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Today's Top 5

1. Top Marine: Nude photo sharing scandal shows 'We’ve got to change' (Marine Corps Times) Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller faced more than two hours of questioning on Tuesday from angry senators, who believe the new investigation into whether Marines shared nude photos of women without their consent and harassed the women online represents a cultural problem within the Corps.

2. Moscow moves to absorb rebel Georgian region's military (Reuters) Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday ordered his officials to seal an agreement which will, in effect, incorporate the armed forces of Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia region into the Russian military's command structure.

3. IS Mosul commander killed, government forces battle for bridge (Reuters) Iraqi government forces killed the Islamic State commander of Mosul's Old City on Tuesday as the battle for the militants' last stronghold in Iraq focused on a bridge crossing the Tigris river.

4. Report: Trump Gives CIA New Authority for Drone Strikes (Voice of America) President Donald Trump has given the Central Intelligence Agency new authority to conduct drone attacks against suspected militants, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing U.S. officials.

5. China ready to neutralise THAAD, retired PLA general says (South China Morning Post) The military will deploy its own system before Seoul sets up the American one, Wang Hongguang says.

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