Virus: Pfizer recommends a 3rd dose as delta fuels the pandemic

Pfizer/BioNtech advocates a third dose of its vaccine to increase its efficacy at a time when the highly contagious Delta variant is causing outbreaks in Asia and Africa and is raising the number of cases in Europe and the United States.  The Olympic flame arrived in Tokyo on Friday for a ceremony without an audience and two weeks before the start of the Olympic Games (23 July-8 August). Japanese organizers and authorities announced Thursday that the majority of the events will be held behind closed doors. The public should nevertheless be allowed at certain sites outside Tokyo. The Japanese government had just announced the reinstatement of a state of health emergency in Tokyo from Monday to August 22, a device that will encompass the entire period of the Olympics, while the city currently has about 900 cases of Covid-19 per day, including now 30% of Delta. This variant first appeared in India is the most contagious recorded since the appearance of the pandemic in early 2020.

The vice tightens around the assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse

The noose tightened Thursday around the assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, with police announcing the arrest of fifteen Colombians and two Haitian-Americans, as controversy mounted in the country over the role of the police and the legitimacy of the police. #39;transition executive. The assassination of President Moïse, riddled with bullets at his home on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, was perpetrated by a commando armed with 28 assailants, according to police.  "We arrested fifteen Colombians and two Americans of Haitian origin," Léon Charles, director general of the Haitian police, told a news conference, adding that three Colombians had been killed and eight others were still at large. The police had said until then that they had killed "four mercenaries".

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US President Joe Biden said Thursday that the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan would be "completed on August 31", and assured that the Taliban takeover of the country was "not inevitable".

For their first Olympic preparation match, the French basketball players lost in Malaga against the Spanish rival 86 to 77, a little too short physically and deprived of Rudy Gobert, Nicolas Batum and Thomas Heurtel.