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| Four clubs fined for breaking third-party rules | |  ZURICH (Reuters) - Four clubs have been fined for breaching FIFA rules which ban third parties from influencing transfer policy or from owning players, soccer's world governing body said on Tuesday. Dutch club FC Twente were fined 185,000 Swiss francs ($190,000), Brazil's Santos 75,000, Belgium's St Truiden 60,000 and Spain's Sevilla 55,000 by FIFA's disciplinary committee. All four clubs were also issued with warnings while FC Twente, St Truiden and Santos were given reprimands, FIFA said. ...
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| EgyptAir hijack ends with passengers freed unharmed, suspect arrested | |  By Yiannis Kourtoglou and Nadia El Gowely LARNACA, Cyprus/CAIRO (Reuters) - An EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus on Tuesday but the passengers and crew were freed unharmed and the hijacker, whose motives remained a mystery, was arrested after giving himself up. Eighty-one people, including 21 foreigners and 15 crew, had been onboard the Airbus 320 flight when it took off, Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said in a statement. Conflicting theories emerged about the hijacker's motives, with Cypriot officials saying early on the incident did not appear related to terrorism but the Cypriot state broadcaster saying he had demanded the release of women prisoners in Egypt.
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| Pakistan detained more than 5,000 after Easter bombing killed 70 | |  By Asad Hashim ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities detained more than 5,000 suspects, then released most of them, in the two days since a suicide bomber hit a park in the eastern city of Lahore at Easter, killing at least 70 people, a provincial minister said on Tuesday. Investigators were keeping 216 suspects in custody pending further investigation, said Rana Sanaullah, a state minister for Punjab province from Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's ruling party. "Everyone will get their turn in this war, especially the slave Pakistani media," Ehsanullah Ehsan, spokesman for Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, tweeted.
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| EgyptAir hijacker surrenders - Cyprus state TV | |  ATHENS (Reuters) - The suspected hijacker of an EgyptAir airliner surrendered to authorities at Larnaca airport in Cyprus on Tuesday, Cypriot authorities said. The hijacker emerged from the aircraft with his hands in the air, state TV said. "Its over," Cyprus's foreign ministry said in a tweet. (Reporting By Michele Kambas; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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| Cyprus foreign ministry official says hijacker appears unstable | |  ATHENS (Reuters) - Tuesday's hijacking of an EgyptAir airliner which was diverted to Cyprus does not appear to be terror-related, a senior official of Cyprus's foreign affairs ministry said. "What we have clarified ... is that its not about terrorism. It appears to be a person who is unstable, in an unstable psychological state and the issue is being handled accordingly," foreign ministry official Alexandros Zenon told journalists. (Reporting By Michele Kambas)
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| EgyptAir hijacker asking for release of prisoners in Egypt - Cyprus media | |  CAIRO (Reuters) - The hijacker of an EgyptAir airplane that was diverted to Cyprus on Tuesday has asked for the release of female prisoners in Egypt, the Cyprus state broadcaster reported. All but seven people on board the aircraft, which was traveling from Alexandria to Cairo, have been released. The pilot had reported that the hijacker was strapped with explosives, but Egyptian authorities have not confirmed this. (Reporting by Michele Kambas, Writing by Michael Georgy, Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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| Cyprus foreign ministry names hijacker as Seif Eldin Mustafa | |  REUTERS - Cyprus' foreign ministry on Tuesday identified the hijacker of an EgyptAir flight forced to land in Cyprus as Seif Eldin Mustafa in a tweet. It did not provide further details. "The situation is still ongoing," it said. Earlier, two Cypriot broadcasters reported the hijacker had dropped a letter on the apron of Larnaca airport that appeared to be demanding the release of prisoners in Egypt. Eygptian state media had earlier identified the hijacker as a different man. (Reporting By Michele Kambas; editing by John Stonestreet)
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| Japan public divided as laws easing limits on military take effect | |  By Linda Sieg TOKYO (Reuters) - Laws loosening the limits of Japan's pacifist constitution on its military took effect on Tuesday as surveys showed the public remained divided over a change that allows Japanese troops to fight overseas for the first time since World War Two. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has said the security legislation, the biggest change in Japan's defence policy since the creation of its military in 1954, is vital to meet new challenges including a rising China. Critics say the changes, which triggered demonstrations ahead of their enactment last September, violate the pacifist constitution and increase the risk of involvement in foreign wars.
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| Released Brussels suspect had alibi - lawyer | | | The Brussels bombings suspect charged with terrorist murder, but then released on Monday, had a credible alibi and was definitely not the 'man in the hat' captured by security cameras at the airport before the blasts, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Olivier Martins said there was no forensic evidence tying his client, Faycal Cheffou, to the scene, and said he had been charged on the basis of testimony by a taxi driver, who drove the suspected bombers to the airport. Cheffou was released four days after being detained near the prosecutor's office in Brussels. |
| Turkey's Erdogan says will meet Obama at summit this week | |  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday he would meet U.S. President Barack Obama at a nuclear summit in Washington this week, amid differences over Syria and Turkey's domestic policy direction. Erdogan will be among more than 50 world leaders at the Nuclear Security Summit on Thursday and Friday. There has been intense speculation in the Turkish media as to whether he would meet Obama, with some suggesting a failure to do so would be a deliberate U.S. snub.
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| Egypt says seven people remain on hijacked plane | |  Egypt's Civil Aviation Minister said seven people including three passengers remained on board an EgyptAir plane that was hijacked and diverted to Cyprus on Tuesday. The hijacker had not made any concrete demands so far, said Sherif Fathy, who declined to give the nationalities of the passengers still on the plane. Egypt is sending a plane to Cyprus to pick up stranded passengers, some of whom had been traveling from Alexandria to Cairo for connecting flights abroad.
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| Belgian federal parliament takes additional security measures - spokeswoman | |  Belgium's federal parliament took additional security measures but kept its threat level at three on a four tier scale, a spokeswoman said, denying reports that the threat level for the institution had been officially raised. "We have been told to take additional security measures, above ground as well as below ground," a spokeswoman said, adding the threat level for the building remained at three. Belgium lowered the alert level for the whole country to three last week after a series of arrests of suspects following the March 22 bomb attacks in Brussels.
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| Children in Yemen bear brunt of brutal war - UNICEF | |  A UNICEF report also said all sides in the war had "exponentially increased" the dragooning of child soldiers, with 848 documented cases - including boys as young as 10 - forced to fight. Tensions appear to be easing between the Iran-allied Houthis, who control most of northern Yemen, and Saudi-led forces after a year of war, over 6,200 deaths and a humanitarian crisis in the Arab world's poorest country. "On average, at least six children have been killed or injured every day," said the report "Childhood on the Brink".
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| Myanmar lifts state of emergency in conflict-torn Rakhine state | |  Myanmar President Thein Sein, in a surprise move hours before leaving office, lifted a state of emergency in the restive western state of Rakhine, imposed after clashes between Buddhists and minority Rohingya Muslims in 2012. Thein Sein announced the move in state media on Tuesday, a day before a president from Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) will be sworn in at an official handover, after the NLD won the Nov. 8 election by a landslide.
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| More passengers released from hijacked Egyptair plane | |  Four to five more passengers were seen leaving an Egyptair plane hijacked and diverted to Larnaca airport in Cyprus on Tuesday, Cypriot state media said. Earlier, Egyptair reported four foreign passengers and seven-member crew had been left onboard after about 49 people were released. Citing security sources, Cypriot state media reported that the motives of the hijacker appeared personal, and had asked to contact his ex wife, who lives in Cyprus.
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