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| Prince Ali says FIFA needs to speed up reforms | |  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Former FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan is concerned about the pace of reform in world soccer's governing body and says new president Gianni Infantino has "no time to lose" in bringing transparency to the organisation. Infantino was elected in February with the task of leading FIFA into calmer waters after a series of corruption scandals plunged the governing body into its worst crisis. Prince Ali told Reuters in an interview that Infantino should focus on implementing reforms rather than issues such as proposals to expand the World Cup.
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| Islamic State, Pakistani Taliban claim killing of police officer | | | By Saud Mehsud DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Islamic State fighters and the Pakistani Taliban on Monday said they killed a police official in northwest Pakistan, the second attack in the south Asian nation claimed by the Middle East-based militant group in just over a month. The killings follow an announcement by the military last month that it had stemmed Islamic State's attempts to expand in Pakistan, after arresting more than 300 people suspected of plotting attacks on government, diplomatic and civilian targets. Akbar Ali, a member of the Special Branch, or police intelligence wing in Charsadda, about 20 km (12 miles) from the provincial capital of Peshawar, was shot and killed at a bus stop, said the district police chief, Sohail Khalid. |
| Police kill 24 Maoist insurgents in Odisha | | | By Jatindra Dash BHUBANESHWAR, India (Reuters) - Police killed at least 24 Maoist rebels in a remote, forested area of Odisha on Monday, police said, one of the heaviest casualty tolls suffered by the insurgents in recent years. Acting on a tip-off, police tracked a group of around 30 Maoists who had gathered at a makeshift training camp close to the border with Andhra Pradesh state, officials said. When the officers surprised the gathering shortly after midnight, a gun battle erupted. |
| British lawmakers ask Obama to let hacking suspect face trial in UK | |  A group of 105 British members of parliament (MPs) have asked President Barack Obama to withdraw a warrant for the extradition of an autistic Briton who is accused of hacking high-security U.S. state computers. Lauri Love, 31, who has Asperger's syndrome, is accused of involvement in a series of hacks in 2012 and 2013 into computers at agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. army, the Missile Defense Agency and the Federal Reserve. A London court approved his extradition in September despite warnings from his family, lawyers and supporters that he would be at risk of killing himself if sentenced to a lifetime in a U.S. prison.
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| Kyrgyz leader's party quits parliamentary coalition | |  Kyrgyz President Almazbek Atambayev's party quit the ruling majority coalition on Monday over partners' refusal to back proposed constitutional reforms, deepening a rift that could destabilise the Central Asian nation. The move by the Social Democratic party which backs Atambayev has will trigger creation of a new coalition and may lead to the resignation of the cabinet, parliament deputy Azamat Arapbayev said. Arapbayev, a member of the Social Democratic party, said the move was the result of other coalition members' refusal to support constitutional reforms proposed by Atambayev.
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| Hong Kong jury to see "torture" video as British banker's trial begins | |  By Farah Master HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Hong Kong judge warned jurors that they will have to view video filmed by former British banker Rurik Jutting of the torture and vicious killing of two Indonesian women he is accused of murdering as the trial got under way on Monday. Jutting, who studied at Cambridge University and Winchester College, one of Britain's most prestigious private schools, pleaded not guilty to murder on grounds of "diminished responsibility". During the jury selection, Deputy High Court Judge Michael Stuart-Moore warned potential jurors that if they were unable to cope with viewing extreme violence they should not take part.
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| South Korea's Park proposes multiple-term presidency | |  By Ju-min Park and Christine Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Park Geun-hye on Monday proposed amending the constitution to allow presidents to serve multiple terms or to establish a parliamentary system, saying the single-term presidency has served its purpose after nearly 30 years. The South Korean presidency was limited to a single five-year term in the 1987 constitutional amendment that ended the country's military dictatorship. "Through the single-term presidency, it is difficult to maintain policy continuance, see results of policy and engage in unified foreign policy," she said in an address to parliament at the start of annual budget deliberations.
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| Rights activists urge Thai junta to drop sedition charge against lawyer | | | Human rights activists on Monday called on Thailand's junta to drop sedition charges against a rights lawyer in the first such case against an attorney since the military took power in a 2014 coup. Sirikan Charoensiri was charged with sedition and with disobeying authorities on Saturday after she refused to hand over the mobile phones of her clients, 14 student activists who were arrested following a protest against the junta last year. Since taking power, the junta has moved to silence critics and has come under sharp criticism from the international community for trying civilians in military courts, arresting dissidents and detaining some critics, including political activists, journalists and students, at military facilities for days before releasing them. |
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