US sends diplomats to Syria

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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Janat Jalil and at 14 hours GMT on Friday the 20th of December, these are our main stories. In the first such visit in more than a decade, US diplomats are in Syria for talks with its new Islamist rulers. Malaysia authorises a fresh attempt to find the wreckage of MH370, the plane that mysteriously disappeared 10 years ago.