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In 2016, the world population was approximately 7,558,554,526 people[â ]
2016Carmen Pereira, Bissau-Guinean politician (born 1937)[â ]
Carmen Maria de AraĂșjo Pereira was a Bissau-Guinean politician. She served three days as Acting President in 1984, becoming the first woman in this role in Africa and the only one in Guinea-Bissau's history. She had the shortest term as the Acting President, serving only three days in office. She died in Bissau on 4 June 2016.
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Employees more critical of the company say it has found subtle ways to hinder workersâ compensation, such as a training program that can keep pay at $9 an hour.
Ali was the most thrilling if not the best heavyweight boxer of all time, a towering figure with an agile mind who was both admired and vilified for his religious, political and social stances.
A portrait of the three-time world heavyweight boxing champion many prefer to remember, before Parkinsonâs disease set in.
Testing is being conducted at controlled, secretive locations like Mcity in Michigan because the number of unforeseen challenges on the road is almost limitless.
Times Square. The Mean Fiddler. A slice at Two Boots. A 19-year-old sailor visits New York for the first time.
A decade after his concert tribute at Carnegie Hall, the 42-year-old singer prepares for an encore as he deals with a death, a birth and a marriage.
A drop in bonuses and a move away from investment banking have led traders to grumble about Tidjane Thiamâs plans for the future of the Swiss bank.
The senator says heâll back his partyâs presumptive nominee. But with his own seat on the line and Arizona Hispanics at odds with Donald Trump, itâs a risky position.
The Iraqis are having trouble moving supplies to their troops on battlefields, and a planned offensive against the Islamic Stateâs stronghold will probably have to wait.
Lin-Manuel Miranda of âHamiltonâ fame says this campaign is no more bizarre than 1800âs, which had slurs that make Donald Trump look like a piker.
After decades of housing the poor, frail or troubled on a brownstone block of the Upper West Side, Capitol Hall is renovated with the help of its neighbors.
The celebration, an increasingly elaborate affair, reflects the changing landscape of Latinos in the United States.