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The new coronavirus strain, first discovered in the central city of Wuhan, has caused alarm because of its connection to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), which killed nearly 650 people across mainland China and Hong Kong in 2002-2003.

The organisation had named Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Quraishi as its new head just days after its previous leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in a raid by US special forces in October.

The Oxfam report said poor women and girls were at the bottom of the scale, putting in '12.5 billion hours of unpaid care work each and every day,' estimated to be worth at least $10.8 trillion a year.

The incident comes as the annual trekking season in Nepal, home to eight of the world’s 14 highest mountains including Mount Everest, is drawing to a close.

The queen's announcement is her second on the royal crisis — dubbed Megxit in honour of Britain's painful battle over Brexit — ahead of Harry and Meghan's effective resignation on March 8.

Railways Minister Sheikh Rashid said the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government will hold rallies in the country till February 5 to express solidarity with the Kashmiri people.

The court said the company now only is liable for punitive damages of USD 6.8 million, although the company still intends to appeal the decision.

The island is built to accommodate 100,000 people, just a fraction of the million Rohingya Muslims who have fled waves of violent persecution in their native Myanmar.

The transhipment of goods to Afghanistan through Gwadar port, which offers a much shorter overland link, particularly to southern regions of the war-torn nation, assumed significance as it is located close to Chabahar, the Iranian port being developed by...

The people were kidnapped on December 22 by militants posing as soldiers who stopped a convoy of commercial vehicles travelling towards the city of Maiduguri.

Harry and Meghan are in the middle of a storm after making their bombshell announcement last week, before they had discussed the plans with Queen Elizabeth II.

The overwhelmingly Kremlin-loyal State Duma lower parliament is likely to approve Mikhail Mishustin, Putin's pick for Russia's tax-chief. If Mishustin is appointed, he would have a week to propose a new government and ministers.

Former Afghan president Hamid Karzai said Pakistan's impact on Afghanistan is a 'lot greater' than any other country and Kabul must convey to Islamabad that close ties with New Delhi will not impact their relationship.

US District Judge Peter Messitte in Maryland said in his ruling that the president's order 'flies in the face of clear Congressional intent' of the 1980 Refugee Act by allowing state and local governments to block the resettlement of refugees in their jur...

Italian woman Francesca Di Giovanni, 66, will assume a newly-created post in a division known as the Section for Relations with States where she takes the rank of under-secretary, effectively one of two deputy foreign ministers.

The death toll from Monday's avalanches in Pakistan's Neelum Valley rose to 74, according to Pakistani officials, as rescuers continued to look for bodies.