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By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. government surveillance tools fiercely opposed by privacy advocates and defended by intelligence agencies will expire after legislation renewing them stalled in the Senate … Read More

By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – As schools close, offices clear out, and sporting events are canceled across the United States, a familiar Washington problem – partisan gridlock – threatened … Read More

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York State will ban gatherings of more than 500 people beginning on Friday at 5 p.m. (2100 GMT) , to slow the … Read More

By Khanh Vu and Phuong Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) – Health authorities in the southern Vietnamese city of Ho Chi Minh want to stop a Bahamas-flagged cruise ship with Italians on … Read More

By Hyonhee Shin SEOUL (Reuters) – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made his second public appearance this week to oversee military drills, despite concerns about the possible spread … Read More

By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) – Facebook Inc <FB.O> and Twitter Inc <TWTR.N> said on Thursday they had taken down a network of Russian-linked fake accounts operated out of Ghana and … Read More

By Kevin Yao and Min Zhang BEIJING (Reuters) – The global coronavirus pandemic could be over by June if countries mobilize to fight it, a senior Chinese medical adviser said … Read More

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, speaking on social media while wearing a mask, said he was tested for the coronavirus and expects to have the result within hours. … Read More

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has been tested for coronavirus and is awaiting the result, though he is not showing any symptoms of the virus, his son Eduardo … Read More

By Steve Holland and Anthony Boadle WASHINGTON/BRASILIA (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was not concerned about the possibility of being exposed to the coronavirus after … Read More