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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Massive protests break out across US against Trump election
10 Nov 2016
Unprecedented protests broke out from coast to coast and in middle America as people refused to accept that ‘racist, misogynist’ Republican Donald Trump would be their next president
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Global stock markets, dollar plunge after Trump victory
09 Nov 2016
Asian and European stock markets tumbled, while the dollar fell sharply against the ‘safe haven’ Japanese yen, as initial confidence that market favourite Hillary Clinton would win vanished in a Trump wave
US car-sharing and ride-hailing companies offer election day specials to help people vote
09 Nov 2016
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Trump triumphs. Hillary concedes defeat
09 Nov 2016
Donald Trump, who trumped the favoured Democrat rival Hillary Clinton to win the election, will be sworn in as the 45th US president
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