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With thousands of guards deployed across the country to provide security for places of worship, Muslims in Sri Lanka answered the call to prayer Friday, less than a week after the deadly Easter Sunday suicide bombings in churches and hotels in the island nation's capital blamed on Muslim extremists.

Girls participating in the International Girls in ICT Day organised by ITU, at the African Union, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (25 April 2019).

The U.S. Embassy in Colombo has advised people to avoid places of worship in Sri Lanka over the coming weekend, citing Sri Lankan reports that additional attacks may occur.

France on Wednesday observed it first "national day of commemoration of the Armenian genocide" provoking a furious reaction from Turkey.

María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, addresses the General Assembly meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace.

A Sri Lankan official says a local militant group, with help from an "international network" is responsible for the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka that killed 290 people and injured 500 others.

Village shop at dusk in Sri Lanka lit by solar panels.

Egyptians are voting Saturday on constitutional amendments that allow Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi to stay in office until 2030. The voting comes less that a week after parliament approved the changes.

A doctor fighting an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo was killed in an attack on an eastern hospital, according to the World Health Organization.

A report released Thursday concludes disdain for journalists throughout the world has increased during the past year, due primarily to the behavior of authoritarian leaders.