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The death toll in China's coronavirus outbreak rose to 811 on Sunday, while over 37,000 people have been confirmed as being infected with the virus that is wreaking havoc in China and has spread to more than 25 countries.

The visit, beginning February 7, will be the Rajapaksa senior's first overseas visit since his brother Gotabaya was elected President in November.

The protest took place on the eve the voting day for Trump's impeachment trial, which will foreseeably absolve him from his charges.

An arrest warrant for the first lady was issued the day she fled the country after she refused to report to police for questioning in connection with the murder of Prime Minister Thomas Thabane's former wife, Lipolelo.

This was the first time since 2016 that there was no Tamil national anthem at the Independence Day celebrations in the country.

Iowa state's Democratic Party said the holdup in publishing the election outcome was a "reporting issue" while the US media reports blamed a new app used by the party.

It was after returning home that Shahzaib Ali Rahuja, a petroleum engineering student at a Chinese university situated around 1,000 kms from Wuhan, developed a fever and cough and took some medicines but when his nose started to bleed we rushed him to the...

Earlier, Pakistani students were seen appealing for help and crying to be evacuated after its authorities refused to so.

Television footage showed images of several quarantine officers entering the Diamond Princess cruise ship at the port of Yokohama on Monday evening to check the health of all 2,500 passengers and 1,000 crew members.

The Metropolitan Police said Sudesh Mamoor Faraz Amman, a 20-year-old British national with extended family in Sri Lanka, had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS).

Officials in Wuhan have been criticised for withholding information about the outbreak until the end of last year, despite knowing about the new illness weeks earlier.

The hashtag "save the pets left behind in Wuhan" became the third-most searched term on the Twitter-like Weibo platform on Monday, receiving millions of views from those unable to return to the city, where the virus is believed to have originated, and oth...

Jens Holm and Hakan Svenneling, who are both members of Sweden's Left Party, said Monday that Thunberg has worked hard to make politicians open their eyes to the climate crisis.

Bangladesh foreign minister AK Abdul Momen, however, said that the move does not bar Chinese nationals from applying for a Bangladeshi visa.

The appeal came as the death toll from the new coronavirus soared to 259 and the total number of cases neared 12,000 nationwide.

Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome -- which also began in China -- killed almost 800 people worldwide in 2002-03, with the Chinese government drawing condemnation for attempting to cover up the outbreak.