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Iran’s confirmed death toll from the new coronavirus rose to eight on Sunday, the highest outside China, sending neighbouring countries scrambling to contain the outbreak.

Voter turnout in Friday's parliamentary elections was 42.57%, the lowest since since the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran’s interior ministry said on Sunday – another possible sign of widespread dissatisfaction with the leadership and the state of the economy.

Scrambling to contain rapidly rising number of new coronavirus infections in Italy, the largest amount outside Asia, authorities on Sunday stepped up measures to ban public gatherings, including stopping Venice’s famed carnival events.

Iran’s health ministry raised Sunday the death toll from the new virus to 8 people in the Middle Eastern country, amid concerns that clusters there, as well as in Italy and South Korea, could signal a serious new stage in its global spread.

Nine people died and hundreds of buildings collapsed in southeastern Turkey on Sunday after a 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck near the border with Iran, injuring dozens in villages and towns in both countries, government officials said.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has cemented his front-runner status in the race to choose the Democratic nominee who will face President Donald Trump in November's presidential election.