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The 27-year-old, who works in the southwest city of Chengdu, only realised something was amiss as the clock ticked midnight into the year of the rat on January 25.

As cases surge across Middle East and South Korea, WHO cautioned that while "we are still in a phase where containment is possible... our window of opportunity is narrowing."

Finalised on February 7, the new Air Force policy establishes clear grooming and uniform standards for enlisted and officer airmen who are granted accommodations based on their sincerely held religious beliefs.

The driver, a citizen of India who also entered illegally previously, was charged with alien smuggling, a felony, which carries a penalty of a fine and up to 5 years in prison for each violation.

Many Pakistani students and their families have expressed growing frustration as the death toll in China mounted, pointing to other countries, including neighbouring India and Bangladesh, evacuating their citizens from Wuhan city and Hubei province.

Public broadcaster NHK, citing a government source, said the passengers were a man and woman in their 80s.

The national nuclear regulator announced it has issued the operating license for the first of the plant's four reactors, opening the way for commercial operations to begin.

The source of a toxic gas leak in the area remained unclear on Tuesday as officials from the Sindh health department confirmed the death toll had risen to 14.

According to reports, more than 28,000 Pakistani students are currently in China, with over 500 of them studying in the city of Wuhan.

Chief Justice Athar Minallah of the Islamabad High Court took up the bail petitions of 23 workers of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement and Awami Workers Party, who were arrested by the Islamabad police last month for staging protest.

The study indicated that present-day West Africans trace a substantial proportion, some 2% to 19%, of their genetic ancestry to an extinct human species.

According to a study by Chinese researchers, each person who falls ill with coronavirus will infect 2.2 others on average.

Thousands of passengers and crew on the Diamond Princess -- the single largest cluster of infected people outside China -- face several days more of quarantine, with many taking to social media to voice their concerns.

There are 15 confirmed cases of the COVID-19 virus in Vietnam, five of them being in the Son Loi commune.

Alice Wells, former US Ambassador to Jordan, said the conviction is an important step forward -- both toward holding LeT accountable for its crimes.

The bombing took place near the government-run defence university, the Marshal Fahim Military Academy, at the beginning of the morning rush hour.