Trump appoints new chief of staff after midterm defeat
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Trump appoints new chief of staff after midterm defeat

B2Upper-intermediateNovember 7, 202626 min
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  • Politics

Donald Trump names the immigration hardliner, Stephen Miller, as the new White House chief of staff after the Republican Party's historic losses in the US midterm elections. Mr Miller's appointment to one of the most powerful positions in Washington has been criticised by Democrats and some Republicans. Also: Paraguay's president, Santiago Peña, is impeached and placed under house arrest. Thomas Markle - the estranged father of Prince Harry's wife, Meghan - appears in court over child sex abuse material; he denies wrongdoing. More than 200 Palestinian couples are married at a mass ceremony in war-torn Gaza. The American-Israeli filmmaker G...

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. The BBC World Service. I'm Charles Haviland and in the early hours of Saturday 7th November these are our main

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stories. President Trump replaces his chief of staff days after Republicans lost control of both chambers of Congress in the midterm elections, and Paraguayans celebrate as President Santiago Pena is impeached and arrested.

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So in this podcast, the Oscar-winning Israeli filmmaker Guy Nativ speaks to the BBC. I'm heartbroken about what I left behind because I don't recognise the country that I left and I'm horrified by what's happening. And we have a special report on a mass wedding in Gaza.

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