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| U.N. troops killed two, raped girl in Central Africa Republic - Amnesty | | | Amnesty International on Tuesday accused United Nations peacekeepers of raping a 12-year-old girl and killing a boy and his father during an operation in Central African Republic's capital Bangui earlier this month. The U.N. mission, set up to maintain stability as the country struggles to emerge from two years of inter-religious violence, was already facing allegations of abuse, as are French soldiers and a previous African peacekeeping force. The incidents evoked by Amnesty occurred on Aug. 2 and 3 following an armed clash between soldiers from the MINUSCA mission and residents of Bangui's PK5 Muslim enclave in which one Cameroonian soldier was killed and nine others were injured. |
| Iraq parliament votes to transform ruling system in boost for Abadi | |  By Saif Hameed and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's parliament voted unanimously on Tuesday for the biggest shakeup in its governing system since the U.S. military occupation, eliminating entire layers of government and giving Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi new powers. Abadi has sought to transform a system which critics said encouraged corruption and incompetence, depriving Iraqis of basic services while undermining government forces in the battle against Islamic State militants. Nuri al-Maliki, Abadi's predecessor, will lose the job of vice president he had held since stepping down as prime minister in 2014 after eight often divisive years in power.
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| U.S. prosecutor warns FIFA against 'superficial' reforms | |  (Reuters) - World soccer's scandal-plagued governing body FIFA has been warned by the U.S. prosecutor at the center of the investigation into its affairs that its reform plans should not be "superficial". Kelly T. Currie, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, whose office indicted nine soccer officials with close FIFA ties in May, said that it was monitoring changes at FIFA closely. "Superficial changes at FIFA to its statues will not be sufficient and likewise, mere changes of personnel in certain positions without a genuine commitment to good-governance will not be sufficient.
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| Protests return to Ferguson streets, state of emergency declared | |  By Carey Gillam and Scott Malone FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - Police in riot gear clashed with protesters who had gathered in the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, early on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of the police shooting of an unarmed black teen whose death sparked a national outcry over race relations. About 200 demonstrators, some waving flags, beating drums, and shouting anti-police slogans, marched along a street that was a flashpoint of riots that erupted last year after white police officer Darren Wilson shot dead 18-year-old black teen Michael Brown. Police made several arrests, including nine people on Monday evening after a group of protesters briefly blocked the roadway.
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| Mississippi couple accused of planning to join Islamic State | | | By Therese Apel OXFORD, Miss. (Reuters) - A Mississippi couple, accused of seeking to join the militant Islamic State group on a planned honeymoon trip, remained in custody on Tuesday after being denied bond in federal court. Jaelyn Delshaun Young, 20, and Muhammad Oda Dakhlalla, 22, were charged with conspiring and attempting to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organisation, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday. According to prosecutors, the former Mississippi State University students were planning to travel to Syria to join the group. |
| Ex-IOC official Carrard to head FIFA reform task force | |  By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - Scandal-plagued FIFA have turned to the man who helped the International Olympic Committee (IOC) out of their corruption crisis, appointing Swiss Francois Carrard as chairman of their reform committee. FIFA's corruption troubles came to a head in May when U.S. prosecutors indicted nine football officials, most of whom had FIFA positions, and five marketing and broadcasting company executives over a range of alleged offences, including fraud, money-laundering and racketeering. "I think this is a very big crisis, it is somehow comparable to what I experienced with the IOC," Carrard told reporters on a conference call.
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| Islamic State releases 22 of more than 150 Christian captives - monitor | |  Islamic State has released 22 of the dozens of Assyrian Christians it abducted from villages in northeastern Syria earlier this year, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. It was not clear how many Assyrians remain in the hands of the ultra-hardline Islamist militants, but Rami Abdulrahman, head of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said they continued to hold more than 150. The group seized more than 200 Assyrians in February when its fighters overran more than a dozen villages inhabited by the ancient Christian minority near Hasaka, a northeastern city mainly inhabited by Kurds.
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| Corrected - Obama issues challenge on climate change with power plant rule | |  (Corrects fifth paragraph to delete reference to President Barack Obama acting by executive order in this story released on August 3, 2015) By Jeff Mason and Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama challenged America and the world to step up efforts to fight global warming on Monday at the formal unveiling of his administration's controversial, ramped-up plan to cut carbon emissions from U.S. power plants. Declaring climate change the greatest threat facing the world, Obama said the regulation requiring the power sector to cut its emissions by 32 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 would reduce Americans' energy bills and improve the health of vulnerable populations nationwide. The plan, which also mandates a shift to renewable energy from coal-fired electricity, is meant to put the United States in a strong position at international talks in Paris later this year on reaching a deal to curb global warming.
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| Palestinian vigilantes patrol villages amid fear of more arson attacks | |  By Hassan Titi QUSRA, West Bank (Reuters) - Armed men stopping cars at checkpoints in the West Bank are usually Israeli security forces policing the occupied territory, but in some areas they are Palestinian civilians patrolling their own villages. "They used to break glass, damage houses, and torch the mosque and vehicles," said Abed al-Atheim Adi, mayor of the village of Qusra where locals have been patrolling the streets at night since 2001. Reuters accompanied a patrol in Qusra this week.
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| Heavily armed "Oath Keepers" inject disquieting element in Ferguson | |  By Scott Malone FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - Four white men carrying military-style rifles and sidearms added a disquieting element to riot-torn Ferguson, Missouri, when they began patrolling the streets before dawn on Tuesday, which police quickly labeled "inflammatory." The men said they were part of a group called "Oath Keepers," which describes itself as a non-partisan association of current and former U.S. soldiers, police and first responders who aim to protect the U.S. Constitution. The men attracted immediate attention in the mostly black neighborhood, which exploded into violence on Sunday night as protesters marked the one-year anniversary of the killing of an unarmed black teen by police. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit civil rights organization, has described the "Oath Keepers" as a "fiercely anti-government, militaristic group," and St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar condemned their appearance in Ferguson.
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| Spanish court grabs prized Picasso in tug-of-love with banker | | | A Picasso painting belonging to one of Spain's wealthiest bankers and seized in France following an export ban was delivered to a Madrid museum on Tuesday, where it will be held until a dispute over its status is resolved. Deemed a national treasure by Spain, whose high court slapped an export ban on it, the picture has been the subject of legal wrangling for several months. Both painting and vessel are owned by billionaire Jaime Botin, part of the family dynasty that ran Santander for several generations and brother of the bank's late chairman Emilio Botin. |
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