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Donald Trump makes two new appointments
Donald Trump has chosen two more people for important positions as he tries to overcome reported divisions in his transition team.

Donald Trump has chosen two more people for important positions as he tries to overcome reported divisions in his transition team.

At least four people were shot, two fatally, across the United States during Black Friday sales.

A Sri Lankan court has sentenced 18 men to death over murdering the executive of a US tea company.

If Rudy Giuliani is appointed secretary of state he will follow on Hillary Clinton’s war policies with Russia in Syria.

Yemeni snipers have reportedly shot and killed three Saudi soldiers in the kingdom's southwestern border region of Asir.

Government secretary Geddel Vieira Lima tendered his resignation in a letter to Temer published in the media on Friday.

"Now every drop of this water will be stopped and I will give that to … Indian farmers. I am committed to this," Modi says.

The Iranian energy minister says Iran and Japan must make use of the opportunities offered by the JCPOA to boost cooperation in the energy sector.

Israeli soldiers have gunned down a Palestinian teenage boy over an alleged stabbing attack in East Jerusalem al-Quds.

John Major, the former British prime minister, says there is a "credible case" for a second referendum on Brexit.

Iran urges the Djibouti’s president to stop implementing others’ orders and act based on existing realities.

The Turkish Education Ministry says 6,007 personnel have "returned to their jobs."

Syrian army soldiers and allied fighters have found and destroyed a long tunnel used by militants near the capital Damascus.

More than 500 documents provided by WikiLeaks pertain to the Office for Military Cooperation (OMC) of the US embassy in Yemen’s capital.

Iran’s Navy chief says the country's naval forces have escorted 3,844 commercial ships to ensure their safe passage in the Gulf of Aden.

The Israeli court has also fined the two Syrians, who were arrested in 2015.

Migrants from Central America are rushing to cross the US border before Donald Trump takes office on January 20.

At least two people have been killed and four others wounded in a shooting on Thanksgiving Day in the US city of Louisville in Kentucky.