The United States is using quiet diplomacy to persuade the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and other Asian nations not to move aggressively to capitalize on an international court ruling that denied China's claims to the South China Sea, several US administration officials said on July 13.

VOV.VN - The European Committee has officially implemented a new framework for Trans-Atlantic exchanges of personal data among legal executive agencies.

The European Commission proposed more unified EU asylum rules on July 13, in a bid to stop people waiting for refugee status moving around the bloc and disrupting its passport-free zone.

VOV.VN -  China has rejected an international ruling on the East Sea, which went in favour of the Philippines, as “null and void” and devoid of any “binding force”.

VOV.VN - Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on July 13 that China's reputation and ambitions of becoming a world leader would suffer if it ignored the PCA East Sea ruling.

The verdict on the case brought by the Philippines against China’s unfounded territorial claims in the East Sea (South China Sea) took centre stage at the sixth CSIS East Sea conference in Washington D.C., the US, on July 12. 

Malaysia and India have called for peaceful resolutions in the East Sea after the Hague Tribunal adopted the ruling on July 12 rejecting China’s historic rights claim in a dispute in the sea area with the Philippines.

VOV.VN - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and its coalition partner the Komeito party won Japan's House of Councilors election on July 10. 

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton extended her lead over Republican rival Donald Trump to 13 percentage points in a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on July 12, up from 10 points at the end of last week.

The United States on July 12 said the ruling from the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague that China has no historic title over the waters of the East Sea (internationally known as South China Sea) should be treated as final and binding and not be a reason to raise tensions.

The sixth annual CSIS East Sea (South China Sea) conference took place in Washington D.C., the US, on July 12, shortly after The Hague tribunal ruled on the case brought by the Philippines against China’s unfounded sovereignty claims in the waters. 

Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon on July 12 called on parties concerned in disputes in the East Sea to abide by international law and avoid taking actions that could fuel tensions. 

German leaders stepped up the pressure on Britain's incoming prime minister Theresa May on July 12 by demanding she swiftly spell out when she will launch divorce proceedings with the European Union.

There was no legal basis for China to claim historic rights to resources within the sea area enclosed by the nine-dash line as ruled by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in The Hague, the Netherlands.

The flow of refugees and migrants to Europe has slowed since April when the European Union sealed a deal with Turkey to halt illegal traffic across the Aegean Sea, the region's border agency chief said on July 12.

US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said July 12 she welcomes an international tribunal's ruling denying China's claims in the South China Sea, saying the waters were "critical" to the US economy.

At least nine people were killed and 32 wounded on July 12 when a car packed with explosives was detonated in a district just north of Baghdad, security and medical sources said.

Singapore, on July 12, sentenced four Bangladeshis to between two and five years in jail after they pleaded guilty to raising money for an alleged terror plot in their home country. 

Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on July 12 issued a statement calling on parties in the Philippines’s lawsuit against China on disputes in the East Sea to fully respect legal and diplomatic processes following the ruling issued by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague.

The State Department of the US on July 12 affirmed that the ruling made by the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) on the Philippines’s lawsuit against China’s claims in the East Sea (known as the South China Sea) is an important contribution to the shared goal of a peaceful resolution.

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) in the Hague, the Netherlands, on July 12, ruled that China violated the Philippines’s sovereign rights in exploring resources surrounding the Reed Bank in the East Sea (internationally known as the South China Sea). 

VOV.VN - On July 12, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdon of Thailand issued a press release on Peace, Stability and Sustainable Development in the South China Sea (known as the East Sea by Vietnam).

China’s claims to historic rights over waters within the nine-dash line are contrary to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) at The Hague, the Netherlands, said. 

VOV.VN - More than 100 mayors and city leaders are attending the 7th World Cities Summit which is taking place in Singapore from July 10 to 17.

An arbitration court in The Hague will rule on July 12 in a dispute about the South China Sea in which the Philippines is challenging China's right to exploit resources across vast swathes of the strategic territory.

The United States is stepping up its military campaign against Islamic State by sending hundreds more troops to assist Iraqi forces in an expected push on the city of Mosul, the militants' largest stronghold, later this year.

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard Corps on July 11 dispatched five military vessels to monitor a US warship hosting one of America's top generals on a day trip through the Strait of Hormuz, coming as close as 500 yards (meters).

Interior minister Theresa May will become Britain's prime minister on July 13, with the task of steering its withdrawal from the European Union, after rival Andrea Leadsom abruptly terminated her disastrous leadership campaign.

In the 21st century, robots and unmanned vehicles no longer sound like science fiction.

Stricter security checks will be applied to Malaysian and Singaporean visitors entering Indonesia in the upcoming time, said Indonesia’s PT Angkarasa Pura II, the state-owned company handling airports.