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Malaysian king picks ex-deputy PM as nation's new leader

by Eileen NG
| August 22, 2021 12:09 AM

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s longest-governing political party reclaimed the premiership it lost in a shock 2018 election defeat, after the king on Friday named its candidate, Ismail Sabri Yaakob, as the country’s new leader.

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