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American lawmakers have applauded the Trump administration after the US military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on Islamic State targets in eastern Afghanistan, saying that "it sends a clear message" to terror groups in the region.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo on Thursday called WikiLeaks a "hostile intelligence service," using his first public speech as spy agency chief to denounce leakers who have plagued US intelligence.

US forces in Afghanistan on Thursday struck an Islamic State tunnel complex in eastern Afghanistan with "the mother of all bombs," the largest non-nuclear weapon ever used in combat by the US military, Pentagon officials said.

IS, notorious for their brutal reign of terror in Syria and Iraq, has made inroads into Afghanistan in recent years. They are known to be comprised of disaffected Pakistani and Afghan Taliban, as well as Uzbek Islamists.

Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav may face trouble as Uttar Pradesh police will collect his voice samples for forensic investigation in the IPS officer Amitabh Tahkur threat call case.

A shooting on Monday at a Southern California elementary school has left multiple gunshot victims, the San Bernardino County Fire Department said on its Twitter account.

The main suspect in the Stockholm truck attack is an Uzbek construction worker and father-of-four believed to have IS sympathies, who went underground to avoid deportation from Sweden, police and reports said on Sunday.

It's hard to miss: The Sikorsky S-76 carries Trump's name in bold red print on the tail and step, and his personal family seal. The billionaire turned president owns two.

An ex-Navy SEAL, who claims to have killed Osama bin Laden, has revealed that the al-Qaeda chief's head was so severely destroyed by his gunfire that it had to be pressed back together for identification.

A second suspect was arrested on Sunday in connection with the Stockholm truck attack that killed four people and injured 15, a district court said.

A retired Pakistan military officer, who had gone to seek employment in Nepal, has reportedly gone missing, sources said on Saturday.

Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has selected Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai to be a UN messenger of peace, the highest honor bestowed by the UN chief on a global citizen.

Russia demanded an emergency meeting after angrily denouncing the military action as an “aggression against a sovereign state.”

"When they separate us, it is like they are casting us aside. They are insulting us. Everywhere in the world, marathons are held on public streets -- not in a closed space," she said.

Nikki Haley, the tough-talking and blunt US Ambassador to the UN, was heckled during an annual summit on women as she spoke about President Donald Trump and Russia.

Even before North Korea's ballistic missile launch on Wednesday, Pyongyang's nuclear weapons programme was always going to dominate the Trump-Xi summit.