
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said the US sanctions on the country have failed to prevent the Islamic Republic from making progress. “The projects that were inaugurated today … are a proper response to those who sought to bring our country to its knees in 2018 and 2019,” Rouhani said on ...

Russia, the country with the world’s third-largest coronavirus outbreak, passed the symbolic milestone of 500,000 confirmed cases on Thursday, after the capital lifted tight lockdown restrictions this week. The latest figures took the country’s total to 502,436 cases, after 8,779 new cases were recorded in the last day, a government ...