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(Reuters) - In the world’s largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh, filmmaker Mohammed Arafat has been making public safety videos to warn about the dangers of coronavirus.

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is not planning for the moment to use troops to help combat a spreading coronavirus outbreak, although the option remains on the table, Prime Minister

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian banks have been instructed to apply temporary limits on daily withdrawals and deposits in a move seemingly designed to control inflation and hoarding during the coronavirus'

(Reuters) - Major sports events around the world that have been hit by the coronavirus pandemic: OLYMPICS * The International Olympic Committee and Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe concluded the

By Giulia Segreti ROME (Reuters) - The number of deaths from coronavirus in Italy fell for the second consecutive day on Sunday but the country still looked almost certain to see an extension of

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) said on Monday that it was deploying more tools to provide additional liquidity to the corporate sector and support market functioning to

DAKAR (Reuters) - The mural stretched over 10 metres of wall in Senegal's seaside capital Dakar shows a giant pair of hands reaching out for sanitiser, and a woman in hoop earrings and a facemask

By Alan Charlish and Anna Koper WARSAW (Reuters) - The main Polish opposition candidate running for president called on Sunday for a boycott of the country's May election due to the coronavirus and

By Carolyn Cohn, Noor Zainab Hussain and Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of London's underwriters took their stamps and fountain pens home last week, which they use to sign insurance

By Jan Wolfe (Reuters) - U.S.

By Giulia Segreti ROME (Reuters) - The number of deaths from coronavirus in Italy fell for the second consecutive day on Sunday but the country still looked almost certain to see an extension of

By Jessica Jones MADRID (Reuters) - Spain prepared to enter its third week under near-total lockdown on Sunday, as the government approved a strengthening of measures to curb the spread of the

By Brenda Goh and Thomas Suen WUHAN, China (Reuters) - A growing number of imported coronavirus cases in China risked fanning a second wave of infections when domestic transmissions had "basically

By Costas Pitas and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Some lockdown measures to combat coronavirus in Britain could last months and only be gradually lifted, a senior medical official said on Sunday

PARIS (Reuters) - France used two high-speed trains and a German military plane to move more than three dozen critically ill coronavirus patients on Sunday to ease the pressure on overwhelmed

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is not planning for the moment to use troops to help combat a spreading coronavirus outbreak, although the option remains on the table, Prime Minister

By Alexandra Ulmer and Swati Bhat MUMBAI (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the nation's poor for forgiveness on Sunday, as the economic and human toll from his 21-day nationwide

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's 750 billion euro ($834 billion) package to soften the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak on Europe's largest economy will last for about two months, an

By Parisa Hafezi DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's coronavirus death toll has risen to 2,640, a health ministry official said on Sunday, as the Middle East's worst-hit country grapples with the fast-spreading

(Reuters) - In the world’s largest refugee settlement in Bangladesh, filmmaker Mohammed Arafat has been making public safety videos to warn about the dangers of coronavirus.

By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - How much damage has the coronavirus and the oil price collapse inflicted on global financial markets this year?

By Megan Davies and April Joyner NEW YORK (Reuters) - After a brutal meltdown, some investors have been wading back into U.S. stocks.

By Marc Jones LONDON (Reuters) - Governments and central banks need to step up efforts urgently to support their economies in the face of the coronavirus crisis, the head of the Bank for International

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, March 28 (Reuters) - It may, as House Majority Leader and Maryland Democrat Steny Hoyer said on Friday, be out of love that the United States agreed to shut down much

By Krystal Hu (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is offering higher pay to recruit its own warehouse employees to pick and pack Whole Foods groceries amid rising demand and a worker shortage, according to an

(Reuters) - William Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management no longer has hedges on its stock portfolio, but still has some cash to invest if equities decline further as the United States battles

By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar Airways will have to seek government support eventually, Chief Executive Akbar al-Baker told Reuters on Sunday, warning that the Middle East carrier could

PARIS (Reuters) - Luxury fashion group Chanel said on Sunday it would launch production of face masks to help bolster supplies in France, as the coronavirus sweeps across the country.

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON - A U.S. recession may already be underway. Could it be worse?

By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - U.S. clothing rental firm Rent the Runway said on Saturday it had laid off retail employees following temporary store closures amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

By Tom Arnold LONDON (Reuters) - Sovereign wealth funds from oil-producing countries mainly in the Middle East and Africa are on course to dump up to $225 billion in equities, a senior banker

DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar Airways will continue to operate flights as long as necessary to get stranded travelers home, Chief Executive Akbar al-Baker told Reuters on Sunday, but warned that the carrier

By Liz Lee KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia’s Top Glove Corporation Bhd , which makes one in every five gloves globally, expects a product shortage as demand from Europe and the United

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) said on Monday that it was deploying more tools to provide additional liquidity to the corporate sector and support market functioning to

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian banks have been instructed to apply temporary limits on daily withdrawals and deposits in a move seemingly designed to control inflation and hoarding during the coronavirus'

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe legalized the use of foreign currencies in domestic transactions on Sunday, less than a year after abandoning dollarisation, as the country readies for a 21-day lockdown to

