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A study last week reported that a coronavirus patient in the US was found to show an improvement after taking Remdesivir, an antiviral drug developed by Gilead Sciences to treat the virus.

Chile was hit by a wave of unrest last year as people angry at inequality and shabby social services took to the streets.

Gerard Fesch approached the Constitutional Council for a change in law to allow for a posthumous reprieve for his father Jacques Fesch, who became a devout Christian in jail.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy acknowledged the recording's authenticity in a report aired by a Ukrainian television channel on Sunday night.

In Beijing, neighbourhoods have sealed themselves off — some with homemade barriers — to force visitors or anyone returning home from the holiday to register their travel history.

Lawmaker Birodh Khatiwada, from Makawanpur district, proposed the motion, which got support from 45 others lawmakers of the party in the House of Representatives.

Bangladesh foreign minister AK Abdul Momen, however, said that the move does not bar Chinese nationals from applying for a Bangladeshi visa.

More than 300 people have died from the novel coronavirus in mainland China and although more than 100 people have been infected outside the country, Mexico has not reported a confirmed case.

Its comments came as the WHO held a meeting to determine whether to declare the outbreak, which has killed 170 people and infected more than 7,700 people in China, as well as around 100 people across more than a dozen other countries, a global emergency.

Local conservation authorities have been trying — and failing — for several years to find a way to untangle the croc after video showed it gasping for air. That sparked worries the tyre was slowly killing the beast.

The cash giveaway immediately drew harsh criticism from Democrats, who said paying off potential voters was a desperate tactic.

The EU and the US imposed economic sanctions on Russia after the annexation and refuse to recognise Moscow's authority over the region.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government was working hard to get British nationals back from Wuhan.

Seeking to contain the spread of the coronavirus by reducing personal contact, Taiwan's China Airlines said it was encouraging passengers to bring their own drinks bottles and would limit re-usable items by replacing them with disposables.

Taranjit Sandhu, who is currently India's High Commissioner to Sri Lanka, is expected to take up the new assignment of serving as an US convoy shortly.

Sobbing at times, the woman described how Harvey Weinstein turned a friendly meeting at his Manhattan apartment in June 2006 into a terrifying ordeal that had her contemplating escape plans as he forcibly performed oral sex on her.