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Manchester City took a big step towards retaining the Premier League title with a 2-0 win over Manchester United at Old Trafford on last night sending them back to the top of the table. City have 89 points, one more than rivals Liverpool, with both teams having three games to play and none of them against top-six opponents. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side remain in sixth place with 64 points, outside the Champions League qualification slots as the early promise of the Norwegian’s reign dissipates. Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola hailed his team for the way they have responded to the…

On the final day of protests, environmental activists climbed onto a train at Canary Wharf station and blocked the entrance of the London Stock Exchange in London. The Extinction Rebellion group has caused mass disruption in recent weeks across London, blocking Marble Arch, Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge, smashing a door at the Shell building and shocking lawmakers with a semi-nude protest in parliament. At the Docklands Light Railway (DLR) station in Canary Wharf, five protesters from the group climbed aboard a train and unfurled a banner which read: “Business as usual = Death”. One glued herself to a train.…

Then Britain’s Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, joined New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern to lay wreaths and commemorate the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) Day at Auckland War Memorial. Heightened security saw about 1,000 police deployed across New Zealand at hundreds of locations and security concerns meant ANZAC Day events in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, and elsewhere were scaled back. ANZAC Day commemorates the bloody battle on the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey during World War One. On April 25, 1915, thousands of ANZAC were among a larger Allied force that landed on the narrow beaches…

Before Ukraine’s new president Volodymyr Zelenskiy was even elected, an opposition leader was plotting to curb his powers and make it easier for him to be impeached. Ukrainian lawmakers attend a parliament session in Kiev, Ukraine February 28, 2019. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich Andriy Sadovyi, head of the Samopomich party, the second largest opposition group in parliament, announced two days before the vote he was garnering support for a parliamentary bill to weaken the presidency. The opening salvo is a measure of the hostility that may be in store for Zelenskiy, a 41-year-old comedian who beat incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko, in Sunday’s…

Prime minister Theresa May has used her Easter message to offer support to Christians around the world who face “huge danger” because of their faith. The Prime Minister said, “we must stand up for the right of everyone, no matter what their religion” to follow their beliefs. Mrs. May, a vicar’s daughter said that while she will spend Easter “giving thanks in church”, “for many Christians around the world, such simple acts of faith can bring huge danger”. She added: “Churches have been attacked. Christians murdered. Families forced to flee their homes.”That is why the Government has launched a global…

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Seven suicide bombers took part in the devastating attacks on churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka that killed 290 people and wounded more than 500, a senior investigator said on Monday. Two of the suicide bombers blew themselves up at the luxury Shangri-La Hotel on Colombo’s seafront, said Ariyananda Welianga, a senior official at the government’s forensic division. The others targeted three churches and two other hotels. A fourth hotel and a house in a suburb of the capital Colombo were also targeted, but it was not immediately known how the attacks were carried out. “Still…

Sudan’s ruling Transitional Military Council (TMC) warned on Monday against protestors blocking roads and limiting the movement of citizens as protests continued after president Omar al-Bashir was forced from power. The TMC also said it was unacceptable that some young people were exercising the role of the police and security services, in violation of the law, a reference to youths who have been searching protesters taking part in a sit-in outside the Defence Ministry. The TMC and the opposition have traded threats since Sunday, with the Sudanese Professionals’ Association (SPA), the main organiser of the protests, saying it would suspend…

The United States is expected to announce on Monday that buyers of Iranian oil need to end imports soon or face sanctions, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters, triggering a 3 percent jump in crude prices to their highest for 2019 so far. The source confirmed a report by the Washington Post that the administration will terminate the sanctions waivers it granted to some importers of Iranian oil late last year. Benchmark Brent crude oil futures rose by as much as 3.2 percent to $74.31 a barrel, the highest since Nov. 1, in early trading on Monday in…

Voters across India began queuing up early in the second phase of a mammoth, staggered general election in which opposition parties are trying to stop Prime Minister Narendra Modi from winning a second term. More than 155 million people are eligible to vote in the second phase, which covers 12 states including parts of restive Jammu and Kashmir. The focus will be on the southern states of Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, where the main opposition Congress party and its allies need to win big if they hope to oust Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The election began last week and…

The bells of London’s Westminster Abbey tolled in solidarity with France, marking the moment a devastating fire started at Notre-Dame in Paris a day earlier. British Prime Minister Theresa May said bells will ring at cathedrals and churches across England on the Thursday before Easter. Queen Elizabeth expressed deep sadness while her son and heir Prince Charles said he was “utterly heartbroken”. More than 400 firemen were needed to tame the inferno that consumed the roof and collapsed the spire of the gothic masterpiece. French President Emmanuel Macron said the 12th century cathedral would be rebuilt within five years, with…