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Beijing topped 40 degrees Celsius (104F) on Saturday for a record third day as the Chinese capital sweltered in extreme heat, while uncommonly high temperatures for June grilled an area the size of California in northern China. At 1:51 p.m. (0551 GMT), the temperature measured by Beijing’s benchmark weather station …

Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin will move to Belarus under a deal brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko to end an armed mutiny, the Kremlin said on Saturday. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Lukashenko had offered to mediate, with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s agreement, because he had known Prigozhin …

Heavily armed Russian mercenaries who advanced most of the way to Moscow began turning back on Saturday to avoid bloodshed. Yevgeny Prigozhin, a former Putin ally and founder of the Wagner army, said his men reached within 125 miles (200 km) of the capital. Earlier, Moscow deployed soldiers in preparation …

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recommends that Vietnamese people in southern Russia should stay at home, avoid gatherings, and those planning to travel there should consider safety factors. “The security and order situation in the city of Rostov-on-Don and some southern regions of Russia has complicated developments. The Ministry of …

Mutinous Russian mercenary fighters barrelled towards Moscow on Saturday after seizing a southern city overnight, with Russia’s military firing on them from the air but seemingly incapable of slowing their lightning advance. Facing the first serious challenge to his grip on power of his 23-year rule, President Vladimir Putin vowed …

Police and market management officials inspected a warehouse in Binh Duong’s Di An City Friday and found 1,200 cylinders filled with nitrous oxide. They also found many equipment to serve the extraction of the gas to smaller containers. The nitrous oxide is estimated to weigh 21 tons in total and …

A passenger bus running on fixed routes in Da Nang City was found to have violated speed limit 450 times in May. The bus belongs to Hai Van Transport Service Cooperative based in the central city, Da Nang Transport Department said Friday. The department has revoked the badges of the …

Written and illustrated by two Vietnamese authors, a graphic novel about a conservationist trying to save a sun bear has won the 2023 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Illustration. The award was announced Wednesday by the Yoto Carnegies, the U.K.’s longest-running book award for children and young people that recognizes outstanding …

Australia on Saturday announced financial sanctions and travel bans on two Russians and a Ukrainian involved in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 in 2014. Canberra officials said the sanctions target Russian national Sergey Dubinsky and Ukrainian Leonid Kharchenko, who were found guilty in absentia of murder and other …

Over 50,000 students are studying the Korean language, culture and others at universities and colleges in Vietnam, the director of the Vietnam National University Hanoi said. Speaking at a reception for visiting South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and his wife Kim Keon-hee on Thursday, Le Quan said Vietnam has the …