(VOVWORLD) - Passengers on flights from Singapore and Los Angeles arrived in Sydney Monday morning as Australia eased its international border restrictions for the first time during the coronavirus pandemic, allowing some of its vaccinated public to travel freely and many families to reunite.

(VOVWORLD) - A Vietnamese Mandarin cap said to be from the Nguyen Dynasty has sold for nearly 700,000 USD at an auction in Spain, VnExpress reported.

(VOVWORLD) - White House press secretary Jen Psaki tested positive for COVID-19 on Sunday, she said in a statement, adding she had last seen President Joe Biden on Tuesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Taliban’s reclusive supreme leader, Haibattullah Akhundzada, made a rare public appearance in the southern city of Kandahar, Taliban sources said on Sunday, belying widespread rumors of his death.

(VOVWORLD) - Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday prepared to tackle major policy decisions, including trying to pass an extra budget, after leading his ruling party to an unexpectedly strong election win to solidify his status in a fractious party.

(VOVWORLD) - A declassified US intelligence report saying it was plausible that the COVID-19 pandemic originated in a laboratory is unscientific and has no credibility, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said in a statement on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Sunday witnessed the signing of 26 cooperation agreements worth billions of USD as part of his trip for a climate change conference (COP26) and a working visit to the UK.

(VOVWORLD) - Vice Chairman of Hai Phong City’s People’s Committee Le Khac Nam has worked with a delegation led by Ms. Aberg Ellen Ulrika from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) on a dossier seeking UNESCO’s recognition of “Ha Long Bay-Cat Ba Archipelago” as a World Heritage site.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam treasures and wishes to enhance its effective and substantive cooperation with the UK, including Scotland, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at a Sunday meeting with First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Sunday received leaders of a number of businesses and universities in Edinburgh, Scotland, as part of his trip to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) and visit to the UK.