Xinhua world news summary at 0030 GMT, July 20
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MONTEVIDEO -- Uruguay's Public Health Minister Daniel Salinas announced Monday that the vaccination campaign against COVID-19 will be extended to large companies through the installation of mobile vaccination sites.
The campaign will begin once the neighborhood plan begun on Monday in the capital Montevideo is completed, with the goal of promoting immunization among people who have not visited traditional vaccination centers. (Uruguay-Vaccination)
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UNITED NATIONS -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday welcomed the agreement by the Afghan government and the Taliban to expedite peace talks, said Guterres' press office.
The secretary-general is encouraged by the joint declaration issued in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday, under which the two sides agreed to accelerate their high-level engagements in order to find a "timely and just solution" to the conflict, said the press office in a note to correspondents. (UN-Afghanistan-Taliban)
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Monday urged financial regulators to "act quickly" on the regulation of stablecoins, a type of digital currency that is pegged to the U.S. dollar.
"The Secretary underscored the need to act quickly to ensure there is an appropriate U.S. regulatory framework in place," the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement following a meeting of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets. (U.S.-stablecoin regulation)
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DAMASCUS -- Israel carried out a missile attack against military sites in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo on Monday night, state news agency SANA reported.
The attack targeted military sites in the Safira area in southern Aleppo, said SANA. (Syria-Israel-Missile Attack)
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ROME -- The blue-chip index on the Italian Stock Exchange closed 3.3 percent lower on Monday, pushed lower by worries that the fast-spreading Delta variant of the coronavirus may start to impact the country's economy.
The Milan-based bourse called the losses during the first session of the week "dramatic," also noting that the Delta variant worries pushed interest rates on government debt higher. (Italy-Pandemic-Stock) Enditem
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