Top Republicans vowed on July 22 to do their utmost to scrap President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran as the biggest pro-Israel lobby geared up for an all-out campaign to pressure wary lawmakers into rejecting the agreement.

(VOV) -The latest developments and policy options in the East Sea were the forefront of a conference held in Washington D.C. on July 21 hosted by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).

The 9th session of the 7th tenure of the Lao National Assembly (NA) concluded in the capital city of Vientiane on July 21.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras tried to rally his Syriza party on July 21 before a vote in parliament on the second package of measures demanded by international creditors to open talks on a new bailout deal.

Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists have reached a preliminary agreement to extend a pull-back of weapons in east Ukraine to include tanks and smaller weapons systems, the chairman of the OSCE security watchdog, Ivica Dacic, said on July 21.

The East Asia Summit (EAS)’s state member officials are gathering in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to discuss the East Asian security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region.

A suspected Islamic State suicide bomber killed 27 people, mostly young students, in an attack on a Turkish town near the Syrian border on July 20.

The Cuban flag was raised over Havana’s embassy in Washington on July 20 for the first time in 54 years as the United States and Cuba formally restored relations, opening a new chapter of engagement between the former Cold War foes.

The UN Security Council on July 20 backed Iran's nuclear agreement with world powers but the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guards attacked the resolution, underlining powerful opposition to the deal.

Greek banks are ready to open their branches across the country on July 20 after a three-week shutdown, officials said, while German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for swift aid talks so Athens could also lift withdrawal limits.

Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez in Washington on July 20, US officials said, to mark the historic restoration of diplomatic ties between former Cold War foes severed more than five decades ago.

President Barack Obama's administration sent a nuclear agreement with Tehran to Congress on July 19 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged US lawmakers to reject a deal he said would only feed an "Iranian terror machine".

More than half of Germans think the planned deal with Greece is bad and many would have preferred that the crisis-stricken country left the euro zone rather than getting the chance for further aid, according to an opinion poll.

The governors of Florida, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Indiana on July 18 ordered National Guard members at offices and other facilities to be armed in the wake of attacks that left five servicemen dead in Tennessee.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on July 18 the nuclear deal with world powers did not signal any wider shift in Iran's relationship with Washington or its policies in the Middle East.

More than 100 people were killed in a suicide car bombing at a busy market in an Iraqi town on July 17, in one of the deadliest attacks carried out by Islamic State militants since they overran large parts of the country.

The Mexican Attorney General's office said on July 17 it had arrested seven officials over suspected involvement in the jail break of drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Europe moved to re-open funding to Greece's stricken economy on July 16 after the parliament in Athens approved a new bailout program in a fractious vote that left the government without a majority.

Two bombings by suspected Boko Haram militants killed an estimated 50 people at a market in the northeastern Nigerian city of Gombe on July 16, officials from two disaster agencies said.

The United States and its allies carried out 31 air strikes against Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq on July 16, a US military statement said.

During a hearing of the Italian Chamber of Deputies’ Committee of External Affairs on July 14, Italian Members of Parliament called upon the Italian Government and European states to raise their voices against China’s illegal actions in the East Sea.

Cuba is prepared to break with the contentious past and peacefully coexist with the United States, Cuban President Raul Castro said on July 15 as the two former adversaries are set to restore diplomatic ties.

Major powers and Iran finessed how UN inspectors will get access to Iranian military sites in July 14's nuclear agreement, with a formula that gives the United Nations strong inspection powers while allowing Tehran to save face.

The Greek parliament passed sweeping austerity measures demanded by lenders to open talks on a new multibillion-euro bailout package to keep Greece in the euro, but dozens of hardliners in the ruling Syriza party deserted Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.

Iran and six major world powers reached a nuclear deal on July 15, capping more than a decade of negotiations with an agreement that could transform the Middle East.

An International Monetary Fund study published on July 14 showed that Greece needs far more debt relief than European governments have been willing to contemplate so far, as fractious parties in Athens prepared to vote on a sweeping austerity package demanded by their lenders.

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Hor Nam Hong met with senior Thai officials to strengthen bilateral relations. 

Euro zone leaders made Greece surrender much of its sovereignty to outside supervision on July 13 in return for agreeing to talks on an 86 billion euros bailout to keep the near-bankrupt country in the single currency.

UN inspectors would have access to all suspect Iranian sites, including military ones, under a draft nuclear deal that six major powers and Iran are working to finalize on July 13, a diplomatic source said.

Greece's leftwing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faces a showdown with rebels in his own party on July 14 furious at his capitulation to German demands for one of the most sweeping austerity packages ever demanded of a euro zone government.