- Potential bombers ‘at large’ as death toll lowered to 253
- Muslims asked to shun Friday prayer
- Iranian foreign minister suggested a swap between Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and an Iranian woman held in Australia
- Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested in 2016 and accused of plotting against the government
- Significant historical documents are preserved including on Hajj since the beginning of the Saudi era
- Al-Ghamdi started his documenting nearly 20 years ago
- Thousands of women and girls were forced into sexual slavery when the extremists attacked Yazidi communities in northwestern Iraq
- The Yazidi Supreme Spiritual Council issued a decree welcoming the survivors of slavery, and their children, into the Yazidi community
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- Hashim appeared in a video released by the Daesh group after they claimed the bombings
- Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara resigned over failures that led to the deadly Easter bomb attacks
- Xi says Beijing wants “open, green and clean cooperation” with “zero tolerance for corruption”
- High costs have prompted complaints some are falling into a “debt trap”
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