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By Colin Packham and Sonali Paul SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia is pushing foreign-flagged cruise ships to leave its territorial waters amid the coronavirus pandemic, walking a diplomatic tightrope as it … Read More

By Hyonhee Shin and Anne Kauranen SEOUL/HELSINKI (Reuters) – South Korea has received requests from 121 countries for help with coronavirus testing, a foreign ministry official said on Wednesday, as … Read More

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran’s death toll from the new coronavirus has reached 3,036, with 138 deaths in the past 24 hours, Health Ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpur told state TV on … Read More

By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) – As coronavirus cases rose across densely-populated South Asia, authorities scoured mosques in northern India on Wednesday trying to trace people who attended the … Read More

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Measures to limit the coronavirus outbreak in the Netherlands appear to have halved the rate of infection but need to be continued to be really effective, the … Read More

By Andrei Makhovsky MINSK (Reuters) – Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko may have called coronavirus a “psychosis” that can be fought with vodka, saunas and driving tractors, but some of his … Read More

BERLIN (Reuters) – The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Germany has risen to 67,366 and 732 people have died of the disease, statistics from the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) … Read More

By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday allowed Texas to enforce limits at least temporarily on the ability of women to obtain abortions as part … Read More

By Devjyot Ghoshal and Subrata Nagchoudhury NEW DELHI/KOLKATA (Reuters) – When Satyaki Mitra’s father developed a mild fever in mid-March, the graduate student in Philadelphia wasn’t especially worried. He told … Read More

By Neha Dasgupta NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will likely relax some export restrictions on pharmaceutical products soon due to intense pressure from the United States which is worried about … Read More