Việt Nam News

Russia will flex its military muscles and hold the biggest war games since the Cold War era next month, including almost 300,000 troops and 1,000 aircraft, the defence ministry said Tuesday, leading NATO to warn of a "more assertive Russia".

A Texas man on Tuesday began selling digital gun-making blueprints, including for a 3D-printed plastic handgun, despite a judge's order barring the distribution of the material.

Brazilian President Michel Temer signed a decree on Tuesday to send the army to "guarantee law and order" on the border with crisis-hit Venezuela after recent violent clashes

As Washington and Ottawa resumed trade talks on Tuesday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he would only sign a new trade pact that was good for his country

Hungarian nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Italy's hardline Interior Minister Matteo Salvini launched on Tuesday an anti-migration manifesto aiming at next year's European parliament elections, and countering their opposing camp led by

 Hundreds of passengers were safely evacuated early Wednesday from a Greek ferry after a fire broke out in the car deck, officials said

The Sahel state of Burkina Faso will hold a referendum to usher in a "semi-presidential" constitution on March 24 next year, the election commission announced on Monday.

Several people were injured as thousands of far-right protesters rallied Monday in the eastern German city of Chemnitz where a knife killing, allegedly committed by a Syrian and an Iraqi, had sparked racist mob attacks that were deplored by Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The Japanese government on Tuesday apologised for routinely overstating the number of disabled people it employed to meet legal quotas in a "highly regrettable" scandal.

A top jihadist leader of the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara group, an aide and two civilians have been killed in northeastern Mali by a French airstrike, the French command centre in Paris said on Monday.

After months of intense negotiations, the United States and Mexico agreed Monday on a thoroughly overhauled free trade pact, while talks with Canada are to begin  on Tuesday.

A Japanese tourist detained in North Korea will be released "on the principle of humanitarianism", Pyongyang's state media reported as Tokyo seeks a summit with the North amid a diplomatic thaw on the peninsula

Support for the Australian government has crashed after a week of backstabbing saw Malcolm Turnbull deposed as prime minister, with a poll on Monday showing it is on course to be hammered at elections due next year.

 Iran will argue on Monday against renewed sanctions imposed by the United States, as a bitter legal battle between Tehran and Washington opens before the UN's top court.

Colombians voted on Sunday in a referendum on hardening punishments for corrupt officials and business figures, after the congress proved reluctant to implement stricter anti-graft measures.

Israel will reopen the Erez border crossing with the Gaza Strip on Monday, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said, a week after closing it due to clashes.

Two people were killed and 11 others wounded Sunday when a video game tournament competitor went on a shooting rampage before turning the gun on himself in the northern Florida city of Jacksonville, local police said.

John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Việt Nam who served as a US senator from Arizona for more than three decades, died on Saturday at the age of 81.