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Vietnam will cut its value-added tax by 2 percentage points to 8 percent starting Feb. 1 to boost recovery after two years of Covid-19 impacts. The tax break will last until the end of other year, according to a government decree issued Friday. Some sectors that will not be eligible …

Australia will spend an additional A$50 million ($35 million) in the next four years to protect koala habitat and slow the decline of the vulnerable species, the government said on Saturday. The marsupials native to Australia have been decimated by bushfires, disease and vehicles, with estimates of their numbers ranging …

Residents of New York and New England hunkered down on Saturday for a fierce Nor’easter bringing high winds, deep cold and up to two feet (60 cm) of snow, a blizzard predicted to be one of the worst in recent memory. Forecasts of a potentially brutal storm, which moved up …