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From Easter justice to wider justice

THERE has long been speculation that the Easter bombing of April 2019 had a relationship to Sri Lankan politics. The near simultaneous bombings of three Christian churches and three luxury hotels, with a death toll of 270 and over 500 injured, by Muslim suicide bombers made no sense in Sri Lanka where there has been no history of conflict between the two religions...

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School bus bombing kills six in Pakistan

A suspected suicide bomber targeted a school bus in southwestern Pakistan killing at least four children and two adults on Wednesday, in an attack the government accused India of backing...

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RAMNA BATAMUL BLAST: HC commutes death sentence of 7 convicts

The High Court on Tuesday commuted the death sentences of seven members of the banned extremist outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami Bangladesh in the case of 2001 Ramna Batamul blast that killed 10 people during Pahela Baishakh celebrations in Dhaka.

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Israeli forces strike deadly bombing in Gaza

Israeli forces carried out new deadly bombings targeting Hamas in Gaza on Wednesday, as international mediators prepared to propose a short-term truce to free hostages and avert a humanitarian catastrophe...

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Justice doesn’t require mandate but a new govt

ON APRIL 21, Sri Lanka passed the fifth year anniversary of the Easter Sunday bombing that took the lives of about 300 persons and injured and maimed many more. The bombers targeted Catholic and Christian churches that...

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New US review says 2021 Kabul attack not preventable

A 2021 suicide bombing in Kabul that killed scores of people — among them 13 American troops — could not have been prevented ‘at the tactical level,’ according to the...