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India will build pipelines to carry diesel and natural gas to Bangladesh as the world's third largest energy consumer looks to strengthen ties with the neighbour.

A relic hunter has found more than 14,000 dog tags buried in Britain, of soldiers who fought and died during the Normandy landings, a media report said.

Turkey said on Tuesday that tests proved the deadly nerve agent sarin was used in a suspected chemical attack in northwestern Syria which killed dozens last week.

Robert Bentley, 74, pleaded guilty in an agreement with prosecutors to two misdemeanor campaign violations and is barred from seeking public office again.

An ex-Navy SEAL, who claims to have killed Osama bin Laden, has revealed that the al-Qaeda chief's head was so severely destroyed by his gunfire that it had to be pressed back together for identification.

A US Navy carrier strike group was moving toward the Korean Peninsula as the United States boosts its defenses against North Korea's nuclear ambitions.

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.

A massive manhunt was underway for the driver of a stolen truck that ploughed into a crowd outside a busy department store in central Stockholm on Friday, killing four and injuring 15, Swedish police said.

At least 86 people including 27 children were killed early Tuesday in Khan Sheikhun and dozens more were being treated after they were found convulsing and foaming at the mouth.

Senior US lawmakers from both parties expressed support Thursday for President Donald Trump's ordered military strike on a Syrian air base, but some rank-and-file members warned against further action without congressional authorization.

A Tunisian court handed a British DJ a one year jail term in absentia Thursday after he played a remixed recording of the Muslim call to prayer, a judicial source said.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday ordered troops to occupy uninhabited islands and shoals it claims in the disputed South China Sea, asserting Philippine sovereignty in an apparent change of tack likely to anger China.

The death toll in the town of Idlib province has risen to 86, 30 of them children, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, with more than 160 wounded and others missing.

Estimating the security threat they pose their home countries on their return is also problematic, he said.

However, French Ambassador Francois Delattre told reporters that negotiations were being held "in a good spirit" and that "there is a chance" for agreement.

A top Syrian rebel representative says he holds U.N. mediator Staffan De Mistura "personally responsible" for the suspected chemical weapons attack that killed more than 70 people in northern Syria one day ago.