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Eight churches and hotels were targets of bombing attacks in Sri Lanka Easter Sunday with 290 reported dead and about 500 wounded. The acts of terrorism involved suicide bombers.... A report published on "Israel National News" says that 24 were hurt in Munich when a man shouting "Allahu Akhbar" entered a church.... The election results in Ukraine confirm the exit polls showing a landslide victory for Volodymyr Zelensky, actor and comedian.... The leader of Turkey's political opposition attacked at a soldiers funeral.... The FBI has arrested a man said to be part of militia group that was detaining people who...

At the top of the Newsdump under the cover of the Mueller report fallout is the top story. President Trump has talked to the eastern Libyan leader Khalifa Haftar. Trump recognized Haftar as a fighter against terrorism and his efforts to secure Libya's oil.... Turkey arresting two men said to be intelligence operatives for the United Arab Emirates..... US Marshals in Los Angeles arresting a former US Marine alleged to be part of a group that raided North Korea's embassy in Spain two months ago..... More than 60-thousand police mobilized in France Saturday for Week 23 of the Yellow Vests...

"No Collusion-No Obsruction!" A tweet from President Trump repeating his consistent message since Robert Mueller's report was delivered to Attorney General William Barr..... Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's received many congratulatory messages from Arab leaders since his election victory last week..... Women's rights activists seeking to end the male guardianship system in Saudi Arabia are due back in court in Riyadh.... As expected a veto from President Trump of legislation to shut down US support for the war Saudi Arabia leads in Yemen.... An extensive probe underway into the cause of the blaze at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris...

At the top of the Newsdump this morning. An Israeli airstrike in Syria overnight..... North Korea's ruler Kim Jong-un says he's open to a third summit meeting with President Donald Trump..... President Trump got some good news on the border situation Friday..... A product recall Friday from toy maker Fisher-Price..... These tweets from the Party of Brexit's leader Fridat. United Kingdom Independence Party leader Gerard Batten offered up this assessment of the situation.....

United States military forces stationed in Libya have been pulled out of the country. The United Nations also moving personnel out of the country as the Libyan National Army forces press their attack on the US-UN backed government that controls a small part of the country mostly around the capital city of Tripoli.... US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling for an end to the fighting and for negotiations between the warring factions..... As early as Monday, the United States is expected to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran as a "terrorist organization"..... Seven were killed in a...

The British Prime Minister Theresa May now asking the European Union for a delay on Brexit until June 30th..... Wikileaks tweeting that two Ecuadorean government sources are telling them that its founder Julian Assange will be expelled within "hours to days" from Ecuador's Embassy in London and that there is an agreement with the British authorities to arrest Assange...... The final polls are being published ahead of Israel's election on Tuesday..... Week 21 of the Yellow Vests protests in France... The meeting between Italy's Interior Minister-League Party leader Matteo Salvini and France's National Rally leader Marine Le Pen in Paris...

Russia is planning to expand its Syrian bases at Tartus and Hemeimeem to Libya. The possible Russian move into Libya represents the most recent failure stemming from the policies of President Obama that backed Islamist rebels who overthrew and killed Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi in 2011. Mr. Obama has said that the failure to prepare for the aftermath of the ouster of Gadhafi was the worst mistake of his presidency. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also came under fire for failing to provide security for Americans who were attacked and killed in Benghazi after Gadhafi’s fall. The push for a...

The EU and US urge "strongman" Khalifa Haftar to return oil ports to the "Libyan people". We're glad that Washington has a sense of humor ___ Libya was the richest, most developed, most educated country in North Africa. It was a model of much-needed stability in the region, with a government that was considerably less terrible than NATO's numerous medieval dictator-allies. Before the "revolution", the Libyan government used oil revenues to subsidize a whole range of social benefits for its citizens. And now that Libya is a moon crater, the U.S. and its European poodles are whining about "returning oil...

An armoured vehicle of Libyan forces allied with the U.N.-backed government is pictured during a battle with Islamic State militants in neighbourhood Number Three in Sirte, Libya October 9, 2016. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny ************************************************************* TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Libyan pro-government forces are advancing into the last area controlled by Islamic State in the coastal city of Sirte, surrounding the militants after a five-month campaign backed by U.S. air strikes, military officials say.At least eight pro-government fighters were killed over the weekend as their forces pushed into the 600 block, an area in central Sirte, with snipers and boobytraps posing the main obstacles...

Libyan renegade general Khalifa Haftar, who leads the Libyan militias fighting against Islamists in eastern Libya, has said he does not mind "cooperating with Israel and receiving various forms of support from it". General Haftar initially fought on the side of Muammar Gaddafi, before turning against him to fight with Islamist groups in 2011. He recently re-emerged as the leader of a military campaign to eradicate Islamist factions in the country. The editor in chief of Egypt's Al-Mesryoon newspaper, Gamal Sultan, quoted a statement made by Haftar during an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera on Sunday, in...

A statement shown on screen on An-Nabaa television, regarded as close to the Islamists, said: "Fajr Libya announces that it totally controls Tripoli international airport." Earlier on Saturday, leaders of the Islamist coalition, partly comprising men from Misrata, east of Tripoli, said their forces were advancing on the airport, having taken a bridge and a military base. The strategic site 30 kilometres (20 miles) south of the Libyan capital, has been shut since July 13 amid skirmishes between the Islamists and the Zintan force, allies of rogue general Khalifa Haftar, based at Benghazi in eastern Libya and hostile to the...