Việt Nam News

An international tribunal today ruled against China in a bitter row over territorial claims to the South China Sea that is likely to ratchet up regional tensions.

Pentagon chief Ashton Carter has said that Washington will deploy 560 additional troops to aid Iraq's fight to retake Mosul from jihadists, deepening US military involvement in the country.

A shooting on Monday at a county courthouse in the US state of Michigan has left three people dead including the attacker and several others injured, local media reported, citing the county sheriff.

Theresa May on Wednesday will become the prime minister who leads Britain into talks to quit the European Union, after her last rival in the bid to succeed David Cameron pulled out.

Eurozone finance ministers have assessed the impact of the British decision to leave the EU, warning that the country risked becoming "Little Britain" in the aftermath.

South Sudan's president and his estranged deputy ordered a ceasefire Monday after a new day of heavy fighting in the capital that sent thousands fleeing and threatened a return to civil war.

A strong 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck northern Ecuador late on Sunday in the same area devastated by a powerful quake in mid-April, the US Geological Service said.

North Korea on Monday threatened to take "physical action" to counter a sophisticated US anti-missile system planned to be deployed in the South.

The UN Security Council pressed South Sudan's neighbors on Sunday to help end renewed fighting in the capital, asking for additional peacekeepers.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has claimed victory in weekend elections, giving a boost to his long-cherished desire to water down the country's pacifist constitution.

The UN's cultural agency met on Sunday in Istanbul to consider adding over two dozen new sites to its prestigious global heritage list, and called for a strong global response to the threats posed by extremism.

A fifth police officer died during a shootout with snipers during a protest against police shootings of black men that also wounded six other officers and a civilian, authorities said.

NATO leaders meet on Friday for a landmark summit in Warsaw to send an uncompromising message to a resurgent Russia while trying to contain the fallout from Britain's dramatic vote to quit the European Union.

The United States on Thursday urged respect for a decision on territorial disputes in the South China Sea (called East Sea by Việt Nam) set to be handed down by an international arbitration court next week.

The US and South Korea announced on Friday that they had reached an agreement to deploy an advanced missile defence system in the South in the face of growing threats from the North.

Islamic State group extremists attacked a Shiite shrine north of Baghdad, killing 30 people, just days after one of the deadliest ever bombings in the country, a security spokesman said on Friday.

Super Typhoon Nepartak lashed Taiwan with powerful winds and torrential rain as it made landfall on Friday, injuring dozens and forcing more than 15,000 to evacuate their homes as the island cancelled hundreds of flights and shut offices and schools.

Caribbean island nations on Wednesday discussed boosting security to ensure terrorists and other criminals do not gain citizenship by posing as investors.