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| Senator John McCain wants hearing on possible F-16 sale to Pakistan | |  U.S. Senator John McCain on Thursday urged the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to hold a hearing on the possible sale of Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 fighter jets to Pakistan. McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters he was concerned about the timing of the Obama administration's decision to approve the sale of the fighter jets to Pakistan, and potential consequences for U.S. relations with India. "I would rather have seen it kicked over into the next administration," McCain said.
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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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| FIFA election to go ahead but Blatter told to stay away | |  By Brian Homewood and Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - World soccer's governing body FIFA will proceed with an election to pick a new president on Friday to replace the disgraced Sepp Blatter and vote on a set of reforms aimed at restoring its credibility after the worst graft scandal in its history. One candidate had sought to have the vote on a new president delayed but sport's highest tribunal threw out his request, clearing the way for FIFA to hold its planned Extraordinary Congress in Zurich. FIFA urged members to approve its reforms at the congress, including term limits for top officials and disclosure of their earnings, to rebuild trust after several dozen officials were indicted in the United States and a criminal investigation was begun in Switzerland.
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| FIFA's Rogues' Gallery - banned, fined or suspended | | | Following is a list of high-ranking officials to have been implicated or punished in the bribery and corruption crisis that has engulfed FIFA. President of FIFA for more than 17 years, banned for eight years by the Ethics Committee he created to help clean up FIFA's image when it found him guilty of a conflict of interest by paying European soccer boss Michel Platini 1.3 million pounds ($1.86 million) for work done a decade earlier. At one stage seemed destined to succeed Blatter as FIFA president, but the payment he received from FIFA also landed him with an eight-year ban, reduced to six on appeal. |
| 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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| Malaysia blocks access to news portal for violating media law | | | Malaysia blocked access to a widely read news portal on Thursday, the latest in a series of clampdowns on media organisations that have published reports critical of the government and Prime Minister Najib Razak. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) said in a statement that the Malaysian Insider had breached laws under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998. The Malaysian Insider has published several reports on the scandal around 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and investigations into $681 million deposited into Prime Minister Najib's personal accounts. |
| 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. |
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