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Workers wearing protective suits prepare to disinfect a business establishment in Shanghai on February 9, 2020 with workers returning to work on Monday after the extended holiday due to the virus scare and the Lunar New Year. (AFP)

China stutters back to work as virus deaths soar

With toll topping 900, world health agency says there is concern about overseas cases

10 Feb 2020 8:31 AM IST

Hafiz Saeed (AP photo)

Pak court defers verdict against 26/11 mastermind Hafiz Saeed

The prosecution had produced some 20 witnesses in the Anti-Terrorism Court to testify against Hafiz Saeed and his close...

9 Feb 2020 12:47 PM IST

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Key Pakistani Taliban member killed In Afghanistan

Analysts have credited the fall to military offensives against the Taliban in the tribal areas of North Waziristan and...

9 Feb 2020 12:38 PM IST

People wearing masks, walk in a subway station, in Hong Kong. AP photo

Coronavirus can spread through direct transmission, aerosols

Coronavirus that traces its origin in the local seafood market of Wuhan, in central China, has killed 811 people,...

9 Feb 2020 12:26 PM IST

Benjamin Netanyahu (AP photo)

Israel drawing up map for West Bank annexations

Netanyahu said the area would include all Israeli settlements and the Jordan Valley

9 Feb 2020 11:56 AM IST

A nurse checks on a patient in the isolation ward for 2019-nCoV patients at a hospital in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province. The number of confirmed cases of the new virus has risen again in China. AP photo

Coronavirus deaths touch 811, but virus weakens

Warmer weather will reduce the ability of virus to spread and bring people out of enclosed spaces where they are more...

9 Feb 2020 11:38 AM IST

Armed commando soldiers rush people out of the Terminal 21 Korat mall in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020. A gunman described as a soldier angry over a financial dispute killed a few people and then went on a far bloodier rampage Saturday in northeastern Thailand, shooting as he drove to the busy mall where shoppers fled in terror. (AP)

Thai shooter shot dead after he killed 21 people in shopping mall

The shooter, a soldier armed with an assault rifle, holed himself up in a mall and posted updates on Facebook

9 Feb 2020 9:02 AM IST

In this photo made available by the Crime Suppression Division of the Royal Thai Police, people are seen heading to an exit of the Terminal 21 Korat mall guarded by armed police in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, Saturday, February 8, 2020.(AP)

Thai soldier kills 20 shoppers in mall

Killer posts Facebook updates as he carries out carnage with assault rifle

9 Feb 2020 12:56 AM IST

File photo shows a helicopter drops water on a fire near Bumbalong, south of the Australian capital,Canberra. AP photo

Rains dampen bushfires in Australia

The heavy rainfall across NSW and Victoria state on Friday was something of a welcome surprise after the Bureau of...

8 Feb 2020 4:13 PM IST

Japan cruise ship Diamond Princess (ANI photo)

No Indian on quarantined Japan ship tested positive for coronavirus

As many as 61 of some 3700 people onboard the vessel have tested positive for the new strain of coronavirus

8 Feb 2020 11:35 AM IST

US pledged $100 million for China to fight Coronavirus

Monetary support and the relief material is a testimony of strong US leadership, says Pompeo

8 Feb 2020 11:25 AM IST

Flowers are placed near a photo of the late Dr. Li Wenliang at a hospital in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province on Friday, February 7, 2020. As the number of confirmed cases of the new coronavirus rose again in China Saturday, the ruling Communist Party faced anger and recriminations from the public over the death of the doctor who was threatened by police after trying to sound the alarm about the disease over a month ago. (AP)

China authorities feel the heat of public anger as virus toll reaches...

Communist Party strikes a remorseful note over death of whistleblower doctor

8 Feb 2020 9:24 AM IST