WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that the United States will give nearly $100 million in additional humanitarian aid to Lebanon. Beirut on Wednesday marked one year since a catastrophic explosion at the city's port devastated the capital. Since then, the country has been mired in a financial depression worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Reporting by Jeff Mason;

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All 16 and 17-year-olds are to be offered a first dose of a coronavirus vaccine, the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has recommended.



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Rocket warning sirens sounded in northern Israel near the Lebanese border on Wednesday, the Israeli military said. There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties. The military said in a statement the alerts sounded in at least three communities near the border with Lebanon. The border has been mostly quiet since Israel fought a 2006 war against Hezbollah guerrillas

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Kyiv police detained a man who forced his way into Ukraine's main government building on Wednesday morning and threatened to detonate a grenade, head of the National Police Ihor Klymenko said. "We were able to get out of this situation, neutralize this criminal," Klymenko told a briefing. He said the man, whose demands were unclear, was identified as a veteran of the war with

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U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged Republican leaders in Florida and Texas - home to roughly a third of all new U.S. COVID-19 cases - to follow public health guidelines on the pandemic or "get out of the way" as the country struggles to contain the rapid spread of the disease's Delta variant.

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Ten people were killed and 12 injured on Wednesday when a van carrying more than 25 migrant workers crashed in southern Texas, about 90 miles (150 km) from the United States-Mexico border, local media reported.



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The Biden administration is developing a plan to require nearly all foreign visitors to the United States to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as part of eventually lifting travel restrictions that bar much of the world from entering the United States, a White House official told Reuters on Wednesday.

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Sixty-three percent of registered voters in New York think Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) should resign after an independent investigation found he sexually harassed almost a dozen women and broke state and federal law, according to a poll released Wednesday.

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The US private sector added much fewer jobs than expected last month as several states began ending enhanced unemployment benefits and COVID cases crept higher, driven by the surging Delta variant.

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Russia’s media regulator has blocked two online news outlets critical of the Kremlin in the latest move against independent media ahead of parliamentary elections in September.

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