## [2022-01-3](/feed/2022/01/3/index.md)

##### Cyberwarfare and Iran
### [The website of Israel's "Jerusalem Post" newspaper is hacked by suspected Iranian hackers. The website's content was replaced with a threat targeting the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center and an apparent reference to Qasem Soleimani, who was assassinated exactly two years earlier in Baghdad, Iraq. ](/feed/2022/01/3/the-website-of-israel-s-jerusalem-post-newspaper-is-hacked-by-suspected-iranian-hackers-the-website-s-content-was-rep.md)
##### COVID-19 pandemic
### [The Food and Drug Administration authorizes the use of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine as a booster dose for children between the ages of 12 and 15 years, becoming the world's first vaccine to be authorized as a booster shot for this age group. ](/feed/2022/01/3/the-food-and-drug-administration-authorizes-the-use-of-the-pfizer-biontech-covid-19-vaccine-as-a-booster-dose-for-childr.md)
### [President Filipe Nyusi and his wife Isaura test positive for COVID-19. ](/feed/2022/01/3/president-filipe-nyusi-and-his-wife-isaura-test-positive-for-covid-19.md)
### [France begins to require children over the age of 6 years to wear masks while indoors and also reduces the self-isolation period for fully vaccinated people to seven days and five days if a person has received a negative PCR or antigen test due to a record number of COVID-19 cases driven by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. ](/feed/2022/01/3/france-begins-to-require-children-over-the-age-of-6-years-to-wear-masks-while-indoors-and-also-reduces-the-self-isolatio.md)
### [The Belgian government finalizes an agreement to buy 20,000 courses of Pfizer's Paxlovid COVID-19 drug and Merck & Co.'s Molnupiravir COVID-19 drug. ](/feed/2022/01/3/the-belgian-government-finalizes-an-agreement-to-buy-20000-courses-of-pfizer-s-paxlovid-covid-19-drug-and-merck-co-s.md)
### [Scotland reports a record 20,217 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. ](/feed/2022/01/3/scotland-reports-a-record-20217-new-cases-of-covid-19-in-the-past-24-hours.md)
### [Taiwan reports its first two locally transmitted cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. ](/feed/2022/01/3/taiwan-reports-its-first-two-locally-transmitted-cases-of-the-sars-cov-2-omicron-variant.md)
### [South Korea reports its first confirmed deaths related to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in two people in their 90s who died last week at a senior care hospital in Gwangju. ](/feed/2022/01/3/south-korea-reports-its-first-confirmed-deaths-related-to-the-sars-cov-2-omicron-variant-in-two-people-in-their-90s-who.md)
### [The Metro Manila Council passes a resolution imposing a lockdown on all unvaccinated and partially vaccinated residents and minors due to an increase in the number of cases of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant. ](/feed/2022/01/3/the-metro-manila-council-passes-a-resolution-imposing-a-lockdown-on-all-unvaccinated-and-partially-vaccinated-residents.md)
### [India begins administering COVID-19 vaccines for children between the ages of 15 and 18 years using the domestically produced Covaxin vaccine manufactured by Bharat Biotech. ](/feed/2022/01/3/india-begins-administering-covid-19-vaccines-for-children-between-the-ages-of-15-and-18-years-using-the-domestically-pro.md)
##### Evergrande liquidity crisis
### [Chinese property developer Evergrande Group suspends trading of its shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange ahead of a planned restructuring of the firm. ](/feed/2022/01/3/chinese-property-developer-evergrande-group-suspends-trading-of-its-shares-on-the-hong-kong-stock-exchange-ahead-of-a-pl.md)
##### Yemeni Civil War
### [Houthi forces capture a United Arab Emirates-flagged cargo ship, the "Rwabee", off Al Hudaydah, Yemen. The UAE government says that the vessel was carrying equipment from a closed coalition field hospital on Socotra while the Houthis say that the vessel was carrying military equipment. ](/feed/2022/01/3/houthi-forces-capture-a-united-arab-emirates-flagged-cargo-ship-the-rwabee-off-al-hudaydah-yemen-the-uae-governmen.md)
##### Somali Civil War
### [Six men are killed by suspected al-Shabaab militants in a village in Lamu County, Kenya, near the border with Somalia. ](/feed/2022/01/3/six-men-are-killed-by-suspected-al-shabaab-militants-in-a-village-in-lamu-county-kenya-near-the-border-with-somalia.md)
##### Syrian civil war
### [Five soldiers are killed and 20 more are injured during an Islamic State rocket attack on a military transport bus in the Syrian Desert. ](/feed/2022/01/3/five-soldiers-are-killed-and-20-more-are-injured-during-an-islamic-state-rocket-attack-on-a-military-transport-bus-in-th.md)
##### Colombian conflict
### [Clashes between the revolutionary far-left armed groups ELN and FARC dissidents in Arauca Department leave 23 people dead near Colombia’s border with Venezuela. ](/feed/2022/01/3/clashes-between-the-revolutionary-far-left-armed-groups-eln-and-farc-dissidents-in-arauca-department-leave-23-people-dea.md)
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