ANKARA - Turkey on Tuesday, Jan. 18, reported 69,658 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 10,591,757, according to its health ministry.
WASHINGTON - Nearly 9.5 million children in the United States have tested positive for COVID-19 since the onset of the pandemic, and child COVID-19 cases have "spiked dramatically" across the country, according to the latest report of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children's Hospital Association.
MOGADISHU - At least six people were killed and ten others wounded in a suicide bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday (Jan. 17) evening according to authorities.
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations and its agencies are readying relief efforts for the remote South Pacific island nation of Tonga following the eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, a UN spokesman said on Monday, Jan. 17.
QALA-E-NAW, Afghanistan - At least 12 people were killed and many others injured after a magnitude 5.6 earthquake hit Afghanistan's western province of Badghis on Monday (Jan. 17), a local official said.
WASHINGTON - COVID-19 cases at U.S. nursing homes are rising to another peak amid the Omicron surge across the country, according to the latest data of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
