A Ukrainian female soldier takes a rest near a fighting position on the line of separation from pro-Russian rebels, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday, December 30, 2021. Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Thursday about the Russian troop buildup near Ukraine. (Photo by Andriy Dubchak/AP Photo)





This photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Thursday, December 30, 2021, shows the launching of Simorgh, or “Phoenix”, rocket in an undisclosed location in Iran. Iran on Thursday announced it launched a satellite carrier rocket bearing three devices into space, though it's unclear whether any of the objects entered orbit around the Earth. (Photo by Iranian Defense Ministry via AP Photo)





Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard at a check point in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Thursday, December 30, 2021. Six suspected rebels and an Indian soldier were killed in two separate counterinsurgency operations in disputed Kashmir, police said Thursday. (Photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo)





Members of the Mexican Armed Forces unfold a Mexican national flag next to the plane transporting the remains of Guatemalan migrants killed in a truck crash in southern Mexico, on the tarmac of La Aurora International Airport in Guatemala City, Thursday, December 30, 2021. Fifteen more Guatemalan victims of the Dec. 9 migrant smuggling accident that left 56 migrants dead were returned to Guatemala Thursday for burial. (Photo by Oliver de Ros/AP Photo)





A young girl sits in a wooden boat carrying Rohingya refugees as it arrives at Krueng Geukueh Port in North Aceh, Indonesia, early Friday, December 31, 2021. A group of 120 Rohingya Muslims disembarked from a boat that had drifted for days off Indonesia's northernmost province of Aceh and was towed by a navy ship into port, officials said Friday. (Photo by Zik Maulana/AP Photo)





Mourners pray in front of offerings near a building, background, where a fire broke out, in Osaka, western Japan Thursday, December 30, 2021. The suspect in the fire that killed 25 people died Thursday at a hospital where he was being treated for burns and smoke inhalation, police said Friday. (Photo by Kyodo News via AP Photo)





The Dean of St George's Cathedral Michael Weeder (L) and Archbishop of Cape Town Thabo Makgoba (R) stand near the coffin of late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu in St. George's Cathedral in Cape Town, South Africa, 30 December 2021. The anti-apartheid leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who was a key figure in the dismantling of apartheid, died on 26 December 2021 at the age of 90. His body will lie in repose at St George's Cathedral until his full state funeral on 01 January 2022. (Photo by Nic Bothma/EPA/EFE)





A medical technician performs a nasal swab test on a cyclist queued up in a line with motorists at a COVID-19 testing site near All City Stadium Thursday, December 30, 2021, in southeast Denver. With the rapid spread of the omicron variant paired with the Christmas holiday, testing sites have been strained to meet demand both in Colorado as well as across the country. (Photo by David Zalubowski/AP Photo)





A workers installs a beds at a makeshift COVID-19 care center with 1200 beds in Mumbai, India, Friday, December 31, 2021. In India, millions of people were planning to ring in the new year from their homes, with nighttime curfews and other restrictions taking the fizz out of celebrations in large cities including New Delhi and Mumbai due to a surge of coronavirus infections, many infected with contagious omicron variant. (Photo by Rafiq Maqbool/AP Photo)





Medical staff members help a patient to wear a new non-invasive technology that can reduce the need of intubation at Covid-19 intensive care unit (ICU) at The Institute of Clinical Cardiology (ICC) in Rome, on December 30, 2021. (Photo by Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Photo)





Nurse Marie-Laure Satta caresses her face during a pause in her New Year's Eve shift in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the la Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France, Friday, December 31, 2021. Paris region health authorities have instructed hospitals to cancel more non-urgent medical procedures to free up intensive-care beds for the growing influx of people gravely sick with COVID-19. (Photo by Daniel Cole/AP Photo)





View of a huge fire behind the Route 40 in Paraje Villegas, Rio Negro province, 70 km south of Bariloche, Argentina, on December 29, 2021. Several sources of fire have been active for weeks in the Argentine provinces of Neuquen, Rio Negro and Chubut (south), where the flames have consumed thousands of hectares of native forest, amid adverse weather conditions, according to the authorities. (Photo by Francisco Ramos Mejia/AFP Photo)





Firemen work to extinguish a fire that broke out in Paraje Villegas, Rio Negro province, 70 km south of Bariloche, Argentina, on December 29, 2021. Several sources of fire have been active for weeks in the Argentine provinces of Neuquen, Rio Negro and Chubut (south), where the flames have consumed thousands of hectares of native forest, amid adverse weather conditions, according to the authorities. (Photo by Francisco Ramos Mejia/AFP Photo)





A person cycles through the flooded road at Sutton Gault in Cambridgeshire, England. The levels of the River Great Ouse at Sutton Gault have risen rapidly within the last 24 hours leading to floods in this area of Cambridge, on December 28, 2021. (Photo by Paul Marriott/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





Women dance on the Belgrade's main pedestrian street in front of brass band prior a New Year's Eve, Serbia, Friday, December 31, 2021. As the fast-spreading coronavirus variant omicron rages through Western Europe, officials and experts in low-vaccinated Eastern Europe anticipate a post-holiday explosion of COVID-19 cases in much of the region. (Photo by Darko Vojinovic/AP Photo)





People gather during New Year's Eve celebrations in Times Square, as the Omicron coronavirus variant continues to spread, in the Manhattan borough of New York City, U.S., December 31, 2021. (Photo by Dieu-Nalio Chery/Reuters)





A couple takes a selfie picture along the Champs-Elysees Avenue on New Year's Eve, on December 31 2021. Since December 31, 2021, the protective face mask is mandatory for pedestrians in Paris and other cities to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. (Photo by Julien de Rosa/AFP Photo)





People celebrate the New Year in Nikolskaya street near an empty Red Square due to pandemic restrictions during New Year celebrations in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, January 1, 2022. Russia's state coronavirus task force has registered a total of about 10.5 million confirmed infections and 308,860 deaths, but the state statistics agency that uses broader criteria in its tallying system has reported nearly 626,000 virus-linked deaths in Russia since the start of the pandemic. (Photo by Alexander Zemlianichenko Jr.AP Photo)





A reveller stands as fireworks explode over the UAP Old Mutual Tower during the New Year's Eve celebrations in Nairobi, Kenya on January 1, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Mukoya/Reuters)





A man looks at the decorations for the coming 2022 Year on New Year's Eve in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, December 31, 2021. (Photo by Lee Jin-man/AP Photo)





People celebrate New Year's Eve at Zagreb's main square, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, Croatia, January 1, 2022. (Photo by Antonio Bronic/Reuters)





A man celebrates the start of the New Year, backdropped by fireworks exploding in the background over Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday, January 1, 2022. (Photo by Bruna Prado/AP Photo)