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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. North Korea and Russia are deepening their military cooperation, as Pyongyang ramps up the supply of arms to Moscow for the war in Ukraine and receives much needed cash and oil from the Kremlin in return. Recent satellite images show that North Korea is shipping more munitions to Russia and is expanding arms production at home to churn out the weapons Moscow needs to feed its voracious war machine.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Indian rupee has been under pressure in recent months, with more of it being converted into US dollars than the other way round. Last week, its exchange rate slipped below ₹85 to the dollar.

Donald Trump said on Sunday he would nominate billionaire investor Stephen Feinberg to serve as deputy secretary of defence. Feinberg is the co-chief executive of Cerberus Capital Management LP, a private equity firm that has invested in defence contractors. He served on an intelligence advisory board during Trump's 2017-2021 White House term. Feinberg would serve as the No. 2 official at the Pentagon under Trump's choice for defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host who faces questions about allegations of alcohol abuse and sexual misconduct. Hegseth has denied any wrongdoing.

Miller, wife of Trump's designated homeland security adviser Stephen Miller, will join Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an informal advisory body that Trump has said will enable his administration to «slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.» «Katie Miller will soon be joining DOGE! She has been a loyal supporter of mine for many years, and will bring her professional experience to Government Efficiency,» Trump posted in a message on his social media platform Truth Social.

Donald Trump suggested Sunday that his new administration could try to regain control of the Panama Canal that the United States «foolishly» ceded to its Central American ally, contending that shippers are charged «ridiculous» fees to pass through the vital transportation channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Panama's conservative president Jose Raul Mulino, who was elected in May on a pro-business platform, roundly rejected that notion as an affront to his country's sovereignty. The Republican president-elect's comment came during his first major rally since winning the White House on Nov. 5. He also basked in his return to power as a large audience of conservatives cheered along. It was a display of party unity at odds with a just-concluded budget fight on Capitol Hill, where some GOP lawmakers openly defied their leader's demands.

Donald Trump said on Sunday he will rename Denali, Alaska natives' name for North America's tallest mountain, after William McKinley, the 25th U.S. president who was assassinated in 1901. Democratic former President Barack Obama in 2015 officially renamed the mountain as Denali, siding with the state of Alaska and ending a decades-long naming battle. The peak had been officially called Mount McKinley since 1917. «They took his name off Mount McKinley,» Trump said in a speech to supporters in Phoenix. «He was a great president,» Trump, a Republican, said, adding that his administration will «bring back the name of Mount McKinley because I think he deserves it.»

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has recently come under fire for his outspoken views on UK politics, but his ties to his British family have also raised eyebrows. While Musk has strong familial connections to Liverpool, the birthplace of his late grandmother, a family member has shared how Musk dismissed their attempts to contact him. Cousin Shares Social Media Interaction with Musk Marshall Robinson, Musk’s 86-year-old cousin, spoke to Daily Mail about their family’s efforts to reach out to the billionaire. Robinson revealed that one family member sent Musk a social media message, to which he replied bluntly, «What do you want?» Robinson said, “I have never been in touch” with Musk directly, emphasizing that this was the only interaction they had.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Private prisons and other companies that provide detention services are getting ready to cash in on what President-elect Donald Trump has billed as “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history." That includes scouring for as many detention beds as possible in their networks of facilities, and scouting sites for new buildings to house migrants. Some executives are considering whether to take up the controversial work of detaining families or unaccompanied children.

Qatar will stop shipping gas to the EU if member states strictly enforce a new law cracking down on forced labour and environmental damage, Energy Minister Saad al-Kaabi told the Financial Times in an interview published on Sunday. The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, approved this year, requires larger companies operating in the European Union to check whether their supply chains use forced labour or cause environmental damage and to take action if they do. Penalties include fines of up to 5% of global turnover. «If the case is that I lose 5% of my generated revenue by going to Europe, I will not go to Europe. I'm not bluffing, Kaabi told the newspaper, adding that „5% of generated revenue of QatarEnergy means 5% of generated revenue of the Qatar state. This is the people's money,  so I cannot lose that kind of money — and nobody would accept losing that kind of money.“

Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with «The Apprentice,» is being tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom in his upcoming administration. «With a distinguished career in television production and business, Mark brings a unique blend of diplomatic acumen and international recognition to this important role,» Trump announced Saturday. Burnett, who was born in London, helped produce hits like «Survivor» and «The Voice,» but is perhaps best known for teaming up with Trump for «The Apprentice,» which first aired on NBC in 2004.

Elon Musk on the incoming administration. Although Musk is constitutionally ineligible to run for president due to his foreign birth in Pretoria, South Africa, King has pointed out that Musk’s role in shaping the future of the United States has been undeniably significant.

In an evening post on Truth Social, Trump also warned he would not let the canal fall into the «wrong hands,» and he seemed to warn of potential Chinese influence on the passage, writing the canal should not be managed by China. The post was an exceedingly rare example of a U.S. leader saying he could push a sovereign country to hand over territory. It also underlines an expected shift in U.S. diplomacy under Trump, who has not historically shied away from threatening allies and using bellicose rhetoric when dealing with counterparts.

Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with "The Apprentice", is being tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom in his upcoming administration. «With a distinguished career in television production and business, Mark brings a unique blend of diplomatic acumen and international recognition to this important role,» Trump announced on Saturday. Burnett, who was born in London, helped produce hits like «Survivor» and «The Voice», but is perhaps best known for teaming up with Trump for «The Apprentice», which first aired on NBC in 2004.

Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal in the early hours of Saturday, narrowly averting a pre-Christmas government shutdown. The president-elect successfully pushed House Republicans to jettison some spending, but he failed to achieve his central goal of raising the debt limit. It demonstrated that despite his decisive election victory and frequent promises of retribution, many members of his party are still willing to openly defy him. Trump's decision to inject himself into the budget debate a month before his inauguration also showed that he remains more adept at blowing up deals than making them, and it foreshadowed that his second term will likely be marked by the same infighting, chaos and brinksmanship that characterized his first.

Donald Trump, said on Saturday that she is removing herself from consideration to be a Florida senator — ending speculation that she could replace Republican Senator Marco Rubio, who has been tapped to be the incoming administration's secretary of state. «After an incredible amount of thought, contemplation, and encouragement from so many, I have decided to remove my name from consideration for the United States Senate,» Lara Trump posted on X. Instead, she promised a «big announcement to share in January». The announcement comes weeks after Trump announced that she was stepping down as co-chair of the Republican National Committee, a move which raised questions about whether she might be vying for a Senate seat.

George Stephanopoulos has agreed to a new contract, an ABC News spokesperson confirmed to HuffPost on Thursday. The deal became public amid an uproar over the network’s settlement of Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit.

Elon Musk is currently a very popular figure in the political landscape of the United States, and looking at his steady influence that speaks a ton in other countries than US, he has recently come into question about his statements about supporting a German right-wing party. This is leading serious and scary questions whether Musk is now taking things up a notch, and entering into a 'fascist' mode.

Shackled and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, 26-year-old Luigi Mangione was escorted Thursday by heavily armed police officers and whisked by air from Pennsylvania to Manhattan, where he appeared in a packed courtroom on federal charges that could bring the death penalty, AP reported. The Ivy League graduate, who prosecutors say inveighed against the health insurance industry and wealthy executives in his writings, was not required to enter a plea to federal charges of murder, stalking and firearms charges in the December 4 killing of Brian Thompson. The state indictment charges Mangione with murder as a terrorist act.