Việt Nam News

A series of explosions ripped through a military airport on the western outskirts of Damascus overnight on Friday, Syrian state TV reported.

Seaside residents in southern England were ordered to evacuate on Friday as Britain faced severe flood warnings, after snow caused flights to be cancelled.

US President Barack Obama on Thursday ended a decades-old policy that allowed Cuban migrants who arrived illegally on US soil to stay.

Rival Cypriot leaders, along with top diplomats from Turkey, Greece and Britain, agreed on Thursday to push on with efforts to reunite the divided island and end one of the world’s longest-running political rows.

Việt Nam had a successful year in diplomacy in 2016, with its political stability and development potential continually highlighted and its relations and diverse cooperation with other countries and partners deepened, stated the Foreign Ministry’s Spokesperson Lê Hải Bình.

Charles Jackson, a US veteran and prisoner during the war in Việt Nam, expressed a desire to find his war-time rescuers during a meeting with the Vietnam-US Society (VUS).

President Barack Obama addressed America and the world for the final time as president on Tuesday, in a speech that was both a tearful goodbye and a call to arms.

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday named Chrystia Freeland as foreign minister, replacing Stephane Dion, a critic of US President-elect Donald Trump, in a cabinet shakeup.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday will deliver his first address to the Security Council since taking office, making the case for a new, more assertive diplomacy backed by world powers.

Mexico's new foreign minister vowed on Monday that his country will negotiate with US President-elect Donald Trump's administration "without fear".