A top Chinese health official said Beijing will not accept (SCMP) the World Health Organization’s (WHO) proposal for a second-phase investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, accusing the WHO of “arrogance.”
This Backgrounder looks at the mystery of COVID-19’s origin.
Japan: The Tokyo Olympic Organizing Committee fired a creative director (Kyodo) for the games’ opening and closing ceremonies over comments he made in the 1990s about the Holocaust. The decision came one day before the opening ceremony