The World Bank has issued the world's first Wildlife Conservation Bond (WCB) or the "rhino bond", raising $150 million to help efforts to increase the endangered black rhino population in South Africa, the bank said in a statement on Thursday.
Pakistan's opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif has been elected unopposed as the new Prime Minister of the country through voting in the National Assembly.
The Kuril Islands dispute between Japan and Russia is over the sovereignty of the South Kuril Islands. These islands are claimed by Japan but occupied by Russia as the successor state of the Soviet Union.
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