Terror attacks
Church calls for calm after Sri Lanka clashes
A few hundred extra troops and police were deployed late Sunday as authorities imposed a night-time curfew in the town.
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein of the Chabad of Poway synagogue in California hailed the heroics acts of the worshippers who risked their lives to save others when a teenaged gunman opened fire on the synagogue.
Sanath Ukwatte, chairman of the colonial-era Mount Lavinia hotel in Colombo, said he lost about 30% of his bookings within days of the Easter Sunday attacks that killed 253 people.
Three men set off explosives that killed themselves, three women and six children inside what was believed to be a jihadist hideout near the eastern town of Kalmunai.
A map showing some of the world's deadliest attacks since 2002.
The attackers, who numbered around two dozen, were wearing uniforms from the paramilitary Frontier Corps, provincial home secretary Haider Ali told AFP.
Burkina Faso, bordering Mali and Niger, has been battling jihadist attacks over the last three years.
Australia had been pressing Turkey to extradite Prakash since he was first detained there nearly two years ago.
Berlin police said in a statement they had detained suspects aged between 18 and 21 after searches in the districts of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Neukoelln in the capital.
Two of the attackers blew themselves up, two were killed in fighting and one was captured, the ministry said in a statement announcing that the fighting was over.
The participation of the national teams of Saudi Arabia and Iran in the tournament provided an even greater incentive for the group to target it, the report said.
While war was the most obvious sign of “unrepentant and absurd pride”, many other transgressions had caused “human, social and environmental degradation”.
Putin was speaking on Thursday at an awards ceremony in the Kremlin for Russian personnel who served in Syria.
Nobody was killed in the explosion, and it was not immediately clear what the motive for it was.
The blast comes a week after Islamic State claimed an attack on a training facility of the same agency in Kabul that ended when the attackers were killed before causing significant casualties.
The world’s largest social media network has faced pressure both in the United States and Europe to tackle extremist content on its platform more effectively.
The crown prince has said he would encourage a more moderate and tolerant version of Islam in the ultra-conservative kingdom.
A YouTube spokesperson, who asked not be named for security reasons, confirmed the policy in response to questions.
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