Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s new cabinet was sworn into office before President Tony Tan at the Presidential Office Istana on October 1.

A US military transport plane crashed at an airfield in Afghanistan shortly after midnight on October 2, killing all 11 people on board, the US military said, adding there were no reports of enemy fire at the time.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used his annual United Nations address on October 1 to launch an all-out assault on the historic nuclear deal with Iran, warning that his country would never let the Islamic Republic join the atomic weapons club.

The Philippines and the US formally opened the 16th Philippine Amphibious Landing Exercise (PHIBLEX) in Taguig city, Manila.

(VOV) -ASEAN and the UN have reiterated their partnership to work towards the realisation of the ASEAN Community and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Russia launched air strikes in Syria on September 30 in its biggest Middle East intervention in decades, plunging the four-year-old civil war into a volatile new phase as President Vladimir Putin moved forcefully to stake out influence in the unstable region.

Afghan officials said government troops had recaptured much of the strategic northern city of Kunduz from Taliban insurgents early on October 1, three days after losing control of the provincial capital in an embarrassing defeat for Kabul and its US allies.

Trade ministers from 12 Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) member countries convened a meeting in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, the US, on September 30 in an effort to resolve key issues of the world’s largest free trade deal.

Singapore has detained two men who intended to travel to Syria to join the self-claimed Islamic State group (IS), according to the Ministry of Home Affairs.

Ceasefire talks between the Myanmar government and armed ethnic rebel groups in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, have collapsed after the government declined three factions in the Kobang border area to join the deal.