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

Moroccan Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb told Sputnik on Friday he was planning to hold negotiations with Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko on Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V next week

Morocco expects that the population will start receiving shots of a coronavirus vaccine developed by Chinese pharma giant Sinopharm's subsidiary, CNBG, in mid-December, Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb told Sputnik in an interview

Irish lawmaker Mick Wallace told Russian opposition activists at a debate in the European Parliament on Friday that EU countries are "not short of" corruption either

China is planning to launch a space telescope, Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM), in December to research gravitational waves and electromagnetic counterparts, the Xinhua news agency reported on Friday, citing the National Space Science Center under the Chinese Academy of Sciences