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1. Sri Lanka on edge days after deadly Easter blasts

   

   Sri Lanka's capital remained jittery Thursday as authorities set off more controlled detonations of suspicious items, soldiers stopped and searched vehicles and some businesses advised staff to stay indoors, four days after suicide bombing attacks killed more than 350 people in and around Colombo.

2. Putin, Kim discuss how to break North Korean nuclear standoff

   

   Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Thursday they had good talks about their joint efforts to resolve a standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear program, amid stalled negotiations with the United States.

3. French investigators begin sifting through Notre Dame to establish cause of blaze

   

   French police scientists were starting to examine Notre Dame Cathedral on Thursday for the first time since last week's devastating fire. Among their questions: whether cigarette butts from construction workers could have played a role.

4. Climate-change protesters glue themselves to the London Stock Exchange

   

   Environmental activists glued themselves to the London Stock Exchange and climbed onto the roof of a train at Canary Wharf on the final day of protests aimed at forcing Britain to take action to avert what they cast as a global climate cataclysm.

5. Texas executes avowed racist for dragging death of a black man

   

   An avowed racist who orchestrated one of the most gruesome hate crimes in U.S. history was executed Wednesday in Texas for the dragging death of a black man.