Published On: February 7, 2020 04:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
BEIJING, Feb 7: The deadly coronavirus outbreak in China could have spread from bats to humans through the illegal traffic of pangolins, the world’s only scaly mammals, which are prized in Asia for food and medicine, Chinese researchers said.
Published On: February 7, 2020 03:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIJING, Feb 7: A viral outbreak that began in China has infected more than 31,400 people globally.
Published On: February 7, 2020 03:00 PM NPT By: Associated Press
JAMMU, India, Feb 7: Indian authorities have arrested two former top elected officials of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir under a controversial law that allows authorities to imprison someone for up to two years without trial, officials said on Friday.
Published On: February 7, 2020 12:10 PM NPT By: Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Feb 7: President Donald Trump said Thursday that the U.S. at his direction has conducted a counter-terrorism operation in Yemen that killed Qassim al-Rimi, an al-Qaida leader who claimed responsibility for last year’s deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola, where a Saudi aviation trainee killed three American sailors.
Published On: February 7, 2020 11:47 AM NPT By: Reuters
BEIJING/SHANGHAI, Feb 7: Chinese President Xi Jinping assured U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday that China is doing all it can to contain a new corona-virus that has killed almost 640 people, including a doctor who sounded the alarm only to be threatened by police.
Published On: February 7, 2020 11:08 AM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIJING, Feb 7: Japan on Friday reported 41 new cases of a virus on a cruise ship that’s been quarantined in Yokohama harbor while the death toll in mainland China rose to 636, including a doctor who got in trouble with authorities in the communist country for sounding an early warning about the disease threat.
Published On: February 6, 2020 09:30 PM NPT By: Reuters
LONDON, Feb 6: An estimated 500,000 European Union nationals in Britain have yet to apply for a new immigration status, which most will need to remain in the country after Brexit.
Published On: February 6, 2020 08:59 PM NPT By: Reuters
ALGIERS, Feb 6: Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Thursday pardoned more than 6,000 prisoners, extending a process of clemency that has outdone in scale similar conciliatory gestures by his predecessors.
Published On: February 6, 2020 07:45 PM NPT By: Reuters
JERUSALEM/RAMALLAH, West Bank, Feb 6: At least two Palestinians were killed and 15 Israelis were hurt on Thursday in a string of incidents in Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank, where violence has risen after the U.S. announcement of its Middle East peace plan.
Published On: February 6, 2020 07:30 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIJING, Feb 6: China on Thursday finished building a second new hospital to isolate and treat patients of a virus that has killed more than 560 people and continues to spread, disrupting travel and people’s lives and fueling economic fears.