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World leaders gathered under driving rain in Paris on Sunday to lead global commemorations marking 100 years since the end of World War I.

Around 70 leaders including United States (US) and Russian Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin marked the centenary of the 1918 Armistice in the French capital at 11 am local time.

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The Iran Action Group was formed on Thursday, 16 August 2018 by the United States Secretary of State.

Mike Pompeo as a dedicated group to coordinate and run U.S. policy toward Iran.

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In the sentence pronoun 'ourselves' is an object of the verb and refers to the same persons that are denoted by the subject 'we'.

This shows that the action - 'deceive' is done on ourselves,

ourselves is a reflexive pronoun.

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 None of these options are completely incompressible.

While solids are the least compressible among the three states of matter (solid, liquid, and gas), all of them can be compressed to some degree. 

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 A moderate deficiency of zinc is known to cause loss of appetite and poor growth

According to a study published in the Journal of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Zinc is essential for proper growth and development

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General Assembly, Security Council, and ICJ (International Court of Justice) are all organs of the United Nations (UN).

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is a military alliance, not part of the UN system, making it the odd one out.

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Russian Vladimir Putin belongs to the Independent (1991–1995, 2001–2008, 2012–present)

He has served as President of Russia since 2012

He previously served from 2000 to 2008.

He also served as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012

He is the longest-serving Russian president since the independence of Russia from the Soviet Union.

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The UK is on top of the world – at least when it comes to soft power. 

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The world's most influential soft powers now rank as:

the US

the UK

Germany

Japan

China

France

Canada

Switzerland

Italy

and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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"Lahore is more polluted than it was ten years ago."

"More... than" is used for comparing two degrees of a quality — in this case, the level of pollution now versus ten years ago.

The sentence expresses comparison, so "more" and "than" are the correct pair.

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The Soan River flows through the Pothohar Plateau.

It is passes near Rawalpindi in Punjab, Pakistan.

It is an important tributary of the Indus River system and contributes to the region’s drainage.