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Sri Lanka maintains high alert for attacks ahead of Ramadan

Sri Lanka maintains high alert for attacks ahead of Ramadan

-- 2019-04-30 13:28:46

Sri Lankan security forces maintained a high level of alert on Tuesday after the Easter Sunday bombings, officials said, amid intelligence reports that Islamist militants were planning fresh attacks b...

China sentences Canadian to death for drug offences

China sentences Canadian to death for drug offences

-- 2019-04-30 12:05:54

A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian national to death on Tuesday for producing and trafficking methamphetamine, amid heightened tension between Beijing and Ottawa over the arrest of a Huawei Technolo...

China sentences Canadian to death for drug offences: Global Times

China sentences Canadian to death for drug offences: Global Times

-- 2019-04-30 10:54:16

A Chinese court sentenced a Canadian national to death for producing and trafficking methamphetamine, the Global Times newspaper reported on Tuesday. Global Times, a tabloid published by the ruling C...

Xi pledges zero tolerance for graft

Xi pledges zero tolerance for graft

Shahiduzzaman Khan, back from Beijing 2019-04-30 09:46:07

Beijing wore a festive look last week when as many as 37 world leaders gathered in the Chinese capital to attend the Second Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF). More than 5,000...

UAE spy suspect committed suicide in prison, Turkey says

UAE spy suspect committed suicide in prison, Turkey says

-- 2019-04-29 17:37:54

A man held by Turkey on suspicion of spying for the United Arab Emirates has committed suicide by hanging himself in prison, the Istanbul prosecutor’s office said on Monday. The suspect, named...

Tourist arrivals in Colombo to drop by 50pc after bombings

Tourist arrivals in Colombo to drop by 50pc after bombings

-- 2019-04-29 17:22:19

Tourist arrivals in Colombo will fall by 50 per cent over the next two months following the Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people, Sri Lanka’s Tourism Bureau Chairman Kishu Gom...

Indonesia floods, landslides claim 29 lives

Indonesia floods, landslides claim 29 lives

-- 2019-04-29 14:02:09

Landslides and floods triggered by torrential rain have killed at least 29 people in Indonesia, the disaster agency said on Monday, with thousands taking shelter in evacuation centres amid fears of di...

Sri Lanka on high alert after warnings of more attacks

Sri Lanka on high alert after warnings of more attacks

Reuters 2019-04-29 13:01:06

Sri Lankan security officials have warned that the Islamist militants behind Easter Sunday’s deadly suicide bombings were planning more attacks imminently, using a van and bombers disguised in m...

Sri Lanka bans face veils after Easter bombings

Sri Lanka bans face veils after Easter bombings

-- 2019-04-29 11:37:37

Sri Lanka has banned face coverings in public, following a spate of suicide attacks on Easter Sunday that killed at least 250 people and injured hundreds. President Maithruipala Sisirsena said he was...

Bollywood stars, rich Indians vote in fourth phase of election

Bollywood stars, rich Indians vote in fourth phase of election

-- 2019-04-29 11:34:33

Some of India’s richest families, Bollywood stars and others voted early on Monday in Mumbai and elsewhere in the country as the fourth phase of a massive, staggered general election got underwa...

How 'laid back' Sri Lanka became a soft target for Islamist strike

How 'laid back' Sri Lanka became a soft target for Islamist strike

-- 2019-04-29 11:03:02

A week ago, Sri Lankan tourist guide Ricky Costa was preparing for a typically easy Sunday ferrying backpackers between Colombo’s tea shops and beach bars in his canary-yellow rickshaw. Then the...

More than 270 election staff die from overwork in Indonesia

More than 270 election staff die from overwork in Indonesia

-- 2019-04-28 14:24:19

Ten days after Indonesia held the world’s biggest single-day elections, more than 270 election staff have died, mostly of fatigue-related illnesses caused by long hours of work counting millions...

Australia PM promises migration cut if re-elected

Australia PM promises migration cut if re-elected

-- 2019-04-28 13:21:03

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, trailing in opinion polls ahead of a May 18 election, on Sunday campaigned on the hot-button issue of immigration, promising to cut annual migrant numbers and...

Islamic State claims attack on east coast city of Sri Lanka

Islamic State claims attack on east coast city of Sri Lanka

Reuters 2019-04-28 11:31:03

Islamic State claimed on Saturday that three of its members clashed with Sri Lankan police for several hours before detonating their explosive vests on them in the east coast city of Kalmunai late on...

Sri Lanka bans groups suspected to be behind attacks

Sri Lanka bans groups suspected to be behind attacks

-- 2019-04-28 10:02:19

Sri Lanka’s president on Saturday outlawed two Islamist groups suspected to be behind the suicide bombings on churches and hotels while the wife and child of the suspected ringleader were wounde...

