Suspected chemical attack in Douma, Syria kills 70 people. White Helmets, the volunteer rescue force, tweeted graphic images showing several bodies in basements in the last rebel-held town in Syria’s Eastern Ghouta. It said the deaths were likely to rise. “Seventy people suffocated to death and hundreds are still suffocating,” said Raed al-Saleh, head of the White Helmets. The pro-opposition Ghouta Media Center tweeted that more than 75 people had “suffocated,” while a further 1,000 people had suffered the effects of the alleged attack. It blamed a barrel bomb allegedly dropped by a helicopter of the Syrian government forces which, it said, contained Sarin, a toxic nerve agent. However the Syrian government has called the allegations of a chemical attack a “fabrication,” as has its main ally, Russia. The United States is taking the suspected attack very seriously. President Trump has already tweeted that Assad, along with Russia and Iran, have a “big price to pay.”

 Stormont impasse “disgraceful,” according to Irish TD. The Good Friday agreement has been designated a complete and utter failure by a Fianna Fáil TD, Darragh O’Brien, but adding that the Agreement’s mechanisms should be used to strengthen the British/Irish relationship after Brexit. Mr O’Brien, the party’s spokesperson on foreign affairs, stated in an interview for Radio Ulster’s Inside Business on Sunday that new relationships should be forged. The Dublin TD was critical of the British and Irish governments, as well as the main parties of Northern Ireland particularly in the context of Brexit. He suggested that they have ensured that Northern Ireland has “been left to die on the vine for the last five or six years and there’s a responsibility in the north, an absolute responsibility, that the executive is re-established, that the assembly is re-established.”

Germany van attacker had no motive, according to local police. German police in the city of Münster, in north of the country have indicated that the attacker had no formal links to any terror or Islamic terror organisation. However, they are investigating “all possible avenues,” said the north-western city’s senior prosecutor, Martin Botzenhardt. Police also identified the two victims killed in the incident as a 51-year-old woman and a 65-year-old man. Both are German citizens. It is believed that the driver of the van involved in the attack was “probably” a 48-year-old man from Munich. The perpetrator shot himself after driving into the crowd sitting outside a restaurant in Münster’s old town. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was “deeply shaken” by the attack, and pledged a full investigation.

Commonwealth Gold for Northern Ireland’s Rhys McClenaghan. The gymnast from Antrim defeated England’s Max Whitlock to win his country’s first medal of the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the pommel horse. The two finished with scores of 15.100, but 18-year-old McClenaghan took gold over the Olympic champion thanks to a better overall performance. McClenaghan described his gold medal as “a huge result.” The 18-year-old added that England’s Max Whitlock “has been my idol growing up and I’ve been watching him since 2010 when he was competing in the Delhi Commonwealths.”

Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party hopes for third straight term. Mr Orbán and his right-wing Fidesz party are 20 points or more ahead in the polls of the far-right Jobbik party and the centre-left Socialists. While Fidesz is expected to win a parliamentary majority, analysts will be focusing on turnout and whether Orbán’s party loses its “supermajority.” This is the two-thirds control of the 199-seat legislature that has allowed Fidesz to pass controversial laws putting pressure on the judiciary and the press. Orbán, a staunch Eurosceptic who opposes further EU integration and admires Vladimir Putin, has refused to publicly debate with his opponents during the campaign or speak to the independent media. Immigration has been at the centre of his campaign. “Migration is like rust that slowly but surely would consume Hungary,” Mr Orbán said at his final rally on Friday. If he wins, as is likely, Mr Orbán has promised to cut income tax and pass pro-growth economic policies.