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Trump tweets wrong figure for number of dead in Sri Lanka

Trump tweets wrong figure for number of dead in Sri Lanka

-- 2019-04-21 19:01:55

US President Donald Trump on Sunday offered 'heartfelt condolences' to the people of Sri Lanka after a series of deadly explosions at churches and hotels in the island nation killed at least 207 peopl...

Death toll from Sri Lanka explosions crosses 200

Death toll from Sri Lanka explosions crosses 200

-- 2019-04-21 18:31:41

At least 207 people, including 35 foreigners, have been killed and 400 hurt in a series of explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. At least eight blasts were reported. Three churches in Negom...

More than 190 dead in series of bomb attacks in Sri Lanka

More than 190 dead in series of bomb attacks in Sri Lanka

-- 2019-04-21 18:13:12

At least 190 people, including 27 foreigners, were killed and hundreds more injured in eight explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Authorities in Sri Lanka have launched a...

Four die in 'foiled' attack on Saudi police station

Four die in 'foiled' attack on Saudi police station

-- 2019-04-21 17:31:20

Four people died as an attack on a police station in Saudi Arabia’s central Riyadh province was foiled, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya television said on Sunday, citing its own sources. The four casual...

India’s Chief Justice accused of aexual harassment

India’s Chief Justice accused of aexual harassment

-- 2019-04-21 16:04:09

NEW DELHI, Apr 21: The chief justice of India’s Supreme Court has been accused of sexually harassing a female assistant, and a special panel of judges called an emergency meeting on Saturday to...

Another explosion near Sri Lanka national zoo

Another explosion near Sri Lanka national zoo

-- 2019-04-21 15:20:05

Sri Lankan police on Sunday reported there had been a seventh explosion, the fourth at a hotel, following six reported at hotels and churches earlier in the day that killed nearly 140 people. The lat...

Air strikes, explosions rock Libyan capital

Air strikes, explosions rock Libyan capital

-- 2019-04-21 13:30:36

Several air strikes and explosions shook the Libyan capital Tripoli overnight, residents said, in an escalation of a two-week offensive by eastern forces on the city held by the internationally recogn...

Ukraine polls: Voters choose between comedian and tycoon

Ukraine polls: Voters choose between comedian and tycoon

-- 2019-04-21 12:34:15

Ukrainians are heading to the polls in a run-off election to pick the country's next president. Voters face a stark choice between tycoon Petro Poroshenko, the incumbent president, and television com...

138 dead as serial blasts hit Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday

138 dead as serial blasts hit Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday

-- 2019-04-21 10:56:29

Easter Day bomb blasts at three Sri Lankan churches and three luxury hotels killed 138 people and wounded more than 400, hospital and police officials said, following a lull in major attacks since the...

Seven killed at Afghan ministry of information

Seven killed at Afghan ministry of information

-- 2019-04-20 21:32:36

Seven people were killed in an attack on the Afghan ministry of information in Kabul, officials said. An explosion was heard at 11:40 local time (07:10 GMT) and sporadic gunfire continued for over si...

Egypt unearths eight mummies in 3,500-year-old tombs

Egypt unearths eight mummies in 3,500-year-old tombs

-- 2019-04-20 20:22:28

Egyptian officials unearthed eight mummies, 10 colourful sarcophagi and numerous figurines in 3,500-year-old tombs, the Ministry of Antiquities announced Tuesday. An Egyptian archaeological mission f...

California couple sentenced to life for torturing children

California couple sentenced to life for torturing children

-- 2019-04-20 19:50:32

A Southern California couple was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Friday after the pair pleaded guilty to charges stemming from grim, headline-making accusations they beat, starved and shack...

Voting begins in Egypt's constitutional referendum

Voting begins in Egypt's constitutional referendum

-- 2019-04-20 16:10:42

Voting began on Saturday in Egypt in a referendum on proposed constitutional amendments that would extend President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi's rule. President Sisi cast his ballot at a polling station in...

N.Ireland police arrest two over murder of journalist

N.Ireland police arrest two over murder of journalist

-- 2019-04-20 15:44:24

Two men have been arrested in connection with the killing of Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee during a riot in Londonderry on Thursday, police said, as politicians in the divided British region un...

Blast, gunfire rock Afghan capital: Police

Blast, gunfire rock Afghan capital: Police

-- 2019-04-20 14:38:50

An explosion followed by gunfire hit the center of the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday, close to the communications ministry and one of the city’s main hotels, officials said. The blast follow...

