🇺🇸Trump picks Pam Bondi as attorney general after Matt Gaetz withdraws
US President-elect Donald Trump has nominated veteran prosecutor Pam Bondi as his new pick for attorney general, hours after Matt Gaetz withdrew his name from consideration.
Bondi has a long track record in law enforcement and previously served as Florida's attorney general.
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🇰🇪Kenya's president cancels major deals with Adani Group
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Jihadist police chief of Timbuktu jailed for war crimes
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced the former head of the Islamic police in Mali's historic city of Timbuktu to 10 years in prison for war crimes.
Prosecutors said al-Hassan ag Abdoul Aziz ag Mohamed ag Mahmoud led a "reign of terror" in the city after it was overrun in 2012 by the al-Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine group.
He was found guilty in June this year of torture, overseeing public amputations by machete and the brutal floggings of residents, including children.
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⚠️⚠️Archegos boss sentenced to prison over massive fraud
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🇺🇸Trump selects financier Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary
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🇺🇸Trump lining up Marco Rubio and Michael Waltz for top jobs, says US media
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🇺🇸Judge rejects Biden plan for undocumented spouses
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🇷🇺Putin hails 'courageous' Trump after election win
Vladimir Putin has congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory, calling him a "courageous man".
Speaking at an event in the Russian city of Sochi, the Russian president said that Trump was "hounded from all sides" during his first term in the White House.
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🇺🇸Donald Trump declares 'magnificent victory' in speech to jubilant supporters
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Slapping MP shows generational change may not end abuse of power in 🇳🇬Nigeria
Nigerian politician Alex Ikwechegh has caused outrage after he was caught on video slapping and verbally abusing a taxi driver delivering food to his house.
"Do you know who I am?... I can make you disappear in this whole country, and nothing will happen," Ikwechegh was heard saying in the video that went viral.
The altercation apparently started after the driver asked Ikwechegh to go outside to collect the food, rather than him taking it inside.
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🇺🇸Argentina's Milei fires foreign minister for opposing US embargo on Cuba
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📱TikTok founder becomes China's richest man
The surging global popularity of TikTok has seen the co-founder of its parent company, ByteDance, become China's richest person.
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🥲Grateful Dead co-founder Phil Lesh dies aged 84
Phil Lesh, bassist and co-founder of the US rock group The Grateful Dead, has died aged 84.
The musician's official Instagram account said he "passed peacefully this morning". He was surrounded by his family.
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🇬🇧UK and 🇩🇪Germany to sign 'landmark' defence agreement
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🇵🇪Ex-president of Peru gets 20 years for corruption
A court in Peru has sentenced former President Alejandro Toledo to 20 years and six months in jail for corruption and money-laundering.
Prosecutors say he took $35m (£27m) in bribes from a Brazilian construction company which was awarded a contract to build a road in southern Peru.
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🇲🇱Mali junta chief fires prime minister in row over return to civilian rule
Mali's military leader has sacked the Prime Minister, Choguel Kokalla Maïga, and his government.
It follows rare criticism by Maïga of the junta's lack of clarity about a once-promised return to democracy.
A decree read on state television by junta leader Col Assimi Goïta said the duties of the prime minister and the members of the government were "terminated".
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🇺🇸Gary Gensler to leave role as SEC chairman
The head of the US financial regulator, Gary Gensler, will resign from his role on the day of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Mr Gensler confirmed the news on social media platform X after the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said its 33rd chairman would step down on 20 January next year.
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🇷🇺🇰🇵Putin gifts lion and brown bears to North Korea zoo
Russian President Vladimir Putin has gifted North Korea's main zoo more than 70 animals, including a lion and two brown bears, in yet another display of burgeoning relations between Moscow and Pyongyang.
Putin's environment minister, Alexander Kozlov, brought the animals to the North Korean capital on board a cargo plane, Kozlov's office said on its official Telegram channel on Wednesday.
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🇳🇴Son of Norwegian princess arrested on suspicion of rape
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🇬🇭The former president seeking to lead Ghana once more
John Dramani Mahama has been Ghana's president once before - and now he is back for another punt at the top job.
The 65-year-old led Ghana from 2012 to 2017 and is one of the West African country's most experienced politicians. He has served at all levels of office, as an MP, deputy minister, minister, vice-president and president.
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🇳🇿New Zealand PM says sorry for 'horrific' care home abuse
New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has formally apologised to victims of abuse in care homes, following an inquiry into one of the country's biggest abuse scandals.
The historic apology, delivered in parliament, comes after a report found that 200,000 children and vulnerable adults had suffered abuse while in state and faith-based care between 1950 and 2019.
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🇮🇪What's at stake in Irish general election?
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🇺🇸Trump hires campaign aide as White House chief of staff
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🇬🇧How the UK's 'big brother' role in Africa is changing
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy is coming to the end of his maiden tour of Africa with the aim of resetting relations with the 54-nation continent.
"Our new approach will deliver respectful partnerships that listen rather than tell, deliver long-term growth rather than short-term solutions and build a freer, safer, more prosperous continent," he said as he set out the agenda for his trip to the continent's two biggest powers - Nigeria and South Africa.
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🇮🇳🇨🇦Modi condemns violence after Canada temple incident
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🇦🇺Australian PM accused of seeking upgrades from Qantas boss
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⚠️Hezbollah announces Naim Qassem as new leader
Hezbollah has announced the group’s deputy secretary general will become its new head.
Naim Qassem replaces long-term leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli air strike in Beirut last month.
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🇬🇧🇼🇸Time has come for reparations dialogue, Commonwealth heads agree
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🇬🇧King and Queen arrive in 🇼🇸Samoa to red carpet welcome
King Charles has arrived in Samoa for a four-day state visit where he will preside for the first time over a gathering of Commonwealth presidents and prime ministers.
Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata'afa greeted the King and Queen Camilla at Faleolo International Airport where a red carpet had been rolled out amid high winds and last-minute vacuum cleaning.
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🇨🇳China holds live-fire drills on island closest to 🇹🇼Taiwan
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