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The wide gap in vaccination rates between wealthy nations and lower-income countries helped open the door to the rise of the Omicron coronavirus variant, public-health officials say on.wsj.com/3rd0SFV

Travel bans and other snap defenses that countries threw up against omicron, the new Covid-19 variant, are buying time for scientists to answer key questions trib.al/GJNtibx

Thousands of women in Latin America marched against gender violence Thursday for International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women

Just when traders need a haven, Bitcoin takes a nosedive trib.al/139O0Bs

Atlanta Fed President Raphael Bostic played down the risk of a new Covid-19 variant to the U.S. economy and said he was open to scaling back asset purchases at a faster pace to keep inflation in check trib.al/RDNG8lW

This year, when picking out treasures for everyone on your list, choose a tone that’s anything but serious trib.al/hhytLM8

Argentina’s tech sector is a bright spot that’s adding jobs even as many companies shut down in a hostile environment of anti-business policies, high inflation and lack of access to international credit markets. trib.al/yVaPIhY

A plan to turn 2.5 million millennials into farmers by 2024 sounded like a big ask. But so far, the results look promising trib.al/eBhONsW

British Columbia has begun soliciting companies to help rebuild highways ravaged by one of the worst floods on record in the western Canadian province trib.al/pOOeLc4

How big a threat is Omicron? econ.st/3cUQDNU

GOP lawmaker Lauren Boebert apologized to Muslims for a joke casting Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar as a possible suicide bomber on.wsj.com/313x6YU

LOOK: Climate activists blockaded 13 Amazon fulfillment centers in the U.K. on Black Friday with the aim of disrupting the company's deliveries

Enbridge’s plan to keep its Mainline oil pipeline network full through long-term contracts was rejected by Canada’s top energy regulator in a win for some producers who want more flexibility to ship their crude trib.al/9T8PDrm

Canada follows other countries in banning foreign nationals from seven southern African nations, amid concerns about a new Covid-19 variant trib.al/Bs1siVe

The prospect of the freshly named Omicron variant of Covid derailing the world’s fight against the pandemic saw an early morning sell-off become a full-blown crash trib.al/5YaeQ6w

The season’s most popular gadgets have been selling out for months. But there are ways to get your hands on them—or smart alternatives—even this late in the game. on.wsj.com/3p2nVAj

As the coronavirus fades away in 2022, millions of people will still be troubled by symptoms of long covid. But hope is on the horizon econ.st/3oOJ7tE

A $2 billion startup fired its CEO in April, ostensibly because he took LSD before a meeting. The full story is more complicated trib.al/uNPShG9 @BW