(VOVWORLD) - EU leaders on Friday said they would maintain a threat to hit the US with counter-measures -- that include tariffs on Harley Davidson motorcycles and bourbon -- as long as a metals tariffs exemption granted by Washington remained temporary.

(VOVWORLD) - A high-level delegation of the Vietnamese National Assembly (NA), led by Vice Chairman Phung Quoc Hien, began a three-day working visit to Madagascar on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - The 2nd Mekong-Lancang Cooperation Week opened on Friday in Vientiane, Laos to mark the 2nd anniversary of the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation as well as promote this cooperation framework to the public.

(VOVWORLD) - A suspect has been killed after hostages were taken in a supermarket in a small town in the south of France Friday afternoon.

(VOVWORLD) - Vice state president Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh on Friday visited and offered condolences to relatives of the deceased people in Carina apartment fire in District 8, Ho Chi Minh City.

(VOVWORLD) - The Vietnamese government and people always want join the Republic of Korea’s efforts to lift the two countries’ strategic partnership to a new height, said President Tran Dai Quang on Friday at a banquet for President Moon Jae-in and his wife at the My Dinh National Convention Centre.

(VOVWORLD) - The 2018 Japan Cultural Exchange Festival is expected to help people of Vietnam and Japan to improve mutual understanding, contributing to boosting the Vietnam-Japan strategic partnership.

(VOVWORLD) - Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan left Hanoi on Saturday morning for Geneva, Switzerland, to attend the 138th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly (IPU-138) and related meetings during this weekend.

(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc received Republic of Korean President Moon Jae-in in Hanoi on Friday.

(VOVWORLD) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has paid a 2-day official visit to Vietnam.