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The first direct charter flight from the United States to Beijing since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic has landed.
The Back to Work Charter Flight organized by the American Chamber of Commerce in China carried 87 passengers to Beijing from San Francisco.
Direct international flights to Beijing resumed earlier this month.
Arrivals from low-risk countries including Thailand, Cambodia, Greece and Canada were allowed to directly land in the Chinese capital under strict safety rules.
Since March, Beijing-bound international flights have been diverted to other Chinese cities, where passengers are screened for coronavirus and required to quarantine.
Israel will enter a three-week nationwide lockdown starting on Friday to contain the spread of the coronavirus after a second wave of new cases.
The lockdown will come during the Jewish high-holiday season.
Israelis will have to stay within 500 meters of their houses, but can travel to workplaces that will be allowed to operate on a limited basis.
Schools and shopping malls will be closed but supermarkets and pharmacies will remain open.
The public sector will operate with fewer staff, but non-governmental offices and businesses will not have to close as long as they do not accept customers.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his government decided to reimpose the measures after senior health officials warned that the spread of the virus requires taking immediate measures.
At least 12 people were killed and 21 others are missing as a result of rain-triggered landslides in Nepal.
The latest fatalities took the death toll from landslides and flash floods in the June-September monsoon season to 314.
Over 100 people remain missing.
Landslides commonly occur in mountainous regions of Nepal during the annual monsoon rains.
India and Bangladesh also had flooding and landslides in August.
At least 22 people have been killed in the past month due to the fires across the U.S. state of California.
Officials say the wildfires have burned more than 3.2 million acres of land.
More than 16-thousand firefighters have been battling 29 major wildfires statewide.
Elsewhere in the United States, ten people were killed and at least a dozen are unaccounted for due to the record-breaking wildfires across Oregon.
The fires have covered more than 1 million acres.
The blazes have forced more than 40-thousand people to flee their homes.
At least one person died in Washington state because of the fire.
Dominic Thiem has defeated Alexander Zverev in a five-set thriller to win the US Open.
Thiem came back from two sets down on Zverev and forced the match all the way into tie-break.
It was the Austrian player’s first Grand Slam title.
