1. The Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation wrote in a draft national report on environmental protection and status quo in 2020 that between 2010 and 2020, Russia’s crude oil reserves decreased by about 33%, natural gas reserves by 27%, but coal reserves barely decreased. Russian oil reserves fell from about 30 billion tons between 2010 and 2015 to about 20 billion tons between 2015 and 2020, according to the document. Natural gas reserves remained at 70 trillion cubic meters until 2015 and fell to 5 billion cubic meters in 2016.

2.Japan’s Tokyo Electric Power Company said on the 9th that the exhaust device of the nuclear sewage treatment equipment (ALPS) at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was found to be damaged, and 24 of the 25 devices were damaged. Tepco said that the same situation was found two years ago and 25 devices were replaced, but the cause of the damage was not investigated or made public at that time.

3. US President Joe Biden has announced an extension of the state of emergency for another year. In a statement, Biden said that as the threat of terrorism persists, Proclamation No. 7463, which was launched on Sept. 14, 2001, that is, the imposition of a national state of emergency and the authority granted to deal with it, will remain in force after September 14, 2021.

4. Nancy Vanden Houten, chief US analyst at the Oxford Institute of Economics, said supply curbed by the epidemic would put upward pressure on prices by the end of the year, but weaker domestic demand in the US would slow PPI gradually in the autumn and 2022.

5.Recently, the city of Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan announced the test results of the unauthorized discharge of sewage by the US military stationed in Japan. The survey shows that the content of organofluorine compounds in sewage is more than 13 times the standard set by the Japanese government.

6.According to Agence France-Presse, 11, people in many parts of France once again held a demonstration against health passes and other epidemic prevention measures, more than 120000 people participated. 19000 of them demonstrated in the capital Paris. Police arrested 85 people after the conflict broke out, and three police officers were slightly injured in the protest. According to the Russian satellite network, law enforcement officials used tear gas on demonstrators during the clashes in Paris. This is the ninth week in a row that French people have taken to the streets to protest against Macron’s government’s health pass measure, which protesters see as discrimination against people who have not been vaccinated.

7.Japan’s ground self-Defense Forces announced that a large-scale military exercise involving about 100000 self-defense forces will begin on September 15. It is reported that the self-Defense Forces held such a large-scale military exercise for the first time since 1993. The purpose of the exercise is to enhance the ability to respond to China’s marine activities. It is reported that the self-Defense Forces deployed in Shikoku, Hokkaido and the US Army stationed in Japan will also participate in this exercise.

8.An investigation into Prince Charles’s foundation has been launched after British media reported that a Russian banker had donated a large sum of money to the foundation of Prince Charles, the Scottish charity regulator said in a statement on September 12 local time.

9.On September 12, local time, a serious traffic accident occurred in the Turkish capital Ankara, killing five people. It is reported that the incident was caused by a bus collision with a car in Ankara Etimesgut County. A large number of police and ambulances arrived at the scene and found three people dead on the spot, while two others died after being taken to hospital.

10.Mohamed Naim, spokesman for the Afghan Taliban’s political office in Doha, Qatar, posted a message on social media on Sept. 13, local time, denying the news circulated on the Internet that Abdul Ghani Baradar, acting deputy prime minister of the Afghan interim government, had been killed in Afghanistan. 

11.House Democrats announced a package of tax increases on Monday, but the top rate is in line with President Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion economic agenda. The Democrats proposed raising the corporate tax ceiling from 21% to 26.5%, below the 28% required by Biden. The capital gains tax ceiling was raised from 20% to 25%, below the 39.6% required by Biden. If you include the 3.8% health insurance surtax on high earners, the maximum capital gains tax will reach 28.8%. The House ways and means Committee will debate the bill on Tuesday.