UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday said that two peacekeepers deployed at the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) have died this week due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

Consumer spending in the United States fell nearly 14 percent in April, the highest percentage in six decades, due to the measures imposed to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic, US Commerce Department data revealed on Friday

Medical masks and disposable gloves widely used across the world as protective means amid the COVID-19 pandemic may result in the seas and oceans polluted with non-degradable and non-recyclable material, the French environmental organization, Operation Clean Sea, told Sputnik

The European Commission said on Friday in a press release that it approved a loan worth 500 million euros ($557 million) to Ukraine as part of its fourth macro-financial assistance (MFA) program, which is the largest amount of money the EU has ever allocated to a single partner country

A further 2,819 new positive tests for COVID-19 have been reported in Iran over the past 24 hours, spokesperson for the Iranian Health Ministry Kianush Jahanpur said on Friday, the second day in a row that public health authorities in the country have reported a sharp rise in the daily number of new cases

The US capital area registered twice as many new COVID-19 cases on Thursday compared to the previous day as the region begins reopening from lockdowns

The Finnish government has approved a customs agreement with Iran that was signed three years ago, according to a statement published on Thursday

The active development of the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market poses risks for the sustainability of pipeline gas supplies, Russian Deputy Energy Minister Anatoly Yanovsky said on Thursday

China's National People's Congress (NPC) passed on Thursday a resolution to develop a bill on Hong Kong security

The strategic French-Japanese alliance of car manufacturers among Renault, Nissan and Mitsubishi Group will modify the basis of its partnership to support member-company competitiveness and profitability based on each brand's flagship model and geographic leverage, the Renault Group said in a press release on Wednesday

Police in Belgium and France have detained 26 people involved in the incident of Vietnamese migrants frozen to death in a lorry during an attempted smuggling into the United Kingdom last fall, Europol, the European Union's Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, said in a press release on Wednesday