They were found in two people who had recently traveled to Nigeria and tested positive in Ontario on Sunday, Ottawa Public Health said.

A total of 60 percent of eligible people aged 12 and above in the South Pacific island nation of Tonga are now fully vaccinated for COVID-19. According to Matangi Tonga Online, Tonga's news website, Tonga's Ministry of Health confirmed on Monday that about 46,

The federal government has put off the planned next stage of reopening Australia’s borders to the world, saying more needs to be known about the variant.

Following is a selected country-by-country snapshot of confirmed Omicron cases and travel restrictions imposed in an attempt to slow its spread. Portugal on Monday detected 13 cases of the Omicron variant – all related to players and staff members of Lisbon soccer team Belenenses,

A couple caught trying to escape from COVID-19 quarantine in the Netherlands after testing positive for the coronavirus have been transferred to a hospital where they were being held in isolation, an official said on Monday.

Medical staff spent more than two hours trying to lethally inject the Death Row prisoner, a process his lawyer described as ‘torture.’

When young nuns at a convent in Eastern Europe told their Mother Superior that a priest had tried to molest them, she retorted that it was probably their fault for "provoking him". When African nuns in Minnesota asked why it was always they who had to shovel snow they were …

Indonesia on Monday confirmed 176 new COVID-19 cases, raising its tally of infections to 4,256,112, according to the country's Health Ministry. The ministry reported that the death toll from the virus in the country rose by 11 to 143,

From 4am on Tuesday fully-vaccinated people entering the UK will be required to self-isolate until they receive a negative result from a PCR test.

Worsening Crisis of Enforced Disappearances in Balochistan On November 12, 2021, Security Forces (SFs) allegedly abducted a Baloch named Abdul Wahab during a raid at his residence in Dera Bugti District. On the same day, in the Mashkay area of Awaran District, SF-backed death squads reportedly took away two brothers, …