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President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday confirmed Ukrainian troops had recaptured the strategic city of Izyum in the eastern part of the country from Russian forces as part of a large-scale counter-offensive. In an address to the nation marking 200 days since the beginning of the Russia’s invasion, Zelensky thanked Ukrainian …

Thunderstorms will lash the northern region between Tuesday night and Saturday, bringing with them the threat of flooding and landslides, the weather office has warned. According to the National Hydro-meteorological Forecasting Center, a new low-pressure trough in combination with a wind convergence will cause widespread rainfall in the region. The …

Post-Covid, Hanoi has bid goodbye to quiet streets, and the old congestion is back with a vengeance. At 6 p.m. one August day at the Nguyen Trai-Khuat Duy Tien intersection, thousands of vehicles were moving an inch at a time, with the noise of engines, the smell of exhaust smoke …

The Biden administration plans next month to broaden curbs on U.S shipments to China of semiconductors used for artificial intelligence and chipmaking tools, several people familiar with the matter said. The Commerce Department intends to publish new regulations based on restrictions communicated in letters earlier this year to three U.S. …

Bucking the age-old stereotype of hard-drinking college students, Manaka Okamoto considers the next day’s schedule before cracking open an alcoholic beverage. “If I have to get up early, and I think ‘Oh, I should hold off on drinking,’ then I go for a non-alcohol drink to get a sense of …

Xi Jinping will leave China this week for the first time in more than two years for a trip to Central Asia where he will meet Vladimir Putin. The trip, his first abroad since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, shows just how confident Xi is about his grip on …

More than a year after the Great Resignation took hold in the United States, Canada is grappling with its own grayer version: The Great Retirement. That is hastening a mass exodus of Canada’s most highly skilled workers, leaving businesses scrambling, helping push wages sharply higher and threatening to further drag …

The latest cost estimate for the expressway between HCMC and Moc Bai border gate with Cambodia is VND16.73 trillion ($709.9 million), up VND6 trillion ($255 million) from late 2019. HCMC People’s Committee mentioned the estimate in a pre-feasibility report submitted to the Ministry of Planning and Investment. The HCMC – …

Three people in the Central Highlands’ Dak Lak Province have been charged with murder for hitting a dog thief suspect with a car, killing him. Le Hoang Anh, 23, Dang Dinh Cuong, 20, and Pham Minh Phuc, 16, all male, were charged with murder, Dak Lak prosecutors said Saturday. Le …

A man was arrested early Sunday morning, two days after he robbed VND600 million (US$25,450) from a bank in the southern province of Dong Nai using a revolver. Le Huy Dung, 34, was caught at 1 a.m. near the Long Duc Industrial Zone in Long Thanh District, Dong Nai, said …