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Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Saturday that the government will challenge the verdict in the apex court.

The Chinese government facilitated a 1,000-ventilator donation from billionaires Jack Ma and Joseph Tsai, the co-founders of the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, Cuomo said.

The 1,000-bed USNS Comfort, previously deployed to conflict and natural disaster zones, was sent to Manhattan to ease the strain on health centers in the city at the epicenter of America's outbreak by caring for patients other than those diagnosed with th...

The advice came as America logged another huge rise in its death toll -- almost 1,500 in one day -- and as new infections continued unabated.

According to an official report, 174 soldiers were killed in three attacks in the area in January and December.

Scientists said the vaccine described in the current study follows a more established approach, using lab-made pieces of viral protein to build immunity.

Due to 'severe shortages in the US blood supply' amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Food and Drug Administration relaxed rules that prevent some gay men from donating blood.

China, which appears to have curbed the epidemic through draconian travel and transport restrictions that paralysed the country and its economy for two months

In South Asia, the World Bank also approved $200 million for Pakistan, $100 million for Afghanistan, $7.3 million for Maldives and $128.6 million for Sri Lanka.

In a statement, authothorities in Shenzhen said that "dogs and cats as pets have established a much closer relationship with humans than all other animals".

Pearl, the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped and later beheaded in Karachi in 2002.

Central China’s Xian and Sichuan province’s Dazhou, recorded high divorce numbers early March, causing tedious backlogs at government offices, the report said.

On Monday, Saudi Arabia said it would increase exports further to a record 10.6 million barrels per day from May, deepening a global supply glut as crude recorded its biggest monthly and quarterly price plunges in history.

Tens of thousands of political prisoners are jailed in Iran, Syria and other countries around the Middle East, punished for anything from advocating for democracy and promoting women’s or workers’ rights to holding Islamist views.

Residents have been practising social distancing. Doctors are waiting for test kits to arrive from Taiwan. The government is building five isolation rooms that will be able to hold up to 14 patients.

Even in the best-case scenario, the region will see a sharp drop in growth, with China's expansion slowing to 2.3 percent from 6.1 percent in 2019, according to a report on the pandemic's impact on the region.