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SÀI GÒN, Việt Nam (NV) – Lửa bùng lên từ căn nhà ở phường Long Bình, Sài Gòn, khiến đôi nam nữ sinh viên mắc kẹt bên trong thiệt mạng. Theo báo Dân Trí, khoảng 5 giờ sáng 28 Tháng Bảy, ngọn lửa bùng lên từ căn nhà cấp bốn rộng khoảng 50 mét vuông trên đường số 15, phường Long Bình, cách depot Long Bình của Metro số 1, Sài Gòn, gần 20 mét. Hiện trường nơi xảy ra vụ cháy nhà phường Long Bình, Sài Gòn. (Hình: A.Đ/VOV) Lúc này trong nhà có bốn người. Vợ chồng chủ nhà chạy ra ngoài, hô hoán hàng xóm cùng dập lửa, song bất thành. Một nhân chứng cho hay, thời điểm trời vừa sáng, người này ngồi câu cá ở hồ câu trên đường số 15, cách căn nhà bị cháy khoảng vài chục mét. “Chúng tôi đã dập tắt ngọn lửa sau khi phát hiện được vài phút, nhưng căn phòng này kín, khói ùn rất nhiều, có thể các nạn nhân bị ngạt khói,” ông này cho biết. Ít phút sau, đám cháy nhanh chóng bùng lên dữ dội khiến anh LNHL, 23 tuổi, con trai của chủ nhà và cô LKAT, 20 tuổi, quê tỉnh Đắk Nông cũ, là bạn gái của anh L. mắc kẹt ở phòng ngủ. Cả hai đều là sinh viên học cùng lớp trong một trường đại học tại Sài Gòn. Nhiều xe chữa cháy cùng hơn 20 lính cứu hỏa đến hiện trường. Căn nhà bị hỏa hoạn nằm cạnh hồ, chỉ có một đường vào duy nhất, xung quanh toàn cỏ và bụi rậm, thưa dân cư. Chủ nhân đào một hồ trước nhà làm dịch vụ câu cá giải trí. Do cửa móc khóa bên trong nên lính cứu hỏa phải tìm cách phá cửa, lao vào trong dập lửa. Tại hiện trường có nhiều các chất dễ cháy như mút ốp vách tường, nệm, đồ nhựa… Hỏa hoạn được dập tắt sau khoảng 20 phút. Sau đó, lính cứu hỏa phát hiện anh L. và cô T. nằm trong nhà vệ sinh và đã thiệt mạng. Thi thể nạn nhân được chuyển về nhà xác. (Hình: Xuân Đoàn/Dân Trí) Đại diện Ủy Ban Nhân Dân Phường Long Bình cho biết đám cháy xuất phát từ phòng ngủ, không lan sang khu vực khác trong nhà. Hai nạn nhân có thể chạy vào nhà vệ sinh tránh lửa và bị ngạt khói. Người nhà của anh L. cho biết, con trai mình và cô T. quen nhau được vài tháng. Cô T. ở trọ tại quận Gò Vấp cũ, thỉnh thoảng hay ghé nhà chơi. Gia đình cô T. đang từ tỉnh Đắk Nông cũ (nay là Lâm Đồng) xuống Sài Gòn để làm thủ tục nhận thi thể đưa về quê an táng. Hiện công an đang khám nghiệm hiện trường, giảo nghiệm tử thi, làm rõ nguyên nhân vụ cháy.

Sáng dậy đọc ngay là biết tin nóng trong ngày! https://substack.news-items.com/p/the-oldest-baby The Oldest Baby. =========== ### The negative-haircut. By John Ellis - Jul 30 - Paid “Most mornings I learn more from New Items than I do from all of the traditional papers I read combined.” — Michael Blair, former presiding partner, Debevoise & Plimpton. 1. Fentanyl fueled the worst drug crisis the West has ever seen. Now, an even more dangerous drug is wreaking havoc faster than authorities can keep up. The looming danger is an emerging wave of highly potent synthetic opioids called nitazenes, which often pack a far stronger punch than fentanyl. Nitazenes have already killed hundreds of people in Europe and left law enforcement and scientists scrambling to detect them in the drug supply and curb their spread. The opioids, most of which originate in China, are so strong that even trace amounts can trigger a fatal overdose. They have been found mixed into heroin and recreational drugs, counterfeit painkillers and anti-anxiety medication. Their enormous risk is only dawning on authorities. (Source: wsj.com, italics mine) 2. The Trump administration has softened its approach to Beijing amid high-stakes trade talks this week and in advance of a potential fall summit between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The moves include dissuading Taiwan’s leader from making planned stopovers in the United States next month, postponing a meeting between Taipei’s defense minister and top Pentagon leaders in June, and pausing new export controls on China, according to more than a dozen current and former U.S. officials and other people familiar with the actions. “President Trump has publicly discussed his desire for a constructive relationship with China, who is sending rare earth magnets to the United States,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly said in a statement. “He is focused on advancing American interests, such as leveling the playing field for American industries and getting China to stop the flow of fentanyl into our country.” (Source: washinngtonpost.com) 3. Sixty times the cement of the Hoover Dam, more steel than 116 Empire State Buildings and enough concrete to build a two-lane highway around the Earth five times - that’s what will go into China’s new $167 billion hydropower project in Tibet. Construction officially began this month on what is set to become one of the biggest infrastructure projects in history. It’s a legacy-defining gamble for President Xi Jinping as he tries to sustainably revive China’s slowing economy, tighten control over a restive region and project power far beyond the country’s borders. The project on the Yarlung Tsangpo river is a high-stakes bet on a familiar idea: that big, bold construction can rekindle growth in an economy grappling with deflation, a yearslong property slump and mounting trade and geopolitical pressures. It also gives Xi another tool of state control, aiding his effort to assimilate Tibet through economic integration. (Source: bloomberg.com) 4. President Trump said he would give Russia 10 more days to reach a truce with Ukraine, formally announcing a new deadline to pressure Vladimir Putin on ending the war. “10 days from today,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday as he returned to Washington from a five-day visit to Scotland. Trump on Monday announced that he would shorten the timeline for Putin, with the threat of potential economic penalties on Moscow if it did not move to halt the fighting. But he had not specified the exact deadline or when the clock would start. (Source: bloomberg.com) 5. Kremlin officials decisively rejected US President Donald Trump's new deadline for Russia to negotiate an end to its war against Ukraine and reiterated Moscow's interest in continuing the war. Russian Security Council Deputy Chairperson Dmitry Medvedev claimed on his English-language X (formerly Twitter) account that Trump cannot dictate the timing of peace negotiations and that negotiations will end when Russia has achieved all of its war objectives - likely referring to Russia's original war aims, including regime change in Ukraine, changes to NATO’s open-door policy, and the reduction of Ukraine's military such that it cannot defend itself. Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitry Peskov similarly claimed that Russia will continue its war against Ukraine in order to protect Russia's interests, despite Trump's July 28 announcement of the new 10- or 12-day deadline. (Source: understandingwar.org) 6. The Arab world has told Hamas to disarm and surrender control of Gaza. Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt called for the Palestinian terror group to disband on Tuesday, the first time they have done so. They joined 14 other countries, including Britain and France, in signing a statement that also condemned the Oct 7 terror attacks and told Hamas to give up power. It is the first time Arab countries have condemned the group and demanded it play no part in the future governance of Palestine. “In the context of ending the war in Gaza, Hamas must end its rule in Gaza and hand over its weapons to the Palestinian Authority, with international engagement and support, in line with the objective of a sovereign and independent Palestinian State,” reads the declaration, which was produced after a conference at the United Nations. Jean-Noel Barrot, France’s foreign minister, said the declaration was “both historic and unprecedented”. (Source: telegraph.co.uk) 7. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Tuesday that Britain would recognize the state of Palestine in September if Israel does not agree to a cease-fire with Hamas, pouring pressure on the Israeli government to halt a war that has put Gaza on the brink of famine. Mr. Starmer’s announcement, which came after an emergency meeting of his cabinet, is a sharp shift in his position, reflecting the intense political pressure his government has faced as the British public and lawmakers in his own Labour Party recoil from images of starving children in Gaza. Mr. Starmer cast recognition as part of a broader European effort to end the ruinous war between Israel and Hamas. He reiterated that Hamas must release its remaining hostages, sign up to a cease-fire and accept that it will have no role in the future governing of Gaza. But Mr. Starmer’s statement was aimed squarely at Israel, dramatizing how swiftly sentiment has changed among Western countries about how to end the war. (Source: nytimes.com) 8. Americans’ approval of Israel’s military action in Gaza has fallen 10 percentage points since the prior measurement in September, and it is now at 32%, the lowest reading since Gallup first asked the question in November 2023. Disapproval of the military action has now reached 60%. These findings are from a July 7-21, 2025, Gallup poll, as Israel’s campaign against Hamas stretched into its 21st month. Americans supported Israel’s actions in Gaza in its initial reading in 2023, taken several weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. (Source: news.gallup.com) 9. Mexico’s disappeared could populate a small city. Official data in 2013 tallied 26,000 missing, but the count now surpasses 130,000 - more than any other Latin American nation. The United Nations has said there are indications that the disappearances are “generalized or systematic.” If the missing people are found - dead or alive - it is usually by their loved ones. Guided by information from witnesses, parents and siblings search for graves by walking through cartel territory, plunging a metal rod into the earth and sniffing for the scent of death. Around 6,000 clandestine graves have been found since 2007, and new discoveries are made all the time. Tens of thousands of remains have yet to be identified. (Source: apnews.com) 10. Hawaii and parts of Northern California were under tsunami warnings after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s far east, sending people fleeing to higher ground across the Pacific. Officials in Hawaii said the initial waves reaching the state weren’t significant, but it would be several hours before an all-clear signal could be given. “Everything has been OK so far. We haven’t seen a big wave,” said Gov. Josh Green. Still, he said, “we don’t want anyone to let their guard down.” The earthquake struck Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula on the Pacific coast on Wednesday morning local time. The U.S. Geological Survey put the magnitude at 8.8 while the Japan Meteorological Agency estimated it at 8.7. (Source: theguardian.com) 11. The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced a proposal to rescind the landmark legal opinion that underpins virtually all of its regulations to curb climate change. The move would end EPA regulations on greenhouse gases emitted by cars, while also undercutting rules that limit power plant emissions and control the release of methane by oil and gas companies. “If finalized, today’s announcement would amount to the largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States, ” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Tuesday at a truck dealership