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(Reuters) – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Tuesday reported 579,005 cases of coronavirus, an increase of 24,156 cases from its previous count, and said the … Read More

ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey’s confirmed cases of the coronavirus increased by 4,062 in the past 24 hours, and 107 more people have died, taking the death toll to 1,403, Health … Read More

ROME (Reuters) – Deaths from the COVID-19 epidemic in Italy rose by 602 on Tuesday, up from 566 the day before, posting a second consecutive daily increase, but new infections … Read More

By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) – Charity workers are scouring the United Arab Emirates for empty buildings and Bahrain is repurposing closed schools to rehouse low income labourers from overcrowded … Read More

By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – The leaders of Irish rival parties Fianna Fail and Fine Gael agreed on Tuesday to govern together for the first time if they can … Read More

By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) – A year after an inferno engulfed Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral, salvage and reconstruction works are running months behind schedule, delayed by massive quantities of toxic … Read More

By Michelle Conlin NEW YORK (Reuters) – St. Anselm Roman Catholic Church in New York’s Brooklyn borough is used to limping along, month after month, at a budget deficit of … Read More

By Estelle Shirbon and Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) – The death toll from COVID-19 in British hospitals rose to 11,329 on Monday and the government, which is having to operate … Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The top U.S. infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, said on Tuesday that a May 1 target date for reopening the economy was “a bit overly optimistic,” citing … Read More

PARIS (Reuters) – The French government is set to raise the total amount of its crisis-response package by 10 billion euros ($11 billion), the second increase in days, when it … Read More