Subject: Editors' Picks: Restoring aid to North Korea, and a climate change expert on how to convince the skeptics
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 16:24:30 -0600 (CST)

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EDITORS' PICKS

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01/11/2019

Welcome to Editors’ Picks, FP’s daily round-up.

Today, we look at a diplomatic breakthrough for the United States in Belarus, the easing of limits on humanitarian aid to North Korea, and the beginnings of a truth commission in Gambia after decades of former President Yahya Jammeh’s regime.

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LOWER PRESSURE: The U.S. State Department will relax some restrictions on humanitarian aid to North Korea, including travel restrictions on aid workers, Colum Lynch reports in an FP exclusive.

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DEFINING VICTIMHOOD: Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission held its first trial this week, tasked not only with establishing a narrative of life under the dictatorship but also with giving recommendations on reparations, amnesty, and prosecution, Ayenat Mersie reports.

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MINSK RETHINKS RELATIONS: Belarus has lifted a long-lived cap on the number of U.S. diplomats allowed in the country, in a move one U.S. official called “the beginning of a thaw,” FP’s Robbie Gramer and Amy Mackinnon report.

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FURLOUGH FUROR: The U.S. government shutdown has State Department employees working overtime and unpaid, FP’s Robbie Gramer reports.

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NOW LISTENING: Climate scientist Katharine Hayhoe, one of FP’s upcoming 2019 Global Thinkers, speaks with Sarah Wildman on FP’s First Person podcast.

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