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Intelligence warned Sri Lanka hours before deadly attack

Intelligence warned Sri Lanka hours before deadly attack

-- 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...

Islamic State claims responsibility for Sri Lanka bombings

Islamic State claims responsibility for Sri Lanka bombings

-- 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...

Singapore PM promotes expected successor to deputy

Singapore PM promotes expected successor to deputy

-- 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...

'Google, Facebook, Twitter have to do more to fight fake news'

'Google, Facebook, Twitter have to do more to fight fake news'

-- 2019-04-23 16:28:35

Google, Facebook and Twitter have to do more to tackle fake news ahead of key European Parliament elections next month, the European Commission said on Tuesday, as its latest report showed a lack of p...

'Sri Lanka blasts were revenge for NZ mosque killings'

'Sri Lanka blasts were revenge for NZ mosque killings'

-- 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...

China to announce rules to regulate commercial rocket industry

China to announce rules to regulate commercial rocket industry

-- 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...

Trump ‘set to make state visit to UK in June’

Trump ‘set to make state visit to UK in June’

-- 2019-04-23 13:34:13

Buckingham Palace is expected to announce on Tuesday that US President Donald Trump will make a state visit to the UK in early June. The president was promised the visit by Prime Minister Theresa May...

Sri Lanka detains Syrian for interrogation over attacks

Sri Lanka detains Syrian for interrogation over attacks

-- 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...

China warns citizens against traveling to Sri Lanka

China warns citizens against traveling to Sri Lanka

-- 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...

Belt and Road News Network launched in Beijing

Belt and Road News Network launched in Beijing

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...

Rescue teams race to find survivors after Philippines quake

Rescue teams race to find survivors after Philippines quake

-- 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...

Death toll in Sri Lanka bombings rises to 310

Death toll in Sri Lanka bombings rises to 310

-- 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...

Sri Lanka wakes to emergency law after attacks

Sri Lanka wakes to emergency law after attacks

-- 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...

Voting begins in third phase of India's mammoth general election

Voting begins in third phase of India's mammoth general election

-- 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...

Myanmar court rejects final appeal by jailed Reuters reporters

Myanmar court rejects final appeal by jailed Reuters reporters

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...

Militant group claims responsibility for Sri Lanka bomb attacks

Militant group claims responsibility for Sri Lanka bomb attacks

-- 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...

6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes Philippines

6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes Philippines

-- 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...

Sri Lanka to declare emergency from midnight after blasts

Sri Lanka to declare emergency from midnight after blasts

-- 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...

Sri Lanka orders night curfew in capital, Colombo

Sri Lanka orders night curfew in capital, Colombo

-- 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...

Seven suicide attackers behind six Sri Lanka blasts: Investigator

Seven suicide attackers behind six Sri Lanka blasts: Investigator

-- 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...

US State Dept warns ‘terrorists’ continue plotting Sri Lanka attacks

US State Dept warns ‘terrorists’ continue plotting Sri Lanka attacks

-- 2019-04-22 11:31:22

The US State Department said in a revised travel advisory ‘terrorist groups’ were continuing to plot possible attacks in Sri Lanka after 290 people were killed and about 500 wounded in bla...

Comedian wins Ukrainian presidential race by landslide

Comedian wins Ukrainian presidential race by landslide

-- 2019-04-22 10:32:08

Ukraine entered uncharted political waters on Sunday after exit polls showed a comedian with no political experience and few detailed policies had easily won enough votes to become the next president...

Landslide kills 17 in Colombia

Landslide kills 17 in Colombia

-- 2019-04-22 10:00:29

Seventeen people have been killed and five injured in a landslide in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca, the country’s disaster relief agency said on Sunday. The landslide, which was...

Sri Lanka attacks death toll soars to 290

Sri Lanka attacks death toll soars to 290

-- 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...

Sudan protest leaders ready to announce civilian council

Sudan protest leaders ready to announce civilian council

-- 2019-04-21 22:36:51

Protest leaders in Sudan are preparing to announce a civilian council they want to take power following the removal of Omar al-Bashir as president. Thousands are gathering outside army HQ in Khartoum...

World leaders condemn series of blasts in Sri Lanka

World leaders condemn series of blasts in Sri Lanka

-- 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...

Police reunite Australian man with his lost pet rat

Police reunite Australian man with his lost pet rat

-- 2019-04-21 20:52:08

A homeless man in Sydney, Australia, has been reunited with his pet rat which disappeared earlier this month. Chris, 59, is a well-known figure in downtown Sydney where the rat, called Lucy, is usual...

Queen Elizabeth celebrates 93rd birthday on Sunday

Queen Elizabeth celebrates 93rd birthday on Sunday

-- 2019-04-21 20:04:37

Queen Elizabeth II of Britain is celebrating her 93rd birthday, which this year coincides with Easter Sunday. Elizabeth II, who is head of the Church of England and has a strong faith, usually celebr...

S Arabia, UAE grant $3b of support to Sudan

S Arabia, UAE grant $3b of support to Sudan

-- 2019-04-21 19:54:30

DUBAI (Reuters): Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have granted Sudan $3 billion in support, Saudi state news agency SPA said on Sunday. The grant includes a $500 million deposit into Sudan...

Indian Lok Sabha phase 3 polls on Apr 23

Indian Lok Sabha phase 3 polls on Apr 23

-- 2019-04-21 19:13:32

New Delhi: Sunday was the last day of election campaigning for Phase 3 of the 2019 Indian Lok Sabha elections and respective Assembly polls, report agencies. The campaigning for the April 23 polls...