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Trump picks hawkish loyalists for key posts
Donald Trump appoints three army veterans of Flynn, Sessions and Pompeo to key posts in his cabinet.

Donald Trump appoints three army veterans of Flynn, Sessions and Pompeo to key posts in his cabinet.

Witnesses said police arrested about 20 people in a square in central Harare.

Israeli forces have fatally shot a young Palestinian man during a protest at a bill to ban the use of loudspeakers for prayer calls at mosques.

The navy says it detected the submarine south of the Pakistani coast on November 14.

Due to their bad choice of candidate, Democrats lost the vote of the Electoral College for the White House to Trump, an analyst says.

Iraqi Popular Mobilization Units have liberated more areas in the northern province of Mosul from Daesh terrorists.

The Turkish government does not have "a blank check to do whatever it wants," says a UN official.

The Iranian envoy to the IAEA says the West’s double standards on Israel’s nukes risk Middle East security and the NPT.

Obama believes Clinton lost the election to Trump because of his stunning campaign on social media.

Rakhine has been under a military lockdown since October.

Russia is working on state-of-the-art arms technologies, including laser, hypersonic and robotic weapons, President Putin says.

The US condemns a recent deadly attack by Nigerian forces on Shia Muslims.

"It is right that some Turkish officers working in NATO command structure have requested asylum in the countries where they are working," says the NATO chief.

A Russian research ship, dubbed Yantar, docks at Iran's southern port city of Bandar Abbas.

The ICRC has expressed concern over the deteriorating health condition of two hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners.

A senior Iranian nuclear official says Tehran has remained committed to its obligations on heavy water stockpiles under the JCPOA.

The bombings were carried out in Maiduguri on Friday.

A Russian official says the administration of outgoing US President Obama is taking Moscow-Washington relations to a deadlock.