The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit began on Wednesday Oct. 9 in Vientiane, Laos with a major focus placed on tackling a critical issue within the region: the worsening civil war in Myanmar.

Tensions between Israel and Iran finally reached a tipping point on Tuesday Oct. 1, when the latter initiated a missile attack into Israeli territory. There has only been one confirmed death and a handful of minor injuries reported.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the famed Nobel laureate who had been placed under house arrest for most of the last three decades, had just won a landslide victory in the country’s first openly contested elections in 15 years.