Sri Lanka church and hotel explosions: at least 100 killed in Easter Sunday attacks – live
Many more injured as explosions hit three hotels and three churches in and around Colombo as well as at Batticaloa in the east of the country
A series of explosions rocked churches and high-end hotels in Sri Lanka on Sunday morning, killing over 100 people and injuring hundreds as worshippers attended Easter services.
St Anthony’s Shrine, a church in Colombo, and St Sebastian’s Church in Negombo were hit, as were the Shangri-La, Kingsbury and Cinnamon Grand hotels in Colombo.
The Colombo National hospital director, Samindi Samrakoon, told Reuters she knew of at least 20 deaths and 280 people injured. Reuters later updated the toll inside just one church to 50, and put the total at 138, citing hospital and police officials.
Jordan Bardella's RiseThe Fresh Young Face of France's Populist Right
A 23-year-old politician is leading Marine Le Pen's right-wing populists in May elections for the European Parliament. His name is Jordan Bardella, and he's as eloquent as he is radical.
By Britta Sandberg
The task was simple and at the same time a bit silly: Each of the 12 leading French candidates for European Parliament elections was to bring an object that symbolized Europe for them to the first TV debate. The conservative candidate with the Republican Party brought a copy of Homer's "Odyssey;" the leftist politician Raphaël Glucksmann brought a piece of the Berlin Wall.
Jordan Bardella, the lead candidate for Marine Le Pen's right-wing populist Rassemblement National, held up a red kitchen sieve to the camera. He was quite earnest as he did so, and it made for a rather absurd contrast: a young man in a suit, with his boyish face and slicked-back hair looking not unlike a bank apprentice -- clutching a kitchen utensil.
Fierce clashes erupt outside Libyan capital Tripoli
Heavy clashes broke out in the southern districts of the Libyan capital Tripoli on Saturday, with shelling audible in the city centre, residents said, as the death toll from two weeks of fighting between the country's rival governments rose to 220.
The spike in violence happened after the White House said on Friday that President Donald Trump spoke by phone earlier in the week with Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar, who started an offensive against Tripoli on April 3.
The disclosure of the call and a U.S. statement that it "recognized Field Marshal Haftar's significant role in fighting terrorism and securing Libya's oil resources" has boosted the commander's supporters and enraged his opponents.
Japan's 'vanishing' Ainu will finally be recognized as indigenous people
Updated 0355 GMT (1155 HKT) April 21, 2019
Growing up in Japan, musician Oki Kano never knew he was part of a "vanishing people."
His Japanese mother was divorced and never told Kano that his birth father was an indigenous Ainu man. Kano was 20 years old when he found out.
For decades, researchers and conservative Japanese politicians described the Ainu as "vanishing," says Jeffry Gayman, an Ainu peoples researcher at Hokkaido University.
THE BEST HOT TAKE ON THE MUELLER REPORT IS FROM 1796
THE MUELLER REPORT is now (mostly) public. The lurid speculation from Democrats and chunks of the corporate media that President Donald Trump was somehow a Russian agent was false. But the report, and Mueller’s previous indictments, should persuade any reasonable person that the Russian government did indeed intervene in the 2016 election in support of Trump.
The response from the U.S. political system to Russia’s meddling has been uniformly appalling, although in different ways from different factions. The whole thing’s such a degrading catastrophe that it’s tempting to give up on politics and human beings generally. But since we’re stuck with both, let’s take a step back and consider some profound advice on this subject from George Washington.
Sudan probes al-Bashir after 'large sums of cash found at home'
Prosecutor launches money laundering probe against al-Bashir after finding suitcases of money at his home, says Reuters.
Sudan's public prosecutor has begun investigating deposed President Omar al-Bashir on charges of money laundering, the Reuters news agency said, citing a judicial source.
The source said on Saturday that military intelligence had searched al-Bashir's home and found suitcases loaded with more than $351,000 and six million euros ($6.75m), as well as five million Sudanese pounds ($104,837).
"The chief public prosecutor... ordered the [former] president detained and quickly questioned in preparation to put him on trial," the source said.
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