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President-elect Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, November 13.
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LANCASTER, PENNSYLVANIA - OCTOBER 20: Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, arrives on stage during a town hall campaign event at the Lancaster County Convention Center on October 20, 2024 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Trump is campaigning the entire day in the state of Pennsylvania. Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris continue to campaign in battleground swing states ahead of the November 5 election. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
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Donald Trump arrives at an election night watch party at the Palm Beach Convention Center, West Palm Beach, Florida, on November 6, 2024.
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Men watch a televison broadcast at a shop in Islamabad on November 6, 2024, featuring US former president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as he addresses an election night event at Florida. Republican former president Donald Trump closed in on a new term in the White House early November 6, 2024, just needing a handful of electoral votes to defeat Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris. (Photo by Farooq NAEEM / AFP) (Photo by FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP via Getty Images)
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Giant waves crash over a sea wall as Typhoon Kong-rey nears the coast in Taitung, Taiwan on October 31, 2024.
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Typhoon Kong-rey bashes Taiwan, the largest storm to hit island since 1996
A man goes fishing near high waves as Super Typhoon Kong-rey approaches in Keelung in the northeastern part of Taiwan on October 29, 2024.
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Super Typhoon Kong-rey edges towards Taiwan, could sweep ‘almost the whole’ island
A demonstrator holds flags of Taiwan and the United States in support of Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen during an stop-over after her visit to Latin America in Burlingame, California, U.S., January 14, 2017.
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US approves $2 billion in arms sales to Taiwan including advanced missile defense system
A photo taken on September 18, 2024, in Beirut's southern suburbs shows the remains of exploded pagers on display at an undisclosed location. Hundreds of pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon on September 17, killing at least nine people and wounding around 2,800 in blasts the Iran-backed militant group blamed on Israel.
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Israel concealed explosives inside batteries of pagers sold to Hezbollah, Lebanese officials say
Sep 27, 2024
People gather outside American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) as more than 1,000 people, including Hezbollah fighters and medics, were wounded when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, according to a security source, in Beirut, Lebanon September 17, 2024. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY
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Sep 18, 2024
Hsu Ching-kuang (L), head of Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, speaks to the media outside the company's office in New Taipei City on September 18, 2024.
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Who made Hezbollah’s exploding devices? Questions swirl around a mysterious supply chain stretching from Taiwan to Hungary
Sep 18, 2024
Civil Defense first-responders carry a wounded man whose handheld pager exploded at al-Zahraa hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
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Israel behind deadly pager explosions that targeted Hezbollah and injured thousands in Lebanon
Sep 18, 2024

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