The United States envoy who is negotiating with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan says the peace process needs to be accelerated in the wake of a deadly attack on a wedding in the capital, which was claimed by the local Islamic State affiliate.
The archbishop of Colombo says there will be no Sunday Masses until further notice after the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka.
Iranian state media have blamed the al-Qaida-linked Sunni extremist group Jaish al-Adl for a bus bombing that killed at least 20 members of Iran's elite paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and wounded 20 more.
The blast hit a location near the city's international airport, where religious scholars had gathered.
Several people were killed in an explosion at a wedding hall in southern Turkey, a government official said.
The Federal Prosecution Office in Brussels says it can confirm that arrested terror suspect Mohamed Abrini was the third man present at Brussels Airport during the March 22 suicide bombings there.
(AP) - Security officials in Yemen's capital Sanaa say 25 people were killed in a suicide bombing at a mosque during Eid al-Adha prayers.