Welcome to Morning News. It's August 11, Tuesday. 26-34 ℃, cloudy and sunny.

China

1. China announced sanctions on 11 U.S. officials Monday in response to U.S. sanctions against officials of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

2. Chinese authorities on Monday said that personnel entering the Chinese mainland from Macao will be exempted from a 14-day mandatory quarantine, starting from Wednesday.

3. Chinese mainland reported 44 new COVID-19 cases, of which 13 were locally transmitted. Guangdong reported 3 imported COVID-19 cases (1 from United Arab Emirates, and 2 from Russia), and 3 asymptomatic carriers (2 from Bangladesh, and 1 from Russia) on Monday.

4. Mekkhala, the sixth typhoon of this year, landed on East China's Fujian province on Tuesday morning, local meteorological authorities said.

5. Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, an instigator of the Hong Kong riots, and nine other people were arrested Monday, with some of them suspected of breaching the national security law in Hong Kong, according to Hong Kong police and local media.

6. Chinese lawmakers on Monday heard a report on a research project for the compilation of the 14th Five-Year Plan.

7. Encouraged by the impressive performance of its weekend flight offerings, China Eastern Airlines on Monday launched a new product catered toward weekday flights. Priced at 3,456 yuan, the new package allows users to take unlimited flights to any destination in the Chinese mainland on weekday mornings before 8am and on weekday evenings after 8pm. The package is valid for 180 days.

World

1. Twitter is in talks to buy the wildly popular video-sharing app TikTok, which Trump has ordered to be sold because of its Chinese ownership, The Wall Street Journal reported.

2. Lebanon's Prime Minister Hassan Diab on Monday announced the resignation of his government, after deadly explosions in capital Beirut that have triggered anti-government protests.

3. More than 97,000 US children tested positive for COVID-19 in the last two weeks of July, according to new data from the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children's Hospital Association.

4. The World Health Organization warned on Monday that global confirmed cases of COVID-19 will reach 20 million this week, along with 750,000 deaths.

5. One in three British businesses is planning job cuts in the third quarter of this year as the economic impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic accelerates and the government's furlough program winds down.

Editor: Annie

Source: China Daily, CGTN, People's Daily, Xinhua