WASHINGTON -- U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday named budget director Mick Mulvaney as acting chief of staff, following the weeklong consideration after he announced John Kelly's scheduled departure.

"I am pleased to announce that Mick Mulvaney, Director of the Office of Management & Budget, will be named Acting White House Chief of Staff, replacing General John Kelly, who has served our Country with distinction," Trump tweeted. (US-Chief of Staff)

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CHICAGO -- Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) soybean futures continued to fall, though more export sales to China were reported on Friday.

Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) sales of 300,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2018/2019 marketing year, following another 1,130,000 metric tons to the same destination on Thursday. (Chicago-Agricultural Commodities-Market)

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KATHMANDU -- At least 16 people were killed and five sustained injuries in a road accident in Nuwakot district of central Nepal on Friday evening, local police authorities confirmed.

The incident occurred when a mini truck skidded off the mountain highway and fell 100 meters down into the gorge at Ghyangdanda area in Dupecheswor Rural Municipality of the district, according to sub inspector of police Gyanlal Yadav. (Nepal-Road Accident)

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ANKARA -- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that his country has run "out of patience" with its NATO partner, the United States, over its support for the Kurdish militia in Syria, threatening a renewed military offensive soon.

"We will no longer tolerate a single day of delay. We are determined to bring peace and security to areas in the east of the Euphrates," he said during an international conference in Istanbul. (Turkey-Syria-US)

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WASHINGTON -- American scientists have developed an experimental HIV vaccine strategy that works in non-human primates, which lends clues to identifying target and dosage for potential HIV vaccine for humans.

The new study published on Friday in the journal Immunity showed that rhesus macaque monkeys can be prompted to produce neutralizing antibodies against one strain of HIV that resembles the resilient viral form that most commonly infects people, called a Tier 2 virus. (US-Health-HIV) Enditem

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