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ISIS has said it’s responsible for the coordinated attacks that killed more than 350 at Sri Lankan churches and hotels last Sunday. Meanwhile, North Korean leader King Jong Un has arrived in Russia ahead of his first-ever meeting with President Vladimir Putin tomorrow.

Sri Lanka’s leaders are coming to grips with a security lapse of

disastrous proportions as evidence emerges that authorities did not act on

warnings before Sunday’s deadly bombings. Meanwhile, the legal showdown

between President Donald Trump and House Democrats intensified yesterday as

Trump sought to block a subpoena that would lead to the disclosure of certain

financial dealings.

A Sri Lankan government investigator says seven suicide bombers

were behind the six coordinated attacks that killed at least 290 people across the

island nation yesterday. Meanwhile, popular satirist Volodymyr Zelensky, who

plays an accidental president on TV, trounced incumbent President Petro

Poroshenko in Ukraine’s runoff election yesterday.

Democratic presidential contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren says Congress should begin impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump, now that special counsel Robert Mueller’s report shows the president welcomed an attack by a “hostile foreign government.” Meanwhile, Ukrainians are poised to elect a comedian Sunday to be their next president.

In his highly anticipated report, special counsel Robert Mueller

revealed that President Donald Trump sought to derail the investigation for

months. Meanwhile, rioting in Northern Ireland last night left a 29-year-old

journalist dead.

All eyes in Washington and beyond will be trained on a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s 400-page report when it’s released later today. Meanwhile, North Korean state media reported that Pyongyang tested a new type of “tactical guided weapon” yesterday — the first such launch since talks between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

A day and a half since firefighters finally extinguished the blaze that ravaged the Notre Dame Cathedral, ordinary citizens and wealthy tycoons alike collectively pledged nearly $1 billion to rebuild the revered landmark. Meanwhile, polls in Indonesia have closed in a nationwide vote during which 192

million people were registered to elect some 20,000 national and local lawmakers at more than 800,000 polling places.

French President Emmanuel Macron promised to “rebuild it

together” after a fire gutted Paris’ 12th-century Notre Dame Cathedral yesterday.

Meanwhile, the Democrat-chaired House Financial Services and Intelligence

Committees have subpoenaed Deutsche Bank and other unidentified financial

institutions as they probe President Donald Trump’s business interests

President Lenín Moreno said he revoked Julian Assange’s political asylum because the WikiLeaks co-founder attempted to use London’s Ecuadorian Embassy as a “center for spying.” Meanwhile, a spokesman for Sudan’s transitional military council pledged to let opposition groups appoint a civilian government.

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