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Russian troops and mercenaries rained artillery on the last access routes to the besieged Ukrainian city of Bakhmut on Friday, bringing Moscow closer to its first major victory in half a year after the bloodiest fighting of the war. The head of Russia’s Wagner private army said the city, which …

Two people were injured after a truck barreled into three cars on a Da Lat pass and flipped onto its side Friday afternoon. Truong Trung Quy, 49, was driving the truck on the Mimosa Pass at around 12:50 p.m. when it collided with a taxi cab in front of it, …

A teenager in Central Highlands’ Lam Dong Province jumped into a Da Lat lake to save two people trapped in a sinking car. On Feb. 21, a car was driving on Tran Quoc Toan Street before it veered into Ho Xuan Huong lake in the center of Da Lat, a …

Police in Ho Chi Minh City are searching for two men robbed Sacombank in the city’s District 8 at gunpoint. On Friday afternoon, two men drove a motorbike to the bank on Pham The Hien Street. They posed as normal customers to enter the bank. Camera footage showed a man …

In a country where spaces for female self-expression have shrunk in recent years, getting a tattoo can feel like an empowering act. “When you choose to get tattooed, and choose a different image to put on your body, you are actually taking action to say, I control my body,” Song …

The United States and South Korea will conduct more than ten days of large-scale military drills in March, including amphibious landings, officials from the two countries said on Friday. The exercises, dubbed “Freedom Shield”, will be held from March 13-23 to strengthen the allies’ combined defensive posture, the two militaries …

Northern Vietnam’s Lai Chau and Vinh Phuc provinces were rocked by two earthquakes early Friday morning. The first earthquake measured 4.4 on the Richter Scale, happened at around 4:50 a.m. in Lai Chau’s Muong Te District. The second one, which measured 3.2 on the Richter scale, happened at 8:09 a.m. …

About 170 people were evacuated from a Hong Kong shopping area after a fire broke out in a skyscraper late on Thursday night, the government said. Firefighters battled the blaze at a redevelopment project in the Tsim Sha Tsui district throughout the early hours of Friday, the flames visible from …

Binh Duong Province’s Health Department has told healthcare facilities not to recruit six doctors who did not commit to working for the province as pledged under a talent development agreement. In a statement sent to health authorities in other cities and provinces, the Binh Duong department said the six doctors …

Many patients scheduled to receive surgeries at Viet Duc, the largest surgical center in northern Vietnam, are getting by with painkillers as the hospital has suspended surgeries due to shortages of medicines and supplies. The hospital in Hanoi has announced the suspension of scheduled surgeries from Wednesday and is only …