Red Bull's Max Verstappen wins Monaco Grand Prix 2021.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen has won the Monaco Grand Prix for the first time to take the Formula One championship lead from Lewis Hamilton.  His teammate Valtteri Bottas went from second place to out of the race before the midway point after his team botched a tire change.…

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World Thyroid Day - 25 May.

Every year on May 25th, World Thyroid Day highlights this important gland in the body that causes widespread disease across the globe. The day also educates the public on the role of the thyroid in their overall health. The thyroid is a small gland located at the base of the…

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US President Joe Biden appoints new US envoy for North Korea.

Joe Biden, the president of the United States, has appointed a special envoy to engage North Korea in dialogue, saying he and South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in remain “deeply concerned” about Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal. At a joint news conference on Friday, Biden also sai…

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Pakistan Prime Minister Khan inaugurates 1,100 MW Karachi nuclear power plant.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan inaugurated the country's first Chinese-assisted 1,100MW nuclear power plant in Karachi. Khan virtually performed the inauguration of the plant, formally known as Karachi Nuclear Power Plant Unit-2 (Kanupp-2 or K-2), which was built wit…

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Google is opening its first physical retail store.

Google is opening its first physical retail Google Store, the company announced, which will debut in New York City this summer. The new store will be located in Chelsea, as part of Google’s campus in that neighborhood (the company’s New York headquarters are already located …

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South Korea and US agree to end missile guidelines.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in announced a joint decision on Friday 21 May 2021 with the United States to terminate guidelines that have long restricted Seoul's development of missiles. He was speaking right after the summit with President Joe Biden at the White Hous…

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International Tibet Mukti Divas - 23 May.

The Chinese government forcibly imposed its 17-point agenda on Tibet on 23 May 1951. The agenda was also forcibly signed with the then Tibetan authorities. This agenda states that there should be no interference with the position of the Dalai Lama, protection of the languag…

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UN announces release of USD 22.5 mn for rising humanitarian needs in Gaza.

The UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock announced the release of 22.5 million US Dollars towards the response to rising humanitarian needs in Gaza.  The amount includes a 4.5 million Dollars’ allocation from the…

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Collinet Makosso appointed Republic of Congo’s New Premier.

Republic of the Congo’s President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has appointed Anatole Collinet Makosso as the new prime minister. Before this appointment, Makosso was the education minister of the Central African country since 2015. He was also minister of youth and civic instruction …

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National Consumer Price Index (NCPI) based Inflation increased in April 2021.

Headline inflation, as measured by the year-on-year (Y-o-Y) change in the National Consumer Price Index (NCPI, 2013=100), increased to 5.5 per cent in April 2021 from 5.1 per cent in March 2021. This was mainly due to the statistical effect of the low base prevailed in Apri…

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Bitcoin down almost 50% from year's high.

Bitcoin fell 13% on Sunday 23 May 2021 after the world's biggest and best-known cryptocurrency suffered another sell-off that left it down nearly 50% from the year's high. Bitcoin fell to $32,601 at 1800 GMT (2 p.m. ET), losing $4,899.54 from its previous close. It h…

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Rahul Dravid to coach India during Sri Lanka tour.

Rahul Dravid, the former India captain and current National Cricket Academy (NCA) head, is set to be the head coach of Team India during the six-match limited-overs series against Sri Lanka in July. India will be playing three T20Is and as many ODIs in Sri Lanka during the s…

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Albert Einstein handwritten letter with equation fetches $1.2m.

A letter written by Albert Einstein containing his E=mc² equation has sold at auction in the US for more than $1.2m (£850,000) - three times more than had been expected. Experts say there are only three other known examples of the equation in the physicist's handwriting. …

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World Schizophrenia Day - 24 May.

May 24 is World Schizophrenia Day. Schizophrenia is a serious mental illness affecting more than 21 million people worldwide according to the World Health Organization. The purpose of this day is to spread awareness about this illness, eradicate the myths and superstitions …

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Samoa Elects First Female Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mataafa.

Samoa is set to get its first female prime minister, marking the end of unprecedented political drama in the small Pacific island nation of 200,000 people. The Supreme Court finally validated Fiame Naomi Mata'afa's shock April election win, ending weeks of political …

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The Ground-breaking Ceremony of China-Russia Nuclear Energy Cooperation Project.

