Trump nominates South Dakota governor to head Homeland Security
US President-elect Donald Trump is nominating South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as his Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, which controls immigration-related agencies
US President-elect Donald Trump is nominating South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem as his Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, which controls immigration-related agencies
Meanwhile, in the Northeast, weather officials issued red flag warnings from New Jersey to Massachusetts after a bout of modest weekend rainfall failed to douse the region's wildfire threat
At least 16 people were killed and two others injured after a passenger coach fell into a river in Pakistan's northern Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) region, an official said.
Two men were killed in Israel's northern city of Nahariya in a rocket attack from Lebanon, Israeli authorities said.
Following his victory over Democratic candidate Kamala Harris in the 2024 US presidential election, President-elect Donald Trump is moving swiftly with finalizing his foreign policy and national security team ahead of his formal inauguration in January 2025.
"The best thing to tackle high prices is a more productive economy with greater capacity to deliver goods and services to the American people," Biden said.
The Israeli government refuses to recognize Palestine as an independent political and diplomatic entity, and builds settlements in the occupied areas, despite objections from the United Nations.
Hundreds of thousands of job losses have been seen in several key sectors which have been "devastated" since the takeover, ILO said.
The latest confirmed cases were all locally transmitted, and more than half of them were detected in Ulan Bator, the hardest-hit area by the virus and home to over half of the country's population of 3.4 million.
Four Pakistani nationals had also died in the attack.
