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By Leroy Leo and Christy Santhosh (Reuters) -Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday unanimously voted in favor of recommending that COVID-19 vaccines for 2024-25 should target a strain within the lineage of the JN.1 variant that has been dominant this year. The 16 advisors did not vote on whether to favor …

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By Jana Choukeir and Maya Gebeily BEIRUT (Reuters) -A gunman fired shots at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon on Wednesday and was wounded in an exchange of fire with troops, the Lebanese army said. The army said the attacker, a Syrian national, was detained and taken to hospital for treatment and soldiers were searching through …

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By Anthony Esposito MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President-elect Claudia Sheinbaum’s ruling coalition is close to securing a two-thirds majority in both chambers of Congress, which would pave the way to passing controversial constitutional reforms on its own. Preliminary results from Sunday’s election show Sheinbaum’s leftist Morena party and its allies will have the super-majority in …

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By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s cyber safety regulator on Wednesday decided to drop a legal challenge against Elon Musk-owned X over the removal of videos of the stabbing of an Assyrian church bishop in Sydney, after a setback last month in the federal court. Judge Geoffrey Kennett in May rejected a bid by …

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel believes that more than a third of the remaining Gaza hostages are dead, a government tally showed on Tuesday, as the United States sought to advance their recovery under a proposal to wind down the war with Hamas. Of about 250 people dragged into the Gaza Strip by Hamas-led Palestinian gunmen …

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By Timour Azhari and Laila Bassam BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iran-backed Shi’ite armed groups in Iraq have ramped up rocket and missile attacks on Israel in recent weeks, raising concerns in Washington and among some Iranian allies of potential Israeli retaliation and regional escalation should they draw blood.     Though the attacks, often from hundreds of …

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(Reuters) -Claudia Sheinbaum won a landslide victory to become Mexico’s first female president, inheriting the project of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador whose popular anti-poverty measures helped drive her triumph. Here are some reactions to Sheinbaum’s historic win: U.S. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: “I congratulate Claudia Sheinbaum on her historic election as …

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DUBAI (Reuters) – Forced displacement has pushed over a million people away from the Gazan city of Rafah, the United Nations Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) said on Monday. The small city on the southern edge of the Gaza Strip had been sheltering around 1 million Palestinians who fled Israeli assaults on other parts of the …

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