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US President-elect Donald Trump's plan to overhaul the government with a new department headed by tech billionaire Elon Musk and Indian-origin entrepreneur...
The decision turns Netanyahu and the others into internationally wanted suspects and is likely to further isolate them and complicate efforts to...
Sri Lanka’s National People’s Power of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake in historic moment swept the parliamentary elections by winning a two-thirds majority
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Bangladesh's interim government has said it will seek Interpol's assistance in repatriating deposed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina from India, and other "fugitives",...
The meeting between the outgoing president and the incoming one is ceremonial and is seeped into decades old tradition. It is generally...
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