
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 ...

Senior adviser to the Iranian Foreign Minister for Special Political Affairs Ali Asghar Khaji and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vasilyevich Vershinin discussed the latest developments in Syria and Yemen. In a telephone conversation on Wednesday, Khaji and Vershinin talked about the escalation of the humanitarian crisis in Yemen due ...