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The first online portal on vaccine development for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) was launched today at the 23rd IUTI World Congress. The STI Watch portal contains technically sound and up-to-date information on the most common STIs and the status of vaccine development for each. Despite decades of global efforts to control STIs, which have a …

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Space X sends 51 Starlink and Boeing satellites into orbit | Oneindia News *News Oneindia News SpaceX successfully launches 51 more Starlink satellites into space Watch: SpaceX launches Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral | September 9, 2022 First Coast News SpaceX sends Starlink satellites and Boeing demonstrator into orbit on 40th launch of 2022 TESLARATI …

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Liz Truss has won the race to be the UK’s new Prime Minister, beating Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party leadership vote. Former Treasury chief Sunak after winning the support of many Tories with his Thatcherite zeal to reverse state intervention and cut taxes. In the end, she convinced 81,326 of about 170,000 paying Conservative …

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Australia’s press watchdog has received several complaints about a widely condemned News Corp column by Steve Price in which he complained he was among a white “minority”, a claim that contradicts the evidence on media diversity. The Herald Sun ran Price’s full-page column on Saturday, allowing him to bemoan the inclusion of “coloured or Asian …

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NASA had planned to launch the Artemis I lunar mission on September 3, after a first attempt earlier in the week was canceled at the last minute due to an engine problem. The second launch was aborted due to a fuel leak. But the mission is an exciting step towards returning humans to the Moon …

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Scientists working in the Andes mountains in Patagonia have been presented with a puzzle: mice of the same species grow to larger sizes on the western side of the mountains compared to the eastern side. Now a new study suggests a solution to the mystery. It seems that thanks to the rain shadow effect – …

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Fowler independent MP Dai Le has compared the conditions imposed on her western Sydney community during the Delta outbreak to the measures of a communist dictatorship. Le, who fled the communist regime with his mother and siblings during the Vietnam War, fought back tears during his first speech as he spoke of coming close to …

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Have you ever wanted to see an alien world? A planet orbiting a distant star, light years from the Sun? Well, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) just returned its first image of just that: a planet orbiting a distant star. The new images reveal that JWST will be a fantastic tool for astronomers who …

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Aussies in action from 1am (AEST) Daniil Medvedev v Nick Kyrgios (Men’s Singles, Fourth Round) Liudmila Samsonova v Ajla Tomljanović (Women’s Singles, Fourth Round) Nicole Melichar-Martinez\Ellen Perez defeats Anna Danilina/Beatriz Haddad Maia (Women’s Doubles, Fourth Round) 6-3, 6-3 Leylah Annie Fernandez/Jack Sock def. Gabriela Dabrowski/Max Purcell (mixed doubles, fourth round) 6-4, 7-6. Storm Sanders/John Peers …

US Open 2022 day seven LIVE: Nick Kyrgios wins fiery first set; Ajla Tomljanović takes on Russian Kyrgios to win epic first-set tiebreaker Kyrgios fumes as time ticks down Clock issue Kyrgios boosts crowd then breaks serve Read More »

Ten people have died after stabbings in 13 places in two communities in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. Police were looking for two suspects. Fifteen people had been taken to hospital after stabbings at multiple locations Sunday in the James Smith Cree Nation and the village of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon, police said. Rhonda Blackmore, …

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