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| Philippine bishops voice alarm over gambling after $81-million heist | | | Catholic bishops in the Philippines expressed alarm on Monday over the spread of government-sanctioned gambling through casinos, after a mid-sized bank was dragged into one of the world's largest bank heists and a money-laundering scheme. Gambling has brought "national shame" to the Philippines, which figured prominently in a recent heist of $81 million from the central bank of Bangladesh, said Archbishop Socrates Villegas, head of a grouping of Philippine bishops. "So it is that the dramatis personae in this sad story of loot and theft are many, including cyber-criminals, colluding bank executives, probably even government officials and public servants." The bishops are very influential in a country where more than 80 percent of a population of 100 million is Roman Catholic. |
| China needs tougher enforcement of vaccine regulation - WHO | | | China must strengthen regulation of its market for vaccines, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday, after a bust of an illegal black market drugs ring this month underscored the country's regulatory weaknesses. Police have arrested more than 130 suspects over a scandal in which 310 million yuan ($48 million) of illegal vaccines was sold onto the market. "This incident has highlighted the need for much stricter enforcement of vaccine management regulations across the board," WHO China representative Bernhard Schwartländer said in an emailed statement. |
| Pakistanis hunt militants behind blast that killed at least 70 | |  By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities on Monday hunted members of a Taliban faction which once declared loyalty to Islamic State after the group claimed responsibility for an Easter suicide bomb targeting Christians that killed at least 70 people. The brutality of Sunday's attack by Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, the group's fifth bombing since December, reflects the movement's attempts to raise its profile among Pakistan's increasingly fractured Islamist militants. At least 29 children enjoying an Easter weekend outing were among those killed when the suicide bomber struck in a busy park in the eastern city of Lahore, the power base of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
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| Pope calls Pakistan attack "hideous," demands protection for Christians | |  Pope Francis on Monday condemned the Easter suicide bomb by Islamist militants that killed at least 70 people in Pakistan, many of them Christians, as "hideous" and demanded that the country's authorities protect religious minorities. Addressing thousands of people in St. Peter's Square on Easter Monday, a religious holiday, the pope said Pakistan had been "bloodied by a hideous attack that massacred so many innocent people, mostly families of the Christian minority". "I appeal to civil authorities and all sectors of that nation to make every effort to restore security and serenity to the population, and in particular to the most vulnerable religious minorities," he said.
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| Iraq's parliament gives PM until Thursday to present new cabinet | |  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament on Monday gave Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi until Thursday to present a new cabinet lineup aimed at fighting graft, state television said. A flash citing its own correspondent called Thursday the "final deadline" for the prime minister, who said more than six weeks ago he would replace ministers with technocrats unaffiliated with political parties. ...
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| Thai election panel expects 80 percent turnout for referendum | | | By Aukkarapon Niyomyat and Panarat Thepgumpanat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's election commission said on Monday it expected 80 percent of eligible voters to turn out for an August 7 referendum on a controversial constitution that critics have vowed to boycott. The referendum, pushed back from July, will be Thailand's first return to the ballot-box since junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha seized power in a May 2014 coup, following months of political unrest. The turnout is expected to be 80 percent," Somchai Srisuthiyakorn, a member of the Election Commission, told Reuters. |
| Brussels bombings death toll rises to 35 - health minister | |  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The death toll from last Tuesday's bombings at Brussels Airport and a rush-hour metro has risen to 35, the health minister said on Monday. "Four patients deceased in hospital. Medical teams did all possible. Total victims: 35. Courage to all the families," Maggie De Block said in a tweet. The figure includes three suspected suicide bombers. More than 300 people have been injured. Belgium's crisis centre previously said that 28 of the victims had been identified. Of these, 15 died at the airport of whom six were Belgian and nine were foreign nationals. ...
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| Insight: The race against time that Belgium lost | |  By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - When Brussels police caught Salah Abdeslam, suspected sole survivor of November's suicide assault on Paris, they knew they were in a race against time to stop a new Islamic State attack. It was the afternoon of Friday, March 18, and one of Prime Minister Charles Michel's cabinet ministers tweeted "We got him!" after Europe's most wanted man was seized at a house in the capital's Molenbeek neighbourhood. Security forces had orders to increase vigilance but lacked intelligence to justify a citywide lockdown such as Michel imposed after the Paris attacks.
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| Trump questions NATO, Asia nuclear weapons ahead of Washington summit | |  By Toni Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Sunday doubled down on his criticism of NATO, a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy for decades, and called for the alliance's overhaul days before world leaders convene in Washington. President Barack Obama will host the Nuclear Security Summit on Thursday and Friday with 56 delegations in attendance. While preventing nuclear terrorism will headline the discussions, Trump's views could be a topic as well, particularly behind the scenes.
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| Japan's Abe expected to delay sales tax rise, call snap election - again | |  By Linda Sieg and Kaori Kaneko TOKYO (Reuters) - In late 2014, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe caught markets and voters off-guard when he postponed an unpopular sales tax hike and called a snap election. With consumption weak, wage growth limp and emerging economy slowdowns clouding Japan's growth, economists bet Abe will again delay raising the tax to 10 percent from 8 percent. Breaking an end-2014 promise not to delay the tax hike again would give Abe cause to call an election for parliament's lower house to coincide with a July poll for the upper chamber.
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