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| Egypt court postpones Mursi death sentence ruling - state TV | |  The court last month sought the death penalty for Mursi after he and his fellow defendants, including top Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie, were convicted for killing and kidnapping policemen, attacking police facilities and breaking out of jail during the uprising against then-president Hosni Mubarak. The ruling was referred at the time to Egypt's top religious authority, the Grand Mufti, for a non-binding opinion. The court also postponed to June 16 issuing a final ruling in a separate case for Brotherhood leader Khairat el-Shater and 15 others for conspiring with foreign militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah against Egypt.
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| Zimbabwe's 'solar pirates' create own jobs with laptop, solar panel | | | By Jeffrey Gogo HARARE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It's 1.55 pm, and Nigel Mavhengere's "street office" is set up: laptop, makeshift cardboard table and a portable 75-watt solar panel. "On a good day, I should have sold at least $15 worth of stuff by now." A lack of formal jobs in Zimbabwe has forced many young Zimbabweans like Mavhengere into finding alternative work. Using laptops connected to small solar panels the size of an A5 notebook, youths now litter the streets of central Harare selling pirated music and games and (legal) installation help for WhatsApp on their Bluetooth connections. |
| Uber driver arrested near New Delhi, accused of sexual harassment | |  By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A driver contracted with U.S.-based online taxi company Uber Technologies was arrested near New Delhi on Tuesday, police said, after a woman passenger accused him of sexual harassment when she hailed his cab over the weekend. Uber was banned in New Delhi in December after another woman passenger accused one of its drivers of rape. The latest accusation surfaced on social media on Sunday when the woman's brother, Ankush Pathania, posted a picture of Uber's response to the complaint and urged the company to take swift action.
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| FIFA says Valcke not involved in $10 million payment | |  FIFA denied on Tuesday that the top lieutenant of its President, Sepp Blatter, or any other member its senior management made $10 million in bank transactions that are central to a bribery investigation against the world soccer body. Secretary general Jerome Valcke had no role in the payments, which were authorised by the chairman of FIFA's Finance Committee, it said in a statement. "Neither the Secretary General Jerome Valcke nor any other member of FIFA's senior management were involved in the initiation, approval and implementation of the above project," FIFA said.
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| Militants kill nine Afghan aid workers in night time attack | | | By Bashir Ansari MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Unidentified militants shot and killed nine Afghan employees of a Czech-backed aid group, People in Need, in an attack early on Tuesday in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province, government officials said. Aid workers have faced increasing attacks in Afghanistan as foreign troops have withdrawn and security has deteriorated, making the country one of the most dangerous for aid groups. Government officials blamed the Taliban for the attack, about 50 miles (80 km) south of the provincial capital. |
| Egypt arrests two Brotherhood leaders ahead of Mursi ruling - sources | | | Egyptian security services arrested two Muslim Brotherhood leaders late on Monday, security sources said, a day before a court is expected to give a final ruling on a death sentence recommendation against Mohamed Mursi, Egypt's former Islamist president. The arrests of Mahmoud Ghozlan and Abdul Rahman al-Barr followed the government's announcement on Monday that security forces had disrupted a Brotherhood cell which authorities said was gathering intelligence about state institutions and sending it abroad to foreign parties. Ghozlan was a Brotherhood spokesman and a member of the group's highest office, the Guidance Bureau, while Barr, also a member of the Guidance Bureau, was seen as the Brotherhood's top religious authority, the sources said. |
| Tiananmen Mothers urge China to bear responsibility for crimes | | | A group of families demanding justice for victims of China's 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown declared that the government must bear responsibility for historical crimes in the same way it has called on Japan to do so for its wartime past. The Tiananmen Mothers activist group has long urged the leadership to open a dialogue and reassess the 1989 pro-democracy movement, violently suppressed on June 4 that year by the government which labelled it "counter-revolutionary". In an open letter released on Monday through New York-based Human Rights in China, the group cited Premier Li Keqiang's remarks on Japan's failure to reflect on its past. |
| WADA to appeal in Australia Rules supplements case | |  The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is to appeal the decision by the Australian Football League (AFL) to acquit sports scientist Stephen Dank of doping charges. Dank, who ran the supplements programme at Australian Rules club Essendon in 2012, was found guilty of 10 breaches of the AFL's anti-doping code in April but cleared of 21 others. "WADA has appealed the AFL Anti-Doping Appeals Tribunal decision to clear Mr Stephen Dank... of 21 charges of the league's drug code," WADA director-general David Howman said in a statement.
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