Day: July 8, 2021

Japan's administration on Thursday declared another infection-sensitive situation extending all through the Tokyo Olympics, as reports said coordinators could ban fans from practically all occasions at the Games. "We will impose the state of emergency in Tokyo," PM Yoshihide Suga said at an administration meeting on disease measures. The time frame will be until August 22. Right now, Tokyo is working under the marginally less severe convention. In any case, in any event, diminishing the opening times of bars and cafés has not halted the Covid-19 contamination. PM Yoshihide Suga may announce a health-related crisis on Thursday evening. IOC President Thomas Bach will arrive in Tokyo on Thursday; he will be isolated at a Five Star Hotel in Tokyo for 3 days, reports said.

On Wednesday, the Taliban launched their first assault on Afghanistan provincial capital Qala-i-Naw since engaging in a major offensive against Afghan forces, as the withdrawal of US troops from the country approaches completion. Fierce fighting has erupted in the western city of Qala-i-Naw, the capital of Badghis, with the militants seizing police headquarters and offices of the country's spy agency. As per a report published on NDTV, the insurgents have pressed ahead with a dizzying campaign since US and NATO forces began the final withdrawal from the country, seizing dozens of rural districts and stirring fears that the Afghan government is in crisis. But the attack on the city of Qala-i-Naw, in western Badghis Province, marks the first time the Taliban have aimed to overrun a pr...