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| U.S. Senate to let NSA spy program lapse, at least for now | | Monday, June 01, 2015 3:15 AM | |
|  By Patricia Zengerle and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The legal authority for U.S. spy agencies' collection of Americans' phone records and other data was set to expire at midnight on Sunday after the U.S. Senate failed to pass legislation extending the powers. After debate pitting Americans' distrust of intrusive government against fears of terrorist attacks, the Senate voted to move ahead with reform legislation that would replace the bulk phone records program revealed two years ago by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden.
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| Vatican commissioner accuses Australian cardinal of "disregard" for abused children | | Monday, June 01, 2015 3:05 AM | |
|  By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Catholic Church's commissioner for the protection of children has described the Vatican's finance chief as having an almost sociopathic disregard for abused children, accusations the Australian cardinal rejected as wrong and misleading. Pope Francis's newly appointed child abuse commissioner, Peter Saunders, said on Australian television the Vatican's prefect for the Secretariat for the Economy, Australian-born Cardinal George Pell, should be dismissed over allegations he failed to take action to protect children from abuse in the church in Australia.
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| Europe should weigh World Cup boycott to oust FIFA's Blatter, UK says | |  By Andrew Osborn and Alice Baghdjian LONDON/ZURICH (Reuters) - Britain said Europe should consider boycotting future World Cups if Sepp Blatter doesn't quit as head of soccer's governing body over a corruption scandal, while Swiss authorities denied they would soon question the newly re-elected FIFA president. The Swiss-born FIFA chief complained on Sunday he had been shown "zero respect" in recent days, revealing how he had rejected advice from one of his main critics, the head of the European governing body, to quit at last week's FIFA congress. John Whittingdale, the British government minister with overall responsibility for sport, renewed calls for Blatter to step aside on Sunday, saying all options should be considered when it came to pressuring him to resign, including boycotting the World Cup - something that could split the sport and be calamitous for the tournament.
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| Sotheby's to proceed with sale of 'stolen' Russian painting | |  By Jason Bush and Katya Golubkova MOSCOW (Reuters) - The international auction house Sotheby's said on Sunday it would proceed with the auction in London next week of a painting by a famous Russian artist that the Russian authorities have said was stolen. Russia's Interior Ministry said on Saturday that "Evening in Cairo" by Ivan Aivazovsky had been stolen in 1997 from a private collection in Moscow, and that the Russian branch of Interpol had asked British police to block the auction. Ivan Aivazovsky, who lived between 1817 and 1900, was a prominent Russian-Armenian artist of the Romantic school noted for his landscapes and seascapes.
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| Hong Kong democrats intent on vetoing vote as talks with China fizzle | |  By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Talks between Chinese officials and Hong Kong democrats ended in stalemate on Sunday, with democrats sticking by plans to veto a Beijing-proposed election blueprint in a mid-June vote that could become a flashpoint for pro-democracy protests. Hong Kong, which returned to Chinese rule in 1997, was roiled by 79 days of mass demonstrations and street occupations late last year over how its next leader will be chosen in 2017. Democrats want a leader chosen by universal suffrage, rather than from a list of pro-Beijing candidates as China is insisting.
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| Police arrest suspected IS "coordinator" in Bangladesh | |  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Police in Bangladesh have arrested a suspected member of Islamic State (IS) in Dhaka, a senior officer said on Sunday, following the detention days earlier of two other suspects, including an IT manager at a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Co. The suspect picked up on Saturday night was a coordinator for IS in Bangladesh, Shaikh Nazmul Alam, a deputy commissioner of Detective and Criminal Intelligence Division, told Reuters. Police said the detained man was Abdullah al Galib, a former member of Hizbut Tahrir, and a follower of Ansarullah Bangla Team, two militant Islamist groups in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.
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| China, U.S. tone down rhetoric but far from S. China Sea solution | | | By Raju Gopalakrishnan and Rachel Armstrong SINGAPORE (Reuters) - After a months-long row over Beijing's island-building in the South China Sea, the United States and China were relatively restrained at Asia's top security forum this weekend, but no closer to any solution. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore that China was threatening security in the region with its maritime construction work, but acknowledged other claimant countries to the disputed sea were also at fault. "There's no progress in the South China Sea (dispute), but the atmosphere has calmed a bit, thanks to reasonable consideration by all parties," said Major General Jin Yinan of China's National Defense University, a delegate at the conference. |
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