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Air Force deploys new handgun as it modernizes weapons The Air Force has started deployment of its new M18 Modular Handgun System.

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At least 25 Central American migrants die in Mexico accident Authorities in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas say at least 25 Central American migrants have died when the truck they were traveling in overturned.

Mahathir meets Philippine Muslim rebel chief-turned-governor Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday met a Filipino Muslim rebel leader who has become a regional governor under a Malaysian-brokered peace deal, telling him while it's easier to shoot and kill than to develop a nation, prosperity can only happen in the absence of war.

Popular support for militants complicates Pakistan crackdown On the congested streets of Bahawalpur, a city in southern Pakistan's jihadi heartland, emotions run high in favor of Jaish-e-Mohammad, a U.N.-designated terror group that recently pushed nuclear-armed India and Pakistan to the brink of war.

At hearing, Amazon tribe accuses Brazil army of atrocities First the helicopters arrived, dropping chemical bombs.

Venezuela engulfed by darkness amid massive outage Much of Venezuela remains engulfed by darkness amid one of the largest power outages in years, raising tensions in a country already on edge from ongoing political turmoil.

Britain take steps to protect woman detained in Iran The U.K. government has decided to provide diplomatic protection to a British-Iranian woman detained in Iran for nearly three years.

Malaysia coroner find no crime in death of Dutch model A Malaysian coroner has ruled that there was no criminal involvement in the death of an 18-year-old Dutch model whose nude body was found after plunging from a condominium.

At least 4 dead in clash between Papuans, Indonesia military Three Indonesian soldiers and at least one Papuan independence fighter were killed in a gunbattle, the military said, adding to more than two dozen deaths in the conflict since November.

China calls US-North Korea summit an 'important step' China's foreign minister says the U.S.-North Korea summit in Vietnam last week was an "important step" toward denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula.

Analysts: Normal operations restored at NKorean launch site U.S. analysts say North Korea appears to have restored normal operations at a long-range rocket launch site it partially dismantled last year as part of disarmament steps.

Finland's Prime Minister Juha Sipila will officially offer his government's resignation to the president on Friday at 0800 GMT, the president's office said in a statement. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2H7ZI8u

The Finnish government will on Friday announce that it has ditched plans for major healthcare and social services reform, Finland's public broadcaster Yle said, citing unnamed government sources. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2NPwoUo

Voters in Northern Ireland want the softest possible Brexit and would prefer checks on goods traveling between Great Britain and Northern Ireland rather than checks on the Irish border, a poll for the Irish Times showed on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2H7FOdG

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday his ruling nationalist Fidesz party may drop out of the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) amid a row over his government's anti-Brussels media campaign. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2NNDJnG

A stop to the work on a high-speed rail link with France would cost Italy more than 3 billion euros ($3.36 billion), a junior minister for infrastructure told Corriere della Sera in an interview on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2VKKpp8

Italy's ruling League party will never vote in parliament to block construction of a multibillion-euro Alpine tunnel that its coalition partner, the 5 Star Movement fiercely opposes, Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Friday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2tUeerD

Amid the poverty and deprivation of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian women struggle to find a taste of normality that is taken for granted in much of the rest of the world. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Hm2c2f

Two months ago, giggles floated through the home of fisherman Dada as his four-year-old son played ball outside with his two younger cousins on one of Madagascar's famed sun soaked beaches. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2IY9D23

In a radiation-proof room at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, Emar Thomasa sits behind shielded glass as he carefully measures and mixes lutetium octreotate, an intravenous treatment for certain types of cancer. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2XMwVuT