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Rescuers pull dozens from rubble as Turkey quake death toll hits 31
Published On: January 26, 2020 03:25 PM NPT By: Reuters
ELAZIG, Turkey, Jan 26: Rescue teams working through the night in sub-zero temperatures pulled 45 people from collapsed buildings, Turkey’s disaster authority said on Sunday, as the death toll from a powerful earthquake in the country’s east rose to 31.
Heavy rains dampen fires in Australia's Queensland state, cause flooding
Published On: January 26, 2020 10:18 AM NPT By: Reuters
MELBOURNE, Jan 26: Australia’s bushfire-stricken state of Queensland saw heavy rainfalls on Sunday dampening some of the fires that have razed 2.5 million hectares (1.2 million acres) of land since September, but the wet weather caused major flooding.
Hong Kong Disneyland and Ocean Park to be closed from Sunday to help prevent spread of virus: CCTV
Published On: January 26, 2020 10:14 AM NPT By: Reuters
SHANGHAI, Jan 26: Hong Kong’s popular amusement parks Disneyland and Ocean Park are closed from Jan. 26 to help prevent the spread of a deadly coronavirus that broke out in the Chinese city Wuhan, state media CCTV reported on Sunday.
More than 2,000 now infected with coronavirus; 56 dead in China
Published On: January 26, 2020 09:56 AM NPT By: Reuters
SHANGHAI, Jan 26: More than 2,000 people globally have been infected with a new coronavirus, the vast majority of them in China, where 56 people have died from the disease, according to figures released on Sunday.
China virus death toll rises to 41, more than 1,300 infected worldwide
Published On: January 25, 2020 02:10 PM NPT By: Reuters
BEIJING, Jan 25: The death toll from China’s coronavirus outbreak jumped on Saturday to 41 from 26 a day earlier as the Lunar New Year got off to a gloomy start, with authorities curbing travel and cancelling public gatherings.
Death toll up to 20 after strong earthquake jolts eastern Turkey
Published On: January 25, 2020 12:36 PM NPT By: Reuters
ELAZIG, TurkeyJan 25: A powerful earthquake struck eastern Turkey late on Friday, killing at least 20 people and collapsing buildings in towns near the center of the tremor, which was strong enough to be felt in several neighboring countries.
WHO expects coronavirus cases to rise in China
Published On: January 24, 2020 05:45 PM NPT By: Reuters
GENEVA, Jan 24: Cases of the new coronavirus are likely to continue to rise in China and it is too soon to evaluate its severity, a spokesman for the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
Some see end to caravans as Mexican guardsmen stop migrants
Published On: January 24, 2020 03:53 PM NPT By: Associated Press
FRONTERA HIDALGO, Mexico, Jan 24: From the roadside stand where his family sells mole, barbecue and chicken stew, Miguel Ángel Vázquez has seen all the caravans of Central American migrants and asylum seekers stream past his front door in recent years, throngs of people driven to flee poverty and violence in hopes of a better life in the United States.
China building 1,000-bed hospital over the weekend to treat coronavirus
Published On: January 24, 2020 03:37 PM NPT By: Reuters
BEIJING, Jan 24: The Chinese city of Wuhan is rapidly building a new 1,000-bed hospital to treat victims of a new corona-virus, mobilizing machinery to get it ready by early next week, state media said.
'No, No America': Thousands of Iraqis rally against U.S. military presence
Published On: January 24, 2020 03:20 PM NPT By: Reuters
BAGHDAD, Jan 24: Thousands of Iraqis rallied at two central Baghdad intersections on Friday after a prominent cleric called for a “million strong” protest against the American military presence, following the U.S. killing of an Iranian general and an Iraqi militia chief.
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