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Germany announced new restrictions to slow the spread of the omicron variant of COVID-19 on Tuesday, restrictions that will begin after Christmas.

The ruler of Dubai has been ordered to pay more than half a billion dollars to protect his ex-wife from himself.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday reiterated his demand for guarantees from the U.S. and its allies that NATO will not expand eastward, blaming the West for “tensions that are building up in Europe.”

The governor of a central Philippine province devastated by Typhoon Rai last week pleaded on radio Tuesday for the government to quickly send food and other aid, warning that without outside help, army troops and police forces would have to be deployed to prevent looting amid growing hunger.

Captive missionaries in Haiti found freedom last week by making a daring overnight escape, eluding their kidnappers and walking for miles over difficult, moonlit terrain with an infant and other children in tow, according to the agency they work for, officials said Monday.

A Japanese billionaire, his producer and a Russian cosmonaut safely returned to Earth on Monday after spending 12 days on the International Space Station.

Britain is facing pressure to curb the COVID-19 omicron variant as medical staff are being pushed to the breaking point.

The military has helped one German hospital have an edge in fighting COVID-19 amid the outbreak of the omicron variant

Candidates loyal to China’s Communist Party won a landslide victory in Hong Kong’s legislative elections after pro-democracy activists were imprisoned and authorities received the power to exclude those deemed inappropriate for office.

Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai on Sunday denied ever accusing anyone of sexually assaulting her.

The governor of an island province in the central Philippines said Sunday at least 63 people died in the devastation wrought by Typhoon Rai in more than half of the towns that managed to contact him, bringing the death toll in the strongest typhoon to batter the country this year to at least 112.

Two rockets were fired in the direction of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Saturday, with one of them shot down by the U.S. military and the other missing the embassy compound, Fox News has confirmed.

Nations across Europe moved to reimpose tougher measures to stem a new wave of COVID-19 infections spurred by the omicron variant, including a new nationwide lockdown.

A powerful typhoon left at least 31 people dead, knocked down power and communications in entire provinces and wrought widespread destruction mostly in the central Philippines, officials said Saturday. A governor said her island has been “leveled to the ground.”

The World Health Organization has given emergency approval by U.S.-based Novavax and the Serum Institute of India

Pope Francis turned 85 on Friday and spent the day doing what he does often and with passion--celebrating refugees

European Union leaders on Thursday pressed Russia to return to peace talks with Ukraine and renewed their threat to impose unprecedented sanctions on Moscow in tandem with the United States and Britain should Russian armed forces cross the border.

North Korea on Friday commemorated the 10th anniversary of former leader Kim Jong Il’s death with calls for greater public loyalty toward his son and current leader Kim Jong Un, who is struggling to navigate the country out of deepening pandemic-related hardships.

A massive fire ripped through a psychiatry clinic in Osaka, Japan, on Friday after a patient carried a bag into the building that was leaking flammable liquid.

France restricts travel to and from Britain due to the fast-spreading omicron COVID-19 variant.