Kosovo returns families of jihadists from Syria

Kosovo returns families of jihadists from Syria

-- 2019-04-20 12:31:32

Dozens of women and children, relatives of Kosovo jihadists fighting in Syria, were flown back home by plane on Saturday under heavy security. “The planned operation for the return of some of o...

Gunmen shoot dead 13 at Mexican bar

Gunmen shoot dead 13 at Mexican bar

-- 2019-04-20 12:16:55

Gunmen shot dead 13 people at a bar in the city of Minatitlan in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz, authorities said on Friday, in one of the worst slayings to hit Mexico since President Andres...

Trump approval drops to 2019 low after Mueller report

Trump approval drops to 2019 low after Mueller report

-- 2019-04-20 10:16:46

The number of Americans who approve of President Donald Trump dropped by 3.0 percentage points to the lowest level of the year following the release of a special counsel report detailing Russian inter...

Turkey pins hopes on Trump to avoid sanctions

Turkey pins hopes on Trump to avoid sanctions

-- 2019-04-19 22:26:09

Turkey's hopes of avoiding punishing US sanctions over its purchase of a Russian air defence system appear increasingly pinned on intervention from Donald Trump, but the president has little leeway to...

Belt and Road project not geopolitical tool: China

Belt and Road project not geopolitical tool: China

-- 2019-04-19 22:14:34

China’s Belt and Road project is not a “geopolitical tool” or a debt crisis for participating nations, but Beijing welcomes constructive suggestions on how to address concerns over t...

Journalist shot dead in Northern Ireland rioting

Journalist shot dead in Northern Ireland rioting

-- 2019-04-19 21:01:14

A journalist from Northern Ireland was shot and killed by what authorities called "terrorists" during rioting in the country ahead of this weekend's religious holidays. Lyra McKee, 29, was fatally sh...

Notre Dame’s bees survive cathedral blaze

Notre Dame’s bees survive cathedral blaze

-- 2019-04-19 20:52:00

Hunkered down in their hives and drunk on smoke, Notre Dame’s smallest official residents — some 180,000 bees — somehow managed to survive the inferno that consumed the cathedral&rsq...

Kim to meet Putin this month

Kim to meet Putin this month

-- 2019-04-19 18:24:13

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will travel to Russia this month for talks with President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin said on Thursday, announcing the first Russia-North Korea summit since Kim came to...

Russia shrugs off Mueller report

Russia shrugs off Mueller report

Reuters 2019-04-19 14:51:11

Russia’s foreign ministry on Friday dismissed the findings of the long-awaited report by US Special Counsel Robert Mueller and said it had failed to present any evidence of Russian meddling in U...

Pakistan PM Imran Khan reshuffles cabinet

Pakistan PM Imran Khan reshuffles cabinet

-- 2019-04-19 14:40:07

Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan made a sweeping cabinet reshuffle on Thursday after only seven months in power and appointed Abdul Hafeez Shaikh as de facto finance minister to steer the country...

Mali government resigns after massacre, insecurity

Mali government resigns after massacre, insecurity

-- 2019-04-19 13:58:53

Mali’s prime minister and his whole government resigned on Thursday, four weeks after a massacre of some 160 Fulani herders by an ethnic vigilante group shocked the nation. “The President...

Mali government resigns as anger mounts over massacre

Mali government resigns as anger mounts over massacre

-- 2019-04-19 12:44:20

Mali’s prime minister and his whole government resigned on Thursday, four weeks after a massacre of some 160 Fulani herders by an ethnic vigilante group shocked the nation. “The President...

Mueller report details Trump actions to impede inquiry

Mueller report details Trump actions to impede inquiry

-- 2019-04-19 10:49:17

Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on his inquiry into Russia’s role in the 2016 US election described in extensive and sometimes unflattering detail how President Donald Trump tried...

Widodo declares victory in Indonesian presidential race

Widodo declares victory in Indonesian presidential race

-- 2019-04-18 22:14:44

Indonesian President Joko Widodo declared victory on Thursday in the race to lead the world's third-largest democracy, saying unofficial results showed his ticket had got 54 per cent of the popular vo...

India's major parties field few women in race to parliament

India's major parties field few women in race to parliament

-- 2019-04-18 20:16:20

Women running for India’s parliament are barely a blip in the world’s biggest democratic exercise, which began last week and will play out in seven rounds, with results expected on May 23....