The Sunday school children: The little-known tragedy of the Sri Lankan Easter attacks
The first church Mohammed Nasar Mohammed Azar tried to blow up had already finished its service by the time he arrived. The Easter Sunday mass there had started early.
Making sense of Sri Lankan tragedy
OUR world is increasingly becoming insecure and unsafe for ordinary civilians because of state and non-state actors. No place is safe and secure for them!
Julian Assange, bail and extradition
SHOULD journalism ever have a deity worth his, her or its salt, looking down upon the recent proceedings against Julian Assange will provide endless choking fits of confusion and dismay.
A Boeing 737 coming from Guantanamo Bay slid off the runway and fell into St. Johns River in Florida, officials say
A Boeing 737 plane arriving from Guantanamo Bay in Cuba went off the runway into the St. Johns River in Florida on Friday night, Jacksonville Mayor Lenny Curry said.
Trump says he spoke with Putin about 'Russian hoax,' didn't warn him against 2020 election meddling
President Donald Trump said he briefly discussed special counsel Robert Mueller's report in a call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, but didn't warn his Russian counterpart to not meddle in the next US election.
NZ PM to marry longtime partner
New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern is engaged to her longtime partner, fishing-show host Clarke Gayford, after a proposal over the Easter holidays, her spokesman said on Friday.
Cyclone Fani hits eastern India, 8 killed
Normally bustling Kolkata was eerily quiet late Friday as one of the biggest cyclones to hit India in years bore down on the major city after leaving a trail of deadly destruction in its wake.
16 Indian commandos killed in Maoist attack
A bomb attack by suspected Maoist rebels killed 15 Indian elite commandos and their driver on Wednesday, police said, in the latest incident of election-time violence in a decades-long insurgency.
Assange jailed for 50 weeks for UK bail breach
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was sentenced Wednesday to 50 weeks in jail for breaching a British court order seven years ago, when he took refuge in Ecuador’s London embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden.
William Barr is in deep trouble
Attorney General William Barr did two strange things between the time he received special counsel Robert Muelller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and when he released it to Congress and the public.
