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SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea had confirmed 105 new coronavirus cases as of midnight Saturday, bringing the country’s total now to 9,583, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …

CAIRO (Reuters) – The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen said early on Sunday that the kingdom’s air defences intercepted two ballistic missiles on Saturday night launched by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi …

PARIS (Reuters) – French health authorities reported 319 new deaths from the coronavirus on Saturday, up 16% on the previous day and taking the total to 2,314, as the government …

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland reported 14 deaths from COVID-19 infections on Saturday, all in the east of the country and the most on a single day so far to bring …

LISBON (Reuters) – All foreigners in Portugal with pending applications will be treated as permanent residents from Monday until at least July 1, authorities said on Saturday, to ensure migrants …

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia confirmed 109 new coronavirus infections, taking the total cases in the Southeast Asian country to 1,155, a health ministry official said on Saturday. Achmad Yurianto, the …

(Reuters) – The Reverend Joseph Lowery, a key ally of Martin Luther King in the U.S. civil rights movement of the 1960s, died on Friday at age of 98, the …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday the House will set up a panel to oversee expenditures under the $2.2 trillion coronavirus relief law. …

PARIS (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron sought on Saturday to win over Italians, saying in an interview with Italy’s leading newspapers that France was there to help and Italians …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Five members of the U.S. Congress have tested positive for the novel coronavirus, and more than two dozen others have said they are self-quarantining in hopes of …

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium has extended its lockdown over the coronavirus crisis by two weeks until April 18, Belgian broadcaster RTBF said on Friday. Belgium’s government and key economic and …

BELFAST (Reuters) – Northern Ireland’s devolved government is set to reopen off-licences, its justice minister said on Friday, putting the region in line with the rest of United Kingdom and …

DEPOK, Indonesia (Reuters) – After a busy session at his clinic, Indonesian doctor Fakhrurrozi hops on the back of a motorised tricycle with a loud-hailer to urge residents to stay …

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil will cut back on efforts to fight environmental crimes during the coronavirus outbreak, an official at environmental agency Ibama told Reuters, despite concerns that reduced protection …

BERLIN (Reuters) – The number of confirmed cases of coronavirus in Germany has risen to 42,288 and 253 people have died of the disease, statistics from the Robert Koch Institute …

TOKYO (Reuters) – Queues formed at supermarkets and stores in Tokyo on Friday as residents in the Japanese capital prepared for a weekend at home after the city’s governor called …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will receive recommendations this weekend from his advisers about the next steps in the battle to stop the coronavirus and reignite the U.S. economy, …

MEXICO CITY(Reuters) – Four of the six people who have died from coronavirus in Mexico so far had diabetes, raising alarm bells that a country with one of the world’s …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government will soon set guidelines to help Americans who recover from a coronavirus infection determine when its safe to return to regular life, the government’s …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi expects that her chamber will approve the coronavirus economic relief bill passed by the Senate late on Wednesday in a …