With hospitals scrabbling for beds and oxygen in response to a deadly second surge in infections

We must do everything we can to end this vicious cycle, says said UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres

We are entering a period of potential international instability, says General Mark Milley

Asked how many rounds of Saudi-Iranian talks Iraq had hosted, Iraqi PM Salih replied: 'More than once'

Some 2.5 million pilgrims used to visit the holiest sites of Islam in Makkah and Medina before the Covid-19 pandemic

It has also drawn ire on social media for using some of the Covid relief funds to build a statue of a giant squid

The former US President was also permanently banned from Twitter Inc, where he has more than 88 million followers

India has faced criticism for a slow vaccine campaign as it battles a second wave of coronavirus infections

Crude oil prices also got support from a large fall in US inventories

"Two delegates tested positive so the entire delegation is now self isolating," a British official said