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Carl Court/Getty Images(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) — Sri Lanka has barred face veils in the wake of the Easter bombings that killed hundreds of people at churches and high-end hotels. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said […]

Franco Origlia/Getty Images(ROME) — Pope Francis donated $500,000 to Mexico-based projects to help migrant communities as media attention fades, the Vatican said Saturday. The funds will be distributed between 27 projects associated with 16 Mexican […]

Barbara Leininger(WASHINGTON) — American Todd Leininger has been released by Venezuela’s government and returned to the United States, his family said Friday. “Over the past five years, all I have hoped and worked for is […]

Solo swimmer/Facebook (NEW YORK) —  A South African swimmer has splashed his way into history by swimming across Lake Malawi during the tropical cyclone Idai, breaking two world records in the process. Martin Hobbs became […]

Carl Court/Getty Images(NEW YORK) —  A shoot-out erupted in eastern Sri Lanka on Friday night between security forces and suspects linked to the string of suicide bombings that has claimed hundreds of lives, according to […]

Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un departed the Russian city of Vladivostok on Friday, a day after a summit with Russia’s president Vladimir Putin. Kim boarded his armored train at […]

STR/AFP/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Maria Butina, the Russian national accused of conspiring to act as an agent of a foreign government, was sentenced to 18 months of incarceration and deportation to Russia “promptly upon the […]

gynane/iStock(LONDON) — Police in London are asking the public to help identify suspects who reportedly smashed a van through a Tiffany’s storefront, swiped a still-unknown quantity of baubles and escaped on mopeds. The incident, in […]

Samir Hussein/Samir Hussein/WireImage(LONDON) — Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, will have a big decision to make once their baby is born: Who the godparents will be for their first-born child. […]

David Tran/iStock(NEW YORK) — European regulators on Thursday said they are investigating whether Facebook violated the European Union’s privacy laws, which are much stricter than those in the U.S. “The Data Protection Commission was notified […]