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Britain, the current chair of the G7 group of leading economies, says will hold an urgent meeting of health ministers on Monday. They will discuss how to deal with a new omicron strain of coronavirus. Several more countries have confirmed cases of the new variant of the virus which was first found in South Africa on Wednesday.


South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has criticised western nations for imposing travel bans following the discovery of the omicron mutation. Mr Ramaphosa accused them of what he termed Afrophobia and said the bans were not informed by science. He urged them to reverse their decisions immediately.


France’s Interior Minister has announced that the EU’s Border Agency will send an aircraft to help patrol the French coast in an attempt to prevent migrants crossing the sea to Britain. It comes days after 27 migrants drowned last week when their boat sank.   


Amid heavy security, Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has lit a candle to mark the Jewish festival of Hanukkah in the flashpoint city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian officials condemned his participation in the ceremony at a contested religious shrine.


Voting is ending in presidential and parliamentary elections in Honduras. Both main candidates called for calm amid fears that it could be a repetition of the violence that followed polls in 2017. About 80,000 police officers and soldiers are on duty.  


More than 60 pub goers at a remote inn in the north of England are spending their third night there after it was cut off by heavy snow. Blizzards have trapped them at the Tan Hill Inn, Britain’s highest pub since Friday. Despite sleeping on the bar floor, one visitor said the atmosphere was so nice, she didn’t want to leave.
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