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In little more than a year from the onset of COVID-19, scientists successfully developed vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus for world-wide use.Three main factors contributed to this extraordinary feat.One, unprecedented collaboration between interna…
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Sudan’s military said on Sunday it had repelled an attempted incursion by Ethiopian forces in the border area between the two countries.The Ethiopian forces had been forced to retreat from the Umm Barakit area, a military statement said, without giving…
Seychelles has pledged to protect 100 percent of its mangroves and seagrass ecosystem and reduce greenhouse gas emission by 24 percent by 2030 in its climate action plan submitted ahead of the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow…
Germans voted Sunday in one of the most unpredictable elections in its recent history, with Angela Merkel’s conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats in a tight race for her crown as she prepares to leave the political stage.The epochal electi…