Venezuela and the United States will immediately start talks to ease tensions between the two countries and does not support its ouster from a regional diplomatic bloc, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on June 14 after meeting his counterpart from the OPEC nation.

At least 60,000 migrants have died making their way to new countries over the last 20 years, and their families rarely learned of their fate, the International Organization of Migration (IOM) said on June 14.

The United Nations Security Council on June 14 unanimously authorized a crackdown on arms smuggling in the high seas off Libya by allowing the inspection of vessels to seize and dispose of illicit weapons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura in St Petersburg on June 16, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters on June 14.

VOV.VN - The US suffered its worst mass shooting since the September 11 terror attacks. 

Opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) vice president and lawmaker Kem Sokha again ignored a court summons on June 14 over a case of "refusal to appear", Phnom Penh Municipal Court spokesman Ly Sophanna said. 

An MI2 helicopter belonging to Myanmar’s army crashed and burst into flames in the country’s central region, killing three officers on board on June 14.

Thailand will again play host to the CLMVT (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam and Thailand) Forum this year.

The militant group Abu Sayyaf in the southern part of the Philippines killed a Canadian hostage after its ransom demand was not met, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is committed to continue to make contributions to the UN Human Rights Council, said the ASEAN Coordinator at the Council at the working session marking the council’s 10 th anniversary in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 13. 

The UN High-level Meeting on Ending AIDS held in New York last week discussed important measures to wipe out the epidemic throughout the world.

Europeans view the militant group Islamic State as the biggest threat facing their countries, ahead of climate change, economic instability and refugees, a survey by the Pew Research Center showed on June 13.

US authorities said on June 13 they had found no direct links between Islamic State militants and the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando, describing him as a homegrown extremist who was inspired by radical Islamist groups.

Iraq said on June 13 it had made arrests as it investigates allegations that Shi'ite militiamen helping the army retake Falluja had executed dozens of Sunni Muslim men fleeing the city held by Islamic State.

A breakthrough has been achieved in revising the framework for political dialogue between Myanmar’s government and armed forces, official media reported on June 13. 

A suicide bomber killed three people at a field hospital for forces fighting Islamic State in their Libyan coastal stronghold of Sirte on June 12, a security source said, and medical staff appealed for help in treating the wounded.

A bomb exploded outside the headquarters of Lebanese Blom Bank in central Beirut on June 12, causing damage but no fatalities, the interior minister said.

Italy's coastguard said on June 12 a total of 1,230 migrants had been picked up in nine rescue operations in the waters between Sicily and North Africa, with one dead body being recovered.

A man armed with an assault rifle killed 50 people during a gay pride celebration at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, early on June 12 in the deadliest mass shooting in US history, a rampage President Barack Obama denounced as an act of terror and hate.

Italy's coast guard said on Saturday it had picked up at sea 1,348 migrants in 11 rescue operations between Sicily and North Africa, bringing the total number of people saved over the past three days to more than 3,000.

Turkish warplanes killed 13 suspected Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants on Saturday in the southeast province of Diyarbakir, military sources said.

Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide and car bomb blasts that struck a Damascus suburb on Saturday near Syria's holiest Shi'ite Muslim shrine, and a monitoring group said at least 20 people were killed.

The first session of Myanmar's House of Representative, or the Lower House, under the new government concluded in Nay Pyi Taw on June 10 after four months of sitting. 

Brazil's Dilma Rousseff said she would call a referendum on holding early elections if she is reinstated as president, an offer analysts saw as a bid to sway undecided senators to help clear her in an impeachment trial.

US and Iraqi officials said on June 10 they could not confirm a report by an Iraqi TV channel that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had been wounded in an air strike in northern Iraq

Forces aligned with Libya's unity government said on June 10 they had taken control of the port of Sirte, making further gains in Islamic State's North African stronghold.

Two senior military officers and five civilians were injured following a motorcycle bomb blast on a highway in Pattani province’s Nong Chik district in southern Thailand on June 9. 

US National Security Advisor Susan Rice on June 9 met with Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan at the White House, Washington DC, to discuss the two countries’ close partnership in addressing regional and global challenges.

Leader of the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (UDD), also known as “Red Shirt”, Jatuporn Prompan was sentenced to two years in prison by the Appeals Court on June 10 for slandering former Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva.

Thailand celebrated the 70th anniversary of King Bhumibol Adulyaded's accession to the throne (June 9, 1946).