President Bola Tinubu has congratulated Luong Cuong on his election as President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Cuong, 67, a seasoned military officer with over 40 years of service and a member of the Politburo since 2021, was elected to lead the nation in a historic parliamentary vote. In a statement issued by Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and …

Former US Army lieutenant, William Calley, convicted of war crimes in a Vietnam-era tragedy called the My Lai massacre, has died at age 80, a US newspaper reported Monday. The Washington Post said Calley died on 28 April in Gainesville, Florida, but his death had not been publicized until a recent public records search. In 1971, Calley became the only …

Vietnam will hold a funeral next week for late communist leader Nguyen Phu Trong, the party said Saturday. Trong died on Friday at a military hospital in Hanoi “due to old age and serious illness” at the age of 80. The funeral will take place over two days in the Vietnamese capital on July 25 and July 26, during which …