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| U.S. adds charges against Macau billionaire in U.N. bribe case | |  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors unveiled more charges against a billionaire Macau real estate developer and three others accused of engaging in a bribery scheme involving a former president of the United Nations General Assembly. The charges were in an indictment in Manhattan federal court against five people including John Ashe, a former U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda who was General Assembly president from 2013 to 2014. Prosecutors previously said Ashe took more than $1.3 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen including Ng Lap Seng, who has a $1.8 billion net worth and developments in the Chinese territory Macau.
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| Cambodia PM starts to 'like' Facebook as opponents woo voters online | |  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen is taking a belated leap into the digital age in a bid to court young, urban voters as he tries to fend off unprecedented competition from the opposition after three decades in power. The former Khmer Rouge soldier has started to enthusiastically embrace Facebook for the first time, coming round to the platform after almost losing a 2013 election when the opposition won a surge of support online. The self-styled "strongman" has until recently denied using Facebook, but when an account bearing his name received its millionth "like" last month, he finally admitted it was his, coinciding with the government's moves to ramp-up its cyber presence.
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| Ginola may run for FIFA job but says election needs delay | |  By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - Former France winger David Ginola is ready to run for the FIFA presidency but said on Tuesday it was reckless to keep the Feb. 26 election date. Football's governing body, submerged in the worst crisis in its 111-year history, confirmed earlier in the day that the election to replace outgoing president Sepp Blatter would go ahead on its scheduled date. "In light of recent developments in France and at FIFA, a great many people have asked me to run an independent campaign for FIFA president," said Ginola in a statement sent to Reuters.
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| Slovenia to ask EU for police back-up to cope with influx of migrants | |  By Marja Novak and Maja Zuvela LJUBLJANA/KLJUC BRDOVECKI, Croatia (Reuters) - Between 1,500 and 2,500 migrants will spend Tuesday night at the Berkasovo-Bapska border crossing between Serbia and Croatia, some of them sleeping on the ground covered with blankets, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said. Slovenia meanwhile is to ask the European Union to send additional police forces to its border with Croatia to help it deal with thousands of migrants streaming into the tiny country on their way to Austria and beyond. Attempts by Slovenia to stem the flow of migrants since Hungary sealed its border with Croatia on Friday have triggered a knock-on effect through the Balkans, with thousands held up at border crossings.
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| Cuba releases artist 'El Sexto,' considered prisoner of conscience | |  By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba released a graffiti artist known as "El Sexto" on Tuesday, ten months after he was jailed for "disrespect of the leaders of the revolution" over a satire of Fidel and Raul Castro. Amnesty International in late September had declared Danilo Maldonado, 32, the country's only prisoner of conscience, but added it was evaluating other cases. "I want to travel to the United States in the future and thank all the people who supported the cause to have me freed." Maldonado painted "Fidel," and "Raul" on the backs of a pair of pigs in apparent reference to former leader Fidel Castro and his brother and current president, Raul Castro, Amnesty said.
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| Canada's Trudeau topples PM Harper in shock election win | |  By Randall Palmer and Rod Nickel MONTREAL/CALGARY (Reuters) - Canada's Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late surge to a stunning majority election victory on Monday, toppling Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives with a promise of change and returning a touch of glamor, youth and charisma to Ottawa. Harper conceded defeat and the Conservative party announced his resignation, ending a nine-year run in power and the 56-year-old's brand of fiscal and cultural conservatism that voters appeared to sour on.
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| Pistorius under house arrest after 1 year behind bars for killing girlfriend | |  By TJ Strydom PRETORIA (Reuters) - Oscar Pistorius, South Africa's double-amputee "Blade Runner", was released on parole late on Monday, just short of a year into his five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day 2013. The disgraced Paralympic gold medallist must serve the rest of his sentence under house arrest and still faces an appeal on Nov. 3 by prosecutors who argue that he should have been convicted of murder, not culpable homicide. Pistorius, 28, who was found guilty of the lesser charge for firing four shots through a locked bathroom door that hit Steenkamp, will be confined to his uncle Arnold's home in a wealthy suburb of the capital, Pretoria.
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| FIFA reform plan would curb presidency, bring in more women | |  The recommendations were put forward by a Reform Committee set up by FIFA in July in response to investigations by U.S. and Swiss authorities into high-level corruption in soccer. "In order to restore confidence in FIFA, significant changes to FIFA's institutional structure and operational processes are necessary to make them more transparent and accountable," the Reform Committee said in a statement. "Essential changes to the culture of FIFA are necessary to effect lasting change on the organization and to restore FIFA's reputation so that it can focus on its mission: to promote football throughout the world".
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| FIFA says Swiss court rules against lifting ban on ex-soccer official | |  FIFA said on Tuesday that a Zurich District Court rejected a request from the world soccer body's former vice president to temporarily lift a six-year ban on him. Chung Mong-Joon had sought to have his ban temporarily lifted so he could campaign to be the organization's president in a vote in February, FIFA said in a statement. Zurich-based FIFA said the court ruled that there was no indication of a defective procedure on the part of the soccer body's ethics committee in banning the South Korean.
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| FIFA leaves door open for Platini presidential bid | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Suspended European soccer chief Michel Platini may be able to run for president of FIFA if he wins an appeal against his 90-day ban, the world governing body said on Tuesday. Outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Platini were both suspended earlier this month, plunging FIFA into even deeper turmoil as authorities in the United States and Switzerland pursue corruption investigations in which 14 people have so far been indicted. Meeting for the first time since the suspensions of the two most powerful men in soccer, FIFA's executive committee confirmed that the election to replace Blatter would take place at an extraordinary Congress in Zurich on Feb. 26, when members would also vote on reforming the organisation's statutes.
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| Germany coach Loew backs FA boss over slush fund allegations | |  Germany coach Joachim Loew threw his weight behind the German Football Association (DFB) and its president Wolfgang Niersbach on Tuesday amid allegations that a slush fund was used to bring the 2006 World Cup to the country. Loew, who led the Germans to their fourth World Cup title in 2014 in Brazil, said he had full trust in DFB President Niersbach.
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| Kurdish lawyer faces trial for saying PKK not terrorist group | |  By Daren Butler and Seyhmus Cakan ISTANBUL/DIYARBAKIR (Reuters) - A top Kurdish lawyer in conflict-riven southeast Turkey faces trial after saying the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), whose guerrillas are battling Turkish security forces, is not a terrorist group. Police detained Tahir Elci, who heads the bar association of Diyarbakir province in southeast Turkey, during a pre-dawn raid on Tuesday on his office. Fighting has resumed between Turkish security forces and PKK militants following the breakdown of a two-year ceasefire in July.
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| States could be sanctioned for public health failings - WHO boss | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. panel is considering ways to hold governments to account for failing to stick to global health rules, World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan said on Tuesday. "This goes back to governments. If they sign up to the international health regulations they need to honour their commitment.
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