Brazil's Senate is debating whether President Dilma Rousseff should face a full impeachment trial on charges of illegally manipulating finances to hide a growing public deficit ahead of her re-election in 2014.

The 12th ASEAN Senior Labour Officials’ Meeting (SLOM) was held in Vientiane, Laos within the framework of the 24th ASEAN Labour Ministers’ Meeting (ALMM) from May 11-12, seeking to secure sustainable employment for workers in the bloc. 

Myanmar's government has named former permanent representative to the United Nations U Kyaw Tint Swe as Minister of the Office of State Counselor.

The Abu Sayyaf rebel group in southern Philippines has threatened to execute four Malaysian hostages if they don’t receive ransom money in early May.

A Vietnamese representative at the UN delivered a speech at the High-level Thematic Debate on the United Nations, Peace and Security on May 10-11, highlighting ASEAN’s central role in building the regional security architecture.

Turkey refused again on May 11 to make changes to its anti-terrorism laws demanded by Brussels in a hardening of its stance that could jeopardize a major deal with the bloc covering migrants, free travel and militants.

Three suicide bombings claimed by Islamic State across Baghdad killed at least 80 people on May 11, Iraqi police and hospital sources said, in the deadliest attacks in the Iraqi capital this year.

Republican Donald Trump pulled even with Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on May 11, in a dramatic early sign that the November 8 presidential election might be more hotly contested than first thought.

VOV.VN - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu said he will resign after a meeting of the Justice and Development Party on May 22.

Ukraine and Russia agreed on May 11 to create demilitarized zones and implement other security measures in separatist-held areas of eastern Ukraine, but they remained at odds over how to move toward local elections.