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Sri Lanka gives free visa to boost tourism after bomb blasts
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka says it will give free one-month visas to visitors on arrival from nearly 50 countries in its latest effort to revive the island nation's...
Sri Lanka to slash airline charges to help boost tourism
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's government says it will decrease ground handling charges for airlines and slash aviation fuel and embarkation taxes to help the country's vital tourism industry...
Sri Lanka expands curfew amid growing backlash against Muslims
KINIYAMA, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka widened a curfew on Monday after attacks on mosques and Muslim-owned businesses in the worst unrest since Easter bombings by Islamist militants and blocked...
All directly involved in Sri Lanka Easter bombings dead or arrested: cops
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan police say two bomb experts were among the suicide attackers who struck churches and hotels on Easter and all those directly involved in the...
Sri Lanka police name all 9 Easter Sunday suicide bombers
The names of the nine people who authorities say detonated suicide bombs in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, killing 257 people, have been released and their assets will be seized...
Sri Lankan president to ISIS: 'Leave my country alone'
Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena said it is “quite possible” a foreign mastermind was behind the Easter Sunday bombings, claimed by ISIS, telling the terror group to "leave my country...
India nabs alleged follower of Sri Lanka bombings suspect
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — India's investigative agency says it has arrested a 29-year-old Indian man who has identified himself as a follower of the alleged leader of the Easter bombings...
Sri Lanka bars Muslim women from wearing face veils
Muslim women in Sri Lanka will no longer be able to veil their faces under an emergency law ordered by President Maithripala Sirisena that bans all kinds of face coverings...
Ocasio-Cortez slams Kellyanne Conway for questioning her faith
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted Kellyanne Conway for trying to "stoke suspicions" about her Christianity after the White House counselor questioned the rookie lawmaker's "silence" to the massacre of hundreds of...
Terrorists may be plotting Sri Lanka-style attacks at tourist destinations: report
Islamic terrorists are feared to be plotting Sri Lanka-style massacres at other popular tourist destinations, intelligence officials have warned. Jihadi fighters fleeing Iraq and Syria after the fall of ISIS...
Father, brothers of alleged Sri Lanka bombing mastermind killed
The father and two brothers of the suspected mastermind of Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings were killed when security forces stormed their safe house two days ago, police sources and...
Sri Lankan officials knew about terror plot but didn't act in time
Indian police stumbled upon the plot for what would become the bloodiest Islamic State group-linked attack in South Asia, but the Sri Lankan authorities they warned didn’t act in time.
Sri Lanka troops find 15 bodies in raid on house
Authorities in Sri Lanka discovered 15 bodies, including six children, while raiding a safe house occupied by militants suspected to be linked to the Easter bombings. The gruesome find was...
All Catholic Church services in Sri Lanka canceled
All Catholic Sunday Masses in Sri Lanka have been suspended until further notice following this week's massacre — where two of the bombings took place at Catholic churches, church leadership...
Alleged mastermind behind Sri Lanka Easter attacks is confirmed dead
The fiery Islamic cleric who allegedly masterminded the Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka has been confirmed dead, the country's president reported. President Maithripala Sirisena announced that Zahram Hashim...
Sister of Sri Lanka bombing mastermind hopes 'he is dead'
One of the purported masterminds of the Sri Lanka Easter suicide bombings that killed hundreds hasn’t been confirmed dead — but his sister sure hopes he is. “It’s unbearable to...
Sri Lankan government misidentifies Maryland woman as terror suspect
A Maryland woman who once wrote a book decrying anti-Muslim bias was mistakenly identified by the Sri Lankan government as a suspect in that country's Easter suicide bombings that left...
Sri Lanka suicide bomber who killed cops was pregnant
The wife of a Sri Lankan spice scion-turned-terrorist, who blew up herself, her two kids and three cops as authorities closed in, was pregnant, the country's deputy defense minister reportedly...
Biden’s lame 2020 launch and other commentary
2020 watch: Biden’s Sloppy Launch May Cost Him In launching his presidential campaign Thursday with an online video message, former Vice President Joe Biden “couldn’t have done it in a...
Sri Lanka Easter bombing death toll revised to 253
The estimated death toll in Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday terror attacks dropped by more than 100 on Thursday, a discrepancy that officials attributed to the extent to which some bodies...