The acting leader of the opposition party of Cambodia Kem Sokha returned to attend the National Assembly's plenary session on December 7 after one year of absence. 

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has said his country wants to forge cooperation with Indonesia in combating terrorism as well as ensuring security and peace for Islamic countries.  

Iraqi army units surged toward the center of Mosul on December 6 in an attack from the city's southeastern edges that could give fresh impetus to the seven-week-old battle for Islamic State's Iraqi stronghold.

VOV.VN - The UN Security Council has approved its toughest sanctions yet against  the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) for conducting banned nuclear tests. Analysts hope the sanctions are harsh enough to pressure Pyongyang into returning to the 6-party talks.

Syria's army and allies pushed into rebel-held parts of Aleppo's Old City on December 6, a monitoring group said, looking closer than ever to achieving their most important victory of the five-year-old civil war by driving rebels out of their last urban stronghold.

VOV.VN - Cuba and the United States will draw up a roadmap for deepening their detente on December 7 in a first meeting since the election of Donald Trump as US president and the death of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro.

New Zealand Finance Minister Bill English said on December 6 he will stand as a candidate to replace outgoing prime minister John Key.

An international workshop is being held in Geneva, Switzerland to discuss disputes in the East Sea, and the enforcement of the Permament Court of Arbitration (PCA) in the Hague’s ruling on the Philippines’s lawsuit against China’s claims in the waters.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hashighlighted the military-technical cooperation with the Philippines.

More than 1,000 migrants were plucked from overcrowded boats and 16 bodies were recovered in the past two days, Italy's coastguard said on December 5, adding to the already record number of arrivals this year.