The death toll from a coal mine blast in a separatist eastern region of Ukraine rose to 13 on Saturday, with another four people missing, news agencies reported. The gas blast on…
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Wanted Sri Lanka radical Hashim died in hotel attack: president
An Islamic extremist believed to have played a key role in Sri Lanka’s deadly Easter bombings died in an attack on a Colombo hotel, the country’s president confirmed Friday. “What intelligence agencies…
Kim, Putin vow to seek closer ties at first talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to seek closer ties as they met face-to-face Thursday for the first time. The meeting in Russia’s Far Eastern city…
Sri Lanka troops join hunt for bomb attack suspects
Sri Lanka deployed thousands of additional troops countrywide overnight to help police hunt for suspects in the Easter Sunday suicide blasts that killed nearly 360 people, a spokesman said Thursday. Brigadier Sumith…
Toll in Sri Lanka bombings rises to 359: police
The toll in a series of suicide bomb blasts on Easter Sunday targeting hotels and churches in Sri Lanka has risen to 359, police said Wednesday. The additional deaths were the result…
12 killed in blast in northwest Syria: monitor
Twelve people, all but one civilians, were killed in an explosion in the jihadist-held region of Idlib in northwest Syria on Wednesday, a war monitor said. It was not clear if the…
Islamic State group claims Sri Lanka attacks: propaganda arm
International Desk : The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed a series of bombings that killed more than 320 people in Sri Lanka, after the government blamed local Islamists for the blasts….
Toll in Sri Lanka blasts rises to 310: police spokesman
The toll from a string of deadly suicide bomb attacks in Sri Lanka has risen to 310, with several people dying of their injuries overnight, a police spokesman said Tuesday. Around 500…
Sheikh Selim’s grandson killed in SL blasts
Awami League Presidium Member and lawmaker Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim’s grandson Zayan Chowdhury was killed in the series blasts in Sri Lanka yesterday. Confirming the death, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan told BSS…
Sri Lanka government says local Islamist group behind blasts
The Sri Lankan government believes a local Islamist extremist group called the National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ) was behind the deadly suicide bomb attacks that killed nearly 300 people, government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne…
New Delhi strongly condemns terror attacks in Sri Lanka
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today strongly condoned the terrorist attacks at the sites of religious places and during a religious festival in Sri Lanka describing them as “cold-blooded and pre-planned barbaric acts”….
London climate protest arrests top 700
The Extinction Rebellion environmental protests in London rumbled on into a sixth day Saturday as the total number of arrests hit 718. Demonstrators were continuing to block Waterloo Bridge in the city…