The Gilgamesh Tablet, which features inscriptions in Sumerian, is considered one of the world’s oldest religious texts. The U.S. will return a 3,500-year-old clay tablet previously owned by craft retail chain Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. to Iraq after the Justice Department concluded it was stolen around the start of the Gulf War and sold illegally in the U.S. market.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian meets UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss in New YorkIranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says European countries are only facilitating the United States’ violations against Iran with their silence and inaction on Washington’s measures targeting the Islamic Republic.

A healthcare worker administers a SINOVAC Covid-19 vaccine on a minor during the Numolux/SINOVAC Paediatric Covid-19 Vaccine Clinical Trial at the Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University in Pretoria, on September 10, 2021.The chief economist of the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday called for coordinated action and greater accountability to ensure that the world meets a target of vaccinating 40% of people in every country against COVID-19 by the end of 2021.