Evening Update: De Grasse blazes to Tokyo gold medal with fastest 200 metres ever run by a Canadian

Also: Lebanon marks grim first anniversary of devastating explosion

Lebanon marks one year since port blast that killed at least 214 peopleat the city’s port.Prayers and protests were planned for later in the day, which has been declared a national day of mourning. The explosion – one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history – killed at least 214 people, injured thousands and devastated entire neighbourhoods of the city.

The Globe and Mail’s African bureau chief Geoffrey York and freelancer Judi Rever write today about how new evidence from a UN report and a high-profilethat extract gold and coltan from Congolese conflict zones and funnel the strategically important minerals illicitly into the global supply chain for consumer products such as cellphones, computers and jewellery.

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