Japan to bar new foreign arrivals over virus variant: PM

Fiji PM says 50 peacekeepers headed to crisis-hit Solomon Islands

Pandemic to cost global tourism $2 trillion in 2021: UN

Venezuela's Maduro calls EU election observers 'enemies' and 'spies' 

Canada confirms first Covid Omicron infections

Dutch arrest couple 'fleeing' Covid hotel

22 die in attack on DR Congo displaced people's camp: NGO

UK calls urgent meeting of G7 health ministers

US Fashion designer Virgil Abloh, 41, dies of cancer: France's LVMH

S.African president wants travel bans 'urgently' lifted