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Dubai port operator DP World suspends staff travel to China

Published On: January 28, 2020 03:30 PM NPT By: Reuters

DUBAI, Jan 28: DP World, one of the world’s largest port operators, has suspended all staff travel to China until further notice due to the coronavirus outbreak there.

WHO chief says confident in China's ability to contain virus, urges calm

Published On: January 28, 2020 03:19 PM NPT By: Reuters

BEIJING, Jan 28: The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday he is confident in China’s ability to contain a new coronavirus that has killed 106 people and he called for calm, saying he did not think foreigners should be evacuated, Chinese media reported.

Germany confirms 1st case of new virus from China

Published On: January 28, 2020 02:56 PM NPT By: Associated Press

BERLIN, Jan 28: Authorities in Germany have confirmed the country’s first case of the new virus that emerged in central China.

Taliban repel Afghan forces' bid to reach U.S. plane crash site

Published On: January 28, 2020 02:35 PM NPT By: Reuters

KABUL, Jan 28: Afghan forces and Taliban fighters clashed in a central region where a U.S. military aircraft crashed, officials said on Tuesday, as the government tried to reach the wreckage site in a Taliban stronghold.

China counts 106 virus deaths as US, others move to evacuate

Published On: January 28, 2020 02:24 PM NPT By: Associated Press

BEIJING, Jan 28: China’s death toll from a new viral disease that is causing mounting global concern rose by 25 to at least 106 on Tuesday as the United States and other governments prepared to fly their citizens out of the locked-down city at center of the outbreak.

Current U.S. government is the worst in America's history: Iran president

Published On: January 28, 2020 01:41 PM NPT By: Reuters

DUBAI , Jan 28: The current U.S. government is the worst in the history of America, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live on state TV on Tuesday.

Trump lawyers raise defenses as pressure grows for witnesses

Published On: January 28, 2020 01:24 PM NPT By: Associated Press

WASHINGTON, Jan 28: President Donald Trump’s legal team is raising a broad-based attack on the impeachment case against him even as it mostly brushes past allegations in a new book that could undercut a key defense argument at his Senate trial.

Kazakhstan restricts visa regime for Chinese over virus

Published On: January 28, 2020 12:36 PM NPT By: Reuters

NUR-SULTAN, Jan 28: Kazakhstan will require medical certificates from Chinese citizens seeking visas and has stopped issuing electronic visas to them on arrival as a protective measure against the spread of a new coronavirus, deputy foreign minister Shukhrat Nuryshev said on Tuesday.

China virus death toll passes 100 as U.S., Canada issue travel warning

Published On: January 28, 2020 08:13 AM NPT By: Reuters

SHANGHAI, Jan 28: The United States warned against travel to China on Monday and Canada issued a more narrow travel warning as the death toll from the spreading coronavirus passed 100, with tens of millions stranded during the biggest holiday of the year and global markets rattled.

China's Li pledges medical reinforcements as virus toll hits 81

Published On: January 27, 2020 07:58 PM NPT By: Reuters

SHANGHAI, Jan 27: Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will “inspect and direct” efforts to control a virus outbreak in the central city of Wuhan and promised reinforcements, as provincial authorities faced accusations from the public of a failure to respond in time.