The coronavirus disease death toll in the United States has topped 200,000, the NBC News broadcaster reports on Saturday, citing its own tally

The UN sanctions relief for Iran agreed under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) will continue beyond September 20, a deadline unilaterally set by the United States, and any action taken to reimpose sanctions would be "incapable of having any legal effect," the UK, France and Germany the E3 group said in a letter to the UN Security Council (UNSC) president, shared with Sputnik

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that Russia was forced to create hypersonic weapons after the United States withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) in 2002

India recently withdrew from Kavkaz 2020 multinational exercise to be held in Russia in the third week of September, citing logistics difficulties due to covid-19 pandemic as the reason for its withdrawal