(VOVWORLD) - State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc landed at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi on Saturday evening, concluding an official visit to Cuba and a working trip to New York for the high-level general debate of the UN General Assembly.

(VOVWORLD) - Germans went to the polls on Sunday in a national election too close to call, with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) mounting a strong challenge to retiring Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.

(VOVWORLD) - North Korea is willing to consider another summit with South Korea if mutual respect between the neighbours can be assured, state news agency KCNA said on Saturday, citing Kim Yo Jong, the sister of the North's leader Kim Jong Un.

(VOVWORLD) - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s just concluded visit to Cuba and working trip to New York for the high-level general debate of the UN General Assembly’s 76th session bear great significance and meet all set targets, said Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son.

(VOVWORLD) - Media outlets in the Czech Republic highlighted President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s remarks at the 76th session of the UN General Assembly, as well as Vietnam’s role in promoting multilateral cooperation and international law to solve global challenges.

(VOVWORLD) - The COVID-19 pandemic has been gradually under control, particularly in major hotbeds like HCM city, Binh Duong and Dong Nai, thanks to drastic measures and changes in the epidemic response strategy, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh told Sunday’s online conference on how best to support businesses amid COVID-19. The meeting was attended by top leaders of all provinces and cities and representatives of businesses nationwide.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam recorded 9,706 coronavirus cases from 5pm on Friday to 5 pm on Saturday, the Health Ministry said in its coronavirus update.

(VOVWORLD) - French President Emmanuel Macron spoke over the phone on Friday with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, during which Johnson had told Macron that Britain wanted to restore its co-operation with France.

(VOVWORLD) - Leaders of the United States, Japan, India and Australia vowed on Friday to pursue a free and open Indo-Pacific region at their first in-person summit in Washington DC.

(VOVWORLD) - Iran will return to talks on resuming compliance with the 2015 Iran nuclear deal "very soon," Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told reporters on Friday on the sidelines of a UN General Assembly meeting session in New York, but gave no specific date.