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Trump administration's Nikki Haley to resign as U.S. ambassador to U.N.

The U.S. envoy to the U.N. will depart at the end of 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump announced without explaining why.

,   and  John Heilprin
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U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley
U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley at a U.S. Department of Defense news conference (AN/DoD/EJ Hersom)

UNITED NATIONS (AN) — Nikki Haley will resign her post as U.S. envoy to the United Nations at the end of 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump announced.

No reason was given why Haley, a rarity in Trump's Cabinet for having avoided getting fired or departing under a cloud of controversy, would be stepping down. A former South Carolina governor with little previous international experience, Haley was appointed to the U.N. post in November 2016. She coordinated Trump’s first time as chair of a U.N. Security Council session in September.

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