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Mystery of drugged babies deepens after German probe blunder 04 Feb 2020 - 06:37 pm
Medical staff clean a hospital room in the infectiology and isolation unit of the Frankfurt Goethe University hospital in Frankfurt am Main, western Germany on February 2, 2020. AFP / Thomas Lohnes
Coronavirus sends Asia's social media censors into overdrive 04 Feb 2020 - 06:37 pm
Security guards wearing protective facemasks keep vigil outside an isolation ward opened as a preventative measure following a SARS-like virus outbreak, at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Medical Sciences in Ahmedabad on February 4, 2020. AFP /
China accuses Pompeo of 'slander' over Xinjiang comments 04 Feb 2020 - 06:37 pm
Uzbekistani Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamilov (R) shakes hands with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo prior to their meeting in Tashkent, Uzbekistan on February 03, 2020. (Anvar Ilyasov / Uzbekistani Foreign Ministry handout / Anadolu Agency )
Daniel arap Moi, Kenya's iron-fisted second president 04 Feb 2020 - 06:37 pm
Newspapers with the headline on the death of former Kenya's president Daniel Arap Moi, are displayed, in Nairobi, on February 4, 2020. AFP / Simon Maina
Canadian jet forced back to airport after passenger falsely claims he has corona virus 04 Feb 2020 - 06:03 pm
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NW Syria violence displaces 500,000 in two months 04 Feb 2020 - 05:45 pm
Displaced Syrian children sit in the back of a truck transporting their belongings as they pass through the town of Hazano in the northern countryside of Idlib, on February 4, 2020, fleeing northwards amid an ongoing regime offensive.  AFP / AAREF WATAD
Putin remains coy on his future political plans 04 Feb 2020 - 04:55 pm
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with public members in Cherepovets, Russia February 4, 2020. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin
Lebanon's only English-language daily stops print edition 04 Feb 2020 - 04:42 pm
:(FILES) A file photo taken on August 08, 2019, shows the front pages of the Lebanese local English-language newspaper
Thailand eyes limits on surgical mask exports as coronavirus cases rise 04 Feb 2020 - 03:46 pm
FILE PHOTO: A tourist wears a mask to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus as she arrives at the Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, Thailand February 3, 2020. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun/File Photo
China readies thousands of new hospital beds in virus outbreak epicentre 04 Feb 2020 - 01:41 pm
A worker sets up beds at the Hongshan Stadium to convert it into a makeshift hospital following an outbreak of the new coronavirus, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 4, 2020. China Daily via REUTERS
Iran to execute man for spying for CIA: Judiciary 04 Feb 2020 - 12:59 pm
Peninsula
We were not notified about meeting between Al-Burhan and Netanyahu: Sudan Government 04 Feb 2020 - 12:25 pm
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and his wife Sara Netanyahu arrive to meet Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Uganda's First Lady Janet Museveni at State House in Entebbe, Uganda February 3, 2020. REUTERS/Abubaker Lubowa
Britain to bring forward ban on new petrol and diesel cars 04 Feb 2020 - 11:01 am
A general view shows cars parked at the port on Brexit day, in Dover, Britain January 31, 2020. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls
Singapore Airshow to go ahead despite virus worries 04 Feb 2020 - 10:37 am
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Kenya's former President Daniel Arap Moi dies 04 Feb 2020 - 09:39 am
 In this file photo taken on December 28, 1992 Kenya's President Daniel Arap Moi, who is also the leader of the ruling Kenyan African National Union (KANU) party shown brandishing a stick as he addresses members of his party/ AFP / ALEXANDER JOE
S. Korean woman tests positive for coronavirus after Thailand visit 04 Feb 2020 - 09:20 am
Passengers wearing masks to prevent contracting coronavirus walk past a thermal camera upon their arrival at Incheon International Airport in Incheon, South Korea, January 3, 2020. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
Japan testing 3,700 people quarantined on cruise ship after Hong Kong coronavirus case 04 Feb 2020 - 09:07 am
The Diamond Princess cruise ship with over 3,000 people sits anchored in quarantine off the port of Yokohama on February 4, 2020, a day after it arrived with passengers feeling ill. Japan has quarantined the cruise ship carrying 3,711 people and was testi
Hong Kong reports first death of coronavirus patient 04 Feb 2020 - 09:03 am
Medical staff are seen outside Princess Margaret Hospital in Hong Kong on February 4, 2020. AFP / Anthony Wallace