The world's most powerful passports for 2021
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The gap in travel freedom between the world's richest and poorest countries is its biggest in decades, says a new report, and it could be set to get even worse
(CNN) — If there was an Olympics of passports, Japan wouldn't just be hosting it -- it'd be winning the whole competition. The Henley Passport Index, which has been regularly monitoring the world's most travel-friendly passports since 2006, has released its latest rankings and analysis. As the index doesn't take temporary restrictions into account, Japan is once again top of the leaderboard, with its passport offering visa-free or visa-on-arrival access to 193 destinations around the world.The US began pulling military equipment and additional personnel out of Niger on Friday after waiting months for the ruling military junta to approve US military flights into the country, two sources familiar with the matter said Saturday, ahead of a September 15 withdrawal deadline agreed to by the two countries.
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