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The infected person is an elderly female who does not have a travel history and no known contact with an infected person. She does have other chronic health conditions.

In Europe, northern Italy now occupies third place on the list with 655 total confirmed cases from an outbreak that began in recent days.

The hyper-velocity gliding projectile is due to be operational as early as 2026.

The WHO reports there are now more new cases being recorded outside China than inside the country, where the deadly virus first emerged.

The Global Times, China’s state-run daily tabloid newspaper, said on Saturday that the People’s Liberation Army is purchasing 1.4 million units of body armor.

Rome’s Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told reporters, “We trust that we can quickly achieve a result of containment of the contagion from the coronavirus.”

When Sanders was asked whether there are situations he believed would warrant military action by the U.S., his response was "Absolutely.”

The movie is about a young filmmaker who becomes an activist and fighter. It is critical of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war that has resulted in what many allege are extra-judicial killings.

A think tank at Peking University named the South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative, issued a report that between Jan. 19 and 31, about 34 Vietnamese fishing boats sailed near the island of Hainan with some entering a 12 nautical mile territorial limit.

“Time to come home. They want to stop. You know, they’ve been fighting a long time. They’re tough people. We’re tough people. But after 19 years, that’s a long time,” the president said.

Malaysia has entered the fray in the South China Sea, but instead of it teaming up with another country against China, they seem to be directing their attention toward Vietnam.

A senior Pentagon official has warned that China’s military buildup over the last decade now poses a global threat and that the U.S. must prepare for possible military conflict with the Communist nation.

"These hard-working Australians have been hit by the recent bushfires, but from today they can employ backpackers for six months longer, helping them at a critical time in the recovery effort,” said Alan Tudge, Australia's acting minister for immigration.

The results show that anxiety levels are very high regardless of the number of Covid-19 cases in the country and a vast majority (about 84% on average) of those polled want a total ban on flights from mainland China.

A glimmer of good news is that outside Hubei, the rate of new cases has declined for 14 consecutive days. This could be due to the extreme measures that some have described as “draconian.”

WHO goes along with Beijing in withholding information on the coronavirus as Taiwanese doctors get sidelined at international crisis conferences and are excluded from receiving global medical mailouts.

During a routine check to make sure that its mobile radiation detection unit was working properly, the nuclear energy regulatory agency of Indonesia discovered an unusually high reading in a vacant lot near a housing complex.

Two months after the Covid-19 virus was first detected in Wuhan, the Chinese government is moving to “fast-track” a ban on the trade and consumption of wild animals. On February 24, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) will review the ban according to the Chinese official news agency Xinhua.

Filming their sexual encounter in a pagoda in Bagan and uploading it to a porn site soon caused considerable outrage in the predominantly Buddhist country.

Chinese professor Xu Zhangrun was placed under house arrest by authorities of the Chinese Communist government for his critique of President Xi Jinping’s leadership during the COVID-19 outbreak.

The Russians, Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, told the Associated Press that the prank call happened in December. The audio recording of the call to Sanders was posted on YouTube on Thursday.

Efforts are now underway to help rid the animal of its unwanted vulcanized necklace led by celebrity trappers and wranglers like Matthew Nicolas Wright and Chris Wilson who are directing an Indonesian team in setting up a trap in the river in the Palu River in the province of Central Sulawesi.

The woman, thought to be a Chinese nationalist who had recently traveled to London from China, was immediately given a face mask and transferred to the hospital’s special testing area.

The defense ministry said in a statement that they were “closely monitored.”

More heads may roll if the stock performance of ViacomCBS does not improve soon. It has lost 13.4% since the December merger.

The woman's brother-in-law said a search was underway on the ground and by helicopter and that there were two unsubstantiated sightings of her on the trail.

An undercover investigation found evidence of illegally stored plastic (including packaging produced by Italian companies), workers living inside factories and plastic being burned.

The ersatz advisory made it seem that the U.S. State Department had ordered its diplomatic mission in Manila to "cancel/revoke all current and existing B1 and B2 visas" of Filipino nationals effective Feb. 15.

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen simply commented that China should focus on controlling the virus rather than threatening Taiwan.