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| Rivals make final pitches for leadership of 'broken' FIFA | |  By Simon Evans and Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - The five men vying for the leadership of world soccer made their final eve-of-vote pitches on Thursday, outlining competing visions for the future of governing body FIFA as it tries to recover from the worst corruption scandal in its history. Delegates from more than 200 countries will elect a new president on Friday to succeed Sepp Blatter of Switzerland, two days after Blatter and European soccer chief Michel Platini lost their appeals against bans for ethics violations. Whoever takes over from Blatter, who ran FIFA for 17 years like a globe-trotting head of state, will inherit a very different job with a focus on crisis management.
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| U.N. to announce new round of Syria talks - envoy | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations will name a date on Friday for Syria's warring parties to return to the negotiating table for a second round of talks, U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura said on Thursday. De Mistura abruptly aborted a first round of talks on Feb. 3 and urged countries in the International Syria Support Group (ISSG), led by the United States and Russia, to do more preparatory work.
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| FIFA reforms would leave new president powerless - Bility | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - The African leader prevented from going for FIFA's top job, after failing an integrity check, says delegates must reject proposed reforms at soccer's scandal-hit global body as they would leave the president powerless. Liberian FA chief Musa Bility, one of the most outspoken leaders in African football, also predicted half of the continent's votes in Friday's FIFA presidential election would go to Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan rather than Sheikh Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa of Bahrain. FIFA's 209 member national associations (FAs) each hold one vote in the poll that will choose a replacement for Sepp Blatter who has been banned for six years due to ethics violations.
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| Pakistan's largest opposition party wants army chief to stay when term ends | |  By Mubasher Bukhari and Syed Raza Hassan LAHORE/KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan's largest opposition party has asked Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's government to extend the term of the powerful army chief when he retires in November, party officials said on Thursday. Last month, army chief Gen. Raheel Sharif, widely popular for launching operations against militants in several parts of the country, broke a precedent of generals seeking to extend their terms and said he would step down when his three-year one ends. "Move on Pakistan," a new political party formed by influential businessmen in the country's rich Punjab province, has campaigned for his service to be extended.
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| Pakistan province passes landmark law protecting women against violence | |  By Asad Hashim ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Lawmakers in Pakistan's largest province on Wednesday gave unprecedented protection to female victims of violence, in a bid to stem a rising tide of gender-related abuse in a country ranked as the world's third most dangerous place for women. The new law criminalises all forms of violence against women, whether domestic, psychological or sexual, and calls for the creation of a toll-free abuse reporting hot line and the establishment of shelters. Muslim-majority Pakistan, home to roughly 190 million people, sees thousands of cases of violence against women every year, from rape and acid attacks to sexual assault, kidnappings and so-called "honour killings".
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| Moderates test hardliners' grip on power in Iran vote | |  By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Friday's vote for Iran's parliament and the Assembly of Experts, the body that will pick the next supreme leader, have assumed an importance well beyond the perennial battles between hardliners entrenched in power and reformists seeking to unseat them. The breakthrough took place under pragmatic President Hassan Rouhani, who sees it as a springboard for Iran to reintegrate into the international community and return to world markets.
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| Deporting foreigners for breaking the law is hot issue as Swiss ready for polls | |  By Joshua Franklin ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss voters will face decisions on whether to deport foreign lawbreakers to building a second tunnel through the Gotthard mountain range when they go to the polls on Sunday. Switzerland holds referendums several times a year under its system of direct democracy in which voters can deliver their verdict on proposed legislation and public initiatives which gain the necessary 100,000 signatures of support. The hot issue on Sunday is a proposal from the anti-immigration Swiss People's Party (SVP) on whether to subject any foreign resident to automatic deportation if convicted of a crime as serious as murder or an offence as minor as speeding.
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| Cambodian PM tells troops to fire rockets at illegal loggers | |  Cambodia's prime minister on Thursday called for a bigger effort to curb illicit timber trade, saying he had ordered military police to fire rockets from helicopters if they saw illegal loggers at work. Hun Sen created a task force in January led by National Military Police Commander Sao Sokha to raid timber warehouses and tackle the deforestation that is fuelling a multi-million dollar illegal trade. "I already gave two helicopters for raids and Sao Sokha has not fired a single rocket yet," the prime minister said in a televised speech.
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| BBC bosses unaware of star's sex crimes, but culture flawed - report | |  By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - The BBC was guilty of serious failings over Jimmy Savile, the late TV presenter revealed to have been one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders, a major report by a former judge said on Thursday. In 2012, British police said Savile, one of Britain's best-known celebrities of the 1970s and 1980s, had abused hundreds of victims, mainly youngsters, over six decades until his death aged 84 in 2011. The abuse occurred at BBC premises and at hospitals where Savile was renowned for his charity work.
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| Spain arrests man in North African enclave for promoting Islamist militancy | | | Spanish police arrested a Moroccan man in Spain's north African enclave of Ceuta on Thursday, accusing him of promoting Islamist militancy via social media, the Interior Ministry said. The arrest comes after a joint operation by Moroccan and Spanish police on Tuesday detained four people accused of recruiting people to fight in Syria and Iraq or carry out attacks in Spain or Morocco. Spanish police have detained 13 people with suspected links to Islamic State militants so far this year. |
| Indonesia overturns acquittal of international school teachers charged with sex abuse | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor and Randy Fabi JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the acquittal of two Canadian and Indonesian teachers who were charged with sexually abusing students at an international school in Jakarta, and extended their prison sentences to 11 years. "They have been sentenced again, to 11 years," Supreme Court spokesman Suhadi said by phone. Canadian teacher Neil Bantleman and Indonesian teaching assistant Ferdinand Tjiong were convicted on charges of abusing kindergarten students at the Jakarta Intercultural School (JIS), but critics say the case was fraught with irregularities.
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| U.N. gathers Libya war crimes evidence, calls for ICC action | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - All sides in Libya have committed war crimes and other human rights abuses in the past two years and those responsible should face investigation and prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC), a United Nations report said on Thursday. An investigation by six U.N. human rights officers compiled evidence of executions of captives, assassinations of prominent women activists, widespread torture, sexual crimes, abductions, indiscriminate military attacks on civilian areas, and abuse of children since the start of 2014. "One of the most striking elements of this report lies in the complete impunity which continues to prevail in Libya and the systemic failures of the justice system," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein said in a statement.
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| Trapped between Iraq frontlines, refugees illustrate Sunni Arab predicament | | | For three months, more than 500 men, women and children have been living in no-man's land in northern Iraq, caught in the crossfire between Kurdish forces and Islamic State. Stranded between frontlines in the Sinjar area, the group of Sunni Arabs wants to leave Islamic State's self-proclaimed caliphate, but is being denied passage by the Kurds, who have staked out their territory in the north and fear infiltration. In telephone interviews with Reuters, three men from the same village, including an elder, explained that if they turned back Islamic State would kill them for trying to escape. |
| Apple CEO: Unlocking San Bernardino iPhone would be 'bad for America' | |  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Apple chief Tim Cook on Wednesday said that complying with a court order to help the FBI break into an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters would be "bad for America," and set a legal precedent that would offend many Americans. "Some things are hard, and some things are right, and some things are both - this is one of those things," Cook told ABC News in his first interview since the court order came down last week.
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