(VOVWORLD) - Polls opened in Iran on Friday for a run-off presidential election, which is a tight race between low-key lawmaker Masoud Pezeshkian and former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh received visiting Lao Deputy PM and Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleumxay Kommasith in Hanoi on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam-Japan Festival 2024 promoting bilateral cooperative relationships between Vietnam and Japan and between Da Nang and Japanese localities opened in Da Nang on Thursday night.

(VOVWORLD) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US President Joe Biden on Thursday he has decided to send a delegation to resume stalled negotiations on a hostage release deal with Hamas, their administrations said.

(VOVWORLD) - The centre-left Labour party won a massive majority in the 650-seat parliament. Rishi Sunak's Conservatives suffered their worst electoral defeat in the party's long history as voters punished them for a cost of living crisis, failing public services, and a series of scandals.

(VOVWORLD) - Keir Starmer vowed to bring change to Britain as its next prime minister after his Labour Party surged to a landslide victory in a parliamentary election on Friday, ending 14 years of often tumultuous Conservative government.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Thursday sent a message of condolence to his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for the casualties caused by a stampede in Uttar Pradesh two days earlier.

(VOVWORLD) - Indian police announced on Thursday they had arrested six people (four men and two women) in connection with a tragic stampede at a Hindu religious event in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India on Tuesday that left 121 people dead and many injured.

(VOVWORLD) -The Vietnamese Consulate General in Mumbai has coordinated with the Vietnam Trade Office in India to deploy a series of activities to boost trade promotion in the western Indian state of Maharashtra this week.

(VOVWORLD) - Ensuring equal access to digital technology and benefits from digital economy for all is a priority of Vietnam, said Minister Counsellor Cung Duc Han, Deputy Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the UN.