A woman watches a television broadcast of U.S. election in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. The United States headed for the polls to vote for their new president on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) (Associated Press) 
 
 A woman watches a television broadcast of U.S. election in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. The United States headed for the polls to vote for their new president on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu) (Associated Press) 
 
 MEXICO CITY (AP) — The latest on world reaction to the U.S. presidential election (all times local): 
 
 12:30 p.m. 
 
 The Taliban have called on Donald Trump to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan once he takes office as president. 
 
 In a statement sent to The Associated Press, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said Wednesday that a Trump administration "should allow Afghans to become a free nation and have relationships with other countries based on non-interference in each other's affairs." 
 
 The Afghan conflict is in its 16th year. The Taliban have spread their footprint across Afghanistan in the two years since most international combat troops withdrew. 
 
 President Barack Obama expanded U.S. troops' mandate to enable them to work more closely on the battlefield with their Afghan counterparts, and to conduct counter-terrorism operations against Al-Qaeda, the Islamic State group and the Taliban. 
 
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 12:25 p.m. 
 
 Chinese President Xi Jinping has conveyed his congratulations to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, saying he looked forward to working with Trump on promoting ties in a "constructive" way that avoids conflict and confrontation. 
 
 During his campaign, Trump accused China of illegally subsidizing exports, manipulating its currency and stealing intellectual property. 
 
 State broadcaster CCTV reported Wednesday that Xi said the two biggest economies in the world shared common interests and shouldered a "special and important responsibility in upholding world peace." 
 
 Xi says: "I highly value China-U.S. relations and am looking forward to working with you to expand cooperation in all fields, including in bilateral, regional and global aspects." He says he expects they would "manage differences in a constructive way, in the spirit of non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect, cooperation and win-win." 
 
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 12:15 p.m. 
 
 Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has sent a message of congratulations to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, saying "the American people have spoken, and they have spoken clearly." 
 
 Kenyatta says Wednesday that "the ties that bind Kenya and the United States of America are close and strong. They are old, and based in the values that we hold dear: in democracy, in the rule of law, and in the equality of peoples." 
 
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 12:05 p.m. 
 
 The president of Slovenia — small Alpine nation that is the home country of future U.S. First Lady Melania Trump — says he hopes relations with the U.S. will further improve during Donald Trump's presidency. 
 
 President Boris Pahor says Wednesday "we are allied as part of NATO and I will strive for the friendship and the alliance to deepen further." 
 
 Pahor also says "American people have the right to decide on their leader." Prime Minister Miro Cerar has also congratulated the Trumps in a Twitter message. 
 
 Melania Trump was born as Melanija Knavs in the industrial Slovenian town of Sevnica before working internationally as a model. 
 
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 12:01 p.m. 
 
 The Vatican's first reaction to the election of Donald Trump has focused on its wish for global peace. 
 
 Pope Francis pope did not mention the U.S. elections during his Wednesday audience, but secretary of state, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, offered Trump congratulations in a statement to Vatican Radio that "his government can be truly fruitful." 
 
 He added the Vatican offered its prayers "that the Lord illuminates and sustains him in service of his country, naturally, but also in service of the well-being and peace of the world." 
 
 Parolin concluded by noting that "there is need for everyone to work to change the global situation, which is in a situation of severe lacerations and great conflict." 
 
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 11:55 a.m. 
 
 Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow is ready to try to restore good relations with the United States in the wake of the election of Donald Trump. 
 
 Putin said Wednesday at a ceremony accepting the credentials of new ambassadors that "we aware that it is a difficult path, in view of the unfortunate degradation of relations between the Russian Federation and the United States." 
 
 Putin says "it is not our fault that Russian-American relations are in such a state." 
 
 Earlier, the Kremlin said Putin sent Trump a telegram of congratulation, expressing "his hope to work together for removing Russian-American relations from their crisis state." 
 
 Putin also says ties between Moscow and Washington must be "based on principles of equality, mutual respect and a real accounting each other's positions." 
 
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 11:45 a.m. 
 
 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has congratulated Donald Trump, calling him a "true friend of the State of Israel." 
 
 Netanyahu said Wednesday he believes the two leaders "will continue to strengthen the unique alliance between our two countries and bring it to ever greater heights." 
 
 Earlier, a key ally in Netanyahu's center-right coalition, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, said Tump's victory means that "the era of a Palestinian state is over." The Palestinians want a state in lands Israel captured in 1967. 
 
 Netanyahu has said he is willing to negotiate a border deal, but has retracted offers made by his predecessors while pressing ahead with Jewish settlement expansion on war-won land. 
 
 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that he hopes "peace will be achieved during his term. 
 
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 11:40 a.m. 
 
 Without commenting directly on Donald Trump's election, China's government says Beijing hopes to work with the new U.S. administration to build sustainable ties and expressed confidence the two countries can handle trade disputes maturely. 
 
 Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told reporters in Beijing on Wednesday that China is "looking forward to making concerted efforts with the new U.S. government to ensure the sustainable, steady and sound development of bilateral relations" to benefit both countries' people and the world. 
 
 Asked about U.S. voters' anger about economic losses blamed on Chinese exports, Lu said only that the two countries had established ways to deal with trade disputes. He says "as mature, large countries, China and the U.S. are able to handle such issues." 
 
