290 dead in Sri Lanka attacks

Sri Lanka’s government has blamed a little-known radical Islamist group for Sunday’s attacks in which 290 people were killed. Also, Ukrainian comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has scored a landslide victory in the country's presidential election. And the US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that all countries continuing to import Iranian oil will be subject to American sanctions from May.

(Photo: Sri Lankan police near the site of an exploded van at a church that was attacked yesterday in Colombo. Credit: Reuters)