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April 22, 2024 - Page 5

US President Joe Biden walks from Marine One after arriving on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, April 17, 2024, after a 2-day campaign trip to Pennsylvania. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Papua New Guinea PM dismisses Biden’s ‘loose’ talk on cannibalism

Papua New Guinea's leader has dismissed Joe Biden's unlikely suggestion that his uncle was eaten by cannibals there as "loose" talk that does not reflect the US president's feelings for the country.
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FILE - A security guard wearing an electric fan on his neck wipes his sweat on a hot day in Beijing, July 3, 2023. Climate change is making heat waves crawl slower across the globe and last longer with higher temperatures over larger areas, a new study finds. (AP Photo/Andy Wong, File)

Taiwan thanks US for aid package, says gesture will ‘safeguard peace’

Taiwan will work with the United States to "safeguard peace and freedom" in the region, the island's premier said on Monday, after Washington approved billions in military aid for Taipei in the
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Electoral workers count votes at a polling station during a referendum on tougher measures against organized crime in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 21, 2024. - Ecuadorans voted Sunday in a referendum on proposed tougher measures to fight gang-related crime. The once-peaceful South American country has been grappling with a shocking rise in violence that has seen two mayors killed this week. (Photo by Gerardo MENOSCAL / AFP)

Ecuador approves extradition, anti-gang measures

A solid majority of Ecuadoran voters on Sunday approved the extradition to the United States of organized crime bosses in a referendum on measures against drug trafficking and gangs, the electoral council
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Olusegun Alebiosu PHOTO: Firstbank Nigeria

Alebiosu emerges FirstBank’s acting CEO

After a weekend of tension over the resignation Dr Adesola Adeduntan, Olusegun Alebiosu has emerged as the Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of First Bank of Nigeria Limited (FirstBank Group). His appointment,
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