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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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| 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) - Slovenia said on Tuesday it would 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. About 19,500 migrants have entered Slovenia since Friday, the Interior Ministry said, when Hungary sealed its southern border, creating bottlenecks at Balkan border crossings as migrants attempted to find new routes through the region.
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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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| Clashes erupt in Kashmir over beef killing | |  At least two dozen people have been injured in clashes with police after protests erupted in Kashmir over the killing of a Muslim man by Hindus campaigning against eating beef. The clashes in Kulgam and Anantnag districts broke out on Sunday after a trucker was attacked in the Hindu-dominated Jammu region of Kashmir by a crowd believing him to be involved in transporting cows, police said. Protesters also pelted police with stones, police said, without specifying who had been injured since Monday.
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| Defeated Canada PM quits as leader, doesn't tell party supporters | |  Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper caused confusion on Tuesday, making no mention of his future plans as he addressed supporters after a crushing election defeat even though his party said he would step down as party leader. Shortly after Harper called Liberal leader Justin Trudeau to concede defeat in Monday's vote, his Conservative Party issued a statement saying he had asked the party to elect a new interim leader. The outgoing prime minister most likely will return to Ottawa soon to prepare for a formal handover of power to Trudeau in a few weeks.
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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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| N. Ireland minister says "some hope" for talks on political crisis | |  Britain's Northern Ireland minister Theresa Villiers said on Tuesday she held out "some hope" of a successful resolution to talks aimed at averting a collapse of the province's power-sharing government, but that such an outcome was not guaranteed. "There are some significant gaps between the parties still... But it is, I believe, the case that all of the five parties taking part in the talks want to make devolution work," she told parliament.
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| Zimbabwe court says local Cecil hunter to face trial next month | |  By Mike Saburi HWANGE, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - A Zimbabwean court on Tuesday refused a hunter's request to drop charges against him for failing to stop the killing of Cecil the lion by an American, who just days ago was cleared by the government. Zimbabwean hunter Theo Bronkhorst has denied any wrongdoing and says his family and business have been destroyed in the wake of the lion's death, which triggered an international outcry. The government last week said it would not charge Walter Palmer, the American dentist who used a bow and arrow to kill Cecil, a rare, black-manned lion outside Hwange National Park.
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