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Reuters has been looking at how the U.S. mid-term elections could have an impact on foreign policy, including the Ukraine crisis:
After Republicans, who already controlled the House of Representatives, won a majority in the Senate on Tuesday, two of Washington's most vocal foreign policy hawks, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, came in line to chair two key Senate panels.
McCain, who has advocated a more robust response in bothUkraine and Syria, will lead the Senate Armed Services Committee, which oversees military policy. That includes a say in the budget, giving him a strong lever on policy.
Graham is due to chair the Senate appropriations subcommittee that controls the State Department's budget and can withhold or grant aid to foreign governments.
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Meanwhile, in Berlin, Mikhail Gorbachev has been talking about the fallout of the Ukraine crisis:
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev says tensions between Russia and the West over the Ukraine crisis have put the world "on the brink of a new Cold War."
Gorbachev spoke on November 8 at an event in the German capital marking the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Gorbachev accused the West -- particularly the United States -- of giving in to "triumphalism" after the collapse of the communist bloc.
He said that "instead of becoming a leader of change in a global world, Europe has turned into an arena of political upheaval, of competition for spheres of influence, and finally of military conflict. The consequence inevitably is Europe weakening."
Gorbachev called for trust to be built through dialogue with Moscow, and suggested that the United States and European Union should lift sanctions against Russian officials.
(AP, dpa)