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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
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.
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.
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.
Alex gusts into first hurricane formed in January since 1938
TAMPA, Fla. Hurricane Alex blasted into the record books on Thursday as the first Atlantic hurricane to form during the month of January in more than three-quarters of a century, U.S. weather forecasters said.
Belgian-Moroccan was third person killed in post Paris attack police raid
PARIS A man who died in a Nov. 18 police assault in Saint-Denis, near Paris, days after attacks in the French capital that killed 130 people, has been identified as a Belgian Moroccan national, the Paris prosecutor said on Thursday.

