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Politics

-- Vietnamese State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Wednesday (local time) held talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin as part of his official visit to Russia.

Society

-- Two siblings, aged six and four, have been confirmed dead of drowning as they were swept away by fast-flowing water while playing around a canal in the south-central province of Ninh Thuan on Tuesday afternoon.

-- As of 6:00 pm on Tuesday, heavy downpours in the central and Central Highlands regions of Vietnam had killed four people and inundated over 23,000 houses.

-- Lottery ticket vendors in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang who possess a 'green card' proving their full COVID-19 vaccination must carry the certificate while traveling on the streets, according to new regulations.

-- The People's Committee of An Giang Province on Tuesday announced a decision to suspend traffic on the main road to Cam Mountain in An Hao Commune, Tinh Bien District, due to a serious rockslide.

-- A hill in the mountainous district of Nam Tra My, Quang Nam Province has collapsed, spilling a massive amount of soil and rock onto the fields and a village road.

-- Heavy rain flooded the National Highway 20 section through Madagui Town in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, causing traffic jams for hours on Tuesday.

Sport

-- The Vietnam Football Federation (VFF) on Tuesday announced that the Futsal HDBank National Championship 2021, which was initially slated for December 7 to 22, would be canceled due to concerns over the prevalence of COVID-19 in the community.

World News

-- A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after he opened fire with a semi-automatic handgun at a Michigan high school, killing three fellow students and wounding eight others, Reuters reported on Tuesday.

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