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| Donald Sterling sued over alleged sexual harassment of former aide | |  REUTERS - A lawsuit filed on Monday against Donald Sterling accuses the embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner of repeatedly subjecting a woman who worked for him to sexual demands and racist comments and says he ultimately fired her when she protested. An attorney representing Sterling, Bobby Samini, rejected the assertions, according to the Los Angeles Times. Sterling, 80, has been banned for life by the National Basketball Association over racist remarks in a private conversation that were recorded secretly and leaked to the media. The lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court said Sterling lobbed a "steady stream of racially and sexually offensive comments" at Maiko Maya King, with whom he was in a "romantic relationship" from 2005 to 2011.
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| Japan's Abe follows heart in N.Korea abductions, but must stay in tune with US | |  By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Shinzo Abe's tough stance over Japanese citizens kidnapped by North Korea decades ago helped catapult him to a first, brief stint as Japan's prime minister. Back in office for well over a year, Abe is now pushing for answers in an issue that has dominated his career, but must ensure he does not fall out of step with Japan's biggest ally, the United States. Nearly 26 years after first learning that Japanese citizens might have been abducted by Pyongyang's agents, Abe is working to uncover the fate of a dozen Japanese nationals Tokyo says were kidnapped along with hundreds of other compatriots who may also have been snatched away. After talks with North Korea in Stockholm, Abe announced last week that Pyongyang would reopen a probe of missing Japanese.
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| Australia denies impropriety in failed 2022 bid | |  REUTERS - The Australian football federation (FFA) denied any impropriety in its failed bid for the 2022 World Cup on Tuesday, saying its support for soccer projects abroad was done in a transparent manner and under FIFA guidelines. The denial comes on the back of fresh allegations surrounding Qatar's successful 2022 bid after the Sunday Times claimed it had evidence that around $5 million was paid to FIFA officials in return for votes. With Qatar organisers "vehemently" denying any wrongdoing in its bid, calls for the tournament to be moved if corruption is proved have grown louder since the report was published. The future of the tournament now appears to rest in the hands of former U.S. prosecutor Michael Garcia, who is leading an internal investigation into corruption in world soccer, including the bidding process that awarded Russia and Qatar the next two World Cups.
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| South Korean, 73, linked to ferry disaster fails in asylum bid | |  A South Korean businessman and Christian sect leader, wanted on charges tied to a ferry disaster in which more than 300 passengers drowned, sought asylum at a Seoul embassy but was rejected, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Yoo Byung-un, 73, is wanted on charges of embezzlement, negligence and tax evasion stemming from his control of a web of business interests centred on an investment firm owned by his sons that owned the operator of the doomed Sewol that sank on April 16. "By international law, Yoo Byung-un is not a refugee but is a fugitive with an arrest warrant outstanding, so anyone who helps him flee will be deemed to be aiding his escape and will be firmly punished," a prosecutor said. Most of the 476 passengers were children and teachers from the same school on the outskirts of Seoul.
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| For fallen soldiers' families, Bergdahl release stirs resentment | |  By Andy Sullivan and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Robert Andrews believes his own son might still be alive if U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl had not gone missing from his Afghan guard post on June 30, 2009. As Bergdahl emerges from five years of Taliban captivity, former comrades are accusing him of walking away from his unit and prompting a massive manhunt they say cost the lives of at least six fellow soldiers, including Andrews' 34-year-old son, Darryn, a second lieutenant. "Basically, my son died unnecessarily, hunting for a guy that we shouldn't even have been hunting for," Andrews told Reuters. The sense of pride expressed by Obama administration officials over Bergdahl's release in exchange for five Taliban prisoners on Saturday is not shared by many of those who served alongside him in Afghanistan or the families of those said to have died trying to bring him back. The U.S. military has not said how Bergdahl fell into the insurgents' hands, but several of those from his unit say he became disillusioned with the war and abandoned his post during a nighttime guard shift, an act of desertion that would normally incur severe punishment. "I think he wanted to get away from our side of the war," commented Greg Leatherman, who says he was in charge of Bergdahl's unit the night he disappeared.
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