(VOVWORLD) - Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has praised the visit by Lao Defence Minister Chansamone Channhalat to Vietnam, stressing that it will help consolidate and boost the Vietnam-Laos traditional friendship and special solidarity.

(VOVWORLD) - Campaigning officially began on Monday for Russia's presidential election in March, in which President Vladimir Putin is widely expected to win a fourth term that would keep him in power until 2024.

(VOVWORLD) - President Tran Dai Quang has requested that Military Region 1 armed forces be ready to deter hostile forces from taking advantage of ethnic and religious issues to undermine national unity and sabotage the Party and State.

(VOVWORLD) -Eastern Libyan military commander Khalifa Haftar warned that Libya will enter a dangerous period after an expiry of the 2015 Libyan Political Agreement on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) -Turkey will open an embassy in East Jerusalem, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday, days after leading calls at a summit of Muslim leaders for the world to recognize it as the capital of Palestine.

(VOVWORLD) -At least nine people were killed and more than 50 wounded when two suicide bombers stormed a packed Christian church in Quetta on Sunday in the latest attack claimed by Islamic State in Pakistan.

(VOVWORLD) -French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday said he believes it will be necessary to work with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and his representatives to end the civil war and bring stability of the country.

(VOVWORLD) - Israel carried out a series of airstrikes against Hamas movement’s targets on the Gaza strip on Sunday night.

(VOVWORLD) -The past 11 months witnessed a significant surge in foreign investment in Vietnam, which jumped 53 percent to reach 33 billion USD of new capital, according to the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

(VOVWORLD) -Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has handed a decision to recognize Tam Diep city’s completion of building new style rural area.