* Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi exchanged congratulations Sunday with DPRK Foreign Minister Ri Son Gwon on the 60th anniversary of the signing of the China-DPRK Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance.
* Bulgarians all over the world went to polls on Sunday to vote in the country's early parliamentary elections. More than 6.7 million voters are eligible to elect 240 lawmakers from 15 political parties and eight coalitions, according to official data.
* Some 3 million voters of the Republic of Moldova are called on Sunday to cast their ballots in snap parliamentary elections, in which 20 political parties, two blocs and one independent candidate compete.
* Oman's Sultan visited Saudi Arabia on Sunday on his first official overseas trip since assuming power last year, with talks expected to focus on the Yemen war and economic and investment cooperation as Muscat looks to shore up its finances.
* Britain's international trade minister Liz Truss will discuss how to tackle threats to free and fair trade with US Trade Representative Katherine Tai during a five-day visit to the United States from Sunday.
* Mainland China reported 24 new COVID-19 cases on July 10, down from 26 cases a day earlier, the country's national health authority said on Sunday. The total of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Mainland China now stands at 92,039, while the death toll remained at 4,636.
* Brazil registered 1,205 more COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours, raising its national death toll to 532,893, the health ministry said Saturday. Brazil currently has the world's second-highest pandemic death toll, after the United States, and the third-largest caseload, after the United States and India.
* India's COVID-19 tally rose to 30,837,222 on Sunday as 42,766 new cases were registered during the past 24 hours across the country, showed the federal health ministry's latest data. Besides, 895 deaths due to the pandemic since Saturday morning took the death toll to 408,040.
* Cuba's Ministry of Public Health announced on Saturday a new series of sanitary measures for Cubans traveling in the country, which will enter into force on July 15 with the aim of containing the spread of COVID-19.
* Japan will start accepting applications for vaccination passports from July 26 for people who have been fully inoculated against COVID-19 to travel internationally, the top government spokesman said Sunday.
* Russia logged 25,033 new coronavirus infections over the past 24 hours as the Delta variant continues to spread, taking the nationwide tally to 5,783,333, the official monitoring and response center said Sunday. The number of recoveries in Russia increased by 17,382 to 5,200,219, according to the center.
* Australia's travel bubble with Singapore has been delayed until the end of 2021.
* The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany increased by 745 to 3,736,165, data from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) for infectious diseases showed on Sunday. The reported death toll rose by 6 to 91,231, the tally showed.
* Malaysia reported another 9,105 new COVID-19 infections, the health ministry said on Sunday, bringing the national total to 836,296. Another 91 more deaths have been reported, bringing the death toll to 6,158.
* The Thai army is joining the police and other government personnel in enforcing a 14-day curfew in Bangkok and nine provinces, Supreme Commander Chalermpol Srisawat said on Sunday. The new infections took the nation's total number to 336,371 cases and 2,711 deaths.
* Indonesian President Joko Widodo has expressed condolences and honored the deceased during the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. Indonesia's Health Ministry said on Sunday that the COVID-19 cases in the archipelago rose by 36,197 within one day to 2,527,203, with the death toll adding by 1,007 to 66,464.
* The Philippines' Department of Health (DOH) on Sunday reported 5,916 new COVID-19 infections, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 1,473,025. The death toll climbed to 25,921 after 105 more patients died from the viral disease, the DOH said.
* Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday his country signed a deal with Pfizer to receive a new batch of COVID-19 vaccines in August. Israel is trying to halt a new outbreak of the Delta variant and launched a campaign calling teens over 12 years old to get vaccinated.
* Rocket fire targeted the largest US base in eastern Syria on Sunday, the latest in a string of hits targeting the facility recently, according to the state news agency SANA.
* Heavy rains and flooding have forced thousands of people to evacuate in China's southwestern province of Sichuan, with authorities on Sunday urging citizens across the country to brace for more downpours.
* The border between Iran and Afghanistan is fully secured and peaceful, a high-ranking commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said on Sunday in a visit to a border crossing.
* Somalia has vowed to sustain ongoing fight against al-Shabab militants despite increased attacks in the country by the group.
