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Life resumes near Ukraine frontline despite war threat

Life resumes near Ukraine frontline despite war threat

Viktoria Miroshnichenko has just reopened her toy store in Kramatorsk, a city near the frontline in eastern Ukraine, despite the daily sound of bombing roaring in the distance. “It’s a bit scary but we’re getting used to it,” she said from behind the counter of a shop selling soft toys, …

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Man arrested for rape of minor girl

Dao Dinh Duong, 28, has been arrested for raping a 15-year-old girl who he’d hired to help out at his store in the Central Highlands. On Sunday, police in Gia Lai Province’s Chu Se District arrested Duong for having sexual intercourse with a person under 16 years of age. The …

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Taiwanese wanted by HCMC police for smuggling

A Taiwanese man is wanted by the HCMC police for allegedly smuggling goods into Vietnam. The police said Saturday they are looking for Lin Yung Hsiang (also known as Lam Vinh Truong), 63, the owner of Trang Bach company, who did not inform authorities about a large amount of food …

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Tesla deliveries fall with temporary closure of China factory

Tesla deliveries fall with temporary closure of China factory

Tesla’s deliveries of electric vehicles fell in the second quarter compared to the previous one due mainly to a weeks-long closure of its factory in China, the company said Saturday. Elon Musk’s enterprise delivered 254,695 vehicles from April to June, it said in a statement. That’s 27 percent more than …

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Hundreds of flights axed as US kicks off long holiday weekend

Hundreds of flights axed as US kicks off long holiday weekend

Airlines struggling to staff their planes canceled hundreds of U.S. flights Saturday at the start of a long and almost certainly messy holiday travel weekend. As of mid-afternoon, with Americans gearing up for July 4 Independence Day celebrations, more than 600 flights within, into, or out of the United States …

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Dozens missing in shipwreck during Chaba typhoon

Dozens missing in shipwreck during Chaba typhoon

More than two dozen crew members are unaccounted for after their ship broke into two during a typhoon in the South China Sea on Saturday, with rescuers scrambling to find them, officials say. An engineering vessel that was 160 nautical miles southwest of Hong Kong “suffered substantial damage and broke …

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7 arrested for tricking 200 people into working in Cambodia

Seven people have been detained in Dong Nai Province for illegally sending around 200 people to Cambodia to work. Vong Phat Chuong, 36, and six of his accomplices were arrested by police in the southern province Saturday for questioning in connection with brokering illegal exit from Vietnam. Chuong came to …

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New York moves to enshrine abortion rights in state constitution

New York moves to enshrine abortion rights in state constitution

The U.S. state of New York moved to enshrine abortion rights and access to contraception in its constitution Friday, becoming a vanguard in the pushback against a seismic ruling by the country’s Supreme Court that upended reproductive rights nationwide. The state Senate “advanced the first passage of an amendment to …

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