Six months ago, on Easter Sunday, Sri Lanka was hit by one of the world’s worst terrorist attacks this century. The town of Negombo suffered the deadliest bombing, when 115 people died while attending mass. Hasura Jayakody lost his mother in the explosion – and spent his 17th birthday recovering from shrapnel injuries in hospital. […]
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The game was billed as the return of Saquon Barkley to the New York Giants’ lineup and the matchup of first-round rookie quarterbacks Kyler Murray and Daniel Jones. It had an unexpected star: Arizona Cardinals backup running back Chase Edmonds. Edmonds rushed for career highs of 126 yards and three touchdowns and the Cardinals’ defense
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Thomas J. D’Alesandro III, a former Baltimore mayor, City Council president and the brother of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has died. He was 90. Ms. Pelosi’s office confirmed the death in a statement on Sunday. Mr. D’Alesandro was elected president of the Baltimore City Council in 1963 before serving as mayor from 1967 to 1971.
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Image copyright PA Media The pound slipped against the dollar as commercial currency markets opened for the first time since MP’s backed a move to delay approval of the Brexit deal. Most big banks in London had called in extra staff, expecting volatile trading after the first Saturday sitting in the House of Commons for
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A high school girls soccer team in Vermont tried to advocate for equal pay at a Friday game and managed to receive multiple yellow cards in the process. After scoring their first goal of the night, several members of the Burlington High School girls team took off their blue uniforms to reveal custom white jerseys
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“Erdogan is playing to an anti-American domestic audience with his nuclear rhetoric, but is highly unlikely to pursue nuclear weapons,” said Jessica C. Varnum, an expert on Turkey at Middlebury’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, Calif. “There would be huge economic and reputational costs to Turkey, which would hurt the pocketbooks of
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Jacoby Brissett threw a career-high four touchdown passes Sunday and the Indianapolis Colts sealed a 30-23 victory over the Houston Texans with Darius Leonard’s late interception. Indy (4-2) has won three straight in the series and took over the early season lead in the AFC South. The loss snapped Houston’s two-game winning streak. Brissett was
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INDIANOLA, Iowa — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts said on Sunday that she will release a plan to finance “Medicare for all” in the coming weeks, bowing to critics from the left and the right who have criticized her for not outlining how she would pay for a single-payer health care system. Ms. Warren has
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Arkansas reaped a windfall when a Walmart founder, James L. Walton, known as Bud, died in 1995 with a fortune estimated by Forbes at $1.65 billion in today’s money. The next year, state estate tax receipts jumped 425 percent, to about $183 million in current dollars. In an age when bigger fortunes are being made,
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A crew of deep-sea explorers and historians looking for lost World War II warships have found a second Japanese aircraft carrier that went down in the historic Battle of Midway. Vulcan Inc. director of undersea operations Rob Kraft said a review of sonar data captured Sunday shows what could be either the Japanese carrier Akagi
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