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HANOI (Reuters) – Vietnam will temporarily suspend visa-free travel for citizens of Japan, Belarus and Russia from Saturday as its health ministry reported nine more coronavirus cases on Friday, bringing … Read More

TAIPEI (Reuters) – People in Taiwan were told to buy as much as possible during the coronavirus outbreak, as the island’s premier struck a distinctly different approach to panic buying … Read More

By Lisandra Paraguassu BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil late on Thursday announced it will bar citizens from certain countries affected by the coronavirus outbreak from entering the country, but exempted the … Read More

By Brenda Goh SHANGHAI (Reuters) – A Chinese report into the coronavirus death of a young doctor reprimanded by police for “spreading rumours” when he tried to raise the alarm … Read More

By Marcelo Rochabrun (Reuters) – Latin America’s major airlines sharply curtailed international flights on Thursday because of the coronavirus outbreak as Panama and Colombia imposed month-long travel bans and the … Read More

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California’s governor on Thursday issued a statewide “stay at home” order to residents, telling them to leave their homes only when necessary during the coronavirus pandemic. … Read More

(Reuters) – Big-box retailer Walmart Inc <WMT.N> said on Thursday it would hire more than 150,000 hourly workers in the United States, citing a jump in shoppers due to the … Read More

By Paresh Dave SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Engineer Anthony Levandowski, known for advancing self-driving car technology in the last decade, agreed to plead guilty on Thursday to taking sensitive documents … Read More

By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump on Thursday opened the door to a radical shift in the U.S. government’s relationship to private industry as the coronavirus outbreak … Read More

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The mayor of Los Angeles and county officials on Thursday ordered all residents of America’s second largest city to stay in their homes … Read More