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| Police raid German soccer HQ over 2006 World Cup payment | | | By Andreas Kröner FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Police raided the Frankfurt headquarters of Germany's football association (DFB) on Tuesday and searched the homes of officials to investigate suspected tax evasion linked to the awarding of the 2006 World Cup, prosecutors said. The raids focused on 6.7 million euros ($7.4 million) the DFB transferred to world soccer's governing body FIFA in 2005 - adding another layer to U.S. and Swiss investigations into allegations of corruption in the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar. The Frankfurt state prosecutor last month launched a monitoring process - a step before a formal investigation - into the payment. |
| Exclusive: Vatican inspectors suspect key office was used for money laundering | |  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY(Reuters) - Vatican financial investigators suspect a department of the Holy See which oversees real estate and investments was used in the past for possible money laundering, insider trading and market manipulation, according to a report seen by Reuters. The information in the confidential document, which covers the period from 2000 to 2011, has been passed on to Italian and Swiss investigators for their checks because some activity tied to the accounts allegedly took place in these countries, a senior Vatican source said. While most of the media focus of the Vatican's murky finances has for decades centred on its official bank, the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), a department called the Administration of the Patrimony of the Holy See (APSA), acted as its own financial powerhouse.
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| "New Turkey" to bear Erdogan's stamp as crackdown on dissent steps up | |  By Orhan Coskun and Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's new cabinet will bear the firm stamp of President Tayyip Erdogan with a slew of loyal advisors set for ministerial posts, senior officials said on Tuesday, suggesting his grip will tighten as the AK Party returns to govern alone. The AKP's dramatic electoral comeback on Sunday, clawing back a majority lost only five months earlier, was a personal victory for Erdogan, whose ambition for stronger presidential powers rests on the party he founded controlling parliament. Authorities detained dozens of people, including senior police officers and bureaucrats, on Tuesday on suspicion of links to Fethullah Gulen, a U.S.-based Muslim cleric Erdogan accuses of plotting to overthrow him with bogus corruption accusations.
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| France's Sarkozy angered by link to cocaine smuggling probe | |  Former president Nicolas Sarkozy accused French magistrates on Tuesday of violating legal principles by tracking his phone usage in connection with their investigation of a transatlantic drug smuggling operation. The comments from Sarkozy, tipped to run again for president in 2017, added a bizarre political dimension to a probe that has dominated headlines since two French airline pilots convicted of cocaine smuggling in the Dominican Republic escaped to France in mysterious circumstances last week. In an interview in the newspaper Le Parisien, Sarkozy said his lawyers were demanding to know why the judiciary had examined his phone records when the only link was that he had flown with the airline at the centre of the probe.
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| Islamists stand to gain as ruling party split looms in Tunisia | | | By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) - After weeks of sharp disputes between its leaders, Tunisia's ruling party is on the verge of breaking up, which could allow Islamist rivals to usurp it as the biggest bloc in parliament. Tensions between two wings of Nidaa Tounes, whose name means Call of Tunis, spilled over into violence last week when a party meeting descended into open fighting with fists and sticks at a luxury hotel at the beach resort of Hammamet. A split within Nidaa Tounes could trigger political instability in the country that launched the first of the Arab Spring revolutions in 2011. |
| New Hillary Clinton ad for Iowa, NH, advocates gun control | |  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton released her first ad targeting gun control on Tuesday, a month after pledging to take on the powerful U.S. gun lobby. The 30-second spot uses footage from an Oct. 5 town hall in Manchester, New Hampshire, where Clinton said she would pursue expanded background checks and take steps to hold manufacturers accountable for crimes committed with their weapons. "This epidemic of gun violence knows no boundaries.
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| Prosecutors seek murder conviction for South Africa's Pistorius | |  By Stella Mapenzauswa BLOEMFONTEIN (Reuters) - Prosecutors called on Tuesday for South Africa's "Blade Runner" Oscar Pistorius to be convicted of murder and sent back to jail for shooting his girlfriend, challenging a court's decision to sentence him for a lesser offence. The Paralympic gold medallist was freed on parole last month less than a year into a five-year sentence for the "culpable homicide" of Reeva Steenkamp, who he killed on Valentine's Day 2013. Pistorius himself did not attend the half-day Supreme Court hearing into his highly-charged case, which has prompted a fierce debate in South Africa, and accusations from some rights groups that the white track star got preferential treatment.
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| Indonesia to deport Chhota Rajan to India | |  Indonesia will deport one of India's most wanted men on Tuesday to face charges in more than two dozen murder cases at home. Rajendra Nikalje, widely known as Chhota Rajan, was arrested by police on Indonesia's resort island of Bali last week, ending a two-decade-long international manhunt. Rajan has been on Interpol's wanted list since 1995 suspected of running a crime syndicate that engaged in extortion, arms struggling and contract killing.
