The US COVID-19 cases topped 6 million on Aug 31 and increased by half a million within two weeks.
The United States, Japan, Italy, France and Germany were the top exporters of waste, according to a report published in 2016 by the Chinese Academy of International Trade and Economic Cooperation.
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) failed to agree on a regular renewal of the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), while agreeing to adopt "a technical roll-over" of the mandate on Friday, due to differences over the BRI, mention of which had been in previous Afghanistan resolutions.
The US corn crop was rated 55 percent good or excellent at the start of the week, down from 58 percent a week earlier.
The Typhoon Rumbia has left 24 dead and three missing in East China's Shandong province.
The US Treasury Department on Tuesday announced it was including six vessels -- five sailing under the Venezuelan flag and one, under the Panamanian flag -- on its list of ships penalized by its Office of Foreign Assets Control for doing business with the island.
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The United States has repeatedly used visa issuance to block or delay access of member states or civil society to UN activities.
The US has reported some 2.6 million coronavirus cases and more than 127,000 deaths, by far the highest in the world. On Tuesday, it reported more than 47,000 new cases, according to a Reuters tally.
The US Chamber of Commerce, the world's largest trade federation that represents more than 3 million businesses, voiced its strong opposition to Trump's sweeping tariffs on China in a statement issued March 15.
The United States has reported more than 15.16 million COVID-19 cases with 286,232 deaths so far, according to Johns Hopkins University.