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Of the new deaths, 103 were in the province of Hubei, including 67 in the provincial capital of Wuhan.

Bilawal Bhutto, 31, will be quizzed on the transactions of a company -- JV Opal 225 -- which is a venture between the Zardari Group Pvt. Ltd - and a real-estate business. Bhutto is a director of Zardari Group.

Pakistan had earlier said that Pakistani students should not be evacuated from Wuhan as medical facilities back home do not meet the standards required to treat coronavirus patient.

Indians lead the category of UK visas granted to skilled professionals from outside the EU, with 56,241 such Tier 2 visas granted over the previous year. That figure is expected to rise following the changes.

The Starliner's December 20 mission, an uncrewed test flight, was ended early when it failed to engage its thrusters on time, due to a previously reported faulty timer.

Manish Shah assaulted 23 women and a 15-year-old girl while working in London and was described by the sentencing judge as a "master of deception who abused his position of power".

A total of 636 people have died, mostly in central Hubei province and its capital Wuhan, due to the virus with the total number of confirmed cases jumping to 3,143 as of Thursday, Chinese officials announced on Friday.

The genome sequence of the novel coronavirus strain separated from pangolins in the study was 99% identical to that from infected people, China's official Xinhua news agency reported.

The report also claimed that confirmed cases were 1,54,023, ten times the official figure, while the number of cured cases was only 269 as opposed to the 300.

The US president said he had been put through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people, who did everything possible to destroy him and the nation.

Guaido, whom the United States and more than 50 other countries recognize as Venezuela's acting president, is seeking renewed international support for his push to oust President Nicolas Maduro.

British Airways plane was waiting to take off when a shocked passenger said he had found a gun in the toilet, causing a commotion.

The House speaker's gesture at the very end encapsulated the seething atmosphere in the Capitol throughout Trump's one hour and 18 minutes speech.

Hong Kong’s beleaguered public hospital network was suffering from staff shortages and limited hospital beds before the coronavirus outbreak.

The blazes in Australia since September have destroyed about 2,500 homes, killed an estimated 1 billion native animals and threatened the habitats of many more.

The Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) said in a report that these countries had focused their limited resources on combating infectious diseases and improving maternal and child health instead of fighting cancer.