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JWST was launched into space on 25 December 2021.

NASA launched James Webb Space Telescope in the year 2021

The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope “James Webb Space Telescope” 

Launch site: Guiana Space Centre

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The government contracted $15.32 billion worth of new foreign loans from multilateral institutions and commercial banks during the previous fiscal year (2020-21). As per, Annual Report on Foreign Economic Assistance 2020-21.

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Henley Passport Index 2022 was released in January 2022. The latest edition shows record-breaking levels of travel freedom for the top-ranking countries, Japan and Singapore. Pakistan was ranked at 108th position with score of 31.

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Pakistani court approved plans to relocate distressed Asian elephant Kaavan from Islamabad Zoo to an elephant sanctuary in Cambodia. The move would allow Kaavan, the only elephant in the Pakistani capital, to interact with over 80 pachyderms in the Cambodian park while under the care of wildlife experts.

The elephant arrived in Islamabad from Sri Lanka as a young calf in 1985. 

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The 2020 index ranked 180 countries.

New Zealand and Denmark as the world’s least corrupt countries (1^st).

Somalia and South Sudan ranked last (179).

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On 1 December 2021, Barbados ditched Britain’s Queen Elizabeth as head of state, forging a new republic with its first-ever president

and severing its last remaining colonial bonds nearly 400 years after the first English ships arrived at the Caribbean island

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The 36th ASEAN Summit will be held via video conference on June 26 in Vietnam

As the ASEAN’s chair in 2020, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc will chair the opening session,

The digital era as well as dialogue between leaders of ASEAN countries. 

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Sri Lanka citizen was murdered in Sialkot over alleged blasphemy

Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana was a 49-year-old Sri Lankan man, 

who was lynched by a mob on 3 December 2021 in Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan over allegations of blasphemy

Six men have been sentenced to death over the mob killing of a Sri Lankan man 

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Simone Biles is considered one of the greatest and most dominant gymnasts of all time.

Simone Biles was named Athlete of the Year for the year 2021 by Times Magazine in December 2021.

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On 13-Dec-2021  Pakistan has confirmed its first case of the Omicron COVID-19 variant, in Karachi, the country's National Institute of Health (NIH) 

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26 November 2021 WHO declared that the world was facing a new variant of concern: Omicron.