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Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Monday, April 22nd and this Good morning from the Newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Monday, April 22nd, and this is your FT news briefing.

Today, a comedian is set to become the next president of Ukraine.

Climate protesters in London call on the city's mayor to talk, and China

is delaying a controversial measure that would restrict foreign companies from taking certain

data out of the country.

But first, more than 200 people are dead in Sri Lanka

after several bombs went off throughout the country yesterday,

Easter Sunday.

Authorities say that many of the attacks were carried out

by suicide bombers, but 13 people have been detained in connection with the acts.

I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

In a landslide victory, day.

In a landslide victory, Ukrainian voters have elected comedian Vladimir Zilinsky to be the country's next president.

Preliminary exit poll show that Zilinsky won by more than 73% in the runoff vote.

Incumbent Petro Poroshenko took in just 25% of the vote.

Within minutes of the exit polls being released, Poroshenko had conceded defeat.

Zelensky announced his plans to run for office in a New Year's Eve comedy show, positioning

himself as an anti-establishment candidate.

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