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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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| Despite Sanders win, Clinton to eye Trump as Republican fight brews | |  Hillary Clinton on Monday was set to target Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, despite renewed pressure from her Democratic rival for her party's presidential nomination after sweeping wins in three U.S. states. In a speech in Wisconsin, the former secretary of state plans to hold up the opening in the Supreme Court as further cause for concern should Trump win the U.S. presidency in the Nov. 8 election, according to her campaign. A Supreme Court justice nominated by Trump would curb Americans' rights and empower companies, Clinton will say in a speech blasting Republicans who have vowed not to consider Democratic President Barack Obama's nominee until after the election, her campaign said.
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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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| 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. |
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