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Nearly 900 Amazon workers at a warehouse in Britain will stage a strike for three days in the coming week over a pay dispute, labour union GMB said on Saturday. The strike will take place from July 11-13 at Amazon’s warehouse in Coventry, for two hours during the morning and …

Twelve foreigners and six Vietnamese have been arrested for gambling in the southern province of Binh Duong. The police busted a house in Viet Sing residential area in Thuan An on Friday and found 18 people gambling. They confiscated around VND382 million (US$16,150) as well as $700 and 27,000 Taiwanese …

All six people aboard a small jet died when the aircraft crashed and burned in a field near an airport near Los Angeles on Saturday, local and federal authorities said. The aircraft, a Cessna C550 business jet, was traveling from Las Vegas and crashed near French Valley Airport in Riverside …

The Church of England will work towards drafting new pastoral guidance and other material needed to allow same-sex couples to receive blessings from priests over the next few months, it said on Saturday. The Church’s governing body, called the General Synod, held a four-hour debate on the matter, which has …

The government has approved a plan to borrow $2.53 billion from six foreign partners to develop 16 infrastructure projects in the Mekong Delta. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said at a meeting in the delta’s capital city Can Tho Saturday that Vietnam can afford to take more ODA loans as …

President Joe Biden announced Friday that the United States has fully destroyed its decades-old stockpiles of chemical weapons, a milestone hailed as completing the elimination around the world of all known stores of the agents of mass death. “Today, I am proud to announce that the United States has safely …

HCMC is working with Dong Nai and Binh Duong on a plan to lengthen its Metro Line No.1 to the two provinces, both industrial hubs. Line No.1, which is still under construction and set to run between Ben Thanh Market in downtown Ho Chi Minh City to Long Binh Depot …

Two children and a teenager of a family died in a fire that engulfed a six-story house in Hanoi’s Dong Da District Saturday morning. The fire broke out around 5:20 a.m. in the fifth floor of the house situated in an alley off Tho Quan Street and spread to other …

A man from the central province of Ha Tinh and his younger brother have been sentenced to in prison for “organizing others to flee abroad.” Nguyen Vuong Cuong, 40, received 36 months imprisonment and Nguyen Van Tai, 32, got 30 months, the Hanoi People’s Court announced Friday. Their accomplice Nguyen …

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s coalition government collapsed Friday over “insurmountable” differences on how to tackle migration, with elections expected in November. Rutte, 56, the Netherlands’ longest-serving leader and one of Europe’s most experienced politicians, said days of crisis talks between the four parties failed to produce a deal. They …