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People wearing face masks to protect against COVID-19 cross the Trocadero Plaza in Paris, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. Authorities in France want to accelerate vaccinations against the coronavirus before Christmas as infections surge and more people with COVID-19 seek medical attention. Eiffel Tower in the background. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

France to restrict travel from Britain to fight omicron

16th December 2021

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Ukraine: Jittery villagers ‘fear that a big war will start’

16th December 2021

COVAX: Israel to donate 1 million COVID vaccines to African nations

16th December 2021

People wearing face masks to help curbing COVID-19 virus spread wait for a train at a subway station in Lisbon, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Despite having one of the highest vaccination rates in Europe, with 86.6% of its 10.3 million people inoculated, Portugal is scaling up its pandemic response amid the emergence of the omicron variant. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)

Portugal to keep tighter COVID border rules

16th December 2021

A woman wearing a face mask run past the offices of Chinese e-commerce firm Alibaba in Beijing on Dec. 13, 2021. A former employee of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba says human resources and upper management wouldn’t deal with her accusation of sexual assault. So she went into the busy cafeteria at the headquarters of the Chinese e-commerce giant and screamed out her plight. Now she is paying the price. The company fired her. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Sexual assault: China’s #MeToo victims face abuse, payback for going public

16th December 2021

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Bosnian police jail 8 for war crimes during 1992-95 conflict

16th December 2021

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrives for an EU Summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021. European Union leaders meet for a one-day summit Thursday that will center on Russia’s military threat to neighbouring Ukraine and on ways to deal with the continuing COVID-19 crisis. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP)

EU leaders to discuss rise of infections, spread of omicron

16th December 2021

From left, European Parliament President David Sassoli, Slovenia’s Prime Minister Janez Jansa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during a signing ceremony of EU Legislative Priorities for 2022 on the sidelines of an EU Summit in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert, Pool)

EU hopes to avoid Ukraine war with talks, sanctions threat

16th December 2021

People wearing face masks as a precaution against the new coronavirus outbreak, walk through a train station in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021. The Indonesian government on Thursday announced that the country has detected its first case of omicron variant on Wednesday evening. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)

Widodo urges stay home after omicron confirmed in Indonesia

16th December 2021

Emergency services personnel work the scene of a deadly incident involved with a bouncy castle at the Hillcrest Primary School in Devonport, Tasmania, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021. Multiple children have died and others are in critical condition after falling from a bouncy castle that was lifted 10 meters (33 feet) into the air by a gust of wind at a junior school on the island state of Tasmania on Thursday. (Grant Wells/AAP Image via AP)

5 children die in bouncy castle accident in Australia

16th December 2021

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In this handout photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, rescuers assist residents cross a bridge as they are evacuated to higher grounds in Tubay town, Agusan del Norte, southern Philippines on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021. Tens of thousands of people were being evacuated to safety in the southern and central Philippines as Typhoon Rai approached Thursday at a time when authorities were warning the public to avoid crowds after the first infections caused by the omicron strain of the coronavirus were reported in the country, officials said. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

Powerful typhoon hits Philippines, nearly 100,000 evacuated

16th December 2021

A woman is administered a COVID-19 vaccine at a center on the outskirts of Sarajevo, Bosnia, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. Some vaccine late-takers in Bosnia say they recently decided to finally embrace Covid-19 shots after numerous European countries started tightening their anti-virus rules, including by requiring proof of vaccination from foreign visitors before letting them in and giving them access to public venues within their borders. (AP Photo)

Vaccine skeptics in Eastern Europe having change of heart

16th December 2021

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwan president Tsai Ing-wen, center left, poses for photos with Francois de Rugy, the head of the Taiwan Friendship group in the National Assembly, center right, and other French lawmakers during a visit at the Presidential Office in Taipei, Taiwan, Dec. 16, 2021. Rugy is who is leading a team of French lawmakers from the French National Assembly on a five-day visit to Taiwan. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP)

