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The US Senate has supported the Alien Surveillance Act.
Elon Musk has postponed his trip to India.
The Bolivian Foreign Ministry called Palestine’s membership in the UN a guarantee of peace in the Middle East.
Stoltenberg called on NATO countries to take risks with arms supplies for the sake of Ukraine.
The G7 countries are more united than ever, Blinken said.
In Copenhagen, work continues to extinguish the fire in the stock exchange building.
The US commented on Israel’s attack on Iran.
The US said it had no information about the condition of the hostages being held by Hamas.
Iran has threatened to strike Israel’s nuclear facilities in case of aggression.
Borrell called for adherence to Zelensky’s plan at the summit in Switzerland.
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The US Senate has supported the Alien Surveillance Act.
07 : 23
Elon Musk has postponed his trip to India.
17 : 08
The Bolivian Foreign Ministry called Palestine’s membership in the UN a guarantee of peace in the Middle East.
17 : 04
Stoltenberg called on NATO countries to take risks with arms supplies for the sake of Ukraine.
13 : 53
The G7 countries are more united than ever, Blinken said.
08 : 52
In Copenhagen, work continues to extinguish the fire in the stock exchange building.
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Olympic torch runs through empty park in Osaka as COVID cases rise

Olympic torch runs through empty park in Osaka as COVID cases rise

The International Olympic Committee announced that the torch relay for the Tokyo Olympics ran through a mostly empty Osaka city park on Tuesday.

While the globe is struggling with COVID-19, Tokyo authorities prepare for the upcoming Olympic Games. The traditional torch is in Osaka today, but local showing the risks of trying to hold the postponed games during a corona crisis.

The torch relay came on the same day that the PM Suga said new coronavirus cases in Osaka hit 1,099, a single-day record for Japan’s second-largest metropolitan area.

A symbol of the upcoming sports event, the torch relay, began three weeks ago in northeastern Japan, attempting to navigate around the pandemic with a total of 10,000 runners crisscrossing the country and bound for the opening ceremony on July 23 in Tokyo.

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