HAI PHONG, Vietnam, (Reuters) – Vietnam’s electric vehicle maker VinFast said yesterday it had shipped its first batch of 999 cars to the United States, capping a five-year bid to develop an auto production hub in the Southeast Asian country for markets in North America and Europe.
(Reuters) – A Walmart supervisor who killed six co-workers at a store in Virginia on Tuesday bought a handgun the day of the shooting and left a rambling note on his cellphone in which he railed against other employees who he felt had mocked and betrayed him.
BLANTYRE, (Reuters) – Malawi’s Anti-Corruption Bureau has arrested the country’s Vice President Saulos Klaus Chilima over graft allegations, it said today.
HAI PHONG, Vietnam, (Reuters) – Vietnam’s electric vehicle maker VinFast said today it had shipped its first batch of 999 cars to the United States, capping a five-year bid to develop an auto production hub in the Southeast Asian country for markets in North America and Europe.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as prime minister yesterday, capping a three-decade political journey from a protege of veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad to protest leader, a prisoner convicted of sodomy and opposition leader.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Much of Ukraine yesterday remained without heat or power after the most devastating Russian air strikes on its energy grid so far, and in Kyiv residents were warned to brace for further attacks and stock up on water, food and warm clothing.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele promised yesterday to tighten security around major cities, the latest escalation of an eight-month-old war against gang violence which human rights groups say is marred by unjustified detentions.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim was sworn in as prime minister today, capping a three-decade political journey from a protege of veteran leader Mahathir Mohamad to protest leader, a prisoner convicted of sodomy and opposition leader.
WINDHOEK, (Reuters) – A large crane lifted a colonial-era statue of German official Curt von Francois in Namibian capital Windhoek yesterday, as a crowd that gathered nearby clapped and hooted in delight.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – The German government plans to introduce a special levy to skim off 33% of windfall profits made by oil, coal and gas companies, which could generate revenue of between one and three billion euros, finance ministry sources told Reuters.
(Reuters) – Some two in five of Haiti’s growing number of cholera cases are among children, the United Nation’s children’s agency warned yesterday, saying youth suffering from severe malnutrition ran three times the risk of dying from the bacterial disease.
WASHINGTON/KYIV, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the United Nations Security Council to act against Russia over air strikes on civilian infrastructure that again plunged Ukrainian cities into darkness and cold as winter sets in.
CHESAPEAKE, Va., (Reuters) – A Walmart supervisor armed with a handgun and several magazines of ammunition opened fire on fellow employees in a Virginia store, killing six people before turning the gun on himself in a break room, witnesses and police said yesterday.
PRISTINA, (Reuters) – Kosovo and Serbia reached a deal on Wednesday to end a nearly two-year dispute over car licence plates in northern Kosovo, which the West had warned could trigger ethnic violence, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said.
(Reuters) – There is now an imminent threat of measles spreading in various regions globally, as COVID-19 led to a steady decline in vaccination coverage and weakened surveillance of the disease, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S.
(Reuters) – Seven people were killed and several wounded in a shooting at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia, last night, authorities said, just days after a gunman killed five and injured 17 at a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub.
LONDON, (Reuters) – The Scottish government cannot hold a second referendum on independence without approval from the British parliament, the United Kingdom’s top court ruled today, dealing a hammer blow to nationalists’ hopes of holding a vote next year.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A woman who alleges that U.S. Senate candidate Herschel Walker pressured her into having an abortion in 1993 yesterday challenged the Republican, who has said he opposes abortion with no exceptions, to meet her publicly before next month’s Georgia run-off election.