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Governments around the world have stepped up efforts to block or censor social media and messaging applications, in a new blow to internet freedom, a watchdog group said Monday

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump spoke on the phone on Monday evening and agreed on the need to normalise ties between Washington and Moscow, the Kremlin said

American Muslims are reeling following the election of Trump, whose campaign was rife with anti-Muslim rhetoric and proposals that included banning Muslims from entering the country.

Turkey on Friday detained the board chairman of opposition daily Cumhuriyet, according to the paper, which has been the target of an intensifying crackdown since July's failed coup.

U.S. President Barack Obama greeted President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, the first public step in a transition of power after the Republican businessman's surprise victory in a bitterly fought election campaign.

US President-elect Donald Trump invited Theresa May to visit him as soon as possible during their first telephone call since his election victory, the British prime minister's office said on Thursday.

Rouhani stressed that the result of the US presidential election will have no impact on the Islamic republic's policies.

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who is also Donald Trump's friend, said the US Republican Presidential candidate was in his apartment "watching everything though I am telling him not to".

Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton waged a close battle in several crucial battleground states on Tuesday in their bitter race for the White House, although opinion polls gave Clinton an edge in the closing hours of the campaign.

Voters were about evenly split between Clinton and Trump on which candidate would better handle the economy.

Americans are choosing a new president Tuesday, but not just that. They are making history, reshaping Congress, saying good riddance to a campaign of numbing negativity and setting the political calculus of a nation that won't be healed any time soon.

Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton on Tuesday beat Republican rival Donald Trump in Dixville Notch, a small town in New Hampshire that traditionally votes just after midnight before the Presidential election balloting starts elsewhere in the US later in t...

Donald Trump might be trailing in surveys but the Republican nominee is more popular than his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in Google searches in the US.

In a final push on the last day of campaigning for Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama said that the progress made by America in the last eight years of his administration "would go down the drain" if the Democratic presidential nominee does not win i...

November 8 will mark the culmination of the 2016 US Presidential election process. Whether it is Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump who will become the leader of the Worlds most powerful democracy will be known soon after, as the counting of votes will happe...

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