The Costa neoRomantica, a 220.6-meter-long, 30.8-meter-wide cruise liner, began its maiden tour from Xiamen, east China's Fujian Province with 1,800 passengers on board.
The DSEC also said the estimation mainly covered economic losses of businesses, as well as losses pertaining to homes and vehicles of households, municipal facilities, and certain public service systems.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 181.92 points, or 0.75 percent, to 24,356.74; the S&P 500 gained 23.39 points, or 0.86 percent, to 2,736.61; and the Nasdaq Composite added 83.75 points, or 1.12 percent, to 7,586.43.
The Confucius Institute (CI) at Kenyatta University (KU) on Wednesday launched the CI alumni association to keep track of people who have attended the institute and to find out how they are using or benefiting from studying Chinese language.
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has referred to this as an "infodemic".
The Chinese national flags and flags of the Hong Kong SAR flutter in Hong Kong. [Photo/Xinhua]
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The European nations also lamented the US decision to impose import tariffs on steel and aluminum.
The Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, the country's top anti-graft watchdog, said 5,974 suspected fugitives and 59 of the top 100 wanted fugitives were returned to China from 2014 to June of this year.
The EU-funded assistance will focus on the most pressing needs of the affected families in the immediate aftermath of the floods, including access to clean water and sanitation facilities, the provision of essential household items, as well as emergency shelter.
The Chinese president called for more dynamic people-to-people exchanges to promote mutual understanding and friendship between people of the two countries.