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Ismail Haniyeh is the current head of Hamas’s Political Bureau and a former Palestinian prime minister. Predecessor: Khaled Meshal

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Yousef bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen is a Saudi Arabian politician

who served as secretary-general of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)  from November 2016 - 29 November 2020.

Born: Saudi Arabia

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China successfully launched an unmanned probe to Mars on July 23, 2020 in its first independent mission to another planet, in a display of its technological prowess and ambition to join an elite club of spacefaring nations.

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Armenian Foreign Minister Zohrab Mnatsakanyan resigned from his post on November 16, 2020 in a sign of political fallout in the ex-Soviet republic after a ceasefire in the Nagorno Karabakh conflict that locked in territorial gains for Azerbaijan.

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The Rafah Border Crossing is the only crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. It is located on the international border that was confirmed in the 1979 Egypt–Israel peace treaty.

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In 2015, Cairo University banned its teachers from wearing the niqab, in a decision upheld by an administrative court in 2020.

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Prince William and Kate Middleton are undertaking a 5-day royal tour of Pakistan

The five-day visit, which will end on October 18 2019

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World Happiness Report 2021

Issuer: UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network

Releasing date: 19 March 2021

Topper: Finland 

Total countries: 149

Afghanistan: 149 

Pakistan: 105

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In the 2021 Global Hunger Index, Pakistan ranks 92nd out of the 116 countries with sufficient data to calculate 2021 GHI scores.

Somalia was given least rank on Global Hunger Index 2021.

Belarus was given top rank in Global Hunger Index 2021

In the 2020 Global Hunger Index, Pakistan ranks 88th

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Global Hunger Index is jointly published by Concern Worldwide and Welthungerhilfe.

This is published every October.

The first edition was published in 2006.

This edition marked the 16th edition of the Global Hunger Index.

Aim: Tract hunger at the global