KABUL, Jan. 14, 2022 (UNI/Xinhua) -- Local people stand at the site of a blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, Jan. 13, 2022. A blast rocked Police District 4 in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday and caused no loss of life, police official Mawlawi Saad said.

WASHINGTON, D.C., Jan. 14, 2022 (UNI/Xinhua) -- A medical worker takes a nasal swab sample for COVID-19 testing in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Jan. 13, 2022. A new ensemble forecast from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) predicted that more than 62,000 more people could die from COVID-19 over the next four weeks.

NUR-SULTAN, Jan. 14, 2022 (UNI/Xinhua) -- Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev (R) meets with Stanislav Vas, secretary general of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, Jan. 12, 2022. The peacekeeping forces of the CSTO have begun the handover of socially significant facilities to Kazakh law enforcement agencies, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday. According to the ministry, the peacekeeping units that have completed their assigned tasks started to prepare equipment for returning to their permanent deployment locations.