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 11:35 a.m. 
 
 Iran's semi-official news agency Tasnim has quoted the country's foreign minister as saying that the United States needs to implement its part of multilateral international commitments under last year's historic nuclear deal. 
 
 The comments Wednesday by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif came after businessman Donald Trump's election as U.S. president. 
 
 During the campaign, Trump has criticized the deal and suggested he would try to renegotiate it. Zarif was quoted as saying that any U.S. president "should have a correct understanding of realities of the world and our region and face them realistically." 
 
 Zarif says that America has accepted multilateral international commitments and has to "implement the nuclear deal." 
 
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 11:30 a.m. 
 
 The Iraqi government says relations with the United States have a "solid base" and this is not expected to change after Donald Trump's election as president. 
 
 Government spokesman Saad al-Hadithi, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Iraq is keen to develop its relations with the U.S. and "boost cooperation in the fight against terrorism." 
 
 He noted the leading U.S. role in the current battle to push back Islamic State extremists in Iraq's north. Last month, a U.S.-led military coalition launched an operation to retake Iraq's second largest city, Mosul, from Islamic State extremists. 
 
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 11:20 a.m. 
 
 German Chancellor Angela Merkel has offered President-elect Donald Trump "close cooperation" on the basis of shared trans-Atlantic values that she says include respect for human dignity regardless of people's origin, gender or religion. 
 
 Merkel told reporters in Berlin on Wednesday that the campaign which ended in Trump's victory featured "confrontations that were difficult to bear." 
 
 Merkel stressed Germany's close historical connection with the United States. She said: "Germany and America are connected by values: democracy, freedom, respect for the law and for the dignity of human beings, independently of origin, skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or political views." 
 
 She added: "On the basis of these values, I am offering the future president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, close cooperation." 
 
 She said the partnership with the U.S. "is a foundation stone of German foreign policy." 
 
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 11:15 a.m. 
 
 A top official in South Sudan has welcomed the election victory of Donald Trump. 
 
 South Sudan's Minister of Information and government spokesman Michael Makuei says Trump "will be better after all" for his nation. 
 
 Makeui says "I really doubt President Obama had any clear policy to South Sudan other than to destroy it. So we will definitely expect better relations with Trump ... and the U.S.A. after the election." 
 
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 11:10 a.m. 
 
 Cambodia's long-serving authoritarian prime minister Hun Sen has congratulated Donald Trump on his U.S. presidential election victory. 
 
 On his official Facebook page, Hun Sen called Trump "your excellency" and pointed out that he'd announced his support for the Republican candidate several days earlier. 
 
 He says "American voters have shown their choice to elect your excellency ... My support for your candidacy is not wrong either." 
 
 Hun Sen has kept a tight grip on Cambodian politics for three decades by silencing critics with lawsuits, intimidation and other tactics. 
 
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 11:05 a.m. 
 
 European Union leaders have invited U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to come visit the 28-nation bloc as possible to assess trans-Atlantic ties. 
 
 With "sincere congratulations," EU Council President Donald Tusk and his Commission counterpart Jean-Claude Juncker said that, despite Trump's campaign talk of protectionism and isolationism, both sides "should consolidate the bridges we have been building across the Atlantic." 
 
 Tusk famously quoted his wife during the U.S. election campaign, saying that "One Donald is more than enough!" 
 
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 10:50 a.m. 
 
 Indonesia's president Joko "Jokowi" Widodo says the world's most populous Muslim nation will work with Donald Trump's new U.S. administration. 
 
 He says "we will keep good relations, especially in trade and investment as we know the U.S. is one of Indonesia's major investors. I think there will be no change." 
 
 But, Komaruddin Hidayat, a noted Indonesian Islamic scholar, saysTrump's election as U.S. president is "shocking" for many people in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation. 
 
 Hidayat, who is also rector of Indonesia's state-run Islamic University, says Trump has signaled backing for ultra-nationalist, isolationist and protectionist policies that could be harmful. 
 
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 4:45 a.m. 
 
 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has sent his "heartfelt congratulations" to Donald Trump for his election as the next U.S. president. 
 
 Abe says that "as a very successful businessman with extraordinary talents, not only you made a great contribution to the growth of the U.S. economy, but now as a strong leader, you have demonstrated your determination to lead the United States." 
 
 Abe, in the statement, reminded Trump of the importance of the Asia-Pacific region, saying its peace and stability is "a driving force of the global economy" that also brings peace and prosperity to the U.S., reminding him of the importance of the region. 
 
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 4:35 a.m. 
 
 Donald Trump's surprise triumph dealt a blow to online betting sites, some of which had paid out winnings prematurely to gamblers backing Hillary Clinton. 
 
 Irish bookmaker Paddy Power says it lost about 5 million euros ($5.5 million) in what the Dublin-based business called its "biggest political payout ever." 
 
 Company spokesman Feilim Mac An Iomaire said Wednesday: "We're in the business of making predictions and decided to put our neck on the line by paying out early on Hillary Clinton, but boy did we get it wrong. We've been well and truly thumped by Trump." 
 
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 4:30 a.m. 
 
 British Prime Minister Theresa May has congratulated U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, saying the two countries will remain "strong and close partners on trade, security and defense." 
 
 In a statement, May said Trump had won after "a hard-fought campaign." 
 
 May, who took office after British voters delivered a shock to the establishment by deciding to leave the European Union, declined to comment on rival candidates Trump and Hillary Clinton while the U.S. race was on. 
 
 On Wednesday, she stressed the enduring trans-Atlantic "special relationship, based on the values of freedom, democracy and enterprise." 
 
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 4:25 a.m. 
 
 Egypt's president has congratulated Donald Trump on winning the U.S. presidential election, saying Cairo wants to see more "cooperation and coordination" between the two nations to bolster stability and peace in the Middle East. 
 
 President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi telephoned Trump to offer his congratulations. He also invited the next U.S. president to visit Egypt. 
 
 Cairo receives more than $1 billion dollar annually in U.S. military and economic aid under an assistance program that began in the 1970s to reward Egypt for signing a peace treaty with Israel. 
 
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 4:20 a.m. 
 
 Germany's foreign minister says the outcome of the U.S. presidential election is "different than most people in Germany would have wanted, but of course we have to respect it." 
 
 Frank-Walter Steinmeier says that Donald Trump's victory means "nothing is going to get easier. A lot will get harder." 
 
 But he told reporters in Berlin on Wednesday that it was important to maintain good trans-Atlantic relations which he likened to "the foundations of the West." 
 
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 4:15 a.m. 
 
 NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he's looking forward to working with U.S. president-elect Donald Trump and that U.S. leadership is vital to the world's biggest military alliance. 
 
 Stoltenberg said Wednesday that "it is important that the Trans-Atlantic bond remains strong" and that "U.S. leadership is as important as ever." 
 
 Trump has criticized many allies for not paying their fair share of the NATO budget. 
 
 Stoltenberg said he looks forward to welcoming Trump at next Spring's NATO summit, to be held in the alliance's sprawling new premises in Brussels. 
 
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 4:05 a.m. 
 
 Malaysia's prime minister has congratulated Donald Trump on his "extraordinary victory," saying his success showed that politicians should never take voters for granted. 
 
 Najib Razak is a possible beneficiary of what could be an inward-looking U.S. under a Trump presidency. He is embroiled in a scandal over the alleged theft by his associates of several billion dollars from a state investment fund. A U.S. Justice Department probe has linked Najib to the embezzlement. 
 
 Najib said opinion polls and established political figures all underestimated the strength of Trump's support. 
 
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 4 a.m. 
 
 Donald Trump's victory in the U.S. election is being viewed with shock and revulsion in Ireland. 
 
 The country is close to the Clintons and fearful of Trump's campaign pledge to confront U.S. companies using Ireland as a tax shelter. 
 
 The Irish Times branded the New York businessman a "misogynistic racist liar" who would fan instability overseas and intolerance at home. 
 
 Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole wrote Wednesday: "The republic of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt is now the United Hates of America." 
 
 "President Trump is the creation of the same demographic that gave Europe its far-right authoritarian movements with such disastrous consequences for the world," he wrote. 
 
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 3:50 a.m. 
 
 Turkey's prime minister has called on Donald Trump to extradite a U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen — blamed by Ankara for the failed coup in July — as soon as he is sworn in. 
 
 Binali Yildirim also said Wednesday that he hoped that the new leadership in the United States would take into consideration Turkey's "sensitivities concerning the fight against terrorism," give priority to policies that would bring peace and stability to the region and advance traditional friendship between the two countries. 
 
 Ties between the two allies have been strained over perceptions in Turkey that the United States is reluctant to arrest and extradite Gulen. 
 
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 3:40 a.m. 
 
 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Donald Trump in a message posted on Twitter. Modi tweeted that "we appreciate the friendship you have articulated toward India during your campaign. 
 
 Trump had reached out to Indian-American voters at a rally in New Jersey in mid-October, praising Modi and vowing to defeat terrorism. 
 
 In the Indian capital Wednesday, some from right-wing Hindu nationalist group Hindu Sena celebrated Trump's victory at a central protest ground. 
 
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 3:30 a.m. 
 
 Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who has lashed out at Barack Obama for criticizing his deadly anti-drug crackdown, has congratulated U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. 
 
 Duterte says he looks forward to working with the new American leader to further enhance the treaty allies' relations. 
 
 Duterte, who took office in June, has had an uneasy relation with the U.S. The 71-year-old leader has announced his desire to scale back joint combat drills with the U.S. military and end the presence of foreign troops, including Americans, in the country in two years. 
 
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 3:20 a.m. 
 
 Hungary's prime minister says Donald Trump's victory is "great news" and shows "democracy is still alive." 
 
 Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been often criticized by the United States, including by Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state, for weakening the democratic system of checks and balances. Orban offered his congratulations to Trump on his Facebook page. 
 
 Orban, who returned to power in 2010 and last year built fences on Hungary's southern borders to stop the flow of migrants heading toward Western Europe, said in July that Trump's immigration policies made him the best candidate for Hungary and Europe. 
 
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 3:15 a.m. 
 
 The European Union's foreign policy chief says that the trans-Atlantic ties with the United States go beyond the election of Donald Trump. 
 
 Federica Mogherini said Wednesday in a Twitter message that "EU-US ties are deeper than any change in politics. We'll continue to work together, rediscovering the strength of Europe." 
 
