Việt Nam News

US billionaire Warren Buffett challenged Donald Trump Monday to release his tax returns, a feat which the Republican presidential candidate has so far resisted.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Monday accused Croatia of threatening peace in the Balkans after the Supreme Court in Zagreb quashed a verdict against a former MP convicted of war crimes for killing Serbs.

Shells fired by Syrian rebel groups killed at least 28 civilians in southwestern districts of the battleground city of Aleppo over the last 24 hours, a monitor said late Monday.

Hillary Clinton got a support bounce of four to seven percentage points after the Democratic National Convention and now holds a substantial lead over Donald Trump in the White House race, polls released Monday showed.

Venezuela's opposition gathered enough signatures to proceed with efforts to call a referendum on removing President Nicolas Maduro, electoral authorities said Monday, without setting a date for the next step.

Authorities in Haiti canceled all local flights Monday as severe weather bears down on the impoverished Caribbean nation.

Hillary Clinton took a bus tour across the US "rust belt" region this weekend in a quest to win over white, working class voters who tend to support populist Republican Donald Trump.

Venezuelan electoral authorities are due to meet today to rule on the opposition's bid for a referendum on removing President Nicolas Maduro from power amid an economic implosion.

The Italian coastguard said the bodies of five migrants were recovered from the Mediterranean on Sunday, while more than 6,500 people had been rescued off Libya since Thursday.

A massive Taliban truck bomb struck a hotel for foreigners on the outskirts of Kabul early yesterday, officials said, just days after the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for 15 years.

A hot air balloon that went down in a fiery crash in a Texas pasture, killing all 16 people on board, likely struck a power line, an investigator said on Sunday.

H. E. Mr. Akif Ayhan, ambassador of Turkey to Việt Nam, shares his thoughts on the domestic and international implications of the recent coup attempt in Turkey with Việt Nam News.

Hillary Clinton on Thursday accepted the Democratic Party's White House nomination, casting herself as a tireless champion of the people and rejecting Donald Trump's dark picture of America.

A jihadist involved in the brutal killing of an elderly priest pledged to attack France in a newly released video, as Catholic bishops called for a day of prayer in a nation shaken by the latest assault.

The UN Security Council is expected to vote today on deploying a UN police force to Burundi to monitor human rights and help quell violence in the African country.

At least 15 civilians were killed and dozens wounded in air strikes by a US-led coalition in Syria on Thursday, a monitor said.

Just days after authorities mooted suspending the ocean search for missing flight MH370, researchers suggested on Wednesday that the debris zone may stretch a further 500km north.

Turkey on Wednesday said it was discharging 149 generals and ordering the closure of dozens of media outlets in the next phase of its controversial crackdown in the wake of the failed coup.