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Politics

-- Vietnam always treasures the traditional partnership with Mozambique and considers it one of Vietnam's key cooperation partners in Africa, Vietnamese Vice-State President Vo Thi Anh Xuan said during talks with Mozambican Prime Minister Adriano Maleiane on Monday as part of her visit to the African nation from Sunday to Wednesday.

Society

-- Police in Dong Nai Province, a neighbor of Ho Chi Minh City, on Monday evening arrested a 38-year-old man for allegedly murdering his 10-year-old daughter.

-- Health authorities in Thanh Hoa Province, located in the north-central region, said that they had detected a Whitmore’s disease case, who is a young girl born in 2008.

-- As many as 60 scientists and young parliamentarians from 18 countries and territories attended a seminar on water security taking place from Monday to Wednesday in Quy Nhon City, north-central Binh Dinh Province.

-- A 63-year-old man and his 39-year-old son saved a boy who is about three to four years old falling into a river in An Giang Province, southern Vietnam. Local police are looking for the boy’s family.

Business

-- National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines signed a memorandum of understanding with U.S. plane maker Boeing on Monday to buy 50 Boeing 737 Max aircraft for US$10 billion during U.S. President Joe Biden’s two-day state visit to Vietnam, which wrapped up on Monday.

-- The Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange has suspended the trading of IBC shares belonging to Apax Holdings JSC, which owns the APAX Leaders English-language center chain, as the company violated regulations on information disclosure even after having its shares classified as restricted.

-- While gasoline prices remain unchanged, the prices of diesel oil and kerosene inched up by VND410 ($0.017) and VND374 ($0.016), respectively, per liter, according to an announcement released on Monday by the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

-- Vietnam's budget airline Vietjet and the U.S.-based leading aviation finance and asset management company Carlyle Group on Monday inked a memorandum of understanding for aircraft funding worth $550 million on the occasion of the two-day visit to Vietnam by U.S. President Joe Biden, the Vietnam News Agency reported.

World News

-- An American caver who had become trapped more than 1,000 meters (3,300 ft) underground in southern Turkey after falling ill was rescued early on Tuesday, after a days-long international rescue operation, Reuters cited Turkey's TUMAF caving federation as saying.

-- Authorities in eastern Libya said at least 2,000 people were killed and thousands more were missing after a massive flood ripped through the city of Derna following a heavy storm and rain, Reuters reported.

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