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A powerful quake off the northeast Japanese shor.

Pictures that emerged of three Indian businessmen mugging for the cameras with Trump during a visit to Trump Tower in NY last week raised additional concerns about the president-elect’s ability to separate his own business interests from his new role.

Given a fair primary contest, for starters, “Maybe I would have been elected president of the United States”, he said.

“I’ve known and worked with Steve Bannon, and he has traditional conservative non-racist, non-prejudiced views about the world”, said Joel Pollak, a senior editor at large at Breitbart, who called The Associated Press in response to a request for comment from...

While she has never been described as a visionary or earned much praise for stirring speeches, Merkel – sometimes referred to as “Mutti”, or “Mom”, in Germany – has won respect for being tough, shrewd and dogged in tackling problems.

A short time later a tweet appeared on Trump’s account: “Very organized process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions”.

Applications and interviews for the Christmas Hamper program have been completed for the most part in Shelburne, Yarmouth and Lunenburg counties.

Eight years in the making, the giant Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal between Australia, the United States and 10 other regional powers is as good as dead after the Obama administration walked away from its plan to put it before the “lame duck” Congress ahead of...

He is still a relative unknown in Europe, despite earning a Ballon d’Or nomination, and boss Claudio Ranieri said after Mahrez scored twice against Brugge in September the Champions League music had woken the winger up.

ANALYST TAKE: “Markets continue to price in a more active Federal Reserve in the coming years, starting with a likely rate hike next month which is now more than 90% priced in by the markets”, said Craig Erlam, senior market analyst at OANDA.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said yesterday that he holds worldwide human rights organisation Amnesty global responsible for “endangering the security” of Mosul’s citizens by publishing “false information” regarding his forces conducting...

He added that China’s objective would remain unchanged and urged the developed countries to “re-read” the Paris Agreement and speed up the financial support that they have to.

He bounced back with a tough pitch to save par, three birdies and walked off with the lead over Billy Horschel, Camilo Villegas and C.T. Pan.

Four prominent, disgruntled cardinals, including a US prelate, Raymond Burke, who is one of Francis’ most vocal critics, in a letter to the pope aired their doubts about his more compassionate approach to the contentious issue involving divorced Catholics.

Merkel has long refused to be drawn on her plans for the general election, expected in September or October 2017, saying only that she would make the announcement “at the appropriate time”.