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Labour leader Chris Hipkins was sworn in as New Zealand’s prime minister in a formal ceremony on Wednesday, following the resignation of outgoing Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern last week. The Labour party elected former Covid-19 Response and Police minister Hipkins, 44, to lead the party and the country on Sunday. …

After eight years, the downtown area of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has a new look thanks to the removal of the construction site for an underground metro station in front of Ben Thanh Market. Nguyen, 55, the owner of a souvenir shop on Le Loi Street, fixed up his …

On three days of the Lunar New Year holiday from Saturday to Monday there were almost 11,500 road accidents that claimed 128 lives. The Department of Medical Examination and Treatment said during the three days, the number of patients hospitalized after accidents increased slightly from last year but the number …

Seven people were killed in a mass shooting at two locations in the coastal northern California city of Half Moon Bay on Monday, and the suspect was later taken into custody after driving to a police parking lot, officials said. Half Moon Bay is about 30 miles (50 km) south …

Minister of Foreign Affairs Bui Thanh Son has highlighted the six priorities the diplomatic sector will focus on in 2023, during a recent interview granted to the press. He pointed out that complex and unpredictable developments in the world economy in 2023 will pose more latent difficulties and challenges than …

The 72-year-old suspected gunman in Saturday night’s mass shooting at a Los Angeles-area dance studio had been a regular there, giving informal lessons and even meeting his ex-wife at the venue, according to friends and media reports. Authorities say Huu Can Tran opened fire during a celebration of the Lunar …

Two people died and a third was seriously wounded Monday in a shooting at a youth outreach center in Des Moines, Iowa, police said. Police responded to a report of a shooting at Starts Right Here, which runs a program for at-risk youths, and found three people wounded, two of …

An 11th victim died on Monday from injuries suffered in a weekend shooting rampage at a Los Angeles-area dance hall, as investigators searched for a motive behind one of California’s bloodiest outbursts of mass gun violence. Police identified Huu Can Tran, 72 as the lone suspect in a massacre that …

The White House on Tuesday nominated a special envoy for human rights in North Korea, moving to fill a post that has been empty since 2017 amid debate over how rights issues fit with efforts to counter Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program. President Joe Biden nominated Julie Turner, a long-time diplomat …

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that changes would be announced imminently in the government, the regions and in the security forces following allegations of corruption nearly a year into Russia’s invasion. Zelenskiy, elected by a landslide in 2019 on pledges to change the way government operated, did not …