He was best known for creating and directing the U.N.’s peacekeeping operations in conflict-filled areas around the world.

Officials said all the victims were ethnic Hazaras, a Shiite minority group that Sunni extremists have often targeted.

The killing of Agitu Ideo Gudeta, a successful business owner from Ethiopia who raised goats and made cheese, has resonated across the country. The police say a farmhand was responsible.

The approvals, which include a shot developed by Bharat Biotech, an Indian pharmaceutical company, begin a vast campaign to inoculate the hard-hit nation’s 1.3 billion people.

The police broke up a New Year’s party in Lieuron, France, that brazenly flouted the country’s coronavirus restrictions. About 2,500 people attended the 36-hour rave, held in two warehouses.

He died after two weeks in a Richmond hospital.