(VOVWORLD) - South Korea and the US have agreed to hold joint drills in mid-August on a limited scale.

(VOVWORLD) - Iran will continue its nuclear program for peaceful purposes in compliance with International Atomic Energy Organization (IAEA) regulations, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - A Vietnam Airlines flight departed Hanoi on Tuesday bound for Equatorial Guinea to bring home 219 Vietnamese citizens, 120 of them infected with coronavirus.

(VOVWORLD) - 280 Vietnamese citizens were brought home from the US on a repatriation flight which left San Francisco International Airport on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - 16.6 million people have been infected with the novel coronavirus, which has claimed more than 657,000 lives worldwide, according to the worldometers.info.

(VOVWORLD) - Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh on Monday presented 60 gift sets to policy beneficiaries and disadvantaged students in Tam Duong district, Lai Chau province, on the occasion of the 73rd War Invalids and Martyrs’ Day (July 27).

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam affirmed its support for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Mali at a online meeting of the UN Security Council on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam’s accession to ASEAN in 1995 was one of the most important milestones in Vietnam’s history since the 1945 August Revolution, and in the development of ASEAN, according to an article by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh marking 25 years of Vietnam’s ASEAN membership.

(VOVWORLD) - A Scottish pilot, who spent more than two months on a ventilator in Vietnam, has warned Britons "not to be blasé about coronavirus" as lockdown eases.

(VOVWORLD) - The US has doubled its investment – to nearly one billion US dollars – to expedite development of a potential COVID-19 vaccine by American firm Moderna, which on Monday begins the final phase of clinical trials.