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Gulf airports, including Dubai which is home to one of the world's biggest aviation hubs, said last week they would screen all passengers arriving from China amid the outbreak of the deadly virus.

The Democratic-led House on December 18 had impeached Trump on charges of abuse of power for his request that Ukraine investigate Joe Biden, a leading contender for the Democratic nomination to face him in this year's election

However, Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said that they were open to any serious effort for achieving peace

Mohsin Dawar was protesting in front of the National Press Club here against the arrest of Manzoor Pashteen, the chief of the rights-based alliance Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), when he was detained.

The newspaper's chief editor said he would not even 'dream of' poking fun at the situation in China, but that the issue was about different forms of cultural understanding.

Speaking at a news conference outside Epstein's New York mansion, US Attorney Geoffrey Berman, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, said prosecutors and the FBI had contacted Prince Andrew's lawyers and asked to interview him.

The White House meeting with Netanyahu and, separately, with his arch rival Benny Gantz, thrusts Trump right into Israel's tense election scheduled in just over a month.

His wife, who made the same trip with him, also is believed to have contracted the virus and has been placed in isolation.

Abdulqader al-Murtadha, the head of the Houthis' prisoners of war committee, said here that "these children were captured on the war fronts while fighting (alongside) government troops".

Organisers insist that Monday's memorial ceremony must focus above all on what survivors have to say rather than the bitter political feuds that have tainted the run-up to the anniversary.

The online protest by Amazon Employees for Climate Change targets the retail giant's enormous carbon footprint due to its reliance on fossil fuels to power the planes, trucks and vans that ship packages all over the world.

Tense relations with India would continue to consume much of Pakistan's strategic and diplomatic bandwidth, Islamabad Policy Institute said in its report 'Pakistan Outlook 2020: Politics, Economy & Security'.

In one incident on July 26, 2016, a Muslim couple were removed from a Delta flight at a Paris airport after a passenger told a flight attendant their behavior made her 'very uncomfortable and nervous'.

The new hospital will add 1,300 hospital beds, in addition to another new facility which is being built in Wuhan to deal with the outbreak -- reportedly within 10 days.

Pompeo, a close associate of Trump, has been accused of personally failing to defend Marie Yovanovitch, Washington's former ambassador to Ukraine who was abruptly called home last spring after being subjected to a smear campaign led by Rudy Giuliani, the...

Two UN experts this week called for the US to investigate a likely hack of Bezos' phone that could have involved Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.