Local residentss gather on a closed street near St. Anthony`s Shrine in Colombo on 23 April 2019, two days after a series of bomb blasts targeting churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka began a day of national mourning on 23 April with three minutes of silence to honour more than 300 people killed in suicide bomb blasts that have been blamed on a local Islamist group. Photo: AFP
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An activist holds a placard next to others while forming a human chain calling for the freedom of the international non-profit organisation`WikiLeaks` founder Julian Assange, in Dhaka on 23 April 2019. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange`s seven-year hideout in Ecuador`s London embassy dramatically ended on 11 April when British police dragged him out and arrested him on a US extradition request. Photo: AFP
