(VOVWORLD) - Veteran rock musician Bob Weir, the Grateful Dead's rhythm guitarist who helped guide the legendary psychedelic jam band through decades of change and success, has died at age 78, his family said in a statement on Saturday.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Saturday attended the groundbreaking ceremony for three major education infrastructure projects aimed at improving learning conditions for students from ethnic minority and mountainous regions.

(VOVWORLD) - A new industrial and logistics project worth nearly 35 million US dollars has officially broken ground in Hai Phong city.

(VOVWORLD) - On Sunday, Myanmar officially entered the second phase of its first general election since the 2021 coup. This is a major political event, conducted in three phases with more than 21,000 polling stations nationwide.

(VOVWORLD) - The US Central Command (USCENTCOM) confirmed that the United States carried out “large-scale airstrikes” against the self-proclaimed Islamic State (IS) group in Syria on Saturday in retaliation for a December 2025 attack that killed three Americans.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order declaring a national emergency to "safeguard Venezuelan oil revenue held in US Treasury accounts from attachment or judicial process," ensuring the funds are preserved "to advance US foreign policy objectives," according to a release by the White House.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Secretary of the Government’s Party Committee, on Sunday chaired a conference to review the performance of the Government’s Party Committee in 2025 and outline tasks for 2026.

(VOVWORLD) - Tensions escalated in Minneapolis, Minnesota, after an ICE agent fatally shot a woman on January 7. Authorities said the woman drove her car toward officers.

(VOVWORLD) - On Saturday, the town of West Point in eastern Mississippi was shaken by a series of shootings at multiple locations that left six people dead.

(VOVWORLD) - Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has declared that national security is a “red line” as authorities move to suppress growing anti-government protests.