Fellow Ethiopian Yihunilign Adane was second in 2:04:59 while Kenya's Kalipus Lomwai finished third in 2:05:06. The first 10 men all finished inside the previous course record in what organisers described as the strongest marathon field ever assembled in Africa.

The fifth volume of Xi Jinping: The Governance of China has been published in French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Japanese and traditional Chinese, according to an official statement issued on Monday. Published by the Foreign Language Press, the new volume contains a compilation of 91 spoken and written works...

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