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| Egypt officials make big push to get vote out for Sisi | |  By Maggie Fick and Stephen Kalin CAIRO (Reuters) - Former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi was set to emerge as Egypt's president on the final day of an election on Tuesday, as the government launched a determined effort to boost a lower than expected turnout that threatens to undermine his mandate. With Sisi expected to win a large majority, turnout will be seen at home and abroad as an important measure of the level of popular support for the field marshal who toppled Egypt's first freely elected leader, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi. Sisi faces only one challenger for the presidency: the leftist politician Hamdeen Sabahi. Sisi's supporters see him as a decisive figure who can steer Egypt out of three years of turmoil and revive its struggling economy.
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| Vote or else, Egyptian media warns public | |  By Asma Alsharif CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian media castigated the public for a low turnout in a presidential election which former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is expected to win, with one commentator saying those who failed to vote should be shot. Many journalists support Sisi, the man who toppled Egypt's first freely-elected president last July. Egypt's army-backed government declared the second day of voting on Tuesday a holiday in a bid to get more voters onto the streets. She should shoot herself with a gun." The popular uprising which toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011 raised hopes that the Egyptian press would no longer blindly back the country's leaders and would instead take a critical look at their performance.
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| UEFA fined over Croatian referee match-fixing accusation | | | UEFA has been ordered to pay six-figure damages to a Croatian referee who claimed he had been wrongfully accused of rigging the result of the 2009 Croatian Cup final, state news agency Hina reported on Tuesday. The court, in the northern Croatian town of Daruvar, ordered UEFA to pay 750,000 kuna ($134,900) to referee Bruno Maric, who had been in charge of the match between arch-rivals Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split. Maric sent off two Hajduk Split players and awarded a penalty to Dinamo, who eventually won 3-0. Maric denied accusations by a UEFA investigator that the game had been rigged and that he had been involved, and he pressed his own charges against the European football federation in 2012. |
| Populist advances set to hobble EU integration | |  By Paul Taylor BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Stunning gains by anti-EU and populist parties in the European Parliament elections will prevent any new treaty on deeper euro zone integration for the foreseeable future and may tilt Europe's economic policy mix more towards expansion. With the 28 European Union leaders meeting in Brussels later on Tuesday to digest the results of a widespread vote against the pro-European establishment, the first policy consequences are becoming clear: NO MORE TREATIES The EU will not risk a revision of its governing treaties any time soon that would require ratification by parliaments and referendums in some member states, given the risk of "no" votes. While that means British Prime Minister David Cameron is unlikely to achieve his goal of removing the aim of "ever closer union" from the EU treaty, in practice integration is likely to be on hold, if not in reverse, for years to come. "We're going to see a spread of the British disease," said Fabian Zuleeg, chief executive of the European Policy Centre think-tank in Brussels.
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| Entertainer Rolf Harris tells court of "sexual chemistry" with alleged victim | |  By Jack Stubbs LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran Australian entertainer Rolf Harris told a jury on Tuesday there had been sexual chemistry between him and a woman who has accused him of sexually abusing her as a child. Harris, 84, who is accused of abusing the woman for her entire teenage life, said she flirted with him and invited his sexual advances when staying at his home in southern England. "I can remember my heart was thumping away," he said from the witness stand at Southwark Crown Court as he gave evidence for the first time in his indecent assault trial, now in its fourth week. Harris is the biggest name to go on trial since British police launched a major investigation after revelations that the late BBC TV host Jimmy Savile was a prolific child sex abuser, leading to the arrest of more than a dozen ageing celebrities.
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| Iranian judge summons Facebook CEO for breach of privacy | |  A conservative Iranian court opened a case against instant messaging services WhatsApp and Instagram while also summoning Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over complaints of privacy violation, state news agency ISNA reported on Tuesday. The case underscores the growing struggle between moderate Iranian president Hassan Rouhani's drive to increase Internet freedoms and demands by the conservative judiciary for tighter controls. "According to the court's ruling, the Zionist director of the company of Facebook, or his official attorney must appear in court to defend himself and pay for possible losses," said Ruhollah Momen-Nasab, an Iranian internet official, according to state news agency ISNA, referring to Zuckerberg's Jewish background.
