Novel coronavirus named ‘Covid-19’: UN health agency

GENEVA, Feb 12 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The World Health Organisation said “Covid-19” would be the new official name for the deadly coronavirus that was first identified in China on Dec 31. “We now have a name for the disease and it’s Covid-19,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva,…

Iranians Mark 41st Anniversary Of Islamic Revolution

TEHRAN, Feb 12 (NNN-ISNA) – Hundreds of thousands of Iranians attended nationwide rallies on Tuesday, to celebrate the 41st anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution. In different cities, people swarmed to the streets, chanting anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli slogans. In Tehran, the demonstrators burned the U.S. and Israeli flags.…

World Grows Confident In China’s Victory Against Novel Coronavirus

BEIJING, Feb 12 (NNN-XINHUA) – A growing number of leaders from political parties around the world spoke highly of China’s progress against the coronavirus and expressed confidence in a timely victory against it. President of the Hungarian Workers’ Party, Gyula Thurmer, praised China for efficiently mobilising its human and medical…

Singapore tourism to take ‘significant hit’ in 2020 due to coronavirus, up to 30% fewer visitors expected

Recent travel restrictions on tourists from China – the largest source market – have battered businesses that rely on them, with some reporting a drop in sales of up to half SINGAPORE, Feb 11 (NNN-CNA) — The tourism sector will take a “significant hit”, with visitor arrivals estimated to fall…

G77, UN express full support for China’s efforts to contain novel coronavirus

UNITED NATIONS, Feb 11 (NNN-Xinhua) — The Group of 77 (G77) and the United Nations expressed full support for China’s fight against the novel coronavirus. The G77 expresses its full support to the comprehensive efforts made by the Chinese government to contain the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, and recognizes…

Two slain policemen honored in Thailand over weekend mass shooting

Suspected shooter Jakrapanth Thomma BANGKOK, Feb 11 (NNN-Xinhua) — Two anti-terrorism policemen who sacrificed their lives to end the mass shooting in Thailand’s northeastern province of Nakhon Ratchasima were received in a royally sponsored bathing ceremony in Bangkok. The bodies of Trakul Tha-asa and Petcharat Kamchadphai, both 35, were transported…

Philippines to terminate Visiting Forces Agreement with US

 The visiting forces agreement, signed in 1998, accorded legal status to thousands of US troops who were rotated in the Philippines MANILA, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Philippines has officially notified the United States about its termination of the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) between Manila and Washington, Philippines’s top diplomat…

Update: Coronavirus-hit Hubei reports fewest new confirmed cases in 9 days

Medical staff conducts medical test for a patient at a temporary hospital converted from “Wuhan Livingroom” in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province WUHAN (China), Feb 11 (NNN-Xinhua) — Central China’s Hubei Province, center of the novel coronavirus outbreak, reported 2,097 new confirmed cases and 103 new deaths on Monday, local…

At least five dead in suicide attack in Kabul: officials

KABUL, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A suicide attack rocked the Afghan capital Kabul early Tuesday killing at least five people, officials said, in what was the first major assault in the city in months. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, which comesafter nearly three months of relative calm…

13 Rohingyas die in trawler capsize in Bay of Bengal

COX’S BAZAR, Feb 11 (NNN-BSS) — At least 13 Rohingya people includingwomen and children died in a trawler capsize in the Bay of Bengal near theSaint Martin’s island Tuesday morning, police said. “The bodies of at least 13 Rohingyas were retrieved while 56 others rescuedalive after a Malaysia-bound trawler carrying…
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