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| Belgian Crisis Centre increases bomb blast toll to 34 dead, including attackers |
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 Belgium's Crisis Centre has revised the death toll from last Tuesday's bomb blasts at Brussels airport and on a rush-hour metro to 34 dead, including the three attackers. Of these, 15 died at the airport of whom six were Belgian and nine were foreign nationals. The 13 victims of the metro blast included 10 Belgians and three foreign nationals.
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| Trump questions NATO, Asia nuclear weapons ahead of Washington summit |
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 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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| Pakistanis hunt militants behind blast that killed at least 70 |
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 By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities hunted on Monday for breakaway Taliban militants who 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 attack on Sunday evening in a busy park in the eastern city of Lahore, the powerbase of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, killed mostly women and children enjoying an Easter weekend outing. Pakistan is a majority-Muslim state but has a Christian population of more than 2 million.
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| Japan's Abe expected to delay sales tax rise, call snap election - again |
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 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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