A section of the Afghan-Uzbek border in the vicinity of the Afghan port of Hairatan, neighboring Uzbekistan's Termez city, is controlled by Afghan authorities, not the Taliban movement (banned in Russia as a terrorist group), an Uzbek border officer on duty at the Termez checkpoint told Sputnik on Friday

Hsing-Chun Kuo, a female athlete who represents Chinese Taipei, a term used by the International Olympic Committee to represent Taiwan, won the weightlifting gold medal in the -59 kg wight category on Tuesday at Tokyo Games