(2022-06-04). [Perspectives] Health as activism: rethinking social medicine in India. thelancet.com The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed deep problems and inequities in India's health infrastructure, which has suffered from decades of underinvestment. But the pandemic also galvanised a wide range of community participation. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs), volunteers, and health-care workers arranged for the supply of oxygen, helped register people for vaccination, ran vaccination camps, and visited communities and schools to speak about the virus and precautions. Notably, many local women, who trained as accredited social health activists (ASHAs), took part in these efforts.
(2022-06-03). Dragon Boat Race builds bridge across Straits. ecns.cn The 2022 Cross-Straits Dragon Boat Race started on Thursday in Xiamen, Fujian province, with the two-day event attracting people from different age groups, including those from Taiwan who are studying or working in Fujian.
(2022-06-03). Crisis of Sri Lankan capitalism provokes a popular uprising. mronline.org 
Since early April, Sri Lanka has been engulfed by a wave of mass protests demanding the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Thousands of workers and students have mobilised in the most significant mass movement in 30 years.
(2022-06-03). Terrorist attack on passenger bus kills 3 in E Syria. en.mehrnews.com Three people were killed and 21 others wounded on Thursday when a civilian passenger bus was attacked in south of Syria's eastern province of Deir al-Zour.
(2022-06-02). Culture for All: Why Film Matters. mronline.org 
Action films, horror films, romantic comedies, science fiction, documentaries—film plays a big part of our lives. Film matters, not only because it was the most popular cultural art form of the 20th century, but because film connects to so many areas of our lives in so many different ways. Not only in the way we visualise our lives, but the ways in which we understand and communicate them.
(2022-06-02). Turkish military base in Iraq reportedly comes under attack. en.mehrnews.com News sources on Thursday reported that the sound of several huge explosions was heard in Turkey's Zelikan base in the north of Iraq's Mosul.