and the Taliban in northern Afghanistan are said to have killed around 20 combatants on both sides. The predawn fighting in Kunduz province erupted after insurgents assaulted several Afghan police outposts in the volatile Imam Sahib district.

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