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| Sotheby's withdraws sale of Russian painting alleged stolen | | | The international auction house Sotheby's withdrew from auction on Tuesday a painting by a famous Russian artist that Russia's Interior Ministry said last week had been stolen in 1997 from a private collection in Moscow. The auction house said "Evening in Cairo" by Ivan Aivazovsky, had been withdrawn from sale at the request of the consignor, or seller. Russia's Interior Ministry had asked that British police block the auction. |
| Germans don't want World Cup boycott, DFB president says | |  By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany does not want a boycott of soccer's World Cup tournament, the president of the German Football Association (DFB) Wolfgang Niersbach told Reuters on Tuesday. "We don't want to go down that route of a boycott - that won't accomplish anything," Niersbach said in an interview. "We don't want to get into a situation like with boxing where there are several parallel associations. That doesn't work. ...
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| FIFA says Valcke not involved in $10 million payment | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA denied on Tuesday that Jérôme Valcke, the top lieutenant of its President Sepp Blatter, was involved in $10 million in bank transactions at the heart of a U.S. bribery investigation against the world soccer body, despite the publication of a letter to Valcke outlining the payment. Secretary general 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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| Acid producers responsible for "vile" attacks - NCW leader | | | By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Bottles of acid are too easily available in India and the makers should take responsibility for the rising number of "vile" acid attacks, the head of National Commission for Women (NCW) has said. Acid attacks - meant to maim, disfigure or blind - are most common in Cambodia, followed by Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. Women are the victims of 80 percent of the roughly 1,500 acid attacks reported globally each year, the London-based charity Acid Survivors Trust International says. |
| 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 Tuesday's attack, about 50 miles (80 km) south of the provincial capital. |
| 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. |
| Wanted Thai general turns himself in on human trafficking charges | |  A three-star Thai general accused of involvement in human trafficking turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday, the most high profile among scores of suspects wanted as part of a police crackdown on the illicit trade. A total of 84 arrest warrants has been issued over human trafficking, a business that activists and the United States say Thailand has done little to stop. Lieutenant General Manus Kongpan said he was ready and willing to go to trial.
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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. |
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