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Palestinian Christians in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem have marked a second sombre Easter under punishing conditions and Israel’s war on Gaza. In the Gaza Strip, where no food or aid has been allowed in by the Israeli military for nearly 50 days, people observed Easter on Sunday at the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City amid death and destruction. Easter celebrations were limited to religious rituals as families cancelled other gatherings fearing more bombs would be dropped by Israeli warplanes, which killed dozens of people in the besieged enclave on Sunday. Israeli forces bombed…

Washington — Sen. Chris Van Hollen said Sunday that El Salvador “tried really hard” to prevent him from seeing Kilmar Abrego Garcia, before the government reversed course late last week.”I think they realized that that was not a good look at the end of the day,” Van Hollen, a Maryland Democrat, said on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”Abrego Garcia is a 29-year-old Salvadoran national who lived in Maryland who was sent last month to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison as part of a White House effort, although the administration later admitted in court that Abrego Garcia was mistakenly among…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The writer is research fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government in the Harvard Kennedy School and former assistant secretary for international affairs at the US TreasuryDonald Trump has already withdrawn the US from the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization. Is the IMF next?Project 2025, the controversial and radical policy manifesto for a second Trump term issued by the Heritage Foundation think-tank, advocates US withdrawal from the fund. The authors argue that the IMF espouses economic theories…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.A Lloyd’s of London insurance broker has been charged by the Serious Fraud Office over alleged bribes paid to officials in Ecuador via US intermediaries to land contracts from state-owned companies in the Andean nation.United Insurance Brokers Limited, a reinsurance broker that operates in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market, was on Thursday charged with failing to prevent bribes paid to Ecuadorean officials between 2013 and 2016. Representatives of UIB, created in 1987 through a management buyout of Marsh McLennan’s Middle East…

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Former WWE champion John Cena will take on current champion Cody Rhodes in the main event of WrestleMania 41 on Sunday, April 20. Andrew Timms/WWE via Getty Images The most eagerly awaited event on the sports entertainment calendar came to Las Vegas this weekend as World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) hosted its 41st WrestleMania event. More than a dozen high-profile matches featuring the biggest names in wrestling took place on Saturday and will continue on Sunday night, culminating in the grudge match between current WWE champion Cody Rhodes and former champion John Cena.Cena won the chance to battle for the title…

Week 1 of the Northern Super League is done, to positive reviews. Now the hard work really begins. High-profile opening games at Vancouver’s B.C. Place Stadium and Toronto’s BMO Field drew announced crowds of 14,018 and 14,518.Vancouver Rise FC raised the curtain on the six-team league with a 1-0 win over Calgary Wild FC on Wednesday, thanks to a Quinn penalty. And Montreal Roses FC hung on for a 1-0 victory over AFC Toronto on Saturday after Tanya Boychuk turned a defensive blunder into a ninth-minute winner.Kevin Blue, CEO and general secretary of Canada Soccer, believes the new league will…

Russia and Ukraine have blamed each other for breaking a one-day Easter ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin, with both sides accusing the other of carrying out hundreds of attacks.Putin, who sent thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, ordered Russian forces to “stop all military activity” along the front line in the three-year-old war until midnight Moscow time on Sunday.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia was pretending to observe the Easter ceasefire but had in fact continued hundreds of artillery attacks on Saturday night, with more assaults on Sunday.Russia launched 46 assaults from midnight until 4pm…

Dutch digital bank Bunq is plotting re-entry into the U.K. to tap into a “large and underserved” market of some 2.8 million British “digital nomads.”Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesDutch digital bank Bunq on Tuesday said it’s filed for broker-dealer registration in the U.S. as it looks to further expand across the Atlantic.Bunq CEO Ali Niknam said the broker-dealer application will be an initial step toward securing a full banking license. He couldn’t offer a firm timeline for when Bunq will secure this authorization in the U.S. — but said he’s excited for its growth prospects…

Bernstein is looking at Chinese internet tech stocks like it’s the downtrodden days of Covid-19. “For all the justified consternation around geopolitics and trade headwinds, we think the mantra of ‘fade sentiment extremes’ still applies,” Bernstein China internet analyst Robin Zhu and a team said in an April 14 report. “Several of the other conditions that marked prior bottoms in the China internet sector now apply again,” they said, pointing out that valuation multiples have mostly fallen back to the lows seen in the 2021 to 2023 period. Tighter government regulation on Chinese internet businesses and the Shanghai lockdown in…