(VOVWORLD) - The Hezbollah force in Lebanon announced Thursday that it launched a series of rockets into the northern region of Israel in response to Israeli airstrikes that targeted the village of Deir Kifa in South Lebanon and killed a member of Hezbollah.

(VOVWORLD) - Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state visit to Vietnam on Wednesday and Thursday has received positive evaluations from international media who said the trip will create a new momentum for the promotion of the Vietnam-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership.

(VOVWORLD) - Friday marks the 99th anniversary of Vietnam Revolutionary Press Day, June 21. For nearly a century, the Vietnam Revolutionary Press has always been at the vanguard of the Party’s ideological front, while contributing to Vietnam’s revolutionary cause, national development, and defense.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam and Russia agreed to continue regular and substantive high-level political dialogue, strengthen contacts through party and parliamentary channels, and continue to coordinate actions at inter-parliamentary forums, according to Joint Statement issued on Thursday on the occasion of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s state visit to Vietnam.

(VOVWORLD) - US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Kritenbrink will visit Hanoi on Friday and Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - A spokesperson for the Vietnamese Foreign Ministry has reaffirmed that Vietnam’s sovereignty over Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) is in accordance with international law and legitimate rights over its territorial waters established in the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnamese President To Lam and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Thursday had a cordial meeting with leaders of the Vietnam-Russia Friendship Association and Vietnamese alumni who studied in Russia.

(VOVWORLD) -Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Vietnam is taking place when the two countries are celebrating the 30th anniversary of signing the Treaty on the Basic Principles of Friendly Relations, which open a new stage of development in the traditional friendship and comprehensive strategic partnership between Vietnam and Russia, President To Lam said at a grand banquet for the Russian guest.

(VOVWORLD) - National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to continue to support the cooperation between the two countries' legislatures, saying it is one of the important pillars of the friendship and cooperative relationship between the two countries.

(VOVWORLD) - Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum in Hanoi on Thursday within his state visit to Vietnam.