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Sources: Two Muslim brothers were Sri Lanka hotel suicide bombers
COLOMBO, April 23 — Muslim brothers carried out two of the hotel suicide blasts in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, part of a wave of bombings that killed more than 320 people,...
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Iran lawmakers authorise firm action against US 'terrorist' acts
DUBAI, April 23 — Iran’s parliament passed a bill today requiring the government take firm steps to respond to “terrorist actions” by US forces, state TV reported,...
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Former French PM Fillon to face trial over fake jobs
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Anti-Brexit party launch as MPs return from break
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China shows off new destroyer as Xi views naval parade
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Singapore’s finance minister Heng named deputy PM
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Minister: Sri Lanka bomb attacks were revenge for N. Zealand mosque killings
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Modi casts vote on India’s ‘Super Tuesday’
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New IRA apologises for journalist’s killing, police arrest woman
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Sri Lanka detains Syrian in investigation of blasts; toll rises to 321
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Hundreds evacuated after gas leak at Australia’s Sydney Opera House
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More than 50 believed killed in collapse at Myanmar jade mine
NAYPYITAW, April 23 — 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 yesterday, a...
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New quake strikes as Philippines hunts for survivors
PORAC (Philippines), April 23 — Philippine rescuers were scrambling today to reach some two dozen people feared buried under a building near Manila that collapsed a day earlier...
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‘Saddest day’ as Sri Lanka mourns blast victims
NEGOMBO, April 23 — Devastated relatives collapsed into the arms of bystanders at memorial services today, as Sri Lankans mourned the worst violence since the end of a civil war...
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Japan victim of S. Lanka bomb a ‘bridge’ between communities
TOKYO, April 23 — The only Japanese victim of the Sri Lankan suicide bombings was a married mother of two young children who had lived in Colombo for four years and taught...
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Stubbed out: Japan university stops hiring smoking professors
TOKYO, April 23 — A Japanese university has stopped hiring professors and teachers who light up, officials said today, as the nation steps up an anti-smoking campaign ahead of...
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Ruling party, longtime leader back loyalist for Kazakh presidency
NUR-SULTAN, April 23 — Kazakhstan’s ruling party nominated a loyalist to the country’s long-time leader as its presidential candidate today, setting the stage for a smooth...
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Vietnamese ex-president who ousted Khmer Rouge dies aged 99
HANOI, April 23 — General Le Duc Anh, a Communist party hardliner and former Vietnamese president who led the invasion of Cambodia which led to the fall of the Khmer Rouge...
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Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg dies at 98
BRUSSELS, April 23 — Luxembourg’s Grand Duke Jean, who oversaw the transformation of the Grand Duchy into an international financial centre before abdicating and handing over...
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New IRA admits responsibility for killing N. Ireland journalist, say media
LONDON, April 23 — Dissident republican group the New IRA today admitted responsibility for killing Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee during rioting in Londonderry last week,...
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Sri Lanka wakes to emergency law after Easter bombing attacks
COLOMBO, April 23 — Sri Lankans woke to emergency law today as authorities searched for those behind suicide bomb attacks on churches and luxury hotels that killed 290 people at...
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Myanmar’s top court rejects final appeal by jailed Reuters journalists
NAYPYITAW, April 23 — Myanmar’s top court today rejected the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail for breaking the Official Secrets Act, in a...
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Singapore Peeping Tom’s conditional warning based on ‘high likelihood of rehabilitation’
SINGAPORE, April 23 — National University of Singapore (NUS) undergraduate Nicholas Lim, who filmed a female student while she was taking a shower last year, was given a...
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Chinese people love peace, Xi says as kicks off major naval parade
QINGDAO, April 23 — The Chinese people love peace and countries should not threaten each other with the use of force, President Xi Jinping said today as he kicked off a...
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Voting begins in third phase of India’s mammoth general election
NEW DELHI, April 23 — Voting began in the third and largest phase of India’s staggered general election today, including in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of...
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Frantic hunt for survivors after powerful Philippine quake
PORAC (Philippines), April 23 — Philippine rescuers were scrambling today to reach dozens of people feared buried under a building near Manila that collapsed a day earlier in a...
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Death toll from Colombia landslide rises to 28
BOGOTA, April 23 — The death toll from a weekend landslide in the southwestern Colombian province of Cauca has risen to 28 people, the country’s disaster relief agency said...
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Census question at heart of crucial US top court battle
WASHINGTON, April 23 — The subject seems technical but the stakes are enormous today when the Trump administration and its opponents cross swords at the US Supreme Court over a...
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US Democrats to continue probes of Trump amid no consensus on impeachment
WASHINGTON, April 23 — US House Democrats are divided over whether to proceed directly to impeach President Donald Trump after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe,...
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Trump: Congress ‘can’t impeach’ him
WASHINGTON, April 23 — US President Donald Trump said yesterday that Congress “can’t impeach” him over the findings of the Mueller report into Russian election meddling...