(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Thursday received Steven Vanackere, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chairman of the Senate members group of the Christian Democratic and Flemish party.

(VOVWORLD) - At least 19 people were killed and dozens injured at a college in the Black Sea region of Crimea on Wednesday when a student went through the building shooting at fellow pupils before killing himself, Russian law enforcement officials said.

(VOVWORLD) - Belgium’s lower house of parliament backs expanded cooperation with Vietnam at all levels, said President of the Chamber of Representatives Siegfried Bracke at a meeting with Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Brussels on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam and Belgium issued a joint statement during Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s visit to Belgium this week, agreeing to expand relations in diplomacy, economics, trade, education, and science.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has made great progress in human development and multidimensional poverty reduction, but it still faces challenges in minimizing differences between regions and population groups, the gender gap, and environmental issues regarding carbon dioxide emission and biodiversity.

(VOVWORLD) - The 10th Vietnam-US Joint Committee Meeting on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (JCM10) took place in Washington DC from Monday to Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - A ceremony in Hanoi marking Day for the Poor in Vietnam 2018 was broadcast live on Vietnam’s VTV1 television channel on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - The UK will have to pay the EU 47 billion USD if it fails to agree a trade deal, UK Chancellor Philip Hammond told his cabinet on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and visiting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Wednesday signed a Comprehensive Partnership and Strategic Cooperation agreement.

(VOVWORLD) - A member of the Vietnamese mission to the United Nations delivered a speech on “Eradication of poverty and other development issues” before the UN Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) in New York on Wednesday.