Iran on Tuesday launched a coronavirus inoculation campaign among healthcare professionals with recently delivered Russian Sputnik V vaccines as the country struggles to ... ( read original story ...)
Iran starts COVID vaccination, awaits more vaccine deliveries
Iran launched a vaccination drive against COVID-19 on Tuesday, focussing initially on hospital intensive care personnel as the hardest-hit country in the Middle East awaits enough vaccines for its ... ( read original story ...)
U.S. ambassador to Vietnam releases viral rap video for Lunar New Year
When America normalized relations with Vietnam in 1995, approximately nobody would have anticipated a sitting U.S. ambassador earnestly rapping to an unsuspecting Vietnamese audience. ( read original story ...)
Cringeworthy or cool? US ambassador raps Lunar New Year message to Vietnam
The US ambassador to Vietnam has rapped a Lunar New Year video to the country that has set the local internet alight, drawing a measure of admiration -- and cringing -- from those who've watched it. ( read original story ...)
‘Boy from Hanoi’: US ambassador to Vietnam releases his own lunar new year rap
Musical effort by former National Security Council figure Dan Kritenbrink is hailed as a ‘full assault on the art of rap’ ... ( read original story ...)
Former Radio 1 DJ Mark Page appears in court accused of child sex offences in the Philippines
The former Radio 1 DJ and Middlesbrough FC announcer appeared at Teesside Magistrates' Court on Monday facing four counts relating to sex offences against children. ( read original story ...)
Philippines: Duterte expects “good results” from vaccine rollout as country’s Covid-19 total zoom past 540,000
The Department of Health (DOH) of the Philippines reported on Tuesday 1,235 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the Southeast Asian country to 540,227. ( read original story ...)
Olympics Chief Said Sorry for Demeaning Women. In Japan, That’s Often Enough.
Yoshiro Mori’s resistance to calls for his resignation shows the power of a male-dominated old guard that is mostly unaccountable to public opinion. ( read original story ...)
Japan Keeps Its Covid Fight Simple With a Rule Starting at Dinnertime
Call it the Zen art of lockdowns. In the fight to suppress Covid-19, Japan has found success by stripping down its policy to one simple measure: closing restaurants and bars at 8 p.m. ( read original story ...)
Families despair; weather halts Pakistan search for climbers
Families of the three mountaineers who went missing in Pakistan last week while attempting to scale K2, the world’s second-highest mountain, were growing more desperate ... ( read original story ...)