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South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol called on Sunday for government and industry talks to prepare for Donald Trump's return to the US presidency, his office said.

After an emergency meeting with his economic and security aides, Yoon called for launching finance, trade and industry consultations, it said.

Supporters of Bangladesh's ousted ex-prime minister Sheikh Hasina were arrested after following her orders to protest bearing placards of Donald Trump, police said Sunday, accusing them of trying to undermine relations with Washington.

The 10 protesters, called "conspirators" by the police, were accused of attempting to destabilise the South Asian country of some 170 million people.

"We are assessing their crimes in order to file charges," Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesman Muhammad Talebur Rahman said.

Donald Trump's return to the White House could put the independence of the US Federal Reserve under strain, potentially weakening its ability to fight against inflation and unemployment free from political interference.

The Fed has a dual mandate from Congress to act independently to tackle both inflation and unemployment — primarily by raising and lowering interest rates.

Anything that undermines the Fed's independence could spook traders in the financial markets, who might come to question if it could effectively tackle inflation.

"The prevailing view for the past 30 years, with the exception of the first Trump administration, has been that it's best to give the Fed the widest possible latitude to conduct monetary policy," David Wilcox, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), told AFP.

Donald Trump has won the presidential election in Arizona, Edison Research projected on Saturday, completing a sweep of all seven battleground states and locking in a decisive Electoral College victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris.

Trump, who had secured the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House by early Wednesday, now has what is expected to be a final total of 312 votes to Harris' 226.

Former Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will not be asked to join the upcoming administration under President-elect Donald Trump, said the former president on Saturday.

"I will not be inviting former Ambassador Nikki Haley, or former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, to join the Trump Administration, which is currently in formation," Trump posted on social media.

"I very much enjoyed and appreciated working with them previously, and would like to thank them for their service to our country."

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A senior aide to US President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview that the new administration's priority in Ukraine would be establishing peace and not restoring lost territory, including Crimea.

Bryan Lanza, a long-time Republican party strategist, told the BBC that Trump's administration would be asking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for a "realistic vision for peace."

"And if President Zelenskiy comes to the table and says, well we can only have peace if we have Crimea, he shows to us that he's not serious. Crimea is gone," he said. "And if that is your priority of getting Crimea back and having American soldiers fight to get Crimea back, you're on your own."

He said the priority was "peace and to stop the killing."

"What we're going to say to Ukraine is, you know what you see? What do you see as a realistic vision for peace? It's not a vision for winning, but it's a vision for peace. And let's start having the honest conversation, he said.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi denied US charges that Tehran was linked to an alleged plot to kill Donald Trump and called for confidence-building between the two hostile countries.

"Now ... a new scenario is fabricated ... as a killer does not exist in reality, scriptwriters are brought in to manufacture a third-rate comedy," Araqchi said in a post on X.

WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will meet on Wednesday in the White House on Biden's invitation, a White House spokesperson said on Saturday.

Even though the Republicans have won the White House and flipped the Senate, questions still surround the unified control for the GOP as votes in House races continue to be counted.

According to CNN, there are 18 House races that have not yet been projected.

Republicans need only five seats to clinch the majority while Democrats are 14 seats behind.

Republicans will win the US Senate majority as they will have at least 52 seats in the chamber with two races — Arizona and Pennsylvania — still to be declared.