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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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| Pakistan to launch paramilitary crackdown after Easter bombing kills 70 | |  By Mehreen Zahra-Malik and Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan will 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 on 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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| 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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| 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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| 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. |
| Belgium seeks more information on "man in the hat" | |  By Barbara Lewis BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police issued a new appeal on Monday for information about a man caught on CCTV at Brussels airport with two others who are thought to have blown themselves up in the check-in area last Tuesday. Half a dozen people have been charged in Belgium following Tuesday's attacks on the airport and the metro. The death toll rose to 35 on Monday, excluding the two airport bombers and a third who blew himself up on a rush-hour train.
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| Belgian police seek information on "man in the hat" | |  Belgian police issued a new appeal on Monday for information about a man caught on CCTV at Brussels airport with two others thought to have blown themselves up in the check-in area last Tuesday. The man, seen pushing a trolley with a suitcase on it in video footage released along with the appeal, has been dubbed "the man in the hat" and named by Belgian media as Faycal Cheffou, a self-styled freelance journalist. A source close to the investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity, said a man arrested and charged with actual and attempted terrorist murder, who prosecutors named only as Faycal C, was believed to be Cheffou.
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| Brussels bombings victim death toll rises to 35 - officials | |  The number killed in last Tuesday's bombings at Brussels Airport and a rush-hour metro has risen to 35, not including the three suicide bombers, officials said on Monday. In addition more than 300 people have been injured.
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| Bangladesh dismisses case to drop Islam as state religion | |  Bangladesh's High Court on Monday dismissed a case filed by a citizen's group to drop Islam as the state religion, a lawyer said. Bangladesh's 1971 constitution declared all religions were equal in the eyes of the state. Ershad's action led a group of 12 citizens to file a writ with the High Court to overturn the amendment.
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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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