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| Big turnout as Iran votes to shape post-sanctions era | |  By Samia Nakhoul TEHRAN (Reuters) - Millions of Iranians voted in high-stake elections on Friday that could shift the balance of power within the hardline-controlled Islamic elite by ushering in a reformist comeback or help conservatives tighten their grip on power. Both are currently in the hands of hardliners.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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. |
| Authorities piece together motive in Kansas shooting rampage | | | (Reuters) - Authorities in Kansas were investigating on Friday the motives of a gunman who killed three people and wounded 14 during a shooting spree that ended when an officer killed the suspect at the factory where he worked. "This is a horrible situation my friends, just terrible," Harvey County Sheriff T. Walton said at a late evening press conference. The Kansas killings follow a mass shooting in Michigan this weekend, when a driver for car-hailing service Uber killed six people. |
| 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. |
| Blatter disappointed soccer ban upheld by FIFA appeal body - paper | |  Longtime FIFA President Sepp Blatter is disappointed the global soccer body's appeal committee upheld his ban from the sport, he told a Swiss newspaper in an interview published on Friday. "I am deeply disappointed," Blatter told the Aargauer Zeitung when asked about the decision to uphold the ban. For a financial procedure that has nothing to do with ethics." Blatter and European soccer head Michel Platini had their bans for ethics violations upheld on Wednesday, although they were reduced from eight years to six.
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