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US: Mixing COVID-19 vaccines produces as much or more antibodies as using the same shot as a booster, according to preliminary results of a widely awaited US government-sponsored trial. The trial is the first major US study to…
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SWITZERLAND: Tuberculosis (TB) is on the rise again globally for the first time in a decade, linked to disruptions in access to healthcare because of the Covid pandemic, the World Health Orgnization said Thursday. The setback has…
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US: Former President Bill Clinton was admitted to the University of California Irvine Medical Centre’s intensive care unit for a urinary tract infection that spread to his bloodstream, his doctors told CNN on Thursday. “He was…
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LEBANON: Armed clashes erupted on Thursday in Beirut during a protest organised by the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah and its allies against the lead judge probing last year’s blast in the city’s port. At least six people were…
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INDIA: An Indian man who used a cobra and a viper to murder his wife has been handed a double life sentence in what prosecutors have called the “rarest of rare” cases. Sooraj Kumar, 28, set loose a highly venomous Russell’s viper…
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BRAZIL: Most of us have our mobile phones attached to our bodies like an extra limb. While we have all been told to get off the phone and reduce screen time at least once in our lives, it is holding onto the phone that saved a…
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UK: Britain’s Prince William has launched an attack on space tourism, urging more attention on problems closer to home ahead of the COP26 climate summit. The comments by Queen Elizabeth II’s grandson aired in a BBC interview on…
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US: Actor William Shatner soared aboard a Blue Origin rocketship on a suborbital trip and landed in the Texas desert on Wednesday to become at age 90 the oldest person ever in space as US billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos’s company…
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SOUTH AFRICA: The family of late South African President Nelson Mandela is selling the anti-apartheid leader's personal belongings to help pay for a memorial garden being built in his honor. Among the roughly 100 items are the…
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The Bank of Ceylon Kalutara Super Grade Branch opened their new CRM/ATM at Waskaduwa recently. Deputy General Manager of BOC Sales and Channel, Priyal De Silva was the Chief Guest. The first customer, an entrepreneur from the area is…
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