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Pope Francis denounced "oppressive regimes" in his Easter message on Sunday but in an apparent call for restraint urged world leaders to prevent the spread of conflicts, as tensions rose in North Korea and Syria.

An Iraqi military officer says Islamic State militants have launched a gas attack in a newly-liberated area in western Mosul.

Up-to-date Microsoft customers are safe from the purported National Security Agency spying tools dumped online, the software company said Saturday, tamping down fears that the digital arsenal was poised to wreak havoc across the internet.

Eric Trump's visit to the UK was his fifth international trip since the beginning of 2017. He went to Uruguay and the Dominican Republic on his own and accompanied his brother Donald Trump Jr on his trips to dubai and Vancouver, Canada.

The top US military commander in Afghanistan said on Friday that the decision to deploy one of the largest conventional bombs ever used in combat was purely tactical, and made as part of the campaign against Islamic State-linked fighters.

The Syrian government's suspected chemical weapons attack on civilians last week amounts to a "war crime," the US State Department has said.

Russian authorities argue they took the best course of action faced with armed extremists, but many of the survivors and their relatives believe the security services were to blame for the firefight.

The body of a man, who witnesses said was tossed from a plane, landed on a hospital roof in Mexico's northern Sinaloa state on Wednesday, according to a public health service official in the region, which is home to notorious drug traffickers.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said ties with the United States have deteriorated under the administration of Donald Trump as their top diplomats locked horns on Wednesday over the Syrian conflict.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has said Kazakhs who join the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group will be deprived of their citizenship, MIR international TV channel reported on Tuesday.

Whitehead finished "The Underground Railroad" well before Donald Trump's election but now finds parallels with the present.

A Pakistani military court has handed down death penalty to alleged Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav. The verdict came barely six weeks after Pakistan foreign affairs advisor Sartaj Aziz discounted the possibility of Jadhav's extradition to India.

The army chiefs of Russia and Iran discussed the US strikes in Syria by phone on Saturday, and vowed to continue the fight against "terrorists" and their supporters, Iranian media reported.

The Swedish police on Friday released a picture of a suspect captured on video surveillance cameras near the Drottninggatan department store where the "terrorist attack" took place.

Moscow slammed the US strike on a Syrian airbase Friday as "aggression against a sovereign state", and suspended a bilateral agreement to help avoid clashes in the skies over the war-torn country.

The Somali-American president wore a military uniform as he declared a "new offensive against terrorist groups." He is giving extremists a 60-day amnesty to surrender.