The UK’s gradual return to pre-Covid normality continued this week with the announcement that travellers from the US and EU are to be allowed to enter England without quarantining.
Ministers reportedly hope that scrapping the ten days of mandatory self-isolation will lead to reciprocal deals, allowing for easier travel to the Continent or across the pond.
Sports fans may currently be more concerned with events in Japan, where Team GB is racking up medals at the Tokyo Olympics. Diving ace Tom Daley has secured his first Olympic gold, while Britain’s swimmers are also making a splash, winning three golds at a single Games for the first time since 1908.
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In more good news - sort of - for Brits, researchers have ranked the UK among the five best countries in the world to live in the event of a global catastrophe, alongside New Zealand, Iceland, Ireland and the Australian island state of Tasmania.
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In Hong Kong, the first person to be tried under the controversial National Security Law was found guilty of terrorism and secession, at a trial that attracted global attention as a test of how the China-ruled territory’s legal system would implement the legislation.
Over in Peru, a former rural school teacher with no front-line political experience was sworn in as the country’s new president. Pedro Castillo has pledged to end Peru’s coronavirus crisis and promised a new constitution, and has also declared a state of emergency in the nation’s education system.
Meanwhile, Capitol Hill police officers gave evidence on the opening day of an inquiry into the deadly riots that threatened the heart of US democracy in January.
And in another potentially worrying turn of events for US leaders, China hosted a delegation of Taliban leaders as Beijing seeks to build relations with the insurgent group.
