Jon Sopel
BBC North America Editor

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Donald Trump is a hugely effective communicator.

Sir Elton John apparently said of him he's the best live performer who doesn't sing and doesn't play a musical instrument. He communicates brilliantly clearly.

But one thing that might have been lost on some of his audience was his promise to deliver "Brexit plus, plus, plus".

The reasons why Britain pulled out of the EU have not been a central concern to many Americans, but what it signified to Donald Trump was something important.

Read his full analysis here

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Jonathan Powell, former chief of staff to Tony Blair, says his "biggest fear under Trump is the United States will become more isolationist, it will be less willing to intervene in the world than it has been."

He discusses with the former ambassador to Washington, Lord Renwick, what Donald Trump's presidency will mean for the country's foreign policy.

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has congratulated Trump on his victory. Here's her statement:

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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the US president should stick by the nuclear deal with Iran, the official Irna news agency reports. "Iran and America have no political relations, but it is important that the future US president realises his duty to uphold the multilateral obligations of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and we expect the international community to require this of the United States of America," he told reporters.

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"It's the economy, stupid", or so the saying goes. Markets have reacted nervously to Trump's victory, with falls across Asia and Europe. 

BBC New York business editor John Mervin has five questions for Trump about how he plans to handle the economy. 

"Financial markets were counting on a Clinton victory right up until the polls closed. A state of high anxiety now prevails among investors. Everyone wants to know if the extreme rhetoric about economic policy that characterized the campaign will be lived up to in office," says our 

Read his full post here.

The BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head says the region's 10 member states and their 600 million population will "wait and watch". With so little known about how a Trump administration will deal with a region that was central to Obama's foreign policy, he says official reaction is "likely to be muted and restrained".

"Some aspects of the incoming president will cause concern. The isolationist tone of many of Mr Trump’s statements implies he will devote fewer diplomatic and military resources to East Asia – the so-called ‘pivot’ initiated by President Obama in his last term may be abandoned. The US may be less supportive of freedom of navigation through the South China Sea. The possibility of greater trade friction will also worry this manufacturing and export- dependent region."

James Naughtie
Special correspondent, BBC Radio 4 News

Here are some of the leaders and nations we know about.

Vladimir Putin has sent Trump a telegram to congratulate him, declaring his "hope to work together for removing Russian-American relations from their crisis state".

EU chiefs Donald Tusk and Claude Juncker have sent "sincere congratulations" and an invitation to visit Europe.

Egypt’s President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi wished Trump "success in serving the friendly American people, who gave him their trust to lead them" and said he looked forward to reinvigorating US-Egyptian ties.

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".

Indian PM Narendra Modi says India looks forward to working with Donald Trump closely, "to take India-US bilateral ties to a new height".

Lu Kang, a spokesman for the Chinese foreign ministry, said: "We look forward to working together with the new US new administration to push forward a consistent, healthy and stable China-US relations," but didn't mention Trump by name.

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Beijing has yet to make its official comments on Donald Trump's win. Its daily foreign affairs briefing took place before the victory was called.In the meantime Taiwan's president Tsai Ing-wen has issued a congratulatory statement saying Taiwan will "continue to be a close and reliable partner" of the US, which she called "the most important democratic country in the world and the most solid international partner for Taiwan".

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Donald Trump's election was a "non-violent revolution", his biographer has said. 

Jerome Tuccille, author of "Trump", told BBC Radio 5 live's Nicky Campbell: "The whole political establishment in Washington has been challenged like it’s never been challenged before."

EU chiefs Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker have written to president-elect Trump to congratulate him and emphasize the importance of the EU/US relationship. 

They also invited him to pay a visit to Europe, at his "earliest convenience".

Here's the full letter.

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Russia's official Rossiya 1 TV describes Donald Trump's win as "a real sensation". Its Washington correspondent says, "It's a political earthquake in the US and the world, an historic fait accompli."

Another official channel, Rossiya 24 TV, reported that the rouble and oil prices have "fallen sharply" on news of the Trump win. 

Before the result came in, the official Channel One focused on "scandals and incidents" including voting machine problems that it alleged prevented people from voting for Trump. Pro-Kremlin daily Izvestia also questioned the "legitimacy of the voting outcome as a whole" - until Mr Trump won.

Speculation is underway about who will fill Donald Trump's cabinet. Sarah Palin nailed her colours to Trump's mast early on, as did former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani and former house speaker Newt Gingrich.

Sarah Palin remains a somewhat divisive figure...

Chants of "Lock her up!" are ringing out at Trump celebrations around the US. Trump pledged during his campaign to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton and her use of a private server to manage her emails and has frequently suggested she should be behind bars.

It seems unlikely that there is any political capital in pursuing the issue now, but some people, including former political staffers, have raised the bizarre prospect of Obama pardoning Clinton before he leaves office.

When Trump first announced he would run for president in June 2015, the New York Daily News ridiculed him. 

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In February 2016, Esquire magazine put Trump on their front cover and mocked his presidential potential. 

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Time published two editions claiming the Trump election campaign was in “meltdown”. The first was in August 2016. The second version, in October, was stronger in its emphasis, stating the Trump campaign was in “total” meltdown.

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The New Yorker published a 2016 election edition picturing a man reading a newspaper on a subway car. The headline on paper reads “Oh sweet Jesus, please God, no” – in reference to the possibility of a Trump victory.

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ABC says it will be making no further projections in the presidential electoral college tonight. 

New Hampshire, Arizona, Michigan and Minnesota are too close to project, it says.

Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has urged Trump to extradite US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, accused by Ankara of orchestrating a failed coup in July, as our Turkey correspondent Mark Lowen tweets:

New Zealand's prime minister John Key has congratulated Mr Trump, while Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull says Americans "understand they have no stronger ally or no better friend than Australia".