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This is People's Daily Tonight, your news source from China.

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Severe heat kills dozens in India's Bihar state

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Severe heat has left dozens dead over a 24-hour period in India's Bihar state.

This, as the country enters a third week of searing temperatures.

The deaths occurred in three districts of the poor northern state, where temperatures have hovered around 45 degrees Celsius in recent days.

Most of the victims were aged above 50 and were rushed to hospitals in a semi-conscious state.

A heatwave in 2015 left more than 3,500 dead in India and Pakistan. (AFP)

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Tu Youyou's team resolves artemisinin resistance in malaria treatment

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Nobel Laureate Tu Youyou announced Monday that her team has proposed solutions to the problem of artemisinin resistance, providing new evidence that artemisinin is still "the best weapon" against malaria, the world's No. 1 insect-borne infectious disease.

As the winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize for the discovery of artemisinin, Tu said that the drug resistance has remained a big challenge to fighting malaria.

Tu's team has been devoted to the study of the resistant mechanism since 2015 and discovered that partial artemisinin resistance is actually a delay in the clearance of malaria parasites from the bloodstream following treatment with combination therapy.

The 89-year-old scientist explained that if the treatment period is extended to five to seven days and the partner drugs are replaced, the artemisinin resistance can be solved. (Xinhua)

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US voters' confidence in economy falls: poll

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A Fox News poll said US voter confidence fell to 57 percent compared to the 66 percent of voters who felt optimistic in the economy since US President Donald Trump took office in 2017.

The poll found that 48 percent of registered voters think only “people with more money” have befitted from Trump's economic policies and just 5 percent of voters feel “people like me” are better off.

On tariffs, 45 percent believe they would hurt rather than help the economy and nearly 8 in 10 are concerned that the tariffs would raise the price of goods in the US.

The poll put Trump’s job approval at 45 percent. (People's Daily app)

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South China's island province to implement garbage sorting next year

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South China's island province Hainan has completed the drafting of the plan to implement garbage sorting in 2020, the provincial department of housing and urban-rural development said.

The plan includes the goals, responsibilities of concerned parties and requirements for garbage sorting, according to the department. It aims to recycle over 35 percent of the province's domestic garbage by 2021.

Currently, the province mainly adopts the modes of landfill and incineration for garbage disposal.

So far, a total of 21 domestic garbage disposal facilities have been built in Hainan, including 16 landfills and 5 waste incineration power plants. Some 250 garbage transfer stations and 12,500 garbage collection points have been built. (Xinhua)

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Chinese self-driving car company ready for road test

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Chinese AI-powered mobility company WeRide said it is ready for its intelligent connected vehicle road test in southern China's Guangdong Province.

WeRide started 5G-related cooperation with China Unicom, one of the country's three leading telecommunications operators, last year.

They conducted research on cutting-edge applications of 5G-based autonomous driving, which has made a dent in remote control and edge computing. (CGTN)

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Top diplomats of S.Korea, US hold phone talks ahead of Trump's visit to Seoul

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The top diplomats of South Korea and the United States held phone talks ahead of US President Donald Trump's visit to Seoul later this month, Seoul's foreign ministry said Monday.

During her visit to Russia on Sunday night (Moscow time), South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha talked on the phone with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about Trump's visit to Seoul and the situation on the Korean Peninsula, the ministry said in a statement.

Trump was scheduled to visit Seoul on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan on June 28-29.

During the 15-minute dialogue, Kang and Pompeo shared the view that Trump's trip to South Korea will be a crucial opportunity to discuss ways on the complete denuclearization of and the settlement of permanent peace on the peninsula. (Xinhua)

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Chinese archers make history by winning first-ever team titles at world championships

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And China men's team overwhelmed India 6-2 to clinch their first-ever world title at the 50th edition of the World Archery Championships in the Netherlands.

They secured a full quota of six spots in archery at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, thanks to their top eight finishes at the World Archery Championships. (CGTN)

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And that's People's Daily Tonight.  Thanks for joining us.

(Produced by David Nye and Jenny Huang)