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| Tokyo Sexwale pulls out before first round of FIFA presidential vote | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Tokyo Sexwale withdrew from the FIFA presidential race minutes before the vote on Friday, announcing his decision at the very end of his candidate's speech. With only four people, it is your problem now," he told delegates at the extraordinary FIFA Congress. "Pressures, media, litigation, the world is waiting out there, they think this is the end of FIFA." Quoting late South African president Nelson Mandela, he said: "When your house is under attack, when we are subjected to the kind of things we are seeing, it is the not the right moment to start a fire in your house." There has been speculation throughout Sexwale's low-key campaign that he could pull out, but he began his speech by saying: "I am a soldier and I die with my boots on." Sexwale had not been backed by his own African soccer confederation, with CAF making public in January its support of Asian confederation president Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa of Bahrain.
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| Highlights from the FIFA congress | |  World soccer's governing body has voted on a series of reforms and will elect a new president later on Friday (all times GMT): 13.30 The voting process is proving a long, drawn out affair. 11:52 Sheikh Salman: "Everyone knows me around FIFA as a president of a confederation, a vice-president of FIFA.
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| Man sought by Israel dies at Palestinian mission in Bulgaria | |  A Palestinian who escaped from Israeli custody after being convicted of a 1986 murder has died at the Palestinian embassy in Sofia, Bulgarian prosecutors said on Friday. Police sealed off the mission building in the capital as an investigation began into the death of Omar el-Nayef, who was jailed along with two other men for killing an Israeli settler. Prosecutors said in an initial statement they had been alerted by a representative of the Palestinian mission in Bulgaria "about a man who died as a result of violence" but a spokeswoman for the prosecutors later said no signs of violence were found on his body.
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| Authorities piece together motive in Kansas shooting rampage | | | Kansas authorities on Friday were investigating the motives of a gunman who killed three people and wounded 14, five critically, during a 26-minute shooting spree that ended when an officer shot the suspect to death at the factory where he worked. The gunman was served a protection from abuse order about 90 minutes before the shooting in Hesston on Thursday, and this could have triggered the incident, local media reported on Friday, citing Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton. |
| Syria opposition agrees to two-week truce - statement | |  The Syrian opposition said on Friday armed groups fighting President Bashar al-Assad would respect a two-week week truce beginning at midnight, but said the government and its allies must not launch attacks on the pretext of fighting terrorism. "The High Negotiations Committee confirms the agreement of the Free Syrian Army factions and the armed opposition to a temporary truce from midnight Saturday," an HNC statement said. The HNC said the government and its allies must not use the "proposed text to continue the hostile operations against the opposition factions under the excuse of fighting terrorism".
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| Biden to introduce Lady Gaga at Oscars, highlight effort against sexual assault | | | Vice President Joe Biden will take the stage at the Academy Awards show on Sunday to introduce Lady Gaga for her performance of "Til It Happens to You," an Oscar-nominated song about sexual assault on college campuses from the film "The Hunting Ground." Biden is a long-time advocate against sexual assault who authored the Violence Against Women Act. Biden will attend the awards show with his wife, Jill. |
| In Indonesia, an Oscar-nominated film reopens old wounds | |  By Kanupriya Kapoor JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's first film production to be nominated for an Oscar is at once a source of national pride and of shame for the world's third-largest democracy. Up for best documentary at Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony, the film has forced many to confront one of the darkest periods in Indonesia's history and remains banned from commercial cinemas. "Successive governments have failed to address the events of 1965 as a lesson that needs to be learned by the nation," said Muhammad Nurkhoiron of the national commission on human rights.
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| Philippines may ban pop singer Madonna for disrespect to flag - report | |  MANILA (Reuters) - American singer Madonna may face a ban in the Philippines for disrespecting its flag in her concerts this week in the capital Manila, a domestic broadcaster said on Friday, citing a historical commission official. The 57-year-old entertainer is on a world tour to promote her "Rebel Heart" album, and did sold-out shows on Wednesday and Thursday. "She ridiculed our flag," the official, Teodoro Atienza, told radio station dzBB, adding that Madonna violated a law that prohibits the wearing of the Philippine flag "in whole, or in part, as a costume or uniform". ...