in Indianapolis. “We do not have that power on our own to decide as an agency that we are going to combat global climate change because we give ourselves that power.” (Source: washinngtonpost.com) 12. As European Union leaders work through the consequences of their new trading arrangement with the US, they are confronting the bitter reality of just how far they have fallen. Donald Trump held court on Sunday at one of the golf courses he owns on the Scottish coast, touting the new ballroom he’d had built at the clubhouse and delivering a lengthy tirade on the problems with wind turbines. European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen had to wait until the US president had finished his round for the day before she got her chance to discuss the transatlantic trade relationship. But the terms of that deal will mean a significant hit to European companies - the EU accepted a tripling of tariffs to 15% on most exports to the US and will keep its own levies on imports from the world’s biggest economy to 1% or less. “Economically, this isn’t a good agreement and geopolitically speaking, it is a defeat,” former Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya, now the dean of the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po, told Bloomberg. “This agreement makes the EU smaller.” (Source: bloomberg.com) 13. President Trump has torn up the WTO’s rule book and unilaterally raised tariffs on almost everyone, including the EU. The EU even agreed not to retaliate against a 15 percent across the board tariff hike in its deal with Trump, to the dismay of some. But for now, the U.S. keeps on importing, limiting the damage to the rest of the world economy.* Imports are running ahead of their 2024 pace, even excluding pharmaceuticals. China, on the other hand, is squeezing foreign imports out of its market. It hasn’t quite mastered top-of-the-line chips, protecting Taiwan. But it has mastered autos - both EVs and ICEs. And construction equipment. And industrial robots. And most specialty chemicals. And batteries, permanent magnets, solar PVs and their chemical precursors, industrial diamonds, wind turbines, and high-speed rail. And so on. In other words, China’s continued manufacturing boom is eating into core European export strengths. Exports have been in steep fall as as a share of Europe’s economy since 2022. (Source: cfr.org) 14. Currently, there are nearly 200 completed facilities hosting computer servers and other equipment in Loudoun County (VA), taking up some 49 million square feet in what’s been nicknamed Data Center Alley. That makes the Northern Virginia region, by far, the largest market on the planet, through which more than two-thirds of the global internet traffic passes. And more are coming thanks to a surge in capital spending on artificial intelligence among Big Tech companies. The region has long attracted large-scale data centers with its fiber-rich environment and a generous statewide policy that allows operators to purchase computers and other equipment without paying a sales tax. Between fiscal years 2014 and 2023, Virginia spent $1.7 billion on data center tax exemptions, roughly 42% of the state’s spending on all incentives. (Sources: bloomberg.com, italics mine) 15. Welcome to the era of hyper-personalized pricing. Companies are increasingly deploying AI-powered technology that is capable of identifying thousands of different real-time signals - everything from your location and loyalty status to your device and search history - to sell the same product to two different people for two different prices. This represents an advanced form of dynamic pricing, the age-old practice of adjusting prices based on market conditions. With the help of algorithms and reams of data, some businesses are taking a new, personalized approach: surveillance pricing. Dynamic pricing is perfectly legal, but surveillance pricing and the accompanying privacy concerns are new. Suffice to say, consumers don’t like the idea of companies using AI to set prices. (Source: vox.com) 16. Union Pacific, a freight rail giant, yesterday announced it had reached an agreement to acquire Norfolk Southern, another large railroad, in a deal worth $85 billion. The merger would create the United States’ first coast-to-coast rail network and span some 50,000 miles across 43 states. But the deal would put around two-fifths of rail freight in the hands of one company, raising fears that it would reduce competition in a crucial industry. (Source: nytimes.com) 17. Scientists at Columbia Engineering have developed an injectable hydrogel made from yogurt-derived extracellular vesicles (EVs) that could revolutionize regenerative medicine. These EVs serve both as healing agents and as structural components, eliminating the need for added chemicals. The innovation leverages everyday dairy products like yogurt to create a biocompatible material that mimics natural tissue and enhances healing. Research paper is here. (Sources: engineering.columbia.edu, cell.com) 18. A baby boy born over the weekend holds the new record for the “oldest baby.” Thaddeus Daniel Pierce, who arrived on July 26, developed from an embryo that had been in storage for 30 and a half years. “We had a rough birth but we are both doing well now,” says Lindsey Pierce, his mother. "He is so chill. We are in awe that we have this precious baby!" Lindsey and her husband, Tim Pierce, who live in London, Ohio, “adopted” the embryo from a woman who had it created in 1994. She says her family and church family think “it’s like something from a sci-fi movie.” “The baby has a 30-year-old sister,” she adds. Tim was a toddler when the embryos were first created. 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