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The article offers news brief as of November 21, 2020. It discusses that the U.S. announced that it would reduce its forces in Afghanistan from 4,500 troops to 2,500 by mid-January; Hurricane Iota, the strongest storm ever to strike Nicaragua, military made landfall close to where Hurricane Eta hit the country; and Joe Biden was deemed the winner in Arizona and Georgia, bringing the final tally in his electoral college votes to 306 to Donald Trump's 232.