(VOVworld) - Vietnam has been elected to the UNESCO Executive Committee with a high vote support of 156. Foreign Ministry spokesman Le Hai Binh told the press on Thursday that...
(VOVworld) - A powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Indonesia on Wednesday, US seismologists said, with some reports of minor property damage but no casualties recorded so far
(VOVworld) - Russian aircraft hit underground shelters and air defense artillery positions of Islamic State (IS) forces in Syria’s Homs province
(VOVworld) - Rebels in South Sudan have abducted 12 UN contractors operating a barge carrying fuel, weapons, and equipment for international peacekeepers
(VOVworld) – In reply to reporters’ questions on Vietnam’s response to a UN resolution passed on Wednesday that urges the US to end its embargoes on Cuba
(VOVworld) - A helicopter belonging to Libya’s Tripoli-based government was shot down Tuesday, killing at least nine passengers
(VOVworld) – The US State Department said on Monday that the next negotiations on ending the Syrian conflict could occur as soon as October 30, and the talks eventually must involve Iran...
(VOVworld) – The United Nations (UN) said on Monday that it stands ready to support Afghanistan and Pakistan after a powerful earthquake struck northeastern Afghanistan
(VOVworld) – US Special Forces helped Kurd and Iraqi forces rescue 70 IS hostages facing “imminent mass execution” early Thursday morning at a prison near Hawijah, Iraq, but one American service...
(VOVworld)- Moscow says Syrian President Bashar Assad and Russian President Vladimir Putin have held talks on the situation in Syria in Russia's capital
(VOVworld) - The United States and Russia are set to sign an "understanding" specifying how pilots can avoid each other over Syria as the two powers conduct separate bombing campaigns, a...
(VOVworld) – The Philippine government strongly protests China’s construction and operation of two lighthouses on artificial islands in the East Sea, the Philippines’s Foreign Affairs Department said on Monday
(VOVworld)- Indonesia on Friday launched its biggest ever operation to put out annual slash-and-burn forest fires that cloak Southeast Asia with a hazardous haze
(VOVworld)- The Russian defence ministry said on Friday all its planes in Syria had safely returned to base and all its drones were operating “as planned” after Turkish warplanes shot down...
(VOVworld) – US and Russian military officials said Thursday that the two countries are getting closer to an agreement on establishing safe flight zones in Syria
(VOVworld) - US Secretary of State John Kerry plans to travel to the Middle East to call for calm amid a spate of violence between Israelis and Palestinians. State Department spokesman...
(VOVworld) – Spokesman for the Vietnam’s Foreign Ministry Le Hai Binh gave the media Vietnam’s response to the US Department of State’s report on international religious freedom in 2014...
(VOVworld) – The Islamic State confirmed the death of a senior commander on Tuesday. An IS spokesman said that Abu Mutaz al-Qurashi was killed in a targeted airstrike. US officials previously said Qurashi...
(VOVworld) – White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Tuesday that there are “strong indications” that Iran’s test of a new precision-guided ballistic missile on Sunday violated a UN Security...
(VOVworld) - The Islamic State (IS) is the prime suspect in a twin suicide bombing that killed at least 97 people in the capital city of Ankara on Saturday