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Sri Lanka Indicts ISIS "Mastermind" Over 2019 Easter Sunday Bombings
Sri Lankan prosecutors Monday indicted the alleged mastermind of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings along with 24 men they say were co-conspirators in the island's worst single terror attack.
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Sri Lankan Parliament Approves Committee To Investigate Easter Bombings
The Sri Lankan Parliament has unanimously approved the formation of a select committee to look into the factors that led to the Easter Sunday bombings and come up with possible measures to avoid such attacks in future, according to a media report.
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In Tearful Ceremony, Sri Lanka Catholics Mark One Month Since Bombings
Hundreds of Catholics prayed outside the bombed St Anthony's Church in Colombo on Tuesday, marking one month since the Easter Sunday suicide attacks that killed 258 people in Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka School Principal, Teacher Arrested For Link To Terror Attack
Sri Lankan Police said Friday they have arrested a school principal and a teacher for their alleged links to the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaath (NTJ) blamed by the government for the deadly Easter Sunday bombings which killed nearly 260 people.
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Sri Lanka Blocks Social Media After Facebook Post Sparks Anti-Muslim Riot
Several dozen people threw stones at mosques and Muslim-owned stores and a man was beaten in the Christian-majority town of Chilaw on the west coast on Sunday in a dispute that started on Facebook, sources told Reuters.
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Sri Lanka IT Employee Arrested For Link To Easter Sunday Bombings
Sri Lankan police on Friday said they had arrested an employee of information technology services company Virtusa Corp in Colombo in connection with Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people.
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About 200 Children Lose Family Members In Sri Lanka's Easter Bombings
About 200 children in Sri Lanka have lost their family members, some of them sole breadwinners, in the massive Easter Sunday bombings, according to a leading charity organisation.
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Sri Lanka Expels 200 Islamic Clerics After Easter Attacks
Sri Lanka has expelled over 600 foreign nationals, including around 200 Islamic clerics, since the Easter suicide bombings blamed on a local terror group, a minister told AFP Sunday.
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"No Face Veils In Public": Sri Lanka Announces Ban After Easter Bombings
President Maithripala Sirisena used emergency powers in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings. The order clarifies that the key criterion for establishing the identity of a person is the need to clearly expose the face.
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Lahore Easter Blasts: Over 5,000 Detained In Terror Crackdown
Over 5,000 people were rounded up in the two days since the Easter Sunday bombing in Lahore with more than 200 still in custody, Pakistan's Punjab Province Law Minister said today and announced that a Joint Investigation Team has been formed to probe the attack.
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Park Blast Near Children's Rides Targeted Christians On Easter, Says Pakistani Taliban Faction
A breakaway Pakistani faction of the militant Taliban group has claimed responsibility for an Easter Sunday bombing in a park in the eastern city of Lahore that killed 65 people.
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Sri Lanka Indicts ISIS "Mastermind" Over 2019 Easter Sunday Bombings
Sri Lankan prosecutors Monday indicted the alleged mastermind of the 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bombings along with 24 men they say were co-conspirators in the island's worst single terror attack.
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Sri Lankan Parliament Approves Committee To Investigate Easter Bombings
The Sri Lankan Parliament has unanimously approved the formation of a select committee to look into the factors that led to the Easter Sunday bombings and come up with possible measures to avoid such attacks in future, according to a media report.
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In Tearful Ceremony, Sri Lanka Catholics Mark One Month Since Bombings
Hundreds of Catholics prayed outside the bombed St Anthony's Church in Colombo on Tuesday, marking one month since the Easter Sunday suicide attacks that killed 258 people in Sri Lanka.
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Sri Lanka School Principal, Teacher Arrested For Link To Terror Attack
Sri Lankan Police said Friday they have arrested a school principal and a teacher for their alleged links to the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaath (NTJ) blamed by the government for the deadly Easter Sunday bombings which killed nearly 260 people.
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Sri Lanka Blocks Social Media After Facebook Post Sparks Anti-Muslim Riot
Several dozen people threw stones at mosques and Muslim-owned stores and a man was beaten in the Christian-majority town of Chilaw on the west coast on Sunday in a dispute that started on Facebook, sources told Reuters.
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Sri Lanka IT Employee Arrested For Link To Easter Sunday Bombings
Sri Lankan police on Friday said they had arrested an employee of information technology services company Virtusa Corp in Colombo in connection with Easter Sunday bombings that killed more than 250 people.
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About 200 Children Lose Family Members In Sri Lanka's Easter Bombings
About 200 children in Sri Lanka have lost their family members, some of them sole breadwinners, in the massive Easter Sunday bombings, according to a leading charity organisation.
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Sri Lanka Expels 200 Islamic Clerics After Easter Attacks
Sri Lanka has expelled over 600 foreign nationals, including around 200 Islamic clerics, since the Easter suicide bombings blamed on a local terror group, a minister told AFP Sunday.
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"No Face Veils In Public": Sri Lanka Announces Ban After Easter Bombings
President Maithripala Sirisena used emergency powers in the wake of the Easter Sunday bombings. The order clarifies that the key criterion for establishing the identity of a person is the need to clearly expose the face.
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Lahore Easter Blasts: Over 5,000 Detained In Terror Crackdown
Over 5,000 people were rounded up in the two days since the Easter Sunday bombing in Lahore with more than 200 still in custody, Pakistan's Punjab Province Law Minister said today and announced that a Joint Investigation Team has been formed to probe the attack.
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Park Blast Near Children's Rides Targeted Christians On Easter, Says Pakistani Taliban Faction
A breakaway Pakistani faction of the militant Taliban group has claimed responsibility for an Easter Sunday bombing in a park in the eastern city of Lahore that killed 65 people.
