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Tokyo, Japan became the first city outside the predominantly English-speaking and European nations to have hosted the Summer Olympics twice, having already hosted the Games in 1964, 2021.

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Kathleen Courtney Hochul is an American lawyer and politician serving as the 57th governor of New York since August 2021.

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Russian announced the latest successful test of the Zircon hypersonic cruise missile on May 28, 2022.

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The European Union on March 2, 2022 cut seven Russian banks from the Swift payment system and banned Kremlin-controlled media outlets RT and Sputnik from broadcasting into the bloc.

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Paxlovid is an antiviral therapy that consists of two separate medications packaged together.

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Israel successfully tested a new naval air defence system “C-Dome,” to be used on the Israeli Navy’s Sa’ar 6-class corvettes.

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On 23 December 2021, Belgium declared to shut down its nuclear power plants by 2025.

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Russia on October 7, 2020 said it had successfully tested a new hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile in a move hailed by President Vladimir Putin as a “great event” for the country.

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Ukraine launched the world's first dedicated "Unmanned Systems Forces".

Ukraine is the first country to have a branch of its military dedicated to unmanned systems.

This new branch of the Armed Forces was launched in June 2025.

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China successfully launched its first comprehensive space-based solar telescope called the Advanced Space-Based Solar Observatory on 9 October 2022.

It has been nicknamed 'Kuafu-1'