Ramallah [Palestine], January 29 (ANI/Xinhua): Dozens of Palestinian protestors were injured on Friday during clashes with Israeli soldiers near three West Bank cities, Palestinian medics and eyewitnesses said.
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], January 29 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia reported 5,522 new COVID-19 infections as of midnight Friday, bringing the national total to 2,855,930, according to the health ministry.
Naypyitaw [Myanmar], January 29 (ANI/Xinhua): Myanmar reported no daily deaths from COVID-19 for five consecutive days, according to a release from the Ministry of Health on Friday.
Ottawa [Canada], January 29 (ANI/Xinhua): Canada confirmed 8,937 new COVID-19 cases Friday noon, elevating its national caseload to 3,007,264 with 33,489 deaths, CTV reported.
Wellington [New Zealand], January 28 (ANI/Xinhua): New Zealand reported 105 new COVID-19 cases in the community on Friday, including 15 infections with the Omicron variant of the virus, bringing the total tally in the country's current community outbreak to 11,713.
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], January 28 (ANI/Xinhua): Malaysia on Friday recorded 5,439 new COVID-19 infections for the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 2,850,408, according to the health ministry.
Kampala [Uganda], January 27 (ANI/Xinhua): Torrential rains, floods and a mudslide have affected 800 people in three sub-counties in the western Ugandan district of Kisoro, a relief agency said on Thursday.
Nur-Sultan [Kazakhstan], January 27 (ANI/Xinhua): The upper house of Kazakhstan's parliament on Thursday decided to cancel Nursultan Nazarbayev's lifetime chairmanship in the country's Security Council and the Assembly of People, the country's Kazinform news agency reported.
Hong Kong, January 27 (ANI/Xinhua): An earthquake with a magnitude of 6.2 jolted 219 kilometres of West-Northwest of Pangai, Tonga at 06:40:07 GMT on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said.
Paris [France], January 27 (ANI/Xinhua): Advisors to the heads of states and governments of France, Germany, Ukraine and Russia, met on Wednesday in Paris under the Normandy format and called for an unconditional ceasefire in the Donbas region of Ukraine.
Seoul [South Korea], January 27 (ANI/Xinhua): South Korea's daily number of COVID-19 cases hit a new record high due to the spread of the Omicron variant, the health authorities said on Thursday.
Ottawa [Canada], January 27 (ANI/Xinhua): Canada has found 51 cases of a new Omicron subvariant known as BA.2 mainly from international travelers, according to local media CTV on Wednesday.