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“Thick columns of ash have turned several villages to darkness,” said Lumajang district head Thoriqul Haq.

Two Austrian men, ages 19 and 24, were among the victims.

“Those responsible must be held accountable,” 22 governments said in a joint statement.

“It may very well be that omicron is able to out-compete delta,” said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Locals in Nagaland have frequently accused forces of wrongly targeting innocent locals in their counterinsurgency operations against rebel groups.

New York was ranked America's priciest metropolis, coming in sixth in the annual ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

“When I uncovered the arm, I felt skin that was cold and gummy, and the color was too light,’’ said Filippa Bua, a nurse in the city of Biella.

“I hope that China’s leaders think very carefully about this and about not precipitating a crisis,” Blinken said.

Even as more states identify cases of the new variant, it's the hypertransmissible delta variant that's behind the majority of Covid-19 cases nationwide.

In partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network, NBC News’ Tom Llamas reports on how one of the world’s most important and diverse tropical rainforests is being ravaged for oil.

“It was typical IOC: take the Chinese Communist Party at its word despite all evidence to the contrary,” said Kelley Currie, former U.S. ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues .