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Barack Obama mentoring Donald Trump on world leadering

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It’s the last thing President Barack Obama ever expected he’d be doing in his final months in office: Coaching Donald Trump on how to be a world leader. As the president-elect holes up in his skyscraper, Obama is giving Trump policy advice, style tips and gentle nudges to let the fervor of the campaign give way to the sobriety of the Oval Office. And as Obama completes his last world tour, he’s been thrust into the unexpected role of Trump…

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Angelique Kerber upsets Serena Williams to win Australia title

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Serena Williams put up both hands after sending a forehand long and high over the baseline in the first set. She wanted nothing to do with yet another unforced error in her Australian Open final against Angelique Kerber. For the second time in as many majors, Williams fell short of equaling Steffi Graf‘s Open-era record of 22 Grand Slam singles titles. No. 7-seeded Kerber had never played in a major final and had lost five of her six previous career…

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel named Time’s Person of the Year

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, praised for her leadership on everything from Syrian refugees to the Greek debt crisis. “Leaders are tested only when people don’t want to follow,” Time editor Nancy Gibbs said in a statement issued Wednesday. “For asking more of her country than most politicians would dare, for standing firm against tyranny as well as expedience and for providing steadfast moral leadership in a world where it is in…

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Jeb Bush happy to echo father’s legacy in Eastern Europe

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Jeb Bush strolled the halls of the Polish parliament, praised Germany’s economic boom since the fall of the Berlin Wall and visited Estonia, a once-bleak Soviet state that now has a growing, free-market high-tech economy. If the goal was to stoke memories of his presidential father and avoid those of his presidential brother, it seems to have largely succeeded. “If you think about, in terms of history, my dad’s managing – in cooperation with great leaders of his time ……

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