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NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York City’s landmark Empire State Building has launched a nightly light show, featuring red and white flashes symbolic of an ambulance beacon, to honor emergency … Read More

GENEVA (Reuters) – Food supply chains must be protected from any trade-related measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic, the heads of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and U.N. food and … Read More

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Tuesday all schools, restaurants, and gyms would remain closed until at least April 28, and he urged the nation to … Read More

ZURICH (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it will not sanction Novartis over alleged data manipulation involving the Swiss drugmaker’s gene therapy Zolgensma. Novartis, which updated … Read More

By Linda Carroll NEW YORK (Reuters) – New York-based hospital system Northwell Health said it has started to make its own nasal swabs using 3D printing, enabling it to produce … Read More

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Union warned Hungary on Tuesday that emergency measures adopted by its nationalist government to fight the coronavirus crisis must not undercut democracy. Hungary’s parliament on … Read More

By Abdul Qadir Sediqi KABUL (Reuters) – A three-member Taliban team arrived in Kabul on Tuesday to begin a prisoner exchange process pivotal to starting talks between the insurgents and … Read More

By Angela Ukomadu and Alexis Akwagyiram LAGOS (Reuters) – Lagos, Africa’s largest city of at least 20 million people, ground to a halt on Tuesday as it and the Nigerian … Read More

By Emily Roe ROME (Reuters) – Italians marked a minute of silence and flags at government buildings were lowered to half mast on Tuesday to honor the thousands of victims … Read More

ROME (Reuters) – The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has climbed by 837 to 12,428, the Civil Protection Agency said on Tuesday, with the daily tally … Read More