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Gaza doctors left in the dark as fuel shortages hit hospitals

24 Aug 2024

In the dim corridors of Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip, mobile phone torches are now as essential as stethoscopes for doctors doing rounds without functioning generators. Fuel...

Quakes are inevitable, huge death tolls are not

26 Feb 2023

Gearoid Reidy, Tribune News Service Earthquakes can neither be prevented nor predicted. If a Category 5 typhoon nears, evacuations are possible; there can be time to move to a safe...

Petrol shortage again grips Pakistan

08 Feb 2023

As rumours about an impending increase in the prices of petroleum products are rife, oil shortage has again gripped Pakistan mainly because of hoarding of stocks and failure of several...

Road safety

06 Feb 2023

Two recent road safety violations I witnessed tell me of the drivers’ deliberate ignorance. A father holds his son on his lap in the driver’s seat and ‘controls’ the...

Pakistan braces for fuel shortages amid liquidity crisis

31 Jan 2023

Pakistan could face a crunch in fuel supplies in February as banks have stopped financing and facilitating payments for imports due to depleting foreign exchange reserves, traders and industry sources...

Sri Lanka deploys troops as fuel shortage sparks protests

22 Mar 2022

Sri Lanka ordered troops to petrol stations Tuesday as sporadic protests erupted among the thousands of motorists queueing up daily for scarce fuel. The South Asian island nation is...

Indian state warns of COVID-19 vaccine shortage, immunisation halt

23 Mar 2021

The eastern Indian state of Odisha might have to stop its coronavirus immunisation drive for four days starting at the end of March because of a shortage of vaccine doses,...

Syringe shortage hampers Japan’s COVID-19 vaccination roll out

16 Feb 2021

Japan is scrambling to secure special syringes to maximise the number of COVID-19 vaccine shots used from each vial, but manufacturers are struggling to ramp up production quickly, raising fears...

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