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-- 2020-02-07 19:26:33
A Chinese doctor who was reprimanded for warning against a "SARS-like" coronavirus before it was officially recognised died of the virus on Friday, triggering a wave of mourning in China and rare onli...
-- 2020-02-07 18:55:12
The world is facing a chronic shortage of gowns, masks, gloves and other protective equipment in the fight against a spreading coronavirus epidemic, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Gheb...
-- 2020-02-07 18:51:50
Finland's new government has announced plans to give all parents the same parental leave, in a push to get fathers to spend more time with their children. Paid allowance will increase to a combined 1...
-- 2020-02-07 18:35:52
Iran will soon disclose new information about the missile attack it carried out against a US base in Iraq last month, the ISNA news agency on Friday reported Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Guards' aer...
REUTERS 2020-02-07 14:11:09
Britain’s ambassador to Tehran has returned to Iran, he announced in an online posting on Thursday, after his departure last month following a brief arrest by Iranian security forces fuelled spe...
-- 2020-02-07 12:49:41
A 25-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly raping a five-year-old girl on the premises of the US embassy in the Indian capital, Delhi. The man was arrested on Sunday after the child's parent...
REUTERS 2020-02-07 11:59:37
Chinese president Xi Jinping assured US president Donald Trump on Friday that China is doing all it can to contain a new coronavirus that has killed almost 640 people, including a doctor who sounded t...
REUTERS 2020-02-07 11:14:43
A Chinese doctor who tried to warn the world about a new coronavirus died of the disease on Friday, prompting an outpouring of sorrow as the death toll passed 630 and Beijing declared a “people&...
-- 2020-02-07 00:22:49
Weddings don't always go exactly to plan, but as coronavirus infections continue to rise, one celebration went ahead without the bride and groom, reports BBC. Singapore couple Joseph Yew and his wife...
REUTERS 2020-02-06 14:24:41
Indian prime minister Narendra Modi and his party this week face their first electoral test since deadly anti-government protests erupted nearly two months ago, with the divisive turmoil likely to win...
REUTERS 2020-02-06 11:49:15
Drugmakers racing to find a vaccine or effective treatment for the deadly new coronavirus in China cautioned that they have a long way to go. That runs counter to reports of a supposed “breakth...
Reuters 2020-02-06 11:44:13
A Pegasus Airlines plane flying into Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport skidded off the end of the wet runway and broke into three pieces after landing on Wednesday, killing three people and injur...
-- 2020-02-06 11:20:16
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said he hopes a free trade deal with Australia will be one of the first agreements secured now that Britain has left the European Union. Britain formally left t...
-- 2020-02-06 11:07:58
Bangladesh and Italy have agreed to strengthen mutual cooperation for economic development of the two countries. The decision came in a bilateral meeting between prime minister Sheikh Hasina and her...
-- 2020-02-06 10:59:22
The death toll from a new coronavirus in mainland China jumped by 73 to 563 on Thursday, its third consecutive record daily rise, as experts intensified efforts to find a vaccine for a disease that ha...
REUTERS 2020-02-06 10:52:57
Former US vice president Joe Biden vowed on Wednesday to go on fighting for the Democratic presidential nomination despite what he called the “gut punch” he took in Iowa, where partial res...
Reuters 2020-02-06 10:11:51
US President Donald Trump was acquitted on Wednesday in his US Senate impeachment trial, saved by fellow Republicans who rallied to protect him nine months before he asks voters in a deeply divided Am...
-- 2020-02-05 20:55:38
The World Health Organization played down media reports on Wednesday of "breakthrough" drugs being discovered to treat people infected with the new coronavirus, which is causing an epidemic in China a...
Reuters 2020-02-05 13:19:23
A bitter feud between US President Donald Trump and top Democrat Nancy Pelosi boiled over at his State of the Union speech on Tuesday (US time), with Trump denying her a handshake and Pelosi ripping a...
Reuters 2020-02-05 10:59:59
The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in China passed 490 on Wednesday, as two US airlines suspended flights to Hong Kong following the first fatality there and 10 cases were confirmed on a quara...
-- 2020-02-05 00:27:03
The U.S. military has deployed a new addition to its nuclear arsenal - a long-range missile armed with a nuclear warhead of reduced destructive power, reports AP. The so-called low-yield missile join...
-- 2020-02-04 17:53:28
Belgium has reported its first case of a new virus in a person who was repatriated from the Chinese epicenter of the outbreak. The health ministry said Tuesday the person was in good health and does...
-- 2020-02-04 17:24:34
The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has expressed optimism that justice will finally be done to Rohingyas though this is going to be a long, hard and challenging pro...
-- 2020-02-04 13:14:29
A total of 26 people were killed in recent attacks in Nigeria’s central Plateau State, local police said Monday. Up to 190 houses were damaged or destroyed following the attacks by unknown gunm...
REUTERS 2020-02-04 13:07:36
Myanmar has reimposed an internet shutdown in two conflict-torn western states, after partially lifting the blackout five months ago, a leading telecoms operator said late on Monday. Norwegian mobile...
-- 2020-02-04 13:01:28
Australia suspended parliament on Tuesday to honor the victims of a national bushfire crisis that has killed 33 people, as more than 100 fires remained ablaze across the country’s east coast. P...
BBC 2020-02-04 11:25:45
China's top leadership has admitted "shortcomings and deficiencies" in the country's response to the deadly coronavirus outbreak. The rare admission came from the Politburo Standing Committee, which...
Reuters 2020-02-04 11:19:30
Fourteen children were killed in a stampede as they rushed down a staircase at the end of classes at a primary school in western Kenya on Monday, officials said. At least 39 more pupils were badly hu...
REUTERS 2020-02-04 10:08:07
China said it would welcome assistance from the United States to fight a coronavirus outbreak, a day after it accused Washington of scaremongering, and as the death toll rose on Tuesday by a new daily...
AP 2020-02-03 19:59:17
Chinese scientists say they have more evidence that the new virus that recently emerged in China likely originated in bats. In two papers published Monday in the journal Nature, scientists report that...
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