VOV.VN - Differences over the Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca have once again increased tensions in Iran-Saudi Arabia relations. 

The Israeli military on June 9 revoked permits for 83,000 Palestinians to visit Israel and said it would send hundreds more troops to the occupied West Bank after a Palestinian gun attack that killed four Israelis in Tel Aviv.

The White House is pushing hard to have a Russia-Ukraine peace deal implemented by the time President Barack Obama leaves office, top national security adviser Susan Rice said on June 9.

Indonesian police have arrested three men suspected of being linked to Islamic State (IS). 

ASEAN and Chinese senior officials reviewed the implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) and discussed the building of a Code of Conduct in the East Sea (COC) during their 12th meeting in the northern province of Quang Ninh on June 9.

Indonesia and Australia discussed ways to beef up cooperation in countering terrorism at their second Ministerial Council on Law and Security meeting in Sydney on June 8.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's office blamed Kurdish militants for a car bombing that killed 11 people in central Istanbul, while a second bomb on June 8 killed five people in the largely Kurdish southeast.

Islamic State's far-flung enemies in Syria and Iraq pressed ahead on June 8 with major advances on multiple fronts that have put some of the greatest pressure on the ultra-hardline Islamists since they declared their caliphate two years ago.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) said on June 9 that it will convene a session of its parliamentary in late June, following a rare congress of the country's ruling Workers' Party in May that cemented young leader Kim Jong Un's control of the isolated state.

Two Palestinian gunmen killed four people at a popular shopping and restaurant area in Tel Aviv on June 8 in an attack that sent diners, some clutching small children, running for their lives just outside Israel's Defence Ministry.

VOV.VN - About 1.6 billion Muslims around the world, about 22% of the world’s population, observe the holy month of Ramadan, a time of intense prayer, dawn-to-dusk fasting, and good deeds. 

VOV.VN - The 12th ASEAN-China senior officials’ meeting on the implementation of the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the East Sea (DOC) is taking place in Vietnam’s Ha Long City on June 9-10.

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has proposed that Myanmar’s State Counsellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Aung San Suu Kyi serve as the spokesperson of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on international affairs.

Singaporean President Tony Tan Keng Yam is on a five-day visit to Mexico from June 7, aiming at boosting bilateral cooperation.

The Lao Front for National Construction (LFNC) Committee held its 10th national congress at the National Convention Centre in Vientiane on June 8. 

Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej underwent a heart surgery on June 7.

The Malaysian government has just issued a new refugee medical insurance scheme allowing over 150,000 refugees to get access to medical security. 

The Singaporean and Myanmar Governments have agreed to lift visa requirements for each other’s citizens from December 1.

(VOV) - The East Sea topped the agenda of an annual security forum of Asian and Western officials, the Shangri-La Dialogue from June 3-5 in Singapore.

The United Nations is still waiting for Syrian government agreement for an aid convoy to enter the besieged town of Daraya and has requested approval to airlift food into four locations if land routes are unavailable, UN officials said on June 7.

Muslim allies of Saudi Arabia piled pressure on UN chief Ban Ki-moon over the blacklisting of a Saudi-led coalition for killing children in Yemen, with Riyadh threatening to cut Palestinian aid and funds to other UN programs, diplomatic sources said on June 7.

Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is on a three-day working visit to Myanmar to strengthen bilateral ties, according to Singapore ’s Prime Minister’s Office. 

The US and the Philippines began a five-day military exercise in waters near the Southeast Asian country’s Subic Bay, in the northern part of the country on June 6.

Three Jordanian intelligence officers and two other security personnel were killed in an attack on their security office in a Palestinian refugee camp outside the Jordanian capital, Amman, and one suspect was arrested.

VOV.VN - In a referendum on June 5, approximately 80% of Swiss voters rejected the idea of the state providing a life-long allowance. 

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) appears to have reopened a plant to produce plutonium from spent fuel of a reactor central to its atomic weapons drive, the UN nuclear watchdog said on June 6, suggesting the country's arms effort is widening.

Hillary Clinton has reached the number of delegates needed to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination, the Associated Press said on June 6, putting her on course to become the first woman to head a major US party ticket.

US Navy fighter jets flying from an aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean Sea bombed 16 new Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria on June 6.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen on June 5 agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation.

Thailand’s United Front for Democracy Against Dictatorship, or the Red Shirts, on June 5 opened a centre to monitor the referendum on the new draft constitution at the fifth floor of the Imperial Lat Phrao department store in Bangkok.