(VOVWORLD) - The United States has approved sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine from Denmark and the Netherlands as soon as pilot training is completed, a US official said on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - The West African bloc ECOWAS stands ready to intervene militarily in Niger should diplomatic efforts to reverse a coup there fail, a senior official told army chiefs who were meeting in Ghana on Thursday to discuss the details of a standby force.

(VOVWORLD) - More than 1,300 athletes, artisans, artists, visitors, and locals are participating in the 20th Festival of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Quang Nam province’s mountain areas.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Joe Biden is willing to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “without preconditions” to discuss the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Thursday.

(VOVWORLD) - Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has signed laws on the extension of martial law and general mobilization adopted earlier by the parliament for another 3 months until November 15.

(VOVWORLD) - The leaders of South Korea, Japan and the United States on Friday meet at the US presidential retreat Camp David for a summit that officials from the three countries say aims to usher in a new era of trilateral relations.

(VOVWORLD) - President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will pay an official visit to Vietnam from Sunday to Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnam-ASEAN International Furniture & Home Accessories Fair (VIFA ASEAN) 2023 is scheduled to run from August 29 to September 1 at Saigon Exhibition and Convention Center in Ho Chi Minh City.

(VOVWORLD) - Eleven central provinces will participate in the 4th edition of the Central Ethnic Festival scheduled to take place in Binh Dinh on 8-10 September.

(VOVWORLD) - President Vo Van Thuong on Thursday met with Vietnamese and foreign professors, doctors, and scientists, who are in Hanoi to attend the Vietnam International Dental Exhibition & Congress from August 17-19.