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Indian PM Modi announces nationwide lockdown for 21 days, starting tonight

24 Mar 2020

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced nationwide three weeks lockdown starting from Tuesday midnight. All states and union territories will come under its purview. He...

VIDEO: Sudan's PM Abdalla Hamdok survives assassination attempt

09 Mar 2020

Sudan's prime minister survived an assassination attempt on Monday after a blast in the capital, Khartoum, Sudanese state media said. Abdalla Hamdok's family confined he was...

Nepal’s PM Oli admitted to hospital for kidney transplant

03 Mar 2020

Nepal's popular communist prime minister is in the hospital awaiting his second kidney transplant after months of illness. Khadga Prasad Oli, 69, was admitted to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital...

Iraq’s president issues deadline to choose next PM

30 Jan 2020

Iraq's president has given rival political blocs a deadline to select a prime minister nearly two months after the outgoing premier resigned under pressure from mass demonstrations, his office said...

Engineering professor Hassan Diab named Lebanon's 'technocratic' premier, but protests continue

22 Jan 2020

A new Cabinet was announced in crisis-hit Lebanon late on Tuesday, breaking a months-long impasse amid mass protests against the country's ruling elite and a crippling financial crisis, but demonstrations...

Russian government resigns, Medvedev to lead interim set up

15 Jan 2020

Hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed a referendum on a package of reforms to country's constitution, the government resigned. Russia Prime Minster made the shocking announcement in...

British ex-PM Major skipped 1996 Olympics to watch cricket, reveal declassified files

31 Dec 2019

British prime minister John Major dodged going to the Atlanta 1996 Olympics to stay in London and watch cricket instead, newly declassified files showed on Tuesday. Major weighed...

Seoul appoints ‘Mr Smile’ as prime minister

17 Dec 2019

South Korean President Moon Jae-in appointed an anodyne former parliamentary speaker known as “Mr Smile” as prime minister on Tuesday, after a previous cabinet appointment triggered a corruption scandal and...

Cabinet clears controversial Citizenship Amendment Bill

04 Dec 2019

The union cabinet on Wednesday approved six bills including the Citizenship Amendment Bill and extended reservation for SCs and STs in the Lok Sabha and the State Assemblies for another...

Iraq PM says will resign after dozens killed in bloody protests

29 Nov 2019

Iraq's embattled premier announced on Friday he will resign in keeping with the wishes of the country's top Shiite cleric, after nearly two months of anti-government protests that have cost...

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