Taiwan’s Tsai urges unity against rising authoritarianism

16th December 2021

FILE – A sign reminds customers that masks are required in their store in New York, Dec. 13, 2021. The new omicron coronavirus mutant speeding around the world may bring another wave of chaos, threatening to further stretch hospital workers already struggling with a surge of delta cases and upend holiday plans for the second year in a row. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

US faces a double coronavirus surge as omicron advances

16th December 2021

FILE – Abdul Aziz, right, gestures as he gives his victim impact statement during the sentencing hearing for Australian Brenton Harrison Tarrant at the Christchurch High Court after Tarrant pleaded guilty to 51 counts of murder, 40 counts of attempted murder and one count of terrorism in Christchurch, New Zealand on Aug. 26, 2020. Aziz is one of two worshippers who at different times charged toward a gunman to try and stop his massacre were on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021 each awarded New Zealand’s highest honor for civilian bravery. (John Kirk-Anderson/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Two awarded top bravery honor in New Zealand mosque attack

16th December 2021

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Biden signs 2 executive orders, targets drug traffickers

16th December 2021

Israeli nurses strike over violence against medical staff

Israeli nurses strike over violence against medical staff

15th December 2021

In this photo provided by Nwe Oo Tawlanyae Latpantaung, women sit in protest in the village of Latpantaung in Myanmar on Oct. 28, 2021, while holding signs in English and Burmese calling for the freezing of revenues the Myanmar military gets from the sale of oil and gas. As the military’s abuses have grown after seizing power in February, people from Myanmar’s southern jungles to its northern mountains are voicing support for targeted sanctions on oil and gas funds, the country’s single largest source of foreign currency revenue. (Courtesy of Nwe Oo Tawlanyae Latpantaung via AP)

Myanmar public urges gas sanctions to stop military funding

15th December 2021

People wait for the coronavirus testing outside a public health center in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. Halting its steps toward normalcy, South Korea will clamp down on social gatherings and cut the hours of some businesses to fight a record-breaking surge of the coronavirus that has led to a spike in hospitalizations and deaths. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon).

South Korea sets new virus record as officials plan restrictions

15th December 2021

French lawmakers arrive in Taiwan for five-day visit

French lawmakers arrive in Taiwan for five-day visit

15th December 2021

Residents stand amid their homes damaged by a gasoline truck that overturned and exploded in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. The explosion engulfed cars and homes in flames, killing more than 50 people and injuring dozens of others. (AP Photo/Joseph Odelyn)

Haiti disaster: Fireball from toppled tanker kills 75

15th December 2021

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Rwandan president urges renewed commitment to domestic financing of health sector in Africa

14th December 2021

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COVID-19: Australia to produce mRNA vaccines by 2024 – PM

14th December 2021

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Philippines’ Duterte withdraws candidacy for senate seat

14th December 2021

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Vicente Fernández, revered Mexican singer, dies at 81

13th December 2021

FILE – A nurse prepares a dose of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to be injected at the Andras Josa Teaching Hospital in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, Jan. 24, 2021. As coronavirus infections and deaths soar in Hungary, the country’s journalists and public health professionals are demanding more detailed data on the outbreak from the government, with some experts saying that greater transparency might boost lagging vaccination rates. (Attila Balazs/MTI via AP, File)

Hungary’s media, health experts seek more COVID-19 data

13th December 2021

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, center left, speaks with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, second right, during a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. European Union foreign ministers met Monday to discuss how to thwart the threat of a possible new Russian invasion of Ukraine and what measures to take should Moscow decide to send its troops across the border. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU ministers debate ways to shield Ukraine from Russia

13th December 2021

A rescue boat navigates by the capsized Danish cargo ship Karin Hoej after it collided with British cargo vessel Scot Carrier in the Baltic Sea, between Ystad and Bornholm, early Monday morning 13 December. Karin Hoej have capsized and are upside down. Two freight ships on Monday reportedly have collided off southern Sweden and west of a Danish Baltic Sea island with at least two people reported missing , Danish and Swedish authorities said. (Johan Nilsson/TT via AP)

Cargo ship collision off southern Sweden leaves 2 missing

13th December 2021

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