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| Egypt officials make big push to get vote out for Sisi | |  By Maggie Fick and Stephen Kalin CAIRO (Reuters) - The Egyptian government launched a determined effort to get out the vote on Tuesday after lower than expected turnout in a presidential election threatened to undermine the credibility of the frontrunner, former army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. After Sisi called for record voter participation, low turnout would be seen at home and abroad as an immediate setback for the field marshal who toppled Egypt's first freely elected leader, the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Mursi. Sisi faces only one challenger in the election: the leftist Hamdeen Sabahi, who came third in a 2012 vote won by Mursi and was seen as a long-shot in the race against an army man who became popular after ending Mursi's divisive year in office. "I was going to vote for Sisi because he will be the president anyway, and because I was grateful to him for removing the Brotherhood from power," said Hani Ali, 27, who works in the private sector.
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| Snowden says would have much to tell German inquiry - magazine | |  Former U.S intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has new information to share with a German parliamentary inquiry investigating U.S. surveillance and he believes all Germans' rights were violated, he has told a German magazine. German lawmakers on a committee investigating the spying decided earlier this month they wanted to question Snowden, but they could not agree on whether he should be invited to testify in person or remotely. Snowden, who risks being arrested and extradited if he sets foot in any U.S.-allied country, told Stern magazine he had been "personally involved with information stemming from Germany" and that in that process the "constitutional rights of every citizen in Germany were infringed". He had used systems able to intercept large amounts of data, he said, adding: "I'd be surprised if German lawmakers learnt nothing new if I laid out all the information." Snowden said Germany's foreign intelligence agency, the BND, had used the same methods as the Americans and that might be the reason why some in Berlin were reluctant to hear him.
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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. |
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