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| Hong Kong braces for democracy showdown as electoral reform vote looms | |  By Viola Zhou and Shan Kao HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong is gearing up for a vote this week on a contentious electoral reform package backed by Beijing, with a weekend poll showing public support has shifted against the proposal amid renewed street marches by pro-democracy protesters. Police are taking no chances following sometimes violent clashes last year during demonstrations against the package, in which Beijing has proposed a direct vote for Hong Kong's next leader in 2017 among pre-screened, pro-Beijing candidates. Dozens of police are on patrol near government headquarters, where metal fences have been erected, before debate on the package begins on Wednesday.
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| China puts ship disaster survivors at 12, says all 442 bodies found | |  Just 12 people survived the Yangtze River cruise ship capsizing in which 442 people perished, state media reported, giving a final toll for the disaster and blaming an earlier miscount of the survivors on confusion between government agencies. All the bodies that had been missing since the Eastern Star capsized during a freak storm on June 1 have now been found, the official Xinhua news agency reported over the weekend. "Different government bodies made repeated calculations of the number of survivors, thus leading to a miscalculation," Tang Guanjun, head of the Yangtze River Navigation Affairs Administration, told reporters late on Saturday, Xinhua said.
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| Morocco denies bribe allegations over 1998 World Cup bid | |  By Aziz El Yaakoubi RABAT (Reuters) - Morocco's football federation denied on Sunday allegations that the country had paid a bribe to a FIFA executive during its unsuccessful bid to host the 1998 World Cup. U.S. authorities are investigating corruption at FIFA, soccer's global governing body, while Swiss prosecutors have announced their own criminal inquiry into the 2018 and 2022 bids awarded, respectively, to Russia and Qatar. France hosted the 1998 tournament, but U.S. court documents contain prosecutors' allegations that bidding nation Morocco had paid a bribe to a FIFA executive, Jack Warner of Trinidad and Tobago.
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| South Africa court bars indicted Sudan leader from leaving | |  By Ed Cropley and Joe Brock JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A South African judge barred Sudan's indicted president from leaving the country on Sunday, in a deepening rift between Africa and the West over what Pretoria called anti-poor country bias in the International Criminal Court (ICC).
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| Chad's Habre suffers heart problems ahead of landmark trial | |  Chad's deposed president Hissene Habre has suffered a serious heart problem while in detention in Senegal, his lawyer said on Sunday, days before he is due to go on trial for crimes against humanity in a landmark case for human rights in Africa. Habre, 72, is undergoing tests and it is not clear whether the problems will affect the start of the trial on July 20 at a specially-appointed court in Dakar, the lawyer, Francois Serres, told Reuters. The court has charged Habre with war crimes and torture and he would be the first former African leader to be tried for human rights offences by another African state.
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| UK's Cameron to say Magna Carta underpins human rights reform | |  By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron will say on Monday that the principles of liberty, justice and democracy enshrined in the Magna Carta underpin his plan to overhaul human rights laws and reduce the influence of Europe. In a speech marking 800 years since England's King John signed the charter that curbed the powers of the crown and laid the foundation for modern freedoms, Cameron will say the reputation of human rights legislation needs to be restored. "For centuries (Magna Carta) has been quoted to help promote human rights and alleviate suffering all around the world," he will say, according to a release of his speech.
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| Fear, guilt stops UK forced brides speaking out despite landmark case | | | By Katie Nguyen LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The assignment set by her English teacher was to write about the worst day of her life, so 15-year-old Aisha Elahi did just that. At 24, he drove a flashy red car and came from the same conservative, Asian Muslim community in which Elahi was raised in the north of England. When her parents were called to the school and told of the attack, Elahi's mother sobbed but her father was silent, his eyes fixed to the floor. |
| Calls grow for inquiry into alleged Australian people-smuggler payments | | | By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) - Calls grew on Monday for an inquiry into reports that Australian officials paid people-smugglers bound for Australia thousands of dollars to turn their boat back to Indonesia, with Jakarta and the United Nations also expressing serious concern. Australia has vowed to stop asylum-seekers reaching its shores, turning boats back to Indonesia when it can and sending asylum-seekers for long-term detention in camps in impoverished South Pacific nations Papua New Guinea and Nauru. Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton have both denied reports of payment to the smugglers but Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declined to comment, citing operational security. |
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