 EU Parliament President Martin Schulz said the result "must be respected" as he said that Trump "managed to become the standard-bearer of the angst and fears of millions of Americans." 
 
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 3 a.m. 
 
 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says in a statement that he "congratulates the elected American president, Donald Trump, and hopes that peace will be achieved during his term." 
 
 An Abbas aide, Saeb Erekat, said Wednesday he doesn't expect U.S. positions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to change under Trump. 
 
 Erekat said the Republican and Democratic parties are both committed to a two-state solution of the conflict and "I think this will not change with the coming administration." 
 
 The Palestinians want to establish a state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, lands Israel captured in 1967. Gaps between Abbas and Israel's hawkish leader on any border deal remain wide. 
 
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 2:35 a.m. 
 
 Russia's lower house of parliament is applauding the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S. president. 
 
 State news agency RIA-Novosti says Vyacheslav Novikov, a member of the foreign affairs committee from the governing United Russia party, addressed the State Duma on Wednesday morning. 
 
 Novikov said that "three minutes ago, Hillary Clinton acknowledged her defeat in the U.S. presidential elections and just a second ago, Trump began his speech as president-elect. I congratulate all of you on this." 
 
 The chamber then broke into applause. 
 
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 2:25 a.m. 
 
 Turkey's justice minister says a change of presidents in the United States won't make a big difference to the "deep-rooted" relations between the two countries. 
 
 Bekiz Bozdag told the state-run Anadolu Agency on Wednesday: "in essence our relations are relations between two states and we hope that under the new presidential term the Turkish-U.S. relations will be much better. That is our expectation." 
 
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 2:15 a.m. 
 
 Dutch anti-Islam populist lawmaker Geert Wilders has tweeted his congratulations to Donald Trump. 
 
 Wilders, whose Freedom Party is riding high in opinion polls ahead of Dutch elections due in March, calls Trump's win in the presidential election "A historic victory! A revolution." Looking ahead to the Dutch vote, Wilders finished his tweet: "We also will give our country back to the people of the Netherlands." 
 
 Wilders is known for his strident anti-Islam rhetoric and opposition to the Netherlands' European Union membership. 
 
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 1:30 a.m. 
 
 Canada and the prospect of Americans moving there appears to have drawn so much online interest that it has knocked out the country's immigration website. 
 
 Searches for "move to Canada" and "immigrate to Canada" spiked Tuesday night as election returns favored Republican nominee Donald Trump. "Canada" was a leading U.S. trend on Twitter, with more than 1 million tweets. 
 
 While much of the chatter was clearly tongue-in-cheek, the website for Citizenship and Immigration Canada was down at the same time. Agency officials could not be immediately reached for comment. 
 
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 1:10 a.m. 
 
 The first French presidential candidate to comment on the U.S. election was populist, anti-immigrant politician Marine Le Pen, congratulating Trump even before the final results are known. 
 
 Le Pen, hoping to ride anti-establishment sentiment to victory in April-May French presidential elections, tweeted her support to the "American people, free!" 
 
 French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said France would continue to work with the new president whoever wins the final tally, though expressed concern about Trump's lead and said it could hold a cautionary message for Europe. 
 
 "We don't want a world where egoism triumphs," Ayrault said on France-2 television Wednesday. France's Socialist government had openly endorsed Clinton. 
 
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 12:45 a.m. 
 
 News of Trump's widening lead hit hard in Cuba, which has spent the last two years negotiating normalization with the United States after more than 50 years of Cold War hostility. 
 
 Normalization has set off a tourism boom in Cuba and visits by hundreds of executives from the U.S. and dozens of other nations newly interested in doing business on the island. Trump has promised to reverse Obama's opening with Cuba unless President Raul Castro agrees to more political freedom on the island, a concession considered a virtual impossibility. 
 
 Speaking of Cuba's leaders, Communist Party member and noted economist and political scientist Esteban Morales told the Telesur network that "they must be worried because I think this represents a new chapter." 
 
 Carlos Alzugaray, a political scientist and retired Cuban diplomat, said a Trump victory could, however, please some hard-liners in the Cuban leadership who worried that Cuba was moving too close to the United States too quickly. ||||| President Donald Trump, center, reaches out to Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, left, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they prepare to sign a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement... (Associated Press) 
 
 President Donald Trump, center, reaches out to Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, left, and Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they prepare to sign a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that is replacing the NAFTA trade deal, during a ceremony at a hotel before the start of the G20... (Associated Press) 
 
 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump at the Group of 20 summit (all times local): 
 
 9:50 a.m. 
 
 President Donald Trump has joined the leaders of Mexico and Canada to sign a revised North American trade deal. 
 
 Trump gathered with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and outgoing Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto on the sidelines of Friday's meeting of the Group of 20 nations in Buenos Aires. 
 
 The revamped deal, which Trump calls the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. Trump has long raged against NAFTA. He says the new agreement "changes the trade landscape forever." 
 
 Lawmakers in each country must now ratify the agreement. 
 
 That could prove to be a difficult task in the United States, especially now that Democrats will control the House of Representatives come January. Already Democrats and their allies in the labor movement are demanding changes. 
 
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 9:45 a.m. 
 
