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Overnight, President-elect Donald Trump continued his verbal assaults on Canada, America's largest trading partner and a top defense partner, by calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau the "Governor" of the "Great State of Canada." Some Canadians are striking back.

After the November election, Trump announced that one of his first actions would be to impose massive tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China. The President of Mexico fought Trump in the press, explaining that his border demands were nonsensical since Mexico was already doing what he was calling for.

Syrians lived in terror for decades of what went on behind the concrete walls of Damascus's security compound. Now the Assad dynasty has been toppled, its dungeons and torture chambers are giving up their secrets.

Rebel fighters stand guard at the entrances to the forbidden city in the capital's Kafr Sousa district, where the feared security services had their headquarters alongside government offices.

by Huw GRIFFITH

Rupert Murdoch's audacious bid to cement his eldest son's control over one of the world's most influential media empires has failed, a U.S. report said Monday.

by Peter CATTERALL

Chinese President Xi Jinping warned Tuesday that there would be "no winners" in a trade war with the United States and vowed the country would hit its growth goals for the year.

Donald Trump does not take office until January 20, but on the world stage he is already acting as if he is US president.

President-elect Trump has stamped his seal on U.S. diplomacy on crises in Syria and Ukraine as his second spell in the White House approaches.

Chatter muffled as members of a secret society, masked and garbed in honey-colored robes, entered the court of Foumban, the historic capital of a centuries-old kingdom nestled in hilly northwestern Cameroon.

The 20th king of the Bamoun people, Mouhammad Nabil Mfourifoum Mbombo Njoya, stood up from his ornate throne -- a replica of the original, now at a German museum -- for the ancient ritual to get under way.

French party leaders will gather at President Emmanuel Macron's Elysee Palace office Tuesday in a bid to chart a route towards a new government, days after Prime Minister Michel Barnier was toppled in a confidence vote.

Shutting out the far-right National Rally (RN) and hard-left France Unbowed (LFI), the effort to find a way forward comes as caretaker ministers scramble to clarify France's 2025 finances, after the previous administration fell over its cost-cutting budget plans.

Two-time failed Republican candidate Kari Lake has emerged as a leading contender to become President-elect Donald Trump's ambassador to Mexico, Semafor reported Monday.

Lake lost her bids for governor and senate in the past four years. She then spent a lot of time at Donald Trump's country club in Palm Beach, Florida, until she was shoved out. She has also helped promote Trump's ongoing conspiracy theory that he won the 2020 election.

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol was banned Monday from traveling abroad, the justice ministry said, less than a week after he plunged the country into chaos by briefly imposing martial law.

Yoon sent special forces and helicopters to parliament on the night of December 3 before lawmakers forced him to rescind the order by rejecting his decree.

This year's Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Japan's atomic bomb survivors' group Nihon Hidankyo, on Monday urged Russia to stop issuing nuclear threats in a bid to prevail in its war in Ukraine.

"President Putin, I don't think he truly understands what nuclear weapons are for human beings," said Terumi Tanaka, the 92-year-old co-chair of Nihon Hidankyo and a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

State Senator-elect Steve Chan was able to flip a blue seat in New York held by Sen. Iwen Chu in November — but now reports are examining his ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Chan, who was born in Hong Kong, won New York's 17th Senate District that's long been held by Democrats. However, the New York Times reports a connection to John Chan, who "was a Chinatown gangster before remaking himself into a powerful force in New York politics."

Donald Trump's surprising strength among Hispanic voters in the 2024 presidential election can be traced to son-in-law Jared Kushner's relationship with two media executives from Mexico who used their pull to get him a coveted interview on Univision that left insiders at the network shocked, according to a report.

The Wall Street Journal's Santiago Pérez and José de Córdoba reported tycoons Alfonso de Angoitia and Bernardo Gómez, known for their "longstanding influence of Grupo Televisa, a company that gained fame for taking soap operas, called telenovelas," have ties to Kushner dating back to the first Trump administration and helped set in motion the interview with Univision's Enrique Acevedo that boosted Trump's election prospects with Hispanic viewers.