(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has urged localities to swiftly restore essential infrastructure such as electricity, clean water, transportation, and telecommunications; continue reviewing and mobilizing all possible resources to supply food to affected households and relocate residents to safe areas; and immediately resolve issues related to schools and healthcare while quickly restoring livelihoods.

(VOVWORLD) - Party General Secretary To Lam received in Hanoi on Thursday Mr. Li Shulei, Member of the Political Bureau, Secretary of the Party Secretariat, and Head of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee (CPC), who is visiting Vietnam and co-chairing the 20th Theoretical Workshop between the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and the CPC.

(VOVWORLD) - Long Thanh International Airport must serve as a new model of modern, sustainable, and smart aviation infrastructure, Party General Secretary To Lam said during a working trip to Dong Nai province on Thursday to inspect the project’s construction and discuss its development strategy amid regional and global competition.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed a spending bill allowing the federal government to reopen after 43 days, the longest shutdown in American history. Before signing the bill in the Oval Office, he blamed the Democrats for the government shutdown.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh attended the National Great Unity Festival in Gia Lai province on Tuesday to mark the 95th anniversary of the Traditional Day of Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) (November 18).

(VOVWORLD) - Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday discussed the cooperation agreement between Tehran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

(VOVWORLD) - King Abdullah II Ibn Al Hussein of Jordan and his delegation left Hanoi on Thursday, concluding a two-day official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of State President Luong Cuong. During the visit, King Abdullah II and his delegation laid wreaths and paid respect to President Ho Chi Minh at his mausoleum, as well as at the Monument to Heroic Martyrs in Hanoi.

(VOVWORLD) -The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill to end the longest federal government shutdown in history, paving the way for the resumption of federal food aid programs, wage payments to hundreds of thousands of government workers, and the restoration of air traffic control operations.

(VOVWORLD) - Norway may support a European Union plan to use frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine but will not use its sovereign wealth fund as the sole financial backstop for the scheme, said Norwegian Finance Minister Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday during a visit to Belgium.

(VOVWORLD) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Wednesday that US President Donald Trump’s decision to boycott the Group of 20 summit next weekend in South Africa is “their loss”, adding that the US is giving up its role as the biggest economy in the world.