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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…

Two jailed Reuters reporters, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, won a Pulitzer Prize on Monday (April 15) for revealing the massacre of 10 Muslim Rohingya men by Buddhist villagers and Myanmar security forces. The two honorees have been jailed for 490 days in Myanmar for their role in uncovering the killings. The two young Reuters reporters, both Myanmar citizens, found a mass grave filled with bones sticking out of the ground at the village of Inn Din, in the heart of the conflict zone of Rakhine state in Myanmar. They went on to gather testimony from perpetrators, witnesses, and…

Environmental activists continued to camp out at London’s Marble Arch on Tuesday (April 16) morning following a city-wide demonstration to force the government to do more to tackle climate change. Roadblocks at locations including Oxford Circus and Waterloo Bridge were due to continue night and day at each site and the demonstrators said the protests could last at least a week. The protests are being led by the British climate group Extinction Rebellion and are to involve demonstrations in 33 countries around the world over the coming days. Extinction Rebellion, which generated headlines with a semi-nude protest in Britain’s parliament…

Firefighters doused the smouldering ruins of Notre-Dame on Tuesday, the morning after a blaze swept through the cathedral in Paris as investigators tried to establish what started the fire. Hundreds of firemen battled the flames which consumed the roof and collapsed the eight-centuries-old cathedral’s spire for more than eight hours before bringing it under control, saving its bell towers and outer walls. The Paris prosecutor’s office said it had launched an inquiry into the fire. Several police sources said they were working on the assumption for now that the fire was accidental.