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ITER, The Way, An International Energy Production Consortium. Nuclear Fusion Produced Energy. First Time In The World.

ION correspondentAugust 22, 2020September 3, 2020

ITER (“The Way” in Latin) is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today. In southern France, 35 nations are collaborating to build the world’s largest...

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Sri Lanka’s new Cabinet sworn in, Parliament to convene on August 20

ION correspondentAugust 13, 2020

In all 26 new ministers were sworn into Sri Lanka’s new Cabinet on Wednesday after the country recently held a Parliamentary election which saw the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna...

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Russia to begin COVID-19 vaccine production within two weeks

ION correspondentAugust 13, 2020

Russia’s health minister Mikhail Murashko on Wednesday said that the country will start the production of its COVID-19 vaccine within two weeks “First of all, the production facilities in...

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Kamala Harris to run for Vice-President

ION correspondentAugust 12, 2020

Joe Biden named California Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate on Tuesday, making history by selecting the first Black woman to compete on a major party’s presidential ticket...

Russia claims to have developed first COVID-19 vaccine, Putin’s daughter inoculated

ION correspondentAugust 12, 2020

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday declared that the country was the first nation to approve a coronavirus vaccine which was safe and that one of his own daughters...

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Mortality rate of Coronavirus patients declining in Bangladesh

ION correspondentAugust 11, 2020

Bangladesh Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Monday claimed that the number of Corona patients and deaths have declined in the country. He said that about 60-70 percent of the...

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Lebanese PM resigns following public outrage over last week’s Beirut blast

ION correspondentAugust 11, 2020

Lebanon’s Prime Minister Hassan Diab has resigned from his post in the wake of major blast in Beirut that has triggered public outrage. In a brief televised speech after...

Donald Trump evacuated during press briefing after shooting outside White House

ION correspondentAugust 11, 2020August 11, 2020

US President Donald Trump was briefly escorted out of a press conference after a shooting near White House on Monday although he reappeared minutes later to announce that someone...

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Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai arrested under security law

ION correspondentAugust 10, 2020

Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai was arrested on Monday on suspicion of collusion with foreign powers, his aide said, in the highest-profile use yet of the new national...

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Heavy rains kill 50 across Pakistan

ION correspondentAugust 10, 2020

Three days of heavy monsoon rains triggering flash floods killed at least 50 people in various parts of Pakistan, as troops with boats rushed to a flood-affected district in...