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Trump is ‘pulling strings’ in GOP primaries like Godfather’s Corleone: associate  Business Insider

Archaeological digs, cupcake decorations, museum tours and neighborhood explorations are some of the activities up for offer during the eight-day holiday

Blinken speaks to South African minister, hails country’s ‘transparency in sharing this information, which should serve as a model for the world’

Omicron variant symptoms ‘unusual but mild’, says South African doctor  New York Post Omicron: Pharmaceutical firms say they can tweak vaccines to fight new strain  The Independent How did Omicron get its name?  The New York Times Explainer: How worried should we be

In Radu Jude’s ‘Bad Luck Banging,’ a teacher’s online sex clip gets parents riled up, and they soon let the worst fly in a cartoonish indictment of society

Coronavirus cabinet votes to reimpose some restrictions over fears of Omicron variant

Global concern about the coronavirus pandemic is growing, with a number of countries detecting confirmed cases of the Omicron variant for the first time.

Demonstrations in Isfahan over the drying up of a lifeblood river draw tens of thousands; US condemns violent crackdown

Alvin Chau, the chairman of Suncity Group Holdings, was being held for questioning by police in Macau after authorities in the eastern Chinese city of Wenzhou issued an arrest warrant.