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Morning breaks at St Sebastian's Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, where dozens of people were killed in an explosion on Easter Sunday. The government on Tuesday imposed a state of emergency hours after it blamed a local Islamist group for a series of suicide bomb blasts that killed at least 290 people, including dozens of foreigners.
Sun rises over St Anthony's church in Colombo, Sri Lanka, one of the blast sites in the Easter Sunday blasts that took at least 290 lives. Authorities imposed on Tuesday a state of emergency hours after blaming a local Islamist group for the attacks, with 24 people arrested so far. IMAGES
Supporters of Sri Lanka's Marxist-Leninist "People's Liberation Front" party hold a rally to mark May Day in Colombo. May Day, which is also known as Labour Day or International Workers' Day, is marked across the world by protests and demonstrations demanding fair pay and better conditions for workers. IMAGES
Heavily armed police officers guard the entrance to the Church of St-Eustache in Paris as French Catholics attend mass for All Saints' Day. The tight security comes after an Islamist knifeman attacked a church in the southern city of Nice, killing three people. IMAGES
Sri Lanka begins a day of national mourning with three minutes of silence to honour more than 300 people killed in suicide bomb blasts that have been blamed on a local Islamist group. IMAGES from outside St Anthony's Shrine in Colombo