Live updates: UAE reports 86% efficacy rate for Sinopharm’s covid-19 vaccine. This is the first confirmation by authorities that one of China’s vaccines is effective in preventing coronavirus infection washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12… via Paul Schemm

More and more U.S. allies are looking right at Trump after what happened at #CapitolHill washingtonpost.com/world/global-w…

Covid (UC San Francisco) Chronicles, Day 453 1/ I know everybody’s sick of playing 3-dimensional Covid chess. Sorry, but the Delta variant forces us back to the chess board. Ergo, this 🧵. If you’re fully vaxxed, I wouldn’t be too worried, especially if you’re in a highly vaxxed region.

. Paul Schemm named Foreign deputy regional editor: washingtonpost.com/pr/2021/09/20/…

Stunning: Check out how people in the Philippines are protecting their homes against rising floods. From the dream team of Regine Cabato William Neff Hannah Dormido Reem Akkad Yutao Chen 陈昱陶 Paul Schemm dayana olivierclaurent Kate Rabinowitz Tim Meko Jason Aldag washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

Egypt’s historic houseboats are demolished as Cairo is remade. “There is a very clear approach from the government that doesn’t see any kind of value in the heritage, any kind of value in the city memory.” Heba Farouk Mahfouz Paul Schemm washingtonpost.com/world/2022/07/…

Iraq's present could well be our future, excellent work by my colleague Louisa Loveluck washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/…

Intriguing look at another aspect of climate change, the Lebanese have to start eating different kinds of fish as the sea warms by Sarah Dadouch | سارة دعدوش washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/…

By the great Louisa Loveluck , a piece I had a chance to edit about how crystal meth is hitting Basra and other Iraqi cities (coming in from Iran of all places). washingtonpost.com/world/2022/10/…

Far be it from me tell my American friends how to vote, but I find the following rule useful: If a party has attempted to overthrow an election because they didn’t like the result, don’t reward them by giving them a result they’ll like.