Islamic State on October 12 claimed responsibility for a mass shooting that killed at least 18 worshippers at a shrine in the Afghan capital, raising fears of sectarian violence after a string of attacks on the country's Shi'ite minority.

A blaze ripped through a group of fireworks shops in the Philippines on October 12, leaving two people dead and 24 others injured. 

VOV.VN - Russia and Turkey have signed an agreement on the construction of an undersea gas pipeline.

Migrants arriving by sea to Italy are now the main problem faced by the European Union in its efforts to stem mass immigration to the bloc, the head of the EU border agency said on October 12.

The Thai Ministry of Commerce has held a meeting in Cambodia’s Battambang province to promote border trade between the two countries. 

Key members of Thailand’s royal family were present at Siriraj Hospital, where King Bhumibol Abdulyadej is under treatment, on October 12 amid news on the monarch’s unstable health condition. 

Key members of the Thai Royal family , on October 12, gathered at Siriraj Hospital in Bankok where King Bhumibol Abdulyadej is receiving treatment, to pray for him. 

New Zealand Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee expressed his support to arbitral process at the seventh Xiangshan Forum in Beijing on October 11, saying that the reclamation, construction and militarisation in the East Sea is to blame for escalating tension.

Thailand’s National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) confirmed security alerts in Bangkok and ordered to set up checkpoints and conducted searches on October 11. 

Russian jets resumed heavy bombing of rebel-held eastern Aleppo on October 11 after several days of relative calm, a rebel official and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said.