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The winner of the biggest jackpot in North American history – $758.7m (£590m) – has come forward to collect her prize, lottery officials say. Mother-of-two Mavis Wanczyk, 53, bought the ticket at a Chicopee, Massachusetts, petrol station. The winner – whose lucky numbers were 6, 7, 16, 23 and 26, and 4 – told reporters […]

U.S. troops keep watch on the back of a truck outside their base in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan July 7, 2017 © Omar Sobhani / Reuters The new US strategy in Afghanistan has no chance for success, as it mainly relies on the use of force, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. “The main emphasis […]

  India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi hugs US President Donald Trump as they give joint statements in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, US June 26, 2017. REUTERS/ President Donald Trump has finally found time from the internal White House crises and racial tensions within the United States to address a much-awaited […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Sochi, Russia August 23, 2017 © Alexei Nikolsky / Reuters Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has warned Russian President Vladimir Putin that Israel is prepared to intervene in Syria to counteract the Iranian influence in the conflict. Moscow, which views Iran as key […]

Police patrol the seafront in Barcelona. Photo: AFP The jihadist cell behind last week’s twin attacks in Spain was built around a “guru” and went completely offline to avoid detection by anti-terrorist police, experts said. The group managed to evade authorities so well that even a giant explosion at their bomb factory in Alcanar, where police […]

An anchor in a Pointe-des-Cascades, Que., park is adorned with a swastika. The mayor said the anchor dates back to before  The municipality of Pointe-des-Cascades, Que., says it won’t remove an anchor adorned with a swastika in a neighbourhood park because the piece has historical significance. Last Thursday, Corey Fleischer, the founder of Erasing Hate, was called to Parc Saint-Pierre […]

Bombs hit close to Houthi-controlled capital, Sanaa, leaving dozens dead and injured, local media reports. At least 25 air raids hit Sanaa and its outskirts on Wednesday, according to local media [Reuters] AIR RAIDS INCREASING IN YEMEN An air attack on a hotel near the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, has killed at least 35 people, according […]

Al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) pound an Islamic State gathering in western Mosul. Tal Afar (IraqiNews.com) Islamic State has ordered militants to set their headquarters on fire and withdraw from open areas, according to intelligence of paramilitary troops. “The enemy ordered militants to burn their headquarters and withdraw from open areas in Tal Afar toward […]

Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Photo: DPA Germany’s foreign and justice ministers warned Tuesday that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was using “propaganda” to divide their country’s three-million-strong ethnic Turkish community. In a tough-worded commentary published amid a raging bilateral row, they warned that Germany’s democratic culture was at threat from the “radicalisation” of Erdogan’s politics, spreading through […]

An alleged member of the terror cell that unleashed carnage in Spain last week admitted to a judge on Tuesday that he and other suspects had planned a bigger attack, a judicial source said. Mohamed Houli Chemlal, 21, was the first of four surviving suspects to be questioned in Madrid’s National Court, which deals with […]