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EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / TOPSHOT - A general view shows people looking at the aftermath following a bomb blast which struck worshippers gathering to celebrate Palm Sunday at the Mar Girgis Coptic Church in the Nile Delta City of Tanta, 120 kilometres (75 miles) north of Cairo, on April 9, 2017.

Palm Sunday IS bombings at Egypt churches kill 44

Kuwait condemns blasts; Amir sends condolences; Sisi deploys troops EDITORS NOTE: Graphic content / TOPSHOT - A general view shows people looking at the aftermath following a bomb blast which struck worshippers gathering to celebrate Palm Sunday at the Mar Girgis Coptic Church in the Nile Delta City of Tanta, 120 kilometres (75 miles) north of Cairo, on April 9, 2017.TANTA, Egypt: The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for bombing two...

STOCKHOLM: People lay flowers at a memorial ceremony at Sergels Torg plaza close to the point where a truck drove into a department store two days before. - AFP

Thousands attend Stockholm attack vigil

Police probe suspect's interest in IS STOCKHOLM: People lay flowers at a memorial ceremony at Sergels Torg plaza close to the point where a truck drove into a department store two days before. - AFPSTOCKHOLM, April 9, 2017 (AFP) - Huge crowds gathered in Stockholm for a "Lovefest" vigil against terrorism yesterday, two days after a truck attack that police believe was committed by an Uzbek man interested in jihadist groups. Stockholm city...

MOGADISHU: A soldier stand guard the street after a suicide car attack near the Defense Ministry. - AFP

10 dead as new Somali army chief escapes car bombing

MOGADISHU: A soldier stand guard the street after a suicide car attack near the Defense Ministry. - AFPMOGADISHU; Somalia's new army chief escaped a car bombing yesterday that killed at least 10 people in a bloody response by Shabaab militants to the president's declaration of war on the group. A suicide bomber drove a car packed with explosives into Ahmed Mohamed Jimale's convoy near the defense ministry in Mogadishu, just days after he was...

TANTA: A general view shows people gathering outside the Mar Girgis Coptic Church in the Nile Delta City of Tanta, after a bomb blast struck worshippers gathering to celebrate Palm Sunday. - AFP

Who are Egypt's Coptic Christians?

TANTA: A general view shows people gathering outside the Mar Girgis Coptic Church in the Nile Delta City of Tanta, after a bomb blast struck worshippers gathering to celebrate Palm Sunday. - AFPCAIRO; Egypt's Copts, targets of an apparent church bombing north of Cairo yesterday, are the Middle East's largest Christian minority and one of the oldest. Making up about 10 percent of Egypt's population of 90 million, the Coptic Orthodox form the...

QARAQOSH: A giant cross built by volunteers from the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh (Hamdaniya) is seen on the main road, some 30 kilometers east of the northern city of Mosul. - AFP

First Palm Sunday since IS in Iraq's main Christian town

Jihadist inscriptions still visible on the walls QARAQOSH: A giant cross built by volunteers from the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh (Hamdaniya) is seen on the main road, some 30 kilometers east of the northern city of Mosul. - AFPQARAQOSH: Members of Iraq's Christian minority celebrated Palm Sunday in the country's main Christian town of Qaraqosh for the first time since it was retaken from the Islamic State group. Hundreds of faithful gathered inside...

CARACAS: Demonstrators protest against President Nicolas Maduro's government. - AFP

Venezuelan protesters clash with police again

CARACAS: Demonstrators protest against President Nicolas Maduro's government. - AFPCARACAS: Protesters hurling rocks clashed with police firing tear gas Saturday in Venezuela's fourth demonstration in a week against President Nicolas Maduro and his government. The rally was marked by anger over a ruling from the leftist government banning opposition leader Henrique Capriles from office for 15 years. Around 4,000 people attended the...

NEW DELHI: In this photograph taken on April 7, 2017, closed pubs and restaurants affected by a liquor ban are seen in a neighborhood in Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi. — AFP

Booze ban stresses Big Indian business

Curbing drink driving on India's roads NEW DELHI: In this photograph taken on April 7, 2017, closed pubs and restaurants affected by a liquor ban are seen in a neighborhood in Gurgaon on the outskirts of New Delhi. — AFPGURGAON: When Shailja Singh headed to her favorite bar for a post-work beer this week she found it shut, victim of a Supreme Court ruling that has stopped India's burgeoning alcohol and leisure industries in their tracks....

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Bangladesh Islamists to hang after president rejects pleas

DHAKA: A top Islamist extremist under sentence of death has lost his last hope of avoiding the gallows after Bangladesh's president rejected a mercy plea, an official said yesterday. Bangladesh's highest court last month upheld a 2008 death sentence on Mufti Abdul Hannan and two associates for an attack on a shrine that left three people dead and injured the British high commissioner at the time.Last month the trio wrote to President Abdul Hamid...

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Indian, Chinese navies rescue ship hijacked by Somali pirates

NEW DELHI: The navies of India and China carried out a joint operation yesterday to rescue a merchant ship hijacked by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden, the Indian defense ministry said. After receiving a distress call on Saturday night, the Indian warships established contact with the captain of the merchant vessel who had locked himself in a strong room along with the rest of the Filipino crew."An Indian Navy helicopter undertook aerial...

Manchester United's Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic (C) tries but fails to squeeze between Sunderland's Italian striker Fabio Borini (L) and Sunderland's English defender Billy Jones (R) during the English Premier League football match between Sunderland and Manchester United at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, north-east England on April 9, 2017.

Ibra sparks Man Utd against 10-man Sunderland

Manchester United's Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic (C) tries but fails to squeeze between Sunderland's Italian striker Fabio Borini (L) and Sunderland's English defender Billy Jones (R) during the English Premier League football match between Sunderland and Manchester United at the Stadium of Light in Sunderland, north-east England on April 9, 2017.SUNDERLAND: Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his 28th goal of the season as Manchester United...

Everton's English defender Matthew Pennington (L) vies with Leicester City's Algerian striker Islam Slimani during the English Premier League football match between Everton and Leicester City at Goodison Park in Liverpool, north west England on April 9, 2017.

Everton’s Lukaku halts Leicester revival

Everton's English defender Matthew Pennington (L) vies with Leicester City's Algerian striker Islam Slimani during the English Premier League football match between Everton and Leicester City at Goodison Park in Liverpool, north west England on April 9, 2017.LIVERPOOL: Romelu Lukaku scored twice for Everton in a 4-2 victory yesterday as Craig Shakespeare suffered defeat for the first time since becoming Leicester City manager. Shakespeare had...

SHANGHAI: Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton holds the trophy as he celebrates on the podium after winning the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai yesterday. - AFP

Hamilton powers to victory in Chinese GP

SHANGHAI: Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton holds the trophy as he celebrates on the podium after winning the Formula One Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai yesterday. - AFPSHANGHAI: Lewis Hamilton powered to victory in a chaotic Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai yesterday, taking swift revenge for his defeat by Sebastian Vettel in the Formula One season-opener. The Briton, who started on pole, steered his Mercedes to his fifth Chinese Grand...

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