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President Trump has named an Acting White House Chief of Staff after failing to find anyone to take the job on a permanent basis.
Mick Mulvaney, currently the President's Budget Director, will replace General John Kelly when he leaves the White House at the end of the year.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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Donald Trump's former lawyer says the President personally orchestrated illegal hush money payments to two women in a bid to silence them in the middle of America's Presidential election campaign.
In his first interview since being sentenced to three years in jail, Michael Cohen says Mr. Trump knew that what he was doing was illegal.
Our Washington Correspondent Simon Marks reports.
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Russian investigators have arrested seven members of an alleged underground terror network, accusing them of raising money for terrorist groups.
They will be held for two months while they await charges.
Julia Chapman reports from Moscow.
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Vietnam has reportedly expressed interest in hosting a second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Since the first meeting of the leaders in June, Pyongyang and Washington have had little success in maintaining peace talks.
Bruce Harrison reports from Seoul.
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President Donald Trump says he wants to meet leader Kim Jong-un again in January or February.
But he's only teased the press about a location, suggesting he has three sites in mind.
Now, according to CNN, Vietnam has told South Korean government officials it hopes to host the two leaders.
South Korea's Yonhap News has also reported that a high-ranking diplomat recently visited Vietnam.
It's unclear if that trip is related to any kind of summit preparation.
Despite Trump's desire for a second meeting for Kim, the two leaders have yet to make any significant progress on promises to end North Korea's weapons programs and create lasting peace.
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Police in the French city of Strasbourg have shot dead the suspect in Tuesday's shooting at the Christmas market.
The French interior minister said they tried to arrest him without using lethal force, but that he fired on them and they were forced to open fire in response.
Elena Casas reports from Paris.
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Apple has announced a major expansion in the United States.
The company says it's on track to create 20 thousand new jobs in the US by 2023.
Technology Correspondent Rachel Silverman has details.
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In his first public reaction to the sentencing of his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump contradicts Cohen's claim that he instructed him to break the law.
This comes a day after a federal court in New York sentenced Cohen to three years behind bars for crimes that include tax evasion, arranging pay-offs to silence women who'd had affairs with Donald Trump, and lying to congress.
US correspondent Mary MacCarthy has more:
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New data shows an increase in the number of referrals to the UK government's anti-extremism programme, amid concerns over the rise of the far-right.
Over the last year such referrals rose 36 per cent while those for Islamist extremism dropped 14%. From London, Phoebe Hopson reports.
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British Prime Minister Theresa May has said she does not intend to lead her Conservative Party into the next scheduled general election, even though she might wish to do so.
Speaking as she held talks with European Union leaders in Brussels, Theresa May confirmed what she had told MPs ahead of a vote of confidence in her leadership Wednesday, triggered by Brexiteers in her own party.
Mrs May is trying to win concessions over the backstop proposals that deal with the Irish border issue in the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement. However she told reporters that she did not intend to go into the new general scheduled general election as leader.
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Mrs May said she is determined to get more assurances on the backstop issue, in a bid to assuage the anger in her party over the issue.
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