Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialized nations met in Italy on Monday, looking to put pressure on Russia to break its ties with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

A suspect arrested on Friday after a stolen truck barreled into pedestrians on a busy Stockholm street -- leaving at least four people dead -- is being held of suspicion of perpetrating a terror attack, a government official has said. The man in custody, whose appearance matches the description of a person of interest, is being held on "suspicion of terrorist crimes through murder," Karin Rosander, spokeswoman for Sweden's prosecutor's office, told CNN via email early Saturday.

The United States launched a military strike Thursday on a Syrian government target in response to their chemical weapons attack that killed dozens of civilians earlier in the week.

 Russia has been sharply criticised by other world powers at the UN Security Council in New York over the chemical weapons deaths in northern Syria. Moscow's suggestions that civilians were poisoned by rebel weapons on the ground have been widely rejected.

A suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held Syrian town has drawn widespread international condemnation. At least 72 people, including 11 children, were killed in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib province, on Tuesday, according to the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS), which runs several field hospitals in the area. More than 550 people were injured.

 Donald Trump’s warning that he could take unilateral action to eliminate North Korea’s nuclear threat has sparked alarm among some analysts in Asia about the implications for South Korea, Japan and China of a military conflict with Pyongyang.

A 17-year-old asylum seeker was brutally beaten by a gang of thugs in a suspected hate crime in south London. The boy is believed to have been waiting at a bus stop with two friends outside a pub in Croydon when he was set upon by a group of eight men.