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-- 2019-04-25 11:06:40
An explosion occurred in a town east of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, on Thursday but there were no casualties, a police spokesman said. Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said police were investigating t...
-- 2019-04-25 10:32:32
Details began to emerge in Sri Lanka on Wednesday of a band of nine, well-educated Islamist suicide bombers, including a woman, from well-to-do families who slaughtered 359 people in Easter Sunday bom...
BBC 2019-04-25 10:27:20
Sri Lanka has admitted a "major intelligence lapse" before the Easter Sunday bomb attacks which killed 359 people and wounded more than 500. An Indian intelligence warning from the beginning of the m...
-- 2019-04-24 18:57:34
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reached Russia on Wednesday for a summit with President Vladimir Putin. A train carrying Kim arrived in the Russian Pacific city of Vladivostok on Wednesday, in advan...
-- 2019-04-24 18:43:32
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has asked the police chief and defence secretary to quit following recent series of bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels that killed 359 people. Two so...
BBC 2019-04-24 13:30:05
Sri Lanka's president has vowed to overhaul state security after several bomb blasts on Sunday killed 359 people and wounded about 500. On Tuesday, Maithripala Sirisena said warnings had not been sha...
Reuters 2019-04-24 13:23:28
Three people were killed in an explosion at a privately owned chemical plant in China’s Inner Mongolia region, the official Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday. The blast happened in the e...
-- 2019-04-24 11:34:40
In the wake of the Christchurch attack, New Zealand said on Wednesday that it would work with France in an effort to stop social media from being used to promote terrorism and violent extremism. Prim...
-- 2019-04-24 10:55:51
Sri Lankan police said on Wednesday they had detained 18 more people for questioning over the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels, claimed by the Islamic State group, as the death toll climbe...
-- 2019-04-24 10:34:01
More than 50 people were feared to have been killed in Myanmar when jade miners and machinery were buried under a mound of tailings late on Monday, a member of parliament and a rescue worker said. Th...
-- 2019-04-23 21:25:35
Sri Lankan intelligence officials were tipped off about an imminent attack by Islamist militants hours before a series of suicide bombings killed more than 300 people on Easter Sunday, three sources w...
-- 2019-04-23 17:29:54
Terrorist outfit Islamic State has claimed responsibility for series of bombings in Sri Lanka that killed 321 people and injured about 500 others. According to Reuters, the terrorist group’s AM...
-- 2019-04-23 16:34:48
Singapore Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat was promoted to deputy prime minister on Tuesday, strengthening expectations he will take over as the next leader of the wealthy city-state. Heng’s pro...
-- 2019-04-23 16:20:38
Sri Lanka’s junior minister for defence Ruwan Wijewardene has said the bomb attacks on Easter Sunday were retaliation for a recent attack on mosques in New Zealand. “The initial investiga...
-- 2019-04-23 16:04:58
China’s national space agency will soon announce rules to regulate commercial rocket manufacturing, test flights and launches as the number of private start-ups in the nascent sector surged in t...
-- 2019-04-23 12:09:40
Sri Lankan police are holding a Syrian national in custody for questioning over the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels, three government and military sources told Reuters news agency on Tues...
-- 2019-04-23 12:00:05
China’s embassy in Sri Lanka on Tuesday warned Chinese nationals against traveling to Sri Lanka in the near term, after bomb blasts ripped through churches and luxury hotels across the island na...
Mir Mostafizur Rahaman from Beijing 2019-04-23 11:52:16
The Belt and Road News Network (BRNN), a platform of 182 media outlets from 86 countries, was launched in Beijing on Tuesday. Mr Huang Kunming, a politbureau member of the Communist Party of China an...
-- 2019-04-23 11:18:53
Rescue teams in the Philippines searched for signs of life beneath the rubble of a collapsed four-storey commercial building on Tuesday after a strong earthquake shook the country’s biggest isla...
-- 2019-04-23 11:16:31
As a state of emergency took effect on Tuesday giving the Sri Lankan military war-time powers, police arrested 40 suspects, including the driver of a van allegedly used by suicide bombers involved in...
-- 2019-04-23 10:26:38
Sri Lankans woke to emergency law on Tuesday as authorities searched for those behind suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels that killed 290 people at the weekend, with the focus turning t...
-- 2019-04-23 10:02:31
Voting began in the third and largest phase of India’s staggered general election on Tuesday, including in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat and Kerala, where opposition...
Reuters 2019-04-23 09:31:30
Myanmar’s top court on Tuesday rejected the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail for breaking the Official Secrets Act, in a landmark case that has raised questions a...
-- 2019-04-22 19:44:44
The Jamaat al-Tawhid al-Watania group has claimed responsibility for the series of bomb attacks carried out in Sri Lanka on Sunday. A Russian news agency, Tass, gave the information quoting the Al-Ar...
-- 2019-04-22 17:31:47
A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck the central Philippines on Monday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, and a Reuters witness said office buildings swayed in the main business district of the capit...
-- 2019-04-22 17:09:17
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena will declare a nationwide emergency from midnight on Monday following Easter Sunday suicide bomb blasts at churches and luxury hotels that killed 290 people a...
-- 2019-04-22 14:50:35
Sri Lankan authorities ordered a curfew in the capital, Colombo, for a second day on Monday, from 8pm (1430 GMT) to 4am (2230 GMT) on Tuesday, the government information department said, a day after a...
-- 2019-04-22 13:38:09
The coordinated Easter Sunday bombings that ripped through Sri Lankan churches and luxury hotels were carried out by seven suicide bombers, a government investigator said Monday. An analysis of the a...
-- 2019-04-22 09:32:58
The death toll in Sri Lanka has soared to 290 after a wave of blasts hit churches and luxury hotels across the country, police said on Monday. The death toll overnight had stood at 207. Law enforce...
-- 2019-04-21 22:20:30
World leaders have condemned a series of blasts in Sri Lanka that killed more than 200 people on Sunday, including dozens of foreigners - with British, Dutch and American citizens believed to be among...
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