Hossein Dehghan, a military adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said on Friday that the assassination of Iranian Defense Ministry official Mohsen Fakhrizadeh would not be left without response

The Japanese government may require international travelers planning to attend the rescheduled Tokyo Summer Olympic Games in 2021 to have private health insurance, Japan's Kyodo News agency reports on Friday, citing sources familiar with the plan

The Tokyo Olympics Committee on Friday announced its revised test event calendar for the Olympics, which was postponed for one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the events slated to take place between March and May 2021

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations for the first time topped the list of China's largest trading partners in the first half of 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic shocks, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said on Friday

Russia's state corporation Rostec is expected to start full-scale production of the new guided missile Bulat, which is designed to strike lighty-armored equipment, in 2022, Bekkhan Ozdoev, Rostec's industrial director of the cluster of weapons, said in an interview with Sputnik

The opening of ski resorts is the prerogative of the EU member states, and it is not in the competence of the European Commission, however Brussels calls on EU member states to coordinate their positions in this regard, European Commission spokesman for health, food safety and transport, Stefan De Keersmaecker said on Thursday

AstraZeneca's error in the dosing regimen of its coronavirus vaccine, which showed higher efficacy results, though fortuitous, might lead to an overall revision of clinical trials, George Rutherford, a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California-San Francisco, told Sputnik

Russian Space Agency Roscosmos plans to start talks on the future of the International Space Station (ISS) with its partners on the project next year, the press service of the state corporation said Thursday