Wednesday’s global agenda: Congress wraps up, honors Burma’s Suu Kyi

In other news: 

{mosads}A team of FBI agents has arrived in Libya to investigate the attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens. [The Washington Post]

U.S., NATO scale back joint operations with local forces in Afghanistan [The Hill]

China‘s leader-in-waiting Xi Jinping told U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that he wants to advance ties with the United States on Wednesday during his first meeting with a foreign official since vanishing from the public eye nearly two weeks ago. [Reuters]

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