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EL ALTO, Bolivia (Reuters) - When the outbreak of COVID-19 shut their sons' school, Bolivian street vendors Angela Poma and Lorenzo Gutierrez made big changes to help their boys Willy, 9, and Carlos, ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, postponed for a year due to the coronavirus pandemic, will be held under unprecedented conditions and tight quarantine rules to prevent the spread of COVID-1...

By Pratima Desai LONDON (Reuters) - Consumer awareness of carbon emissions from the production of metals for the energy transition will eventually energise the recycling industry and stimulate searche...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's second most populous city of Melbourne will enter a snap lockdown from midnight on Friday to rein in a growing outbreak of COVID-19 infections, the Australian Broadcasti...

JAKARTA (Reuters) - The Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) has approved a $500 million loan for Indonesia to support its COVID-19 response, the bank said in a statement on Thurs...

By Natalie Thomas and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) - As England's so-called "freedom day" draws near, excitement at the impending end of COVID-19 restrictions is tempered by worries of rising cases...

(Reuters) - India reported on Thursday 41,806 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, health ministry data showed, with deaths rising by 581. (Reporting by Ankur Banerjee in Bengaluru; Editing by ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand has asked AstraZeneca to extend the timeline for the delivery of 61 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine from December to May 2022, Thai Deputy Health Minister Sathit Pit...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's economy is forecast to grow 2.2% this year, down from the 3.4% projected earlier, due to the impact of a third wave of COVID-19 infections and weak tourism, the World Ba...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese regulators have completed an expert review of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine developed by Germany's BioNTech and Fosun Pharma and the shot is in the administration review stage, ...