TOKYO (Reuters) - The government's stimulus package will take into account the fact that the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games will push back several trillions of yen worth of demand until next

LONDON (Reuters) - British companies in key sectors were already bracing for the biggest hit to business since 2009 even before last week's shutdown of the much of the economy as the government moved

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said on Saturday he had approved a new package of measures to help those worst hit by the coronavirus emergency, including supplying shopping

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will ease regulations for stricken businesses to help them survive the coronavirus crisis, including simplifying the insolvency system to keep companies trading, Business

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss BOSTON (Reuters) - After years of waiting and watching from afar, hedge fund Fir Tree Partners is spending $410 million from its dislocation funds on stocks, pockets of the

By Beth Pinsker NEW YORK (Reuters) - If you live in the United States and really want to be prepared for coronavirus, experts say you need a fully executed power of attorney, which designates a

By Mark Miller CHICAGO (Reuters) - The $2 trillion economic stimulus package racing toward passage in the U.S.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Billionaire investor William Ackman said a CNBC television interview he gave last week was not designed to profit from any trades, dismissing some media speculation he had purposely

By Beth Pinsker NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lily Reiche has lost nearly half of her dogwalking clients in Los Angeles because of California's coronavirus stay-at-home order.

By Beth Pinsker NEW YORK (Reuters) - The first few days of staying at home for coronavirus seclusion with my two kids were chaotic, stressful and scary, much like they were for everyone else.

By Chris Taylor NEW YORK (Reuters) - In scary times like these, it is comforting to talk to someone who has seen and studied a lot of things – booms, busts, and everything in between.

By Beth Pinsker NEW YORK (Reuters) - When you see soda on sale at the supermarket, do you run screaming into the parking lot in a panic? Or do you buy six?

By Mark Miller CHICAGO (Reuters) - The breathtaking coronavirus-induced plunge of the stock market has unnerved retirement investors of all ages, but it poses special risks for people close to, or

By Beth Pinsker NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lives are on hold all over the world as we distance ourselves socially to contain the coronavirus, but bills still pile up.

By Jeffrey Dastin (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Friday said it would sell its stake in AnyVision, an Israeli facial recognition startup, and said it no longer would make minority investments in

By Andy Sullivan and Jonnelle Marte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some lower-paid U.S. workers could effectively get a short-term raise if they lose their jobs during the coronavirus crisis, thanks to

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese ride hailing giant Didi Chuxing said on Friday it would restart its evening Hitch service in some cities, with improved safety features and more rigorous driver and

LONDON (Reuters) - Mobile operator Vodafone said on Friday it would introduce 30-days free access to unlimited mobile data for half a million of its Pay Monthly customers and upgrade the contracts for

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China's Tencent Holdings launched a co-innovation lab with Huawei to develop a cloud game platform, the world's biggest game company said in a statement Friday.

By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - China's Huawei Technologies unveiled its new flagship photography-focused P40 smartphones on Wednesday in an online presentation after the coronavirus scuppered the

(This March 25 story corrects after E.ON says it will not provide energy solutions to Tesla and has not been given 18 months to do it) FRANKFURT (Reuters) - E.ON, Germany's largest energy group, has

By Anna Koper and Douglas Busvine WARSAW/BERLIN (Reuters) - Governments across Europe are turning to technology to track the spread of the coronavirus and monitor people under quarantine, an approach

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Global smartphone sales tumbled 14% in February as the coronavirus spread in China and overseas, Counterpoint Research said on Thursday, a likely harbinger of more declines as

By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - An international group of nearly 400 volunteers with expertise in cybersecurity formed on Wednesday to fight hacking related to the novel coronavirus.

WARSAW/KRAKOW (Reuters) - Poland's Krzysztof Penderecki, one of the world's most celebrated composers, died on Sunday at the age of 86, his family said.

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian rapper MV Bill added his voice to a chorus of criticism of President Jair Bolsonaro for downplaying the gravity of the new coronavirus epidemic in a video clip

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson returned to Los Angeles on Friday after spending more than two weeks in quarantine in Australia after testing positive for the coronavirus.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Bob Dylan on Friday released a 17-minute song inspired by the assassination more than five decades ago of U.S. President John F.

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. rocker Jon Bon Jovi teamed up with Britain's Prince Harry and a military choir to release the single "Unbroken" on Friday to raise awareness of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's boy band BTS will postpone a North America tour that had been scheduled to kick off in April, due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic, its management said on

LONDON (Reuters) - Five guns which were used in "James Bond" movies, including the last weapon brandished by actor Roger Moore while playing 007, have been stolen from a house in north London by

By Jill Serjeant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - From family drama "This Is Us" to crime series "NCIS," audiences are flocking to television shows in numbers unseen for up to a year as coronavirus shutdowns

LONDON (Reuters) - Prince Harry and his wife Meghan have left Canada and moved to Los Angeles, where they plan to make a permanent home after stepping back from their royal duties, Britain's Sun

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Movie studios Walt Disney and Universal Pictures said on Thursday they were suspending the release of box office data because of the closure of movie theaters in multiple