 President Donald Trump says a new trade pact being signed by the United States, Mexico and Canada is a "model agreement that changes the trade landscape forever." 
 
 Trump spent more than a year pushing the leaders of Canada and Mexico into agreeing to a rewrite of North American trade rules. Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexico's outgoing President Enrique Pena Nieto are signing the new pact Friday at the Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina. 
 
 Trump now faces what could prove a more formidable foe: The U.S. Congress, which must ratify the agreement. He says the parties have "taken a lot of barbs and a little abuse" during the renegotiation. 
 
 He turned to Trudeau, saying "It's been a battle," but battles sometimes make "great friendships." 
 
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 9:10 a.m. 
 
 The Mexican government has presented President Donald Trump's son-in-law and White House adviser Jared Kushner with the Order of the Aztec Eagle. It's the highest honor America's southern neighbor gives to foreigners. 
 
 Mexico's Foreign Relations Department says Kushner earned the honor for his work on renegotiating a new trade agreement being signed Friday by Mexico, the United States and Canada on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Argentina. 
 
 It replaces the North American Free Trade Agreement, or NAFTA. 
 
 Kushner, who has been working on U.S.-Mexico issues, says relations have improved because the countries decided not to work across the table, but on the same side to craft "win-win" solutions to migration, drug trafficking and abuse, and other issues plaguing relations. 
 
 Kushner says there's a "strong level of trust" between the U.S. and Mexico, despite news reports citing clashes between the neighbors. 
 
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 7:55 a.m. 
 
 President Donald Trump is meeting Argentine President Mauricio Macri as he kicks off two days of diplomacy at the G-20 meeting. 
 
 The leaders greeted each other warmly Friday as the annual meeting of leaders from rich and developing nations opened in Buenos Aires. Trump spoke about his longtime personal friendship with Macri and said they would discuss trade, military purchases and other issues. 
 
 Macri is hosting his counterparts as he struggles with a raft of domestic issues, including trying to halt economic turmoil that has caused the steep depreciation of the Argentine peso. 
 
 Trump and Macri enjoy a personal relationship dating back to their days as businessman. 
 
 Macri visited the White House soon after Trump took office in 2017. 
 
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 7:25 a.m. 
 
 President Donald Trump is blasting the investigation in which his former lawyer pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about a Moscow real estate deal he pursued for Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign. 
 
 Michael Cohen says he lied to be consistent with Trump's "political messaging." Trump says Cohen is lying now. 
 
 In a tweet Friday from Argentina, Trump recalled "happily living" his life as a developer before running for president after seeing the "Country going in the wrong direction." 
 
 Trump says "Against all odds" he decided to run for president and continue to run his business, which he calls "very legal & very cool." He says he "talked about it on the campaign trail." 
 
 Trump tweets he "Lightly looked at doing a building somewhere in Russia. Put up zero money, zero guarantees and didn't do the project. Witch Hunt!" 
 
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 3:25 a.m. 
 
 President Trump kicks off two days of diplomacy at the Group of 20 summit in Argentina on Friday after his abrupt decision to cancel a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin overshadowed the proceedings before they even started. 
 
 Trump barreled into the two-day meeting by announcing via Twitter that he was canceling on Putin over Russia's seizure of Ukrainian vessels. His agenda Friday is expected to include meetings with world leaders, the signing of a revamped trade deal with Canada and Mexico, as well as a number of group activities for the gathering of rich and developing nations. 
 
 Coming into this G-20, Trump faces a series of diplomatic challenges — most notably whether he can strike an agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping (shee jihn-peeng) to ease trade tensions. ||||| A woman walks by banners of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during an election watch event hosted by the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South... (Associated Press) 
 
 A woman walks by banners of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during an election watch event hosted by the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2016. The United States headed for the polls to vote for their new president... (Associated Press) 
 
 MEXICO CITY (AP) — The latest on world reaction to the U.S. election (all times EST): 
 
 1:50 a.m. 
 
 Indonesians on social media are questioning why Americans have voted in big numbers for billionaire Donald Trump, who many in the world's most populous Muslim country perceive as intolerant and reactionary. 
 
 Twitter, Facebook and chatrooms in instant messaging apps are buzzing with speculation about whether Trump would follow through on campaign rhetoric that included a ban on Muslims entering the U.S. 
 
 Some people say that under a Trump administration they fear they'll be prevented from visiting relatives and friends who live in America or traveling there as tourists. 
 
 About 100,000 Indonesians live in the United States. 
 
 President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo says on national television that his government will work with whoever becomes president. 
 
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 1:45 a.m. 
 
 News of Trump's widening lead hit hard in Cuba, which has spent the last two years negotiating normalization with the United States after more than 50 years of Cold War hostility. 
 
 Normalization has set off a tourism boom in Cuba and visits by hundreds of executives from the U.S. and dozens of other nations newly interested in doing business on the island. Trump has promised to reverse Obama's opening with Cuba unless President Raul Castro agrees to more political freedom on the island, a concession considered a virtual impossibility. 
 
 Speaking of Cuba's leaders, Communist Party member and noted economist and political scientist Esteban Morales told the Telesur network that "they must be worried because I think this represents a new chapter." 
 
 Carlos Alzugaray, a political scientist and retired Cuban diplomat, said a Trump victory could, however, please some hard-liners in the Cuban leadership who worried that Cuba was moving too close to the United States too quickly. 
 
