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Fetal duck eggs, or Hot Vit Lon, are a common street food in Vietnam. Josh Geracitano and Pham Thi Quynh Nhu are content creators living in Ho Chi Minh City, and the couple shared their favorite stall in the southern metropolis with CNBC Travel’s Downtime.Many people may squirm at the sight of fetal duck eggs, but in Vietnam, it is a common street food known as “hot vit lon.”It is also a favorite of content creator Josh Geracitano, who goes by the name “Dũng Gee” online. Josh and his wife, Pham Thi Quynh Nhu, also known as Vy Pham, have accrued…

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TOPSHOT – People drive on a motorbike past a collapsed building in Mandalay on March 28, 2025, after an earthquake in central Myanmar. A powerful earthquake rocked central Myanmar on March 28, buckling roads in capital Naypyidaw, damaging buildings and forcing people to flee into the streets in neighbouring Thailand. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images) Str | Afp | Getty ImagesBANGKOK (AP) — The death toll from a powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Myanmar jumped to more than 1,000 on Saturday as more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the scores of buildings that collapsed when it…

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If progress in ending the war in Ukraine requires cohesion between allies, there seems to be little or none for now.A flurry of diplomatic talks this week did less to advance a truce, let alone a peace, than to illustrate the uneasy discord growing between Europe and the United States.As they huddled in Paris, European leaders made clear that their priority is a free, democratic and stable Ukraine able to withstand any further Russian aggression. “We must place Ukraine in the strongest position to negotiate a solid and durable peace,” President Emmanuel Macron of France said on Thursday.The Trump administration,…

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When President Joseph R. Biden Jr. convened democracy summits at the White House in 2021 and 2023, he pointedly disinvited President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey, a man he had once described an “autocrat” who deserved to be driven from office by voters.On Tuesday, President Trump offered a much rosier assessment of the Turkish president, even as protesters filled the streets following the arrest of the mayor of Istanbul, Mr. Erdogan’s chief political rival.“A good leader,” the president said of Mr. Erdogan during a meeting of his ambassadors at the White House. He made no mention of the arrest or…

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Myanmar’s long isolation and its internal instability are likely to complicate the global humanitarian aid response to the earthquake that struck on Friday, despite a rare plea for outside help from the country’s military-dominated government.“We need and want the international community to provide humanitarian aid,” said the military spokesman, Gen. Zaw Min Tun. “We will cooperate with them to ensure the best care for the victims.”Myanmar was cut off by the United States and many other Western nations in 2021, after the military seized power in a coup and imposed a brutal crackdown. Even before the coup, the country had…

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A shopper pays with a credit card at the farmer’s market in San Francisco on March 27, 2025.Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesThe deterioration in consumer sentiment was even worse than anticipated in March as worries over inflation intensified, according to a University of Michigan survey released Friday.The final version of the university’s closely watched Survey of Consumers showed a reading of 57.0 for the month, down 11.9% from February and 28.2% from a year ago. Economists surveyed by Dow Jones had been expecting 57.9, which was the mid-month level.It was the third consecutive decrease and stretched across party lines…

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All it took was an all-caps social media threat by President Trump to impose a 200 percent tariff on European wine for the shipments of many Brunellos, Chiantis and Proseccos to come to a shuddering halt.In Tuscany, Italy’s most famous wine-exporting region, thousands of bottles meant for American tables are stranded in the wineries’ chilly cellars or in storage rooms in Livorno, the port city from which they were to depart.“Everything is stopped,” said Tiziana Mazzetti, the sales and marketing manager of the Old Cellar, a winery in the Tuscan town of Montepulciano, as she stood among boxes of wine…

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Dr. Peter Marks, Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research within the Food and Drug Administration answers a question during a Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing to discuss the on-going federal response to COVID-19, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., May 11, 2021.Greg Nash | Pool | ReutersThe Food and Drug Administration’s top vaccine regulator Peter Marks has resigned, citing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “misinformation and lies” around immunization, according to a resignation letter obtained by CNBC.For nearly 10 years, Marks led the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and…

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