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More tests and still more questions loom over Tokyo Olympics

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto wearing a rainbow-colored mask with word &quot;Equality&quot; poses for a photo with representatives and staff at Pride House Tokyo Legacy during her visit, in Tokyo Tuesday, April 27, 2021. Japan marked LGBTQ week with pledge to push for equality law before the Olympics. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

Japan’s Olympic chief marks pride week with LGBTQ event

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Toshio Muto, CEO of Tokyo 2020, attends a press conference after a Tokyo 2020 executive board meeting Monday, April 26, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Nicolas Datiche/Pool Photo via AP)

Tokyo Olympic rules ‘playbook’ update to feature daily testing, no quarantine

By Stephen Wade - Associated Press

Seiko Hashimoto, the head of the Tokyo Olympics (Tokyo 2020) organizing committee, holds a Tokyo 2020 folder during a Tokyo 2020 executive board meeting Monday, April 26, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. (Nicolas Datiche/Pool Photo via AP)

More tests, no quarantine in updated Tokyo Olympic rules

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Patients undergo treatment for COVID-19 inside a tent installed outside the Social Security Hospital in Quito, Ecuador, Thursday, April 22, 2021. The government decreed new lockdown rules on April 21 for the majority of Ecuador's provinces, limiting movement on weeknights and a strict, all-day curfew on weekends to curb the spread of the new coronavirus which is overwhelming hospitals. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

The Latest: Health panel urges restarting J&J vaccinations

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

People wearing face masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk toward a train station in Tokyo on Friday, April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

EXPLAINER: What does Japan’s virus state of emergency mean

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Tokyo 2020 Organizing Committee President Seiko Hashimoto, center gestures as she observes Japan women's national team candidates staging a match in the operational test event of Rugby in preparation for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Tokyo Stadium Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Tokyo under ‘emergency orders’ with Olympics 3 months away

By STEPHEN WADE and MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, left, and Minister of the Environment Shinjiro Koizumi attend the global warming meeting at the prime minister's office in Tokyo, Thursday, April 22, 2021. Japan said Thursday it will raise its greenhouse gas emissions reduction target to 46% on 2013 levels from 26%, NHK television reported. Prime Minister Suga has set a goal to achieve carbon neutrality in Japan by 2050.(Kyodo News via AP)

Japan raises emissions reduction target to 46% by 2030

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, April 21, 2021 photo provided by NASA, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard sits on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., at sunset. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide are scheduled for a Friday launch. (NASA/Joel Kowsky)

SpaceX aims for 3rd crew launch hour before Friday’s sunrise

By MARCIA DUNN - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga declares a state of emergency for Tokyo and three other prefectures during the government task force meeting for the COVID-19 measures at the prime minister's office Friday, April 23, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

Tokyo under ‘emergency orders’ with Olympics 3 months away

By Stephen Wade and Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

People wearing protective masks to help curb the spread of the coronavirus walk Wednesday, April 21, 2021, in Tokyo. The Japanese capital confirmed more than 840 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

Japan prepares for 3rd virus emergency in Tokyo, Osaka areas

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Seiko Hashimoto, president of Tokyo 2020, left, and Toshiro Muto, CEO of Tokyo 2020, attend a media huddle following the IOC Executive Board Meeting at the Tokyo 2020 headquarters in Tokyo, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (Philip Fong/ Pool Photo via AP)

Tokyo Games delay decision until June on fans — or no fans

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

In this April 15, 2021, photo, President Joe Biden speaks about Russia in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Biden is being forced to go virtual for many of his leader-to-leader talks during the pandemic and the resulting Zoom meetings just aren't a natural fit for the back-slapping politician. Biden's big climate summit this week with dozens of world leaders is a moment for him to play cheerleader in the fight against global warming. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden’s virtual climate summit: Diplomacy sans human touch

By JONATHAN LEMIRE and SETH BORENSTEIN and AAMER MADHANI - Associated Press

People wearing face masks to protect against the spread of the coronavirus walk on a street in Tokyo, Tuesday, April 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara)

Osaka seeks virus emergency after ongoing alert steps fail

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Former South Korean comfort woman Lee Yong-soo in a wheelchair leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. A South Korean court on Wednesday rejected a claim by South Korean sexual slavery victims and their relatives who sought compensation from the Japanese government over their wartime sufferings. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Seoul court rejects sexual slavery claim against Tokyo

By Kim Tong-hyung - Associated Press

A 'masakaki” tree offering, center, to Yasukuni Shrine by Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, is placed as a man prays at the Shinto shrine in Tokyo Wednesday, April 21, 2021, the first day of the annual Spring Rites, the shrine’s biannual festival honoring the war dead, including Japanese war criminals. Suga on Wednesday donated religions offerings to the shrine viewed by China and both Koreas as a symbol of wartime aggression, though he avoided a visit.The tree's plate reads: &quot;Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga.&quot; (Tsuyoshi Ueda/Kyodo News via AP)

Japan’s Suga makes offering at war shrine but doesn’t visit

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Yuki Kitazumi speaks during an interview in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on April 1, 2013. Japan's government said Monday, April 19, 2021 it is asking Myanmar to release Kitazumi, a former Nikkei business newspaper reporter currently based in Yangon as a freelance journalist, who was arrested by security forces in its largest city of Yangon the previous day. (Kyodo News via AP)

Japan asks Myanmar junta to release arrested journalist

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2020, photo, the Olympics rings are reflected on the window of a hotel restaurant as a server with a mask sets up a table, in the Odaiba section of Tokyo. The vaccine rollout in Japan has been very slow with less than 1% vaccinated. This of course is spilling over to concerns about the postponed Tokyo Olympics that open in just over three months.(AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Will Japanese Olympians be vaccinated ahead of the public?

By STEPHEN WADE - Associated Press

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga boards his plane to depart at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Saturday, April 17, 2021, after his visit to Washington. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

Japanese leader asks Pfizer for additional vaccine supply

By MARI YAMAGUCHI - Associated Press

Russia's Anna Shcherbakova performs during the women's free skating program of the ISU World Team Trophy figure skating competition in Osaka, western Japan, Saturday, April 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Hiro Komae)

Shcherbakova seals Russia’s first World Team Trophy victory

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