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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

In this file photo taken on November 20, 2019 US ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland testifies during the House Intelligence Committee hearing in the impeachment inquiry into U.S. president Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (AFP)

Trump impeachment witnesses lose their jobs

Ambassador to EU Gordon Songland and security expert Lt Col. Alexander Vindman gave damning testimony against U.S....

8 Feb 2020 8:37 AM IST

U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo. (AFP)

US announces launch of International Religious Freedom Alliance

State Department official says US concerned about the situation in India

7 Feb 2020 6:53 PM IST

Photo: Imran Khan Instagram

Saudi hesitant about Pak's request for OIC meeting on Kashmir: Report

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan voiced frustration over the OIC's silence on Kashmir during his visit to Malaysia

7 Feb 2020 11:53 AM IST

Dr Li Wenliang posted this picture of himself in hospital on Weibo.

China virus crisis deepens as whistleblower doctor dies

Wuhan doctor Li Wenliang sounded the first alarm on the outbreak in December but was censured for 'rumour-mongering'

7 Feb 2020 11:29 AM IST

The entrance to the Washington State Patrol Fire Training Academy, designated as a 2019 novel coronavirus quarantine site for travellers from Hubei Province of China. AFP photo

Virus sparks Xenophobia: Petition to ban Chinese gets 5 lakh...

A health lecturer at the University of Sydney, said the responses from governments may have compounded prejudice

7 Feb 2020 11:13 AM IST

Democratic presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg (left) and Bernie Sanders. (File photo: AP)

Finally, results of Iowa Dem farce: Buttigieg, Sanders in a virtual...

Democratic party bosses call for a reexamination of the glitch-ridden vote

7 Feb 2020 9:48 AM IST

Travellers wearing protective face masks at the departure area of Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok.AFP photo

21 Kerala medical students stuck in Chinese airport

The students were told that except Singapore citizens, no foreign nationals from China could board the flight

6 Feb 2020 2:38 PM IST

An empty street is seen in Hangzhou, Shanghai in the wake of coronavirus. AFP photo

Shanghai cancels sporting events, Chinese GP may be called off

The last Formula One race to be cancelled was the Bahrain Grand Prix of 2011, due to months of social unrest in the Gulf...

6 Feb 2020 2:21 PM IST

A security guard checks the temperature of people entering Yu Park in Shanghai. AFP photo

Coronavirus death toll hits 563, number of cases surpass 28,000

Among the deceased, 70 were from Hubei Province and its provincial Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus outbreak

6 Feb 2020 11:29 AM IST

U.S. president Donald Trump delivers the State of the Union address in the chamber of the US House of Representatives at the US Capitol Building on February 4, 2020 in Washington, DC. (AFP)

President of the Pussy Grab Era: Five scandals that couldn't sink...

From sex scandal to misuse of office, political conventions fail to pierce the post-truth armour of the prez

6 Feb 2020 10:03 AM IST

Democratic presidential candidates Pete Buttigieg (left) and Bernie Sanders remained locked in a tight race in the Iowa Democratic Party caucus. (AP)

Buttigieg clings to narrow lead over Sanders in Iowa caucus

The Democrats' glitch-ridden first vote fails to throw up a clear candidate to take on Trump

6 Feb 2020 8:41 AM IST