 While many Cubans were unaware of the state of the race early Wednesday morning, those watching state-run Telesur or listening to radio updates said they feared that a Trump victory would mean losing the few improvements they had seen in their lives thanks to the post-detente tourism boom. 
 
 "The little we've advanced, if he reverses it, it hurts us," taxi driver Oriel Iglesias Garcia said. "You know tourism will go down. If Donald Trump wins and turns everything back it's really bad for us." 
 
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 1:10 a.m. 
 
 A couple of Chinese participants at a U.S. Embassy event in Beijing say they'd welcome a Trump presidency, while another says he thinks the Republican candidate projects a flawed image of the United States. 
 
 Blogger Wang Yiming says he hopes Trump will win because the Republican Party has been typically more willing to demonstrate American leadership globally, and he hoped a Republican president would do more to encourage freedom of speech in China. 
 
 Wang says: "I think America has stagnated and Trump represents justice, the rule of law and personal freedom." 
 
 Lou Bin, a 43-year-old academic at a university in Beijing, says he didn't support either candidate but Trump didn't come across as much of a "gentleman." He says: "As president you want someone who represents the country's image." 
 
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 1 a.m. 
 
 Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says at this stage, it would appear that Donald Trump is most likely to claim the presidency. 
 
 Bishop told reporters in Canberra, Australia's capital, that her government is ready to work with whomever the American people, "in their wisdom," choose to be their president. 
 
 She says a U.S. presidential election is always a momentous occasion, and in this instance, "it has been a particularly bruising, divisive and hard-fought campaign." 
 
 She also says the new administration will face a number of challenges, including in Asia-Pacific, and Australia wants to work constructively with the new administration to ensure the continued presence and leadership of the United States in the region. 
 
 She calls the U.S. "our major security ally" and the largest foreign direct investor and the second-largest trading partner. 
 
 She says: "The United States is also the guarantor and defender of the rules-based international order that has underpinned so much of our economic and security issues. And interests." 
 
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 11:45 p.m. 
 
 Watching the results of the U.S. election at a New Zealand bar, 22-year-old student Sarah Pereira says she is looking forward to working as an intern in the U.S. Congress, but dreads the prospect of Donald Trump winning the presidency. 
 
 Pereira, a master's student in strategic studies, says she will leave for Washington this weekend after winning a scholarship to work for Democratic Congressman Gregory Meeks. 
 
 She predicts the effects of a Trump on international relationships would be "catastrophic." 
 
 Pereira commented while attending an event hosted by the U.S. Embassy in Wellington. 
 
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 11:20 p.m. 
 
 Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has told an aide that "the competition is closer than expected" in the U.S. election. 
 
 Aide Takeo Kawamura tells Japan's Kyodo News service that Abe is following the vote count in his office. 
 
 The Japanese government has remained neutral in public statements, but analysts on both sides of the Pacific have talked about a possible change in U.S. policy toward Japan and the rest of Asia if Republican candidate Donald Trump should win. 
 
 Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga is reaffirming his government's commitment to the U.S.-Japan security alliance. He tells reporters that whoever is the next president, the Japan-U.S. alliance will remain the cornerstone of Japan-U.S. diplomacy. 
 
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 Chinese state media outlets are casting the U.S. election as the embodiment of America's democracy in crisis in contrast to China's perceived stability under authoritarian rule. 
 
 The state-run Xinhua News Agency says the campaign has highlighted that, in its words, "the majority of Americans are rebelling against the U.S.'s political class and financial elites." 
 
 The official Communist Party newspaper People's Daily says in a commentary that the presidential election reveals an "ill democracy." 
 
 On Tuesday, the Chinese state broadcaster CCTV ran man-on-the-street interviews with unidentified American voters in which they expressed disgust with the system and dissatisfaction with both candidates. ||||| In a telephone call on May 25, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked U.S. President Donald Trump how he could possibly consider Canada a threat to America’s national security – the ostensible reason for looming tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. 
 
 “Didn’t you guys burn down the White House?” Mr. Trump replied, in reference to the capture of Washington during the War of 1812. 
 
 The President’s glib response, first reported by CNN and confirmed by The Globe and Mail, was emblematic of Mr. Trump’s new attitude toward his northern neighbour, whom he is treating as his No. 1 enemy amid an escalating trade war and growing rhetorical battle with Mr. Trudeau. 
 
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 Since hitting 30 countries with metals tariffs last week, Mr. Trump has bashed Canada far more than his usual adversaries in Mexico, China or the European Union. 
 
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 When Mr. Trudeau announced retaliatory levies on a slew of U.S. goods – from orange juice to pickles – and accused the Trump administration of ignoring “logic and common sense” on trade, Mr. Trump called out the Prime Minister by name in a statement that threatened to tear up the North American free-trade agreement. In a tweet the next morning, he mused about shutting Canadian wood products out of America. 
 
 And after the Prime Minister took to U.S. television to describe Mr. Trump as “unpredictable” and his tariffs “insulting and unacceptable,” the President lashed out again online, tweeting that “Canada has all sorts of trade barriers on our Agricultural products. Not acceptable!” 
 
 Mr. Trump was notably more muted in his treatment of Mexico and the EU, even as they announced similar retaliations. 
 
