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(Photo by ALEJANDRO PAGNI / AFP) (Photo by ALEJANDRO PAGNI/AFP via Getty Images)"/> </div> <h2 class=""> COVID: Have we reached the peak of omicron infections? <span class="date">12.01.2022</span> </h2> <p>Omicron may infect 60% of the world's population by mid-March. That may mean global infections of 5 million per day. </p> </a> </div> </div> <div class="col1" data-id="60396659"> <div class="news"> <a href="/web/20220113131853/https://www.dw.com/en/what-to-expect-from-europe-asean-relations-in-2022/a-60396659"> <div class="teaserImg"> <img loading="lazy" itemprop="image" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220113131853im_/https://static.dw.com/image/58741751_301.jpg" title="Foreign ministers pose for a family pictures during a EU-ASEAN Ministerial meeting at the European Union (EU) headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, on January 21, 2019. 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(Photo by John THYS / AFP) (Photo credit should read JOHN THYS/AFP via Getty Images)"/> </div> <h2 class=""> What to expect from Europe-ASEAN relations in 2022 <span class="date">12.01.2022</span> </h2> <p>One of the EU's tests for 2022 will be convincing Southeast Asian countries that it can be a more rounded partner and not just a financier of ASEAN projects. </p> </a> </div> </div> <div class="col1" data-id="60299904"> <div class="news"> <a href="/web/20220113131853/https://www.dw.com/en/germanys-olaf-scholz-urges-unity-in-first-new-years-address/a-60299904"> <div class="teaserImg"> <img loading="lazy" itemprop="image" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20220113131853im_/https://static.dw.com/image/60299686_301.jpg" title="Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz (SPD) steht bei der Aufzeichnung seiner Neujahrsansprache für das Jahr 2022 für die Fotografen im Bundeskanzleramt. SPERRFRISTEN: Zeitungen: Frei für Freitagszeitungen, 31. 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