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| Afghan gunmen free kidnapped Tajiks | | | SHURO-OBOD, Tajikistan (Reuters) - Gunmen from Afghanistan have released two Tajik road workers kidnapped in a cross-border raid last week, Tajikistan's border guard service said on Monday. The attack, blamed by the regional government on drug smugglers, took place last Friday near the town of Shuro-obod in southeastern Tajikistan and prompted a temporary closure of the main road connecting Tajikistan and China. The impoverished former Soviet republic routinely reports incidents related to drug smugglers crossing its border with Afghanistan. |
| Ex-Honduran president pleads guilty in U.S. in FIFA bribery case | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Honduran President Rafael Callejas pleaded guilty on Monday to U.S. charges that he participated in bribery schemes that are under investigation at soccer's world governing body FIFA. Callejas, 72, who is also the former president of the Honduran soccer federation, entered the guilty plea in federal court in Brooklyn, New York to charges of racketeering conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy. The defendant is one of 42 individuals and entities charged as part of a U.S. investigation into more than $200 million in bribes and kickbacks sought and received by soccer officials for marketing and broadcast rights to tournaments and matches.
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| Clinton to push Trump, Republicans on U.S. Supreme Court fight | |  Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton will assail the prospect of a Donald Trump-appointed U.S. Supreme Court justice on Monday, her campaign said, as she seeks to regain momentum from party rival Bernie Sanders, the winner of three weekend nominating contests. Clinton will criticize U.S. Republican senators for refusing to consider President Barack Obama's nominee, Merrick Garland, and voice concern about any nominee from Trump, front-runner in the Republican race for the Nov. 8 presidential election, her campaign said. A Trump nominee to fill the position vacated with the Feb. 13 death of Justice Antonin Scalia would seek to curb Americans' rights and empower corporations, Clinton will say in the speech urging Republicans to do their jobs and consider Garland.
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| Pakistan plans new paramilitary crackdown after Easter bombing kills 70 | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan has decided to launch a paramilitary crackdown on Islamist militants in Punjab, the country's richest and most populous province, after an Easter Day bombing killed 70 people in the provincial capital Lahore, officials said on Monday. Sunday's suicide bombing at a public park was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban's Jamaat-ur-Ahrar faction, which once declared loyalty to Islamic State. The brutality of the attack, Jamaat-ur-Ahrar's fifth bombing since December, reflects the movement's attempts to raise its profile among Pakistan's increasingly fractured Islamist militants.
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| Belgium frees charged suspect in blow to bombing investigation | |  By Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian prosecutors on Monday released a man they had charged in connection with last week's deadly Brussels bombings, saying they did not have enough information to justify holding him. The man, named only as Faycal C., had been accused of taking part in the activities of a terrorist group and actual and attempted terrorist murder after being detained on Thursday. "The evidence which led to the arrest of the man named as Faycal C has not been backed up by the ongoing investigation.
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| Philippines' Abu Sayyaf abducts 10 Indonesian sailors | | | Ten Indonesian crew members on board a tugboat were kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines at the weekend, officials in Manila said late on Monday. Two Philippine military officials said the militant group had demanded an undisclosed ransom amount from the boat's owners. Indonesian officials said they were investigating the incident, without elaborating. |
| New U.S. sanctions a headache for companies linked to North Korean gold | | | By Yeganeh Torbati and Joel Schectman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than two dozen U.S.-listed companies have links to North Korean gold in their supply chains, according to regulatory disclosures reviewed by Reuters, potentially putting them at risk of penalties under tough new U.S. sanctions against Pyongyang's mining sector. A March 16 executive order by President Barack Obama allows the United States to blacklist anyone found to be operating in North Korea's mining sector or to have purchased metal from its government - even indirectly through a third-country supplier. The use of North Korean gold or other metals could open a company to millions of dollars in U.S. fines, criminal prosecutions and costly investigations. |
| Belgium releases suspect directly linked with attacks | |  A man widely reported to be the third individual in CCTV footage of two suspected suicide bombers at Brussels airport was released on Monday for lack of evidence. Belgium's federal prosecutor's office said it had freed a man it had named only as Faycal C., adding it had no evidence to justify holding him. Belgian media had identified the man as Faycal Cheffou and a source close to the investigation had said officials believed he was the man in the footage.
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| Turkey's Erdogan warns foreign diplomat over 'selfie' at journalist trial | |  By Can Sezer and Gulsen Solaker ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan warned a foreign diplomat on Monday over a "selfie" taken at the espionage trial of two journalists, after Britain's consul-general tweeted a photo of himself with one of the reporters. Erdogan has harshly criticised Western diplomats after several showed up on Friday to support Can Dundar, editor-in-chief of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, and his colleague Erdem Gul on the first day of their trial in Istanbul. The journalists are accused of trying to topple the government with the publication of a video purporting to show Turkey's state intelligence agency helping to ferry weapons into Syria by truck in 2014.
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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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| India looks to bury Italy feud to achieve bigger ambition | |  By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi heads to a European Union summit this week, seeking to patch up a four-year diplomatic feud with Italy that has grown toxic enough to threaten New Delhi's ambitions to become a bigger global player. India hopes the Brussels summit will bring a thaw in ties with Italy, and keep it from blocking the Asian nation's membership of a key global group on missile technology, after Rome single-handedly scuppered India's bid to join last year. "We have always wanted a vibrant, robust partnership with Italy," said Indian foreign ministry official Nandini Singla.
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| Greece hoping to avoid FIFA sanctions after Cup move | | | By Graham and Wood ATHENS, REUTERS - Deputy Sports Minister Stavros Kontonis is hoping his country will avoid international sanctions after cancelling this season's Greek Cup because of crowd violence. FIFA and UEFA, the respective ruling bodies of world and European soccer, have asked for the Greek Cup to be reinstated by April 1 after the competition was scrapped by the government earlier this month. The decision was made after the first leg of the semi-final between PAOK Salonika and Olympiakos Piraeus on March 2 was abandoned due to a violent pitch invasion, with fans hurling flares and missiles before being dispersed by riot police. |
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