Migrants get a meal in the logistics center of the checkpoint “Bruzgi” at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, Wednesday, December 1, 2021. The West has accused Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of luring thousands of migrants to Belarus with the promise of help to get to Western Europe to use them as pawns to destabilize the 27-nation European Union in retaliation for its sanctions on his authoritarian government. Belarus denies engineering the crisis. (Photo by Oksana Manchuk/BelTA via AP Photo)





Pope Francis attends a ceremony at the Maronite Cathedral of Our Lady of Graces in Nicosia, Cyprus, Thursday, December 2, 2021. Pope Francis' trip to Cyprus and Greece is drawing new attention to the plight of migrants on Europe's borders and the disconnect between Francis' Gospel-driven call for countries to welcome and integrate them and front-line governments that are increasingly unwilling or unable to let them in. (Photo by Alessandra Tarantino/AP Photo)





Romanian servicemen sit on a bus prior to the national Day parade, which was staged at a significantly smaller than usual scale due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, December 1, 2021. The national day, marks the date when Transylvania, Romania's central region, war reunited with the rest of the country, in 1918. (Photo by Vadim Ghirda/AP Photo)





An armed man speaks with member of the NYPD outside the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, U.S., December 2, 2021. After three hours, the intense stand-off concluded as the unidentified man dropped the weapon and peacefully surrendered to police. NYPD officials confirmed the man had several papers he wanted to deliver to the UN. After surrendering, officials with the emergency services unit hand-delivered the documents to officials at the UN. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Reuters)





A woman consults a traditional doctor near the Baragwanath taxi rank in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday December 2, 2021. Fearing vaccines, some turn to traditional doctors for COVID-19 remedies. South Africa launched an accelerated vaccination campaign to combat a dramatic rise in confirmed cases of COVID-19 a week after the omicron variant was detected in the country. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





Items used by traditional doctors to cure diseases are displayed near the Baragwanath taxi rank in Soweto, South Africa, Thursday December 2, 2021. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)





A policewoman gets a booster vaccination against the coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease in Hilden, Germany, Thursday, December 2, 2021. Germany's outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel and her likely successor met with state governors to consider tighter rules to curb coronavirus infections. The rise in COVID-19 cases over the past weeks and the arrival of the new omicron variant have prompted warnings from scientists and doctors that medical services in the country could become overstretched in the coming weeks unless drastic action is taken. (Photo by David Young/dpa via AP Photo)





Flight crew members wearing face masks to prevent the spread of coronavirus walk along the Adolfo Suarez-Barajas international airport in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, December 2, 2021. The coronavirus's omicron variant kept a jittery world off-kilter as reports of infections linked to the mutant strain cropped up in more parts of the globe. (Photo by Manu Fernandez/AP Photo)





A man wearing a face mask around his chin stands next to a cart displaying face masks for sale in Bengaluru, capital of the southern Indian state of Karnataka, Thursday, December 2, 2021. India on Thursday confirmed its first cases of the omicron coronavirus variant in two men in Karnataka who came from abroad. (Photo by Aijaz Rahi/AP Photo)





Women wearing face masks wait for the groom and bride during a wedding ceremony outside Manila's Cathedral, Philippines on Thursday, December 2, 2021. Religious activities, including weddings, have resumed with greater capacity as the government continues to ease health restrictions due to the decline of COVID-19 cases in the country while closely monitoring the new omicron virus variant. (Photo by Aaron Favila/AP Photo)





A snowstorm causes chaos on the roads around Aalborg, Denmark, Wednesday December 1, 2021. In northern Denmark, an IKEA showroom turned into a vast bedroom. Six customers and about two dozen employees were stranded by a snowstorm and spent the night in the store, sleeping in the beds that are usually on show. (Photo by Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix via AP Photo)





Chris Lund surveys the damage after an evacuation order was issued for the Everglades Resort on Hatzic Island after rainstorms lashed the western Canadian province, triggering landslides and floods, shutting highways, in Mission, British Columbia, Canada December 1, 2021. (Photo by Jennifer Gauthier/Reuters)





A monk blesses a train during a Buddhist ceremony one day prior to the handover ceremony of the high-speed rail project linking the Chinese southwestern city of Kunming with Vientiane, in Vientiane, Laos, December 2, 2021. (Photo by Phoonsab Thevongsa/Reuters)





Al Fursan, the United Arab Emirates Air Force's aerobatic team, performs during the UAE 50th National Day Al Fursan, at EXPO 2020 Dubai, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, December 2, 2021. (Photo by Kamran Jebreili/AP Photo)





A man begs for money as others shop at Hacarmel market in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, December 2, 2021. Residents of Israel's seaside metropolis Tel Aviv have for years complained of how expensive it is, with living costs taking a chunk out of their paychecks. A report released Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, by the Economist Intelligence Unit, a research group linked to the Economist magazine, said Tel Aviv has emerged as the most expensive city to live in. (Photo by Oded Balilty/AP Photo)





People dressed as Santa Claus walk over Millennium Bridge before taking part in a fun run on the South Bank in London, Britain, December 1, 2021. (Photo by Henry Nicholls/Reuters)





The light art project “Darth Fisher” created by Streetart Frankey is on display at the Torontobrug bridge as part of the Amsterdam Light Festival 2021, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 02 December 2021. The festival's light art installations can only be viewed in the early morning and late afternoon this year due to new coronavirus measures implemented by Dutch authorities amid a surge of new Covid-19 cases and concerns over the new Omicron variant. (Photo by Robin van Lonkhuijsen/EPA/EFE)





Dancer of the Berlin State Ballet (Staatsballett Berlin) wear face masks as they perform during the dress rehearsal of Don Quixote in a production choreographed by Victor Ullate, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic at Deutsche Oper opera house in Berlin, Germany, December 1, 2021. (Photo by Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters)





A view of Rockefeller Center during the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony on December 01, 2021 in New York City. (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)