A. Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman
B. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
C. Iran President Hassan Rouhani
D. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan
A. Takehiko Nakao
B. Masatsugu Asakawa
C. Shinzo Abe
D. None of these
Masatsugu Asakawa has been unanimously elected President of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) by its Board of Governors on 2 December 2019. He will assume office as ADB’s 10th President on 17 January 2020. He will succeed Takehiko Nakao, who will leave office on 16 January 2020. Mr. Asakawa will finish the unexpired term of President Nakao, which ends on 23 November 2021.
A. Pakistan
B. India
C. China
D. South Korea
A. General Ismail Qaani
B. General Qasim Sulaimani
C. General RohUllah
D. None of these
Top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed on Friday in a US strike on Baghdad’s international airport, confirmed Iran and the US, in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the two countries.
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The chief of the general staff Gen. Shen Yi-ming and seven other people died in a crash in the mountains outside of Taipei on 2nd January 2020. TAIPEI—Taiwan’s top military official was killed in an air force helicopter crash Thursday morning in which seven other people died, the Defense Ministry said. Five people survived the crash in mountains outside the capital. The 62-year-old general and his entourage were on a routine mission to visit soldiers in northeast Yilan county when the incident happened.
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