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By Jamie Freed and David Shepardson SYDNEY/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – International seat capacity has dropped by almost 80% from a year ago and half the world’s airplanes are in storage, new … Read More

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – Romania’s centrist minority government will almost certainly postpone a June local election as the coronavirus outbreak ruled out the best conditions for such an exercise, Prime Minister … Read More

(This April 1 story corrects title of president’s office assistant-director in paragraph 8) (Reuters) – Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi cited the coronavirus pandemic as the impetus for reluctantly … Read More

By Rania El Gamal, Vladimir Soldatkin and Jeff Mason DUBAI/MOSCOW/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday he had brokered a deal with top crude producers Russia and … Read More

By Alexandra Valencia QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s government said on Thursday it was building a “special camp” for coronavirus victims in the country’s largest city of Guayaquil, where an outbreak … Read More

By Jonathan Barrett and Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian officials closed internal borders on Friday and warned people to stay home over the upcoming Easter holiday as the country … Read More

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand on Friday reported 103 new coronavirus cases and four more deaths, bringing its total number cases to 1,978, a health official said. There were four new … Read More

By Anggy Polanco SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) – Vanesa Jaimes studied to become an administrative worker in Venezuela’s health care system, but these days she could be more accurately described … Read More

MIAMI (Reuters) – An ocean liner forced by a deadly onboard coronavirus outbreak to languish at sea since mid-March pulled into a South Florida port on Thursday, after authorities settled … Read More

By Stephen Eisenhammer Emerson Barata draws a circular map of Sao Paulo’s largest slum, Paraisopolis, and begins to mark confirmed coronavirus cases in blue ink. At the center of the … Read More