CIA Library - Global Updates from Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

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July 7, 2011 - On 9 July 2011, South Sudan is scheduled to become the world's newest country. The World Factbook plans to include this new entity in its next update. In the Transportation category, the "Railways" field has been updated. New photos entered for Austria, Germany, and the United States.

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July 7, 2011 - Check out the latest update to Studies in Intelligence:

• Posted Studies in Intelligence, Volume 55, Number 2.

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July 12, 2011 - South Sudan became the world's 195th country following separation from Sudan on 9 July 2011. The new country entry in The World Factbook may be accessed through the Africa regional flash map on the World map of the Factbook's home page, or via the country listing under the drop down arrow.

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July 22, 2011 - Did you know that almost one-third of the world's countries are assigned annually to either a Tier Two Watch List or a Tier Three status by the State Department for their failure to adequately deal with their trafficking in persons problems? These countries are listed in the Transnational issues category under the "World" entry; detailed "Trafficking in persons" entries - updated for 2011 - may be found under each of these countries' listings.

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July 27, 2011 - Posted updated Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments with updated entries for Afghanistan, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Benin, Bolivia, Chile, Comoros, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Greece, Guatemala, India, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Macedonia, Micronesia, Federated States of, New Zealand, Niger, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tanzania, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Vietnam. Changes reflect updates in leadership, positions, or the spelling of officials' names in the country listings during the period 30 Jun - 22 Jul 2011.

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August 4, 2011 - Posted updated Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments with updated entries for Bahrain, Belarus, Chile, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Egypt, Guinea, Korea, South, Latvia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mauritius, Niger, Nigeria, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Uzbekistan, Venezuela. Changes reflect updates in leadership, positions, or the spelling of officials' names in the country listings during the period 23 Jul - 2 Aug 2011.

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August 4, 2011 - What country has both the highest GDP - per capita and GDP - real growth rate? Find out using the GDP data that has recently been revised in the World Factbook to reflect the most recent estimates for 2008-2010.

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August 11, 2011 - What time is it in the world's newest country, South Sudan? Take a look at the updated Time Zone map in the Regional maps section under the References tab in The World Factbook.

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August 12, 2011 - Posted updated Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments with updated entries for Brunei, Bulgaria, Comoros, Cyprus, Iran--NDE, Mauritius, Nepal, Poland, Qatar, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Zimbabwe. Changes reflect updates in leadership, positions, or the spelling of officials' names in the country listings during the period 3 - 11 Aug 2011.

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August 18, 2011 - Data fro many of the Economy fields in The World Factbook have been revised to reflect the latest estimates.