(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam and the US made positive progress during the second round of negotiations on a reciprocal trade agreement, held in Washington D.C. from May 19 to 22. The Vietnamese delegation was led by Minister of Industry and Trade Nguyen Hong Dien, who also heads the Government’s negotiation team.

(VOVWORLD) -Tehran is considering whether to take part in the next round of indirect nuclear negotiations with the US, said Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) -Moscow will prepare a separate list of conditions for a ceasefire with Ukraine, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Pope Leo XIV on Wednesday appealed for Israel to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, calling the situation in the Palestinian enclave "yet more worrying and saddening", during his first weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square.

(VOVWORLD) -100 delegates convened in Cape Town, South Africa, this week for the inaugural Women 20 South Africa meeting, which opened Wednesday with the theme “Women in Solidarity”.

(VOVWORLD) - Individual capability is a necessary condition for building high-performance teams in the AI era, according to a seminar organized by GEM Global in Hanoi on Wednesday.

(VOVWORLD) - Lawmakers on Thursday underlined equal access to education and education quality improvement as they discussed a draft resolution on universal preschool education for children aged 3 to 5 and another draft on tuition fee exemptions and financial support for preschoolers and general education students.

(VOVWORLD) -The 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) is the comprehensive legal framework governing all maritime activities, and that national policies, regulations, and behaviour at sea must be in line with international law, the UN Charter, and particularly UNCLOS, said a Vietnamese diplomat to the UN.

(VOVWORLD) -Former Politburo member and former President of Vietnam Tran Duc Luong, born on May 5, 1937, passed away at 22:51 on Tuesday at his residence in Hanoi, aged 88, after a period of illness, according to the specialised council for protection of central-level officials' health.

(VOVWORLD) -Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on Wednesday said that in the process of national construction and development, Vietnam always puts people at the center, as the stakeholder and driving force for development, while giving top priority to health care, and human protection and development.