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Sri Lanka mourns its dead

Suicide-bomb attacks on churches and hotels killed more than 250 people. The killers belonged to a local Islamist group, but so-called Islamic State claimed them as its own.

Suicide-bomb attacks on churches and hotels killed more than 250 people. The killers belonged to a local Islamist group, but so-called Islamic State claimed them as its own. Also in this edition: African swine fever hits every province in China; a comedian wins the presidential election in Ukraine; the North Korean leader goes to Russia to see President Putin; and in the wake of the Mueller report, the White House and Democrats in Congress square up.
(Picture: funeral banners hang across the street in front of St Anthony's Shrine in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo.
Credit: Reuters)

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Sun 28 Apr 2019 09:06GMT

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