One of Chile's richest men, the conservative business man Sebastian Pinera has won Sunday's presidential election runoff. He secured nearly 55% of the votes, defeating the left-wing senator and journalist Alejandro Guillier by 10 percentage points. Mr. Pinera has promised a better life for all Chileans.
The electoral tribunal in Honduras has declared the incumbent Juan Orlando Hernandez, the winner of last months’ presidential election despite weeks of protests on the opposition over alleged fraud. Mr. Hernandez defeated the popular television presenter Salvador Nasralla by less than 2 percentage point. The opposition has urged people to take to the streets and reject the court’s decision.
United Nations Human Rights Chief has told the BBC that he assumes the Myanmar’s de facto leader Ang San Suu Kyi sanctioned the repression of the Rohingya Muslim minority. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein stressed that the decision must be taken into the high level given the scale of the military operations that have seen thousands killed.
联合国人权事务主管在接受BBC采访时表示,他认为缅甸现任领导人昂山素姬批准了对罗兴亚穆斯林少数民族的打压。扎伊德 侯赛因亲王(Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein)表示,考虑到这次军事行动的巨大规模已导致上千人死亡,所以该决定必须由高层考量。
President Trump says he has no intention of firing the Special Counsel Robert Mueller who has investigated alleged Russian interference into US presidential election. When asked if he’ll being dismissing Mr. Mueller, he told reporters "No, I'm not."
South Africa’s governing African national congress’s voting to choose a new leader to succeed President Jacob Zuma. The party said it reversed an earlier decision to delay the poll until Monday morning. Nearly 5,000 delegates are choosing between the Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and former Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma.
British scientists say they have created the world's tiniest Christmas card. It's so small that 200 million would fit into a single postage stamp. The card featured a snowman on the cover above the message season's greetings, with another message inside.