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The latest deaths bring the number of those killed by the virus in the Islamic republic to 291, with 881 new cases being confirmed, bringing the total number of people infected to an official 8,042.

Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor and US resident, was killed on October 2, 2018, while at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul to obtain paperwork ahead of his wedding to Turkish researcher Hatice Cengiz.

More than half of all US states have reported cases of the coronavirus, which originated in China last year and causes the sometimes deadly respiratory illness COVID-19.

Milan is the Italian financial capital and has a population of just under 1.4 million people. The entire Lombardy region is home to 10 million. Italy has emerged as a coronavirus hotspot since the disease first emerged in China late last year.

A staff member working at the US technology giant's Marina One office in Singapore was on Friday diagnosed with COVID-19.

Interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said women and children were among the dead.

The warning comes in the wake of US President Donald Trump downplaying the risk, saying WHO's conclusion of a 3.4 per cent mortality rate was false.

Facebook said in a statement that it was enforcing its policies to prevent confusion over the 2020 census, which begins next week for most people.

On August 5, 2012, in one of the worst attacks on the Sikh community in America, a gunman with neo-Nazi ties barged into the gurdwara in Oak Creek, and opened fire killing six Sikh worshippers and injuring several others, said the American Bazaar report.

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

Many passengers were left shaken, with a few saying their backs had been hurt after an embankment collapsed 30 km northwest of Strasbourg.

My dad died after a complicated week. He is resting in peace," his son Francisco Perez de Cuellar said.

The UK Cabinet Office has launched an inquiry to “establish the facts” but the Opposition has mounted pressure on the government to widen the scope of the inquiry and also demanded Patel's resignation.

US President Donald Trump said that he would visit the stricken areas on Friday.

Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, 78, and Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren were the other big names on the ballot. Despite spending record amounts of his own money on advertising, billionaire media entrepreneur Bloomberg appeared to be headed...

Liquid soap sales increased 7% and household cleaning products leapt 10% in the four weeks to February 23 compared with the same period a year earlier.