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 Things stand to get worse: While Mr. Trudeau is hoping a meeting with Mr. Trump at the G7 summit in Quebec later this week will calm the waters, the President is mulling further tariffs, including a 25-per-cent levy on Canadian-made cars and trucks. 
 
 The fight has pushed relations between Canada and its closest commercial and diplomatic partner to their tensest time in recent memory, with $900-billion of annual trade in the balance. 
 
 At least part of Mr. Trump’s ire toward Canada appears to come from dashed expectations, observers said. For more than a year, Mr. Trudeau publicly avoided any public criticism of the President, making his tough tariff response a surprise. 
 
 “Trump thought Canada was going to be the easiest country to play, and he’s disappointed that didn’t happen,” said Dunniella Kaufman, a Canadian trade lawyer based in Washington. 
 
 Sources with knowledge of the Trump administration’s thinking say the President’s annoyance with Ottawa has actually been building for nearly a year: When the Trump administration started NAFTA renegotiations last summer, it expected Canada to gang up on Mexico and help force it to give up auto jobs that had been lured south. When Canada instead formed a common front with Mexico against Mr. Trump’s protectionist demands, the United States was upset, the sources said. 
 
 At a White House meeting in February, Mr. Trump complained that Canada was “very smooth” at taking the U.S.’s money in unfair trade deals. On other occasions, he has accused the country of being “very rough” as it has “taken advantage” of the United States and “outsmarted our politicians for many years.” 
 
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 Christopher Sands, director of the Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins University, said Mr. Trump was particularly rankled by Ottawa’s NAFTA outreach campaign, during which Canadian politicians and businesspeople fanned out across the country to encourage their American counterparts to lobby the White House to preserve NAFTA. 
 
 “I think it started bugging him,” he said. 
 
 Matthew Rooney, a former U.S. state department official in charge of the Canada file during the Obama administration, said there have been difficult times in the past. When then-prime minister Stephen Harper in 2011 said U.S. approval of the Keystone XL pipeline – which then-president Barack Obama was refusing to do – was a “no-brainer,” the White House considered the remark beyond the pale. 
 
 But tensions with the current President are on a different level. 
 
 “There have always been little tiffs that are part of doing business. But this is a little unusual and unusually personal,” he said. “If President Trump actually referenced the War of 1812, that is frankly absurd.” 
 
 The reference itself is not entirely historically accurate. While the war was largely fought over control of Canada, which was then a British colony, the August, 1814, attack on Washington itself was carried out by British regulars and marines rather than colonial militia. The raid, made in revenge for the American burning of York – present-day Toronto – the previous year, saw the British briefly capture and set fire to the U.S. capital. 
 
 Mr. Trump’s chief economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, played down the feud at a White House briefing Wednesday. 
 
 “The United States and Canada will remain firm friends and allies, whatever short-term disagreements may occur,” Mr. Kudlow said. “So I would say relations are very good.” 
 
 And Laura Dawson, director of the Canada Institute at the Wilson Center think tank in Washington, said that – despite the current drama – ties between the two countries on everything from commerce to the Stanley Cup final are strong enough to weather the storm. 
 
 “It’s important to differentiate between relations between leaders, and relations between communities, government organizations, businesses and citizens,” she wrote in an e-mail. “Six Canadians on the Caps roster and eight on Vegas. We’re still good.” ||||| Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Mr Trump insisted leaving the TPP was good for American workers 
 
 Australia and New Zealand say they are hopeful of pressing ahead with the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, despite America's formal withdrawal. 
 
 The US-led 12-nation agreement was set to cover 40% of the world's economic output. 
 
 Pulling out of the TPP was one of Mr Trump's first executive orders and fulfils a long-held campaign promise. 
 
 Australia has already devised a name for a possible new agreement: TPP 12 Minus One. 
 
 The country's trade minister Steve Ciobo said Australia would not abandon the TPP just because it would require "a little bit of elbow grease" to keep it alive. 
 
 Meanwhile China, which was not part of the deal, hinted it may look to take advantage of TTP's collapse saying it was in favour of "open and transparent regional economic arrangements". 
 
 The trade agreement was negotiated by former US President Barack Obama and was aimed at deepening economic ties between its member countries, which were Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Peru. 
 
 So what now for these countries - and indeed for China? 
 
 Australia: Holding out hope for a so-called 'TPP minus one' 
 
 Australia, among other nations, is looking for ways to salvage the TPP without the US. 
 
 Mr Ciobo was in Switzerland last week to discuss new deals at the World Economic Forum in Davos. 
 
 Image copyright Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website Image caption Australia's trade minister Steve Ciobo, right, with his Indonesian counterpart Enggartiasto Lukita last year. Mr Ciobo said Indonesia had shown interest in joining the TPP. 
 
 "I've had conversations with Canada, with Mexico, with Japan, with New Zealand, with Singapore, Malaysia," he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) from New York on Monday. 
 
 "I know that there's been conversations that have been had with Chile and with Peru. So there's quite a number of countries that have an interest in looking to see if we can make a TPP 12 minus one work," he said. 
 
 Mr Ciobo also said the original architecture of the TPP was designed to enable other countries to join. 
 
