Medical advice for travellersI have high blood pressure. Will the altitude in Tibet cause me any problems? Q: I have recently been diagnosed with high blood pressure and blood cholesterol. These have been brought down to suitable levels with a beta-blocker and a statin. Otherwise, I am a reasonably fit 59-year-old male. I am not overweight and can walk up a hill at a smart pace without any discomfort. Am I okay to travel to Tibet because of the altitude? Read More...
EcuadorScores of hostages released from gang-controlled prisons, Ecuador government claimsPresidency makes announcement nearly a week after wave of violence hit South American country
Scores of hostages have been released from Ecuador’s gang-controlled prisons, the government has claimed, nearly a week after the South American country was shaken by a massive wave of violence.
“All of the hostages have been freed,” the Ecuadorian presidency announced on social media on Saturday night. Read More...
MoviesReviewPolish director Patryk Vega’s usually slick technique fails him utterly here in this lurid story about a cop investigating a girl’s kidnapping by the Russian mafia
Patryk Vega is the Polish writer-director whose hardboiled thrillers have found commercial favour both at home and with diaspora audiences: 2018’s The Plagues of Breslau was the kind of full-throttle, unapologetically 18-rated entertainment western producers have largely backed away from. Regrettably, his latest is both globetrotting and dashed-off, and so remorseless that it becomes actively punishing. Read More...
