Lord Peter Mandelson, recently appointed U.K. ambassador to the U.S., says he is encouraged to work with President Trump despite previous concern and comments he now says were "ill-judged and wrong."

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Peter Mandelson is said to have been approved as the UK's ambassador to the United States, despite previous criticisms of Donald Trump.

Protesters have attacked missions in the capital of the African country as anger grows about the advance of the M23 rebel group.

Protesters set fires and looted foreign embassies in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, amid anger at foreign allies over what many see as failure to stop an assault by M23, a Rwanda-backed militia group,