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Trump came into office railing against what he and his allies call the “deep state” — career government employees and political appointees held over from prior administrations — claiming it was out to undermine him.

Trump, addressing his supporters at a rally in South Carolina, said it was hard to be enthused by the crowd after witnessing the huge one at the Motera stadium in Ahmedabad.

The victory of Muhyiddin and his coalition, which is dominated by the country's ethnic Malay Muslim majority, was a shock as Mahathir had appeared to be in the lead, and it sparked widespread public anger.

The first lady's office, however, has requested that the media respect the privacy of the youngest of the president's five children and discourages writing about him.

Pyongyang has not reported a single case of COVID-19, which has killed more than 2,800 people and infected over 84,000 people in dozens of countries since it emerged in neighbouring China.

At least five family contacts of the first patient have been placed in isolation. One of the patients is also believed to have travelled to the northern part of Italy where there has been an outbreak.

Astronomer Kacper Wierzchos said it was a 'big deal' as 'this is just the second asteroid known to orbit Earth (after 2006 RH120, which was also discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey).; Its route suggests it entered Earth's orbit three years ago, he said.

Due to the spread of the virus worldwide, Brazil adopted the preventative measure of broadening its criteria for analysis of suspected cases on Monday.

Singapore's health ministry said that the Chinese couple, originally from Wuhan, had given false information about their movements and whereabouts to officials investigating whether they could have passed the infection on to others.

Juda Engelmayer, a spokesman for Weinstein, said on Monday that the onetime movie mogul was taken to Bellevue Hospital, which has a unit that provides medical care for jail inmates, after he was led away from court in handcuffs.

In an address at 'Namaste Trump' rally at Motera stadium in Ahmedabad, Trump announced that deals to sell state-of-the-art military helicopters and other equipment worth over $3 billion will be sealed with India.

Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo movement, said in a statement: "The implications reverberate far beyond Hollywood and into the daily lives of all of us in the rest of the world."

The exemption was granted by the United Nations Sanctions Committee after the US said last week that it would look positively at requests for sending assistance.

Some 11 million residents in China's Wuhan have been under effective quarantine since January 23 as authorities race to contain the coronavirus epidemic.

"Some injuries may have been a result of a bullet ricochet. A male is detained at the scene," police said.

Two Omani women who had returned from Iran -- which is battling the deadliest outbreak outside China -- were diagnosed with the disease and were in a stable condition, state TV reported.