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In a separate incident, another Rohingya man was killed early Monday during a gunfight with members of the Bangladesh Border Guards.

Staff representatives said Sunday they were demanding stepped up protective measures, including the provision of hand sanitising gel and glass barriers to separate cashiers from members of the public.

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says Monday in a special report on the impact of the virus that the world economy is still expected to grow overall this year and rebound next year.

The virus, officially known as COVID-19, has infected more than 86,000 people worldwide and caused more than 2,900 deaths since emerging in China.

Around 100 UK officials will be arriving in the EU hub Brussels for the first round of talks with the bloc's executive European Commission that are due to last until Thursday.

Turkey confirmed a full military operation against Russian-backed Syrian forces after dozens of Turkish soldiers were killed last week in an air strike blamed on Damascus.

After 18 years of war, the US and the Taliban signed an agreement on Saturday that paves the way for a 14-month timetable for the withdrawal of all foreign forces from Afghanistan.

Special commissioner for coronavirus, Angelo Borrelli, has suggested that Italians' demonstrative nature of friendly kissing could be contributing to the virus' spread.

The 94% average occupancy rate in Israeli hospitals is by far the highest in the developed world. The logjam extends throughout the system: Geriatric centers, rehab facilities and local health clinics are all overbooked.

The Southeast Asian nation was plunged into turmoil a week ago following the collapse of 94-year-old Mahathir's reformist 'Pact of Hope' alliance, which stormed to a historic victory in 2018 against a government mired in corruption allegations.

Muhyiddin Yassin took the oath of office at the national palace in Kuala Lumpur, capping a week of political turmoil following the collapse of the former ruling coalition and Mahathir's resignation.

The win was seen as crucial to Biden's hopes of challenging Bernie Sanders, for the spot on the Democratic ticket in November against Republican Donald Trump.

In the final days before a peace deal between the United States and the Taliban is expected to be signed, a battle-weary unit of the Afghan police finally has time for questions they once hardly imagined asking: Could there really be peace? What would tha...

The legal action against the approval was brought by various London councils, environmental groups including Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth, and London Mayor Sadiq Khan. They lost at an original hearing in May.

This would be the second visit of Prime Minister Khan to Qatar after taking office in 2018.

The UN health agency put the number of new cases in China at 411 on Tuesday and those registered outside the country stood at 427.