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ALMATY (Reuters) – Kazakhstan’s tally of coronavirus infections rose to 79 on Wednesday, boosted by new cases in its southernmost and northernmost provinces, despite authorities’ efforts to confine the disease … Read More

(Reuters) – A British vicar got more than he expected from his first attempt at an online sermon when he leaned too close to a candle on a cross and … Read More

By Sanjeev Miglani and Nupur Anand NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India ordered a 21-day lockdown of its 1.3 billion people on Tuesday to try to protect the world’s second most … Read More

By Sakura Murakami and Karolos Grohmann TOKYO/ATHENS (Reuters) – The Tokyo Olympics were postponed on Tuesday to 2021, the first such delay in the Games’ 124-year modern history, as the … Read More

By Mari Saito and Sakura Murakami OSAKA (Reuters) – The Osaka Corona Hotel in western Japan has been eerily quiet and empty the past few weeks. “Our name is extremely … Read More

By Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss, Kate Duguid and Abhinav Ramnarayan (Reuters) – Investors across a broad range of asset markets breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday, a day after the Federal Reserve … Read More

By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Senior Pentagon leaders said on Tuesday that the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak that has hit the United States could continue for months and that the … Read More

By Emma Farge and Sanjeev Miglani GENEVA/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – The United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, as … Read More

By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration sowed confusion on Tuesday over use of a 1950s-era emergency act to procure coronavirus test kits amid severe shortages of tests, … Read More

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal judge on Tuesday denied Michael Cohen’s request to be released early from prison, saying U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer … Read More