OPEC members Iran and Saudi Arabia, the top greenhouse gas emitters yet to submit national strategies for tackling climate change, say they will do so before a UN summit in December in a sign of widening participation even by oil producers.

The Thai Government on October 21 approved amendments to the outdated National Security Act in order to restructure the National Security Council (NSC).

More than 12,000 migrants have crossed into Slovenia in the past 24 hours and thousands more are expected, prompting authorities to ask the rest of the European Union (EU) -for help dealing with the flood of people.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad had told him he was ready to talk to armed opposition groups if they are genuinely committed to dialogue and to combating Islamic State.

The 10th ASEAN-China senior officials’ meeting on the implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of the Parties in East Sea (DOC) took place in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan province, China from October 19-21. 

Delegates from police and security forces of ASEAN member states and some other Pacific Asia nations are gathering in the 4th General Police and Special Equipment Exhibition & Conference Asia (GPEC Asia 2015) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

The United States, Britain, France and Germany sent a letter to the United Nations Security Council's Iran sanctions committee on October 21 notifying it of Tehran's recent missile test and demanded action in response to what they said was a violation.

Whether it's a fact-finding mission as Republicans insist or the political witch hunt that Democrats anticipate, the congressional committee investigating the deadly 2012 attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, on October 22 will hear from Hillary Clinton, then the secretary of state and now the top candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The EU and ASEAN on October 20 launched a three-year programme to enhance border management and security across the ASEAN region.

Experts at a discussion in the US’s Washington DC. on October 20 examined recent security developments in the East Sea, underlining the serious impacts of activities that change the status quo.