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Firefighters have managed to halt the spread of a “monster” blaze in southwest France, allowing authorities to reopen a stretch of highway to traffic ahead of a busy travel weekend. “The fire did not advance overnight thanks to the significant means employed,” the local prefect said in a tweet Saturday. …

Major hospitals in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are running out of protamine sulfate medicine to reverse the anticoagulant effects of heart surgery. Nguyen Sinh Hien, director of Hanoi Heart Hospital, said the hospital will use up its protamine sulfate in a few more weeks and in case new …

About 6,200 government workers in Ho Chi Minh City quit over the first six months this year, the highest number recorded in the last seven years. The number of officials who quit in the first half was 2.4 times that in the entire 2021, while the number of government workers …

A car crashed into a gas station in Hanoi’s Dong Da District Friday night, injuring at least eight people waiting to fill their motorbikes. The incident happened at around 10:20 p.m. at the station on Lang Street when there were at least 15 customers at the place. An employee said: …

The U.S. Embassy in Hanoi has told Vietnam’s new passport holders to bring along documents proving their place of birth when applying for visa. It said that starting August 15, new applicants must make sure to write their place of birth when completing the DS-160 application or DS-260 application. The …

Fire engulfed the top floor of a five-floor building on Dong Khoi Street in downtown Saigon after midnight Friday, sending people hanging out in the area to flee in panic. The fire covered around 100 square meters on the top floor of Seaprodex building, visible from hundreds of meters away. …

The Democratic-led U.S. House of Representatives approved a $430 billion bill on Friday that is seen as the biggest climate package in U.S. history, delivering a major legislative victory for President Joe Biden ahead of the Nov. 8 midterm elections. The legislation to fight climate change and lower prescription drug …

North Korea has dropped a face mask mandate and other social distancing rules as leader Kim Jong Un declared victory over Covid this week, state media said on Saturday, three months after its first acknowledgement of the virus outbreak in the isolated country. Kim presided over a Covid meeting on …

Chinese officials are planning a possible trip by Xi Jinping to Southeast Asia in November for what could be the leader’s first foreign trip since the Covid pandemic and include a meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Biden’s team has long sought and …

Delta Air Lines can temporarily cut some flights at New York’s LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy airports and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said on Friday. The FAA said as a condition of approval Delta “should offer customers a refund or rebook them on …