Supporters of the international nuclear agreement with Iran moved within one vote of mustering enough support to protect the deal in the US Congress on September 1 when two more Democratic senators said they would support the pact.

The candidates for the 16 group representation constituencies and 13 single-member constituencies in Singapore filed their nomination papers for the General Election on September 1. 

The 13th ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on Environment (AMME 13) is scheduled to take place in Hanoi from October 26 to 30, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE).

A heavily produced propaganda video from Islamic State purports to show a newly minted form of coin currency for use within territory IS militants have claimed.

A Ukrainian national guardsman was killed and nearly 90 others wounded by grenades hurled from a crowd of nationalist protesters on August 31 as they were guarding parliament where lawmakers backed giving more autonomy to rebel-held areas.

The Iraqi government says it has recaptured the desert area to the west of Samarra from Islamic State forces, and says the operation will move down to recapture Anbar.

Former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra on August 31 appeared before the Supreme Court, where she is being tried for mismanaging a rice subsidy scheme that cost the country billions of US dollars.

Thailand’s Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives will host 'SIMA ASEAN Thailand 2015', the Southeast Asian Agri-Business Show, at Hall 1-2 in Impact Arena, Muang Thong Thani, from September 17-19, 2015. 

An air strike by warplanes from a Saudi-led coalition, which said it targeted a bomb-making factory, killed 36 civilians working at a bottling plant in the northern Yemeni province of Hajjah on August 30, residents said.

European Union ministers were summoned on August 30 to meet in two weeks' time to seek urgent solutions to a migration crisis unprecedented in the bloc's history, as the mounting death toll on land and sea forced governments to respond.