Coronavirus outbreak updates: World Health Organization gives virus an official name: COVID-19 Second Canadian plane carrying evacuees from China lands in Trenton, Ont. WHO: Death toll in mainland China rises to 1,017 as case numbers reach 42,708. 393 cases and one death outside China, WHO says. President Xi Jinping appears at health centre amid questions about handling…
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A top Sudanese official said Tuesday the country’s transitional authorities and rebel groups have agreed to hand over former autocratic president Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court to face trial for war crimes, including mass killings in Darfur. Bashir, who was overthrown by the military last year amid a public uprising, is wanted by…
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Torrential rain across Australia’s east could extinguish all remaining bushfires in the country’s most populous state by the end of the week, authorities said on Tuesday, raising hopes a deadly national crisis is almost over. Australia has been battling hundreds of blazes since September in an unusually prolonged summer wildfire season that was fuelled by…
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It looks like former vice-president Joe Biden will take another brutal pummelling from voters tonight. Biden’s best pitch in the race for the Democratic nomination used to be that he’s a winner; the candidate best able to beat Donald Trump in November’s presidential election. Then he finished fourth in last week’s Iowa Democratic caucuses. Now,…
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An overcrowded boat carrying about 125 Rohingya refugees from Bangladeshi camps sank early Tuesday in the Bay of Bengal, leaving at least 16 dead, Bangladeshi officials said Tuesday. The coast guard, navy divers and other rescuers recovered the bodies of 14 women, one child and a man after the wooden boat capsized off St. Martin’s…
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The two Democrats who led the Iowa caucuses — Sen. Bernie Sanders and former mayor Pete Buttigieg — both requested a recanvass of some caucus results on Monday, the Iowa Democratic Party said. Buttigieg filed a request for a recanvass of 66 precincts and Sanders for 28 precincts, the party said in a statement. It said…
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