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CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt on Thursday reported 139 new cases of the new coronavirus, bringing its total since the start of the outbreak to 1,699, according to a health ministry … Read More

By Ben Klayman DETROIT (Reuters) – Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer on Thursday extended through April 30 the stay-at-home order she has in place in the state to slow the spread … Read More

By Simon Lewis and Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Shavonda Sisson said she requested a mail ballot to vote in Tuesday’s Democratic primary election in Wisconsin well ahead of the … Read More

PARIS (Reuters) – The number of people in intensive care units (ICU) for coronavirus infection in France fell slightly for the first time since the start of the epidemic, but … Read More

KABUL (Reuters) – The Afghan government freed 100 Taliban prisoners on Wednesday as a first step in a peace process with the hardline Islamists, despite the group’s suspension of talks … Read More

PARIS (Reuters) – President Emmanuel Macron visited a French doctor in Marseille on Thursday whose work on an anti-malaria drug has been promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump as a … Read More

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday extended a lockdown aimed at stemming the spread of the coronavirus by two weeks to the end of April. Africa’s … Read More

By Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) – On the day he nearly lost his job for supporting strict social distancing measures, Brazil’s health minister took another stand in … Read More

(Reuters) – A California retail developer claims the state’s coronavirus lockdown was an act of God that prevented it from completing a $4.2 million property acquisition, asking a court to … Read More

PARIS (Reuters) – France’s competition authority ruled on Thursday that Google must pay French publishing companies and news agencies for re-using their content. The U.S. tech firm said it would … Read More