The UN has issued a rare call to halt arms sales to Myanmar in response to this year's violent military coup.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said his country needs to prepare for both "dialogue and confrontation" with the US, and "especially to get fully prepared for confrontation".
China has warned the G7 leaders that the days when a "small" group of countries decided the fate of the world were long gone.
China has approved the emergency use of a Covid-19 vaccine for those as young as three, according to a spokesperson for Sinovac who spoke to AFP. That would make it the first country to offer jabs to young children.
India has ordered 300 million doses of an unapproved coronavirus vaccine amid a devastating second wave.
China has announced that it will allow couples to have up to three children, after census data showed a steep decline in birth rates.
China has denounced US efforts to further investigate whether Covid-19 came from a Chinese lab.
The US has issued a travel warning for Japan over the country's Covid-19 surge, amid heightened scrutiny just weeks before the Tokyo Olympics.
The authorities in the Indian capital Delhi have called for help from the army as the city grapples with a brutal second wave of Covid-19 cases.
India's deadly Covid-19 second wave has devastated big cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Lucknow and Pune. Hospitals and crematoriums have run out of space, and funerals are taking place in car parks. But the pandemic has now firmly gripped many smaller cities, towns and villages where the devastation is largely under-reported.
Russia's unmanned Luna-25 spacecraft has crashed into the Moon after spinning out of control, officials say.
Donald Trump has confirmed that he will not take part in Republican presidential debates with his rivals in the race for the White House.