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The Netherlands’ Sam Schroder and Niels Vink have won gold in the quad doubles beating reigning champions Dylan Alcott and Heath Davidson of Australia 6-4 6-3 at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. It marked a changing of the guard…
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Germany’s Markus Rehm - known as the ‘Blade Jumper’ claimed gold after leaping to 8.18m in the men's long jump T64 event on Day 8 of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. “I feel great. It was all about winning the gold medal. My…
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Nineteen year old, Nipuni Sandunika, a Grade Thirteen student of Poramadulla Central College in the Arts stream is a left hand batswoman and a left arm medium pace bowler under the guidance of E.Chandrathilak and S.Palitha. She…
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Pulina Tharanga, the 28-year-old leg-spin bowler, is the latest addition to the National cricket squad for the South African cricket series. The product of Sri Devananda College Ambalangoda is the find of the recently concluded SLC…
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From his office window, Brig. Gen. Joshua Olson can see a daily football match organized by the Afghan children who are temporarily calling his air base home. "This is now my family -- at least until they get off our airpatch,"…
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It looked like a zombie apocalypse. About to make the final U.S. takeoffs out of Afghanistan, U.S. military pilots and air crew saw a sky lit up with fireworks and sporadic gunfire and an airfield littered with the battered shells of…
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Researchers found that surgical masks impede the spread of COVID-19 and that just a few, low-cost interventions increase mask-wearing compliance. A large, randomized trial led by researchers at Stanford Medicine and Yale University has…
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A third dose of the Moderna vaccine - given six months after the initial two doses - significantly boosts immunity, according to data the company submitted to the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday. The data comes from 344…
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Not everyone agrees that COVID-19 booster shots are necessary for all vaccinated persons, and that discord may slow down plans to roll out extra doses of the mRNA vaccines later this month and change who is eligible for them.…
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Sri Lanka Retailers Association (SLRA), is requesting the government to stop the ‘double standers’ that are being imposed by the health authorities when it comes to the opening of supermarkets as against other shops. “While over…
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