With less than three weeks to go in the election, the race is narrowing in the

swing states with former President Donald Trump polling slightly ahead.

What to keep an eye on in the final weeks of the campaign?

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The U.S. sends a letter warning Israel to increase aid to Palestinians in northern Gaza or possibly risk access to weapons funding.

The letter was not meant as a threat.

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it already sends.

But it's too early to say whether they will be deployed directly on the territory of Ukraine.

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