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Mauricio Antón/Wikimedia Commons A remote island in the Arctic ocean northeast of Siberia was identified as the resting place of the world’s last woolly mammoth population. A new study shows that these island mammoths outlived their North American and European counterparts by some 7,000 years, before going abruptly extinct. A genetic analysis reveals that these…

Britain’s biggest ever drug smuggling gang has been smashed after billions of pounds worth of narcotics was brought into the UK, the National Crime Agency believes. Officers arrested 13 men aged between 24 and 59 on Tuesday across the country in dawn raids. The NCA seized 351 kilos of cocaine, 92 kilos of heroin, 250…

Seven people have been injured in a suspected terror attack after a man drove a stolen lorry into a line of cars in Germany. A 32-year-old Syrian man is being held following the incident in the western town of Limburg, near Frankfurt, on Monday evening. Police have so far refused to comment publicly on the…

Frankfurt am Main (AFP) – German authorities Tuesday held on suspicion of attempted murder a Syrian man who hijacked an articulated lorry and smashed it into cars stopped at a traffic light in the city of Limburg, injuring several people. The 32-year-old will remain in custody, suspected of attempted murder and bodily harm as well…

By Andy Sullivan, Mark Hosenball and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney General William Barr has been traveling internationally to help investigate President Donald Trump’s complaints that his campaign was improperly targeted by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies during the 2016 presidential election. Democrats and some former law-enforcement officials say he is…

PIRAEUS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities are expanding a program to transfer migrants and refugees from overcrowded camps on the islands to the mainland amid concern that the number of arrivals from nearby Turkey could continue to rise. More than 500 asylum-seekers arrived early Monday on ferries from the islands at the port of Piraeus,…

The Russian navy is building new nuclear-powered submarines and deploying them more aggressively, seemingly reviving a Cold War approach to naval warfare. But in attempting to counter the Russian subs, the United States and NATO should avoid slipping back into its own Cold War ways, warned Andrew Metrick, an analyst with the Center for Strategic…

NEW CASTLE COUNTY, Del. — Three teens are dead, a 6-year-old boy is missing and a 16-year-old girl is being called the sole survivor after a vehicle crashed into a Delaware canal the Sunday morning, Delaware State Police said. At about 9:40 a.m., the vehicle, a Chevy HHR, went into the water on the south side…

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said Tuesday he would like to invite Rudy Giuliani, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, to discuss what he learned during his controversial investigation into Ukraine, former Vice President Joe Biden and Biden’s son Hunter.  Trump and Giuliani alleged that Biden used his role as vice president to oust a Ukrainian…

(Bloomberg) — One of Donald Trump’s biggest defenders in Congress rebuked the president’s decision to step aside from Kurdish allies in Syria while Turkey’s military advances, saying it would result in the re-emergence of ISIS. “ISIS is not defeated, my friend. The biggest lie being told by the administration is that ISIS is defeated,” Senator…