On the afternoon of May 19, 2021, President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin witnessed the ground-breaking ceremony of a nuclear energy cooperation project, Tianwan Nuclear Power Plant and Xudapu Nuclear Power Plant. Both nuclear energy power plants costing ab…

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G7 ministers agree new steps against fossil fuels.

The world's major nations have taken further significant steps to help limit climate change. G7 environment ministers have agreed that they will deliver climate targets in line with limiting the rise in global temperatures to 1.5C. That's far more ambitious than the p…

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Nigerian army chief Ibrahim Attahiru killed.

Nigerian army chief Ibrahim Attahiru killed in air crash. Nigeria's army chief, Lt-Gen Ibrahim Attahiru, has been killed in a plane crash in the north-western state of Kaduna, officials say. The incident happened as the plane was trying to land in bad weather, the milita…

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Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI).

Since 2003, the biannual RECAI has ranked the top 40 markets based on investment in renewable energy, a key part of the energy transition. The Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI) ranks the world’s top 40 markets on the attractiveness of their renewable ener…

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China's Zhurong rover takes first drive on Mars.

China's remote-controlled rover, which landed on Mars a week ago, has driven down from its landing platform to the surface of the planet. This makes China the second country after the US to operate a rover there. The Zhurong robot is due to study the planet's surface …

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Colombia removed as co-host of next month’s Copa America.

South American soccer body CONMEBOL announced on Thursday 20 May 2021 that Colombia will not co-host next month's Copa America, a decision reached less than a month before the opening match and amid a wave of street protests against Colombian President Iván Duque. It wou…

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FIFA U-17 women’s World Cup to be held in India in October 2022.

The U-17 women’s World Cup will be held in India from October 11 to 30 next year, Fifa Council said on Thursday. India were earlier scheduled to host the 2020 U-17 World Cup but it was postponed to 2021 before being cancelled due to the current global pandemic. On the eve of …

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World Turtle Day - 23 May.

Each year, May 23rd is dedicated to our friends, the turtle, and tortoise. World Turtle Day is not only about showing love and adoration towards turtles but also making sure we can protect them as well as their various habitats. It’s important to know what the difference bet…

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International Day to End Obstetric Fistula - 23 May.

Every year on May 23rd, the International Day to End Obstetric Fistula raises awareness of this medical issue and mobilizes worldwide support for child-bearing women. An obstetric fistula is an abnormal opening between a woman’s genital tract and their rectum. One of the pri…

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Ireland Cricketer Boyd Rankin announces retirement.

Boyd Rankin, the former Ireland and England seamer, has announced his retirement from international and inter-provincial cricket. Rankin made his Ireland debut in 2003, and won the last of his 153 caps in a T20I against Afghanistan in Greater Noida last year. Boyd Rankin wa…

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announce plans to build community relief centre in India.

On their third wedding anniversary, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made an announcement to build a community relief centre in Mumbai, amid the Covid-19 crisis in India. In a statement shared on the Archewell Foundation website, the couple said that the centre will be built i…

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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan appoints Moeed Yusuf as National Security Adviser.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s close aide Moeed Yusuf, who is believed to have played a key role in recent back-channel contacts with India, has been formally appointed the country’s national security adviser. Since December 2019, Yusuf had served as special assistant …

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IMF urges $50 billion spending commitment to help end the current global pandemic.

The International Monetary Fund wants $50 billion to be spent on ensuring a faster rollout of coronavirus vaccines, saying it could ultimately generate returns of $9 trillion for the global economy. The IMF called for at least 40% of the global population to be vaccinated by…

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World’s Largest Iceberg breaks off in Antarctica.

An enormous iceberg, a little bigger than the state of Rhode Island, has broken off of Antarctica. The finger-shaped chunk of ice, which is roughly 105 miles (170 kilometers) long and 15 miles (25 kilometers) wide, was spotted by satellites as it calved from the western side…

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Martha Koome appinted as Kenya's First Woman Chief Justice.

President Uhuru Kenyatta appointed Justice Martha Koome as the Chief Justice, making her the first woman in Kenya's history to hold the position, hours after Parliament approved her nomination. The head of State gazetted Justice Koome to head the Judiciary for a non-rene…

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