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(Reuters) – The United States should stop preventing Iran from selling oil, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif tweeted on Tuesday. “What we want is for (U.S. President Donald Trump) … Read More

By Amina Ismail, Ulf Laessing and Mahmoud Mourad CAIRO (Reuters) – Squatting with other day labourers under a bridge in Cairo, 48-year-old Yasser Nagi says he has waited in vain … Read More

HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam’s health ministry reported four more confirmed coronavirus cases on Tuesday, bringing the country’s total to 249, with no deaths. More than 94,000 coronavirus tests have been … Read More

By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s 21-day lockdown is set to end next week but several state leaders have called for an extension or only a partial lifting … Read More

By Polina Ivanova MOSCOW (Reuters) – For some elderly Moscow residents, the coronavirus lockdown has a familiar feel – they lived through something like it during a dramatic Soviet-era smallpox … Read More

(Reuters) – Taiwan’s cabinet has told government agencies to stop using Zoom Video Communications Inc’s <ZM.O> conferencing app, the latest blow to the company as it battles criticism of its … Read More

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Finland will start tracking the spread of the new coronavirus in its population with randomised antibody tests, its public health authority said on Tuesday. The main hospitals … Read More

By Gul Yousafzai QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Pakistani doctors went on strike at two hospitals in southwestern Quetta on Tuesday, a day after police used force to break up and … Read More

HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam donated 550,000 face masks to five European countries on Tuesday to support their fight against the coronavirus that has killed more than 75,000 people worldwide. The … Read More

By Alexis Akwagyiram and Mfuneko Toyana LAGOS/JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – In a dark ground-floor room in Lagos, dressmaker Kemi Adepoju gazes at a pile of dresses she has made but which … Read More