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Donald Trump has been appointing more people to his top White House team, promising a “busy day” of meetings with more potential Cabinet picks. But behind the scenes, members of his own family are among his most trusted advisers, including daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner.

Brazil has begun three days of national mourning after a charter plane carrying one of its top football teams crashed into the Colombian mountains, killing 75 people on board and leaving six survivors.

Interview with Karin von Hippel, former deputy assistant secretary of state at the US State Department.

More than 20,000 people are estimated to have fled East Aleppo in the last two days, as rebels battle to stop Syrian forces and their allies advancing further into their territory – a key battleground of the five-year civil war.

A Thatcherite conservative or a middle of the road professional politician: however you describe him, the former French prime minister Francois Fillon is now the centre-right’s best hope of defeating the National Front’s Marine Le Pen.

Brexit could face a new legal challenge from a think tank which claims the UK could stay inside the single market, even if it leaves the European Union.

Donald Trump has begun planning his future White House team, but just when you thought it was over,  a recount of presidential election votes in the US state of Wisconsin will begin on Thursday.

Thousands of Cubans are gathering in central Havana for a two-day ceremony to commemorate Fidel Castro before his remains are carried across the country to Santiago, where the revolution was born.

David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, and Yasmine Nahlawi, of the Manchester-based Syrian advocacy group, Rethink Rebuild.

Interview with Mark Toner, deputy spokesperson for the US State Department.

The frontlines in the battle of Aleppo are shifting, with Russian-backed Syrian forces now boast they’ve taken almost half of the besieged rebel-held east. But for the quarter of a million people who’ve been trapped under heavy bombardment for months, the future is no more certain.

The Syrian Army pushes deeper into the rebel-held east of Aleppo.

Conservatives are choosing a nominee to fight the presidential election.

Cuba has begun a nine-day mourning period after the death of Fidel Castro.

FA abuse review – Cuba in mourning – French elections