At least two citizens and one soldier were killed and some others were injured in a series of coordinated attacks in the three southernmost provinces of Thailand in the night of November 2. 

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on November 2 said that Japan will provide 800 billion Yen (US$7.73 billion) for Myanmar over the next five years to assist the peace process and national development in the country. 

Japan’s Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi have agreed to cooperate in efforts to end ethnic conflicts in Myanmar. 

A suspect of bomb attacks in Phuket resort admitted his involvement in the attacks that shook the southern Thailand in early August, according to Thai police on November 2.

VOV.VN - An escalating political standoff and violent demonstrations between supporters of the goverment and the opposition are pushing Venezuela to the verge of serious instability. 

Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump attacked one another's character as they pushed their closing arguments six days before the US presidential election, while the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Clinton's lead over Trump rising back to the margin she held last week.

Russia and the Syrian army on November 2 told anti-government rebels in Aleppo to leave by November 4 evening, signaling an extended moratorium on air strikes in the city.

US-backed Iraqi forces moved closer on November 2 to a town south of Mosul where aid groups and regional officials say Islamic State has executed dozens of prisoners.

The Ministry of the State Counselor's Office of Myanmar announced on November 2 the acceptance of people's complaint on cases of bribery and corruption in an effort to promote economic development.

A large number of police and military forces were deployed to ensure security in southern provinces of Thailand with schools re-opening on November 1, reported the country’s media.

China and Malaysia have signed 14 cooperation agreements worth 143.64 billion ringgit (US$34.4 billion), including an important defence deal.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on November 1 a Western failure to rein in violent Islamists in Syria had indefinitely delayed the resumption of peace talks.

Iraqi forces battled Islamic State fighters on the eastern edge of Mosul on November 1 as the two-week campaign to recapture the jihadists' last main bastion in Iraq entered a new phase of urban warfare.

At least 12 Pakistani workers were killed and more than 50 injured on November 1 after a huge blast ripped through an oil tanker at a ship-breaking yard, trapping others inside the vessel.

VOV.VN - The arms race between NATO and Russia has escalated since the UK announced its deployment of an additional 800 troops and fighter aircraft to Russia’s western border. 

French authorities will on November 2 begin transferring about 1,500 unaccompanied migrant minors to reception centers across the country, officials said on November 1, as a standoff with Britain over who takes care of the youths drags on.

The Philippines' former President Fidel Ramos has quit his job as special envoy to China, weeks after the current Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte visited Beijing, aides said on November 1, but the government has yet to act on his resignation.

Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has confirmed Australia is considering joint patrols with Indonesia in the East Sea. 

Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (NSRA) found the wreckage of a missing cargo plane and the bodies of four victims on board in the country’s easternmost province of Papue on November 1. 

Advancing Iraqi troops broke through Islamic State defenses in an eastern suburb of Mosul on October 31, taking the battle for the insurgents' stronghold into the city limits for the first time, a force commander said.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called Democratic rival Hillary Clinton a threat to the country on October 31, saying that if she is elected a probe into her emails could shadow her entire term in office, as the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Clinton's lead narrowing slightly.

Syria's army said on October 31 the Nusra Front and what the army called other terrorist groups had killed 84 people, mostly women and children, in Aleppo during the past three days, in a bombardment that included chemical weapons and rocket fire.

Cambodia and the US began a week-long naval exercise at Ream Naval Base in the southwest province of Preah Sihanouk, Cambodia, on October 31. 

Myanmar's Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC), led by State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, has introduced the structure and work guidelines on the organisation of the first national-level political dialogue in November.

VOV.VN - Thousands of refugees flocked to Paris several days after France closed an encampment in the vicinity of the northern port city of Calais. 

Turkey said it had dismissed a further 10,000 civil servants and closed 15 more media outlets over suspected links with terrorist organizations and US-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orchestrating a failed coup in July.

Italy will rebuild all the homes, churches and properties destroyed in a string of earthquakes over the past two months, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on October 30 just hours after another powerful quake hit the center of the country.

The European Union and Canada signed a free trade agreement on October 30 that aims to generate jobs and growth though it must still clear some 40 national and regional parliaments in Europe in the coming years to enter fully into force.

An air raid by an Arab coalition killed 60 people in Yemen, including inmates of a prison near the city of Hodeidah, medical sources said.

Venezuela's fast-escalating political crisis and Colombia's stuttering peace process dominated the Ibero-American Summit on October 29, despite an official agenda about youth, entrepreneurship and education.