U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad will rejoin official talks with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar, to negotiate an end to the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. State Department announced.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump had hinted that Washington could resume talks during a Thanksgiving Day visit to U.S. troops in Afghanistan, after it broke off (RFE/RL) peace negotiations with the militant group in September. Khalilzad met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani yesterday in Kabul, where Ghani called for a cease-fire. A Taliban spokesperson said any cease-fire could only occur after finalizing a deal (Reuters) with the United States. The U.S. State Department said it would push for intra-Afghan negotiations.

China’s foreign ministry said the U.S. House of Representatives’ approval of a bill rebuking mass detentions of Uighurs in the Xinjiang region could complicate trade talks (Reuters) between the two countries, and said Washington “must pay the due price” for wrong actions.
 
Japan: The environmental advocacy group Greenpeace reported radiation levels (Al Jazeera) above the legal limit at locations near the start of the 2020 Olympic torch relay in Fukushima. The utility company responsible for the Fukushima nuclear plant said it cleaned the so-called hot spots on Tuesday.    

The controversial bill would allow citizenship for non-Muslim refugees from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. The bill is expected to be introduced (Economic Times) in Parliament in the next two days.

U.S. military forces have completed their withdrawal from northeastern Syria, leaving a total of around six hundred U.S. troops in other parts of the country, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said in a Reuters interview.
 
Iran: In a letter to the United Nations, ambassadors from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom denounced Iranian efforts (Al Jazeera) to develop nuclear-capable ballistic missiles, saying the move violates Security Council resolutions.

The two countries are reinstating ambassadors after a twenty-three-year gap, the U.S. State Department announced during a visit to Washington by Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok.
 
Mauritania: At least fifty-eight migrants died after a boat capsized (AP) off the country’s coast, UN migration authorities said.

Representatives from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meet in Vienna (WSJ) today and tomorrow to discuss whether to extend oil production cuts currently scheduled to last until March 2020.
 
This CFR Backgrounder looks at OPEC’s waning influence.
 
France: Air, rail, medical, police, and energy workers are taking part today in the country’s largest nationwide strike (BBC) in years to protest proposed pension reforms.

Leaders from the Mercosur trade bloc’s four members—Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay—began a two-day meeting (AFP) today in southern Brazil. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has previously threatened to leave the bloc.
 
This CFR Backgrounder looks at the fractious South American trade bloc.
 
Bolivia: A report by the Organization of American States on Bolivia’s recent election described “deliberate actions” to manipulate the result (Reuters), including the use of a computer server that tilted results in favor of former President Evo Morales.     
 
In Foreign Affairs, Santiago Anria and Kenneth M. Roberts discuss lessons from Morales’s autocratic slide.

A U.S. Navy sailor shot three civilians (NPR)—killing two—before taking his own life at the Pearl Harbor Naval shipyard in Hawaii, a navy commander said.