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The United Nations Security Council has watered-down an important resolution opposing sexual violence as a weapon of war because the US threw a fit over references to abortion and sexual health.  "We deeply regret the language on services for survivors of sexual violence, recognising the acute need for those services to include comprehensive reproductive and separate sexual healthcare," said the UK's special envoy on preventing sexual violence in conflict Lord Tariq Ahmed, who vowed the UK "would continue to "support access to sexual and reproductive healthcare for survivors of sexual violence around the world".  Critics have said the "powerful members of the security council, such as Russia, China and the USA, are undermining women's right".

A Sri Lanka official says that the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 321 people and injured 500 more were "retaliation for the New Zealand mosque attack".  Australian white supremacist Brenton Harrant is jailed in NZ and awaiting trial for that earlier terrorist attack that killed 50 people.  Sri Lanka's Junior Minister for Defence Ruwan Wijewardene also said two local Islamist group took part in the bombings.  A news service affiliated with the so-called Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attacks - and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe concurs, noting that says these local groups couldn't have pulled off such a series of attacks on their own.  The country remains under a state of emergency to prevent other attacks, and more than 40 suspects are now in custody as the first funerals get underway.

Also, CCTV caught video of one of the Sri Lanka bombers walking into a church with a heavy rucksack before it exploded.

Police in Northern Ireland have released a 57-year old woman unconditionally, after arresting her under the Terrorism Act in the shooting death of journalist Lyra McKee last week in Derry.  Two teens were released under similar circumstances earlier.  Meanwhile, Republic of Ireland President Michael D Higgins and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar will attend Ms. McKee's funeral at St. Anne's Cathedral in Belfast on Wednesday.  McKee was shot while covering clashes between police and Irish nationalists in Derry.  An Irish Republican Army splinter group calling itself the "New IRA" admitted one of its "volunteers" killed McKee, and offered "full and sincere" apologies to her family and friends.  The actual IRA and most other militant groups have stood down since the 1998 Good Friday Accords. 

A politician from Hitler's hometown has resigned after being called out for writing a racist poem that compared immigrants to rats and warned them to assimilate or "get out of here fast".  Christian Schilcher of the far-right and ironically named Freedom Party was the deputy mayor of Braunau am Inn, birthplace of nazi Germany's leader Adolf Hitler.  The opposition Social Democrats said such comparisons were "customary in Nazi propaganda".  But the Freedom Party is part of the governing coalition, and Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is demanding that his partners distance itself from the "abominable" poem.  All this comes just a few weeks ahead of the European Parliament elections, which far-right parties are making big plays to advance.

The UN World Health Organization is testing a new child Malaria Vaccine in Malawi.  The RTS,S vaccine is hoped to give partial immunity by training the patient's immune system to attack the malaria parasite, which is spread by mosquito bites.  Earlier trials showed that nearly 40 percent of the five-to-17-month-olds who received it were protected.  The world say 219 million Malaria infections in 2017 with 435,000 fatalities - and 90 percent of those cases were in Africa.

Searchers continue to find bodies in the town of Rosas, Colombia, which was hit with a mudslide over the weekend.  The death toll is now 30 lives lost.

And 25 people were killed when a bus plunged off of a highway in Bolivia.  Police say the driver was trying to pass a truck but collided with another vehicle, sending it 200 meters down into a ravine.