* World stocks clung close to record highs on Monday as worries about the Delta variant offset positive sentiment from surging euro zone business activity and a welcome US jobs report.
* OPEC+ ministers will look to salvage their oil output talks on Monday after clashing last week when the United Arab Emirates balked at a proposed eight-month extension to output curbs.
* Indonesia reported on Monday a record 29,745 new coronavirus infections and 558 deaths, health ministry data showed. The figures brought the country's total number of cases to 2,313,829 and deaths to 61,140.
* More than 1.3 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in China as of Sunday, as the country continues to ramp up its inoculation drive, the National Health Commission announced on Monday.
* Brazil registered 830 more deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, bringing the national death toll to 524,417, the health ministry said Sunday. A total of 27,783 new infections were detected, raising the total caseload to 18,769,808, the ministry said.
* Russia reported 24,353 new COVID-19 cases on Monday, including 6,557 in Moscow, taking the official national tally since the pandemic began to 5,635,294. The government coronavirus task force said 654 people had died of coronavirus-linked causes in the past 24 hours, pushing the national death toll to 138,579.
* Australian authorities trying to stamp out an outbreak in Sydney of the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19 said on Monday that the next two days would be "absolutely critical" in deciding whether to extend a stay-home order beyond July 9.
* Ukraine has approved the vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson, the health ministry said.
* Health Minister Olivier Veran on Sunday urged as many French people as possible to get a vaccine, warning that France could be heading for a fourth wave of the pandemic by the end of the month due to the highly transmissible Delta variant.
* Republic of Korea is in talks with mRNA vaccine makers including Pfizer and Moderna to produce shots in the country and is ready to offer the capacity to make up to 1 billion doses immediately, a senior government official said.
* Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Sunday he will give the COVAX system an ultimatum this week to send the country's share of vaccines as all pending payments had been made to the global vaccine-sharing scheme.
* The United Arab Emirates has approved Moderna's vaccine for emergency use, the fifth vaccine to receive such approval by the Gulf Arab state, the health ministry said in a statement to state news agency WAM on Sunday.
* Israel is in talks with other countries about a deal to unload its surplus of Pfizer/BioNtech vaccines, doses of which are due to expire by the end of the month, officials said on Sunday.
* Rockets fire targeted a US military base in Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour on Sunday night, the state news agency SANA reported. The shelling targeted the base in the al-Omar oil field in eastern countryside of Deir al-Zour, SANA reported.
* Saudi Arabia approved on Sunday the security plan for 2021 Hajj season that takes into account precautions against COVID-19, the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported.
* More than 1,000 Afghan security personnel fled across the border into Tajikistan on Sunday following Taliban advances in northern Afghanistan, the Tajik border guard service said.