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| Austria drafts law to deter Afghan migrants, UN criticises | |  Austria's cabinet, facing record numbers of asylum requests this year, proposed a tough new bill on Tuesday to deter Afghans that the United Nations refugee agency criticised as likely to increase the migrants' suffering. The move follows the German interior minister's call for Afghans, who make up a large proportion of the hundreds of thousands of migrants seeking refuge in Europe, to stay in their home country. The small Alpine country is the first west European country that hundreds of thousands of migrants from the Middle East and beyond reach on their trek westwards, and a major conduit for those moving on towards Germany and northern Europe.
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| Germany investigates anti-Islam group founder for Goebbels remark | |  German prosecutors have opened an investigation into the founder of the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement for slander after he compared the justice minister to Hitler's head of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels. At a rally in Dresden on Monday, which German media said drew about 8,000 people, Lutz Bachmann said Social Democrat (SPD) minister Heiko Maas was the "worst spiritual fire raiser" since Goebbels and Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler.
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| Bangladesh writers stage freedom rally despite fear of attack | |  By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - About 1,000 Bangladeshi authors and teachers marched through the streets of the capital on Tuesday, asserting their right to free speech days after a suspected Islamist group attacked writers and publishers critical of religious militancy. Bangladesh is in the throes of a violent struggle between hardline groups bent on turning the Muslim-majority nation into a sharia-based theocracy on the one hand, and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina determined to root out extremism on the other. On Saturday, a publisher was hacked to death in his office in Dhaka by men wielding sharp weapons, hours after similar attacks on two writers and another publisher.
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| Fourteen kidnapped aid workers released in eastern Congo | | | Fourteen aid workers kidnapped two days ago by unidentified assailants in the eastern Rutshuru region of Democratic Republic of Congo have been released, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Dozens of people have been kidnapped in Rutshuru this year by armed militias and criminal gangs. "We are very happy to learn that the 14 aid workers kidnapped on Sunday have been released," the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Congo said on its Twitter feed. |
| Uber driver gets life sentence for rape in Delhi | |  By Suchitra Mohanty and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A Delhi court on Tuesday jailed a driver of U.S.-based ride-hailing company Uber for life for raping a passenger, in a case that highlighted the dangers faced by women from violent sex attackers. Driver Shiv Kumar Yadav received the maximum sentence after he was found guilty last month of the rape, kidnapping and criminal intimidation of the woman, who had hailed a ride home from a party in Delhi last December. Yadav got his job with Uber with fake references, enabling him to hide his criminal record.
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| Turkey targets supporters of Erdogan foe in police raids | |  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police detained dozens of people including senior police officers and bureaucrats allegedly linked to President Tayyip Erdogan's foe Fethullah Gulen on Tuesday, widening a campaign against the exiled Muslim cleric after Sunday's election. The prosecutor's office in the western city of Izmir said it ordered the arrest of 57 people believed to be members of the "Gulenist terror group", on allegations they sought a purge of the army by engineering a 2012 espionage trial. Gulen was the "number one" suspect in the latest investigation, according to the Dogan news agency.
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| South African judges to give ruling on Pistorius appeal at a later date | | | BLOEMFONTEIN (Reuters) - South African Supreme Court judges hearing arguments from state lawyers that a high court judge had made legal errors when she decided not to convict "blade runner" Oscar Pistorius of murder, said they would issue their decision at a later date. The Paralympic gold medallist was freed on parole last month after serving a fifth of the prison term given to him for the "culpable homicide" of Reeva Steenkamp, who he killed on Valentine's Day 2013. ... |
| Soccer sponsor Daimler demands clarity on DFB allegations | | | "We are monitoring the developments closely and expect a complete clarification," Daimler said in a statement on Tuesday. German police raided the Frankfurt headquarters of the DFB on Tuesday and searched the private homes of officials on suspicion of tax evasion linked to the awarding of the 2006 World Cup, prosecutors said. Daimler's Mercedes Benz passenger car unit has been sponsoring the DFB since 1990. |
| Zimbabwe arrests editor, reporters over elephant poaching story | | | Zimbabwean police said on Tuesday they had arrested an editor and two reporters from a state-owned newspaper for publishing falsehoods after reporting that a police commissioner and junior officer were involved in a spate of elephant killings. Poachers have used cyanide to kill 60 elephants in the Hwange national park in the west and the northern part of the country since late September. Sunday Mail editor Mabasa Sasa and reporters Tinashe Farawo and Brian Chitemba were arrested on Monday and were held at a Harare police station, Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) national spokeswoman Charity Charamba told a news conference. |
| British journalists jailed for Indonesia visa violations, could be freed immediately | |  An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced two British journalists to two months and 15 days in jail after they were convicted of violating immigration laws by working without appropriate visas. Neil Bonner and Rebecca Prosser were arrested in May in Indonesia's western island of Batam, where they were filming a documentary about piracy in the Malacca Straits for the London-based production company Wall to Wall, with funding from National Geographic TV. Foreign journalists must have a work visa to report in Indonesia.
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