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A CDC paper reports that vaccinated individuals infected with the Delta variant may be able to transmit the virus as easily as those who are unvaccinated. The eurozone’s four largest economies have returned to solid growth in the three months to June. Thousands of Guatemalans protest for the resignation of President Giammattei after he dismissed a high-profile anti-corruption prosecutor.

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Emerging and Existing Hotspots: Political Crisis in Tunisia

On Sunday, Tunisian President Kais Saied plunged the North African country into a constitutional crisis when he dismissed his prime minister and suspended the parliament, putting the young democracy in novel constitutional territory and sparking widespread protests and accusations of orchestrating a coup d’etat. Already facing among the world’s worst Delta variant spikes, the political crisis will further inflame anti-government protests on both sides, making violence and looting likely, compound persistent unemployment, complicate ongoing debt negotiations, and endanger Tunisia’s status as the sole success story emerging from the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings.

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