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The so-called Islamic State claimed responsibility for bombings that killed at least 43 people at two Egyptian Coptic Churches.  "There was blood all over the floor and body parts scattered," said a witness.  One of the Palm Sunday attacks was targeted at the seat of the Coptic Pope Tawadros, who was in the building at the time of the blast but unharmed.  Pope Francis, who is scheduled to meet with Tawadros later this month, expressed his "deepest condolences" to all Egyptians and to the head of the Coptic Church.  Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi declared a three-month state of emergency, which will include increased police powers of arrest, surveillance and seizures and can limit freedom of movement..

US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley now says ousting Syria's Bashar al-Assad IS a priority of the Trump administration.  "We don't see a peaceful Syria" as long as Assad is allowed to remain in power, Haley said in an interview with CNN.  Just a week ago, Ms. Haley and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made waves by saying the exact opposite:  That getting rid of Assad was NOT a US priority.  Since then, images of children killed in a Syrian government chemical weapons attack on its own people flooded the world media.  Imagery of the children among the 150-200 who died as a result of a fouled up US bombing raid in Mosul, Iraq a couple of weeks earlier never made it into the world media; nor did the nine children and one US Navy Seal killed in Donald Trump bolloxed attack on Yemen in March. 

An American navy strike group led by the carrier USS Carl Vinson is heading to the Korean peninsula as a show of force against the North.  "We feel the increased presence is necessary," said a US official noting North Korean missile tests and nuclear ambitions.  Chinese President Xi Jinping last week visited with Donald Trump, who pressed the Chinese leader about doing more to rein in Pyongyang.

Russia's navy is carrying out unprecedented activity around Europe:  "We're seeing activity that we didn't even see when it was the Soviet Union," said US Navy Admiral Michelle Howard of NATO's Allied Joint Force Command.  She says the goal may be "splitting and distracting the view of the alliance" as individual nations concentrate on what's happening off their own shores while losing focus on the entire alliance.  Russia deployed its lone aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov to the Mediterranean, increased patrols in the north Atlantic and Arctic region, and is increasingly using submarines in the Black Sea and around the world.

A Russian hacker suspected of interfering in last year's US presidential election has been arrested in Spain under a US warrant.  Pyotr Levashov is accused of hacking the emails of the Democratic Party to create an advantage for fascist demagogue Donald Trump.  Russia has repeatedly denied involvement in sabotaging the US election.

Stockholm police say they arrested a second suspect in last week's beer truck attack on a shopping arcade and department store in the Swedish capital which killed four people and injured 15.  The second person was taken in on "a lower degree of suspicion" than the first suspect - that person was identified as a 39-year old Uzbek and terrorist sympathizer who was on the verge of being deported.  Thousands paid respects to the four dead at a large memorial.

Somalia's new army chief survived a suicide car bombing at the defense ministry that killed at least 15 other people.  Al-Shabaab claimed responsibility.

Argentina President Mauricio Macri is in the market for new police weapons and "new anti-riot training techniques", according to La Nacion newspaper.  This comes after last week's general strike and protests against his lousy government.  Thursday's strike brought most of the capital to an absolute stand still:  National and international flights were canceled; public transportation stopped; banks, business, schools, and even some government offices remained closed.  Police violently evicted protesters who occupied the Pan-American Highway, not that there was any traffic. 

Thousands came out to rally for French far-Left presidential candidate Jean-Luc Melenchon (the French Bernie Sanders), who is suddenly surging after his stellar performances in two televised debates.  Melenchon chose to walk straight into the Lion's Den, holding his rally in the southern city of Marseilles which had been a stronghold of far-right xenophobe Marine Le Pen.  Prior to the debates, the polls centered on Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron but have tightened as the front-runners faltered and Melenchon connected with more voters.  The first round of the French Presidential Election is 23 April.

Big Hole eats bus and car in Chennai, India.

A TV news anchor is being praised for keeping her composure as she learned of her husband's death on live TV.  Supreet Kaur was reading the morning news bulletin for India's IBC24 channel in Chhattisgarh state.  A reporter went live from the scene of a fatal traffic collision, and although names of the victims weren't used, it became apparent to Ms. Kaur that her husband was involved.  Aside from her voice breaking just briefly, she managed to get through the ten minute broadcast.  The UN World Health Organization (WHO) says more than 200,000 people die on Indian roads every year because of bad drivers and lax traffic enforcement, making them among the world's deadliest.