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| Bangladesh academics get death threats from extremist group | | | Death threats to academics in Bangladesh, including the junior home minister, are fuelling a climate of fear following the killings this year of three online critics of religious nationalism in the Muslim-majority nation. Militants have targeted secularist writers in Bangladesh in recent years, as the government has tried to crack down on hardline Islamist groups that seek to make the South Asian nation of 160 million a sharia-based state. Police are investigating threats received by more than a dozen academics, ranging from the vice-chancellor of the capital's Dhaka University to a former chief of the university grants commission, the minister, Asaduzzman Khan, told Reuters. |
| India launches "Lost and Found" website to find missing children | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The government has launched a "Lost and Found" website to help families trace the tens of thousands of children in the country who go missing every year - often abducted for forced labour or sexual exploitation - and are never found. The "Khoya Paya", or "Lost and Found", website khoyapaya.gov.in was launched by Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi, who said the portal would allow parents to register details of missing children and citizens to report sightings. "It was felt that we could have this portal, where if a child goes missing, families can put the details and the picture onto Khoya Paya," Gandhi said on Tuesday at an event to launch the website, which is the first of its kind in India.
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| Russian Olympic official rules out boycotts of 2018 World Cup | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of Russia's Olympic Committee said on Wednesday he did not expect any boycotts of the World Cup finals in 2018, which his country is due to host. Speaking a day after Sepp Blatter's resignation as FIFA president and following calls by some foreign officials for a boycott of the tournament, Alexander Zhukov was quoted by RIA news agency as saying: "I think there will be no kind of boycotts." "We have heard statements, including from politicians ... but I think the sporting community will never do it and won't allow the world of sport to be split," he said. ... |
| Thai army general denies human trafficking charges - police | |  A three-star Thai army general has denied charges against him for offences related to human trafficking, Thailand's police chief said, the latest in a series of arrests aimed at stamping out people smuggling. Thailand has issued 84 arrest warrants as it cracks down on smuggling and trafficking of humans through its territory. The clampdown has sparked a humanitarian crisis in Southeast Asia as criminals have abandoned boats full of people rather than risk transporting them through Thailand.
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| With Blatter's exit, calls for new face, fresh start for FIFA | |  Sepp Blatter's shock resignation as FIFA president, hours before it emerged he was under investigation by U.S. authorities, prompted widespread calls for root-and-branch reforms at soccer's world governing body on Wednesday. The Swiss national, who has led FIFA for 17 years, is being investigated by U.S. prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a person who spoke on condition of anonymity told Reuters late on Tuesday. An FBI spokesman declined comment.
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| Russia surprised by Blatter exit, preparing for 2018 World Cup finals | | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia was surprised by Sepp Blatter's resignation as FIFA president but is continuing cooperation with soccer's world governing body and pressing on with preparations for hosting the World Cup finals in 2018, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. "We have no information on what the reason was for this resignation," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "Cooperation with FIFA is going on and, most importantly, Russia continues preparations for the 2018 World Cup." (Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska, Editing by Timothy Heritage) |
| Myanmar lands 700 migrants, U.S. says Rohingya should be citizens | |  By Randy Fabi and Aubrey Belford JAKARTA/MAUNGDAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar brought ashore more than 700 "boat people" it had kept at sea for days aboard a seized vessel, as the United States on Wednesday called on the country to help solve a migrant crisis by recognising the rights of its Muslim Rohingya minority. U.S. President Barack Obama has sought to make Myanmar's transition to democracy a legacy of his presidency, and Washington is stepping up pressure on the Southeast Asian nation to tackle what it sees as the root causes of an exodus of migrants across the Bay of Bengal that the region has struggled to cope with. Myanmar's navy brought the vessel to the coast of western Rakhine state, where they disembarked on Wednesday.
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| Interpol issues wanted-person alerts for six in U.S. FIFA probe | |  Interpol said on Wednesday it has issued international wanted-person alerts for two former FIFA officials including Jack Warner and four corporate executives at the request of U.S. authorities as part of a corruption probe. Interpol said it issued so-called red notices -- not an international arrest warrant -- for Warner, former President of CONCACAF, which governs football in North and Central America and the Caribbean, and Nicolas Leoz, the former head of South America's soccer federation. The others are Alejandro Burzaco, Hugo Jinkis and Mariano Jinkis, who are among soccer officials and sports media and promotion executives hit with U.S. graft charges involving more than $150 million in bribes, and Jose Margulies, a Brazilian citizen who headed two offshore companies that were involved in the broadcasting of soccer matches.
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| Tajik police chief who joined Islamic State wanted for treason | | | Tajikistan has issued an international arrest warrant for the commander of its elite police force who joined Islamic State, prosecutors said on Wednesday, accusing him of treason. Khalimov's defection alarmed many in Tajikistan, an impoverished Muslim nation which borders Afghanistan and is still volatile after a 1992-97 civil war that killed tens of thousands. Countries across post-Soviet Central Asia have stepped up military drills with Russia and the United States, saying they are determined to confront militant Islam. |
| Sepp Blatter's daughter says quit decision not tied to allegations - Blick | | | The daughter of outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter told a Swiss newspaper on Wednesday her father's decision to stand down is not tied to recent allegations. "His decision has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with the allegations going around," Corinne Blatter-Andenmatten is quoted as saying by Swiss daily Blick. Sepp Blatter rocked the world of soccer on Tuesday by saying he would step down as FIFA president in the wake of a corruption investigation that now includes the 79-year-old chief himself. |
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