Eastern Easter
A girl reacts during the Easter service in Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow on Saturday. Eastern Orthodox churches, which observe the ancient Julian calendar, usually celebrate Easter later than Western churches.
start at Trump International Tower on Columbus Circle and proceed toward Fifth Avenue and Trump Tower, where Trump has an apartment that has been his longtime home.
Oklahoma earthquakes include a magnitude 4.6
A magnitude 4.6 earthquake shook Oklahoma on Saturday and was also felt in neighboring Kansas and Missouri, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
It was one of four earthquakes recorded in northwestern Oklahoma on Saturday morning. Garfield County Emergency Management Director Mike Honigsberg said there are no immediate reports of injury or serious damage following the quakes.
The largest temblor was at 7:16 a.m. a few miles outside Covington, a town of about 500 people. Reports on the USGS website show it was felt as far away as Kansas
City, Missouri, some 300 miles northeast of Covington. People in Joplin, Missouri, and Wichita, Kansas, also reported feeling it.
Saturday’s quakes were in the same area where four others struck Friday, including one of magnitude 3.7.
Man killed in blaze at Trump Tower apartment
A man was killed in a raging apartment fire on Saturday in the New York City skyscraper named for President Donald Trump and where his business is based, officials said.
Commissioner Daniel Nigro said a 50th-floor apartment at Trump Tower was “virtually entirely on fire” when firefighters arrived after 5:30 p.m. He said no member of the Trump family was in the building.
“It was a very difficult fire, as you can imagine,” Nigro said in a briefing outside the building in midtown
Manhattan. “The apartment is quite large.”
A 67-year-old man who was in the apartment was taken to a hospital and died a short time later, the New York Police Department said. His name was not immediately released. Officials said four firefighters suffered minor injuries.
Trump tweeted that the fire was “Very confined (well built building).”
Death toll in Syria rises amid offensive
Syrian government forces pressed their offensive against the last rebel-held town in eastern Ghouta near the capital Damascus on Saturday under the cover of airstrikes as shelling of civilian areas on both sides claimed more lives, state media and opposition activists said.
Syrian government forces resumed their offensive on rebel-held Douma on Friday afternoon after a 10-day truce collapsed over disagreement Former Brazilian leader in custody after standoff
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was taken into police custody Saturday after a tense showdown with his own supporters, the capstone of an intense three days that underscored raw emotions over the incarceration of a once wildly popular leader who has been engulfed by corruption allegations.
Just hours earlier, da Silva told thousands of supporters that he would turn himself in to police, but also maintained his innocence and argued his corruption conviction was simply a way for enemies to make sure he doesn’t run — and possibly win — re-election in October.
When he first tried to leave the metal workers union headquarters where he was holed up to turn himself in, however, dozens of supporters blocked a gate where a car carrying da Silva was trying to exit, forcing him to re-enter the building.