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| British royals mark 800th anniversary of world-changing Magna Carta | |  By Stefan Wermuth RUNNYMEDE, England (Reuters) - Britain's Queen Elizabeth led celebrations on Monday to mark 800 years since the sealing of the Magna Carta, one of the world's most significant historical documents and credited with paving the way for modern freedoms and human rights. On June 15, 1215, in fields by the banks of the River Thames at Runnymede to the west of London, England's King John agreed to the demands of his rebelling barons and accepted the Magna Carta, Latin for "Great Charter", which for the first time placed the monarch under the rule of law. In the centuries since, it has taken on huge global significance, becoming the basis for the U.S. Bill of Rights, the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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| Sudan's Bashir leaves South Africa, defying Pretoria court | |  By Dinky Mkhize PRETORIA (Reuters) - Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir has left South Africa, a Sudan minister said on Monday, defying a Pretoria court order for him to remain in the country until it ruled on an application for his arrest. Bashir, who was attending an African Union summit in South Africa, has been indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Pretoria High Court was in session on Monday to decide on a petition by the Southern African Litigation Centre, a rights group that wanted to force South African President Jacob Zuma's government to arrest Bashir and hand him over to the ICC.
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| CAF unaware of African requests for Blatter to stay on | |  By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Africa's soccer confederation (CAF) has not heard of any of its members asking Sepp Blatter to stay on as FIFA president, an executive committee member said on Monday. "At CAF level we are not aware of any African countries who have written to ask Blatter to stay on," Kalusha Bwalya, a CAF executive committee member and president of the Football Association of Zambia, told Reuters. Everybody is waiting for clarity." The confusion surround FIFA's leadership took a new twist on Sunday when the Schweiz am Sonntag newspaper reported that Blatter, 79, may seek to stay on as president, less than two weeks after he promised to step down, four days after being re-elected.
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| Hong Kong arrests nine suspected of bomb-making plot ahead of poll reform vote | |  By Donny Kwok and Clare Baldwin HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police arrested nine people and seized suspected explosives, authorities said on Monday, as the city goes on high alert ahead of a crucial vote on a China-backed electoral reform package that sparked widespread protests last year. Dozens were on patrol on Monday near government headquarters, where metal fences have been erected, before debate on the package begins on Wednesday. Posts on social media were quick to question the timing of the raids, details of which were leaked to Hong Kong media.
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| Vatican orders former archbishop to stand trial for sex abuse | | | A Vatican prosecutor on Monday ordered the trial of a former Roman Catholic archbishop accused of paying for sex with children while he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic and of possessing child pornographic material. Jozef Wesolowski, a Pole who had been defrocked by a Vatican tribunal, last year became the first person to be arrested inside the Vatican on paedophilia charges. A statement said the trial, the first on paedophilia charges to be held inside the Vatican City, would start on July 11. |
| Suicide attack on police, intelligence offices in Chad capital - minister | | | N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - At least one suicide bomber attacked police and intelligence offices in Chad's capital N'Djamena on Monday, the interior minister told Reuters, the first attack of its kind on the city. Interior Minister Abderahim Bireme Hamid said security forces had locked down the area but the situation was ongoing. "I can confirm that it was a suicide attack," he told Reuters. |
| Corrected - Hong Kong police arrest nine suspected of bomb-making conspiracy | | | (Corrects last paragraph to say some, not seven, are members of radical group) HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong police arrested nine people in raids and seized suspected explosives, authorities said on Monday, just days ahead of a contentious vote on how the Asia financial centre chooses its next leader in 2017. Some are members of a radical group, police said. |
| Ban Ki-moon says ICC's ruling on Bashir must be implemented | | | The International Criminal Court's warrant for the arrest of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir must be implemented by countries who have signed up to the Hague court's statutes, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday. "The International Criminal Court's warrant for the arrest of President al-Bashir on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes is a matter I take extremely seriously," Ban Ki-moon said in Geneva. South Africa's justice ministry said on Monday it will argue against a court application to force the government to arrest Bashir who has been indicted by the ICC. |
| Swedish prosecutors plan to question Assange in June or July | |  Swedish prosecutors plan to question WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at Ecuador's embassy in London in June or July, the prosecutor said on Monday. The prosecutors have submitted a request for legal assistance to the English authorities and a request to Ecuador for permission to interview Assange during those two months, the prosecutor said in a statement. Prosecutors first insisted Assange should travel to Sweden for questioning, but in a U-turn in March agreed to conduct the interview in London.
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| Chinese police detain two activists linked to prominent NGO | | | By Sui-Lee Wee BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have detained two rights activists who worked for a prominent non-governmental organisation (NGO), their relatives said on Monday, the latest sign of an intensifying clampdown on the work of non-profit groups. About half a dozen security officials from the central city of Zhengzhou took Yang Zhanqing, previously an office director of Yirenping, from his home in the southern city of Huizhou late last Friday, said his wife, surnamed Bu. Police also detained Guo Bin, who was also an Yirenping office director who fought against discrimination of people with disabilities, into custody late on Friday on the same charge, said Guo's girlfriend surnamed Wang, who declined to give her full name. |
| Second small oil tanker goes missing in Malaysia this month | | | By Anuradha Raghu and Keith Wallis KUALA LUMPUR/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - A small-sized oil tanker went missing off the southeast coast of Malaysia close to Singapore over the weekend in what could be the second hijacking of such a vessel this month, maritime officials said on Monday. The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) said the 7,300 deadweight tonne (DWT) Orkim Harmony disappeared about 30 nautical miles from the Johor port of Tanjung Sedili, carrying 5,879 metric tonnes litres or 50,000 barrels of RON95 gasoline. The Orkim Harmony is operated by shipping company Orkim Ship Management. |
| Indonesian court to decide on French death row convict's appeal next week | |  An Indonesian court will rule next week on an appeal lodged by a Frenchman on death row who is challenging the president's refusal to grant him clemency, a judge told a hearing on Monday. Convicted drug trafficker Serge Atlaoui was due to face the firing squad with other convicts in April but was granted a last-minute reprieve to allow for the completion of his legal appeals. "We have received the arguments of both the defence and prosecution and will deliver a verdict on June 22," said presiding judge Ujang Abdullah.
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