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Republicans begin their scaled-down convention, with President Donald Trump making an appearance in person despite it being a mostly virtual event. On Monday, Trump was officially nominated as a formality to be the Republican nominee at his party's convention in the city of Charlotte. The president is expected to make live television addresses on every day of the convention, leading up to his acceptance speech to the party jamboree on Thursday. It is unusual for candidates to address the convention before that point, as Trump has done. President Donald Trump has officially become the Republican presidential nominee during his party's national convention, being held in Charlotte, North Carolina. Donald Trump, who had promised to focus the convention on a more positive and upbeat vision for the country, opened his speech by attacking Democrats for their push to expand access to mail-in ballots during the ongoing pandemic. He warned, without giving evidence, that Democrats planned to rig the contest through the fraudulent use of postal voting.

"They gonna mail out 80 million ballots, it’s impossible they have no idea. Who’s mailing them? Mostly democrats states and democrats governors. Supposing they don’t mail them to the republican neighbourhoods, that means they’re not gonna get them. So they gonna complaint, and the election gonna over and they gonna complaint and then they’ll say well we didn’t get it big deal in the mean time you might loose the election. This is the greatest scam in the history of politics I think, and I’m talking about beyond our nation" President Trump said. 

Independent experts said that voter fraud is quite rare in the United States. Polls currently indicate Trump trailing behind his Democratic rival Joe Biden. On the first night of the Republican Party convention, the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, took centre stage and commanded the nation's attention. Firebrand speaker, sportsman and big-game hunter, Trump Jr is doing everything he can to help his father win re-election. The Republican strategy has focused on energising the president's base of supporters, and they see the younger Trump as their ace in the hole. Trump Junior said that America will be better with his father in charge in the white house again.

"America is the greatest country on Earth. But my father entire world view revolves around the idea that we can always do even better. Imagine the life you want to have, one with a great job, a beautiful home, a perfect family, you can have it.  Imagine a country you wanna live in, one with true equal opportunity, where hard work pays off and justice is served with compation and without partiality, you can have it. Imagine a world with their evil of communism and radical islamic terrorism are not giving a chance to spread, where heroes are celebrated and the good guys win. You can hae it. That is the life, that is the country, that is the world that Donald Trump and the republican party are after and yes you can have it" Trump Junior said. 

Earlier this week, however, the Trump campaign did release its own bullet-point outline of the president's second-term agenda. The list was a combination of the concrete to allow 100% expensing deductions for essential industries, who bring back their manufacturing to the US// BBC/NK

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Special Staff of the Minister of SOE Arya Sinulingga said that PT Bio Farma (Persero) will work on a serial number of processes from the raw material of the COVID-19 vaccine from Sinovac to become the final product. This raw material will be formulated, then filling and packaging. These three processes are carried out by the Bio Farma. Arya Sinulingga in Jakarta on Saturday, August 22, added that once the series of processes has been passed, the final product will be packaged and delivered to the public//Antara/translated by PTR

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The global death toll from the coronavirus approached 800,000 on Saturday, with the United States, Brazil, and India leading the rise in fatalities.  Nearly 5,900 people are dying every 24 hours from COVID-19 on average, according to Reuters calculations based on data from the past two weeks that ended on Friday. Many public schools and universities reopened classrooms to students despite positive test rates of nearly 20% in some parts of the country. Less than a week after welcoming students, some schools are switching to online-only learning due to a spike in infections. Health experts have raised the alarm that Brazil and the United States still have no coordinated plan to fight the pandemic, as many officials focus on reopening schools and businesses, which is likely to worsen the outbreak//Reuters

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Oil producers shut 13 percent of offshore crude oil production by Saturday, in the US-regulated northern Gulf of Mexico as tropical storms Laura and Marco were forecast to cross the region next week. Royal Dutch Shell said it began shutting down production at most of its offshore operations on Saturday, joining energy majors BP and Chevron, which began shutdowns on Friday.  In addition to the 240,785 barrels per day (bpd) in oil production shut in, as energy companies were evacuating workers. The 4.39 per cent, or 119 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd), of natural gas output from the Gulf was turned off by Saturday, the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement said. Storms Marco and Laura are poised to enter the Gulf early next week, with each forecast to make landfalls on the coast by mid-week. However, neither storm is expected to become a major hurricane and the forecast storm tracks cover a wide area//CNA