 "Certainly I know that Indonesia has expressed a possible interest and there would be scope for China if we were able to reformulate it to be a TPP 12 minus one for countries like Indonesia or China or indeed other countries to consider joining and to join in order to get the benefits that flow as a consequence," he said. 
 
 New Zealand: Hopeful for TPP, but eyeing one-on-one deals 
 
 New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English has said he is hopeful of keeping a free trade deal alive with remaining members of the TPP agreement, while the country's trade minister Todd McClay told local media he expected TPP ministers would meet in the coming months to navigate a way forward. 
 
 Image copyright Hagen Hopkins Image caption New Zealand's trade minister Todd McClay confirms several other bilateral trade relations are still in good shape 
 
 Like his Australian counterpart, Mr McClay said he had met with a number of TPP member countries in Davos. 
 
 "New Zealand's economy depends upon fair access to overseas markets. We will continue to advocate for the benefits of trade liberalisation on the world stage," he said. 
 
 The country is also looking to hammer out bilateral deals with other countries and has recently been to the Middle East, promoting key New Zealand products including dairy. 
 
 Last week, Mr McClay confirmed New Zealand and Sri Lanka would move ahead with discussions on new trade and investment opportunities, including a free trade agreement between the two countries. 
 
 And the minister has said trade relations with the UK are in good shape, with an agreement in place to try and ensure there is no disruption to bilateral trade between New Zealand and Britain in the wake of Brexit. 
 
 Japan: Wanting to build trust with the US 
 
 Any hope of resurrecting the TPP will surely depend on Japan, the world's third largest economy. 
 
 Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has reinforced his trust in President Trump's leadership and said he hopes to continue talks with the US around free trade. 
 
 "I believe President Trump understands the importance of free and fair trade, so I'd like to pursue his understanding on the strategic and economic importance of the TPP trade pact," said Mr Abe during a parliament session on Monday. 
 
 Image copyright Kyodo News Image caption Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has repeatedly said he has trust in US President Donald Trump 
 
 Japan's finance minister Taro Aso reiterated this stance on Tuesday and told reporters that plans were being put in place for Mr Abe to visit the US and meet Mr Trump. 
 
 Trade Minister Hiroshige Seko said he would now be closely watching for any changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) - which includes Canada, Mexico and the US - and how that might impact Japanese companies. 
 
 China: Left out in the cold, is Beijing now rejoicing? 
 
 China, which was left out of the TPP deal, has its eye on its own regional trade pacts. 
 
 It has suggested a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific and is supportive of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), which could see a free trade deal between countries including Australia, China, India, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand. 
 
 Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Chinese president Xi Jinping defended free trade at the World Economic Forum in Davos last week 
 
 In Davos, President Xi Jinping defended the notion of free trade and said protectionism was akin to "locking oneself in a dark room". 
 
 The Chinese leader's comments were widely viewed as a reference to Mr Trump's "America first" policies and a clear signal that Beijing saw the move as an opportunity to play an even larger role in world trade - filling the vacuum left by the US. 
 
 At a press conference on Tuesday, a Beijing spokesman avoided answering questions about whether China would look to join the TPP. 
 
 China had been advocating open transparent trade routes in the Pacific region "along with win win solutions," he said. 
 
 "We believe in regional economic integration. We are for open and transparent regional economic arrangements. The economies of the Asia Pacific region are diverse. It's important to behave in a open way. We're ready to work with all sides to provide impetus for the Asia Pacific and the global economy."
– Reactions to the biggest political upset in recent memory are pouring in from around the globe, and if any world leaders are shaking in their boots, they aren't showing it. A look around: Mexico: "I'm in shock, my stomach aches, I can't believe it. This is like watching the Titanic sink," a woman told the Los Angeles Times late Tuesday from Mexico City, where a thunderstorm was viewed as an omen of tumult. Mexico's peso hit a record low overnight but has recovered slightly, per Reuters. "I'm seeing my savings reduced," said one man. Canada: While some Canadians are ready to welcome Americans into their "igloos," others fear Trump will tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement, putting a dent in the Canadian economy, reports CTV News. If Trump approves the Keystone XL pipeline, however, it would be considered an economic win. Cuba: A political scientist says Cuba's leaders "must be worried." Based on his campaign remarks, Trump is likely to reverse Obama's course of a stronger relationship. Without US tourism dollars, Cubans may suffer. But some who were hesitant that the two countries would become too cozy might actually be pleased. Indonesia: Some in the world's most populous Muslim country believe they won't be able to set foot on US soil for the next four years, per the AP. President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, however, expects "no change" in Indonesia's "good relations" with the US. China: President Xi Jinping says he's "looking forward to working with [Trump]" and expects they can "manage differences in a constructive way," stressing the countries' "special and important responsibility in upholding world peace," per the AP. Russia: With Trump, Vladimir Putin says he hopes to restore relations with the US. "We [are] aware that it is a difficult path, in view of the unfortunate degradation of relations," but "it is not our fault that Russian-American relations are in such a state," he said. Israel: Israeli leaders are among the most jubilant. The country's education minister says Trump's victory means "the era of a Palestinian state is over." Benjamin Netanyahu says Trump is a "true friend of the State of Israel." Iran: The country's foreign minister appears less pleased, stressing that America must "implement the nuclear deal" reached last year. Trump has said he would renegotiate it.