(VOVWORLD) -United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on North Korea’s top diplomat to diplomatically resolve tensions on the Korean Peninsula during their meeting in New York.

(VOVWORLD) -President Donald Trump issued a new open-ended travel ban on Sunday that saw North Korea, Venezuela and Chad to a list of countries cited for poor security and lack of cooperation with US authorities.

(VOVWORLD) -Three United Nations soldiers were killed and five others were seriously wounded by an explosive device that detonated as they were escorting a convoy in Mali.

(VOVWORLD) -Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says Baghdad will not allow the creation of an “ethnic government”.

(VOVWORLD) -German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU coalition won 32.5% of the vote in German federal elections on Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - Russian and Syrian jets have escalated strikes on rebel-held Idlib and Hama provinces, several days after jihadist rebels opened an offensive against government-held parts of northwestern Syria.

(VOVWORLD) - Iraqi Kurds began casting their ballots in a controversial independence referendum on Monday as tensions between Iraq's largest ethnic minority and the Iraqi government in Baghdad intensified.

(VOVWORLD) - Sustainable economic development topped the agenda of a central region economic forum that began on Monday in Da Nang city.

(VOVWORLD) - 4 Chinese Coast Guard vessels sailed near disputed islands claimed by Japan and China, known as Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in China, in the East China Sea on Monday.

(VOVWORLD) -German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU/CSU coalition won 32.5% of the vote in German federal elections on Sunday.