Sri Lankan authorities on Thursday revised the toll from Easter bombings down to 253, from the previous figure of 359, explaining that some of the badly mutilated bodies had been double-counted. The health ministry said medical examiners had completed all autopsies by late Thursday, and had concluded that several victims ...
The Belgian authorities on Thursday charged four Palestinian men with the murder of a nine-year-old Palestinian boy at an asylum seekers’ center near Antwerp, prosecutors said. “The facts are qualified as hostage-taking and murder,” the prosecutor’s office in Antwerp said in a statement without giving much detail.
