Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Dec. 2

UNITED NATIONS– Reforming multilateralism will be debated at the UN Security Council in December, the council’s president said Thursday. During a press conference on India’s presidency of the council for the month of December at UN headquarters in New York, Ruchira Kamboj, the permanent representative of India to the United Nations, said the council’s agenda…

UNITED NATIONS — Reforming multilateralism will be debated at the UN Security Council in December, the council’s president said Thursday.

During a press conference on India’s presidency of the council for the month of December at UN headquarters in New York, Ruchira Kamboj, the permanent representative of India to the United Nations, said the council’s agenda for December includes an open debate on reorienting multilateralism and a briefing on global counter-terrorism principles. (UN-Security Council-December work)

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LOS ANGELES — COVID-19 cases in Los Angeles County, the most populous county in the United States, have surged to highest levels since summer wave, local media reported on Thursday, citing official data.

COVID-19 case and hospitalization rates have risen dramatically through the last half of November in Los Angeles County, reported the Los Angeles Times, the biggest newspaper on U.S. West Coast.(U.S.-Los Angeles-Pandemic)

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PARIS — France may go through a period of reduced power given the weather and lower production capacity of the French nuclear giant EDF, warned Xavier Piechaczyk, president of the managing board of France’s electricity transmission system operator RTE, on Thursday.

Piechaczyk told the public radio channel France Inter that a power cut was possible but would only last “a few days.”(France-Power Cut) Enditem