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Gunmen opened fire on people sitting in a tavern in South Africa’s biggest township of Soweto in the early hours of Sunday, killing 14 and wounding another nine, police said. Police said in a statement that shortly after midnight, “a group of men armed with rifles and 9mm pistols entered …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh wants construction of Terminal 3 at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport to begin this quarter and be completed in 2024. “The T3 terminal needs to be completed by September 2024 at the earliest. Work should be done day and night,” he said during a …

At least 16 people have been killed after sudden rains triggered flash floods during an annual Hindu pilgrimage to the cave shrine of Amarnath in Indian Kashmir, a government official said on Saturday. More than two dozen people have been reported missing and rescue operations are underway. “Both army and …

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Saturday met with elderly survivors of Native American boarding schools, her first stop on a year-long tour to hear first-hand accounts of widespread abuses committed at those institutions. Haaland met with survivors at the Riverside Indian School, the nation’s oldest federally operated boarding school …

Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa plans to step down, the country’s parliamentary speaker said on Saturday, bowing to intense pressure after a violent day of protests in which demonstrators stormed the president’s official residence and set fire to the prime minister’s home in Colombo. The announcement, following the dramatic escalation …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said the government would consider choosing HCMC Party secretary or a deputy prime minister to lead the southern key economic region. The region comprises Ho Chi Minh City and seven provinces Binh Phuoc, Tay Ninh, Binh Duong, Dong Nai, Ba Ria – Vung Tau, Long …

Transport Minister Nguyen Van The called for more resources to enhance traffic in southeastern Vietnam as HCMC faces constant traffic congestion. At a Saturday conference on socio-economic development in southeastern Vietnam, which includes HCMC and industrial neighbors Binh Duong and Dong Nai, The said traffic is the lifeblood of the …

Late former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe highly valued the Vietnam-Japan relationship and left several important legacies for both countries, former Vietnamese ambassador Nguyen Quoc Cuong said. “The most important legacy that Abe left for Vietnam-Japan relations was trust, not only between leaderships, but also their people,” Cuong, Vietnamese ambassador …

The government has approved a new passenger terminal at the Cat Bi International Airport in the northern port city of Hai Phong. T2 will be built by the Airports Corporation of Vietnam (ACV), which operates all 22 commercial airports in the country, at a cost of VND2.4 trillion ($102.75 million) …

Japan on Saturday mourned the assassination of former prime minister Shinzo Abe, whose body was being moved to Tokyo from the western town where he was gunned down at close range. The murder of Japan’s best-known politician rattled the country and sent shockwaves around the world, particularly given the nation’s …