German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock fist bumps with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department, Wednesday, January 5, 2022, in Washington. The United States and Germany said Wednesday that Russia’s military buildup near Ukraine’s border poses an “immediate and urgent challenge” to European security and that any intervention will draw severe consequences. But the country's top diplomats left open what those consequences would be and how differences on arming Ukraine and a controversial Russian gas pipeline will be resolved. (Photo by Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP Photo)





Riot police officers patrol in a street during rally over a hike in energy prices in Almaty, Kazakhstan, 05 January 2022. Protesters stormed the mayor's office in Almaty, as Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev declared a state of emergency in the capital until 19 January 2022. (Photo by Stringer/EPA/EFE)





Kazakh law enforcement officers are seen on a barricade during a protest triggered by fuel price increase in Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 5, 2022. (Photo by Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)





A Kazakh police officer sits inside a police van with a broken window during a protest triggered by fuel price increase in Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 5, 2022. (Photo by Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)





Police officers detain a demonstrator during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, January 5, 2022. Demonstrators denouncing the doubling of prices for liquefied gas clashed with police in Kazakhstan’s largest city and held protests on Tuesday in about a dozen other cities in the country. (Photo by Vladimir Tretyakov/AP Photo)





A view shows a burning police car during a protest against LPG cost rise following the Kazakh authorities' decision to lift price caps on liquefied petroleum gas in Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 5, 2022. (Photo by Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)





A police barricade is seen near the mayor's office during protests triggered by fuel price increase in Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 5, 2022. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





A demonstrator gives back a shield to a riot police officer during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, January 5, 2022. (Photo by Vladimir Tretyakov/AP Photo)





Damaged police vans are seen in front of the mayor's office during protests triggered by fuel price increase in Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 5, 2022. (Photo by Reuters/Stringer)





Demonstrators try to block a police truck during a protest in the center of Almaty, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, January 4, 2022. Demonstrators denouncing the doubling of prices for liquefied gas have clashed with police in Kazakhstan's largest city and held protests in about a dozen other cities in the country. Local news reports said police dispersed a demonstration of about a thousand people Tuesday night in Almaty and that some demonstrators were detained. (Photo by Vladimir Tretyakov/AP Photo)





A demonstrator tries to dismantle a security camera on a pole during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, January 5, 2022. (Photo by Vladimir Tretyakov/AP Photo)





A man takes a photo of windows of a police kiosk damaged by demonstrators during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, January 5, 2022. (Photo by Vladimir Tretyakov/AP Photo)





Protesters attend a rally in Almaty on January 4, 2022, after energy price hikes. Police fired tear gas and stun grenades in a bid to break up an unprecedented thousands-strong march in Almaty, Kazakhstan's largest city, after protests that began over fuel prices threatened to spiral out of control. (Photo by Ruslan Pryanikov/AFP Photo)





A demonstrator carries a police shield in front of police line during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, January 5, 2022. Demonstrators protesting rising fuel prices broke into the mayor's office in Kazakhstan's largest city Wednesday and flames were seen coming from inside, according to local news reports. Many of the demonstrators who converged on the building in Almaty carried clubs and shields, the Kazakh news site Zakon said. (Photo by Vladimir Tretyakov/AP Photo)





Security measures by the mayor's office after protests against the rise in the price for liquefied petroleum gas used for vehicles in Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 5, 2022. Following a meeting of the government commission with protesters, the fuel price raised on January 1, 2022, was reduced from $ 0,27 to $ 0,11 per litre. (Photo by Diana Matveyeva/Orda.kz/TASS)





Riot police walk to block demonstrators during a protest in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, January 5, 2022. (Photo by Vladimir Tretyakov/AP Photo)





A burnt car is seen by the mayor’s office on fire in Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 5, 2022. Protests are spreading across Kazakhstan over the rising fuel prices; protesters broke into the Almaty mayor’s office and set it on fire. (Photo by Valery Sharifulin/TASS)





A man attacks a police minivan during a protest against LPG cost rise following the Kazakh authorities' decision to lift price caps on liquefied petroleum gas in Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 4, 2022. (Photo by Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)





Demonstrators ride a truck during a protest triggered by fuel price increase in Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 5, 2022. (Photo by Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters)





A man takes a picture by the burning mayor’s office in Almaty, Kazakhstan on January 5, 2022. Protests are spreading across Kazakhstan over the rising fuel prices; protesters broke into the Almaty mayor’s office and set it on fire. (Photo by Yerlan Dzhumayev/TASS)





Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson gestures during a coronavirus media briefing in Downing Street, London, Tuesday, January 4, 2022. Johnson sees no need for further restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus' omicron variant, his spokesman said ahead of a press conference on Tuesday. Amid indications that omicron may produce “milder” illness than earlier variants and the success of a nationwide vaccine booster program, the government believes the existing level of controls is still appropriate. (Photo by Jack Hill/Pool Photo via AP Photo)





A person receives a Covid-19 test on January 4, 2022, in New York City. The US recorded more than 1 million Covid-19 cases on January 3, 2022, according to data from Johns Hopkins University, as the Omicron variant continues to spread at a blistering pace. Johns Hopkins also reported 1,688 deaths for the same period, a day after top US pandemic advisor Anthony Fauci had said the country is experiencing “almost a vertical increase” in Covid-19 cases but the peak may be only weeks away. (Photo by Angela Weiss/AFP Photo)





Paramedics, nurses and doctors tend to a coronavirus (Covid-19) affected patient inside a medical aircraft during a transfer ahead of flying from Bastia on the French Mediterranean island of Corsica to the city of Brest, western France, on January 5, 2022. (Photo by Pascal Pochard-Casabianca/AFP Photo)





Women wearing face masks to protect from coronavirus, play with a dog in the medieval core in central Nicosia, Cyprus, Wednesday, January 5, 2022. Cyprus further tightened restrictions on Wednesday including sharply reducing the number of people permitted at social gatherings and mandating virus testing for teachers and all inbound travelers over 12 amid record numbers of new COVID-19 infections. (Photo by Petros Karadjias/AP Photo)





A member of the Ohio National Guard assists with administering coronavirus disease (COVID-19) tests in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., January 5, 2022. (Photo by Gaelen Morse/Reuters)





Artists preform for people that line up for PCR and Rapid Antigen COVID-19 coronavirus tests in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, January 4, 2022. Israel's prime minister says a 4th vaccination against the omicron variant of the coronavirus generates a five-fold increase in antibodies to fight the virus. Naftali Bennett said Tuesday that an early study at Sheba Medical Center offered encouraging results just a week after a 4th jab was offered to vulnerable people. (Photo by Ariel Schalit/AP Photo)





In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, volunteers wearing protective suits package meals for delivery to people under lockdown in Xi'an in northwestern China's Shaanxi Province, Tuesday, January 4, 2022. Hospital officials in the northern Chinese city of Xi'an have been punished after a pregnant woman miscarried after being refused entry, reportedly for not having current COVID-19 test results. (Photo by Zhang Bowen/Xinhua via AP Photo)





A woman undergoes the rapid antigen test for the coronavirus in Prague, Czech Republic, Wednesday, December 16, 2020. On Wednesday January 5, 2022 the Czech Republic's government decided to cut quarantine restrictions from fourteen to five days while also similarly shortened time for close contacts of infected people to isolate. (Photo by Petr David Josek/AP Photo/File)





A rubber figure in the shape of a virus hangs on the door of the PCR laboratory in the Lower Saxony State Health Office (NLGA) in Hannover, Germany, Wednesday, January 5, 2022. (Photo by Julian Stratenschulte/dpa via AP Photo)





A health worker inoculates a boy with the CoronaVac vaccine, developed by China's Sinovac against the novel coronavirus disease COVID-19, at a vaccination centre in Bogota, on January 4, 2022, as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that Omicron's dizzying spread increased the risk of newer, more dangerous variants emerging. (Photo by Leonardo Munoz/AFP Photo)





General view of the U.S. Capitol and a snow bank following a storm, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 5, 2022. (Photo by Tom Brenner/Reuters)





GCK Motorsport's Guerlain Chicherit and co-driver Alex Winocq crash during stage 4 of the annual Dakar Rally, from Al Qaysumah to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on January 5, 2022. (Photo by Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters)





The head of 211-kilogram bluefin tuna that was auctioned for about 16.9 million Japanese yen or around 145,290 dollars and bought jointly by Michelin-starred sushi restaurant operator Onodera Group and wholesaler Yamayuk is carried is displayed at a sushi restaurant after the first tuna auction of the New Year in Tokyo, Japan January 5, 2022. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)