Gaps in global efforts to track coronavirus variants make it difficult not only to track early omicron infections, but also to identify new mutations.

The omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus has reached the Australian capital Canberra and has been identified in a fully vaccinated person who has not traveled abroad, ABC reported.

Germany wants to trade and cooperate with Russia, but the security issues of partners in Eastern Europe are more important, said the leader of the Free Democratic Party of Germany Christian Lindner.

An unprecedented increase in the number of new cases of coronavirus has occurred in the Republic of South Africa in a short period of time amid the spread of a new strain of "omicron".

The US Air Force needs to have a new generation of precision-guided munitions to contain Russia and China.

Maia Sandu expressed hope that the new Council on Television and Radio Broadcasting will be able to prevent propaganda from Russia and other countries on the air of TV channels broadcast in the republic.