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Trump chooses Indian-American Nikki Haley as UN envoy
24 Nov 2016
US president-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (born Nimrata Nikki Randhawa) as ambassador to the United Nations
Trump’s charity admits to illegitimate ‘self-dealing’
23 Nov 2016
In its tax filings for 2015, the Donald J Trump Foundation has for the first time admitted to ‘self-dealing’, which implies using the fund’s money to buy items for Trump himself or to help one of his for-profit businesses
Top computer experts tell Clinton to seek recount in 3 states
23 Nov 2016
A group of top computer scientists have told the Clinton camp they have found evidence that vote totals in the ‘swing’ states of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania could have been manipulated or hacked
UK lost 15% millionaires due to Brexit
22 Nov 2016
Don’t seek to wreck liberal world order, Obama warns Trump
21 Nov 2016
US President Barack Obama made a strident case for his successor Donald Trump to retain America's support for a liberal world order, on which world peace and prosperity depend
Nikki Haley in running for top post in Trump administration
17 Nov 2016
The governor of South Carolina, Indian-American Nikki Haley, is one of the contenders for Secretary of State or other cabinet position in the Donald Trump administration
China pushes Asia trade deal as Trump win ends TPP hopes
16 Nov 2016
The 16-member RCEP that include all 10 members of Asean as well as China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand and represent 30 per cent of global gross domestic product, now stands a better chance of reaching a deal
Trump, Putin vow to mend ‘unsatisfactory’ ties
15 Nov 2016
In a phone conversation on Monday, the President-elect of the US and the Russian leader agreed that relations between their countries were ‘unsatisfactory’ and vowed to work together to improve them
Trade war looms as Trump leaves his election rhetoric unrepaired
15 Nov 2016
US President-elect Donald Trump's campaign vow to revisit trade policies that he said leave America at an unfair disadvantage is expected to trigger trade war with China
Trump seeking ways to wriggle out of climate pact: report
14 Nov 2016
A Reuters report says the future Trump administration is weighing alternatives to accelerate a US pull-out from the Paris Agreement on climate change that has already been signed by 109 countries, including the US
Japan’s July-September GDP growth accelerates to 2.2%
14 Nov 2016
For Japan, which has been struggling to lift a lacklustre economic growth rate and escape the trap of deflation, there is no certainty, however, that this will create a lasting growth momentum
Trump will be impeached, says US professor who predicted his win
By By Jagdeep Worah | 14 Nov 2016
Professor Allan Lichtman claims to have called every US election right since 1984 based on his system of ‘keys’, and he got it right again – but it’s just his “gut” that tells him Trump will be impeached because his party can’t control him. By Jagdeep Worah
Trump’s business empire set to create huge conflict of interest
12 Nov 2016
President-elect Donald Trump will be directing relations with foreign governments, such as Saudi Arabia, whose rulers have bought everything from real estate to a yacht from him as he struggled to pay off debts
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