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Massive explosion shakes Lebanon's capital Beirut

A massive explosion has shaken Lebanon's capital Beirut, wounding a number people and causing widespread damage.The afternoon blast shook several parts of the capital and thick smoke billowed from the city centre.Residents reported windows being blown out and a false ceilings dropping.The explosion appeared to be centred around Beirut's port and caused wide scale destruction and shattered windows miles away.An Associated Press photographer near Beirut's port witnessed people wounded on the ground and widespread destruction in central Beirut.Some local TV stations reported the blast was at Beir...

COVID-19 death toll rises past 150,000 in US

The COVID-19 death toll in the US has now hit 150,000. The total reported by Johns Hopkins University is the highest by far in the world. A number of states in the Sunbelt had seen surges in cases, with Florida reporting 216 today. South Carolina's death toll has more than doubled over the past month, surpassing 15-hundred earlier this week. More than 4.5 million people have been tested positive for COVID-19 in US so far. ...

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Virus vaccine put to final test in thousands of volunteers

A nurse in Binghamton, New York was one of the first to get a shot this morning as the world's biggest COVID-19 vaccine study got underway.The world's biggest COVID-19 vaccine test got underway Monday with the first of 30,000 plan...

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Trump says briefings will return amid surge in Covid-19 cases

US President Donald Trump's coronavirus briefings are coming back starting tomorrow afternoon. That will be a first since late April, when ratings began to slide and Trump mused about the possibility of using disinfectants inside...

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Experimental COVID-19 vaccine produces good early results in U.K.

There have been some minor side effects, but scientists at Oxford University say their experimental COVID-19 vaccine has produced good early results. The study conducted on about one-thousand people prompted a protective immune re...

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Twitter accounts of Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates hacked to apparent Bitcoin Scam

After many Twitter accounts belonging to Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Bill Gates among others were on Wednesday hacked to promote a bitcoin scam, the microblogging site said it is investigating the incident and taking steps to fix ...

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Lucky mistake helps a man win two million dollars

A man in suburban Detroit was given the wrong lottery ticket. But there was no mistake about the result: a $2 million winner.The Michigan Lottery said the man stopped at a gas station in Eastpointe, Michigan, to put air in a tire. He needed change for the air machine and also asked for a $10 Lucky 7's scratch-off ticket."The clerk handed me the $20 ticket by mistake. He offered to exchange it for me but something told me to keep it. I am sure glad I did!" the man said in a statement released Tuesday by the Lottery.The name of the 57 year old man wasn't released. He decided to take a lump sum o...

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Body found in search of lake for `Glee' star Naya Rivera

Authorities say a body has been found at a Southern California lake during the search for ``Glee'' star Naya Rivera. The Ventura County Sheriff's Office says in a tweet that the body was found Monday morning in the search of Lake...

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'Glee' star Naya Rivera believed drowned in California lake

Authorities said Thursday that they believe ``Glee'' star Naya Rivera drowned in a Southern California lake but they are continuing to search for her. Ventura County Sheriff's Sgt. Kevin Donoghue said Thursday there is no sign Ri...

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Iranian Officials Confirm Meeting Between Elon Musk and U.N. Ambassador

Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and a close adviser to Donald Trump, held a secret meeting with Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Saeed Iravani, at a undisclosed location in New York on Monday. According to reports, the me...

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