US election 2016 result: Trump beats Clinton to take White House
Donald Trump will become the 45th US president after a stunning victory over Democrat Hillary Clinton.
The Republican nominee's victory came down to a handful of key swing states, despite months of polling that favoured Mrs Clinton.
The battlegrounds of Florida, Ohio and North Carolina cleared the way for his Brexit-style upset.
Global markets plummeted, with the US dollar diving and gold prices surging.
Mr Trump's shock victory in Wisconsin put him over the 270 out of 538 electoral college votes needed to win the White House, after a gruelling and rancorous campaign.
The US president-elect took to the stage with his family at his victory rally in a New York hotel ballroom and said: "I just received a call from Secretary Clinton. She congratulated us on our victory.
Hong Kong: lawyers and activists march against Beijing 'meddling'
More than 2,000 join silent protest after China intervened in supposedly independent legal system to stop activists joining parliament
Eric Cheung in Hong Kong and Tom Phillips in Beijing
More than 2,000 lawyers and activists have paraded through Hong Kong in silence and dressed in black to protest against Beijing’s unprecedented intervention in the former British colony’s supposedly independent legal system as a means of ousting two democratically elected pro-independence politicians.
The demonstration, reportedly only the fourth of its kind since Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule in 1997, comes a day after Beijing issued a rare and highly controversial legal interpretation of Hong Kong’s mini-constitution to prevent two young activists from taking up their seats in the 70-seat parliament.
Marine Le Pen's Front National issues chilling warning over Donald Trump win: 'Their world is collapsing. Ours is being built'
'Today the United States, tomorrow France!' writes vice president Florian Philippot
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right Front National party, has congratulated Donald Trump on his election victory.
“Congratulations to the new President of the US, Donald Trump, and the American people – free!” she tweeted as the Republican candidate edged towards the 270 Electoral College votes needed to reach the White House.
Her father, Front National (FN) founder Jean-Marie Le Pen called Mr Trump the “President of the People”, adding: “Today, the United States, tomorrow, France. Bravo!”
Florian Philippot, the party’s vice president, tweeted a photo of Ms Le Pen with the caption: “Their world is collapsing. Ours is being built.”World rocked by news of Trump's White House win
Governments from Asia to Europe reacted with stunned disbelief on Wednesday to the victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election, while populists hailed the result as a triumph of the people over a failed political establishment.
German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, an ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, described the result as a “huge shock” and questioned whether it meant the end of “Pax Americana”, the state of relative peace overseen by Washington that has governed international relations since World War Two.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault pledged to work with Trump but said his personality “raised questions” and he admitted to being unsure what a Trump presidency would mean for key foreign policy challenges, from climate change and the West’s nuclear deal with Iran to the war in Syria.
“Looks like this will be the year of the double disaster of the West,” former Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt said on Twitter, pointing to Britain’s vote in June to leave the European Union. “Fasten seat belts,” he said.
‘Afghan Girl’ Sharbat Gula deported
THE NEWSPAPER'S STAFF REPORTER
KARACHI: Pakistani authorities deported Nat Geo’s famed ‘Afghan Girl’ Sharbat Gula on Tuesday, according to media reports.
Quoting unnamed officials, the reports said Sharbat Gula was handed over to Afghan security personnel at the Torkham border after she refused the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s offer to stay in Pakistan.
She had pleaded guilty to six charges against her: illegal stay in Pakistan, forgery, cheating, tampering with documents and violation of the Nadra (National Database and Registration Authority) Act.
A special anti-corruption and immigration court had ordered deportation of Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl’ whose 1985 photo in National Geographic magazine became a symbol of her country’s wars, after finding her guilty of illegally obtaining a Computerised National Identity Card. The court also sentenced her to 15-day imprisonment, along with fine.
Canadian police spied on reporters, raising questions of press freedom
Revelations that police in Quebec spied on at least 10 journalists has set off a nationwide debate over police surveillance and press freedom in the Digital Age.
Anita Elash
As a columnist and reporter for Montreal's French-language newspaper La Presse, Patrick Lagacé has a reputation for casting a critical eye on the city's police department.
Last week, he learned the police have been watching him, too.
In an alarming meeting with investigators recently, police admitted to Mr. Lagacé that they had obtained warrants earlier this year to collect his cellphone's metadata – information that can reveal the identity of his contacts – and to track his location via his phone's GPS technology. Police revealed the surveillance after La Presse lawyers pressed the department about Lagacé's name showing up in a police corruption case.
Initially, Lagacé said he was "flabbergasted." But as the full extent of the police operations targeting numerous journalists became clear, his shock turned to a sense of dismay shared across the country.
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