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Abdul Latif Rashid is the current President of Iraq since 13 October 2022. 

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Harini Amarasuriya is the current & 16th prime minister of Sri Lanka since September 2024.

She replaced Dinesh Gunawardena

She is the third woman to hold this office.

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Bougainvillea is an autonomous region of Papua New Guinea.

Bougainvillea is a genus of thorny ornamental vines, bushes, or trees. It is native to Eastern South America, from Brazil, west to Peru, and south to southern Argentina. Different authors accept from four to 18 species in the genus.

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On 4 September 2022, former US president Barack Obama won the best narrator Emmy Award for his Netflix documentary series, Our Great National Parks.

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Liberty Medal is an annual award administered by the United States to recognize leadership in the pursuit of freedom.

The 2022 Liberty Medal was awarded to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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Yoweri Museveni became president of Uganda in May 2021.

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UN secretary general Antonio Guterres on 2 September 2022 appointed Roza Otunbayeva, a former President of Kyrgyzstan, as his new special envoy for Afghanistan.

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25-year-old Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate has been appointed as the newest UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in September 2022.

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Sri Lanka’s former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in as the prime minister for the fourth time on August 9, 2020 after his party secured a landslide victory in parliamentary elections that cemented his family’s hold on power.

Mahinda Rajapaksa served as the island nations president from 2005 to 2015 and is highly popular among the ethnic majority Sinhalese for ending the country’s 25-year civil war against Tamil rebels in 2009.

He was first elected prime minister in 2004 and again appointed for brief periods in 2018 and 2019.

Sri Lanka Peoples Front the party led by the Rajapaksa brothers won 145 seats in the 225-member Parliament in the election held in August 2020.

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Chris Hipkins is the current prime minister of New Zealand.

Chris Hipkins replaced Jacinda Arden.

Jacinda Arden became PM in January 2023.