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ANTARCTICA RECEIVES FIRST BATCH OF ASTRAZENECA COVID-19 VACCINE
Nine months after it was rolled out, the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine has finally reached the Antarctic. It was flown in this week to immunise the 23 staff members
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WORLD FOOD PRICES HIT 10 YEAR HIGH
World food prices rose for a second consecutive month in September to reach a ten year peak, driven by gains for cereals and vegetable oils, the United Nations
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SRI LANKA RANKED NUMBER FIVE AMONGST TOP 20 COUNTRIES FOR 2021
Condé Nast Traveler readers rank their favourite countries around the world and Sri Lanka has been ranked number five
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STUDIES CONFIRM WANING IMMUNITY FROM PFIZER COVID-19 VACCINE
Two real-world studies published confirm that the immune protection offered by two doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine drops off after
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OIL AT NEW MULTI-YEAR HIGHS
Asian shares dropped reversing early gains, after an overnight rebound in the US and European stocks as investors shrugged off worries
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THE US AND CHINA AGREE TO ABIDE BY TAIWAN AGREEMENT
The US President Joe Biden said that he has spoken to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Taiwan and they agreed to abide by the Taiwan
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GLOBAL STOCKS STEADIES
Stocks in the United States and Europe steadied after Asian markets were rattled overnight by fears of a potential US default, trouble
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FACEBOOK, WHATSAPP AND INSTAGRAM BACK AFTER OUTAGE
Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours
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JAPAN APPOINTS NEW PRIME MINISTER
Japan's Fumio Kishida took office as the country's new Prime Minister, tasked with leading the world's third-largest economy out of the
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NEW ZEALAND DROPS COVID-19 ELIMINATION PLAN
New Zealand abandoned its strategy of eliminating coronavirus, easing some COVID-19 lockdown restrictions in its biggest city Auckland
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