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John Prescott: Ex-deputy PM says Iraq War was illegal
John Prescott, who was deputy prime minister when Britain went to war with Iraq in 2003, says the invasion by UK and US forces was "illegal". Writing in the Sunday Mirror, he said he would live with the "catastrophic decision" for the rest of his life. Lord Prescott said he now agreed "with great...
Georgia Set to Execute Sixth Inmate This Year
An execution scheduled for Thursday would be the sixth in Georgia this year — the most executions carried out by the state in a calendar year since the death penalty was reinstated four decades ago. John Wayne Conner, 60, is scheduled to die by injection of pentobarbital at the state prison in Jackson. He was convicted of...
South Sudan clashes ‘leave dozens dead’ in Juba
Dozens of people have been killed by clashes in South Sudan's capital Juba, military, medical and journalistic sources have said. Gunfire broke out on Friday evening near the state house where President Salva Kiir was meeting his sometime rival, Vice-President Riek Machar. Estimates of the death toll vary, but most accounts...
Bombing at Turkey police station kills 3, agency reports
At least three people were killed and seven others were injured in a car bombing at a police station in southeastern Turkey Saturday, according to state-run news agency Anadolu. A security source and local officials said the blast in Mardin was the work of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Anadolu reported. "Mardin...
Dallas shooting: Obama denies US polarised after deaths
President Obama says the US is not as polarised as some have suggested in the wake of fatal shootings involving the African-American community. Five white police officers were shot dead during a protest rally in Dallas on Thursday. The march was against the killing of black men by police. Two deaths this week have led to...
Russia expels US diplomats in tit-for-tat row
Russia has expelled two US diplomats from Moscow, after the White House said it had ordered two Russian embassy staff to leave Washington. On Friday, the US State Department said their move came after a Russian policeman attacked a US diplomat near the US embassy in Moscow. That US diplomat has now been expelled from Moscow,...
Winning Ticket for $540 Million Mega Millions Jackpot Sold in Indiana
A winning ticket for Friday's $540 million Mega Millions jackpot was sold in Indiana, according to the California Lottery. "Congrats to the one #MegaMillions jackpot winner in Indiana," California Lottery tweeted early Saturday morning, following Friday's draw. he numbers drawn Friday night at 11 p.m. ET were...
More than 200 bodies recovered from migrant shipwreck, Italy says
Italian authorities have recovered 217 bodies from a migrant ship that sank off the coast of Libya in April 2015, the Italian navy said this week. Italian authorities have said only 28 people survived the disaster, which has been labeled one of the deadliest of the migrant crisis. Some 700 people were on board the ship when it...
The Latest: Belgium to Contribute 150 Soldiers to Lithuania
The Latest on the NATO Summit in Warsaw (all times local): 12:25 p.m. The Belgian foreign minister says his nation will provide at least 150 soldiers to a new multinational NATO battalion based in Lithuania. NATO leaders formalized an agreement at a NATO summit in Warsaw to create four battalions of about 1,000 soldiers each to...
Mexican Politician Tweets El Chapo Prison Photo to Dispel Rumors of an Escape
Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman remains in the confines of a Mexican prison, according to Mexican Secretary of the Interior, Miguel Ángel Osorio Chong, who tweeted a photo of the drug lord Friday night in an effort to dispel Internet rumors that he had escaped for a third time. "Los rumores, una images,"...
Екатерина Варнава тайно вышла замуж. Вы будете удивлены, когда узнаете, кто он
Как пишет издание, бракосочетание пары состоялось совсем недавно, в атмосфере строжайшей секретности. О торжественном событии в жизни Варнавы сообщила ее подруга и коллега...
North Korea fires submarine-based ballistic missile: South Korea
Seoul — North Korea fired a Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile from the seas southeast of Sinpo City in the country's east, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. The missile was launched at 11:30 a.m. local time Saturday (10:30 p.m. ET Friday) from near South Hamgyomg province. The launch itself was...