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| FIFA passes reform package in bid to shake off scandals | |  By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - Soccer's world governing body approved the deepest reforms in its 112-year history on Friday in an attempt to put years of scandal and crisis behind it and transform itself into a trusted, modern sporting organisation. FIFA delegates voted by 179 votes to 22 to accept the reforms, which include replacing the Executive Committee with a 36-member FIFA Council, and limiting the president and other senior officials to three terms of four years. A new professional general secretariat, akin to a company's executive board, will handle the business side of FIFA, leaving the 36-member Council, elected by national member associations and including at least six women, to focus on broad matters of policy and strategy.
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| China adopts law on deep sea exploration | |  China on Friday adopted a new law on deep sea exploration, state media said, the country's latest move to cement its status as a seagoing power. President Xi Jinping is reforming the military and investing in submarines and aircraft carriers, as China's navy becomes more assertive in its territorial disputes in the East and South China Seas. The new law will "protect the rightful interests of Chinese citizens and organisations in their search for resources and in deep sea surveys," the official Xinhua news agency said after China's top legislature passed the measure.
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| Malaysia's ruling party suspends deputy chief over criticism of PM | |  By Joseph Sipalan KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's ruling party on Friday voted to suspend its deputy president, months after he was sacked from his job of deputy prime minister for openly questioning Prime Minister Najib Razak over a financial scandal involving a state-owned firm. The move tightens Najib's grip over his United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), and weakens rival factions that demanded he step down over debt-laden state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and a donation of $681 million. Najib, the president of UMNO, has been buffeted for months by allegations of graft at 1MDB and revelations of the transfer of funds, adding to a sense of crisis in a country under economic duress from slumping oil prices and a sliding currency.
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| Vast majority of Syria armed groups sign up for truce - source | |  The "vast majority" of armed groups eligible to take part in a cessation of hostilities in Syria have signalled that they will do so, a source close to the peace talks said on Friday. The cessation of hostilities will begin at midnight.
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| Moqtada al-Sadr says Iraq PM's position at stake unless he reforms | |  Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi must take decisive action to root out corruption and implement promised reforms or risk losing power, prominent Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr told more than 100,000 supporters in central Baghded on Friday. Abadi promised political and economic reforms last summer after mass street protests but quickly ran into legal challenges and systemic resistance to change. "Today the (position of the) prime minister is at stake, especially after the people have revolted," Sadr, whose Al-Ahrar bloc holds 34 seats in parliament and three cabinet posts, told supporters in a mass show of strength on Tahrir Square.
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| Thailand's infamous tiger temple fights to keep big cats | |  By Jutarat Skulpichetrat BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's controversial Tiger Temple, dogged for years by talk that it supplies the black market and mistreats its animals, is fighting to keep the big cats after wildlife authorities rejected a bid to extend a zoo license that expired in 2013. The Buddhist temple, home to more than 100 tigers, has been investigated for suspected links to wildlife trafficking and wildlife activists have accused it of illegal breeding of the animals. Thai wildlife authorities have sent ten of the temple's tigers to a wildlife sanctuary.
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| German FA General Secretary resigns as World Cup report looms | | | German Football Association (DFB) General Secretary Helmut Sandrock resigned on Friday, saying the scandal-hit association needed to make a clean start. FIFA is due to elect a new President later on Friday. The DFB is set to present an independent report it commissioned into the affair next week. |
| Villages ban single women from owning "distracting" mobile phones | | | By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Several villages in Gujarat have banned girls and single women from owning mobile phones, saying the devices distract them from their studies. A couple of villages in Mehsana and Banaskantha districts in Gujarat have imposed the ban in recent weeks, with more villages joining the campaign, said Ranjit Singh Thakor, president of the Mehsana district council. The ban applies to girls under the age of 18 and unmarried women, he said. |
| U.N. envoy voices fears on North Korea-Russia extradition pact | |  The U.N. human rights investigator for North Korea called on Russia on Friday not to uphold a new extradition treaty with Pyongyong, voicing fears that North Koreans seeking asylum could be forced back home in violation of international law. An estimated 10,000 North Koreans are regular labourers in Russia, and some stay after their contracts have expired to seek asylum, said Marzuki Darusman, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).
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| China state TV airs confession by lawyer who helped Christian groups | | | A well-known Chinese rights lawyer has appeared on state television confessing to crimes after a months-long disappearance, the latest case in China's widening crackdown on dissent. Zhang Kai had represented a group of Christians who were detained for suspected financial crimes last year after they resisted the demolition of crosses. Heavily Christian Wenzhou, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, was the site of protests in 2014 over a government campaign to demolish crosses. |
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