The US Navy, according to local media, said that serious mistakes had been made by crew members on the Fitzgerald and that its bridge team had lost situational awareness.
The US' most important foreign relationship right now is with China, Thilo Hanemann, research director at the Rhodium Group, said during a panel discussion at the reception. To alleviate tensions, the world's two largest economies need to strengthen communication, he added.
The US document also said China "is not a market economy and does not have the right to engage in government interference and intervention in market mechanisms, distorting market outcomes and undermining the World Trade Organization rules".
The UN secretary-general's special representative for Afghanistan, Tadamichi Yamamoto, said the commission "has an obligation to adjudicate any complaints it receives transparently and thoroughly so the election process may conclude in a credible manner" and that "all candidates have the chance to raise any concerns they may have."
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced 812 new COVID-19 cases and three more deaths, raising the tally of infections to 28,704 and the death toll to 244.
The UK government has expressed concern that too few people from the black, Asian, and other minority ethnic communities are being recognized for their contributions to society. A recent census found that people identifying as black or Asian comprise 12.8 percent of the UK population, a community that received 9.3 percent of the honors handed out on Jan 1. That number was down from the 10 percent on the honors list prepared six months earlier.
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The US announced on June 19 it would pull out of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council.
The United States remains the nation hit the worst by the pandemic, with the world's highest caseload and death toll, accounting for more than 18 percent of global deaths.
The United States has recorded more than 13.37 million cases with over 266,800 related deaths as of Sunday night, according to the real-time count kept by Johns Hopkins University.
The UK recorded the steepest fall of any country in this year's index, plummeting down the rankings from 12th position in 2015, to 40th this year.