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| World Cup re-vote just one possible FIFA option - Champagne | |  By Mike Collett LONDON (Reuters) - FIFA have more options available than just organising a re-vote to decide new 2022 World Cup hosts if allegations are proved that Qatar's winning bid to stage the finals was corrupt, said FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne. The Frenchman, the only person to formally declare his candidacy to stand in next year's elections - almost certainly against incumbent Sepp Blatter - told Reuters that it was far from a foregone conclusion that, if and when FIFA had to decide on a change, there would be a simple re-vote.
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| Obama defends operation to recover U.S. soldier from Taliban | |  By Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton WARSAW (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended the deal to get U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl out of Taliban captivity, saying questions that have emerged about the circumstances of the soldier's capture did not negate the need to bring him home. Full stop," Obama told a news conference in Poland. The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Tuesday that the army "will not look away frommisconduct if it occurred" although other military officials have indicated Bergdahl would not face any charges after his five-year ordeal. The president, who has drawn criticism for not notifying Congress ahead of the transfer of five Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to Qatar in return for Bergdahl's release, said his administration had told lawmakers earlier about a possible swap.
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| Music and genocide link Jewish lawyers with Nazi criminal on stage | | | By Nigel Stephenson HAY-ON-WYE Wales (Reuters) - The improbable tale of three music-loving lawyers linked to Ukraine - two of them Jews and one a Hitler aide known as the "Butcher of Poland" - has made it to the stage in a work premiered at the Hay Festival. "The Great Crimes" tells how the lives of Hersch Lauterpecht, who formulated the legal concept of crimes against humanity, Raphael Lemkin, who helped make genocide an international crime, and Hans Frank, World War Two governor of Nazi-occupied Poland, became entwined. "It is about the origins of our modern systems of justice and the role that an individual can play," Philippe Sands, professor of international law at University College, London, told Reuters. Sands uncovered the story on which the work is based while researching the early life of his grandfather, who was born in the city now known as Lviv in Ukraine but called Lemberg under the Austro-Hungarian Empire and by its wartime German occupiers. |
| Turkey lifts block on access to YouTube - official | |  Turkey's telecoms regulator removed an official order blocking access to YouTube from its website on Tuesday after the country's top court ruled last week that the ban was a breach of human rights. The video-sharing website will be accessible in Turkey later on Tuesday, an official at Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan's office told Reuters. "As the Constitutional Court verdict was received today, YouTube will be open to access later today." Blocks on access to YouTube and Twitter were imposed after illict audio recordings, purportedly revealing corruption in Erdogan's inner circle, were leaked on the sites. The block on access to Twitter was lifted in April.
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| Qatar allowing freed Taliban men to move freely in country - official | | | Qatar has moved five Afghan Taliban prisoners freed in exchange for a U.S. soldier to a residential compound and will let them move freely in the country, a senior Gulf official said on Tuesday, a step likely to be scrutinised by Washington. U.S. officials have referred to the release of the Islamist militants as a transfer and said they would be subject to certain restrictions in Qatar. One of the officials said that would include a minimum one-year ban on them travelling outside of Qatar as well as monitoring of their activities. |
| Spain's Prince Felipe set to become king after June 18 - speaker | |  Spain's Prince Felipe will probably succeed his father Juan Carlos as king sometime after June 18, parliament speaker Jesus Posada said on Tuesday, a day after the long-reigning monarch announced he would abdicate. Juan Carlos said on Monday he would hand over the throne to Felipe in a move aimed at rehabilitating the scandal-hit Spanish monarchy at a time of economic hardship and growing discontent with the wider political elite. Spain does not have a precise set of rules regulating abdication and succession and the transition is set to be accomplished via legislation in parliament, where the governing conservative People's Party has an absolute majority. The once-popular Juan Carlos, 76, who spent almost 40 years on the throne, helped smooth Spain's transition to democracy in the 1970s after the Francisco Franco dictatorship but seemed increasingly out of touch in recent years.
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| Pakistan's exiled MQM leader Hussain arrested in London - party spokesman | |  Exiled Pakistani politician Altaf Hussain, leader of the powerful Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), was arrested in London on Tuesday, a spokesman for the party said. Police have said a 60-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of money-laundering during an early morning raid on a house in northwest London but have declined to confirm his identity. A police spokesman said special operations officers were continuing to search the property and that no further details were available. A spokesman at the MQM headquarters in north London confirmed Hussain had been arrested and said the party would release more details at a news conference in Karachi shortly.
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| Friend of accused Boston bomber due back on witness stand | |  A friend of the accused Boston Marathon bomber is due back on the stand on Tuesday as his attorneys try to prove his early statements to police should not be heard at his upcoming trial on charges of obstructing the probe into the deadly blasts. Kazakh exchange student Dias Kadyrbayev was questioned for hours after heavily armed federal agents ordered him and his roommate out of their apartment during the April 19, 2013, manhunt for accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. His lawyers have asked U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock to find that statements made at that time should be thrown out because he did not have a lawyer present and did not understand his rights.
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| Pakistan's Karachi in lockdown after politician arrested in London | |  By Belinda Goldsmith and Maria Golovnina LONDON/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - One of the most divisive and feared figures in Pakistan was arrested in London on Tuesday, his party said, sparking fears of a violent backlash in Pakistan and sending the country's biggest city into lockdown. Altaf Hussain, who is wanted at home in relation to a murder case, has lived in London in self-imposed exile since the early 1990s. Known for his fiery addresses to his supporters in Karachi though a loudspeaker connected to a telephone, Hussain effectively controls the violent port city of Karachi from his headquarters in a north London suburb. British police said a 60-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of money-laundering during an early morning raid on a house in northwest London but declined to confirm his identity.
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| Australia denies impropriety in failed 2022 soccer World Cup 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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