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A western Massachusetts woman has stepped forward to claim one of the biggest lottery prizes the world as seen in years, US$758 Million.  53-year old mother of two Mavis Wanczyk of Chicapee bought her Powerball ticket on her way home from her job of three decades at a local hospital.  On Thursday, she quit. 
Mavis Wins A Lot
"The first thing I want to do is just sit back and relax," Ms. Wancyk said, "I had a pipe dream, and it came true."  She's taking the lump sum instead of the yearly payments, which - after taxes - comes out to north of US$350 Million (upwards of AU$450 Million).  Usually, lottery winners don't come forward this quickly and first seek counsel with an attorney and financial advisors before claiming their prizes.. good luck, Mavis.

She might want to spend some of that to build a fall-out shelter, after North Korea released a photograph of leader Kim Jong-un standing next to a diagram of a three-stage rocket called a Hwasong-13. 
Kim Pointing At Hwasong Missile Plan/North Korea
If North Korea has developed this technology, Kim Dong-yub of Kyungnam University's Institute for Far Eastern Studies in Seoul says it could "strike all of the mainland United States", as well as Australia and New Zealand, and all of Europe.  Although the war of words between Washington and Pyongyang has cooled in recent days, you can bet this was deliberate:  North Korea wants the US to know that it now has an ICBM that can reach any US target.

Speaking of actions meant to send a message, Qatar restored full diplomatic relations with Iran on Thursday.  That's a move sure to tweak the noses of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other Gulf States taking part in the diplomatic and economic blockade of their neighbor - not to mention the US.  Mediation by the United States, Kuwait, and Germany has failed to resolve the feud.  The Saudi group claims Qatar sponsors terrorism and is too close to Iran, but skeptics believe it is more to try and force Qatar to shut down the Al Jazeera news network which reports news from countries that don't appreciate a free media.

US Secretary of Defense Jim "Mad Dog" Mattis visited Ukraine, where he said the US is considering providing Kiev with weapons to stand up to Russian violations of its borders.  "Defensive weapons are not provocative unless you are an aggressor, and clearly Ukraine is not an aggressor since it is their territory where the fighting is happening," Mattis said at a joint news conference with Ukrainian President Petro Poroschenko.  The defense and state departments have recommended supplying Kiev with Javelin anti-tank missiles.

The Russian ambassador to Sudan was found dead in his swimming pool at his residence in Khartoum, where officials claim the death was due to natural causes.  It makes Mirgayas Shirinsky the fourth Russian diplomat to die under weird circumstances in the last year.  In February, Russian UN ambassador Vitaly Churkin died suddenly in his New York office; a month earlier, Russian ambassador to India Alexander Kadakin died after a brief illness; and a month before that, Russian ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov was shot dead in Ankara by a Turkish policeman apparently in protest at Russian involvement in Syria.  Oscar Wilde could not be reached for comment.  

There is a brewing Human Rights crisis in the Russian Republic of Chechnya:  Authorities are reportedly forcing divorced woman to remarry their ex-spouses - even if that means the man has two wives.  Chechya is ruled with an iron fist by Ramzan Kadyrov, a self-described devout Muslim and fiercely loyal ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who lets him get away with this shyte.  Earlier this year, Kadyrov's security forces were caught rounding up, torturing, and possibly killing members of the LGBT community, as well as forcing their families to denounce them.  The Soviet Union sent the first female Cosmonaut into space in the 1960s, and women were scientists, doctors, and academics.  So, how are things going with capitalism and Putin?

The mother of Julian Cadman was moved out of intensive care in a Barcelona hospital on Thursday.  Jumarie "Jom" Cadman was one of scores of people injured when terrorists rammed a van into pedestrians in a Barcelona pedestrian mall - 7-year old Julian was one of the 14 people killed in the terror spree.  The cell that carried out the attacks has been busted. 

Eight people are missing in a giant mudslide in a remote Swiss Alpine valley popular with hikers.  German, Austrian and Swiss citizens are among those missing in the Val Bondasca region.

Chile arrested a 91-year old former intelligence service general when he failed to show up as scheduled for his prison term.  General Hector Orozco was found guilty of the 1973 murders of two human rights activists - both shot in the back - during the fascist dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.  His family claims he has senile dementia, but the judge said Orozco was "lucid and can be taken in to serve the sentence in normal conditions".