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Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images(KIEV, Ukraine) — Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a comedian with no political experience who plays the president on TV, has won Ukraine’s presidential election in a landslide, according to a national exit poll. The poll showed Zelenskiy receiving 73 percent of the vote, sweeping away Ukraine’s incumbent president, Petro Poroshenko, who conceded defeat on Sunday. At a campaign party at a bar in Kiev, packed with hundreds of journalists, Zelenskiy declared victory. As the exit poll’s results were announced, confetti was shot into the air and Zelenskiy thanked his campaign…

Chamila Karunarathne/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — From the White House to the Vatican, world leaders condemned the string of bombings that killed more than 200 people in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday as many of the victims were in churches celebrating one of most important holidays in the Christian faith. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan shared his condolences with the Sri Lankan brethren while strongly condemning the horrific attacks that wounded another 450 people. “Strongly condemn the horrific terrorist attack in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday resulting in precious lives…

ABC News(SEOUL, South Korea) — “Compost in my vegetable garden!” “No, mine first!” City farmers have been raising their voices to make sure their two-square-meter gardens are fertilized with compost made from food waste discarded from their homes. The Jugong apartment complex in Beondong, north of Seoul, began an eco-friendly urban farm last year August, making use of an empty garden space right in the middle of the complex. Thirty-six residents who applied for the opportunity are given farming lessons every Friday, and South Korea’s Land and Housing Corporation provided…

ABC News(DERRY, Ireland) — A pair of teenagers were arrested on Saturday after a journalist from Northern Ireland was shot and killed by what authorities called “terrorists” during rioting in the country ahead of this weekend’s religious holidays. Lyra McKee, 29, was fatally shot Thursday night in Derry/Londonderry near Creggan, a large housing complex in the northwest town about 70 miles west of Belfast, the nation’s capital. McKee was a freelancer, who had written for The Atlantic and BuzzFeed News. The Police Service of Northern Ireland said its Major Investigative…

Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — In a fittingly showbiz finale to the country’s surprising election, Ukraine’s two presidential candidates, incumbent president Petro Poroshenko and Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the comedian who currently leads him the polls, faced each other on Friday in a debate held in a stadium filled with thousands of cheering supporters. The election’s second round run-off is due to take place on Sunday, with polls showing Poroshenko far behind Zelenskiy, who has no previous political experience and appears on television as a schoolteacher who inadvertently becomes president. Zelenskiy trounced…

Chalabala/iStock(NEW YORK) — A journalist from Northern Ireland was shot and killed by what authorities called “terrorists” during rioting in the country ahead of this weekend’s religious holidays. Lyra McKee, 29, was fatally shot Thursday night in Derry/Londonderry near Creggan, a large housing complex in the northwest town, about 70 miles west of Belfast, the nation’s capital. McKee was a freelancer, who had written for The Atlantic and BuzzFeed News. The Northern Ireland Police Service said, “Lyra McKee was murdered during orchestrated violence in Creggan last night. A single gunman…