Belgian prosecutors on March 28 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.

US President Barack Obama will meet with the Republic of Korea (RoK)'s President Park Geun-hye and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on March 31 to discuss the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s nuclear program, the White House said March 28.

Iran will pursue its development of ballistic missiles despite the US blacklisting of more Iranian companies linked to the program, a senior Revolutionary Guards commander said on March 28.

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 March 28.

Hundreds of migrants stranded at a makeshift Greek camp protested near the border with Macedonia on March 27, demanding that the border be opened as they clung to hopes of making it into Europe despite new EU moves to send some refugees back.

Belgian police briefly used water cannon to control several hundred rowdy protesters in central Brussels on March 27 after they ignored an official call for marches to be postponed following the March 22's bombings.

A suicide bomber killed at least 65 people, mostly women and children, at a park in Lahore on March 27 in an attack claimed by a Pakistani Taliban faction which said it had targeted Christians.

Islamic State will struggle to recover from the death of a top aide, reported this week in a U.S. air strike, whose overview of the group's finances, politics and administration was unmatched, Iraqi and U.S. sources said.

Belgian prosecutors charged three men on March 26 with terrorist offences over the Brussels bomb attacks and authorities called off a planned 'march against fear' in the jittery capital to relieve pressure on an over-taxed police force.

President Barack Obama will meet with NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House on April 4 and discuss the fight against Islamic State and the migrant crisis originating in the Middle East, the White House said on March 25.