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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.

Anything that undermines the Fed's independence could spook traders in the financial markets.

"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 won the state of Arizona, US TV networks projected on Saturday, completing the Republican's sweep of all seven swing states.

After four days of counting in the southwest state with a large Hispanic population, CNN and NBC projected Trump had obtained its 11 electoral votes as he defeated Vice President Kamala Harris.

Outgoing President Joe Biden scored a narrow but crucial victory in Arizona in 2020 that condemned Trump to defeat after his first term in office.

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday that former Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will not be asked to join his administration.

"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.

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.

EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell sought to reassure Ukraine of Europe's unwavering support on Saturday, days after Donald Trump's election win cast uncertainty over its war effort.

Borrell, the first top EU official to visit Kyiv since Trump's win, said that the purpose of his visit was to stress EU support for Ukraine, as its war with Russia nears 1,000 days.

The European Union has already provided 122 billion euros ($131 billion) in military and financial support to Ukraine and trained about 60,000 Ukrainian soldiers, said Borrell, adding that the bloc aimed to reach 75,000 by the end of the winter.