Rome, Jan 31 (IANS/AKI) The Italian government on Friday declared a six-month state of emergency a day after the deadly coronavirus was diagnosed in two visiting Chinese tourists and the UN World Health Organisation declared…
Moscow, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the Middle East and Ukraine during a phone call, the Kremlin said on Friday. The leaders discussed implementing the agreements reached…
London, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) The UK on Friday confirmed the country’s first cases of the deadly novel coronavirus after two people were tested positive for the disease. Chris Whitty, the chief medical officer for England,…
Beijing, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak, that has killed 213 people and infected nearly 10,000 others in China alone, as a global health emergency since the…
Washington, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has said that the deadly coronavirus outbreak in China, that has so far killed 213 people and infected nearly 10,000 people in the Asian giant, could…
London, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Around three million of the new 50 p Brexit coins will go into circulation from Friday, ahead of the UK’s departure from the European Union (EU) later in the night. Another…
London, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will hail the “dawn of a new era” at 11 p.m. on Friday when the UK will leave the European Union (EU). Bonds dating back to…
By Arul Louis New York, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) US President Donald appeared to be set for an early acquittal after a key fence-sitting Republican Senator declared that he will not vote to call more witnesses…
Islamabad, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Pakistan on Friday halted flights to and from China with immediate effect, as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in China rose to 213, prompting the WHO to declare it…
Hong Kong, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Online orders placed by Hong Kong residents for surgical masks to protect themselves against the deadly novel coronavirus, have been cancelled, as overseas suppliers reported a lack of supply, it…
Canberra, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Authorities on Friday declared a state of emergency in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), which includes Canberra, over a bushfire that is threatening to spread to the southern suburbs of the…
Washington, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Five Indian asylum seekers have been on a hunger strike for 90 days at a detention centre in the US state of Louisiana, a media report said. Each of the men…
Washington, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Indian-American community members in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area have planned to hold a sit-in Satyagraha in front of Mahatma Gandhi statue at the Indian Embassy in the US capital on…
Dubai, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Two Indian sailors were killed and several others were reported missing after a Panamanian-flagged tanker caught fire off the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) coast, the government here announced. The UAE Federal…
Colombo, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sri Lanka’s GDP is expected to grow over 4 per cent in 2020, the country’s Central Bank said on Friday. Central Bank Deputy Governor Nandala Weerasinghe said the current forecast of…
By Arul Louis New York, Jan. Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) US President Donald appeared to be set for an early acquittal after a fence-sitting Republican Senator declared that he will not vote to call more witnesses…
Washington, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) The US economy expanded at a moderate 2.3 per cent clip in 2019, down from a 2.9 per cent growth rate the previous year and the slowest since President Donald Trump…
Washington, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) US President Donald Trump has announced the formation of a Task Force to lead the government’s response to the novel coronavirus outbreak, which has so far killed 213 people in China,…
Seoul/Tokyo, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) Evacuees from the Chinese city of Wuhan, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus that has killed 213 people in the country, arrived in South Korea and Japan on charter flights on…
Washington, Jan 31 (SocialNews.XYZ) The US government announced that it has imposed sanctions on the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) and its head, while renewing waivers allowing foreign companies to continue work at Iranian…