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LONDON,  (Reuters) – The true extent of Britain’s COVID-19 death toll was more than 40% higher than the government’s daily figures indicated as of April 10, according to data that put the country on track to become among the worst-hit in Europe.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President Donald Trump said yesterday he will suspend all immigration into the United States temporarily through an executive order in response to the coronavirus outbreak and to protect U.S.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – U.S. crude oil futures collapsed below $0 yesterday for the first time in history, amid a coronavirus-induced supply glut, ending the day at a stunning minus $37.63 a barrel as desperate traders paid to get rid of oil.

JERUSALEM,  (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his centrist election rival Benny Gantz signed a deal yesterday to form a national emergency government, ending a year of unprecedented political deadlock.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund may need to step outside its comfort zone and consider “exceptional measures” to help countries deal with the coronavirus pandemic and mitigate its economic impact, Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said yesterday.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Some 4.1% of adults tested positive for coronavirus antibodies in a study of Los Angeles County residents, health officials said yesterday, suggesting the rate of infection may be 40 times higher than the number of confirmed cases.

(Reuters) – Protests flared in U.S. states yesterday over stay-at-home orders while governors disputed President Donald Trump’s claims they have enough tests for the novel coronavirus and should quickly reopen their economies.

PORTAPIQUE, Nova Scotia,  (Reuters) – A gunman who at one point masqueraded as a policeman killed at least 16 people in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia during a 12-hour rampage, authorities said yesterday, in what was the country’s worst modern-era mass shooting.

BAUCHI, Nigeria  (Reuters) – Gunmen killed 47 people in attacks on villages in the northwestern Nigerian state of Katsina in the early hours of Saturday, local police said.

 (Reuters) – Governors in U.S. states hardest hit by the novel coronavirus sparred with President Donald Trump over his claims they have enough tests and should quickly reopen their economies as more protests are planned over the extension of stay-at-home orders.

RIYADH,  (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body, the Council of Senior Scholars, urged Muslims worldwide to pray at home during Ramadan if their countries require social distancing to curb the spread of the coronavirus, state news agency SPA reported on Sunday.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin said that Russian authorities had the coronavirus crisis under full control and that everything would work out with God’s help, even as the country today  registered a record daily rise in cases of the new virus.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Demonstrations to demand an end to stay-at-home measures that have pummelled the U.S.

JAKARTA, (Reuters) – Indonesia’s death toll from the new coronavirus has likely reached 1,000, nearly double the official figure of 535, Indonesian Doctors Association (IDI) chairman Daeng Faqih was quoted saying yesterday.

(Reuters) – Reverend Manuel Dorantes closed his eyes, took a breath to calm his fear and prayed when word came that Cardinal Blase Joseph Cupich had put out a call for volunteers.

LONDON (Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) is in the spotlight as it champions the global fight against the new coronavirus but faces a funding freeze from U.S.

(Reuters) – Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Fallon, John Legend and Eli Manning are among more than two dozen personalities who will offer words of wisdom via podcast to high school and college graduates sheltering at home due to the coronavirus outbreak, organizers said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday that China should face consequences if it was “knowingly responsible” for the coronavirus pandemic.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Doctors and health workers criticised the British government today for suggesting that personal protective equipment (PPE) worn while treating patients infected with coronavirus could be re-used, as supplies run low across the country.

(Reuters) – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said today  that a recent drop in hospitalizations and other improving metrics indicated the state may be past the peak of its coronavirus crisis and on a path toward stabilizing the healthcare system.