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Rugby: PH Volcanoes down Sri Lanka to advance to Asia Division-1 finals

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 29 09:43 PM

The defending champion Volcanoes outclassed top seed Sri Lanka 39-22 in the Asia Rugby Championship Division 1 on Wednesday to reach the title round. Read more »

Sri Lanka blocks social media after worst anti-Muslim unrest since Easter bombings

Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal, Reuters
Posted at May 13 12:31 PM

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. Read more »

Churches in Sri Lankan capital cancel Sunday mass due to threat

Omar Rajarathnam, Reuters
Posted at May 03 02:49 PM

COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's Catholic churches have cancelled Sunday mass in the capital Colombo for a second straight week, citing foreign intelligence warnings of threats to worshippers in the wake of the deadly Easter bombings on churches and hotels. Read more »

Leave my country alone, Sri Lanka president tells Islamic State

Reuters
Posted at May 01 04:48 PM

COLOMBO - Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said a foreign mastermind may have planned the Easter Sunday bombings, claimed by Islamic State, telling the militant group to "leave my country alone". Read more »

US envoy to Sri Lanka says threat is real as security forces maintain high alert

A. Ananthalakshmi and Alexandra Ulmer, Reuters
Posted at Apr 30 04:19 PM

COLOMBO - The U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka said on Tuesday that some of the Islamist militants involved in the Easter Sunday bombings on the island were likely still at large and could be planning fresh attacks. Read more »

Sri Lanka lifts ban on social media, security remains tight

Reuters
Posted at Apr 30 02:15 PM

The Sri Lankan government has lifted a ban on social media platforms intended to stop the spread of rumors after the Easter Sunday bombings, a source from the president's office said on Tuesday. Read more »

Islamic State leader surfaces in video, vows fight until 'Judgment Day'

The New York Times
Posted at Apr 30 09:54 AM

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi sought to rally his followers after the loss of the group’s territory in Iraq and Syria and its execution of one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in years, on Easter in Sri Lanka. Read more »

Tears and troops as Sri Lanka mourns suicide bomb dead

Amal Jayasinghe and Peter Hutchison, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 29 06:45 AM

Sri Lanka's churches remained shut Sunday, forcing Christians to say prayers of grief in private over the Easter suicide attacks that the country's Roman Catholic leader called "an insult to humanity".   Read more »

Security high as Sri Lanka marks one week from suicide attacks

Amal Jayasinghe and Peter Hutchison, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 28 02:14 PM

Sri Lanka's Roman Catholic leader on Sunday condemned the Easter attacks as "an insult to humanity" as the tense and grief-stricken country marked a week since suicide bombers hit 3 churches and 3 luxury hotels. Read more »

15 dead in Sri Lanka after overnight gun battle with suspected Islamist militants

Ranga Sirilal, Reuters
Posted at Apr 27 03:31 PM

COLOMBO - The bodies of 15 people, including 6 children, were discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a military spokesperson said on Saturday, 6 days after suicide bombers killed more than 250 people. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: April 26, 2019

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Posted at Apr 26 11:43 PM

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When lightning strikes

Jewel Samad, AFP
Posted at Apr 26 06:32 PM

Lightning strikes in the sky over St. Anthony's Shrine in Colombo on Thursday, as soldiers stand guard following a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday in Sri Lanka.  Read more »

Sri Lankans urged to avoid mosques, churches amid fears of more attacks

Reuters
Posted at Apr 26 03:00 PM

COLOMBO - Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said on Friday police are looking for 140 people believed to have links with the Islamic State group, which has claimed responsibility for the Easter Sunday suicide bombings of churches and hotels. Read more »

THE DAY IN PHOTOS: APRIL 25, 2019

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Updated as of Apr 26 07:01 AM

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Sri Lankan Navy arrives for goodwill visit

Aaron Favila, AP
Posted at Apr 25 04:03 PM

Members of the Sri Lankan Navy prepare to dock their Offshore Patrol Vessel P626 at Manila's south harbor pier, Philippines on Thursday. Read more »

China's island cities: Treasure or trouble for Asia?

Poornima Weerasekara, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Apr 25 12:27 PM

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - A high-rise city the size of central London rising out of the ocean next to Sri Lanka's capital is laying down another marker for China's global infrastructure ambitions whose epic scope is sounding alarm bells in Asia and beyond. Read more »

Foreign groups likely behind Sri Lanka attacks, U.S. ambassador says

Sanjeev Miglani and Joe Brock, Reuters
Posted at Apr 24 04:31 PM

COLOMBO - The scale and sophistication of the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka suggested the involvement of an external group such as Islamic State, the U.S. ambassador to said on Wednesday as the death toll jumped to 359. Read more »

Death toll from Sri Lanka bombing attacks rises to 359 - police

Reuters
Posted at Apr 24 01:14 PM

COLOMBO - The death toll from the Easter Sunday suicide bombing attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka rose to 359, police said on Wednesday without providing any further details. Read more »

Islamic State group claims Sri Lanka attacks: propaganda arm

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Apr 23 10:48 PM

BEIRUT - The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed a series of bombings that killed more than 320 people in Sri Lanka, after the government blamed local Islamists for the blasts.   Read more »

Sri Lanka bomb attacks were revenge for N.Zealand mosque killings - minister

Reuters
Posted at Apr 23 06:06 PM

NEW DELHI - Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bomb attacks were retaliation for a recent attack on mosques in New Zealand, a Sri Lankan official said on Tuesday, adding that two domestic Islamist groups were believed to be responsible. Read more »