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- Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has been officially nominated at the Democratic Party’s national convention to be the party’s presidential candidate.
- Authorities in Mauritius have arrested the captain of a Japanese-owned cargo ship that spilled about 1,000 tons of fuel oil into the Indian Ocean. Local media have reported that the crew may have steered the ship close to the shore to get Wi-Fi signals.
- Japan’s exports to China in July rose for the first time in seven months. But the country’s overall imports and exports remained sluggish due to the coronavirus pandemic.
- In the United States, the national convention of the Democratic Party has opened to officially pick its presidential candidate. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is expected to be nominated on Tuesday.
- U.S. President Donald Trump has criticized former Vice President Joe Biden and warned that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee will crush the economy and dismantle police departments if elected.
- The economic growth of Southeast Asian nations has contracted sharply due to the coronavirus pandemic.
- Japan’s Cabinet Office says the country’s economy saw a historic downturn in the April-June quarter. GDP contracted by the most in 40 years as the pandemic upended the economy.
- Economic Revitalization Minister Nishimura Yasutoshi told a news conference on Monday that Japan’s GDP contraction in the April-June quarter was caused by measures against the coronavirus pandemic.
- A Japanese classical music promotion group has measured how droplets spread during a performance, saying that the findings will help concerts return to how they were before the coronavirus pandemic.