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By Sanjeev Miglani and Rupam Jain NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) – India extended a lockdown on its 1.3 billion people until at least May 3 on Tuesday and Prime Minister Narendra … Read More

By Hanna Rantala MILAN (Reuters) – Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will sing to a Milan cathedral bare of worshippers on Easter Sunday, hoping to bring together people isolated during the … Read More

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s health minister on Tuesday reported a rise in coronavirus cases of 143 over the past day, taking the total to 2,415. Health Minister Zwelini Mkhize … Read More

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and political rival Benny Gantz were nearing a deal on Tuesday to form a national emergency government to battle the coronavirus crisis … Read More

DUBAI (Reuters) – Bahrain has converted the multi-storey car park of a military hospital into a 130-bed intensive care unit for patients with COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the … Read More

By Alexander Marrow MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia is ready to discuss hypersonic missiles and other arms control issues with the United States as part of wider discussions about strategic stability, … Read More

By Brendan O’Brien (Reuters) – Rescue workers and homeowners across the U.S. South on Monday sifted through what remained of hundreds of structures destroyed by a series of tornadoes that … Read More

BERLIN (Reuters) – A lowering in the number of new coronavirus cases in Germany is probably due to less testing over Easter and the outbreak is not yet contained, a … Read More

By Rozanna Latiff and A. Ananthalakshmi KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysian authorities have begun using COVID-19 antibody rapid tests kits to supplement laboratory tests as the number of cases in … Read More

By Catarina Demony LISBON (Reuters) – Portugal has stepped up efforts to support its impoverished Roma communities during the coronavirus pandemic, but rights group say more help is needed as … Read More