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PM Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party lost control of a previously safe parliamentary seat Friday in a surprise election result interpreted as a voter backlash against British leader beset by scandal. The centrist Liberal Democrats party candidate, Helen Morgan, won the North Shropshire seat by nearly 6,000 votes, overturning a 23,000 …

The Health Ministry announced 15,215 new Covid-19 patients Friday in 59 cities and provinces, bringing the number of infections in the fourth wave to more than 1.5 million. Southern Ben Tre Province recorded the most number of cases at 1,246, followed by Ca Mau with 1,071 cases and HCMC with …

All localities from Da Nang to Khanh Hoa on the central coast have evacuated people from vulnerable areas and asked seafaring vessels to take shelter from Typhoon Rai. On Friday, Da Nang City and the provinces of Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen and Khanh Hoa asked deep …

Localities from Da Nang City to Khanh Hoa Province have evacuated people from vulnerable areas and guided vessels to take shelter as Typhoon Rai approaches. Da Nang and provinces of Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, Binh Dinh, Phu Yen, Khanh Hoa on Friday requested ships to stay anchored as Typhoon Rai …

A teenage boy in the central province of Quang Nam on Thursday accidentally received two Pfizer vaccine shots 10 minutes apart. The 11th grader of Tran Cao Van High School in Tam Ky Town received one Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine shot at a table, then moved to another and got jabbed …

All 27 migrants who drowned when their boat sank in the Channel last month while trying to reach Britain have now been identified, the Paris prosecutors office announced on Thursday. The final identification made was of a 29-year-old Vietnamese man, the Paris authorities said. Most of the victims of the …

Six students and two teachers have contracted Covid-19 within four days of ninth and 12th graders in HCMC returning to school, but no closure has been considered yet. “Contracting infections in classes was what HCMC anticipated and planned for, and all the cases have been handled safely,” Pham Duc Hai, …

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has called for punishing people who refuse to be vaccinated without valid reasons. At a meeting with the National Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control, he said authorities should convince people to get immunized, and consider banning people from leaving their home or making …

Vietnam has administered 1-1.5 million Covid-19 vaccine doses a day, with the country’s injection rate ranking third after China and India in November. By the end of Thursday, 63 cities and provinces had administered over 135 million doses, or 88 percent of the total the Ministry of Health had allocated, …

At least 27 people were feared dead after a fire swept through a psychiatry clinic in the Japanese city of Osaka on Friday, media said police were investigating suspected arson. Some 27 people were in cardiopulmonary arrest, an official at Osaka’s city fire department told Reuters, the term used in …