Turkey's National Security Council will propose extending the state of emergency introduced after the failed coup in July, it said on September 28, a move expected since President Tayyip Erdogan floated the idea.

Colombia's Marxist ELN rebels said on September 28 they were ready to start formal peace talks with the government and resolve issues that have so far stymied the negotiations announced in March.

VOV.VN - Since the truce in Syria collapsed last week, bloody clashes have plunged Syria back into its humanitarian nightmare.

An ASEAN conference on the application of laws, policies and practices to the identification, management and treatment of victims of trafficking, especially women and children, was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on September 28.

Democrat Hillary Clinton sought on September 27 to keep Republican rival Donald Trump on the defensive a day after their first US presidential debate with accusations he is a sexist, racist and tax dodger, while Trump suggested he would "hit her harder" by bringing up her husband's infidelity.

Syrian government forces and their allies attacked the opposition-held sector of Aleppo on several fronts on September 27, the biggest ground assault yet in a massive new campaign that has destroyed a U.S.-backed ceasefire.

The United States will speed up deployment of the THAAD anti-missile system to the Republic of Korea given the pace of DPRK's missile tests, and it will be stationed there "as soon as possible," the top US diplomat for East Asia said on September 27.

VOV.VN - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang concluded his official visit to Cuba from September 24-25 at the invitation of Raul Castro, President of the Cuban Council of State and Council of Ministers.

Democrat Hillary Clinton went on the attack against Republican Donald Trump at the start of the first one-on-one US presidential debate on September 26, accusing him of pushing economic policy that favored the rich at the expense of the middle class.

The European Union launched a program on September 26 to issue monthly electronic cash grants to benefit a million refugees in Turkey, as part of a deal under which Ankara will curb the numbers trying to enter Europe.