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U.S. Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, Chief, National Guard Bureau, kicks off Thanksgiving week with a visit to Soldiers deployed on Camp Bondsteel, Kosovo supporting the KFOR mission on November 24, 2021. Visits like this lift Soldier’s spirits during the Holiday Season and helps them continue their mission to support a safe and secure environment for Kosovo. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Gloria Kamencik)

National Guard’s top general tests positive for coronavirus

The National Guard’s top general has isolated himself after testing positive this week for the coronavirus, the National Guard Bureau announced Friday.

U.S. Army Col. Robert J. Coker, commander of the 642nd Regional Support Group, and brigade Command Sgt. Major Denise Demps discuss the dangers of extremist groups with troops during a Combined Training Readiness Exercise April 24, 2021, at Fort McClellan, Ala. The Headquarters Company, based in Decatur, Ga., held a class on violent extremism awareness the same day. The CTRX allowed Reserve troops under the 642nd RSG to conduct a variety of events, including weapons qualifications, marksmanship practice, medical readiness screenings, convoys and sexual harassment assault response prevention classes. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Gary A. Witte, 642nd Regional Support Group)

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U.S. Air Force Capt. Nichole Vapor Ayers, an F-22 Raptor pilot, performs preflight checks at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., in 2020. The Air Force plans to provide an improved in-flight bladder relief device to fighter pilots by the spring, the service announced this week.

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Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) navigates in the Gulf of Mexico during bravo trials. In a short, informal ceremony to be shown live on the Facebook page of the future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr., Commander Daniel Hancock at 10 a.m. will accept delivery of the ship on behalf of the U.S. government from Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division.

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Staff Sgt. David Diehl II, 436th Communications Squadron noncommissioned officer in charge of wing cybersecurity, displays his new United States Space Force tapes and service branch patch at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Feb. 12, 2021.

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French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, left, pays respects at the memorial to the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in Warsaw, Poland, Friday Dec. 3, 2021. The memorial honors Jews who rose up against Nazi German forces during World War II. Le Pen is in Warsaw to attend a meeting of the leaders of right-wing and far-right parties on Saturday. (AP Photo/Adam Jankowski)

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Asia-Pacific

Philippine Marine Pfc. Neil Alim with 38th Marine Company, 8th Marine Battalion, provides security during an amphibious landing exercise at the Naval Education and Training Command training area, Zambales, Philippines, April 11, 2019 during exercise Balikatan 2019. Balikatan, in its 35th iteration, is an annual U.S.-Philippine military training focused on a variety of missions, including humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, counter-terrorism, and other combined military operations held from April 1 to April 12. Balikatan helps participating forces maintain a high level of readiness and responsiveness and enhances combined military-to-military relations and capabilities. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Isaiah Campbell)

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FILE - This Friday May 5, 2017 file photo shows the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, Netherlands. An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog found “reasonable grounds to believe” that a Syrian air force military helicopter dropped a chlorine cylinder on a Syrian town in 2018, sickening 12 people, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Monday, April 12, 2021.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

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Africa

Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia's prime minister, speaks during the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 25, 2020. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Tiffany Hagler-Geard

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Americas

Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri, center, arrives to court accompanied by former Vice President Marta Gabriela Michetti, lower right, in Dolores, Argentina, Wednesday, Nov. 3, 2021. Macri was summoned to court as a suspect in the case of alleged spying on the relatives of the crew-members who died in the ARA San Juan submarine in 2017. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)

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