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PA Lottery: $650,000 Cash 5 Jackpot Ticket Sold at Chestnut Hill ACME Markets

PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 21 -- Last Saturday at the ACME Markets on Crittenden Street in Chestnut Hill, a $650,000 lottery ticket was purchased. Five days later, nobody has come forward to claim it. The Pe... Read More


Kushner Pressed Netanyahu Not to Obstruct Gaza Plan. Netanyahu Named a Date.

JERUSALEM, Aug. 20 -- The Gaza agreement has never had an answer to one question: what makes Israel move. On Monday it got one, and it is not diplomatic. It is October 27. Jared Kushner spent more th... Read More


US Clears $4.5bn Tanker Sale to Qatar as the Gulf Turns Against Iran

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- The State Department approved a possible sale to Qatar on Thursday of up to four KC-46A aerial refuelling aircraft and the equipment to run them, at an estimated cost of $4.5bn.... Read More


Iran Calls Trump's 'Economic D-Day' a Crime Against Humanity

TEHRAN, Aug. 20 -- Iran's foreign ministry reached for the language of international criminal law on Thursday, and the choice of words is the point. Washington's sanctions, it said in a statement, wil... Read More


Moscow Says Poland Regrets Arming Ukraine. Warsaw's Own Figures Tell a Longer Story.

New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- Maria Zakharova told her weekly briefing on Thursday that Poland appears to be beginning to regret sending Ukraine more than $4.5bn in weapons, and that Warsaw has received littl... Read More


Trump Cuts Ulchi Freedom Shield in Half, South Korea Finds Out on Truth Social

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- South Korea's foreign minister learned that the United States was ending the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises six days early the same way much of official Seoul did: by reading Do... Read More


Poland Deported 6,000 This Year as Public Opinion on Ukrainians Turned

WARSAW, Aug. 20 -- When the war began in February 2022 and Poland opened its border to people fleeing it, 94 percent of Poles told pollsters they approved. In July this year, for the first time in the... Read More


Armenia Weighs a Full-Size Nuclear Plant to Feed Its AI Ambitions

New Delhi, Aug. 20 -- Asked on Thursday whether he ruled out building a conventional nuclear power plant, Nikol Pashinyan gave a two-word answer. He does not. What made the question worth asking is th... Read More


US Employers Face the Fastest Health Cost Rise in 15 Years, and Workers Will Pay

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- The number that reaches an American worker is not the one in the survey. Employers are projecting a median health care cost increase of about 10 percent for 2027, the fastest gr... Read More


Barzani Says Patriot Withdrawal Leaves Kurdistan Exposed Days After Drones Hit His Office

ERBIL, Aug. 20 -- Two drones came in from the Iranian border on Monday and struck the private office of the man who runs Iraq's Kurdistan Region, along with the residence of his intelligence chief. No... Read More