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Malvan-origin doc to become Irish PM

Ireland’s first openly gay minister Leo Varadkar, an Indian-origin doctor who has his roots in Malvan, on Friday won the leadership race for the ruling party to become the country’s youngest-ever and first homosexual Prime Minister-in-waiting.

The Goan NetworkPublished Jun 3, 2017, 7:00 PM IST

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LONDON

Varadkar, 38, will officially take over as Taoiseach, as the Irish prime ministerial title is known in Ireland, in Parliament later this month after he was declared the winner in the leadership race for the Fine Gael party.

He took a majority of the votes to be declared as the 11th leader of the party as counting concluded at Mansion House in Dublin.

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US quits Paris climate deal

Accord only benefits India, rnChina: Trump

The Goan Network

Published Jun 3, 2017, 7:00 PM IST

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PTI WASHINGTONPresident Donald Trump on Friday declared that the US will withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate accord, saying the ‘draconian’ deal unfairly punished America but benefited countries like India and China, drawing strong condemnation from across the world. “I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” Trump said, immediately triggering global condemnation on the move by the world’s…