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At least 207 people were killed and 900 injured when two passenger trains collided in Odisha on Friday, according to government officials in the eastern Indian state, in India’s deadliest rail accident in over a decade. The death toll is expected to increase, state Chief Secretary Pradeep Jena said in …

Having sweltered through May, southern and eastern China face more weeks of unrelenting heat waves, putting power grids under strain as demand for air-conditioning soars in mega-cities like Shanghai. In the next three days, most of southern China is expected to be hit by temperatures of more than 35 Celsius …

At least 45 bags with human remains were found in a ravine in the western Mexican state of Jalisco during a search for eight people reported missing last week, local authorities said Thursday. “Forty-five bags with human remains have been extracted that belong to both male and female people,” the …

Tourists in Indonesia are discovering the benefits of mangroves as the archipelago pushes to replant or conserve carbon-rich coastal areas that have been decimated by human activity. Connie Sihombing, a 50-year-old resident of Jakarta, does not mind that she can hear traffic or planes flying above as she paddles her …

A woman has died and her father and sister are in hospital after they spent the night in the family car in the northern Hai Phong City. When their house in An Lao District lost power on Thursday night, Pham Minh Hang, 20, along with her father, 49, and younger …

Vietnam has nine institutions in the 2023 Impact Ranking released by Times Higher Education, its most ever. The University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City is ranked highest, in the group of 301-400, after making it to the list for the first time. It is followed by the Vietnam National …

President Joe Biden tripped and fell after handing out the last diploma at a graduation ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado on Thursday, but got up quickly and walked back to his seat. The 80-year-old U.S. president fell forward, caught himself with his hands, then got up …

A dispute between the European Union and major palm oil producers Indonesia and Malaysia over a new deforestation law will have no bearing on the two countries’ stalled negotiations with the bloc on free trade agreements, a Malaysian minister said on Thursday. Responding to a Financial Times report which said …

The Philippines, United States and Japan kicked off their first ever joint coastguard drills on Thursday, as the nations seek to strengthen their maritime cooperation to counter China’s growing assertiveness. The week-long exercises will be held near the mouth of Manila Bay in the hotly disputed South China Sea, which …

Some 10,000 families and businesses in Vietnam will soon enjoy an Internet connection speed of 10 Gbps this week thanks to a collaboration between Nokia and VNPT. Finnish telecom firm Nokia announced on Wednesday that it would collaborate with state-run VNPT to launch a fiber broadband Internet network with a …