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| Thai army gets down to work on economy, detains ex-minister | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Martin Petty BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's military rulers settled down to work at their Bangkok headquarters on Tuesday, firmly in charge with royal endorsement while rounding up critics and searching for weapons they fear could still be used to fight their takeover. Soldiers burst into a journalists' club in Bangkok and detained a former minister after he had denounced the coup saying it would bring disaster. A protest in Bangkok passed off without incident with fewer people coming out to chant their opposition to the coup compared with previous days. Army chief General Prayuth Chan-ocha seized power on Thursday, saying the army had to restore order after nearly seven months of sometimes deadly demonstrations.
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| Chemical weapons team in Syria attacked but safe-organisation | | | By Anthony Deutsch and Dominic Evans AMSTERDAM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - A team of international experts investigating the alleged use of chlorine bombs in Syria came under attack on Tuesday but all members of the team were safe and returning to base, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said. Syria accused rebel fighters of abducting the members of the joint OPCW/U.N. fact-finding team, who had travelled to the central province of Hama to investigate allegations of illegal chlorine attacks by government forces. The OPCW said "a convoy of OPCW inspectors and United Nations staff that was travelling to a site of an alleged chlorine gas attack" when it came it came under attack. President Bashar al-Assad, whose forces have been battling rebels trying to unseat him for more than three years, agreed last year to hand over Syria's entire chemical weapons stockpile after hundreds of people were killed in a sarin gas attack near Damascus. |
| Son of senior Shi'ite cleric sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia | | | A Saudi court on Monday sentenced to death the son of a senior Shi'ite Muslim cleric after he was convicted of shooting at security forces in the kingdom's Eastern Province, local media said, in the first such ruling in three years. Minority Shi'ites have staged sporadic protests in the province for years. The www.rasid.net news website identified him as Rida al-Rubh, 26, and said his father, Sheikh Jaafar al-Rubh, has been leading contacts with the Saudi Interior Ministry to restore calm to the town of Awamiya, where most of the protests have taken place. "This was the first death sentence of its kind since protests marches began in Qatif three years ago," sabq.org, another Saudi news website, said. |
| Pakistan woman stoned to death by family for marrying man she loved | | | By Mubasher Bukhari LAHORE Pakistan (Reuters) - A 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by her family outside one of Pakistan's top courts on Tuesday in a so-called "honour" killing for marrying the man she loved, police said. Farzana Iqbal was waiting for the High Court in the eastern city of Lahore to open when a group of around dozen men began attacking her with bricks, said Umer Cheema, a senior police officer. Iqbal suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead in hospital, police said. Many Pakistani families think a woman marrying her own choice of man brings dishonour on the family. |
| Assad's staying power leaves Turkey frustrated and exposed | |  By Jonny Hogg and Tulay Karadeniz ANKARA (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's certain victory in an election next month, derided internationally as a charade, leaves Turkey facing a bitter truth - its assumption of his quick demise was a costly miscalculation. With al Qaeda-linked armed groups controlling patches of territory across Turkey's southern border and a registered refugee influx set to top a million within months, Syria's three-year old war presents Ankara with an increasing financial burden and a growing security threat. A gun battle in March when special forces raided the suspected Istanbul hide-out of an Islamist militant group active in Syria highlighted the potential threat to Turkey from the thousands of foreign jihadis who have been drawn into the conflict, a portion of them entering Syria over the Turkish border. The torching of a building housing Syrian refugees in Ankara this month meanwhile pointed to anger at the growing social and economic costs of a humanitarian response which has already cost Turkey close to $3 billion.
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