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UNITED STATES

Harris rejects Trump's election debate plan

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump proposed to debate Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris on Fox News on Sept 4, but the Harris campaign countered that Trump was trying to back out of a debate that had already been set to run on ABC. The rules would be similar to the first debate with President Joe Biden, who has since dropped his reelection bid, Trump said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social late on Friday. Trump and Biden had agreed to a second debate on Sept 10 on ABC News, which the former president had suggested should be moved to Fox. Harris said on Saturday she plans to participate in the originally planned debate.

AUSTRALIA

Activists protest against AUKUS nuclear subs

Dozens of protesters, including members of the local activist group Sydney Anti-AUKUS Coalition, gathered at the Sydney Town Hall Square on Saturday to demand that the Australian government reject the AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines. They also reject the Australian opposition's proposal for building nuclear power reactors on the sites of aging coal-fired power plants. According to a statement publicized by the protesters, they gathered to remember victims of the US atomic bombs that exploded over Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, and remember all victims of nuclear war preparations.

Agencies - Xinhua