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The Syrian presidency has announced it's assembling a special taskforce to try to stop nearly a week of sectarian clashes in the southern Druze city of Sweida.

Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch, two Wall Street Journal reporters and the publication's owner, News Corp.

The child who died in a school coach crash in Somerset on Thursday was a 10-year-old boy, Avon and Somerset Police have said.

Dozens of Russian spies have been sanctioned by the government - including those responsible for targeting Yulia Skripal five years before her attempted murder in Salisbury.

A 65-year-old woman dubbed "gangster granny" by police has been jailed for running a UK-wide drug-dealing operation.

Israel and Syria have agreed to a ceasefire, the US ambassador to Turkey has said.

A man wearing a large metal necklace was pulled into an MRI machine in New York.

A school that took a 12-year-old girl out of a diversity class for wearing a Union Jack dress has told parents it has closed early for summer after being the target of "extremist abuse".

At least three people have been killed after a "horrific incident" at a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department training facility, officials have said.

A man accused of assaulting three police officers at Manchester Airport last year has told a court he did not know two of them were women.