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  • Ms Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's resume up to now included waitress, children's book publisher, community activist, member of the Democratic Socialists of America and former Bernie Sanders campaign organiser. She studied in Boston University and majored

Girl from the Bronx emerges as political star

  • A model of the planned new capital for Egypt displayed for investors at the opening of the Egypt Economic Development Conference in 2015. A small capsule-shaped pod with no wheels and no driver, which runs along light rail lines, in Masdar City. Saud

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  • The European Union flag with one of the stars symbolically cut out. It is two years since Britons voted to break up with the EU and the country remains deeply divided over the best exit strategy, and whether it should reverse course. Tens of thousand

Clock ticking on Brexit

With only nine months to go before Britain leaves the European Union and still with no clear sight or shape of a deal, optimism is not quite the mood of the day in the country of 65 million.
  • Al-Bayt Stadium is one of the eight football stadiums which are being built for the 2022 Fifa World Cup to be hosted by Qatar. It is meant to resemble the interior of a traditional Bedouin tent. The US$7.4 billion (S$10 billion) Hamad megaport launch

Isolated Qatar reaches out to the world

  • Mr Sajid Javid ignored teachers who dissuaded him from going to university, and while he could have gone to Oxford or Cambridge, he opted to study at Exeter University.

UK's new home minister seen as potential PM

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Nirmal Ghosh
 Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki could reset ties

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