News Snapshot:
Russia’s Soyuz rocket launched an Iranian satellite named Khayyam from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan. In other news, leading candidates for Britain’s prime minister, Foreign Minister Liz Truss and former finance minister Rishi Sunak, have said they would both be willing to serve in the other’s cabinet in case of a loss. In another news, China reported 1,094 Covid cases on August 9, of which 444 were symptomatic and 650 were asymptomatic. Finally, a year after the US withdrew from Afghanistan, a bipartisan bill has been introduced in both houses of the US Congress to force the Taliban to...