Relatives of Sri Lanka bombings’ mastermind wounded in shootout

Relatives of Sri Lanka bombings’ mastermind wounded in shootout

-- 2019-04-27 20:56:26

The wife and a daughter of the suspected mastermind of suicide attacks on churches and four hotels in Sri Lanka were wounded in a gunbattle that erupted following a raid in the east of the country, po...

Sri Lanka police chief refusing to quit despite president's request

Sri Lanka police chief refusing to quit despite president's request

-- 2019-04-27 17:05:25

Sri Lanka’s police chief has refused a request by President Maithripala Sirisena to step down following suicide bombings on churches and hotels, two sources at the president’s office said...

'Black sheep': The mastermind of Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombs

'Black sheep': The mastermind of Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombs

-- 2019-04-27 14:33:46

Mohamed Hashim Mohamed Zahran was 12 years old when he began his studies at the Jamiathul Falah Arabic College. He was a nobody, with no claim to scholarship other than ambition. Zahran and his four...

15 dead as troops engage in gunfight with militants in Sri Lanka

15 dead as troops engage in gunfight with militants in Sri Lanka

-- 2019-04-27 10:30:46

The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said on Saturday, six days after suic...

Sri Lankan police engage in shootout during raid

Sri Lankan police engage in shootout during raid

-- 2019-04-26 22:07:59

Shooting erupted between security forces and a group of men in eastern Sri Lanka on Friday during a search and cordon operation related to the Easter Sunday attacks, a military spokesman said. The ra...

North Korea accuses US of 'bad faith'

North Korea accuses US of 'bad faith'

-- 2019-04-26 19:49:12

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has accused the US of acting in 'bad faith' during the summit earlier this year with US President Donald Trump, according to the Korean Central News Agency. Kim also s...

Sri Lanka Muslims brave militant threats for Jumma prayers

Sri Lanka Muslims brave militant threats for Jumma prayers

-- 2019-04-26 18:22:49

At 12:10 pm Friday, men and boys in a Muslim neighbourhood in Sri Lanka’s capital did something everyone had warned them not to do: They came together to pray. Hundreds gathered at the Masjidus...

Suspected ringleader behind Sri Lanka blasts killed in attack

Suspected ringleader behind Sri Lanka blasts killed in attack

-- 2019-04-26 16:15:17

The alleged ringleader behind Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings was killed in the attacks, President Maithripala Sirisena said. Mr Sirisena said Zahran Hashim, a radical preacher, died at the Shangr...

Sri Lankan police looking for 140 with IS links

Sri Lankan police looking for 140 with IS links

-- 2019-04-26 12:56:40

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said on Friday police are looking for 140 people believed to have links with the Islamic State group over the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels tha...

Lankans urged to pray privately, avoid mosques, churches

Lankans urged to pray privately, avoid mosques, churches

-- 2019-04-26 11:50:55

Sri Lankans of different faiths have been urged to pray privately after the State Intelligence Services warned of possible car bomb attacks, amid fears of retaliatory violence for the Easter Sunday bo...

Sri Lanka revises death toll from attacks down by 100

Sri Lanka revises death toll from attacks down by 100

-- 2019-04-26 00:00:00

Sri Lankan officials revised the death toll from Easter Sunday bombings down by about 100 on Thursday, blaming the difficulty in identifying body parts at bomb scenes for the earlier inaccurate number...

Lankan defence secretary resigns for failing to prevent bombing

Lankan defence secretary resigns for failing to prevent bombing

-- 2019-04-25 20:22:44

Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando told Reuters on Thursday that he had resigned, taking responsibility for the failure to prevent suicide bomber attacks on the country last Sunday. He sa...

11 die as elevator cable snaps at China construction site

11 die as elevator cable snaps at China construction site

-- 2019-04-25 13:44:47

Eleven workers were killed and two seriously injured on Thursday when an elevator at a construction site in northern China fell due to snapped cable, state media reported. The Voice of China radio sa...

Lockdown at Sri Lanka central bank amid bomb scare

Lockdown at Sri Lanka central bank amid bomb scare

-- 2019-04-25 12:32:03

Sri Lankan security officials ordered a lockdown at the central bank on Thursday due to a bomb scare, two bank officials told Reuters news agency, as the street outside the bank, which is near the Wor...

Sri Lanka bans drones, unmanned aircraft four days after blasts

Sri Lanka bans drones, unmanned aircraft four days after blasts

-- 2019-04-25 12:11:45

Sri Lanka has banned drones and unmanned aircraft as authorities continue controlled detonations of suspicious items four days after a series of suicide bombing attacks killed more than 350 people in...