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Relations between China and Taiwan this year will be "even more complex and grim" and Beijing will resolutely oppose any form of separatist activity, a senior Chinese official says.
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| UpdatedDefeated US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton received a standing ovation on inauguration day, but it wasn't the one that the former secretary of state had been looking forward to.
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton received a standing ovation during President Donald Trump's inaugural lunch in Washington.
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Tennis legend Andre Agassi says Nick Kyrgios's next coach must accept the mercurial young star warts and all and delve deep into his tortured soul.
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| UpdatedThe new US administration of President Donald Trump says its trade strategy to protect American jobs would start with withdrawal from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact.
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| UpdatedPost-inauguration women's marches in Australia and New Zealand launch a global human rights event expected to attract over 2 million people worldwide.
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Pelican 212 performs at one of Donald Trump's inauguration balls.
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Far-right activist Richard Spencer is while he is being interviewed by ABC Washington bureau chief Zoe Daniel.
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| UpdatedFar-right activist Richard Spencer has been punched during an interview with the ABC at an anti-Donald Trump protest in Washington DC.
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| UpdatedThe US Government asks South Korea to arrest a brother of former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on charges that he engaged in a bribery scheme to carry out the sale of a Vietnamese building complex.
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Donald Trump has officially become President of the United States — here's how the day played out.
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| UpdatedIn an unusually forceful and combative inaugural address, the new US President makes it clear he will bring the radical change he brought to the campaign trail to life in the White House.
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European nations have had an early taste of what US foreign policy might look like under Donald Trump's incoming administration.
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Far-right activist Richard Spencer is punched on camera while he is being interviewed by North America correspondent Zoe Daniel.
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| UpdatedDrug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman appears in a US court after his surprise extradition from Mexico and pleads not guilty to charges that he ran the world's largest drug-trafficking organisation.
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| UpdatedEuropean nations this week had an early taste of what US foreign policy might look like under Donald Trump's incoming administration after he criticised NATO, berated German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and predicted the EU would continue to fracture.
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| UpdatedAre all young people hiding in their safe spaces and hugging a therapy bear, or are others more sanguine, perhaps even upbeat, about Trump's prospects? Mike Bird writes.
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| UpdatedFrom ending terrorism, ridding Earth of disease and unlocking the mysteries of space, Donald Trump made a lot of big promises in his inaugural address.
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From stamping out terrorism to ending crime, Donald Trump made a suite of promises in his first speech as President of the United States.
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| UpdatedHundreds of protesters have been arrested and six police officers injured as black-clad activists angry about US President Donald Trump's inauguration smashed stores and car windows in Washington DC.
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| UpdatedHere is the full text of Donald Trump's first address as United States President.
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Donald Trump has delivered his first speech as the President of the United States of America.
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| UpdatedDonald Trump is about to be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States. Here's how the inauguration day has unfolded so far in pictures.
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