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Sirisena did not immediately clarify what Hashim's role was in the attack on Shangri-La hotel, one of six bomb blasts that killed over 250 people on Sunday.​

The force of the explosions so badly mutilated bodies that parts of victims were wrongly collated and identified in the initial confusion.

Kim Jong Un asked Vladmir Putin to visit North Korea "at a convenient time" during their summit talks in Vladivostok on Thursday.

Nine suicide bombers, believed to be members of local Islamist extremist group called National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ), carried out a series of devastating blasts that tore through three churches and three luxury hotels on Easter Sunday.

US President Donald Trump on Wednesday had announced he would send armed soldiers to the border after Mexican soldiers had 'pulled guns' on US troops.

The Belt and Road initiative championed by Chinese President Xi Jinping has become mired in controversy, with some partner nations bemoaning the high cost of projects.

Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the Sri Lanka attacks on Tuesday and named what it said were seven attackers who carried them out. It gave no further evidence to support its claim of responsibility.

Zayan Chowdhury, who was also a relative of British Labour MP Tulip Siddiq, was having breakfast with his father at a hotel in Colombo when a suicide bomber detonated his device.

Fifty people were killed in shooting attacks on two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch on March 15.

The Sri Lankan government said the measure would be confined to dealing with terrorism and would not impinge on freedom of expression.

Volodymyr Zelensky, whose only previous political role was playing the president on television, trounced incumbent Petro Poroshenko by taking 73 per cent of the vote, according to exit polls conducted by several think tanks.

The queen is marking Easter by attending a service with other senior royals at St. George's Chapel on the grounds of Windsor Castle, west of London.

The review will "evaluate aspects of the 737 Max automated flight-control system, including its design and pilots' interaction with the system, to determine its compliance with all applicable regulations and to identify future enhancements that might be n...

Clashes broke out between dozens of demonstrators and police with dozens of black-hooded demonstrators throwing rocks at the authorities, who responded by firing tear gas.

Protesters in Dhaka chanted slogans demanding the death sentence for the killers of the girl, who police say was lured to the rooftop of the Islamic seminary she attended in Feni, south of the capital.

Mueller's report, released on Thursday, details extensive contacts between Donald Trump's 2016 campaign and Russian operatives who, it said, sought to tilt the election in Trump's favour.