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This is AP News Minute.

The Russian military says it has successfully tested its latest intercontinental ballistic missile. President Vladimir Putin said that the Sarmat missiles can't be intercepted¹ and are capable of striking targets anywhere in the world.

The widow of the gunman who killed 49 people at a gay Orlando nightclub has been acquitted² on charges of lying to the FBI and helping³ her husband in the 2016 attack. Noor Salman was found not guilty of charges of obstruction⁴ and providing material support to a terrorist organization.

A British man accused of belonging to an Islamic State group cell that captured, tortured and killed western hostages in Syria says their killing⁵ was "regrettable" and could have been avoided. Alexanda Amon Kotey tells the Associated Press in an interview that many people within this Islamic State group would have disagreed with the executions.

Pope Francis presided over the Lord's Passion Mass at St. Peter's Basilica as part of solemn services, marking the Good Friday holiday. At the start of the most solemn period of the Catholic church calender, Francis struggled to lay prostrate⁶ in front of the altar in the basilica before the chant-filled evening service got underway.

This is Julian Stiles, the Associated Press, with AP News Minute.