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US pending home sales trended higher before virus outbreak

BALTIMORE - Americans signed more contracts in February to buy homes, but the gains are likely relics of a moment before the coronavirus outbreak sent the U.S. economy spiraling into a likely recessio...

Mar 30, 2020

Dubai Expo 2020 recommends postponing a year amid virus

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Dubai's Expo 2020 should be postponed to next year over the new coronavirus pandemic, local organizers recommended Monday, pushing back a world's fair that the sheikhdom ...

Mar 30, 2020

Longtime soap opera actor John Callahan dies at 66

LOS ANGELES - Actor John Callahan, known for playing Edmund Grey on "All My Children" and also starring on other soaps including "Days of Our Lives," "Santa Barbara" and "Falcon Crest," has died. He w...

Mar 30, 2020

City at centre of China's virus outbreak gradually revives

WUHAN, China - Shopkeepers in the city at the centre of China's virus outbreak were reopening Monday but customers were scarce after authorities lifted more of the anti-virus controls that kept tens o...

Mar 30, 2020

Spain passes China in infections; Trump extends US lockdown

MADRID - In an abrupt turnaround, President Donald Trump extended lockdown measures across the United States as deaths in New York from the new coronavirus passed 1,000. Spain on Monday became the thi...

Mar 30, 2020

Asian shares extend losses as toll from pandemic surges

BANGKOK - Asian shares started the week with fresh losses as countries reported surging numbers of infections from the coronavirus that has prompted shutdowns of travel and business in many parts of t...

Mar 29, 2020

Fauci says coronavirus deaths in US could top 100,000

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government's foremost infection disease expert says the United States could experience more than 100,000 deaths and millions of infections from the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Anth...

Mar 29, 2020

Uganda's Bobi Wine sings against virus, criticizes leaders

KAMPALA, Uganda - Ugandan pop star and opposition leader Bobi Wine, who released a song urging Africa's people to wash their hands to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, is criticizing African gov...

Mar 29, 2020

Rosneft hands Venezuelan oil business to Russian state firm

MOSCOW - Russia's Rosneft oil company said Saturday that it's halting operations in Venezuela and selling its assets there to a company fully owned by the Russian government, a move apparently intende...

Mar 28, 2020

Former Sen. Tom Coburn, known as a political maverick, dies

OKLAHOMA CITY - Former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn, an Oklahoma family doctor who earned a reputation as a conservative political maverick as he railed against federal earmarks and subsidies for the rich, ha...

Mar 28, 2020