Subsidies paid for basic goods and energy products in Iran reached nearly $60 billion in year to March.

The British government will be exposed to financial risks for decades over the estimated £372 billion it spent on pandemic-containing measures, according to two reports by UK parliament's Public Accounts Committee.

Campaigners say the world's nine nuclear-armed states have continued to swell their spending on nuclear weapons amid the pandemic.

The US government sent nearly $1.4 billion to deceased Americans as part of its response to the coronavirus pandemic, a watchdog says.

Iran says hundreds of more villages would have access to clean water by March 2021.