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(I) They neither emphasize the graph structural information between entities in KGs nor explicitly utilize a multi-hop relation path through graph neural networks to enhance answer prediction. (II) They adopt pre-trained language models (LMs) to obtain question representations, focusing merely on the global information related to the question while not highlighting the local information of the entities in KGs. To address these limitations, we introduce a novel model that simultaneously explores both Local information and Global information for the task of temporal KGQA (LGQA). Specifically, we first introduce an auxiliary task in the temporal KG embedding procedure to make timestamp embeddings time-order aware. Then, we design information fusion layers that effectively incorporate local and global information to deepen question understanding. We conduct extensive experiments on two benchmarks, and LGQA significantly outperforms previous state-of-the-art models, especially in difficult questions. 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