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Singapore will mark 50 years since independence on August 9 with nationwide celebrations including a huge military parade and firework display that will also pay tribute to former founding leader Lee Kuan Yew.

Chinese relatives of passengers aboard missing flight MH370 on August 7 demanded to be taken to the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, where a wing part was found that the Malaysian government said was from the plane.

The United States has conducted its first drone strike into northern Syria from a base in Turkey, the Pentagon said on Aug. 5, ahead of what Ankara said would soon be a "comprehensive battle" against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants there. 

The United States and Russia have reached agreement on a draft U.N. resolution aimed at identifying those behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria in order to bring them to justice, a U.S. official said on August 6. 

A piece of a wing that washed up on an Indian Ocean island last week was part of the wreckage of Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, Malaysia said on Aug. 6, confirming the discovery of the first trace of the plane since it vanished last year.

Southeast Asian nations were at loggerheads on August 6 over a joint statement on tensions in the South China Sea, with Beijing's allies opposing strong criticism of its land-reclamation activities, diplomats said.

The aircraft wing fragment found on Reunion Island last week belongs to the missing MH370 plane, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed on Wednesday.

The Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak confirmed Wednesday that the plane debris found on the shore of Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean belongs to missing Malaysia airlines Flight MH370, according to Reuters.

Russia and the United States have not been able to agree a common approach to fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Aug. 5 after his second meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in recent days. 

U.S. aircraft and drones are arriving in Turkish air bases and a comprehensive battle against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants will be launched soon, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu said on Aug. 5.