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BANYUWANGI/DENPASAR, Indonesia (Reuters) - Rescue aircraft and ships scoured the sea north of Bali on Friday as the hunt for a missing Indonesian submarine with 53 crew on board reached a critical phase due to limited supplies of oxygen aboard the 44-year-old vessel.
FILE PHOTO: An Indonesian Navy ship is seen at the Navy Base port, as the search continues for the missing KRI Nanggala-402 submarine, in Banyuwangi, East Java Province Indonesia, April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana
More navy ships left the Indonesian base of Banyuwangi early on Friday to head to the Bali Sea where contact was lost with the KRI Nanggala-402 on Wednesday during a torpedo drill.
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BOTOROAGA, Romania (Reuters) - Maria Coanda, aged 81 with a heart condition, should be at the head of the queue in Romania’s priority COVID-19 vaccination programme.
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But she is still waiting for her first shot in her small southern village of Bujoreni, three months after the start of the scheme. She does not know how to sign up for it online and says her doctor has not been in touch to help her out.
She is one of a group of vulnerable people that officials say are at risk of falling through the cracks as Romania steps up its vaccination plans.
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KAPPARA, Malta (Reuters) - I took the first photo of my daughter, Rebecca, moments after she was born on August 3, 2005.
Nurses Naomi Balzan and Nanette Azzopardi administer pain killers and sedatives to Rebecca Zammit Lupi, a 15-year-old cancer patient, as her mother Marisa Ford looks on, shortly before she passed away in her room in Rainbow Ward at Sir Anthony Mamo Oncology Centre in Mater Dei Hospital, in Tal-Qroqq, Malta January 3, 2021. This was the last photograph Reuters photographer Darrin Zammit Lupi took of his daughter while she was still alive - she passed away 57 minutes later. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A dance troupe’s performance at an Australian Navy event created a furore on Thursday as initial criticism over apparent twerking at dignitaries turned into a story of inaccurate media coverage and criticism of the national broadcaster by the prime minister.
The Defence Department found itself in hot water over reports of inappropriate entertainment at the commissioning of a A$2 billion ($1.5 billion) naval ship in Sydney last weekend.
A seven-woman troupe dressed in black shorts, red crop tops and berets performed a dance routine that included twerking in front of the auxiliary vessel, HMAS Supply, on April 10, according to footage shown by the Australian Broadcasting Corp (ABC) on Wednesday.
In a patch of woodland in Myanmar's western Mon State, trees have been decorated with condoms and portraits of the military junta leader with a sign saying "Min Aung Hlaing's father should have used a condom".