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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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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Mexico has filed a lawsuit against several U.S. gun manufacturers over the flow of weapons across the southern border.

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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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Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday formally challenged in court a recent U.S. Justice Department order that his tax returns should be turned over to a House of Representatives committee.

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A thermal power plant on the Aegean Sea was evacuated on Wednesday as a deadly wildfire that has ravaged Turkey for the past week reached its outer edge.

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President Donald J. Trump pressed top Justice Department officials late last year to declare that the election was corrupt even though they had found no instances of widespread fraud, so that he and his allies in Congress could use the assertion to try to overturn the results, according to new documents provided to lawmakers and obtained by The New York Times.

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