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In support of the cooperation project, Columbia University has set up a multidisciplinary team involving professionals in virology, molecular biology and chemistry who proposed four different new solutions to tame the pathogen, according to the source.

EU Council President Charles Michel, who met with EU leaders throughout the night trying to broker a compromise, has tabled a draft budget of 1.074 per cent of GNI.

IRNA reported that the three new cases are all Iranians residing in Qom, with one of the infected having visited the city of Arak.

Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, will no longer have an office at Buckingham Palace in London as they stop carrying out formal royal duties for Queen Elizabeth II from April 1, with the formal arrangements of the split to be assessed afte...

Mehak Kumari, a class 11 student, was allegedly abducted by Ali Raza Solangi who later married her. Her father filed an FIR, claiming that Solangi married her forcibly and she was 15-years-old when she was abducted.

The 'Chinese government's battle against the coronavirus has in no way diverted it from its ongoing general campaign to crush all dissenting voices,' said Patrick Poon, China researcher at Amnesty International, in an emailed statement.

It will be regarded as an unprecedented move if the NPC, which is held every year along with the advisory body Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), is postponed.

Yang Chen went missing Wednesday after her male walking partner lost sight of her at a waterfall in Tallebudgera, west of the popular Gold Coast in Queensland.

China's National Health Commission has confirmed 70,548 coronavirus cases and 1,770 deaths from the outbreak across the country, mostly in Hubei, as of Monday.

Eleven of the children were girls, said Nunan, head of OCHA's office for the Northwest and Southwest regions, which are home to the West African country's large English-speaking minority.

Two planes have been chartered to carry passengers back to the United States, with some staying at a military base in California and others going on to Texas.

Health and welfare minister Chen Shih-chung said the victim was an unlicensed taxi driver and his main clients were people who had been to China, Hong Kong and Macao.

Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena conveyed to US ambassador Alaina Teplitz Sri Lanka's strong objections on the imposition of travel restrictions by the US on Lt Gen Silva and his family.

In a tweet posted around 3 am, police described the location as a nightclub in Hartford's South End.

Social media companies that do not comply with the rules, dubbed anti-free speech by the opposition, risk being blocked online.

Senator Concette Fierravanti-Wells, who is also a senior member of the ruling conservative Liberal party and a former government minister, made the remarks while addressing the country’s Parliament on Tuesday.