(VOVWORLD) - US National Security Adviser Robert O'Brien said on Sunday that the United States would be unlikely to sign an agreement with the Afghan Taliban should the latter fail to comply with a deal on reduction of violence.

(VOVWORLD) - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has submitted his resignation to King Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah.

(VOVWORLD) - Iran's conservatives have claimed victory in a general election marked by the lowest turnout since the 1979 Islamic Revolution amid public anger against the government, an economic downturn and the disqualification of half the candidates.

(VOVWORLD) - More deaths from the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) were reported in Iran and Italy on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - The G20 countries will enhance global risk monitoring, including the recent outbreak of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), and stand ready to take further action to address those risks, according to finance ministers and central bank governors at the G20 summit which ended Sunday in Saudi Arabia.

(VOVWORLD) - Surgeons from Military Hospital 108 have successfully performed a limb transplant from a living donor, the first of its kind in the world, the Hanoi-based hospital said on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - Anyone returning from South Korea’s Daegu city or Gyeongsangbuk province will be strictly monitored, said Hanoi Mayor Nguyen Duc Chung at Monday’s meeting of the national steering committee for prevention and control of Covid-19.

(VOVWORLD) - Compulsory medical declarations are now required for all people coming to Vietnam from South Korea, according to a meeting of the national steering committee for new coronavirus prevention and control in Hanoi on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has adopted a number of measures to protect Vietnamese citizens living in the Republic of Korea, which reported a huge rise in the number of confirmed new coronavirus (SARS-Cov-2) infection cases over the last few days.

(VOVWORLD) - British officials said Sunday that 4 people have tested positive for the new coronavirus after returning from the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined at Yokohama port in Japan, bringing the total number of infected cases in the UK to 13.