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Three winning jackpot tickets in U.S. for $1.6 billion Powerball

LOS ANGELES Three unremarkable towns in California, Florida and Tennessee achieved overnight celebrity status on Thursday as the places where a trio of winning Powerball jackpot tickets were sold, even as the identities of those who will share the record $1.6 billion prize remained a mystery. | Video

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Truck bomb attack by Kurdish militants kills six in southeast Turkey

CINAR, Turkey Kurdish militants have attacked a police station in southeast Turkey with a truck bomb, killing six people including a baby and two toddlers, in one of the biggest strikes since the conflict reignited in July, security officials said on Thursday. | Video

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Netanyahu says Israel and EU need to reset ties

JERUSALEM Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the European Union on Thursday of holding his country to a double standard, and reserved special criticism for Sweden, saying its call to investigate Israel was outrageous, immoral and stupid.

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Nigeria launches new investigation of 2014 kidnap of Chibok girls

ABUJA Nigeria's president Muhammadu Buhari has ordered a new investigation into the kidnapping of 219 schoolgirls by Islamist group Boko Haram in April 2014 from the town of Chibok, the presidency said on Thursday.

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Obama says will focus on criminal justice reform, cancer research

BATON ROUGE, La. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that he will focus his final-year legislative efforts on criminal justice reform, an expansion of a tax credit for the working poor, and a push to find medical research breakthroughs.