No spectators at Olympics

07/08/21 • 54 min

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Tokyo 2020 organizers have decided to hold competitions in the capital and nearby prefectures without fans due to surging COVID cases. The U.S. says its planned withdrawal from Afghanistan will be completed early. And Haiti says President Jovenel Moise's assassins were commandos posing as U.S. drug agents.

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