(VOVWORLD) - The two Koreas on Monday restored their hotlines that the North severed months ago, with Pyongyang urging Seoul to step up efforts to improve relations after criticising what it called double standards over weapons development.

(VOVWORLD) - Afghanistan is facing a breakdown of its economic and social systems, Josep Borrell, European Union's foreign policy chief, said on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - Jordan's King Abdullah received a phone call from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the royal palace said on Sunday in what officials said has been the first such communication since the start of the conflict in Syria a decade ago.

(VOVWORLD) - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas met an Israeli government delegation in Ramallah Sunday evening, the second meeting between the two sides in a month, said sources on both sides.

(VOVWORLD) - As of Monday noon, the world had recorded more than 235 million COVID-19 infections, with more than 4.8 million deaths, according to worldometers.info,

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese culture and tourism were showcased on Saturday at the Autumn Multicultural Festival in the old town of Augsburg in the German state of Bavaria.

(VOVWORLD) - 99% people aged 18 years and older in Phu Nhuan district have been fully vaccinated as Phu Nhuan on Sunday became the first district of Ho Chi Minh City to complete vaccination.

(VOVWORLD) - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc has sent a letter calling for the improvement of work skills to help Vietnam develop sustainably.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) Central Committee, in coordination with relevant agencies, launched a program Sunday to call for assistance to children whose parents have died of COVID-19.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam logged additional 5,376 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours as of 5 pm Sunday. They included 9 imported cases and 5,367 locally transmitted cases in 39 cities and provinces.