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Imran Khan barred from public office for five years

Imran Khan, Pakistan’s ousted former prime minister, has been barred by the country’s five-member election commission from holding public office for five years, impacti

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Sri Lankan parliamentary speaker to formally announce president's resignation on Friday

Sri Lanka's Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has received the resignation letter of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and will formally announce his resignatio

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Belarus: Lukashenko Signs Decree to Amend Emergency Transfer of Power - Belta

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has signed a decree allowing the transfer of presidential power to the security council if he is murdered or otherwise unable

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Empty middle airplane seat could cut COVID-19 exposure by 57%: CDC

Video screens are shown built into the backs of passengers seats on board a Delta Airlines Boeing aircraft in San Diego, California, U.S., January 10, 2018. /Reuters A vacant middle airplane s

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F1: Australia, China Grand Prix postponed due to COVID-19

Lewis Hamilton of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team leads the rest of the field during the Australian Formula One Grand Prix at Albert Park in Melbourne, Australia, March 25, 2018. /CFP

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Private schools in Rio resume classes

02:41 After months of vacant classrooms and only partially available online instruction, pressure is building in Brazil to resume schooling.In Rio de Janeiro, some private schools have

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Senate Democrats blast Pompeo in scathing review

Democrats in the U.S. Senate released on Tuesday a scathing review on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's tenure at the State Department. The 46-page report, entitled "Di

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Trump Nominates Retired Army Colonel Macgregor as Next US Envoy to Germany, White House Says

President Donald Trump selected retired US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor as the next ambassador to Germany, the White House said in a press release on Monday.“Colonel

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Trump to nominate Kenneth Weinstein as U.S. ambassador to Japan

U.S. President Donald Trump intends to nominate Kenneth Weinstein, chief executive officer of the Hudson Institute think tank, as ambassador to Japan, the White House said on Friday.Weinstein is chai

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Myanmar President U Htin Kyaw resigns from post

MyanmarPresidentUHtinKyawhasresignedfromhisposition,accordingtoanofficialstatementreleasedonWednesday.Thevacantpresidencypostistobefilledwithinsevendaysinaccord