“Two great nations, two great friends, and two great powers. Cheers,” Biden told Modi in a toast at a state dinner. Modi said in reply: “You are soft spoken, but when it comes to action, you are very strong.”Though the countries are not formal treaty-bound allies and India has long relished its independence, Washington wants Delhi to be a strategic counterweight to China. While neither leader criticized Beijing directly in official statements, they alluded to the Xi Jinping-led government.”The dark clouds of coercion and confrontation are casting their shadow in the Indo Pacific,” Modi told Congress. “The stability of the…
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The somber announcement ended a multinational search-and-rescue operation that captivated the world since the tiny tourist craft went missing in the North Atlantic four days ago.Rear Admiral John Mauger told reporters in Boston that analysis showed debris found on the seafloor, 1,600 feet (500 meters) from the bow of the Titanic, was consistent with the implosion of the sub’s pressure chamber.”On behalf of the United States Coast Guard and the entire unified command, I offer my deepest condolences to the families,” Mauger said.On board were British explorer Hamish Harding, French submarine expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani-British tycoon Shahzada Dawood and his…
According to Associate Professors Doctor Nguyen Anh Tuan, head of the Gastroenterology Department at the National Military Hospital 108, the patient suffered from fatigue and gastric antrum when she was admitted to the hospital. In addition, her blood pressure fluctuated and her heartbeat was fast.The patient said she weighed 45 kg before child delivery. She tried to lose weight after gaining 22 kilograms because of labor, and followed a no-carb diet, as well as jogging and skipping rope for five hours a day.Two weeks later, her health witnessed some unusual symptoms, as she passed out several times while jogging, due…
Ha and her husband are the same age, and both of them pursued studies abroad. Like other young modern women, she prioritized her career more than anything else when she was young.She had a plan to have a second child when her first child turned six, but decided to postpone it after being informed that she was about to be promoted as deputy head of her department. After discussing it with her husband, she fully concentrated on working to establish her position at the company.Two years later, she was promoted to head of the department. As her career was blooming,…
By Reuters  June 22, 2023 | 06:15pm GMT+7 Forensic policemen carry body bags with human remains found at the site of human trafficking camps in the jungle close the Thailand border after they brought them to a police camp near Wang Kelian in northern Malaysia, May 25, 2015. Photo by Reuters/Damir Sagolj Four Thai nationals will face charges in a Malaysian court on Friday over the 2015 discovery of mass graves and suspected human trafficking camps at the country’s border with Thailand, Malaysia’s home affairs minister said. The dense forests of southern Thailand and northern Malaysia have been a major…
By Que Chi  June 22, 2023 | 03:22pm GMT+7 Tran Anh Hung (L) receives Best Director award at the Cannes film festival on May 28, 2023. Photo by AFP Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung, who won the Best Director award at the Cannes film festival this year, will teach an advanced course in directing in HCMC next month. The class is part of a cinema program in Vietnam called “Gap Go Mua Thu” (Autumn Encounters). Director Phan Dang Di, a representative of the organizers, said Hung would host the class from July 6-12.Hung was supposed to teach last year but…
By Reuters  June 22, 2023 | 02:26pm GMT+7 People walk across a street amid a yellow alert for heatwave, in Beijing, China, June 21, 2023. Photo by Reuters/Tingshu Wang The temperature in Beijing soared above 40 degrees Celsius on Thursday for the first time since 2014 as the Chinese capital warned of blistering hot weather through the weekend with the return of heatwaves that scorched northern China a week earlier. A weather station on the southern outskirts of Beijing recorded 40.1C (104 Fahrenheit) at 1:25 pm local time (0525 GMT), according to the municipal weather bureau, marking the first breach…
By Reuters  June 22, 2023 | 10:24am GMT+7 Rescue workers are seen at the site following a gas explosion at a restaurant in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, China, October 21, 2021. Photo by cnsphoto via Reuters A gas explosion at a barbecue restaurant on Wednesday night in China’s northwestern Ningxia region killed 31, according to state-run Xinhua news agency, prompting President Xi Jinping to order stronger safety checks. The blast in Yinchuan, capital of Ningxia region, was caused by a leaking liquefied petroleum gas tank at the restaurant, Xinhua reported on Thursday.Seven people were still undergoing treatment for burns and cuts…
By Hoai Vu  June 22, 2023 | 09:34am GMT+7 Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne and Vietnamese-Jamaican rapper Tyga have ended their relationship after four months of dating. The couple broke up on good terms a few weeks ago and decided to remain friends, reported TMZ. Avril Lavigne and Tyga spotted on a date. Photo from Avril Lavigne News’ Twitter A friend of Lavigne told the DailyMail why the couple broke up.”Avril didn’t want to be locked into anything. Tyga was a rebound and he helped her get away from her toxic relationship with Mod Sun.”The relationship started when Lavigne was spotted…
By Reuters  June 22, 2023 | 09:33am GMT+7 A view shows a cooked piece of cultivated chicken breast created at the Upside Foods plant, where lab-grown meat is cultivated, in Emeryville, California, US January 11, 2023. Photo by Reuters/Peter DaSilva Two companies, Upside Foods and Good Meat, said they have received final US Department of Agriculture approval to sell lab-grown meat, paving the way for the nation’s first-ever sales of the product. With the approvals, the United States will become the second country after Singapore to allow the sale of so-called cultivated meat, which is derived from a sample of…