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WASHINGTON/SEOUL,  (Reuters) – A special train possibly belonging to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was spotted this week at a resort town in the country, according to satellite images reviewed by a Washington-based North Korea monitoring project, amid conflicting reports about Kim’s health and whereabouts.

BERLIN (Reuters) – When he was diagnosed with COVID-19, Andre Bergmann knew exactly where he wanted to be treated: the Bethanien hospital lung clinic in Moers, near his home in northwestern Germany.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Whitney Houston is headed back to the big screen in a feature film about the singer’s life that took her to the heights of fame but ended in drug addiction and tragedy.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Coronavirus quarantine has supermodel Naomi Campbell reinventing herself as a talk show host with the new series “No Filter with Naomi.”

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Tom Hanks has sent a letter and a Corona brand typewriter to an Australian boy who wrote to him about being bullied over his name, Corona, Australian television networks reported on Thursday.

GENEVA, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) said today that there was currently “no evidence” that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second coronavirus infection.

GENEVA/ZURICH,  (Reuters) – World leaders pledged yesterday to accelerate work on tests, drugs and vaccines against COVID-19 and to share them around the globe, but the United States did not take part in the launch of the World Health Organization (WHO) initiative.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro suffered the heaviest blow to his presidency so far as his popular justice minister quit on Friday and accused him of potentially criminal meddling in law enforcement, adding to the turmoil of a government struggling to confront a fast-growing coronavirus outbreak.

(Reuters) – Oilfield services provider Halliburton Co said yesterday it would cease most of its operations in Venezuela after the U.S.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government yesterday announced new price controls on food products, the first time it has done so in two years, as the coronavirus outbreak and an acute gasoline shortage cause inflation to accelerate.

(Reuters) – Makers of household cleaners on Friday took the unusual step of urging people not to drink or inject their products, after U.S.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Indigenous tribes in Peru’s Amazon say the government has left them to fend for themselves against the coronavirus, risking “ethnocide by inaction,” according to a letter from natives to the United Nations and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – With the U.S. coronavirus death toll topping 51,000 and nearly one in six workers out of a job, Georgia, Oklahoma and several other states took tentative steps at reopening businesses yesterday, despite disapproval from President Donald Trump and medical experts.

 (Reuters) – Swiss food giant Nestle reported its best quarterly sales growth in nearly five years on Friday as consumers stockpiled everything from Purina pet food to Nescafe coffee to frozen meals to prepare for coronavirus lockdowns.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has fired the head of the federal police, the government said on Friday, in a political row as the coronavirus outbreak spreads deeper in the country.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Doctors and health experts urged people not to drink or inject disinfectant today after U.S.

ATLANTA,  (Reuters) – An array of U.S. merchants in Georgia and other states prepared yesterday to reopen for the first time in a month under newly relaxed coronavirus restrictions, as another week of massive unemployment claims highlighted the grim economic toll of the pandemic.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The coronavirus appears to weaken more quickly when exposed to sunlight, heat and humidity, a U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a $484 billion coronavirus relief bill yesterday, funding small businesses and hospitals and pushing the total spending response to the crisis to an unprecedented near $3 trillion.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – A record 26 million Americans sought unemployment benefits over the last five weeks, confirming that all the jobs created during the longest employment boom in U.S.