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The Chinese government said Wednesday nine people have died after being infected with a new coronavirus that has spread in China, and confirmed the infection of 440 people in 13 provinces.

A U.S. man in Seattle has been diagnosed with a new coronavirus from China after traveling to the country, in what has become the first confirmed case in the United States and the first outside of Asia, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday.

Deputy Prime Minister Roman Sklyar has met with the representatives of German business in Dortmund. Heads of more than 40 companies attended the meeting.

A Turkish tailor has sewed the world’s smallest jean jacket in the central Konya province of Turkey.

China has confirmed nearly 300 patients infected with the new coronavirus as of Monday, state-run media reported Tuesday, with the mayor of the central China city of Wuhan confirming a sixth death due to the virus.

"Last year about 1,500,000 people visited the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yassawi situated in Turkestan. It is expected to attract there up to 5 mln tourists by 2025," Deputy Governor of Turkestan region Meirzhan Myrzaliyev told the meeting at the regional communications service.

The network of seismic stations of the Kazakh Education and Science Ministry recorded on January 21, 2020, an earthquake at 12:31:36 p.m. Almaty time.

A mother snow leopard and her two cubs were caught on a trail camera in the mountains near Almaty, the Instagram post of head of Kazakh Tourism National Company JSC Yerzhan Yerkinbayev reads.

At least nine people were killed and one remained missing after a flash flood made a crowded hanging bridge over a river in Indonesia collapse.

A new report from the UN children’s fund, UNICEF, shows that a third of adolescent girls from the poorest households have never been to school, and spending on education is heavily skewed towards wealthier households.

Kazakhstan’s major travel companies are taking part in the Adventure Travel Show 2020 international tourism exhibition, which is considered one of the most important events for those interested in travel experiences off the beaten track.

Devastating bushfires raging in Australia since September threaten the future of at least 327 protected animal and plant species by destroying up to 80 percent of their habitat.

Israeli and Canadian researchers have developed engineered three-dimensional (3D) heart tissues from induced human stem cells, Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) reported Sunday.

On January 31, the city of Almaty will host the Digital Almaty: Digital Future of Global Economy international forum.

TurStat agency released its top-rated ski resorts in CIS among Russian tourists this winter.

Kazakhstani seismologists registered the fourth quake within the last 24 hours in Central Asia.

The United Arab Emirates is among the top ten economies exhibiting the most progress toward gender equality since 2017, a World Bank report has revealed.

Iranian and Ukrainian foreign ministers discussed the latest situation surrounding the air disaster during a telephone conversation late on Thursday.

At a meeting of the local administration, Chief of the Construction, Architecture and Urban Planning Department Serik Mukhamediyev said that 420 rental apartments will be built for socially vulnerable groups of population.

The first big diamond mined in the Arkhangelsk Region in 2020 is named after a discoverer of the Lomonosov deposit - Georgy Georgiev.

The relations between China and Myanmar are closer now than ever before, and the Southeast Asian country should think of how it can benefit from such closer ties rather than seeing relations with China in defensive terms due to big power games, a former Myanmar government advisor told the Global Times in an exclusive interview.

President Xi Jinping's scheduled state visit to Myanmar this week will deepen the two Asian economies' ties in such sectors as seafood exports, energy, basic infrastructure, finance and other labor-intensive industries, serving as drivers to fuel Myanmar's economic development, business representatives and industry observers said.

China and the U.S. officially signed the phase-one economic and trade agreement in the White House on Jan. 15, 2020 local time.

The Chinese economy has come under international spotlight at the beginning of 2020. "China will outperform expectations in 2020." "Economists are optimistic on China's growth prospects." "Eye-catching figures indicate China's economic achievements." It is commonly acknowledged by the international society that pressured by rising domestic and external risks and challenges, China's economy demonstrates bright prospects.