Vietnam is undergoing what officials call an administrative “revolution,” part of a broader campaign to modernize the state, jumpstart economic growth, and consolidate political power in the hands of the Communist Party’s upper ranks.
To Lam,…
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Russia strikes Ukraine’s Kharkiv with Iranian-made drones, 40 injured
A Russian drone strike on Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv late Friday injured more than 40 people, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. He alleged Russia used dozens of Iranian-made Shahed drones,…
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Message From the Russian Military: ‘We Lost Your Son’
For months, Elvira Kaipova had not heard from her son Rafael, a Russian soldier deployed in Ukraine.
Military officials responded to her repeated questions about his whereabouts by saying he was on active duty and therefore incommunicado. Then,…
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Ghana Wanted a Cathedral. It Got an ‘Expensive Hole’ Instead.
The walls surrounding Ghana’s national cathedral are aging plywood. Its spires are yellow construction cranes, which have not moved in years. It frequently reverberates with singing — the singing of a choir of frogs that moves in whenever the…
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China, Russia and the remaking of the Eurasian supercontinent
Amid the usual bluster, the most remarkable lines in Donald Trump’s second inaugural address were about geography. “The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation,” the president said back in January. America would now…
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Social security minister latest to quit in major pensions fraud scandal
Brazil’s Social Security Minister, Carlos Lupi, has resigned nine days after police unveiled a major corruption scandal which defrauded pensioners of $1.1bn (£829m).
Federal police allege that over the past decade, the National Social Security…
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Russia strikes Ukraine’s Kharkiv injure nearly 50 – DW – 05/03/2025
Nearly 50 people were injured in a drone strike launched by Russia on Ukraine’s second-largest city late Friday, officials said.
“Nearly 50 people have been wounded because of the massive attack by the invader” on four districts, Kharkiv…
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Climate change is both sinking, and lifting, South Africa – DW – 05/03/2025
Rising seas threatenSouth Africa’s coastlines, battering cities with floods and erosion. Yet in a surprising twist of climate science, the ground beneath parts of the country seems to be rising.
Researchers from Germany believe drought and…
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US clarifies stance on its Ukraine conflict mediation role
Washington denies it is walking away from negotiations
Washington will not abandon its efforts to help broker peace between Russia and Ukraine, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday, after a State Department statement suggested the US…
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