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'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...

Trump to pull US out of UN arms treaty

Trump to pull US out of UN arms treaty

-- 2019-04-27 11:42:18

President Donald Trump told the National Rifle Association on Friday he was pulling the United States out of an international arms treaty signed in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama but opposed by t...

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...

Turkey seeks arrest of 210 military personnel

Turkey seeks arrest of 210 military personnel

-- 2019-04-26 14:32:05

Turkish prosecutors on Friday ordered the detention of 210 military personnel over their alleged links to a group accused of masterminding a coup bid in 2016, local media reported. Police launched si...

UN relocates 350 immigrants in southern Tripoli

UN relocates 350 immigrants in southern Tripoli

-- 2019-04-26 13:56:52

The United Nations Higher Commission of Refugees (UNHCR) on Thursday relocated 350 illegal immigrants in a reception centre in south of the Libyan capital Tripoli. The UNHCR and the IOM relocated the...

Gunmen kill mayor, two others in Mexico

Gunmen kill mayor, two others in Mexico

-- 2019-04-26 13:40:10

The mayor of Mixtla de Altamirano municipality, her husband and her driver were shot to death by gunmen in the Mexican Gulf state of Veracruz, officials said. They were travelling in a municipal vehi...

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...

Biden launches presidential bid for 2020

Biden launches presidential bid for 2020

-- 2019-04-25 19:00:03

Former US Vice-President Joe Biden has declared a presidential bid, putting an end to months of speculation. In a video announcement, Mr Biden argued that the "core values of the nation... our very d...

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...

Russia offers passports to east Ukrainians

Russia offers passports to east Ukrainians

-- 2019-04-25 11:30:55

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed an order on Wednesday simplifying the procedure for obtaining a Russian passport for residents of separatist-controlled eastern Ukraine, prompting calls from Ki...

Blast in town east of Sri Lankan capital, no casualties

Blast in town east of Sri Lankan capital, no casualties

-- 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...

Two Sri Lanka bombers were sons of well-to-do family

Two Sri Lanka bombers were sons of well-to-do family

-- 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...

Sri Lanka admits 'intelligence lapse'

Sri Lanka admits 'intelligence lapse'

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...

Kim Jong Un in Russia for talks with Putin

Kim Jong Un in Russia for talks with Putin

-- 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...

Sri Lankan police chief, defence secretary asked to quit

Sri Lankan police chief, defence secretary asked to quit

-- 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...

Gold worth billions being smuggled out of Africa, Reuters investigation finds

Gold worth billions being smuggled out of Africa, Reuters investigation finds

-- 2019-04-24 17:22:26

Billions of dollars’ worth of gold is being smuggled out of Africa every year through the United Arab Emirates in the Middle East – a gateway to markets in Europe, the United States and be...

Sri Lanka president vows to overhaul state security

Sri Lanka president vows to overhaul state security

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...

Blast at Inner Mongolia chemical plant kills three

Blast at Inner Mongolia chemical plant kills three

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...

New Zealand, France team up to tackle extremism on social media

New Zealand, France team up to tackle extremism on social media

-- 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...

Death toll in Sri Lanka bombings mounts to 359

Death toll in Sri Lanka bombings mounts to 359

-- 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...

50 believed dead after landslide at Myanmar mine

50 believed dead after landslide at Myanmar mine

-- 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...