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India is among five countries where projects are underway to develop vaccines to fight the Zika virus currently circulating in 38 countries.

People were using the hashtag #BrusselsLift to ask for rides and offer car spaces in a show of solidarity against the attacks which killed at least 34 people on Tuesday.

The prince's five-day trip is celebrating 200 years of relations between Nepal and Britain.

At least 34 people were killed when the bombs went off during morning rush hour. Belgian officials said at least one suicide bomber was suspected.

"There are many dead and many wounded, some of them seriously," he said, with the death toll so far put at 28.

Two blasts were heard at the airport shortly after 8:00 am (0700 GMT), Belgian media reported. Belgian police said at least one person had been killed and several wounded.

The blasts occurred four days after the arrest in Brussels of a suspected participant in November militant attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. Belgian police had been on alert for any reprisal action.

European soldiers walk in a street during an attack targeting a hotel hosting an EU military training mission in Bamako.

Citing a government source, Yonhap said the projectiles were launched at around 3:30pm (0630 GMT) and landed in the East Sea (Sea of Japan). (File picture)

Easter tradition will see egg hunters out in force on Sunday, March 27.

Under a stepped-up campaign of U.S.-led and Russian airstrikes, as well as ground assaults by multiple forces in each country, the jihadis are estimated to have lost about 40 percent of their territory in Iraq.

The preliminary injunction, a heavy blow for embattled President Dilma Rousseff, applies until the full Supreme Court can rule on the legality of her controversial decision to appoint her predecessor and mentor to head her cabinet.

According to a report, since January 2015 the militant group has lost 22% of its territory in Iraq and Syria and 8% of the losses were in the past three months.

Trump, who has never held elected office, has dominated the 2016 presidential campaign thus far with his bombastic style and his unexpectedly strong popularity.

The report takes into account GDP per capita, life expectancy, social support and freedom to make life choices as indicators of happiness.

In a veiled reference to Trump, Obama condemned the "vulgar and divisive" rhetoric in the polls campaign and criticised the Republican leadership for keeping quite.