SRI LANKA: President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he will appoint a committee led by a retired supreme court judge to probe claims made in a British TV report that the Sri Lankan intelligence service was complicit in 2019 bombings that killed 269 people.

The Easter Sunday attacks, which included suicide bombings, targeted three churches and three tourist hotels. The dead included 42 foreigners from 14 countries.

PALESTINE: Occupying Israeli forces killed teenager Milad al-Rai on Saturday at al-Aroub refugee camp in the southern West Bank, Palestinian health officials said.