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Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (Photo: AFP)

Sri Lanka PM: Most linked to bombing slain or held

The authorities have said there are about 140 followers of the Islamic State group in the country.

29 April 2019 3:35 AM IST

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (Photo: AFP)

Most Sri Lanka Islamist radicals killed or arrested: PM Ranil...

Three churches and three hotels were targeted by suicide bombers in the attacks in which at least 40 foreigners were...

28 April 2019 8:58 PM IST

I will never let you down, Zelensky told jubilant supporters at his campaign. (Photo:AP)

Ukraine's Zelensky turns down Putin's offer, welcomes agitated...

He pledged instead to "give citizenship to representatives of all nations that suffer from authoritarian and corrupt...

28 April 2019 6:26 PM IST

Security has been beefed up in Sri Lanka as the army increased its deployment by 1,300 to 6,300. (Photo: AP)

Father, 2 brothers of Sri Lanka's Easter blasts mastermind killed in...

Zainee Hashim, Rilwan Hashim and their father Mohamed Hashim, who were seen in a video circulating on social media...

28 April 2019 6:25 PM IST

The novelty of these elections is the emergence of far-right party Vox, which burst onto the scene in December regional polls in southern Andalusia. (Photo: AFP)

Spain heads towards a hung parliament; far-right registers its...

Opinion polls give outgoing socialist premier Pedro Sanchez a win but without the necessary majority to govern alone.

28 April 2019 6:07 PM IST

Two Dubai-based Indians, Razeena Kukkady, 58, and Juno, 42, were killed in blasts. (Photo: Facebook/navroopk)

It was like movie, there was blood everywhere: Survived Lanka blasts

Sri Lanka has a population of 21 million which is a patchwork of ethnicities and religions, dominated by the Sinhalese...

28 April 2019 4:53 PM IST

According to the rating agency, the hospitality and the tourism sector is estimated to account for around 25 per cent of the GSDP and may witness an impact in the current year through a likely drop in tourist flows and the loss in property due to the floods.

Indonesia floods create havoc, 10 dead, many displaced

Some 12,000 people have been evacuated while many buildings, bridges and roads have been damaged by the severe weather,...

28 April 2019 4:32 PM IST

Former Pakistan military ruler Pervez Musharraf. (Photo: AP)

'Musharraf unlikely to return to Pakistan to stand trial for treason'

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government had filed the treason case against Musharraf over imposition of...

28 April 2019 3:18 PM IST

Davis carried Rylei to term, delivering her baby girl on Christmas Eve at 40 weeks and two days. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay)

For first time, UAE gives birth cerificate to child of Hindu father,...

As per marriage rules for expatriates in UAE, a Muslim man can marry a non-Muslim woman but a Muslim woman cannot marry...

28 April 2019 2:01 PM IST

Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist

Jamal Khashoggi case: Two Saudi royal advisors fail to show up for...

Saudi prosecutors said deputy intelligence chief Ahmed al-Assiri oversaw the Washington Post columnist's killing in...

28 April 2019 1:41 PM IST

Trump told the premier that he pledged United States support to Sri Lanka in bringing the perpetrators to justice. (Photo:AP)

US oil sanctions take effect on Venezuela as crisis intensifies

It is among a volley of steps by President Donald Trump to oust Maduro and install opposition leader Juan Guaido.

28 April 2019 1:02 PM IST

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the Sri Lanka attacks and released images that purported to show the attackers. (Photo: AFP)

Tamil medium teacher among 106 suspects held in Sri Lanka bombings

A total of 106 suspects, including a Tamil medium teacher and a school principal, have been arrested in Sri Lanka.

28 April 2019 11:52 AM IST