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Politics

-- Vietnamese Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on Friday received Secretary and Chief of Office of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party Central Committee Thongsalith Mangnomek, who is on a working visit to Vietnam, according to the Vietnam News Agency.

Society

-- Over the last two months, more than 40,000 metric tons of debris have stayed untreated in various Hanoi suburbs as locals gathered to prevent garbage trucks from entering the waste treatment area due to a land compensation disagreement.

-- A woman from Phu Tho Province, northern Vietnam allegedly committed suicide by jumping off a bridge on Friday while carrying her two children, yet one of them survived.

-- Police in Binh Phuoc Province, southern Vietnam are investigating a case where a 45-year-old man murdered his lover by drowning and stabbing the victim to death over love conflicts on Friday.

-- A man from Gia Lai Province, Vietnam’s Central Highlands has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for repeatedly raping his minor daughter between 2020 and 2022.

-- Police in Tay Ninh Province, southern Vietnam arrested a 25-year-old man on Thursday for allegedly murdering his mother while under the influence of drugs.

World News

-- “A gunman went on a rampage in a small Mississippi town on Friday, killing his ex-wife and five other people in three locations before sheriff's deputies arrested him, the county sheriff and witnesses said,” Reuters reported.

-- “The United States said on Friday it had successfully concluded recovery efforts off South Carolina to collect sensors and other debris from a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon shot down by a U.S. fighter jet on Feb. 4, and investigators are now analyzing its "guts,"” according to Reuters.

-- “The FBI is investigating a hack of its computer network, in an isolated incident that was now contained, the agency said on Friday,” Reuters reported.

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