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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – The U.N. refugee agency and Rohingya community leaders in Malaysia are stepping up efforts to get refugees who attended a Muslim gathering to come forward for … Read More

By Dan Whitcomb and Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California’s governor on Thursday issued an unprecedented statewide “stay at home order” directing the state’s 40 million residents to hunker … Read More

SEOUL (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan expressed their support for Tokyo to host “complete” Tokyo Olympics at a video conference held on Friday, South … Read More

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will cancel an in-person meeting of G7 leaders at Camp David in June because of the coronavirus and will hold a … Read More

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday introduced a massive new legislative package to combat the effects of the coronavirus outbreak, saying Republicans would soon begin … Read More

By Richard Cowan and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced emergency legislation on Thursday to stem the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, and … Read More

SEOUL (Reuters) – The foreign ministers of South Korea, China and Japan will hold a video conference on Friday to foster cooperation on the coronavirus pandemic, Seoul’s foreign ministry said. … Read More

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranians will overcome a coronavirus outbreak with unity, President Hassan Rouhani said in a televised speech on Friday, praising doctors and nurses for their courage in fighting … Read More

BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand reported 50 new coronavirus infections, taking its tally to 322, a health official said on Friday, with the majority located in Bangkok, the capital. A group … Read More

By Deborah Bloom RENTON, Washington (Reuters) – Doctors in Seattle have been reduced to making their own face masks out of sheets of plastic, after a global shortage of medical … Read More