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Turkey, which backs Syrian rebel groups and which launched a ground operation in northern Syria past year, vowed to continue acting against groups it links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Turkey has thrown its weight behind the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the dominant KRG party in Sinjar, in a bid to stymie the PKK's influence in the region near the Syrian border.

Speaking at a news conference in Tel Aviv alongside Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Mattis also said that the Syrian Air Force has dispersed its combat aircraft in recent days. On April 4, an alleged chemical attack hit an opposition-held village in Syria, killing over 80 people, including children. It's one of the largest sanction actions in USA history.

French centrist presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron , center, poses for a picture after a visit at the Raymond Poincare hospital in Garches, outside Paris , France , Tuesday, April 25, 2017. De La Rochère continued by slamming Macron's "anti-family" policies saying that issues like maternity, the rights of orphans, gender identity, and various taxation schemes would harm French families.

It says President Donald Trump aims to pressure North Korea into dismantling its nuclear, ballistic missile and proliferation programs, and is engaging the global community to achieve that and persuade Kim Jong-un's government "to de-escalate and return to the path of dialogue".

Flynn also could face charges that he violated the Constitution's Emoluments Clause . Such a response from GOP President Donald Trump's White House to a bipartisan request from the government watchdog committee is "simply unacceptable", Cummings said at a joint news conference with Chaffetz in Washington , D.C.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau responded to the unexpected burst of tough rhetoric by vowing his government would be "very firm in defending Canada's interests". Freeland firmly denied that. NAFTA is a trade "disaster", Trump reiterated last week, returning to a theme that he pounded non-stop during the election campaign, namely that he will renegotiate a better deal for the US.

According to his lawyer, Dao lost two front teeth, incurred concussion and broke his nose. Overnight the airline said it was introducing new policies after the forced removal of a customer on United Express Flight 3411 drew the ire of thousands on social media.

The US and ally South Korea say its deployment, agreed past year, is meant to guard against missile threats from the nuclear-armed North. He was speaking to reporters ahead of a classified briefing by top administration officials to be held at the White House on Wednesday afternoon.

He then stressed his desire for world leaders to use their influence and power to look out for the less fortunate. Francis also said he hoped advancements in science and technology would lead to equality for all people, noting his family's immigrant past and the "culture of waste" that he detailed in his 2015 encyclical on protecting the environment, "Laudato Si".

Sims, an openly gay politician, received a hateful post on his Facebook page Wednesday that simply read, "N-- f--", from a user whose last name has since been blurred out. "He and I did speak briefly", Sims said. "It did not resolve anything". Bigoted posts like this are frequent on Sims' page, so much so that he's well-versed in the Facebook reporting process .

The destroyer USS Wayne E. Meyer is conducting exercises with a South Korean destroyer near the Korean Peninsula, while the USS Fitzgerald is doing drills with a Japanese destroyer west of Japan. Kim Sang-duk, who also goes by Tony Kim, worked at China's Yanbian University of Science and Technology (YUST), on the Chinese border with North Korea, for "many years", according to spokeswoman Choi Maehwa.