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| Exclusive - Migrant children fleeing poverty face labour, sex exploitation in Italy | |  By Tom Esslemont ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - In a cavernous market just outside Rome, migrant boys from North Africa shunt trolleys stacked high with crates of melons, garlic, tomatoes, strawberries and other Italian produce. Some of the younger market porters, believed as young as 12 and known to be working illegally, bowed their heads when approached by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, dodging eye contact before disappearing into warehouses. More than half of them were unaccompanied minors, many from North African countries including Egypt.
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| Soccer-England looking alone in World Cup boycott call | | | By Mitch Phillips LONDON (Reuters) - England was looking increasingly isolated in its call for a boycott of soccer's World Cup on Monday as a senior UEFA official cast doubt on the idea and the rest of Europe remained near-silent. Following Sepp Blatter's re-election as FIFA president last week, the English Football Association's chairman Greg Dyke said his organisation would support any boycott led by the UEFA, the sport's European federation. |
| New global development goals must address modern slavery - Satyarthi | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Governments must address human trafficking and slavery in a global development pact later this year, Nobel Peace Laureate Kailash Satyarthi said on Monday, warning that the credibility of humanity was at stake if countries failed to deliver. United Nations member states aim to agree in September a set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)- targets for making progress and reducing inequality in areas such as poverty, health, education, women's rights and climate change by 2030. "The SDGs are going to be the future framework for development and the guiding document for development at country level and globally," Indian-born Satyarthi, who was jointly awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize with Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in an interview.
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| Man convicted of stalking Mila Kunis escapes from California facility | |  A man convicted of stalking actress Mila Kunis has escaped from a Los Angeles-area mental health facility by breaking out of a bathroom window, authorities said on Monday. Stuart Lynn Dunn, 30, left the locked Olive Vista Behavioral Health Center in Pomona, a community less than 30 miles (48 km) east of Los Angeles, on Saturday evening, said Los Angeles County Deputy Chief Probation Officer Reaver Bingham. Dunn was supposed to be taking a shower when he broke out of the facility, Bingham said.
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| Defense hawk Graham enters Republican race for White House | |  By Greg Lacour CENTRAL, S.C., (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a defense hawk, entered the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination on Monday, putting criticism of President Barack Obama's foreign policy at the forefront of his White House bid. Graham, 59, is the ninth Republican to declare he is running for the White House in a field that includes better-known Republicans such as U.S. Senators Ted Cruz of Texas and Marco Rubio of Florida. A fierce critic of Obama's nuclear negotiations with Iran, Graham was one of 47 Republican senators who signed a letter of warning in March to the leadership in Tehran, a highly unusual intervention into U.S. foreign policymaking.
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| U.N. finds growing signs of Russian involvement in Ukraine war | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - A separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine is revealing increasing evidence, but not yet conclusive legal proof, of Russian state involvement, senior United Nations human rights officials said on Monday. "We are speaking about increasing inflow of (unofficial) fighters and increasing evidence that there are also some (Russian) servicemen involved in fighting," Assistant Secretary-General for Human Rights Ivan Simonovic told a news conference in Geneva. Russia denies Western accusations that it is backing pro-Russian rebels with arms and troops.
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| Food inspectors file case against Nestle over noodles | |  By Sharat Pradhan LUCKNOW (Reuters) - Food safety inspectors in Uttar Pradesh said they had filed a criminal complaint against Nestle's local arm after saying they had found high levels of lead in some packets of Maggi instant noodles Nestle India, which disputes the findings, has said the batch in question was manufactured in February 2014 so was already past its sell-by date in April this year and would have been automatically collected from retailers by the time the inspectors announced a recall of the products. A spokesman for Nestle India, which has said it has carried out extensive independent and internal tests, said the company has not yet been notified of the complaint. The noodles, which sell at roughly a dozen rupees (.20) per single-serving packet, are a hugely popular snack in India and Maggi has long been market leader.
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| Foreign governments, non-profits press China to revise draft NGO law | |  Under the law, the term "foreign NGO" is so loosely defined it could apply to an American professor planning to speak at a Chinese university, foreign trade associations, and overseas dance troupes performing in China.
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| Stung by FIFA furore, Qatar's soft power at risk | |  By Amena Bakr DOHA (Reuters) - "It will blow over" tends to be Qatar's unofficial response to criticism of its World Cup bid, but with a FIFA corruption scandal exploding onto the world's front pages, the Gulf state has glumly realised it may have a real fight on its hands. Super-rich Qatar would suffer no economic pain if it lost the right to host the world's top soccer event. Years of allegations of corruption in the vote that won it the 2022 cup, and of abuse of migrant workers, mean Qatar has struggled to convince world opinion of the justness of its cause.
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| Blatter disgraced FIFA, says former VP Warner | |  No one has brought more shame on FIFA than its president Sepp Blatter and he should step aside for a younger leader, the organisation's former vice president Jack Warner has said. Warner, who has been accused of soliciting bribes as part of a U.S.-led corruption case against senior soccer officials, left jail in Trinidad and Tobago on Thursday after he was granted bail, according to local media. "Why are there no investigations in Asia, or in Europe?" Warner told German magazine Stern in an interview released on Monday.
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| Vatican defends Australian cardinal against charges of "disregard" of sexual abuse | |  By Philip Pullella and Byron Kaye VATICAN CITY/SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Monday strongly defended Australian Cardinal George Pell against accusations by a member of Pope Francis' commission on sexual abuse that the Vatican's finance chief had little regard for victims. Peter Saunders, one of 17 members of the commission advising the pope on how to root out sex abuse in the Church, said on Australian television on Sunday that Pell should be dismissed over allegations he failed to take action to protect children. Pell, now charge of reforming the Vatican's economic departments, issued a statement soon after the programme aired, calling Saunders's comments "false", "misleading" and "outrageous", and said he would consult legal advisers.
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| Egyptian court adjourns Al Jazeera journalists trial to Thursday | |  A Cairo court on Monday adjourned the trial of three Al Jazeera television journalists for four days after hearing the prosecution's closing argument that their reporting had endangered Egypt's national security. Australian journalist Peter Greste, who was released in February after 400 days in jail and deported, has not returned for the trial and the presiding judge only mentioned him once when reading out the names of the accused. Mohamed Fahmy, a naturalised Canadian who gave up his Egyptian citizenship, and Egyptian Baher Mohamed were present to hear the argument that their meetings with members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood and use of the word "coup" to describe the army's July 2013 seizure of power had harmed the country.
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| Corrected - Vatican commissioner accuses Australian cardinal of "disregard" for abused children | |  (Corrects to show Saunders is one of 17 commissioners) By Byron Kaye SYDNEY (Reuters) - One of the Catholic Church's commissioners for the protection of children has described the Vatican's finance chief as having an almost sociopathic disregard for abused children, accusations the Australian cardinal rejected as wrong and misleading. Peter Saunders, a member of the 17-strong commission advising Pope Francis on how to root out sex abuse in the Church, said on Australian television the Vatican's prefect for the Secretariat for the Economy, Australian-born Cardinal George Pell, should be dismissed over allegations he failed to take action to protect children from abuse in the church in Australia. "He is making a mockery of the papal commission (into child abuse), of the pope himself, but most of all of the victims and the survivors," Saunders said on Channel Nine's 60 Minutes Australia on Sunday.
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