VOV.VN - The European Union and Cuba signed an agreement on March 11 to normalize ties, in a deal that could clear the way for trade and political dialogue between the 28-member bloc and the Caribbean nation after more than a decade. 

VOV.VN - Malaysia has decided to stop the recruitment of new foreign workers into the country with immediate effect.

Naval officers of Indonesia and the US have discussed plans for a regular military exercise at sea in 2016 at their recent meeting in the East Java province capital of Surabaya.

Ambassador Nguyen Hoanh Nam, head of the Vietnam delegation to ASEAN, attended the third meeting of the ASEAN-Republic of Korea (RoK) Joint Cooperation Committee in Jakarta, Indonesia on March 13.

Syria peace talks due to begin in Geneva this week look set to struggle, with the sides showing no sign of compromise over the issue at the heart of the five-year-long conflict: the future of President Bashar al-Assad.

Gunmen from al Qaeda's North African branch killed 16 people, including four Europeans, at a beach resort town in Ivory Coast on March 13, the latest in a string of deadly attacks that have confirmed the Islamists' growing reach in West Africa.

A car bomb tore through a crowded transport hub in the Turkish capital, Ankara, on March 13, killing at least 34 people and wounding 125 in the second such attack in the administrative heart of the city in under a month.

Germans vote in three regional state elections on March 13, with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives at risk of setbacks that would weaken her just as she tries to push through a deal to resolve Europe's migrant crisis.

Indonesia’s Government has extended Operation Tinombala 2016, which aims to hunt down Abu Wardah Santoso, head of a terror group in Poso, Central Sulawesi, Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan announced on March 12.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 12 called for world powers to take "immediate punitive steps" against Iran, following its ballistic missile tests last week.