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The accused shooter is a refugee from Afghanistan.

Pope Leo travels to Lebanon today where he meets with leaders in a country that continues to be targeted by Israeli airstrikes.

NPR's Ruth Sherlock reports.

Pope Francis had hoped to visit Lebanon, but his failing health would not allow it.

I'm Louise Schiavone, NPR News, Washington.

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Venezuela is now responding after President Trump said Saturday that pilots should consider the airspace over and near that country closed.

As Julia Carnero reports, Venezuelan officials are calling the Trump statement a colonialist threat against their sovereignty.

The U.S.

military, family and friends last night honored U.S.

Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom, the 20-year-old soldier who died in an ambush while patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C.

At a vigil at her former high school in Webster County, West Virginia, school principal Greg Burleson remembered Beckstrom.

Like Beckstrom, Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe was critically injured, but he is still alive.

Suspect Ramanula Lakanwal, one of thousands of refugees from Afghanistan, now faces first-degree murder charges.

Police say he had driven across country to launch the ambush attack.

The Trump administration is halting all asylum decisions as a result of this shooting.

And they have paused the visa process for people traveling on Afghan passports.

and plan to review the status of Afghans already in the United States.

In Canada, Prime Minister Mark Carney says that he plans to travel to Washington in the coming week and will see President Trump.

But as Dan Karpinchuk reports, Carney also cautioned Canadians not to read too much into the visit,