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New COVID variant Omicron triggers global alarm, market sell-off
The discovery of a new coronavirus variant named Omicron triggered global alarm on Friday as countries rushed to suspend travel from southern ...Thailand doubles 2021 visitor numbers after easing quarantine rules
Thailand has received more than 100,000 visitors after launching a scheme earlier this month that allowed vaccinated tourists to skip quarantine, an ...Asian and European countries, alarmed by new COVID variant, tighten curbs
Asian countries rushed to tighten restrictions after a new and possibly vaccine-resistant coronavirus variant was detected in South Africa, with Singapore and ...Islamist car bomb attack kills at least eight in Somalia
At least eight people were killed in Somalia’s capital on Thursday when Islamist militants launched a suicide attack on a U.N. security ...Twenty-seven migrants perish trying to cross Channel to Britain
British and French officials traded blame on Wednesday after 27 migrants died when their dinghy deflated as they made a perilous crossing ...New Swedish PM resigns on first day in job, hopes for swift return
Sweden’s first female prime minister, Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson, resigned on Wednesday after less than 12 hours in the top job after ...Chile’s lower house approves same-sex marriage, bill sent back to Senate
Chile’s lower house approved on Tuesday a bill that would permit same-sex marriage in the South American country of 19 million, sending ...NASA launches test mission of asteroid-deflecting spacecraft
A spacecraft that must ultimately crash to succeed was launched late on Tuesday from California on a NASA mission to demonstrate the ...Number of children recruited into conflict grows in West and Central Africa
West and Central Africa has recorded the highest number of children recruited into conflict of any region in the world, and the ...Hamas official says Qatar enables fuel-to-cash scheme for Gaza civil servants
A Hamas official said on Monday that Qatar will start sending Gaza up to $10 million worth of Egyptian fuel a month ...