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U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in California on Thursday to tour areas hit hard by a series of deadly “atmospheric river” storms that inflicted widespread flooding, felled trees and brought mudslides to a state long gripped by extreme drought. Biden, traveling with the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency …

Netflix Inc co-founder Reed Hastings said on Thursday he will step down as chief executive, handing the reins of the streaming service to longtime partner and co-CEO Ted Sarandos and the company’s chief operating officer, Greg Peters. Shares of the company, which had fallen nearly 38% in the past year, …

The body of a 10-year-old boy who was trapped inside a 35-meter-deep concrete pillar and died, was retrieved Friday morning. At 1:20 a.m., two members of a rescue team from Dong Thap Provincial Police Department wearing oxygen masks went down to a depth of 24m in an iron pipe surrounding …

All vehicles will be prohibited from downtown Ho Chi Minh City Saturday night through midnight to make room for fireworks and other Tet celebrations. In District 1, the no-vehicles area will be bordered by Vo Van Kiet, Ton Duc Thang, Le Duan and Pasteur streets. A section of Nguyen Tat …

Social media giant Meta has been fined an additional 5.5 million euros ($5.9 million) for breaches of EU data protection regulations by its instant messaging platform WhatsApp, Ireland’s regulator announced Thursday. The penalty follows a 390 million euro fine for Meta-owned media platforms Instagram and Facebook two weeks ago after …

The second segment of a concrete pillar, where a 10-year-old boy fell into, got trapped and died in, was pulled up onto the ground Thursday afternoon. A member of the rescue team said the 12-meter-long segment of the 35-meter pillar was pulled up at around 6 p.m. in southern Vietnam’s …

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, an ally of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, warned NATO on Thursday that the defeat of Russia in Ukraine could trigger a nuclear war. Striking a similar tone at what he described as an anxious time for the country, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church …

A 12-year-old boy in Hanoi got scissors embedded in his skull while playing with friends. The boy was hospitalized in a conscious state with the scissors impaling his right temple, Dr. Tran Minh Tan of the Duc Giang General Hospital said Thursday. An X-ray revealed that the scissors had already …

The city of Da Nang removed a Tet cat mascot from a flower street display on Wednesday after a South Korean designer said the design was a plagiarization of his artwork. The Da Nang Civil and Industrial Construction Investment Project Management Board, along with relevant units, have removed the “Cat …

The state-run Vietnam Expressway Corporation (VEC) has asked related units to find another contractor for a bridge project on the longest expressway in southern Vietnam after work was stalled for two years. Writing to the Ministry of Transport recently, VEC suggested the ministry work with the Japan International Cooperation Agency …