(VOVWORLD) - Filippo Grandi, the head of the UN Refugee Agency, criticized countries for closing their borders to desperate refugees, saying that their refusal to allow migrants to dock is creating a dangerous congestion at sea.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 35.6 million people around the world had been infected with the novel coronavirus, and more than 1 million of them had died as of Tuesday afternoon, according to worldometers.info.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has gone 34 straight days without a single local infection of COVID-19.

(VOVWORLD) - The COVID-19 pandemic could trigger a debt crisis in some countries, so investors must be ready for granting some form of relief that could also include debt cancellation, World Bank President David Malpass said on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - Four men went on trial in Britain Monday in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants whose bodies were found in a truck in southeast England last year.

(VOVWORLD) - The Nobel Prize in Medicine has been jointly awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice "for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus." The Prize was held at Sweden's Karolinska Institute on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev said Sunday that Armenia must provide a schedule to withdraw troops from the Nagorno-Karabakh region in order to end the fighting.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Donald Trump could be discharged from the hospital where he is being treated for COVID-19 as soon as Monday, according to his doctors, although his condition remains unclear and outside experts warn that his case may be severe.

(VOVWORLD) - Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada, better known as Kenzo, who created his label in Paris in the 1970s, died on Sunday, the brand that still carries his name said.

(VOVWORLD) - The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has proposed building an airport for domestic flights in the central province of Quang Tri.