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Final appeal by jailed Reuters journalists rejected
NAYPYITAW – Myanmar’s top court on Tuesday rejected the appeal of two Reuters reporters sentenced to seven years in jail for breaking the Official Secrets Act, in a landmark case that has raised questions about the country’s transition to democracy.
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New Zealand, France attempts to end violent online extremism
WELLINGTON – New Zealand and France announced a joint effort Wednesday to bring countries and tech companies together in an attempt to end the ability of social media to organise and promote terrorism and extreme violence. The meeting will take
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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Knowing suicide bomber Zahran Hashim
By: Muheed Jeeran COLOMBO: Zahran Hashim is from Kathankudy in Batticaloa district, Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. He has a history of trouble making and Criminal Investigation Department was well aware of his history. His brother is also a moulavi,
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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Second Shangrila Hotel suicide bomber identified
By: K Pragalath COLOMBO: It has been confirmed that the second suicide bomber Insan Seelavan and Zahran Hashim are the two suicide bombers in Shangrila Hotel. The second suicide bomber at the Shangrila Hotel has been identified as Insan Seelavan,
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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Share the information with us, Muslims urged
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s Muslim Religious Affairs Minister Mohamed Hashim Abdul Haleem has called upon mosques to play a vital role in information gathering from the Muslim community in view of the bomb blasts over the weekend. Speaking at a press
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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Spice trader dies after family members killed
By: K Pragalath COLOMBO: A famous spice trader Ibrahim Dawood Hathiyar of Colombo died tragically after it was discovered that he had rented out his home to terrorists who launched an attack on the Shangrila Hotel. “Ibrahim Dawood Hathiyar, a
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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Coordinated attacks with the aid of international militants
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan officials said that the coordinated bombings of churches and hotels across the country on Easter Sunday had been carried out by National Thowheeth Jamaat, a little-known radical Islamist group, with help from international militants. Rajitha Senaratne, the
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Sri Lanka bomb blasts: Billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen lost three children
PUCHONG: Online fashion business tycoon Anders Holch Povlsen who is also among UK and Scotland’s biggest landowners has confirmed that he lost three out of four children in the bomb blasts that rocked Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Local UK
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Liverpool back on top as they come through tricky test against Cardiff
Liverpool has overcome numerous obstacles to put themselves within reach of the Premier League title, but a self-imposed hosepipe ban in South Wales on the same afternoon as an impromptu ball boy/girl strike was a new one for Jurgen Klopp
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Trending: Watch lioness almost rip off man’s hand who tried to pet her
55-year-old man puts his hand inside a cage to pet the lioness, gets his arm almost ripped off instead. Watch the viral video. Humans get really uncomfortable when someone invades their personal space, but what they don’t realise is that
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