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Though many factories across China remain empty amid mass quarantine campaign to curb the novel coronavirus spreading, companies that produce masks are going all out to churn out much-needed supplies.

The local government of Xiamen in East China's Fujian Province has launched a lottery system for mask purchases through its official WeChat account Friday, amid a severe shortage of protective masks as China battles the novel coronavirus outbreak.

The first batch of charter flights sent by the Chinese government Friday evening brought back 199 stranded Hubei residents from overseas following the novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province.

45 in Hubei Province and one in Chongqing Municipality.

China's central authorities approved Friday further extending the Spring Festival holiday in the novel coronavirus hard-hit Hubei Province to curb the outbreak.

China is fully capable of ensuring daily necessities supply, and laying a solid foundation for winning the battle against the novel coronavirus epidemic, according to the country's top economic planner Friday.

Central China's Hubei Province reported 1,347 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 45 new deaths on Friday, local health authorities said Saturday.

The municipal government of Beijing announced Friday that enterprises in the city should make arrangements for employees to work at home before the end of Feb. 9 to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Though many factories across China remain empty amid mass quarantine campaign to curb the novel coronavirus spreading, companies that produce masks are going all out to churn out much-needed supplies.

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The Pentagon has yet again raised the figure of soldiers wounded in Iran's retaliatory missile attack in Iraq earlier this month to 64, saying they have suffered "traumatic brain injuries".

my job -- is to bring this country together and take us forward," he said. "And the most important thing to say tonight is that this is not an end but a beginning." is to bring this country together and take us forward," he said. "And the most important thing to say tonight is that this is not an end but a beginning."

The United Kingdom has officially left the European Union after 47 years of membership, in a step cast by Prime Minister Boris Johnson as the dawn of new era.

U.S. President Donald Trump will issue an expanded version of his travel ban on January 31, a U.S. official said, a decision that could impact thousands of immigrants.

The U.S. military has once again raised the number of U.S. service members who suffered traumatic brain injuries in Iran's missile strike on an Iraqi base earlier this month.

It has emerged that China's most advanced destroyer, the 10,000-ton-class Type 055, is larger than previously reported as the Chinese Navy recently revealed it has an actual displacement of more than 12,000 tons. Experts said on Friday that the difference between 10,000 and 12,000 tons could be huge and indicate the warship is even more powerful than expected.

US President Donald Trump is expected to announce immigration bans on nationals of six more countries – mostly Muslim-majority nations - in an expanded version of the original travel ban imposed after he took office.

The Afghan Taliban's turbulent negotiations with the United States on a peace deal have ground to a halt over differences on how to reduce insurgent violence.

Sudan's new Prime Minister, Abdalla Hamdok, says he believes there is no military solution to the ongoing conflict in Yemen, which has been under Saudi-led aggression since March 2015.

In line with retaliatory attacks on positions of Saudi forces in the kingdom, Yemeni army soldiers and fighters from allied Popular Committees have killed two Saudi soldiers in the southern border region of Jizan.