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At a special session this week, the World Health Organization hopes to start sketching out a new world order. “We don’t have rules of the game,” says WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. (Image credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

The deal provided Iran sanctions relief for limits on its nuclear program. But now there’s new Iranian leadership and more uranium in their stockpile than when Trump abandoned the agreement. (Image credit: Vahid Salemi/AP)

Magnitude 7.5 earthquake hits Peru’s remote northern Amazon region  Reuters Magnitude 7.5 earthquake shakes Peru  CNN Magnitude 7.5 earthquake rocks Peru, topples centuries-old church tower  USA TODAY Extremely strong magnitude-7.5 earthquake hits northern Peru  NBC News USGS: Magnitude-7.5 earthquake strikes northern Peru  WRAL.com

The new legislation would create a defense for social-media companies that disclose details of users when a complaint is made against their comments.

The Omicron variant is spreading across Europe with at least 13 cases identified in the Netherlands  CNN Dutch authorities check for COVID-19 omicron variant after 61 arrivals from South Africa test positive  Fox News Covid: Dozens test positive on SA-Netherlands flights  BBC News

Trump’s Senate picks stumble out of the gate  POLITICO

A raft of travel restrictions are being imposed by nations around the world as they scramble to slow the variant’s spread. (Image credit: Ariel Schalit/AP)

A raft of travel restrictions are being imposed by nations around the world as they scramble to slow the variant’s spread. (Image credit: Ariel Schalit/AP)

Committee members questioned former Labor leader due to lack of experience, ties to defense minister, but ministers ignore their position; Labor, Meretz ministers abstain

Weakening of Israeli currency as markets react to Omicron variant shows strong link between shekel and global stocks, says Nadine Baudot-Trajtenberg