VOV.VN - China’s island building in the East Sea is hurting the ecology and the environment, according to a report released by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and her Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu agreed to enhance cooperation in economics and terrorism prevention between two nations.

VOV.VN - The Syria People’s Assembly election began on April 13. It was the second parliamentary election since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011. 

VOV.VN - The US has deployed B-52 bombers to the Al Udeid base in Qatar along with enhanced military activities to fight IS in Syria and Iraq. 

The Republic of Korea (RoK)'s ruling conservative party suffered an upset defeat in a parliamentary election on April 13, local media said early on April 14 based on election commission data, in a stinging blow to President Park Geun-hye.

UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura began a new round of Syria talks on April 13 by meeting members of the main opposition High Negotiations Committee in Geneva.

The leaders of Germany's ruling coalition parties agreed at a meeting stretching into April 13 morning on a package of counter-terror measures, coalition sources said.

Syrians voted in a parliamentary election in government-held areas of the country on April 13 in what they called a show of support for President Bashar al-Assad, while his opponents and Western powers denounced the poll as illegitimate.

China will continue discharging water from a hydropower station into the downstream Mekong River for drought relief, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lu Kang said on April 12.

A renewed Palestinian drive to persuade the U.N. Security Council to condemn Israeli settlements is aimed at removing the biggest obstacle to peace and boosting French efforts to broker an agreement, the Palestinian UN envoy said on April 12.