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WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden denied today that he sexually assaulted a former U.S.

HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil Corp today posted its first quarterly loss in three decades on plunging oil demand and collapsing prices, reporting a $610 million quarterly deficit after a nearly $3 billion inventory writedown.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The White House let its 2-week-old economic reopening guidelines expire yesterday as half of all U.S.

OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada’s coronavirus curve is flat but worrying trends are emerging, particularly outbreaks in vulnerable indigenous communities, the country’s top medical officer said yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he was confident the coronavirus may have originated in a Chinese virology lab, but declined to describe the evidence, ratcheting up tensions with Beijing over the origins of the deadly outbreak.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors yesterday announced drug trafficking charges against a former chief of the Honduran National Police, the latest in a string of U.S.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – The World Health Organization is worried by the community spread of the new coronavirus in a significant number of West African countries, the regional head of the organization said today.

(Reuters) – The top U.S. infectious disease official said Gilead Sciences Inc’s experimental antiviral drug remdesivir will become the standard of care for COVID-19 after early clinical trial results on Wednesday showed it helped patients recover more quickly from the illness caused by the coronavirus.

SINGAPORE/BEIJING,  (Reuters) – China’s Zijin Mining has warned Papua New Guinea that its failure to renew the lease of a gold mine it jointly owns with Barrick Gold Corp there could damage bilateral relations.

(Reuters) – About two dozen migrants deported from the United States on a flight to Colombia last month have since tested positive for the coronavirus, two people familiar with the matter said, adding to worries U.S.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – A large crowd of Venezuelan migrants held up traffic on a Bogota highway yesterday, demanding to be allowed to leave Colombia and return to Venezuela, as Colombia’s coronavirus lockdown has crippled their ability to earn to living.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Some 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, representing nearly half of the global labour force, are in immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) said today.

FREETOWN, (Reuters) – Smoke billowed from the central prison in Sierra Leone’s capital and gunfire could be heard from nearby streets today after a riot broke out following the confirmation of a coronavirus case there, a Reuters reporter said.

WASHINGTON/NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – The U.S. coronavirus death toll reached a grim milestone yesterday, surpassing the number of American lives lost in the Vietnam War, as Florida’s governor met with President Donald Trump to discuss easing shutdowns aimed at curbing the pandemic.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday named a family friend to head the federal police, days after his justice minister quit and accused the president of meddling in law enforcement for political motives.

MADRID,  (Reuters) – Spain announced a four-phase plan yesterday to lift one of the toughest coronavirus lockdowns in Europe and return to normality by the end of June as the daily death toll fell to 301, less than a third of a record high of 950 in early April.

TRIPOLI, Lebanon,  (Reuters) – Protests against growing economic hardship erupted in Tripoli and spread to other Lebanese cities on Tuesday, with banks set ablaze and violence boiling over into a second night.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Millions of Americans who have been thrown out of work during the coronavirus pandemic have been unable to register for unemployment benefits since the U.S.

TOKYO, (Reuters) – It is too early to consider lifting Japan’s state of emergency over the novel coronavirus, the head of a powerful physicians’ lobby said today, adding Tokyo would find it tough to host next year’s Olympics without an effective vaccine.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – Georgia, at the vanguard of states testing the safety of reopening the U.S.