Morning News Brief: Coronavirus death toll rises, US Senate curbs Trump's war powers and more!

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China on Friday confirmed 116 more deaths due tocoronaviruswith the death toll rising to 1,483 with as many as 4,823 new cases.

The US Senate has passed the Iran war powers resolution. Thebill seeks to preventDonald Trumpfrom waging war with Iran.

An anti-terrorism court in Lahore has sentenced Hafiz Saeed to 11 years in jail in two separate cases. The sentence runs concurrently, so he effectively has to spend a little more than 5 years in jail.

The captain of the Indian men's team won 35.2 per cent of the combined votes and beat Belgium's Arthur van Doren and Lucas Vila of Argentina to the coveted honour.

Director Vidhu Vinod Chopra slammed those alleging that he "commercialised the pain of Kashmiri pandits" with his film "Shikara"and termed them "donkeys".