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Washington (AFP) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday voiced outrage and promised renewed efforts to combat anti-Semitism after a swastika was found etched in an elevator at the State Department. Officials said they had launched an investigation into how the symbol of Nazi Germany was scraped into the wood paneling of an elevator in the Harry S Truman Building, the secure headquarters of American diplomacy in central Washington. Blinken, a secular Jew whose stepfather survived Nazi death camps, sent a message to State Department employees to call the graffiti discovered late Monda…