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At least nine people were killed Tuesday in a gunbattle between Philippine forces and suspected Abu Sayyaf terrorists on a central resort island.

Jonathan Martinez, 8, died shortly after being airlifted to a hospital, while a 9-year-old boy, was in stable condition.

A source close to the G7 talks said the inability of U.S. energy secretary Rick Perry to commit showed the isolation of the United States at the ministerial meeting.

A joint statement issued after the talks said Modi and Turnbull reiterated their support for continued bilateral nuclear cooperation and that they anticipated commercial export of Australian uranium to India could begin soon.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Monday his order to the military to reinforce areas in the South China Sea controlled by Manila was to maintain the geopolitical balance, and assured China no "offensive weapons" would be placed there.

Saudi Arabia's finance minister said on Sunday that citizens would not pay taxes on income and Saudi companies would not see their profits taxed under sweeping economic reforms being introduced in the oil-rich kingdom.

The consequences of this for regional and international stability could be extremely serious," Russia's deputy UN ambassador Vladimir Safronkov said.

Moscow considers the US strike on a Syrian airbase early on Friday as "aggression against a sovereign state," which will further harm US-Russia ties, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping opened their high-stakes summit at Trump's Florida beach resort on Thursday, with the urgent threat of North Korea's nuclear ambitions and tensions over trade on the agenda.

The United States and Russia were on a collision course over Syria on Wednesday after a horrific chemical attack so shocked President Donald Trump that Washington threatened unilateral US action.

On March 3, a 39-year-old Sikh man was shot near Seattle after the gunman allegedly told him to "go back to your own country".

Congresswoman Clinton? President Clinton? For now, Chelsea Clinton says her only plan is to burnish her profile as an author of children's books.

The absence of clear privacy rules means companies thatsupply internet service, and who can monitor how consumers use it, can continue to mine that information for use in their own advertising businesses.

America wants to bring Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to justice as he used chemical weapons and killed his own people, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has said.

A lawyer for former national security adviser Michael Flynn says he's in talks with congressional committees to testify before them in exchange for immunity from prosecution.

South Korea's ousted president Park Geun-Hye arrived at a detention centre near Seoul early on Friday after being arrested over the corruption and abuse of power scandal that brought her down.