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By Junno Arocho EstevesVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis strongly condemned a shockingchemical attack in Syria that left some 70 people, including at least 10 children, dead."We are horrified by the latest events in Syria. Istrongly deplore the unacceptable massacre that took place yesterday in the Idlibprovince, where dozens of civilians, including many children, were killed,"the pope said April 5 before concluding his weekly general audience in St.Peter's Square. Images of dead men, women and children lying on the streetsprovoked international outrage following the attack April 4 in a rebel-held area. Western leaders have accused Syrian President Bashar Assad and the country'smilitary of perpetrating the attack, based on reports that warplanes dropped chemical bombs in theearly morning. According to The New York Times, the Syrian military deniedattacking the town and said the attack was caused by insurgents who blame theSyrian government for similar attacks "every time they fail...
NEW YORK (AP) -- Barry Manilow tells People magazine that he hid being gay for decades because he thought he would be "disappointing fans if they knew."...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas' parole board on Wednesday recommended that Gov. Asa Hutchinson extend mercy to one of eight inmates scheduled to die in an unprecedented series of double-executions this month....
CLINTON, Md. (AP) -- The military says a fighter jet pilot on a training mission ejected safely before the aircraft crashed a few miles from the U.S. capital....
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) -- Doll maker Irina Medyantseva was taking the subway in St. Petersburg Monday afternoon to see off her daughter, who was about to hop on a train to another Russian town. Neither ever made it to the railway station....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States and Russia traded conflicting assertions Wednesday about who launched a chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed 72 people, as world leaders grasped for a response to the latest atrocity in Syria's intractable civil war....
BEIRUT (AP) -- The death toll from a suspected chemical attack on a northern Syrian town rose to 75 on Wednesday as activists and rescue workers found more terrified survivors hiding in shelters near the site of the assault, one of the deadliest in Syria's civil war....
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- A North Korean missile test ended in failure Wednesday when the rocket spun out of control and plunged into the ocean in a fiery crash, a senior U.S. defense official said....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Democratic senator yielded the Senate floor Wednesday morning after talking through the night to highlight his party's opposition to President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has removed chief strategist Steve Bannon from the National Security Council, reversing a controversial early decision to give Bannon access to the high-level meetings....
