The last time US Vice President Joe Biden flew to Turkey, in January, he had a stern message for President Tayyip Erdogan: his model of Islamic democracy was setting a bad example by intimidating media and threatening academics

Hopes of finding more survivors from Italy's powerful earthquake faded on August 26 with the death toll rising to 281 and the rescue operation in some of the stricken areas called off.

Cambodia’s National Police chief Neth Sa Voeun said 20,000 police officers will be mobilised to ensure security for the commune-ward level election in 2017. 

Malaysia public universities have rolled out measures to prevent the influence and inducement of the self-claimed “Islamic State” (IS) on students. 

Italy will rebuild communities devastated by this week's earthquake and will relaunch efforts to protect the country's buildings and infrastructure from natural disasters, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on August 25.

US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Geneva on August 25 to try to finalize details of a deal with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on military cooperation and intelligence sharing in Syria.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said on August 25 he had agreed in talks with Gulf Arab states and the United Nations in Saudi Arabia on a plan to restart peace talks Yemen with a goal of forming a unity government.

VOV.VN - Russia’s influence in the Middle East has grown, thanks to recent diplomatic and military activities. 

Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi held talks on August 25 with visiting Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem about securing their common border after a partial retreat by Islamic State militants.

Malaysia has appointed Defence Forces chief Zulkifeli Mohd Zin as the first Director-General of the National Security Council (NSC).

Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha on August 25 ordered to suspend Bangkok Governor M.R. Sukhumbhand Boribhat from duty for an unspecified period of time, pending further investigation into corruption charges against him. 

Twelve people, including seven students, were killed in an attack on the American University in Kabul that sent hundreds of students fleeing in panic, police said early on August 25, before the assault ended when two gunmen were shot dead.

The death toll from a devastating earthquake in central Italy rose sharply to almost 250 people early on August 25 after rescue teams worked through the night to try to find survivors under the rubble of flattened towns.

Myanmar sent truckloads of soldiers and squadrons of police to protect and rebuild centuries-old Buddhist pagodas around the ancient capital of Bagan on August 25, a day after at least 187 of the brick temples were damaged in a powerful earthquake.

Thai police on August 24 released sketches of four male suspects in the bombings of Hua Hin resort and Phang Nga province two weeks ago.

Since August, a number of cities in France have banned women from wearing a body-covering Muslim swimsuit known as burkini at beaches and public swimming pools.

Syrian rebels backed by Turkish special forces, tanks and warplanes entered one of Islamic State's last strongholds on the Turkish-Syrian border on August 24, in Turkey's first major U.S.-backed incursion into its southern neighbor.

Afghan security forces killed two gunmen who attacked the American University in Kabul, police said early on August 24, ending an assault on the compound that killed at least one person and sent hundreds of students fleeing in panic.

A powerful earthquake shook central Myanmar on August 24, killing at least three people including two children, and damaging scores of centuries-old Buddhist pagodas around the ancient capital of Bagan.

Rescue teams were working through the night to try to find survivors under the rubble that remained of central Italian towns flattened by an earthquake that hit in the early hours of August 24, killing at least 159 people.

The Thai Government announced on August 24 that there was no link between the two bomb blasts which killed one person in Pattani on August 23 night and the previous string of bomb attacks on several tourism spots in southern provinces.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on August 23 that bilateral talks between his country and China may start "within the year."

Germany has agreed to take in hundreds of migrants who are blocked in Italy in a move that might revive the European Union's failed relocation program, Italy's Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said on August 23.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired a submarine-launched missile on August 24 that flew about 500 km (311 miles) toward Japan, a show of improving technological capability for the isolated country that has conducted a series of launches in defiance of UN sanctions.

One Thai person was killed and 30 wounded when two bombs exploded late on August 23 near a hotel in the southern Thai coastal town of Pattani, police said, less than two weeks after a series of unexplained blasts hit the south.

The leaders of Russia, Germany and France have agreed to meet to discuss the situation in Ukraine on September 4-5 in China on the sidelines of the G20 summit, the Kremlin said on August 23.

VOV.VN - According to Japan’s Foreign Ministry, the Foreign Ministers’ Meeting between Japan, China, and the Republic of Korea (RoK) will open on August 24, in Tokyo. 

Leaders of many countries worldwide have confirmed their attendance at the 28th and 29th ASEAN Summits and related summits slated for September in Laos.

Myanmar will hold a by-election early next year to fill the vacant seats in the parliament, U Aung Myint, member of the Election Commission, has said. 

Indonesian authorities have tightened security in Bali, after receiving reports on a suspected militant’s plan to attack the country’s famous resort island.