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An employee of the German intelligence agency (BfV) has been arrested after making Islamist statements and sharing agency material, German media report.

The White House says there is no evidence to support Donald Trump's claim of widespread voter fraud in the 2016 US presidential election.

President-elect Donald Trump ripped the election recount on Saturday, calling it "a scam" and "ridiculous" and noting that Hillary Clinton had already conceded.

"History will judge the enormous impact" of Cuba's former leader Fidel Castro on the world, US President Barack Obama has said.

Fidel Castro ruled Cuba as a one party state for almost half a century.

 Fidel Castro, Cuba's former president and leader of the Communist revolution, has died aged 90, state TV has announced.
It provided no further details.

Brazil's President Michel Temer has been accused of pressuring a cabinet minister to engage in corrupt practices.

The two rivals for the centre-right French presidential nomination have clashed over the level of change they promise to bring, in a TV debate.

US President-elect Donald Trump has appointed the first two women to his incoming administration.

Hillary Clinton's campaign is being urged by a number of top computer scientists to call for a recount of vote totals in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to a source with knowledge of the request.

Donald Trump has repudiated the fringe "alt-right" group that celebrated his election win with Nazi salutes.

President-elect Donald Trump has said UKIP leader Nigel Farage would make a good British ambassador to the US. Mr Trump said "many people" would like to see Mr Farage as ambassador and he would do a "great job".