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"Since the speaker has chosen to tear this nation apart with her actions and her rhetoric, the president will not participate in moments where she so often chooses to drive discord and disunity," spokesman Judd Deere said in an emailed statement.

Fatemeh Rahbar, 55, was a conservative MP and had recently been elected to the parliament from the capital Tehran, the agency said.

OPEC wanted the proposed cuts to run until the end of 2020.

The patient, who was found infected with the virus days after his return from Iran, was kept in isolation for the past 10 days in Karachi and was tested three times.

The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) said there had been 21 reports of fraud since Feb. 10, many of which involved scams over masks, with one victim paying 15,000 pounds for masks that never arrived.

At 57, Hidalgo has become an expert in drone flying, because she has had to. Her plan here is to create an 'orthomosaic map' — a photo representation of the area that provides detailed information

The announcement came as the total number of confirmed cases in Britain rose to 115, after 25 more patients tested positive in England.

Sheremetyevo airport authorities have refused to comment on the bomb threats while Russia's Transport Police said they were unaware of the incidents.

In California, incumbents Dr Ami Bera and Ro Khanna registered an easy win in their respective seventh and 17th Congressional Districts. Both are from the Democratic party. Bera, the longest-serving Indian-American in the US House of Representatives, is s...

"Save the masks for health care workers. Let's stay calm, listen to the experts, and follow the science," tweeted Obama, who has kept a low public profile since leaving office in 2017.

The comments drew criticism from human rights activists and others who noted Venezuelans already are struggling to provide food, clothes and health care for their families.

The season, which is expected to start in mid-March, is traditionally celebrated with 'hanami' or viewing parties in cherry blossom hotspots, with picnics organised beneath the trees.

During the last polls in 2016, Syria's ruling Baath party and its allies won a majority of the chamber's 250 seats.

A North Carolina resident tested positive after returning from a trip to Washington State, where the individual was exposed, and apparently infected, during a visit to a nursing facility at the centre of a recent surge in cases in suburban Seattle.

The researchers suggest that the Earth may have looked a bit like the post-apocalyptic, and land-free, future imagined in American actor and filmmaker Kevin Costner's movie Waterworld.

World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said almost eight times as many cases had been reported outside China as inside in the previous 24 hours, adding that the risk of coronavirus spreading was now very high at a global level.