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Body of a three-year-old girl has been found inside a motorboat capsized off Vietnam’s central coast Saturday, raising the death toll to 16. Rescuers found her body in a technical box of the motorboat late Sunday night after they had already searched the boat for several times, said Nguyen Van …

Russia’s central bank has ordered professional stock market participants to suspend the execution of all orders by foreign legal entities and individuals to sell Russian securities from Monday morning, an internal document showed. The document was published by ACI Russia, the national organisation of Russian financial market specialists. The bank’s …

Facilities for storing dead bodies at hospitals and public mortuaries in Hong Kong are struggling to keep pace with a record number of Covid-19 infections and deaths, eclipsing authorities attempts to control a deepening outbreak. Dozens of bodies are waiting in hospital accident and emergency rooms across the global financial …

At least 64 civilians have been killed and more than 160,000 are on the move after Russian troops entered Ukraine this week, a United Nations relief agency said. “As of 5:00 p.m. on 26 February, (U.N. human rights office) OHCHR reports at least 240 civilian casualties, including at least 64 …

New York state will end its mask mandate for schools and childcare facilities on Wednesday, Governor Kathy Hochul said, citing a steep drop in Covid-19 cases. “It wasn’t always easy, but students, educators and parents stepped up to fight this pandemic,” Hochul tweeted on Sunday. “We’ve reached this exciting milestone …

Nearly 200 nations approved a major U.N. climate change report detailing the accelerating impacts of global warming on Sunday, at the end of a sometimes fraught two-week meeting overshadowed by Russia’s attack of Ukraine. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirmed that debates had concluded over the report’s crucial …

U.S.-based United Parcel Service Inc and FedEx Corp, two of the world’s largest logistics companies, have said they are halting delivery service to Russia and Ukraine. Meanwhile, German logistics company Deutsche Post DHL said it had temporarily suspended shipments to and from Ukraine and was avoiding Ukrainian airspace for its …

Students from first to sixth grades in 18 suburban Hanoi districts will switch back to remote learning Monday as the Covid-19 situation worsens in the capital city. On Sunday, the city administration approved a proposal by district authorities to have more than 500,000 first to sixth grade students (aged 6-12) …

Hanoi’s Covid-19 outbreak might peak in two more weeks and the city’s healthcare system could be overloaded without proper preparation, the capital city’s chairman has cautioned. Addressing a city meeting Sunday, chairman Chu Ngoc Anh cited health experts as estimating the outbreak in Hanoi would reach its peak in the …

Students from first to sixth grades in 18 suburban Hanoi districts will switch back to remote learning Monday as the Covid-19 situation worsens in the capital city. On Sunday, the city administration approved a proposal by district authorities to have more than 500,000 first to sixth grade students (aged 6-12) …