Muslim allies of Saudi Arabia piled pressure on UN chief Ban Ki-moon over the blacklisting of a Saudi-led coalition for killing children in Yemen, with Riyadh threatening to cut Palestinian aid and funds to other UN programs, diplomatic sources said on June 7.

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is on a three-day working visit to Myanmar to strengthen bilateral ties, according to Singapore ’s Prime Minister’s Office. 

The US and the Philippines began a five-day military exercise in waters near the Southeast Asian country’s Subic Bay, in the northern part of the country on June 6.

Three Jordanian intelligence officers and two other security personnel were killed in an attack on their security office in a Palestinian refugee camp outside the Jordanian capital, Amman, and one suspect was arrested.

VOV.VN - In a referendum on June 5, approximately 80% of Swiss voters rejected the idea of the state providing a life-long allowance. 

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) appears to have reopened a plant to produce plutonium from spent fuel of a reactor central to its atomic weapons drive, the UN nuclear watchdog said on June 6, suggesting the country's arms effort is widening.

Hillary Clinton has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, the Associated Press said on June 6, putting her on course to become the first woman to head a major US party ticket.

US Navy fighter jets flying from an aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean Sea bombed 16 new Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria on June 6.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen on June 5 agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation.

Thailand’s United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, or the Red Shirts, on June 5 opened a centre to monitor the referendum on the new draft constitution at the fifth floor of the Imperial Lat Phrao department store in Bangkok.