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HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam announced a 15-day lockdown in the capital Hanoi starting Saturday as a coronavirus surge spread from the southern Mekong Delta region.The lockdown order, issued late Friday night, bans the gathering of more than two people in public. Only government offices, hospitals and essential businesses are allowed to stay open.Earlier in…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A man wearing a protective mask walks past the headquarters of the Bank of Japan amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Tokyo, Japan, May 22, 2020.REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) – Bank of Japan policymakers saw the price outlook muddled by rising global commodity costs and soft consumption,…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Hiromichi Mizuno Executive Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer at Government Pension Investment Fund in Japan and Co-Chair at Global Capital Markets Advisory Council for Milken Institute, speaks during the Milken Institute’s 22nd an By Ross Kerber and Makiko Yamazaki BOSTON/TOKYO (Reuters) -Hiromichi Mizuno’s connections, spanning from the Japanese government to…

The February winter storm that nearly brought the Texas electricity grid to its knees likely stressed the state’s natural gas infrastructure “more than any time in history,” according to the authors of a new UT Austin report analyzing the power outages and their financial implications.The report includes previously undisclosed data about how the Electric Reliability…

Fort Worth police asked for help Wednesday to identify four robbery suspects accused of attacking a 64-year-old Newark man while he was pumping gas at a QuikTrip on Northside Drive.One of the suspects sprayed the man with a unknown chemical, which caused him extreme pain, and the other three suspects opened the doors to the…

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Pedestrians walk near the main entrance to the Reserve Bank of New Zealand located in central Wellington, New Zealand, July 3, 2017. REUTERS/David Gray By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) – New Zealand’s central bank on Wednesday announced a halt to its pandemic-induced NZ$100 billion ($70 billion) bond purchase progamme, sending the…

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced at a press conference Wednesday that the death toll in the Surfside, Fla., apartment collapse had increased to 46 people, after 10 more bodies were found.Video Transcript- Through these efforts and since our last briefing, the US teams recovered an additional 10 victims bringing the total confirmed deaths to…

Tropical Storm Elsa is made landfall in Taylor County, along Florida’s northern Gulf Coast, at 11 a.m. local time.The National Hurricane Center measured the storm’s sustained wind speeds at 65 mph, which is below the threshold for a Category 1 hurricane.The storm is still expected to bring heavy rainfall and flash flooding. Parts of northern…

A goldfish once small enough to flush down someone’s toilet has achieved greatness in Virginia, by landing in the record books.Jeremy Fortner from Chesterfield, Virginia, caught the “trophy fish” in Hunting Creek, a tributary of the Potomac River, and set an official state record in the process, according to the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources.…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — When 16-year-old rising volleyball star Deven Gonzalez was pulled from the rubble of her Miami condo building, her initial reaction amid the shock was to tell firefighters that she had to compete in a major tournament in a few days.The teen’s entire world revolved around volleyball. She played beach volleyball,…