CURRENTLY, the planet Earth is facing various kinds of natural disasters, including forest fires which may cause loss and damage to habitats of plants and biodiversity species.
Mongolia reported 218 new COVID-19 infections over the past 24 hours, bringing the national total to 390,075, according to the country's health ministry on Wednesday.
Panama registered 17 new cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 on Tuesday, bringing the total number of the variant's cases to 26, the Ministry of Health reported.
At least 38 people have been killed after a gold mine collapsed in West Kordofan State in southern Sudan, a government company announced in a statement on Tuesday.
France confirmed 179,807 new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday, reaching a record high. The government is tightening measures to curb the infections.
