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Chinese students fleeing virus face uneasy reception back home

World currently ‘not in a pandemic’ of China virus: WHO

9:02 pm February 4, 2020

Geneva: The World Health Organization said Tuesday that the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus, which has spread from China to two dozen countries, does not yet constitute a “pandemic”. “Currently we are not in a pandemic,” Sylvie Briand, head of WHO’s Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness division, told reporters in Geneva. Instead, she said, “we […]

Lufthansa terminates services of 103 India-based flight attendants

Lufthansa extends China flight ban as virus toll climbs

11:35 pm February 3, 2020

Frankfurt am Main: Germany’s flagship carrier Lufthansa on Monday said it was suspending all flights to and from mainland China for longer than initially announced, as the death toll from the novel coronavirus climbed past 360. The Lufthansa group last week said it was halting its China flights until February 9, including those run by […]

Turkey vows to expand anti-PKK operations in northern Iraq

30-35 Syrian troops killed in Turkish counter-fire: Erdogan

3:41 pm February 3, 2020

Istanbul: Turkey has killed dozens of Syrian forces in retaliatory fire after four of its soldiers died in shelling on positions in the northwest of the country, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. “There is an ongoing operation right now and… according to initial findings around 30 to 35 Syrians on the other side […]

Uttarakhand flood:French President Macron expresses solidarity with India

France’s Macron sets sights on mending ties with Poland

3:19 pm February 1, 2020

Warsaw: French President Emmanuel Macron will pay his first visit to Poland on Monday in a bid to mend ties strained over Warsaw’s controversial judicial reforms and its position on EU climate goals. Controversial judicial reforms have put Poland’s right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) government on a collision course with Brussels over rule of […]

44-yr-old Coronavirus: NDA suspends large gatherings, expeditionsgaon resident tests positive of coronavirus

China ambassador says no need for ‘unnecessary panic’ over virus

9:07 pm January 31, 2020

Geneva: China is decisively working to control the deadly outbreak of the novel coronavirus, its ambassador in Geneva said Friday, insisting there was no need for countries impose “excessive measures” like border closures. “There is no need for unnecessary panic, and no need for excessive measures,” Ambassador Chen Xu told reporters in Geneva.