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People watch a livestream of the ceremony to mark the country's accomplishments in poverty eradication after Chinese President Xi Jinping declared his country had achieved the "human miracle" of eliminating extreme poverty, at a village in liuzhou, in southern China's Guangxi province on February 25, 2021. STR / AFP
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William Burns, nominee for Central Intelligence Agency director, arrives for his Senate Select Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing in Russell Senate Office Building on February 24, 2021 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. Burns is a career diplomat who most recently served as Deputy Secretary of State in the Obama administration. Tom Williams-Pool/Getty Images/AFP
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