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By Oliver Griffin SAN LUCAS MOUNTAINS, Colombia (Reuters) – In a clearing around his modest smallholding, farmer Arcadio Barajas stands before a sea of coffee plants, cloaked in the shadow … Read More

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – The Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte said on Thursday he believes it is possible that European finance ministers will reach agreement on a 500 billion euro support … Read More

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece will transfer about 60 unaccompanied children from overcrowded migrant camps to Luxembourg and Germany next week as worries mount about the coronavirus pandemic. At least 5,200 … Read More

WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish borders will be closed until May 3 and the government will extend a lockdown for schools and businesses, Poland’s Prime Minister said on Thursday, meaning restrictions … Read More

By Jan Lopatka and Robert Muller PRAGUE (Reuters) – The Czech Republic is planning to roll out a system of quickly tracking and isolating contacts of people with coronavirus to … Read More

SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Singapore confirmed 287 new coronavirus infections on Thursday, the biggest daily increase yet, taking the total in the city-state to 1,910, its health ministry said. More than … Read More

SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China has drawn up new guidelines to reclassify dogs as pets rather than livestock, the agriculture ministry said, part of a response to the coronavirus outbreak that … Read More

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Health Minister Jens Spahn told newspaper Handelsblatt that the coronavirus infection numbers in Germany were showing a “positive trend” and if that continued, it would be … Read More

By Se Young Lee and Brenda Goh BEIJING/WUHAN, China (Reuters) – China took new measures on Wednesday to try to prevent asymptomatic “silent carriers” of the new coronavirus from causing … Read More

By Elizabeth Culliford, Joseph Ax and Trevor Hunnicutt (Reuters) – For weeks, President Donald Trump has dominated television coverage with daily White House briefings on the coronavirus pandemic, declaring himself … Read More