Coronavirus death toll in China rises to at least 106

China reported 25 more deaths in its coronavirus outbreak on Tuesday, bringing the death toll to at least 106.

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Coronavirus: Countries that are evacuating nationals from China's virus areas

Countries around the world are planning to evacuate diplomatic staff and private citizens from Chinese areas hit by the new coronavirus, which is spreading quickly.

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Nighttime attack on U.S. Embassy in Baghdad injures 1

A top U.S. commander says mortars were used in an attack on the American embassy in Baghdad that injured one person and caused some material damage Sunday night, not katyusha rockets as was initially reported by staffers and a statement from the military.

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At least 8 killed after fire, explosions at Alabama marina

At least eight people were killed early Monday in an explosive fire that consumed dozens of vessels docked at a marina along the Tennessee River in northern Alabama.

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Republicans under pressure to call John Bolton to testify as Senate impeachment trial resumes

U.S. President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate came under fresh pressure on Monday to allow witnesses and new documents in his impeachment trial after a news report that a former top aide, John Bolton, has written a book manuscript that undercuts Trump's versions of events in the Ukraine affair.

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Kobe Bryant will be inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame this year, report says

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is bypassing the normal election process and making the late Kobe Bryant the first inductee of the 2020 class, The Athletic reported Monday.

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Migrants at Libya camp prevented from leaving between deadly airstrikes, report claims

The United Nations revealed on Monday chilling new details about an airstrike that smashed into a migrant detention centre in Libya, killing at least 50 people.

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Taliban claims U.S. military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan

A passenger plane from Afghanistan's Ariana Airlines crashed Monday in a Taliban-held area of the eastern Ghazni province, local officials said. However, Ariana Airlines told The Associated Press that none of its planes had crashed in Afghanistan.

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Grenfell Tower fire inquiry focuses on combustible cladding

A public inquiry into the 2017 fire at London's Grenfell Tower, which killed 72 people, began to zero in on Monday on how the densely populated social housing block was allowed to become a tinder box and who was to blame.

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75 years after Auschwitz liberation, anti-Semitism on the rise in Germany

As the world remembers more than a million people who died at Auschwitz, a survey conducted for the World Jewish Congress says one in four Germans harbours some form of anti-Semitic belief.

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Democrats demand Bolton testify as impeachment trial resumes

The stakes over witness testimony at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial are rising now that a draft of a book from former national security adviser John Bolton appears to undercut a key defence argument

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Impeachment outcome is a foregone conclusion, but how Trump's defence tackles Biden could sway voters

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was not central to the brief opening arguments of the defence in the impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump, but he is sure to come up this week. How the defence team paints the former vice-president could prove consequential in the November election.

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China's coronavirus quarantine like using an 'atomic bomb' to deal with outbreak, expert says

While China's response to the new coronavirus outbreak is being praised in comparison to its handling of the SARS epidemic, some are suggesting officials may have gone too far by ordering a quarantine of the city of Wuhan.

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