Attack

Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal Muslimeen (JNIM), a Mali-based terrorist group with links to Al-Qaeda, claimed responsibility for the 17 April killings.

The Indian prime minister has upped the ante in an already deriyse atmosphere after 26 people were killed in a shooting in Kashmir.

While senior ministers and Indian officials have not yet provided details of the attack a large section of Indian media blamed Pakistan without citing evidence.

There is still no indication of who carried out one of the worst recent attacks to hit the restive disputed region.

In the Ukrainian town of Marhanets, a bus was targeted by a Russian drone. Russia also launched an overnight attack on Kharkiv, Kherson, Poltava and Odesa.

The Vatican has recognised 167 Sri Lankan Catholics killed in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings as ‘witnesses of faith’, six years after the attacks that killed over 260 people.

Vechicles were set on fire in several prison car parks and a prison in the southern city of Toulon was fired at with an automatic weapon.

The development came shortly after two Russian missiles killed at least 34 civilians in the Ukrainian city of Sumy.

Zelenskyy slams Russia as “filthy scum” after the Kremlin launched two ballistic missiles on the Ukrainian city of Sumy. The attacks killed close to three dozen people and injured more than 100 others.

European leaders quickly condemned Sunday’s deadly Russian attack on Sumy, sharing condolences on social media.