A police officer was killed and two police were wounded in a militants' ambush in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan, on early Tuesday, reported a local TV channel.
The British capital faces tougher Covid-19 measures within days, the UK government said on Monday, with a new coronavirus variant emerging as a possible cause for rapidly rising infection rates.
Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide has announced that the government will temporarily suspend its "Go To Travel" campaign across the country from December 28 to January 11.
South Africa's president has declared that the country had entered a second wave of coronavirus infections and ordered the closure of some beaches for the holiday season.
