Category: World

When the UK Prime Minister addressed the nation on December 20, the news was bad enough: Christmas was canceled.

1. Britain’s ‘major crisis’ is good and bad news for travelers – CNN Philippines
2. Britain’s ‘major crisis’ is good and bad news for travelers – CNN

MELBOURNE —Forty-seven players have been forced into two weeks of hotel quarantine in Melbourne after three coronavirus infections were reported on two chartered flights carrying them to the

1. 47 players quarantined after COVID-19 cases on Australian Open flights – INQUIRER.net
2. 2 COVID-19 cases on Australian Open flight, one locally transmitted case – Rappler
3. Australian Open: 47 players In quarantine after positive Covid-19 tests on two charter flights – CNN International
4. Revealed: Massive operation to save Aus Open – Herald Sun
5. Two test positive for virus on Australian Open plane – INQUIRER.net

Two dozen players who arrived from Los Angeles entered strict hotel quarantine after an aircrew member and Open participant tested positive for the new coronavirus.

1. 47 players quarantined after COVID-19 cases on Australian Open flights – ABS-CBN News
2. Two test positive for virus on Australian Open plane – INQUIRER.net
3. 2 COVID-19 cases on Australian Open flight, one locally transmitted case – Rappler
4. Elite tennis players granted entry to Victoria as thousands of residents remain stranded abroad and interstate – Neos Kosmos
5. Andy Murray tests positive for COVID-19, puts Australian Open stint in doubt – Sports Interactive Network Philippines

Coronavirus: Sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik made a vibrant poster showing an injection and a vial of vaccine, along with a ribbon in the colours of the national flag

1. ‘Together, We Can Win’: Twitter Chatter Upbeat As India Gets Vaccinated – NDTV
2. India’s Covid-19 Vaccine Drive Begins – The New York Times
3. [ANALYSIS] Chinese vaccine confusion – Rappler
4. In Pics: India’s Big Vaccination Day – NDTV
5. Coronavirus Vaccine: Special Rangoli At Pune Hospital To Welcome People – NDTV

Search-and-rescue worked through the night as they pulled dozens of bodies from beneath crumpled buildings in Mamuju, a city of about 110,000 people.

1. ‘We’re running out of food’: Hunt for buried survivors after Indonesia quake – ABS-CBN News

G.O.P. leadership would like to blunt President Trump’s influence over the party. Mr. Trump and his allies want to punish those who have crossed him. A series of clashes looms.

1. ‘Hell, Yes,’ Republicans Are Headed for a Bitter Internal Showdown – The New York Times
2. Trump to leave town early Wednesday before Biden inauguration – INQUIRER.net
3. Washington and state capitols brace for violence from armed Trump supporters – The Guardian
4. In defence of Donald Trump’s right to tweet – Gulf News
5. Opinion | Impeachment Trial for Trump: Deterrent or Distraction? – The New York Times

It’s had one of the highest death rates from Covid-19, birthed a superspreader variant, and is currently suffering roadblocks and food shortages as a result of Brexit. Has the UK’s dreadful year affected how travelers view it?

1. Britain’s ‘major crisis’ is good and bad news for travelers – CNN

India launches the world’s largest vaccination campaign against Covid-19, with some 3,000 centres in the country looking to administer the first dose to more than 300,000 health workers on its first day.

1. India launches world’s biggest covid jab effort to inoculate 300 MILLION people by July – Daily Mail
2. India begins world’s biggest Covid vaccination programme – The Guardian
3. World’s Largest Vaccination Drive In Numbers – NDTV
4. India Covid Vaccine Campaign Begins – The New York Times
5. PM Narendra Modi launches India’s vaccination drive against COVID-19 – Gulf News

India Covid Vaccination: PM Modi also cautioned that even after vaccination, citizens must stay vigilant and maintain all precautions against the virus, including masks and distancing.

1. India Takes Its Shot. “Don’t Fall For Rumours,” Urges PM – NDTV
2. Global immunisation: low-income countries rush to access Covid vaccine supply – The Guardian
3. India to send 20 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to neighbours – South China Morning Post
4. Video | “Will Prefer Covishield Over Covaxin”: Delhi Hospital Doctors Concerned – NDTV

The execution of Dustin Higgs, 48, is the 13th federal death sentence carried out since July.

1. Dustin Higgs: Final execution of Trump presidency is carried out – BBC News
2. US carries out 13th and final execution under Trump administration – ABS-CBN News
3. US Supreme Court allows execution of condemned men with COVID-19 – Rappler
4. Trump administration carries out 13th, final federal execution – Al Jazeera English
5. US executes man with COVID-19, 12th under Trump administration – ABS-CBN News

People wait in line to receive a Covid-19 vaccine at Disneyland Resort on January 13.

1. States adding Covid-19 vaccination sites, but governors complain the feds need to give them more doses – CNN
2. Here’s how some of the leading coronavirus vaccines work – CNN Philippines
3. Governors complain over pace of COVID-19 vaccine shipments – Egypt Independent
4. Biden team plan shake-up to get coronavirus shots into US arms – The Guardian

Dozens of people were killed and hundreds more injured after a powerful 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck Indonesia’s Sulawesi island.

1. Aftershocks rattle quake-hit Indonesian island as search for survivors continues –