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IRAN: Iran's newly-elected President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday said establishing extensive interaction with neighboring countries constitutes one of his government's main foreign policy principles. He made the remarks in a…

US: The daily number of new coronavirus cases in the U.S. could double in the next few weeks, potentially resulting in new mutations that could be worse than the highly contagious delta variant, Director of the US National Institute of…

US: The United States has distributed more than 100 million COVID-19 vaccine doses overseas, President Joe Biden said Tuesday as he touted his record on countering the Delta variant cutting a deadly swath across the planet. The…

FRANCE: Half of the European Union’s (EU) population has now been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Agency reports showed yesterday. The highly contagious Delta variant has been driving surging infections across the world, even…

CHINA: China has imposed massive travel restrictions, including temporary closure of airports and travel alerts for citizens to other places across the country, to contain the spread of the Delta variant. All 31 provincial-level…

UK: Vaccines targeting the highly transmissible Delta variant may now be needed, given its ability to infect people with fading immunity and potentially increased severity, researchers leading a large English study of COVID shots said.…

UN: India will keep the spotlight on terrorism during its presidency of the Security Council and make a renewed push for international efforts to combat the scourge in all its manifestations, according to India’s Permanent…

UK: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that he wanted to get the travel industry moving again with a simple user-friendly system of rules to allow for trips abroad. "We need to get people, get the travel industry…

Authorities in the Chinese city of Wuhan will begin testing its entire population, after a handful of positive coronavirus cases were detected there. Wuhan has recorded seven locally transmitted cases - the first local infections…

CHINA: China has reported a cluster of COVID-19 infections in the past month, with 328 new locally transmitted confirmed cases registered in July, a number almost equal to the country's total number in the previous five months.…