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PHOENIX AP 鈥?Sen. Jon Kyl, is resigning from the seat he was appointed to less than four months ago following the death of John McCain, Gov. Doug Ducey announced Friday, a development which gives Ducey a second opportunity to fill the position.Kyl, 76, had said he was only serving through the end of the year. His resignation is effective Dec. 31 and forces a p stanley thermos ivotal decision by the states Republican governor.Thats because voters in 2020 will get to decide who fills McCains seat for the final two years of its six-year term. Democrats picked up Arizonas other Senate seat in November and are already targeting the state in 2020 as part of their possible path to re-taking control of the Senate, increasing the pressure on Ducey to select someone who can hold the se stanley usa at for the GOP.Ducey said he will pick a replacement in the near future. His office has been typically tight-lipped about who might fill the seat, leading to frenzied speculation in Arizona an stanley mug d Washington.There may be pressure on Ducey to select a woman, because the three most prominent possible Democratic challengers are men. U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, former astronaut and current gun control advocate Mark Kelly and former state Attorney General Grant Woods, who left the GOP to become a Democrat this year, have all mulled running for the seat in 2020.The most prominent Republican politician whose name has been floated is Rep. Martha McSally, who just lost a race for the states other Senate seat to Democrat Kyrsten Sine Gwwm CARTOON OF THE DAY (May 6)

Sputnik/Alexey Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERSRussian President Vladimir Putin meets with Italian Member of the European Parliament Silvio Berlusconi at an airport in Rome, Italy Jul stanley france y 4, 2019. Picture taken July 4, 2019.Reuters11:42 JST,ensp;June 13, 2023Russian President Vladimir stanley mug Putin called Italy Silvio Berlusconi a dear friend and an outstanding politician in a tribute to the former prime minister who died on Monday aged 86.For me, Silvio was a dear person, a true friend. I hav stanley termos e always sincerely admired his wisdom, his ability to make balanced, far-sighted decisions even in the most difficult situations, Putin said in a message of condolence.Berlusconi will be remembered in Russia as a consistent and principled supporter of strengthening friendly relations between our countries, he said.Like former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Berlusconi cultivated close relations with Moscow during Putin first years in the Kremlin from 2000 onwards.Both Berlusconi and Schroeder became personal friends of the Russian leader and were criticized in the West for standing by him long after Russia 2014 seizure of Crimea from Ukraine.Berlusconi drew condemnation just before Italy election last year when he said Putin had been pushed into invading Ukraine months earlier and had wanted to put decent people in charge in Kyiv.Putin was pushed by the Russian people, by his party, by his ministers to