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Trump appoints UN ambassador Elise Stefanik and border tsar Tom Homan newsthirst.

US President-elect Donald Trump has made two more key appointments ahead of his return to the White House in January. Tom Homan, 62, will serve as Trump’s “border tsar”, having previously served as the returning president’s acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice). New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, 40, has also been made ambassador…

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Japan’s parliament re-elects PM Shigeru Ishiba despite bruising election result | Japan newsthirst.

Japan’s parliament re-elected the prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, on Monday after his governing coalition suffered the worst election loss in more than a decade. Ishiba’s ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) and its junior partner, Komeito, together lost their majority in the 465-seat lower house, the more powerful of Japan’s two-house parliament, in the 27 October…

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