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Nineteen people were killed, including nine children, and dozens were injured when a fire started by a malfunctioning space heater spread smoke through a 19-floor building in The Bronx borough of New York City on Sunday, city officials said. New York City Mayor Eric Adams, just over a week into …

Health authorities confirmed 23,153 Covid-19 cases in 60 cities and provinces Sunday, including 7,402 cases in the southern province of Binh Phuoc added to the national database. The three localities with the highest numbers of new cases are Hanoi with 2,811 cases, Hai Phong with 836 cases and Khanh Hoa …

Health authorities confirmed 23,181 Covid-19 cases in 60 cities and provinces Sunday, including 7,402 cases in the southern province of Binh Phuoc added to the national database. The three localities with the highest numbers of new cases are Hanoi with 2,811 cases, Hai Phong with 836 cases and Khanh Hoa …

Amazon.com Inc has filed fresh legal challenges in its long-running dispute with Indian retailer Future Group after the national antitrust agency suspended a 2019 deal. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) last month suspended its approval of Amazon’s 2019 deal with Future, denting the U.S. e-commerce giant’s attempts to block …

At least 21 people died in an enormous traffic jam caused by thousands of visitors thronging a Pakistani hill town to see unusually heavy snowfall, the authorities said on Saturday. The police reported that at least eight people had frozen to death in their cars, while it was not immediately …

The United Kingdom’s official death toll from the Covid-19 pandemic rose above 150,000 on Saturday, government figures showed, following a record wave of cases caused by the Omicron variant. Some 313 deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid-19 test were reported on Saturday, taking the total number of fatalities …

The administration of Hanoi has ordered that residents be relocated from six condos classified “dangerous” within the first quarter. As per a plan issued recently by Hanoi People’s Committee, all residents of the six condos must be relocated by March, and work to demolish, renovate and rebuild them be finished …

A former Deputy Secretary of HCMC’s Party unit was sentenced to 10 years in jail for violations resulting in the loss of VND669 billion ($29.4 million) to the city budget. The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Court found Tat Thanh Cang, 50, guilty of “violations in the management and use …

Health authorities announced 16,513 Covid-19 cases Saturday in 62 cities and provinces, pushing the total infection tally in the fourth wave so far to 1,860,134. Hanoi topped the country’s infection tally with 2,791 cases, followed by Khanh Hoa with 798 and Hai Phong with 748. 240 deaths were added to …

Certain areas in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem and Tay Ho districts will allow in-person dining after seeing their Covid risk levels drop, with Hai Ba Trung expected to follow. Hoan Kiem authorities Saturday stated while the district as a whole remains at high coronavirus risk, five of its wards, Phan Chu …