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Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the “Pentagon Papers” about the Vietnam War — changing public perceptions of the conflict — died on Friday, his family announced. He was 92. Ellsberg was a military analyst when he released thousands of documents to U.S. media in 1971 that revealed successive United …

Fearing for his family’s safety, a man joined the deadly attacks on two People’s Committee offices in Dak Lak Province after being threatened, his wife said. H’Nguil Ayui, 32, sat quietly in front of her modest house located deep in a coffee farm 50 km from the Ea Tieu and …

Work was started Saturday on the 188-km Chau Doc – Can Tho – Soc Trang expressway that will run across the Mekong Delta at a cost of over VND44.69 trillion (US$1.89 billion). The expressway will begin in Soc Trang Province’s Tran De port, run through Hau Giang Province and Can …

Southeast Asian countries are drawing up governance and ethics guidelines for artificial intelligence (AI) that will impose “guardrails” on the booming technology, five officials with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters. Regulators across the world are rushing to draft regulations to govern the use of generative AI, which can …

Ambassador Dang Hoang Giang, Permanent Representative of Vietnam to the United Nations, has expressed concern that recent developments in the East Sea could affect peace, security and development. Addressing the 33rd meeting of States Parties to the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) which took …

HCMC firefighters have saved a woman who was stuck 20 m deep in a gap of 30 cm between two houses as she tried to save her cat down there. On Friday morning Nguyen Thi Thanh Hoa, 32, of District 10, who had lost her cat for a week, heard …

None of the United States’ major trading partners has been designated as manipulating its currency — including China — the Treasury Department said Friday, although Switzerland was added to a “monitoring list.” China also warrants close observation, the Treasury added in a biannual report to Congress, over its failure to …

The United States on Thursday denounced the scourge of human trafficking, calling out forced labor and the little-known but growing problem of boys and young men caught up the trade. The condemnation came as Secretary of State Antony Blinken presented a report on what he called “concerning trends” in human …

Thailand’s caretaker government is proposing to “fully re-engage” Myanmar’s military rulers and has invited ASEAN foreign ministers to an informal meeting on Sunday to discuss a stalled peace plan, according to a letter seen by Reuters and sources aware of the invitation. The proposal was made in a June 14 …

Meta Platforms said on Friday services on its social media apps Facebook and Instagram were restored, more than two hours after an outage that affected thousands of users. At one point, nearly 20,000 users in total said they were having trouble accessing Facebook and Instagram and Meta’s messaging service WhatsApp, …