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Sep 19, 2019 · Sept. 19, 2019; MUZAFFARABAD, Kashmir — In Pakistan-controlled Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the simple fact of the region’s name — with azad meaning free — is a declaration that Kashmiris here ...
May 1, 2023 · Ian C. Bates for The New York Times. The federal government seized First Republic Bank and sold it to JPMorgan Chase on Monday, ending the lender’s six-week-long free fall and reassuring ...
First Dominican Republic (1844–1861) California Republic (June–July 1846) Second Mexican United States (1846–1863) First Costa Rican Republic (1848–1948) State of Deseret (1849–1850) Republic of Baja California (15 October 1853–January 1854) Republic of Sonora (15 October 1853 – 8 May 1854) Second Republic of Haiti (since 1859)
Jul 20, 2021 · CPEC, agriculture and Gilgit-Baltistan. The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor can be regarded as the South Asian “flagship” project of China’s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): through a network of roads, railways and pipelines, western China will be connected to the newly constructed deep-water seaport of Gwadar in Pakistan’s Balochistan province – itself a central component ...
0.947. Ireland. 0.945. Germany. 0.942. Netherlands. 0.941. Most developed countries have an HDI score of 0.8 or above, landing them in the very high human development tier. These countries have stable governments, widespread affordable education and healthcare, high life expectancies and quality of life, and growing, powerful economies.
Asia ( / ˈeɪʒə / ⓘ AY-zhə, UK also / ˈeɪʃə / AY-shə) is the largest continent [note 1] [10] [11] in the world by both land area and population. [11] It covers an area of more than 44 million square kilometers, [note 2] about 30% of Earth's total land area and 8% of Earth's total surface area.
Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, of the mostly unrecognized and now defunct Tuvan People's Republic, is regarded as "first ever elected woman head of state in the world", although not in multiparty, free and fair elections. The wife of the nation's Supreme Leader, she is the first woman to be elected Chairman of a country.