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Let’s check out what is going on on in ‘The World Now’.
We begin off in Japan,… the place the primary COVID-19 case has been reported within the Tokyo Paralympic village,… simply days earlier than the Video games are set to start out.
In accordance with the organizers on Thursday,… the one that examined constructive for COVID-19 was not an athlete,… nor a resident of Japan.
Whereas the organizers haven’t given additional particulars on the case,… it famous that no additional infections have been reported amongst athletes within the village.
Nonetheless,… exterior of the Paralympic village,… greater than 70 COVID-19 circumstances have to this point been linked to the Paralympics,… principally amongst contractors and workers.
As with their Olympic counterparts,… the Paralympians can even be required to bear each day COVID-19 exams,… and must put on face masks whereas following social distancing measures inside the Paralympic village.
The Video games kick off on August twenty fourth,… with round 44-hundred Paralympians from 160 groups set to participate.
As Tokyo is at present underneath a fourth state of emergency,… organizers have banned spectators in the course of the Paralympics.
Over to Western Africa,… the place the Mauritanian Coast Guard has rescued a gaggle of seven migrants from a stranded boat in Atlantic coastal waters,… whereas 47 others are stated to be lifeless.
In accordance with the Worldwide Group for Migration,… the boat was carrying West Africans making an attempt emigrate to Spain’s Canary Islands off northwest Africa.
Nonetheless,… simply days after their boat departed on August 2nd from Morocco,… the engine broke down and the vessel had been drifting for 2 weeks.
Amongst these on the boat have been individuals from Mali, Senegal, the Ivory Coast, Mauritania and Guinea.
The passengers included 11 ladies and three kids.
The Spanish police on Thursday stated they’d arrested a Moroccan man over the deaths of the migrants,… because the 43-year-old is suspected of being certainly one of two males who captained the boat.
In accordance with the IOM,… no less than 370 individuals are identified to have died making an attempt to enter EU territory whereas enterprise related journeys from western Africa to the Canaries this yr.
Nonetheless,… it added the precise determine may very well be far worse,… as survivors often eliminate the our bodies of the deceased by throwing them overboard.
And at last over to the U.S.,… the place a person surrendered to the police on Thursday,… hours after telling them he had a bomb in his truck parked exterior the Library of Congress on Capitol Hill.
The suspect is reported to be 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry,… who’s menace led to the evacuation of the library, the Supreme Courtroom, and different buildings close by.
The suspect posted a number of movies on Fb earlier than he surrendered,… the place he was seen asking for President Joe Biden to ship somebody to speak to him,… and calling for assaults on the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Within the video,.. he claimed to have a seven-pound keg of gunpowder and 2-and-a-half kilos of the explosive tannerite within the truck.
Investigations revealed {that a} propane gasoline container was current in his truck,… however there was no quick hazard current.
LEE Seung-jae, Arirang Information.
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