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| Hello. The world is still taking stock of Donald Trump's victory as the president-elect starts readying for his presidency, which will start in January next year. Today we're focusing on some of the global issues that could be affected by Trump's plans and looking back on the reasons for Kamala Harris's defeat. Meanwhile, Damian McGuinness is writing from Berlin on the collapse of Germany's coalition government. Also in your newsletter: Mount Fuji, Neanderthals, and mysterious tar balls.
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TOP OF THE AGENDA | Trump prepares as Harris concedes |  | Kamala Harris urged her supporters to "never give up the fight for our democracy." Credit: BBC | After US Vice-President Kamala Harris vowed a "peaceful transfer of power" in her concession speech on Wednesday, the focus is turning to Donald Trump's inauguration on 20 January 2025. The president-elect will begin to choose his cabinet in the "days and weeks ahead", his team said. With the Senate under Republican control, and the other US Congress chamber, the House of Representatives, currently leaning towards the same party, Trump has been given a mandate to implement his policies. My colleagues are assessing how this could play out globally. "Businesses and economists around the world are scrambling to work out how serious he is" about his promise to tax all imported goods, writes our economic editor Faisal Islam. His pledge could affect prices around the world. On this issue and many others, Europe will have to adapt quickly to what Trump eventually decides to do. When it comes to climate change, experts tell environment correspondent Matt McGarth that Trump's presidency will "have a hugely negative effect in the short-term but the longer term impact is less certain". His piece explains why.
- Trump's entourage: The president-elect surrounded himself with a huge group of family and allies, giving us some clues as to who he might bring to the White House. Here's a closer look at the group photo.
- Demographic shift: Latinos have significantly moved to the right, ushering Trump to victory in some key states. Voters explain why.
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WORLD HEADLINES | - Middle East: At least 40 people were killed in Israeli air strikes in eastern Lebanon on Wednesday, according to the Lebanese health ministry. The Israeli military said the strikes hit Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure.
| | | - Mount Fuji: Japan's tallest peak has seen its first snowfall after going through the longest period without snow since records began 130 years ago.
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| Government coalition collapses |  | Christian Lindner and Olaf Scholz had reportedly been at loggerheads in recent weeks. Credit: Shutterstock | Germany's governing coalition has collapsed after Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired Finance Minister Christian Lindner. The crisis is plunging Europe's largest economy into political chaos, hours after Donald Trump's election triggered deep uncertainty about the future of the continent's economy and security. |
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| | Ido Vock, BBC News, and Damien McGuinness, Berlin correspondent
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| | The so-called "traffic-light" coalition of Scholz's Social Democrats with Lindner's pro-business Free Democrats and the Greens has governed Germany since 2021. But internal tensions were bubbling for weeks before exploding into the open on Wednesday night. Scholz said his former finance minister had "betrayed my confidence" and had put the interests of his party base over those of the country. Germany is now facing its second year without economic growth, and Scholz and his Green partners want to tackle this by loosening constitutional rules on public debt to allow more spending. Lindner wants to pay for tax cuts by slashing welfare and social budgets and pushing back environmental targets. |
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BEYOND THE HEADLINES | 2024 set to be warmest year on record |
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| |  | Global average temperatures across the year are on track to end up more than 1.5C above pre-industrial levels. Credit: EPA | It is now "virtually certain" that 2024 will be the world's warmest on record, according to projections by the European climate service. These levels are making storms fiercer, heatwaves hotter and heavy rainfall more severe, scientists say. |
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT | Meet the Neanderthals | A German museum taps into our growing fascination with our long-lost relatives. | |
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And finally... | Australian scientists have cracked the mystery behind sticky looking tar balls that washed up on Sydney's beaches. Researchers say they are a "disgusting" combination of human faeces, cooking oil, chemicals and illicit drugs. Well, there you go. | |
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