China and Malaysia have signed 14 cooperation agreements worth 143.64 billion ringgit (US$34.4 billion), including an important defence deal.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on November 1 a Western failure to rein in violent Islamists in Syria had indefinitely delayed the resumption of peace talks.

Iraqi forces battled Islamic State fighters on the eastern edge of Mosul on November 1 as the two-week campaign to recapture the jihadists' last main bastion in Iraq entered a new phase of urban warfare.

At least 12 Pakistani workers were killed and more than 50 injured on November 1 after a huge blast ripped through an oil tanker at a ship-breaking yard, trapping others inside the vessel.

VOV.VN - The arms race between NATO and Russia has escalated since the UK announced its deployment of an additional 800 troops and fighter aircraft to Russia’s western border. 

French authorities will on November 2 begin transferring about 1,500 unaccompanied migrant minors to reception centers across the country, officials said on November 1, as a standoff with Britain over who takes care of the youths drags on.

The Philippines' former President Fidel Ramos has quit his job as special envoy to China, weeks after the current Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte visited Beijing, aides said on November 1, but the government has yet to act on his resignation.

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has confirmed Australia is considering joint patrols with Indonesia in the East Sea. 

Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (NSRA) found the wreckage of a missing cargo plane and the bodies of four victims on board in the country’s easternmost province of Papue on November 1. 

Advancing Iraqi troops broke through Islamic State defenses in an eastern suburb of Mosul on October 31, taking the battle for the insurgents' stronghold into the city limits for the first time, a force commander said.