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• Little Troopers calendar features RAF hero hugging child

  Lucy Smith, now nine, can been seen on the airfield at Royal Air Force Akrotiri, in Cyprus, smiling proudly at her father Staff Sgt Martin Smith, 40, after months apart while he served in Iraq.

• How ISIS spread around the world as caliphate collapses

  In the past four weeks, ISIS cells have sprung up in several countries in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, including Belgium, Russia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

• ISIS schoolbooks are used to brainwash children in Iraq

  Iraq's Hashd al-Shaabi forces found the books in ISIS' last stronghold in Northern Iraq, when combing through the rubble of a school in a village on the outskirts of the town of Hawija.

• Go home, Tillerson tells Iranian-backed militias in Iraq

  RIYADH/DOHA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday it was time for Iranian-backed militias and their Iranian advisers who helped Iraq defeat Islamic State to "go home", after a rare joint meeting with the leaders of Iraq and Saudi Arabia.

• Slovenian President Pahor fails to win majority, faces runoff

  LJUBLJANA (Reuters) - Slovenian President Borut Pahor will face a second-round election on Nov. 12 after he fell short of a majority in Sunday's first round, as he tries to win a second five-year mandate.

• Putin critic Navalny, freed from jail, resumes presidential campaign

  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny held a political rally on Sunday, hours after being released from jail and pledged to continue his presidential campaign despite the authorities saying he is ineligible to stand.

• Jimmy Carter: Media tougher on Trump than any other president in memory

  Jimmy Carter, the 93-year-old former Democratic president, has had little in common with President Trump — until now.

• Jaguars swarm Colts, rack up 10 sacks in shutout victory

  The Jacksonville Jaguars sack Jacoby Brissett 10 times Sunday afternoon.

• Vikings pummel Ravens behind stifling defense, Forbath's leg

  Latavius Murray rushed for 113 yards and Kai Forbath kicked six field goals to lift the Minnesota Vikings to a 24-16 victory over the Baltimore Ravens.

• Body of Sherin Mathews, 3-year-old Texas girl missing for weeks, believed found, police say

  Authorities in Richardson, Texas, said Sunday they believe they have found the body of Sherin Mathews, the adopted 3-year-old girl who disappeared in the early hours of Oct. 7.

• Controversy after Ohio middle school choir sings cotton-picking song at concert

  Some parents at an Ohio middle school are outraged after hearing an eighth-grade choir sing about picking cotton mere days after other students in the district took photos and videos of themselves with a Confederate flag near the local high school.