The number of people missing in a landslide in China's southeastern Fujian province has risen to 41, Xinhua news agency said on May 8, citing local officials.

Syrian warplanes attacked Islamist militants near the northern city of Aleppo on May 8, both sides said, as the government tried to push back a insurgent advance in the area.

Turkish warplanes hit targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq on May 8, military sources said, as three soldiers and 12 militants were reported killed in separate clashes over the weekend.

VOV.VN -  Yale University in the US hosted a workshop on May 6-7 to discuss conflicts in the East Sea.

Unidentified gunmen killed eight policemen dressed in civilian clothes, including an officer, in an attack on a police vehicle in Helwan, just south of Cairo, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said on May 8.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) leader Kim Jong Un said his country will not use nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is infringed by others with nuclear arms, and is willing to normalize ties with states that had been hostile toward it, state media said on May 8.

Environmental security in the East Sea was the main theme of a seminar held in Washington DC on May 3 by East West Center, a US-based institution for public diplomacy in the Asia Pacific, with the participation of more than 30 scholars and journalists.

The U.S. presidential election may turn out to be one of the world's biggest un-popularity contests.

US Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Daniel Russel will travel to Vientiane and Luang Prabang, Laos; Hanoi, Vietnam; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from May 6 – 12.

VOV.VN - Donald Trump will likely win the Republican nomination for the US presidential election after his victory in Indiana, which forced Texas senator Ted Cruz to drop out of the race.