Despite occasional peace overtures, the conflict in Yemen is continuing unabated, with Saudi Arabia and Iran supporting either sides of the surrogate war.
On Monday, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed to have launched drone strikes against Saudi energy giant Aramco's facilities, amid an upsurge in fighting between the insurgents and the Riyadh-backed government in northern Yemen.
Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said the group had fired 17 drones and two missiles towards the kingdom.
A Ukraine soldier was killed on Sunday and another seriously wounded in artillery fire from Russia-backed separatist rebels, as hostilities rise sharply in the country’s east.
As of the reported attack, Ukraine says 27 soldiers have been killed in the east this year, more than half the number who died in all of 2020.
Attacks have intensified in recent weeks and Russia has built up troops along the Ukraine border.
India has recorded a massive surge of 168,912 Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours. With this, India has once again taken its spot as the second-worst hit nation with 13,527,717 cases in total, according to the health ministry.
India also witnessed a grim record of fatalities due to covid-19 in a single day in 2021, which stood at 904. The death toll from the deadly infection stands at 170,209.
India has overtaken Brazil to become the second-most affected country globally by the coronavirus.
Thirteen people who describe themselves as "victims of forced confessions broadcast on Chinese television" are urging European satellite operator Eutelsat to reconsider carrying Chinese channels CGTN and CCTV4.
The letter published by human rights watchdog Safeguard Defenders details a list of violations that the signatories say China is guilty of using to extort confessions from them and "refuse the right to a fair trial".
Bhutan has become the first country in the world to administer the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to almost all its eligible population.
Bhutan's swift vaccination campaign is nearly finished just 16 days after it began.
The tiny Himalayan kingdom wedged between India and China has vaccinated nearly 85% of its adult population since March 27. Overall, the country has vaccinated 62% of its 800,000 people.
According to a report by The Economist, only Israel (95.1%) and Seychelles (94.1%) have vaccinated a higher percentage of adults, but in months.