Donald Trump has fallen further behind Hillary Clinton and now trails her by 8 points among likely voters, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll, with 1 in 5 Republicans saying his vulgar comments about groping women disqualify him from the presidency.

VOV.VN - A stark division between members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) was exposed at a meeting on October 9, when rival resolutions drafted by Russia and France both failed, once again extinguishing hope for a UN intervention to end the fighting in Syria. 

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi has signaled that her country would increase the number of military personnel involved in the UN peacekeeping missions, according to ANTARA News.

Rebels attacked trucks carrying civilians in South Sudan, killing 21 people, the government said, as violence between rival forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and his former vice president risks dragging the country back into civil war.

Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong began a three-day official visit to Australia on October 11, the Prime Minister Office (PMO) announced the same day.

Indonesian President Joko Widodo has stressed the importance of global collaboration in combatting illegal fishing, which has become a transnational crime.

Turkey and Russia signed an agreement on October 10 for the construction of a major undersea gas pipeline and vowed to seek common ground on the war in Syria, accelerating a normalization in ties nearly a year after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane.

A suspected car bomb on October 10 killed at least 10 police amid increased Taliban attacks on the besieged capital of the southwestern Afghan province of Helmand, with the toll expected to rise, a security official said.

VOV.VN - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has become this year Nobel Laureate for Peace in recognition of his tireless effort to end the half a century long civil war in Columbia. 

The head of Germany's domestic intelligence agency (BfV) said a Syrian suspect arrested on October 10 was building a bomb and probably planned to attack one of the airports in Berlin.

Myanmar’s authorities have tightened security in the western state of Rakhine following attacks on border posts that killing nine policemen and leaving five wounded and one missing. 

Cambodian opposition lawmaker Um Sam An was sentenced to two and a half years in prison at a trial in Phnom Penh on October 10 for posting a fake Cambodia-Vietnam border map on his Facebook page.

VOV.VN - The UN Security Council has elected Portugal’s former Prime Minister Antonio Guterres as the next UN Secretary General from January 1, 2017 to replace Ban Ki-moon.

India and Indonesia started their second maritime exercise and joint patrol in Andaman Sea on October 10.

Singapore and Indonesia have agreed to enhance cooperation on transnational security issues, said the Singaporean Ministry of Defense in a statement on October 10.

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong officially announced Singapore’s national strategy on cyber security on October 10 while attending the opening ceremony of the International Cyber security Week held for the first time in the Southeast Asian country. 

Connectivity is key to promoting cooperation among Asian nations, and the countries needs to further foster links to deal with common challenges, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam. 

Malaysian police said on October 9 that they have arrested 16 people for suspected links to militant groups, including the Islamic State (IS), after a two-week operation across the country.

A defiant Donald Trump on October 9 dismissed as "locker room talk" a controversy over a video in which he made obscene comments about groping women and said, if he won the White House, he would put Hillary Clinton in jail for operating a private email server while US secretary of state.

An air strike on a funeral gathering on October 9, widely blamed on Saudi-led warplanes, poses more trouble for a Western-backed Arab campaign against Yemen's Houthis that has long been criticized for civilian losses.

Ukraine's military on October 9 postponed a planned parallel withdrawal with pro-Russian separatists from Stanytsa Luhanska, a town on the eastern frontline, saying rebels had disregarded the agreement by firing artillery at Ukrainian positions.

In a speech marking 100 days in office, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte stated to continue his crackdown on drug crime despite western criticisms. 

The Immigration Office of Malaysia’s northwest Penang state arrested 30 foreigners on October 7, including three Vietnamese, for not possessing valid documentations and work permits. 

Nearly 100 students from ASEAN member countries studying in Western Australia participated in a seminar centred on “ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR): Prospects and Challenges” held in Perth in early October. 

A business forum took place in Bangkok, Thailand, on October 9, a curtain-raiser to the 2nd Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD) Summit on the next day. 

Russia vetoed a French-drafted United Nations Security Council resolution on October 8 that would have demanded an immediate end to air strikes and military flights over Syria's Aleppo city and called for a truce and humanitarian aid access throughout Syria.

Saudi-led warplanes killed at least 82 people when they struck mourners at a hall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on October 8, the acting health minister in the Houthi-run administration said, but the coalition denied any role in the incident.

Hurricane Matthew slammed into South Carolina on October 8, packing a diminished yet still powerful punch after killing almost 900 people in Haiti and causing major flooding and widespread power outages as it skirted Florida and Georgia.

The second sessions of the two Houses of Myanmar's Parliament will adjourn for one month to mid-November when the third sessions are scheduled to convene, Speaker of Myanmar's House of Representatives U Win Myint announced on October 7. 

A wooden boat carrying 25 schoolboys aged from 12 to 19 of the same school capsized on the Bengawan Solo River in the province of East Java, Indonesia.