BRUSSELS - The European Parliament on Friday adopted a new regulation by 505 votes to 67 and 109 abstentions that will allow COVID-19 vaccines and treatments to be developed more quickly.
KUWAIT - Britain's health ministry said that some 44,650 people have died of coronavirus after 48 new fatalities were reported, confirming its place as one of the worst-affected countries by the pandemic.
PARIS - The leaders of Serbia and Kosovo agreed on a process to resume reconciliation talks and will meet in Brussels mid-July to further this goal, France and Germany announced.
ISTANBUL - Turkey's top court annulled a 1934 Cabinet decree that had ordered Istanbul's Hagia Sophia to have become a museum, allowing it to be a mosque again.
CAIRO - Egyptian Ministry of Health registered 981 new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections and 85 deaths. (end) ibi