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Vaccine candidate was found to be more than 90% effective in preventing COVID-19 in participants without evidence of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection in the first interim efficacy analysis

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Russia has developed an mRNA vaccine for cancer patients.

The vaccine is expected to be released in early 2025.

The vaccine will be free for eligible Russian cancer patients.

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Sanctions on Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko and his son Viktor imposed by European Union.

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On 27 October 2022, Elon Musk became Twitter owner and fired top executives including CEO Parag Agrawal. 

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Elon Musk, richest man of the world completed his 44 billion dollars takeover of Twitter on 27 October 2022.

Twitter is an American communication company based in California. 

Twitter was founded on 21 March 2006. 

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Six NATO countries will build a 'drone wall' against Russia.

Six countries include: Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Finland & Norway

Aim: To protect borders against Russia.

Note: NATO is a military founded in 1949 to control Soviet Union.

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Former Malaysian leader Najib Razak was sentenced on July 28, 2020 to 12 years in jail on corruption charges linked to the multi-billion-dollar 1MDB scandal.

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• On 13 April 2021, Denmark ceased giving the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid vaccine amid concerns about rare cases of blood clots, the first European country to do so fully.

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The NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Frank Rubio have successfully installed Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) on the starboard truss structure of the International space station.

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Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine BIBP was developed by Sinopharm/China National Pharmaceutical Group.