Morning News | September 22
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Welcome to Morning News. It's September 22, Tuesday. 24-33 ℃, cloudy with showers. 

Today marks the autumn equinox, the 16th of the 24 solar terms in the Chinese lunar calendar.  After today, the location of direct sunlight moves to the south, making days shorter and nights longer in the northern hemisphere. 

China

 

1. The China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fair 2020 will be held in Guangzhou from March 23 to 25, with more than 3,000 technical achievements to be displayed.

 

2. Chinese experts have reiterated the importance of staying highly alert for a possible second COVID-19 epidemic in China, since such outbreaks have been going on for weeks in some European countries.

 

3. Chinese mainland reported 6 new imported COVID-19 cases yesterday. Guangdong reported 3 imported COVID-19 cases (one each from Congo, Chad and Kuwait), and 1 asymptomatic carrier from Kuwait on Monday.

 

4. Experts say that typhoons are not likely to affect Northeast China for the rest of this year after three hit the region from August to mid-September.

 

5. China released a guideline last Friday asking teacher's certification authorities to check applicants against a database of sexual offenders that is operated by the Ministry of Public Security.

World

 

1. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that he is considering five women for the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

 

2. Three hundred and sixty-nine Chinese students started their self-quarantine life on the campus of Queen's University Belfast, or QUB, after traveling from China to the United Kingdom by a flight chartered by the university last Saturday.

 

3. US imposed on Monday new sanctions on Iran and also Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

 

4. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the UN will not support reimposing sanctions on Iran, as demanded by the United States, until he gets a green light from the Security Council.

 

5. Wall Street slumped Monday as markets tumbled worldwide on worries about the pandemic's economic pain, though the S&P 500 had pared its losses by the end of the day.

 

6. Britain could see nearly 50,000 new COVID-19 cases daily by mid-October if infections continue to double every seven days, according to the nation's chief scientific advisor, Patrick Vallance.

 

7. WHO's director-general on Monday said its so-called COVAX plan, its global program for the fair distribution of future vaccines, would ensure priority goes to the most at risk.

 

8. India's iconic monument of love - Taj Mahal, which was closed on March 17 amid the COVID-19 pandemic, was reopened Monday to tourists, officials said.

 

Editor: Annie

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