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Latest:

• Joe Biden declares ‘major disaster’ in Louisiana as Hurricane Ida hits New Orleans

• No cash or gas to run from Ida: ‘We can’t afford to leave’

• 1st death from Hurricane Ida; power out across New Orleans

• Hurricane Ida forces Mississippi River to reverse flow

• All of New Orleans without power due to ‘catastrophic damage’ during Ida, Entergy says

• Hurricane Ida makes landfall in Louisiana as one of the most powerful to ever hit U.S.

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This past few weeks has seen an increase in activity regarding the United State’s withdrawal and the Taliban’s take over of Afghanistan cities and now the entire government.

Recent activity:

• Afghan President Ghani relinquishes power, Taliban form interim gov’t

• Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan falls to Taliban, prisoners released

• Taliban official says they will soon declare the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan from the presidential palace in Kabul

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This thread is for discussing news related to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Information and details about individual events can also be discussed in greater detail at /r/sports and /r/olympics.

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China Slams NBC Over “Incomplete Map” Of Country Featured In Olympics Broadcast

US fencer Alen Hadzic kept apart from team in Tokyo after sexual misconduct claims

Tokyo 2020 organisers accused of excluding Olympic opening ceremony musician for being black

Japan emperor tells Bach holding Olympics amid pandemic “far from easy”

Olympics opening ceremony director sacked for Holocaust joke

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk ordered to attend Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony by IOC’s John Coates

S. Korean Olympic chief assures of IOC’s written pledge in banner row with Japan