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A place apart

 Source: James Veysey, Shutterstock The low down   Viewed from Westminster, the Northern Ireland Assembly and its executive is a young and fragile devolution project – the potential for instability hard-baked into a constitution that requires bitter political foes to work together or not at all. That perspective, though, hardly reflects the whole story. This year the country marks a century of devolution. And following the Good Friday Agreement, a generation has now grown up since the UK government’s secretary of state for Northern Ireland went from the holder of a political hotseat that carried serious personal risks, to a low-ranking cabinet role. The lawmakers of the assembly and executive have worked their way through the demands of the pandemic – and done so while juggling a Brexit agreement that presents a serious challenge to peace and stability on the island of Ireland.

Coco Gauff out of Olympics; South Africa registers 11,2

Tennis player Coco Gauff tested positive for Covid-19, ruling her out of representing the US at the Olympics and highlighting the challenges faced by the Tokyo Games less than a week before the opening ceremony. Three members of South Africa’s soccer squad and a rugby coach tested positive in the Olympic Village – there are more than 55 cases so far tied to the Tokyo Games. Southeast Asia also continues to reel from a wave of infections, with Singapore reporting cases at an 11-month high. US senator Amy Klobuchar demanded that social media platforms be held liable for spreading misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines, a day after Facebook pushed back against President Joe Biden’s comments that the platforms are “killing people”.

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