(VOVWORLD) - 27 European Union members on Wednesday in Brussels for the first time discussed EU-UK relations following Brexit.

(VOVWORLD) - Approximately 200 Catalan mayors gathered in Brussels on Tuesday to lobby for the freedom of ousted Catalan leaders detained in Spain after demanding independence for Catalonia.

(VOVWORLD) - US President Donald Trump’s APEC participation and his official visit to Vietnam this weekend aim to strengthen US cooperative ties with Vietnam in economy, trade, and security, US security advisor H.R. McMaster told reporters ahead of President Trump’s Asia tour.

(VOVWORLD) -Syria announced during United Nations climate talks in Bonn on Tuesday that it will sign the Paris agreement on climate change to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.

(VOVWORLD) -Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Economics from 21 APEC member economies hold the 29th APEC Ministerial Meeting (AMM-29) in Da Nang city on Wednesday. Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister cum Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh and Minister of Industry and Trade Tran Tuan Anh co-chaired the meeting which also drew representatives from APEC observation organizations.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam officially launched a “Welcome to APEC Vietnam 2017” postage stamp on Monday to commemorate the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week.

(VOVWORLD) - President Tran Dai Quang reiterated Vietnam’s consistent policy of considering Japan an important and long-term partner at Tuesday’s reception in Hanoi for Japanese Minister of Economic Revitalisation Toshimitsu Motegi.

(VOVWORLD) - The Concluding Senior Officials’ Meeting (CSOM) wrapped up in Da Nang City on Tuesday after 2 working days.

(VOVWORLD) - Egypt will continue working to revive negotiations between Palestine and Israel to reach a just and comprehensive solution that guarantees the right of the Palestinians to establish an independent state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital city.

(VOVWORLD) - The US Air Force says it failed to provide information about a Texas gunman's criminal history to a law enforcement database — something that should have blocked any legal access to firearms in the United States.