(VOVWORLD) -The Ministry of Health's COVID-19 prevention and control bulletin said Vietnam on Saturday recorded 86 new cases of COVID-19, 92 recoveries and no deaths.

(VOVWORLD) -Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, passed away on Saturday at 9:34 in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican, aged 95, according to the Vatican’s announcement.

(VOVWORLD) -On the occasion of the 64th anniversary of Cuba's National Day (January 1), on Saturday, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and President Nguyen Xuan Phuc sent congratulatory messages to First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of Cuba Miguel Díaz Canel Bermúdez.

(VOVWORLD) -Tran Nhan Tong Pedestrian Street in Hai Ba Trung District, Hanoi, was open to the public on Friday night, offering a new destination for the New Year holiday.

(VOVWORLD) -The Vietnam national football team was held to a 0-0 draw by Singapore in a Group B match of the 2022 ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) Cup on Friday at the Jalan Besar Stadium.

(VOVWORLD) -A number of foreign news agencies and media groups have hailed Vietnam's booming economy with a GDP growth rate of 8.02% this year.

(VOVWORLD) -Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday held online talks on bilateral relations and regional issues, according to Russia’s news site TASS.

(VOVWORLD) - The United Nations said Thursday it would not stop providing aid to Afghanistan despite the Taliban ban on women working in the country’s aid sector.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam People’s Navy and the Royal Cambodian Navy conducted the 69th annual joint patrol of the two navies earlier this week.

(VOVWORLD) -More than 28,000 fishermen and fishing boats will be given the national flag, life jackets and first aid bags, 250 poor fishing households will be supported with repairs and building houses, and 10,000 poor fishing households will be helped to sustain livelihoods in 2023, according to the Vietnam Red Cross Society.