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Ethiopia picks diplomat as new president
Voice of America
Newly appointed Ethiopia's President Taye Atske-Selassie Amde addresses the parliament after taking his oath at the Parliament Building in Addis Ababa, Oct. 7, 2024. Ethiopia's parliament members raise their hands to vote in favour of the newly appointed President Taye Atske-Selassie Amde at the Parliament Building in Addis Ababa, Oct. 7, 2024.
Ethiopia’s parliament on Monday elected Foreign Minister Taye Atske-Selassie as the country’s new president, a position that is largely ceremonial.
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A view of a selection of the mummified bodies in the exhibition area of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. (Emma Paolin via AP) Emma Paolin, a researcher at University of Ljubljana, background, and Dr. Cecilia Bembibre, lecturer at University College London, take swab samples for microbiological analysis at the Krakow University of Economics. (Abdelrazek Elnaggar via AP)