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Nine suicide bombers carried out a series of devastating blasts on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka, killing 258 people.

Amid acute tensions between the two countries, Donald Trump said if the US goes to war with Iran, its use of force would be overwhelming.

NASA's Anne McClain, cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, and Canadian Space Agency's David Saint-Jacques will touch down on the Kazakh steppes around 0248 GMT.

The Chinese-owned building collapsed with about 30 workers trapped inside the debris, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said in a Facebook post.

India has proposed that besides Indian nationals, Overseas Indian Card (OIC) holders should be allowed to go for the pilgrimage. But Pakistan said that only Indian citizens would be allowed.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena invoked the Public Security Act, citing 'public emergency', extending the emergency due to lapse by June 22.

The FATF decision to keep Pakistan on the 'Grey' list means its downgrading by IMF, World Bank, ADB and EU, all international financial organisations from which the country is seeking aid.

The Commerce Department justified that dealing with Chinese supercomputing organisations was 'contrary to the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States.'

Officers were alerted early on Friday after a neighbour said there had been a loud altercation involving screaming, shouting and banging at the south London property.

The foetus was discovered by cleaning staff as the plane was being prepared and passengers boarded for an early morning flight from the coastal city of Durban to Johannesburg.

England's Court of Appeal had earlier on Thursday said the government broke the law by failing to assess properly whether the arms it sells to Riyadh violated its human rights commitments. The court ruled that the UK government 'must reconsider the matter...

Assange, an Australian national, is currently serving a 50-week sentence in Britain for skipping bail after spending seven years holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden. He denies the rape accusation.

Britain accounts for 23 per cent of arms imports to Saudi Arabia and last year signed a multi-billion-pound preliminary order with Riyadh for 48 Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets.

Meng Hongwei, former Interpol president, who was also China's vice minister of public security from 2004 to 2018, 'showed repentance' during his court hearing, Communist Party mouthpiece People's Daily reported.

After US President Donald Trump's failed summit with Kim Jong-un and the mounting trade war between the US and China, Xi Jinping became the first Chinese leader to visit North Korea in 14 years.

The terrorists, identified as Muhammad Rizwan and Imran Saqi, were killed in a late night raid on a house in Multan district on Wednesday, the Punjab Police's counter-terrorism department (CTD) department said.