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| 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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| 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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