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Several major Wall Street banks have begun offering to facilitate trades in Russian debt in recent days, according to bank documents seen by Reuters, giving investors another chance to dispose of assets widely seen in the West as toxic. Most U.S. and European banks had pulled back from the market …

A former soldier in northern Vietnam’s Ha Nam Province has been detained after allegedly strangling and stashing a 3-year-old boy inside a freezer. Nguyen Truong Giang, 25, was detained by Ha Nam police Sunday for behavior that may constitute a murder charge. Giang said that at 3:20 p.m. on Saturday, …

The defense ministry’s Chemical Command is cleaning up A So airport in Thua Thien Hue Province of dioxin contamination left from the Vietnam War. Situated in A Luoi District, 100 km from the town of Hue, the country’s imperial capital, the airport was built by the U.S. in the 1960s. …