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The 75th session of the UN General Assembly has opened.
General Assembly President Volkan Bozkir has called on UN member states to uphold multilateralism.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin says the country has achieved its goals under the 2020 Climate Action Plan ahead of schedule.
The spokesperson says China is willing to make more contributions in dealing with climate change.
He says efforts have been made to study the long-term vision of coping with climate change in the middle of this century, including capping and reducing carbon emissions.
Israel signed agreements at the White House to normalize diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
U.S. President Donald Trump attended that signing ceremony.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he hopes to maintain peace in the region.
The signing ceremony makes the UAE and Bahrain the third and the fourth Arab nation to establish diplomatic ties with Israel.
The city of Louisville, Kentucky, will pay 12 million U.S. dollars to the family of Breonna Taylor, a Black woman shot dead by police in a botched raid on her apartment in March.
Mayor Greg Fischer says the settlement will be accompanied by reforms of the Louisville Metro Police Department, including a requirement that commanders approve search warrants before they are put before a judge.
He adds that the government will make several policy changes as well.
Taylor's family welcomed the settlement but also demanded officers involved face criminal charges.
Germany's government has decided to take in over 1,500 migrants from over 400 families from various Greek islands.
They have already been granted protected status in Greece.
German Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for talks on "an overall European solution" and pledged Germany's participation.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has warned that the bloc's relations with Turkey are at a watershed moment in history.
Borrell told the European Parliament that urgent and collective engagement is needed to deal with the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean.
He says the latest move by Turkey to discontinue seismic exploration in those waters is a step in the right direction towards dialogue.
The dispute over natural gas exploration off Greek islands in the Eastern Mediterranean has escalated in recent weeks.
Greece considers the explorations illegal. However, the Turkish government believes the waters, in which natural gas is being drilled on a trial basis, belong to the Turkish continental shelf.
An autonomous ship named Mayflower will be departing Plymouth on Wednesday, 400 years after a vessel of the same name sailed to America.
The new Mayflower is nothing like the original but will still be sailing into the unknown.
Powered by solar power and artificial intelligence, the research vessel will be traveling with no pilot or passengers.
It will collect vital environmental data as it tries to make its way to the United States.
China will allow cinema capacity limits to increase to 75 percent starting from September 25.
The Chinese Film Association said the adjustment is still subject to restrictions, including ticket reservations and mask-wearing in movie theaters.
Theater capacity is currently limited at 50 percent, but China's box-office revenue has hit 730 million U.S. dollars since the reopening of theaters back in July.
