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Luxembourg became the first country in the world to offer free public transportation in 2018.

This includes all public transportation options, such as buses, trains, and trams.

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Pakistan has been facing fiscal problems since its creation in 1947 from India.

It was established on 27 Dec 1945

Its Headquarters is located in Washington, D.C., U.S.

Membership: 190 countries (189 UN countries and Kosovo)

The Official language is English

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In June 2016, a terrorist attack on a hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, killed 16 people and injured 55.

The militant group Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the attack.

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The Lenin Prize was first awarded on June 23, 1925.

It was one of the most prestigious awards in the Soviet Union.

It was awarded for achievements in science, literature, arts, architecture, and technology.

The award ceremony was held on April 22, Vladimir Lenin's birthday.

The first Asian poet to receive the Lenin Peace Prize was Faiz Ahmad Faiz in 1962.

Abdul Sattar Edhi received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1988.

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Other Nobel Prizes in 2016:

• Peace: Juan Manuel Santos (Colombian President, for efforts to end the country’s 50-year civil war).
• Physics: David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, and J. Michael Kosterlitz (for discoveries in topological phases of matter).
• Chemistry: Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Sir Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard L. Feringa (for the design and synthesis of molecular machines).
• Medicine: Yoshinori Ohsumi (for discoveries in autophagy, a cell recycling process).
• Economics: Oliver Hart and Bengt Holmström (for contributions to contract theory).

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Bu Ali Sina (Avicenna) is the Muslim scholar whose books are studied in European universities.

His most famous works include "The Canon of Medicine" and "The Book of Healing," both of which were key texts in medieval European medical education.