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A general view of the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, Friday, Oct. 21, 2022. Qatar has built eight stadiums for this World Cup and created an entire new city of Lusail where the final will be held. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed)

Qatar: No ‘white elephant’ legacy for World Cup stadiums

By Jerome Pugmire - Associated Press

FILE - Prince Harry and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, depart after attending a service of thanksgiving for the reign of Queen Elizabeth II at St Paul's Cathedral in London, June 3, 2022. Prince Harry won the first stage of a libel suit against the publisher of Britain’s Mail on Sunday newspaper as a judge ruled Friday, July 8 that parts of a story about his fight for police protection in the U.K. were defamatory. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali, file)

Britain’s Prince Harry to keynote Mandela day UN celebration

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

A rainbow forms in the mist at the top of the waterfalls in Murchison Falls National Park, northwest Uganda, on Feb. 22, 2020. The East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline, a controversial oil project that would connect oilfields in the park to a port in Tanzania is in breach of global environmental and human rights guidelines for banks, according to a new report by Inclusive Development International on Tuesday, July 5. (AP Photo)

Africa’s future generation has spoken

By Ivor Ichikowitz

A coffin is prepared to be taken to a symbolic funeral in Scenery Park, East London South Africa, Wednesday, July 6, 2022. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is to attend the funeral in East London Wednesday for 21 teenagers who died in a mysterious tragedy at a tavern almost two weeks ago. A large tent has been erected for the service expected to be attended by hundreds of grieving family members and residents of East London’s Scenery Park township. (AP Photo)

South African president decries deaths of 21 teens in tavern

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

Police forces drive to Elmau near Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany Monday, June 27, 2022. The G-7 leaders will begin Monday's session of their three-day summit with a focus on Ukraine. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Live updates | Erdogan adamant on Sweden, Finland NATO bids

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

A body is removed from a nightclub in East London, South Africa, Sunday June 26, 2022. South African police are investigating the deaths of at least 20 people at a nightclub in the coastal town of East London early Sunday morning. It is unclear what led to the deaths of the young people, who were reportedly attending a party to celebrate the end of winter school exams. (AP Photo)

Mystery over deaths of 21 teenagers at S African nightclub

By Gerald Imray - Associated Press

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, center, walks with South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa after the official welcoming ceremony at the Union Building in Pretoria, South Africa, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe)

German chancellor discusses Ukraine war in South Africa

By Mogomotsi Magome - Associated Press

FILE — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, right, heads a government delegation on a visit to ASPEN Pharmaceuticals in Port Elizabeth, South Africa March 29, 2021. The first factory to produce COVID-19 vaccines in Africa has announced on Thursday, Mar 12, 2022 that it has not received adequate orders and is planning to stop production within a few weeks, in what a senior World Health Organization official described as a &quot;failure&quot; in efforts to achieve vaccine equity. (AP Photo,file)

South African firm says it may close its COVID vaccine plant

By Andrew Meldrum and Maria Cheng - Associated Press

In this photo provided by violinist Vera Lytovchenko, she stands in a cellar with her violin in Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 4, 2022. She performs in a new online video called &quot;The Brave Ones&quot; with other artists from various nations, including the U.S., South Africa, Japan and Canada, to raise money for humanitarian aid for musicians in Ukraine. (Vera Lytovchenko via AP)

Musicians come together in video collaboration for Ukraine

By Yuri Kageyama - Associated Press

A view of the St. Petersburg Stadium prior to the Confederations Cup, Group A soccer match between Russia and New Zealand, Saturday, June 17, 2017. Russia has been stripped of hosting the Champions League final by UEFA with St. Petersburg replaced by Paris after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The men's final will still be held on May 28 but now at the 80,000-seat Stade de France after the decision by UEFA's executive committee. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, File) **FILE**

Russia suspended from international soccer over Ukraine war

By Graham Dunbar - Associated Press

An athlete practices behind a glass fence during a training session at the National Biathlon Center ahead of the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Too much ‘nationalism’ at the Olympics, the world says

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

FILE - Passengers stand at the Noerreport Metrostation in Copenhagen Denmark, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022. Denmark has become one of the first European Union countries to scrap most pandemic restrictions as the country no longer considers the COVID-19 outbreak “a socially critical disease.” Bit by bit, many countries that have been especially hard-hit by the coronavirus are easing their tough, and often unpopular, restrictive measures to fight COVID-19 even as the omicron variant — deemed less severe — has caused cases to skyrocket. (Liselotte Sabroe/Ritzau Scanpix via AP)

‘Take back life’: More nations ease coronavirus restrictions

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Pretoria, South Africa, March 21, 2003. When Tutu died Sunday, Dec. 26, 2021 at age 90, he was remembered as a Nobel laureate, a spiritual compass, a champion of the anti-apartheid struggle who turned to other global causes after Nelson Mandela, another moral heavyweight, became South Africa's first Black president. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Tutu: a man of empathy, moral ardor, and some silly jokes

By Christopher Torchia - Associated Press

A woman is comforted outside the historical home of Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa, Monday, Dec. 27, 2021. South Africa's president says Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and the retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, died Sunday at the age of 90. (AP Photo/Shiraaz Mohamed)

Cape Town bells toll to honor Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s life

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Pretoria, South Africa, Friday, March 21, 2003. Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights and retired Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, has died at the age of 90, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced. (AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)

Desmond Tutu, South African equality activist, dies at 90

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

A hospital bed is kept free for COVID-19 patients at the intensive care unit at the Westerstede Clinical Center, a military-civilian hospital in Westerstede, northwest Germany, Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. As hospitals across Europe brace themselves for a surge in coronavirus cases over the holiday season because of the new omicron variant, Westerstede Clinical Center is cautiously hopeful it can weather the storm. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Several studies find omicron less severe, leads to fewer hospitalizations

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Sandile Cele, a researcher at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, works on the omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021. South Africa's noticeable drop in new COVID-19 cases in recent days may signal that the country's dramatic omicron-driven wave has passed its peak, medical experts say. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay, File)

South Africa’s case drop may show omicron peak has passed

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

A man gets vaccinated against COVID-19 at a site near Johannesburg, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021 a day after South African President Cyril Ramaphosa tested positive receiving for mild COVID-19 symptoms after testing positive for the disease. Ramaphosa started feeling unwell Sunday and a test confirmed COVID-19. A statement said he has mild symptoms, is self-isolating in Cape Town and is being monitored by the South African Military Health Service. (AP Photo/Denis Farrell)

Pfizer jabs protect 70% against hospitalization from omicron

By Andrew Meldrum - Associated Press

Nurse Mary Ezzat prepares to administer a Pfizer COVID-19 booster shot. (Jeff Gritchen/The Orange County Register via AP)

Lab teams race to test vaccines’ strength against omicron variant

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Patients wait to receive a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot at a mobile vaccination station on 59th Street below Central Park, Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, in New York. Health officials say multiple cases of the omicron coronavirus variant have been detected in New York, including a man who attended an anime convention in Manhattan in late November and tested positive for the variant when he returned home to Minnesota. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

NYC to expand vaccine mandate to the private sector Dec. 27

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times