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| Sri Lanka probe finds evidence of sex bribes in women's cricket team | | | By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Sri Lanka's sports ministry said on Friday that an investigation had found evidence that members of the national women's cricket team had been forced to perform sexual favours for officials in order to earn or keep their places in the squad. Sri Lanka Cricket, the controlling body for the island nation's most popular sport, ordered an investigation in November after reports emerged alleging officials had asked female cricketers for sex in exchange for being on the team. |
| Colombia's FARC rebels suspend unilateral ceasefire | | | BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels suspended a unilateral ceasefire after government troops killed 26 of its fighters, the guerrilla group said on Friday. "We deplore the attack by the air force, army and police executed in the early hours of Thursday morning," the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, said in a statement. The ceasefire has been in place since late December. (Reporting by Bogota newsroom) |
| U.N. panel adopts new rules on treatment of prisoners | |  A United Nations commission on Friday adopted revised rules on the treatment of prisoners in what human rights organisations hailed as a landmark deal to update 60-year-old international standards. The so-called Mandela Rules, named for the late South African leader and former political prisoner Nelson Mandela, now go to the U.N. General Assembly for final approval. "The Mandela Rules could herald in a new era in which prisoners' human rights are fully respected," Yuval Ginbar, a legal adviser at Amnesty International, said in a statement.
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| Israel briefly detains travelling Palestine player | | | By Ali Sawafta RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - The Palestine Football Association (PFA) has complained to world soccer's governing body FIFA that Israeli authorities held up a national team player as the squad travelled from the West Bank to Tunisia on Thursday. The PFA said player Sameh Maraabah was temporarily detained by Israeli authorities at Allenby Bridge crossing between the West Bank and Jordan late on Thursday. |
| Myanmar says finds more than 200 Bangladeshis in boat offshore | |  By Tim McLaughlin and Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's navy has brought ashore 200 Bangladeshis found in a boat off its coast, after its military chief said some of the thousands of migrants that have landed in Malaysia and Indonesia this month are pretending to be Rohingya Muslims to get UN aid. In response, a senior U.S. official said on Friday that the majority of the more than 3,000 migrants that have come ashore are Rohingya fleeing desperate conditions in Rakhine State in western Myanmar. Myanmar's navy discovered two Thai boats on Thursday, one carrying migrants and the other empty, the Rakhine state government said in a press release on Friday.
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| Suicide bomber strikes Saudi Shi'ite mosque, many dead or wounded | | | By Sami Aboudi DUBAI (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shi'ite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia during Friday prayers, residents said, killing around 20 people and wounding more than 50, local residents and a hospital officials said. The attack could further harm relations between Sunnis and Shi'ites in the Gulf region, where tensions have risen during weeks of military operations in Yemen by a Saudi-led coalition against Houthi fighters seen as proxies of regional Shi'ite power Iran. One witness described a huge explosion at the Imam Ali mosque in the village of al-Qadeeh where more than 150 people were praying. |
| Irish vote on gay marriage in landmark referendum | |  By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish voted on Friday on whether to allow gay marriage, just two decades after Ireland became the last country in Western Europe to decriminalise homosexuality. With the once mighty Catholic Church's influence ravaged by child abuse scandals, opinion polls indicated the proposal would pass by as much as two-to-one, making Ireland the first country to adopt same-sex marriage via a popular vote. "I voted 'Yes' because everyone's the same so why not have the same rights as everyone else," said Dubliner Jennifer Brown, 21, who voted on her way to a university exam.
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| Polish court adjourns Polanski extradition case until mid-September | |  A Polish court on Friday adjourned until mid-September a hearing on whether to extradite filmmaker Roman Polanski to the United States over a 1977 child sex conviction. Polanski, who lives in France, is in Poland making a movie but did not appear in the Krakow court on Friday and was represented by lawyers. Judge Dariusz Mazur said Poland had requested further information from U.S. authorities by Aug. 8.
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| Turkish police swoop on Erdogan foes, dozens detained | |  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish police launched an operation on Friday to detain dozens of people including businessmen seen as supporters of U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, President Tayyip Erdogan's ally-turned-foe, a provincial governor's office said. Moves against what Erdogan calls a parallel structure or terrorist group within the state had until now focused on suspected Gulen sympathisers in the police, judiciary, media and a bank founded by his followers. Erdogan, seeking overwhelming support for the AK Party he founded at June elections which he hopes will pave the way for broader presidential powers, accuses Gulen of among other things engineering a graft scandal to discredit and unseat him.
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