Sri Lanka arrests top Muslim leader over 2019 Easter attacks
Colombo, Sri LankaAP Sri Lankan police on Saturday arrested a prominent Muslim lawmaker and his brother over suspected connections to the Easter Sunday suicide bombings in 2019 that killed 269 people. Rishad Bathiudeen is a former Cabinet minister who currently leads an opposition party in Sri Lanka’s Parliament. He and his brother, Reyaj Bathiudeen, were […]
Postcards: Air Chernobyl? Tourists get chance to fly over nuclear disaster zone
As Ukraine marks the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, SERGIY KARAZY and MARGARYTA CHORNOKONDRATENKO, of Reuters, report a new venture to provide tourists with a birds-eye view of the disaster site…
Rescue groups, Pope, decry loss of migrant lives in Mediterranean
Rome, ItalyAP Rescue groups and the Vatican are decrying the latest deaths of migrants who put to sea in traffickers’ unseaworthy boats, amid laments that central Mediterranean nations are choosing not to dispatch vessels to save them. Aid group Alarm Phone said in a tweet that despite a spotter plane locating an overcrowded ship in […]