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NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A former minister of mines in Guinea was arrested yesterday on U.S.

SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – China will appoint “river chiefs” to prevent pollution in the nation’s waterways, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Monday, in the latest step taken by Beijing to rein in environmental damage.

(Reuters) – U.S. stocks racked up new all-time highs yesterday and the Dow Jones industrial average ended fewer than 100 points away from the 20,000 mark as a post-election rally showed no signs of fatigue.All

KABUL, (Reuters) – Afghanistan’s First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum denied yesterday accusations that he had beaten and abducted a political rival and threatened him with sexual violence, in a case that sparked Western calls for a full and fair investigation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House yesterday insisted that Washington’s “one China” policy should not be used as a “bargaining chip” with Beijing after President-elect Donald Trump said the United States did not necessarily have to be bound by its long-standing position that Taiwan is part of China.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres was sworn in yesterday as the ninth United Nations Secretary-General, pledging to personally help broker peace in various conflicts and reform the 71-year old world body to become more effective.

BANJUL/UNITED NATIONS Dec 12 (Reuters) – The United States said yesterday Gambia had reached “a very dangerous moment” as West African leaders prepared to travel there to tell long-ruling leader Yahya Jammeh to accept his election defeat and step down.

LONDON/BOSTON (Reuters) – Cyber attacks targeting the global bank transfer system have succeeded in stealing funds since February’s heist of $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank as hackers have become more sophisticated in their tactics, according to a SWIFT official and a previously undisclosed letter the organization sent to banks worldwide.

BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China expressed “serious concern” today after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said the United States did not necessarily have to stick to its long-held stance that Taiwan is part of “one China”, calling it the basis for relations.

AMMAN,  (Reuters) – Islamic State captured the ancient city of Palmyra yesterday despite dozens of Russian airstrikes to push back the militants a day after they briefly seized the city in eastern Syria, a war monitor and the militants said.

ISTANBUL,  (Reuters) – An offshoot of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility on Sunday for twin bombings that killed 38 people and wounded 155 outside an Istanbul soccer stadium, an attack for which the Turkish government vowed vengeance.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – A bombing at Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many of them women and children attending Sunday mass, in the deadliest attack on Egypt’s Christian minority in years.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said the United States did not necessarily have to stick to its long-standing position that Taiwan is part of “one China,” questioning nearly four decades of policy in a move likely to antagonize Beijing.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US intelligence analysts have concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the US electoral system, a senior US official said on Friday.

SEOUL (Reuters) – Protestors demanding that South Korean President Park Geun-hye step down marched yesterday for a seventh straight weekend, a day after parliament voted overwhelmingly to impeach her and put the fate of her presidency in the hands of a nine-judge court.

Gambia’s President-elect Adama Barrow said yesterday that outgoing leader Yahya Jammeh had no authority to reject the results of the December 1 election, while the United Nations and African Union piled pressure on Jammeh to step aside.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – The Canadian government on Friday reached a deal with eight of the 10 provinces to introduce a landmark national carbon price, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says will help Canada meet its international climate change obligations.

NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Royalty, presidents, prime ministers and spiritual leaders joined hands with Nobel peace prize winners yesterday in the fight for child rights, saying they wanted to “globalise compassion for children” in a world which has forgotten to care.

ACCRA, (Reuters) – Opposition leader Nana Akufo-Addo won Ghana’s national election, becoming president elect at the third attempt and cementing the country’s reputation as a standard bearer of democracy in a region that has been blighted by civil wars and coups.

DAKAR,  (Reuters) – Gambian President Yahya Jammeh said yesterday he rejects the outcome of last week’s election that he lost to opposition leader Adama Barrow and called for fresh elections.