Việt Nam News

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).

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.

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.

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".

The Pentagon may soon be unleashing a 21st-century version of locusts on its adversaries after officials on Monday said it had successfully tested a swarm of 103 micro-drones.

Six climbers scaling a volcano in Guatemala died on the weekend when they got caught in a sudden cold spell at altitude, rescue officials said on Monday.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has vowed to retake an area that supplies Damascus with water and rejected any negotiations on his departure at upcoming talks in Kazakhstan.