A car bomb in a district south of Damascus killed at least six people and possibly many more on April 25, according to Islamic State militants who claimed responsibility for the attack.

Niger's security forces have arrested more than 100 people in the Sahara desert who were trying to illegally cross the country's northern border into neighboring Algeria, security sources said April 25.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau condemned on April 25 the execution of a Canadian hostage by Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines, calling it "an act of cold-blooded murder."

Myanmar’s Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has dismissed 17 senior members, including former party chairman and speaker of the lower house Shwe Mann, local media reported on April 25. 

The Philippines will hold a presidential election on May 9 to seek a candidate to succeed outgoing President Benigno Aquino who will conclude his term of office in June.

Indonesia will set up a crisis centre headed by President Joko Widodo to handle security situations involving its citizens overseas. 

Thai authorities have tightened security measures in the southern city of Hat Yai following intelligence reports indicating possible attacks by Muslim insurgents.

Myanmar’s ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party said it may not put an amendment to the constitution to a vote in parliament but hold a referendum for a new amendment.

Rockets pounded the Turkish town of Kilis near the Syrian border on April 24, a Reuters witness reported, killing one person and injuring 26, a day after the government promised to protect the area from repeated attacks by Islamic State militants.

President Barack Obama will announce on April 24 he plans to send as many as 250 additional U.S. troops to Syria, a sharp increase in the American presence working with local Syrian forces fighting Islamic State militants, U.S. officials said.

A trade deal between Britain and the United States could take five to 10 years to negotiate if Britain votes to leave the European Union at a June 23 referendum, US President Barack Obama told the BBC in an interview broadcast on April 24.

Germany is seeking the creation of "safe zones" to shelter refugees in Syria, Chancellor Angela Merkel said on April 23, an idea Turkey has long championed in the face of UN caution.

At least 12 people were killed on April 23 in two separate car bomb attacks in Baghdad targeting security forces, police sources said.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile off its east coast on April 23, the Republic of Korea (RoK) said, amid concerns that the isolated state might conduct a nuclear test or a missile launch ahead of a ruling party meeting in May.

Malaysia, Australia and China have planned to open a ministerial meeting in June to discuss whether to continue with the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 which went missing two years ago.

Panamanian investigators on April 22 raided a property used by Mossack Fonseca, the law firm at the center of a massive leak of offshore financial data, removing bags full of shredded documents as evidence, a local prosecutor said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel will try to soothe tensions over a deal meant to stem the flow of migrants to Europe when she visits Turkey this weekend.

The U.N. special envoy for Syria has vowed to take fragile peace talks into next week despite a walkout by the main armed opposition, a breakdown in a truce and signs that both sides are gearing up to escalate the five-year-old civil war.

The US pledged to work with Cambodia on maritime security at a meeting on April 21 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. 

Queen Elizabeth greeted thousands of well-wishers from across Britain and beyond as she celebrated her 90th birthday on April 21, demonstrating the world's oldest monarch's intent to keep doing the job she has performed for more than six decades.

US President Barack Obama made an impassioned appeal on April 22 for Britain to remain in the European Union, saying membership had magnified Britain's place in the world and made the bloc stronger and more outward looking.

VOV.VN - The Syrian opposition has withdrawn from peace talks in Geneva due to what it calls the deteriorating security and humanitarian situation in Syria. This has stalled efforts to end Syria’s 6-year civil war.   

Philippine authorities said on April 21 that they have arrested a suspect in the hacking of the Commission on Elections’s website ahead of presidential polls slated for May.

Malaysian authorities on April 21 said they have been given the green light to continue search operations for Malaysia Airlines’ missing plane MH370 in sea territories close to Mozambique and South Africa.

Chad's incumbent president, Idriss Deby, an important ally of the West in the fight against Islamist militants, won a fifth term in office in a lopsided first-round victory, the Central African country's elections commission announced on April 21.

Singapore will hold a by-election for Bukit Batok constituency on May 7 after the People’s Action Party (PAP) representative David Ong resigned last month because of a “personal indiscretion”.

Talks aimed at ending Yemen's war opened in Kuwait on April 21, with Kuwait's top diplomat appealing to both sides to "turn war into peace" after more than a year of conflict which has killed more than 6,200 people and caused a humanitarian crisis.

Malaysia is facing a shortage of manpower, two months after implementing a Government decision to suspend the recruitment of foreign workers.

Malaysia advocates the importance of multilateralism and regional cooperation as well as networks of diplomatic relations to collectively address emerging security challenges, said Deputy Prime Minister Zahid Hamidi. 

A number of high-ranking leaders of Laos were elected during the ongoing first session of the 8th National Assembly (NA) on the morning of April 20.