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F.W. de Klerk

Portraits of China's former top leaders from left Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and including the current President Xi Jinping are seen at a military camp in Beijing, China

Chinese Communist Party cements Xi Jinping’s rule

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The Chinese Communist Party passes a resolution that will secure President Xi Jinping’s political future. Also, South Africa’s last apartheid-era president, F.W. de Klerk, dies at the age of 85. And, Germany registers its highest daily number of COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began.

Former South African president P.W. Botha and his wife Elize

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