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By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) – Smithfield Foods, the world’s biggest pork processor, said on Sunday it will shut a U.S. plant indefinitely due to a rash of coronavirus cases … Read More

By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) – The Dow and S&P 500 fell on Monday as U.S. companies prepared to kick off a quarterly earnings season expected to be rough … Read More

By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The chief U.S. negotiator and the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan held talks on Monday with Taliban officials in Doha on a prisoner release … Read More

By Marina Lammertyn BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – A city government in the central Argentine province of Cordoba has dug around 250 graves, anticipating a death toll increase from the coronavirus … Read More

By Tom Polansek and Rod Nickel CHICAGO/WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) – At a Wayne Farms chicken processing plant in Alabama, workers recently had to pay the company 10 cents a day … Read More

By Sanjeev Miglani and Asif Shahzad NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – India and Pakistan are planning to partially reopen their economies to minimise the cost of restrictive measures imposed to halt … Read More

By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday that for the first time it will hear cases argued by teleconference rather than … Read More

By Dawit Endeshaw and Giulia Paravicini ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – The United Nations said on Monday that deportations of illegal migrant workers by Saudi Arabia to Ethiopia risked spreading the … Read More

By Christine Soares (Reuters) – With much of the world living in lockdown, the spread of the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that was first detected in China late last year is … Read More

By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks on Wall Street mostly slid on Monday over concerns of what the coronavirus pandemic will do to corporate earnings, while crude prices … Read More