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Kim Kyong Hui and her husband were once a power couple that formed a kind of regency in the political world of the North behind its young and mercurial leader, who succeeded his father in December 2011.

Police suspect Russian trade officials at Moscow's mission in Tokyo were involved in espionage. The reports added that the police have asked the Russian embassy to present two officials to the authorities.

Northern Rakhine was the site of a violent military campaign in 2017 that drove some 740,000 Rohingya into Bangladesh and prompted allegations of genocide.

Germany was hardest hit, with an estimated $30 billion in losses, followed by France, taken for about $17 billion. Smaller sums were drained away from Spain, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Norway, Finland, Poland and others.

Transportation was shut down in Wuhan, the city of 11 million at the epicenter of the outbreak, and in at least 12 other cities in central China's Hubei province, encompassing a population bigger than that of New York, London, Paris and Moscow combined.

In addition, about 770 million adults are illiterate, most of them women, Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed told the UN General Assembly on the International Day of Education.

The sensational claim comes days after Amazon CEO's much publicised visit to India with his girlfriend. The photos of the couple posing in front of Taj Mahal in Agra had gone viral on social media.

The deadly viral outbreak in China has now killed 41 people, while the number of infected cases has soared to nearly 1,300, authorities said Saturday.

Police described the incident as a “building explosion” and warned all traffic to avoid the area in the northwest of the city.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the new coronavirus an emergency for China on Thursday, but stopped short of declaring the epidemic of international concern.

Ri Son Gwon replaced Ri Yong Ho, a career diplomat with broad experiences who had taken part in nuclear negotiations with the United States since early 2018.

Ambassador James Jeffrey, the US special envoy for Syria and the coalition against the Islamic State said there has been 'no real engagement' between the countries as of now.

The mainly Muslim African nation of The Gambia brought the case against Myanmar after 740,000 Rohingya fled over the border into Bangladesh, carrying accounts of widespread rape, arson and mass killings.

High temperatures and strong winds fuelled an outbreak of new blazes across several areas in eastern Australia on Thursday, ending a period of respite following several days of rains and cooler weather.

Senior US diplomat Alice Wells said that there was no transparency in the CPEC projects and Pakistan's debt burden was growing due to the Chinese financing.

Public Health England also raised the risk level of an infection from "very low" to "low" due to the potential for human to human transmission.