(VOVWORLD) - A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane touched down at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Monday, becoming the first international commercial flight to land in Kabul after the Taliban takeover on August 15.

(VOVWORLD) - Iran will allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to service nuclear monitoring equipment in Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to a joint statement issued after a meeting between Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami and IAEA Director Rafael Grossi on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - Britain's state-run National Health Service will on Monday begin the world's biggest trial of a blood test that can be used to detect more than 50 types of cancer before symptoms appear.

(VOVWORLD) - Rapper Lil Nas X and pop star Justin Bieber won the top prizes at MTV's annual Video Music Awards (VMA) show on Sunday, in a ceremony packed with surprise appearances, live performances and thousands of masked fans.

(VOVWORLD) - The United Nations will begin on Monday to distribute cash aid to thousands of poor families in the besieged Gaza Strip under a program funded by Qatar, the UN’s Middle East envoy Tor Wennesland said Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - North Korea carried out successful tests of a new long-range cruise missile over the weekend, state media said on Monday, seen by analysts as possibly the country's first such weapon with a nuclear capability.

(VOVWORLD) - The Hanoi Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs reported that over the past two days, an addition of 40,000 people and households received financial support with a total amount of nearly 8 billion VND.

(VOVWORLD) - HCM city, Vietnam’s current largest COVID-19 hotspot, will basically continue strict social distancing rules under Directive 16 until the end of September, municipal Vice Chairman Duong Anh Duc said Sunday night.

(VOVWORLD) - The rate of people infected with COVID-19 in high-risk and very high-risk areas fell from 3.6% and 2.7% to 1.3% of people who have been tested so far, according to the Ho Chi Minh City Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control.

(VOVWORLD) - Many European parliaments have showed their support for sharing vaccines with, and transferring vaccine technology to Vietnam, according to Chairman of the National Assembly’s Foreign Affairs Committee Vu Hai Ha.