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Prince team sought addiction doctor’s help

May 05, 2016 in International

The day before Prince died, his team called an eminent opioid addiction specialist in California seeking help with “a grave medical emergency,” the Minneapolis Star Tribune newspaper reported. Dr. Howard Kornfeld sent his son on an urgent overnight flight to Prince’s Paisley Park estate in...

Islamic State kills U.S. serviceman in Iraq

May 03, 2016 in International

Islamic State fighters killed a U.S. serviceman in northern Iraq on Tuesday when they overran Kurdish defenses in the biggest attack in the area in recent months, officials said. The dead man was the third American to be killed in direct combat since a U.S.-led coalition...

Hungary to hold EU migrant quota referendum by October

May 03, 2016 in International

[caption id="attachment_10743" align="alignleft" width="300"] Migrants, hoping to cross into Hungary, walk with babies on their backs along a railway track outside the village of Horgos in Serbia, towards the border it shares with Hungary August 31, 2015.[/caption] Hungary will hold a referendum in September or early...

Brussels suspect ‘dumped metro bomb in toilet’

April 29, 2016 in International

[caption id="attachment_10730" align="alignleft" width="300"] A policeman takes a picture of messages on a commemorative wall at the Maelbeek - Maalbeek metro station on its re-opening day on April 25, 2016 in Brussels[/caption] A Swedish suspect in the Brussels and Paris attacks has told investigators that he...