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Sri Lanka death toll expected to rise as leaders condemn killings
The Observer 21 Apr 2019
Political and religious leaders across the world have rushed to condemn the killing of more than 200 people in a wave of bombings that targeted churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday ... Dozens of foreign visitors are among the casualties, with five British citizens confirmed killed ... 'There was utter chaos' ... Read more ... ....
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As Russia probe began, Trump called on spy chiefs for help
Pittsburgh Tribune Review 21 Apr 2019
WASHINGTON — Two months before special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed in the spring of 2017, President Donald Trump picked up the phone and called the head of the largest U.S. intelligence agency ... Rogers and his deputy Richard Ledgett, who was present for the call, were taken aback ... He and Rogers signed it and stashed it in a safe ... News ... .......
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Kim Kardashian West to receive top legal award
TVNZ 22 Apr 2019
Kim Kardashian West is to be honoured with a prestigious legal award for her prison reform work ... According to TMZ.com, the the pair will be handed their awards, which are sponsored by The California Lawyer and the Daily Journal, at a conference in Beverly Hills next month ... They were told ... J ... He said ... "I think she will be a sensational lawyer.". ....
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13 arrested over Easter Sunday blasts in Sri Lanka
Dawn 22 Apr 2019photo: AP / Vadim Ghirda
Ukraine election: Comedian Zelensky 'wins presidency'
BBC News 21 Apr 2019photo: AP / Kirsty Wigglesworth
The Royal Family Celebrated a Festive Easter and the Queen's 93rd Birthday
Yahoo Daily News 21 Apr 2019
More. Talk about a double header. Members of the royal family joined the Queen for Easter service at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle on Sunday, and it also happened to be her 93rd birthday ... For her part, the birthday monarch wore a festive mint suit and matching hat topped off with a swaggy bright pink bow for the service ... View photos ... Eamonn M ... ....
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More than 200 killed in churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday
The Daily Republic 21 Apr 2019
More than 200 killed in churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. By Washington Post Today at 8.37 a.m ... as worshipers were gathering for services ... The death toll is expected to increase, officials said ... Sunday's bombings were the worst violence to hit Colombo since 1996, when a blast at the country's Central Bank killed nearly 100 people ... .......
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Blockchain Research Institute Chairman Says Chinese Renminbi Will Become Crypto in 20 Years
Ethereum World News 22 Apr 2019photo: Creative Commons / Alexis Tsipras, Prime Minister of Greece
Greece to ask Germany for billions in war reparations
The Guardian 21 Apr 2019
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Oil prices rise on report US will end all Iran oil sanction waivers
The Times of India 22 Apr 2019
SINGAPORE. Oil prices rose by 1 per cent on Monday, with Brent hitting its highest level since November, driven up by a report the United States is preparing to announce that all imports of Iranian oil will have to end or be subject to sanctions ... Reuters was unable to independently verify the report. A State Department spokesman declined to comment ... ....
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People of colour are the most impacted by climate change, yet Extinction Rebellion is erasing them from the conversation
The Independent 21 Apr 2019
people of colour. Unfortunately, this is nothing new for the environmental movement ... We’ll tell you what’s true. You can form your own view ... Subscribe now ... PA ... PA ... Just 100 companies are responsible for 71 per cent of all emission – often that’s fossil fuel companies extracting profit from the Global South and committing human rights abuses along the way....
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Julian Assange should have come to Hong Kong
South China Morning Post 21 Apr 2019photo: AP / Eranga Jayawardena
Over 137 killed, 400 injured as string of blasts rips through churches, hotels in Sri Lanka
Dawn 21 Apr 2019
Over 137 people were killed and 400 injured as a series of near-simultaneous explosions ripped through three churches and three high-end hotels in three Sri Lankan cities on Easter Sunday. The blasts hit three hotels and one church in Colombo, while two other churches were targeted in Negombo and Batticaloa, police said ... At a glance ... police ... ─ Reuters....
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Pentagon, DHS considering designating fentanyl a WMD, memo says
CNN 21 Apr 2019
The synthetic opioid, blamed in health surveys for surging drug overdose deaths in the United States, has for decades concerned national security officials because of its potential widespread lethality in terror attacks, ... It's something that is potentially very, very dangerous."....
