Easter

Journalists have been allowed into St Anthony's church for the first time since it was bombed in an Easter Sunday attack in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo.

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According to Reuters, Sri Lankan officials revised the death toll from Easter Sunday bombings down by about 100 on Thursday, blaming the difficulty in identifying body parts at bomb scenes. Deputy..

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According to Reuters, Sri Lankan officials revised the death toll from the Easter bombings. Sri Lanka's deputy defense minister said inaccurate data provided by morgues caused a discrepancy. The..

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According to Reuters, officials in Sri Lanka revised the death toll from Easter Sunday's deadly bombings. Over the weekend, terrorists attacked three churches and four hotels as Christian worshipers..

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The Foreign Office has warned against all but essential travel to Sri Lanka following the Easter Sunday bombings. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said: "Our hope is that it will be possible to change..

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According to CNN, Two of the suicide bombers involved in the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka were members of a prominent family in Colombo. The brothers, Imsath Ahmed Ibrahim and Ilham Ahmed..

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According to Reuters, the president of Sri Lanka asked the police chief and defense secretary to resign following a deadly attack against Christians on Easter. At least 359 people were killed on Easter..

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Officials say they have identified eight out of the nine attackers behind Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings, that killed more than 350 people.

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According to Business Insider, The US ambassador to Sri Lanka backed the idea that a foreign terrorist group may have been involved in the Easter Sunday bombings which have killed more than 350 in the..

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The leader of one of the groups behind the Easter Sunday attacks was believed to be one of the suicide bombers, state mininster of defence Ruwan Wijewardena said.

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Sri Lankan local broadcasters have shown surveillance footage of a suspected bomber carrying a heavy backpack and walking on the street before heading into St. Sebastian Church, one of seven locations..

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According to a report by Reuters, on Tuesday, Islamic State claimed responsibility for a series of coordinated Easter Day bombings in Sri Lanka that killed 321 people. Officials reportedly believe that..

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According to Reuters, a Sri Lankan official has issued a statement saying the devastating Easter bombings in Sri Lanka were retaliation for attacks on mosques in New Zealand. The Islamic State has..

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Alex Arrow, the father of fifth-grade Washington, D.C. student Kieran Shafritz de Zoysa who was killed in the Sri Lanka Easter attacks, says his son had a brilliant mind and "was going to do great..

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People gathered to hold a moment of silence in remembrance of the Easter Sunday's attacks at 08:30 am local

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At least 300 people are dead and dozens more were injured after a series of explosions hit churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. Churches were bombed as worshippers attended Easter Sunday service. The..

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According to CNN Business, the series of deadly attacks in Sri Lanka over the weekend could damage Asia's fragile economies. The bombs that ripped through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on..

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According to Reuters, experts on Monday have said that coordinated Easter Sunday bombings at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka had the hallmarks of militant groups Islamic State or al Qaeda. No group..

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According to Reuters, a rift between Sri Lanka’s president and prime minister came under scrutiny on Monday a day after a series of deadly bomb blasts, with questions over how the government handled..

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All four of the UK nations have recorded their warmest Easter Monday on record, the Met Office has said. The Met Office said a high of 25C was recorded in England, with top temperatures in Scotland,..

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The so-called "watering" of the women on Easter Monday is an old fertility rite that dates back to pre-Christian times.

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The World Coal Carrying Championships take place every Easter Monday since 1963 in the West Yorkshire village of Gawthorpe. The men, women and veterans race for over half a mile with a bag of coal on..

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Gun salutes rang out in Hyde Park and the Tower of London in the British capital on Monday to celebrate Queen Elizabeth's birthday. Rough cut (no reporter narration).

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According to Reuters, Pope Francis on Monday decried the attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed nearly 300 people over the weekend. The Holy Father called for universal condemnation of..

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COLOMBO (Reuters) - Authorities lifted a curfew in Sri Lanka on Monday, a day after a string of bombings at churches and luxury hotels across the Indian Ocean island killed 290 people and wounded about..

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