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Saudi Arabia will send its first-ever woman astronaut on a space mission in 2023.

Rayyana Barnawi will be the first Saudi woman into space.

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Australia will remove the British monarch from its currency notes on its $5 note with a design honouring Indigenous culture.

British monarch: Queen Elizabeth II

Announced made on 2 February 2023.

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A plan is under way in Japan to launch the world's first "wooden" satellite in 2023

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QUAD members: Australia, India, Japan, and the United States

QUAD launched Cyber Challenge in February 2023

Objective: To improve cyber security in the four countries

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• Ukraine launched joint military exercises with the United States of America (USA) and other members of North Atlantic Organization (NATO) in September 2021.
  

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Iran’s Supreme Leader banned the government from importing Covid-19 vaccines from the United States and Britain, labelling the Western powers “untrustworthy”, as the infection spreads in the Middle East’s hardest-hit country.

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A six-year-old student, Arham Om Talsania, has recently earned a Guinness World Records certificate by becoming the youngest computer programmer.

Arham, who belongs to the Indian city of Ahmedabad, is a student of class 2.

The six-year-old boy has passed the Python Programming Language exam to become the youngest ever computer programmer in the world.

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Moderna is an American biotechnology company focused on drug discovery, drug development, and vaccine technologies based exclusively on messenger RNA (mRNA). It is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.