Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe became the first Japanese leader to visit Communist-ruled Cuba on September 22, landing in Havana to hold talks with Cuban President Raul Castro on topics from boosting trade to curbing the DPRK's nuclear program.

Iraqi forces backed by air strikes from the US-led coalition gained complete control of the northern district of Shirqat on September 22, bringing the military a step closer to a main push on Mosul later this year.

Syria announced a new offensive against rebel-held areas of Aleppo on September 22 while diplomats failed to find a way in New York to revive a US and Russian-brokered ceasefire that collapsed this week.

VOV.VN - The ruling United Russia party won the recent State Duma election. Despite challenges, United Russia still has the voters’ confidence. Its victory should pave the way for President Vladimir Putin to win the 2018 election.

Nine more bodies have been recovered from the Mediterranean a day after a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off the coast of Egypt, officials said on September 22, bringing the death toll to 52.

The terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Sulu, the Philippines has released an Indonesian fisherman abducted last month. 

Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte said on September 22 that representatives from the United Nations (UN) and the European Union (EU) are welcome to probe the drug-related killings in the Philippines.

Malaysia’s police said on September 22 that they arrested three foreigners and one Malaysian suspected of having relations with terrorist groups, including the Islamic State (IS), from August 2 to September 17. 

VOV.VN - The current 71st session of the UN General Assembly in New York has addressed a number of global challenges, including the migrant crisis. Political commitments have been made to resolve the matter.

At least 19 civilians were killed on September 21 when a Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a house in western Yemen, according to residents, medics and a local official.

US Secretary of State John Kerry demanded on September 21 that Russia and the Syrian government immediately halt flights over Syrian battle zones, in what he called a last chance to salvage a collapsing ceasefire and find a way "out of the carnage".

Japan will continue to provide assistance to Cambodia in the field of infrastructure, food, mine and bomb removal and human resources development, local media reported. 

At least 10 people were killed after landslides and flash floods hit the Indonesian province of West Java on September 20-21, according to Indonesia’s National Agency for Disaster Management. 

Five suspects have been arrested in connection to a grenade attack that injured four people in Phnom Penh on September 6.

Brazil's former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will stand trial on corruption charges, a crusading federal judge ruled on September 20, adding more turbulence to the country's political landscape.

A summit hosted by US President Barack Obama garnered pledges from dozens of countries to resettle or allow the lawful admission of some 360,000 refugees, doubling the number of slots that were available last year, the US envoy to the United Nations said.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) leader Kim Jong Un supervised a ground test of a new rocket engine to launch satellites, the DPRK's state media reported on September 20, the latest in a rapid succession of missile-related tests this year by the state.

VOV.VN - Pyongyang conducted its 5th and most powerful nuclear test on September 9, despite world-wide protests and UN sanctions. 

Syrian or Russian aircraft struck an aid convoy near Aleppo on September 19 and killed 12 people, according to a war monitor, as the Syrian military declared a one-week truce brokered by the United States and Russia over.

VOV.VN - Two weeks after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)’s 5th nuclear test, the biggest yet diplomatic efforts continue to prevent any further testing.

Police on September 19 arrested an Afghanistan-born American who they suspect of detonating a bomb in the heart of New York City and planting other devices, capturing the 28-year-old in a dramatic gun battle that wounded him and two officers.

Members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) called for the settlement of all sovereign and territorial disputes in the East Sea by peaceful means without using or threatening to use violence in the final document adopted by the 17th NAM Summit in Venezuela which concluded on September 18. 

Three Indonesian fishermen and a Norwegian citizen have been freed by the Abu Sayyaf militant group after three months in captivity in the southern Philippines province of Sulu, said Philippines police on September 18. 

Foreign ministers for the United States, Japan and the Republic of Korea (RoK) met in New York on September 18, ahead of UN meetings, to discuss stepped-up measures against the DPRK and expand collaboration with one another after Pyongyang's fifth and largest nuclear test.

Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government on September 18 battled Islamic State militants in their last hideouts in the city of Sirte, in a renewed push after a break in fighting for the Muslim celebrations of Eid.

India accused Pakistan of being behind September 18's separatist attack on an army base near their disputed frontier that killed 17 soldiers, in one of the most deadly attacks in Kashmir in a quarter-century-old insurgency.

Investigators on September 18 sifted through blast remnants, examined video and scoured the scene of an explosion that wounded 29 people in Manhattan, attempting to establish if there were any links to international terrorism.

VOV.VN - The ceasefire brokered by Russia and the US has taken effect for one week in Syria’s battle fields. But the months-long efforts by Moscow and Washington are hurt, as the situation in the Middle East country is deteriorating, particularly in Aleppo and Hama. 

At least 12 people have died and dozens are missing in Thailand after a boat carrying 150 Thai Muslims capsized in the ancient tourist city of Ayutthaya, officials said on September 18.

Myanmar’s army beefed up security measures in Laukkai, the capital city of the semi-autonomous Kokang region, in the northern state of Shan after a blast occurred at a private house of a Kokang ex-official.