Iran and Russia’s sovereign wealth fund are discussing the joint production of a vaccine against COVID-19, Russian news agencies cited the Iranian ambassador to Moscow as saying on Friday. The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) has said it is in talks with a number of countries about...

India registered 86,052 fresh cases of coronavirus and 1,141 virus-related fatalities in the last 24 hours, official data revealed on Friday. The total caseload now crossed 5.8 million and death toll climbed to 92,290, the Health Ministry data showed early morning. India has the...

The World Health Organization gave China its support and understanding to start administering experimental coronavirus vaccines to people while clinical trials were still underway, a Chinese health official said Friday. China launched its emergency program in July, having communicated with...

Chinese authorities have demolished thousands of mosques in Xinjiang, an Australian think tank said Friday, in the latest report of widespread human rights abuses in the restive region. Rights groups say more than one million Uighurs and other mostly Muslim Turkic-speaking people have been...