The US dollar appreciated against other major currencies and weakened the US competitiveness of exports, which will enlarge its trade deficits, he added.
The US on Thursday moved closer to having a second vaccine to fight the COVID-19 pandemic as a federal vaccine-advisory committee recommended that the Food and Drug Administration grant an emergency-use authorization for Moderna's vaccine.
The United Nations projects that by 2025, half of the countries worldwide will face water stress or outright shortages. By 2050, as many as three out of four people around the globe could be affected by water scarcity, many of them in Asia.
The UN Security Council resolutions are explicit about the DPRK's use of ballistic missile technologies, the spokesperson said, adding that the Security Council press statement recently expressed opposition to the missile launch.
The United States is prepared to engage "in a conversation with no preconditions," Pompeo told media during a joint press conference with his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis in Switzerland.
The US Forces Korea said in a statement that the 23 year-old soldier is stationed at Camp Carroll, north of Daegu, the city that is the epicenter of the outbreak in the South, adding that he had been put in self-quarantine at his off-base residence.
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The United States is now the country with the most confirmed COVID-19 cases and fatalities. By Monday morning, the country had reported 557,590 cases and 22,109 deaths, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
The UK, Germany and South Korea are currently the next three largest markets for smart speaker shipments.
The US and China see the 50-year bilateral relationship through starkly different lenses, Firestein said, and talk about it that way, too.
The UK accounted for 23 percent of Alipay transaction volumes in Europe, the second-highest in the region. Germany, the strongest performer in Europe, accounted for 40 percent, while France generated 22 percent. Italy, where Alipay launched in April, accounted for a further 5 percent of transactions