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Chile President Gabriel Boric arrives at the National Palace in Santo Domingo where he is received by his Dominican counterpart Luis Abinader. Boric is in the Caribbean country for an Ibero-American leaders summit where a food crisis affecting a fifth of Latin America's population features high on the agenda. IMAGES
Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader receives King Felipe VI of Spain as the Caribbean country hosts the Ibero-American Summit, with the economic consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine high on the agenda. IMAGES
Ruling party candidate Bola Tinubu, declared winner of Nigeria's fiercely disputed presidential elections, receives the certificate of return, a formal document confirming their election victory, at the National Collation centre in Abuja. IMAGES
CNN reports President Donald Trump's associates are making appeals to him in the hopes of obtaining pardons before he leaves office. The appeals come on the heels of Trump's decision to pardon his former national security adviser, Michael Flynn. Nine individuals in Trump's orbit, including Flynn and GOP operative Roger Stone, have been indicted or found guilty of various criminal conspiracies. A source says one such individual asking for a free pass is Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani. Recently, Giuliani has been leading the President's longshot legal battles to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Prior to the election, Giuliani was actively seeking 'oppo research' on Hunter Biden for Biden's business dealings in Ukraine.
President-elect Joe Biden is planning to nominate Janet Yellen to head the Treasury Department. Business Insider reports if the US Senate confirms Yellen, she will be the first woman to hold the job. Yellen served as Fed Chair during President Barack Obama's second term, from 2014 to 2017. President Donald Trump replaced her with Jerome Powell as head of the Fed. If confirmed, Yellen will face an immense set of challenges, including the pandemic, unemployment, and widespread housing and food insecurity. With both parties fiercely divided on its size and reach for months, Congress still hasn't approved a second coronavirus economic aid package.
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