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| KKK plans South Carolina rally as Confederate flag debate intensifies | |  (Reuters) - The Ku Klux Klan plans to hold a pro-Confederate flag rally at the South Carolina Capitol, where a statue of a former state governor who championed white supremacy was vandalised on Tuesday amid scrutiny of symbols associated with slavery. The Civil War-era flag and related monuments have become flashpoints after a shooting killed nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina. The suspected shooter, Dylann Roof, a 21-year-old white man, had posed with a Confederate flag in photos posted on a website that displayed a racist manifesto attributed to him.
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| Blatter decides not to attend women's World Cup final in Canada | |  By David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter, president of the world football governing body FIFA that is embroiled in corruption investigations, will not travel to Canada for Sunday's final of the women's World Cup for personal reasons, his U.S.-based lawyer said on Tuesday. Reuters was unable to determine the specific reasons why Blatter, a Swiss national, had decided not to attend the final in Vancouver. Some lawyers with experience in international criminal cases said that Blatter would be ill-advised to travel after an indictment announced on May 27 by U.S. prosecutors against nine current and former FIFA officials and five sports marketing businessmen.
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| Egypt's Sisi promises tougher legal system as prosecutor buried | |  By Stephen Kalin CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's president told mourners on Tuesday at the funeral of the country's top prosecutor, killed by a car bomb, that he would unveil tough new security policies in the coming days, vowing that death sentences would be carried out. Monday's killing of public prosecutor Hisham Barakat, the most senior Egyptian official to die in such an attack in years, cast doubt on Egypt's ability to contain an Islamist insurgency that is picking increasingly high-profile targets. In his address at the funeral, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said: "The hand of justice is tied by laws ... We will not wait for that.
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| Tunisia hotel gunman trained in Libya jihadist camp - government | |  By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - The Tunisian gunman who carried out a deadly attack on a hotel last Friday trained in a jihadist camp in Libya last year, Tunisia's government said on Tuesday. The death toll from the assault on the Imperial Marhaba beach hotel in the popular resort town of Sousse was revised down on Tuesday to 38 from a previously given 39. A spokesman for the prime minister said Saif Rezgui, who was killed by police following the rampage, was in Libya at the same time as two Tunisian gunmen who subsequently stormed the Tunis Bardo museum in March.
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| Around 1,200 escape from Yemen prison, including al Qaeda suspects | | | Around 1,200 prisoners, including al Qaeda suspects, escaped during clashes at a jail in central Yemen on Tuesday, officials said. The incident is the biggest in a series of prison breaks that have freed Yemeni militants in recent years and signals the further erosion of the state amid a raging civil war. "Groups of al Qaeda supporters ... today attacked the central prison in the city of Taiz and more than 1,200 of the dangerous prisoners escaped," state news agency Saba quoted a security official as saying. |
| Spanish federation chief to face probe over finances | |  By Tim Hanlon BARCELONA (Reuters) - Spanish tennis federation (RFET) president Jose Luis Escanuela is to be investigated for alleged financial mismanagement, the country's government sports council (CSD) said on Tuesday. A Spanish disciplinary committee for sports (TAD) last week suspended Escanuela for a month for failing to collaborate in a probe into the federation's finances and that is set to be extended for the duration of disciplinary proceedings. Olvido Aguilera, appointed as interim president after the decision by TAD will be suspended and is to be investigated similarly, CSD said.
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| Obama, Rousseff turn page on spy spat, work on trade, travel | |  By Roberta Rampton and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used a White House visit on Tuesday to turn the page on a spying scandal that had damaged bilateral relations and said they want to work to bolster economic ties. During an hour-long press conference, Rousseff said "things have changed" since October 2013, when she cancelled an official state visit after revelations from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden that the United States had spied on her. "The change is particularly due to the fact that President Obama and the U.S. government have stated on several occasions that they would no longer engage in intrusive acts of spying on friendly countries.
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| Goldman settles SEC charges over 2013 options trading incident | | | (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc will pay $7 million to resolve U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charges stemming from a trading incident in which the Wall Street bank flooded the stock options market with erroneous orders. The SEC said Goldman sent about 16,000 mispriced options orders to various exchanges on Aug. 20, 2013, leading to about 1.5 million options contracts, representing 150 million shares, being executed within minutes after the market opened. By lacking proper safeguards, Goldman violated the "market access" rule that requires brokers and dealers to have risk and supervisory procedures designed to prevent market disruptions. |
| Kuwait says in "state of war" with militants, warns of other cells | |  By Ahmed Hagagy KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait's interior minister said on Tuesday the Gulf Arab country was at war with Islamist militants and would strike out at cells believed to be on its soil. The ultra-radical Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on Friday on a Shi'ite Muslim mosque in Kuwait City which killed 27 worshippers, the worst attack of its kind in the major oil-exporting state. Kuwaiti authorities have detained 60 people in connection with the bombing and closed a charity for alleged militant ties in raising funds for Syrians, local newspapers said on Tuesday.
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| CONCACAF retains adviser to help clean house after FIFA scandal | | | By Euan Rocha TORONTO (Reuters) - CONCACAF, the regional body that oversees soccer in North and Central America, said on Tuesday it has retained restructuring specialist Alvarez & Marsal to assess its operations and help it clean house in the wake of the FIFA bribery scandal. A number of former CONCACAF officials, including former president Jeffrey Webb and his predecessor, Jack Warner, have been ensnared and indicted in the scandal, which has grabbed headlines across the globe. CONCACAF, or the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, said Alvarez & Marsal will do a four- to five-week review of CONCACAF's operations and recommend certain improvements to financial reporting processes, spending and cash-flow management, third-party vendor relationship management, and organizational effectiveness. |
| Amid protests Nepal presents "illegal" new constitution after quakes | | | By Ross Adkin KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal presented a preliminary draft of its first republican constitution on Tuesday, but the country's top court has questioned the legality of the document that was rushed through after devastating earthquakes spurred politicians into action. The new constitution was a condition of a 2006 peace deal with Maoists rebels that ended a 10-year civil war, which killed more than 17,000 people. The draft, which seeks to divide the country into eight provinces but leaves their boundaries and names to be decided later, follows seven years in which Nepal's politicians have missed a series of deadlines. |
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