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Hunter’s wife walks the red carpet solo as she joins Don McClean, 78, and his 30-year-old girlfriend and Sean Penn at Biden’s lavish state dinner with the Kenyan president

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are hosting 500 guests for a state dinner for Kenya President William Ruto and his wife Rachel.

It’s the biggest state dinner of the Biden administration.  

The following is a complete list of expected guests:

THE PRESIDENT AND DR. BIDEN

HIS EXCELLENCY WILLIAM SAMOEI RUTO, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF KENYA & HER EXCELLENCY RACHEL RUTO

The Honorable Alice P. Albright, Chief Executive Officer, Millennium Challenge Corporation & Mr. Gregory B. Bowes

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Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi, 63, is confirmed dead after ‘no sign of life’ was found at helicopter crash site – as drone footage shows aircraft slammed into mountainside

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Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is confirmed dead after rescuers found a helicopter carrying him and other officials that had crashed in the mountainous northwest reaches of Iran the day before.

Raisi, 63, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian; Governor of Eastern Azerbaijan province Malek Rahmati, Tabriz’s Friday prayer Imam Mohammad Ali Alehashem as well as a pilot, copilot, crew chief, head of security and another bodyguard, were all on board, according to Iranian media. All nine have been declared dead.

‘President

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Meet Claudia Sheinbaum, Who May Be Mexico’s First Woman President

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April 10, 2024

The former student activist and current mayor of Mexico City is poised to make history with an ambitious platform on education, clean energy, and combatting violence against women.

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In the center of the photograph is a young woman wearing a kerchief. Alongside a small group of protesters, she holds up a sign that reads, in English, “Fair

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Moment sombre Princess Anne signs book of condolence for Namibia’s late President Hage Geingob following his death aged 82 – as leaders from Africa and Europe attend state funeral

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This is the moment a sombre Princess Anne signed a book of condolence for Namibia’s late President Hage Geingob following his death aged 82 – as leaders from Africa and Europe came together to pay their respects at a state funeral. 

The Princess Royal, 73, arrived in Namibia yesterday to attend the memorial and burial of the late president in the capital, Windhoek.

Anne, who was representing her brother King Charles, seemed downcast while honouring the life of the southwest

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Doctors demand Biden take dementia tests NOW after an astonishing week of gaffes – capped off by brutal DOJ probe that found President suffers ‘significant limitations in memory’

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Doctors today called for President Joe Biden to receive cognitive tests that prove he’s fit to serve after an astonishing week of gaffes, as well as a report from the justice department that raised serious questions about his health.

The DOJ report described Biden, 81, as a ‘elderly man with a poor memory’, finding that he did not remember the years he was vice president and could not recall, ‘even within several years’, when his son Beau died.

Doctors reacting

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The Party of Malice – The Atlantic

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You knew it was coming.

As soon as former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley emerged as the main threat to Donald Trump in the battle for the Republican nomination, it became inevitable that she would be targeted by him. Any front-runner would do the same thing. But Trump did it with his typical touch.

Last week Trump reposted on his Truth Social account a conspiracy theory that Haley, who was born in South Carolina, was not qualified to

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Lawless Ecuador descends into chaos: Machete-wielding cartel thugs threaten to kill hostages and execute ANYONE they find in the streets as president vows to ‘neutralise’ 20 drug gangs in deepening narco ‘civil war’

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Machete-wielding cartel thugs have threatened to kill hostages and execute anyone they find in the streets of Ecuador at night, according to terrifying videos released as the South American nation descended into lawless chaos.

Ecuador’s president has ordered his army to ‘neutralise’ 20 drug gangs after gunmen stormed and opened fire in a TV studio and inmates executed prison guards.

At least 10 people are known to have been killed in a series of barbaric attacks by the drug gangs

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Argentina’s New President Swaps the Chain Saw for the Blender

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December 20, 2023

As Javier Milei’s new free-market economic measures start to roll out, devaluation has already started to impact everyone in Argentina—especially the middle classes and the poor.

A supermarket in Buenos Aires shows the extreme rise in prices due to inflation on December 15, 2023.
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Buenos Aires—After my plane landed here earlier this month, Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former right-wing president, arrived at the same airport, to the

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How Trump Could Manipulate the Military

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When my colleague Tom Nichols, who taught at the Naval War College for 25 years, warns people that Donald Trump might be a threat to democracy, they often ask him to prove it. Yes, Trump has said dictator-like things, but if he won a second term, aren’t there barriers in place to prevent him from acting on his rhetoric? Would he really be able to persuade senior command in the military to use force against American citizens? Would he be

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