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Digest for international stories for week Apr 15 - Apr 21,

2017 Saturday Beirut: A stalled population transfer resumed after a deadly explosion killed at least 100, including children, government supporters and opposition fighters, at an evacuation point, adding new urgency to the widely criticised operation.

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2017

Saturday

Beirut: A stalled population transfer resumed after a deadly explosion killed at least 100, including children, government supporters and opposition fighters, at an evacuation point, adding new urgency to the widely criticised operation.

Colombo: At least 17 people, including four children, were killed when a 91-metre open garbage pile came crashing down on homes following a fire near Sri Lanka's capital, with the Prime Minister apologising for the delay in relocating the dump.

Washington: The Trump administration has placed six of its major trading partners including China and Japan on a "monitoring list" to keep a close watch on their currency practices.

Sunday

Istanbul: Turkey's two main opposition parties says they would challenge the results putting the 'Yes' camp ahead in the referendum on expanding the powers of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after alleged violations.

Rashidin : Nearly 70 children were among 126 people killed when a suicide car bombing tore through buses carrying evacuees from besieged government-held towns in Syria, a monitor said.

Washington: North Korea launched a missile but it blew up almost immediately after its launch, says the US military, a day after Pyongyang warned Washington that it is "prepared to respond to an all-out war with an all-out war".

London: British Prime Minister Theresa May uses her Easter message to strike a conciliatory note post-Brexit, saying people were "coming together" and uniting behind the opportunities that lie ahead following the vote.

Monday

Islamabad: A 20-year-old medical student, who visited Syria in February to join the ISIS and receive weapons training, says that she was to be used as a suicide bomber to attack a church on Easter in Pakistan's Lahore city.

Islamabad: The US asks Pakistan to "confront" terrorism in all its forms as America's National Security Adviser held talks with the top civilian and military leadership here during an unannounced visit, the first by a top Trump administration official to this country.

Colombo: The death toll in the collapse of a giant open garbage dump, burying dozens of houses, near the Sri Lankan capital climbed to 29 after rescuers pulled out more bodies from the rubble. (MORE)

 

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