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Thailand became first Asian country to legalize the cultivation and sale of Marijuana in June 2022.

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China launched world's first Earth Science Satellite named “Guangmu” China has launched the world's first Earth-science satellite, Guangmu or SDGSAT-1 into space from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern Shanxi Province.

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In a historic moment for the field of nuclear fusion research, the JT-60SA, the world’s largest and most advanced experimental nuclear fusion reactor, has officially commenced operations in Japan’s Ibaraki Prefecture.

JT-60SA unveiled in December 2023.

JT-60SA is an initiative of European Union & Japan.

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• It's a two-year  pilot program that commences on September 1.
• The pilot program will initially be rolled out in four Muslim-majority republics, namely Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Chechnya, and Dagestan.

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China’s parliament, the National People’s Congress, on May 28, 2020 approved the proposal to impose a new national security law for Hong Kong.

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A 116-year-old survivor of the 1918 Spanish Flu believed to be among the world’s oldest people died recently in South Africa, his family said.

Born on May 8, 1904, Fredie Blom had “lived this long because of God’s grace,” he said this year.

Guinness World Records lists the oldest currently living man as Briton Bob Weighton, aged 112, but South African media have described Blom as “unofficially” the world’s oldest.

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Oleg Kononenko set a world record by spending 1,000 days in space.

Oleg Kononenko is a Russian cosmonaut.

His latest mission will end on Sep 15, 2024

Note: Roscosmos is the space agency of Russia. 

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In October 2023, NASA launched spacecraft named 'Psyche' to find out whether the asteroid is the exposed core of an early planetary building block from the beginning of the solar system.

NASA is the space agency of USA.