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President-elect Donald Trump's advisers are exerting pressure to ‘freeze’ the Ukrainian-Russian conflict and create a more than 1,200-kilometre demilitarised zone, US 'Newsweek' reported yesterday. According to the 'Wall Street Journal', the zone would be overseen by European forces, including Polish forces.more

US President Joe Biden welcomed his successor Donald Trump to the White House yesterday, expressing hope for a smooth transition of power. Trump thanked Biden, acknowledging that ‘politics is tough in many cases’.more

Billionaire Elon Musk has been meeting with Trump every day since November 5, the day President-elect Donald Trump was elected, influencing personnel decisions in the new administration, ABC News reports. The New York Times reports that he suggested hiring SpaceX employees in the Defense Department.more

The economic policies announced by US President-elect Donald Trump could elevate the exchange rate of the US currency; a strong dollar would in turn affect global trade and finance, stifling growth in other parts of the world, the UK's ‘Economist’ weekly assessed.more

Copenhagen authorities yesterday announced the launch of a campaign to attract educated Americans who are disappointed by Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election.more

A former adviser to President-elect Donald Trump says the incoming administration will focus on achieving peace in Ukraine rather than enabling the country to gain back territory occupied by Russia. Bryan Lanza, who worked on Trump's 2024 presidential campaign, told the BBC the incoming administration would ask Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for his version of a realistic vision for peace.more

Millionaires sympathetic to the Democratic Party are ‘lining up’ to leave the US after Donald Trump's presidential election victory, the UK's ‘Daily Telegraph’ reported yesterday, quoting data from a firm that advises wealthy investors.more

The foreign secretary has dismissed his previous criticism of Donald Trump as "old news" and insisted he would be able to find "common ground" with the president-elect. When he was a backbench MP in 2018, David Lammy described Trump as a "tyrant" and "a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath".more

After Donald Trump's election as president, Great Britain must find a new link to the White House who will get in the good graces of the new leader of the free world, Politico wrote yesterday. The portal noted that despite the bad relations with Trump, Keir Starmer's government must find some solution.more

Criticism of Donald Trump expressed in the past by Labour politicians will not damage current British-American relations, said Pat McFadden, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister responsible for coordinating the work of the British government, in an interview with Sky News.more

Following Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, many Americans are checking the internet for ways to move to Canada, Canadian media have noted.more

"The Economist" writes today, commenting on the results of the US elections, that Donald Trump's victory will shake the world and may induce aggression from Russia and China. The rule of the Republican candidate will be costly for Washington's allies, and especially for Europe - the weekly predicts.more

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Donald Trump has won the election and will become the 47th president of the United States, according to partial election results and analysis. The celebrity billionaire has become an era-defining figure ran for president as the candidate of the “forgotten people".more

Donald Trump wins the presidential election in the United States - the AP reported today, citing its own calculations. The Republican candidate won 277 electoral votes, or seven more than the minimum required. Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris currently has 224 electoral votes, according to AP.more

The polls have closed in Hawaii, the last of the 50 US states, which means that voting in this year's US presidential election has ended, AP reported today. Most US news agencies and media predict that Donald Trump will win.more

Over the past two decades, China has modernized its military without precedent and has already overtaken the United States in some areas, writes The Economist.more

Democratic candidate Kamala Harris' projected electoral votes (226) give her an advantage over Republican candidate Donald Trump (219), according to a CNN poll Monday. Winning the election requires at least 270 electoral votes.more

Compared to before the Covid-19 pandemic, Americans are spending about an hour less outside their homes each day, which appears to be a lasting effect of the pandemic, reports the Journal of the American Planning Association.more

For Donald Trump, the stakes in the upcoming election are particularly high. If he wins, he will be the first convicted criminal to gain access to nuclear codes. If he loses, he faces more humiliating trials and even prison, the Guardian reported.more

The British newspaper "Daily Telegraph" presented on Friday the final predictions of its journalists regarding the result of the US elections, assuming Donald Trump will win by a narrow majority. With the reservation that in a close race the predictions are based largely on hunches.more

Italian political scientist Prof. Vittorio Emanuele Parsi assessed for PAP that the world, and especially Europe, must prepare for a possible victory of Donald Trump in the presidential elections in the US. He emphasized that it is difficult to predict the consequences of such a decision, including whether Ukraine will be "abandoned" by Washington.more

Democrat Kamala Harris' lead over Republican candidate Donald Trump in the US presidential race has shrunk to one percentage point at 44 per cent to 43 per cent. - According to a Reuters/Ipsos election poll released yesterday.more

Nearly half (49%) of Americans believe Donald Trump is a fascist, according to a poll released by ABC. His rival, Kamala Harris, is viewed the same way by 22%.more

With 11 days to go before the US presidential election, the race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump remains close – each is on 48 percent, according to a New York Times poll published on Friday. Harris was slightly ahead in early October.more