A climate change activist is detained during the Extinction Rebellion protest on Waterloo Bridge in London, Britain April 20, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson The number of environmental campaigners arrested during eight days of direct action in London topped 1,000 on Monday, police said, adding that Waterloo Bridge, one of the sites blockaded by the protests, had

AFP / Jewel SAMAD Security personnel inspect St Sebastian’s Church in Negombo a day after it was hit in a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka Sri Lanka said Monday it believed a local Islamist extremist group was behind deadly suicide bomb blasts that killed nearly 300 people as

Photo Reuters The United States is expected to announce on Monday that buyers of Iranian oil need to end imports soon or face sanctions, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters, triggering a 3 percent jump in crude prices to their highest for 2019 so far. Officials in Asia opposed the expected move, pointing

The United Nations has resumed making refunds for Kenya troops in Somalia with a Sh3.75 billion pay in March, boosting Treasury’s cash reserves at the end of the third quarter of the current financial year ending June. Latest document on exchequer transactions by Treasury secretary Henry Rotich shows refunds from African Union Mission to Somalia

World leaders condemn bombings that hit churches and hotels, killing scores of civilians The international community has reacted to Sunday’s bombings in Sri Lanka, which left at least 185 people dead hundreds of others wounded. The bombings targeted eight different locations — including churches where Christians were marking Easter Sunday — and 5-star hotels in

Photo Bloomberg Multiple explosions rocked three churches and three luxury hotels in Sri Lanka during Easter Sunday mass, leaving at least 138 dead in the worst violence since the civil war ended a decade ago. The coordinated blasts took place at 8:45am local time in churches in capital city Colombo and the towns of Negombo

Gunmen that killed 14 personnel of Pakistan’s security forces came from Iran, says Foreign Minister Qureshi The gunmen, who killed 14 personnel of Pakistan’s security forces in the southwestern Balochistan province earlier this week, had come from Iran, Pakistan’s foreign minister said on Saturday. “We have authentic information about the Baloch terrorists groups who have

Photo Reuters Sudan’s public prosecutor has begun investigating ousted President Omar al-Bashir on charges of money laundering and possession of large sums of foreign currency without legal grounds, a judicial source said on Saturday. The source said that military intelligence had searched Bashir’s home and found suitcases loaded with more than $351,000 and six million

Photo The Scotsman. A CRACK cocaine gang battling for control of Edinburgh’s drug market may have been involved in the shooting of Bradley Welsh, it is feared. As detectives issued a description of the suspected hitman, police sources said they “cannot rule out” the possibility that violent thugs formerly based in England – who have

The Latest on Egypt’s vote on a referendum potentially extending President el-Sissi’s rule to 2030 (all times local): 9 a.m. Egyptians have begun voting on constitutional amendments aimed at keeping President el-Sissi in power until 2030. The referendum comes amid an unprecedented crackdown on dissent in recent years. El-Sissi’s government has arrested thousands of people,