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Storm Noru intensified Tuesday morning as it moved closer to the central Vietnamese coast. It lay centered in the southeastern part of the Paracels archipelago at 7 a.m. Tuesday, with maximum winds of 183 kph, up from 149 kph the previous night. The National Center for Hydro and Meteorological Forecasting …

President Vladimir Putin on Monday granted Russian citizenship to former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, nine years after he exposed the scale of secret surveillance operations by the National Security Agency (NSA). Snowden, 39, fled the United States and was given asylum in Russia after leaking secret files in 2013 …

The Philippines will stop operations of 175 offshore gambling firms and deport about 40,000 Chinese workers, a justice ministry official said on Monday, part of a crackdown on the notoriously opaque online gaming industry. The sector emerged in the Philippines in 2016 and grew exponentially, as operators capitalized on the …