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| Thailand says wraps up trafficking probe, rights groups sceptical | | | Thai police said on Tuesday they had "shown sincerity" and wrapped up the country's biggest investigation into human trafficking, as rights groups questioned whether they had even scratched the surface. Thailand began a crackdown on trafficking networks and suspected camps hidden deep in its jungle-carpeted mountains last month following the discovery of more than 30 bodies buried in camps in the south. Police have arrested 56 suspects - including politicians, police, government officials, businessmen and an army general - and issued arrest warrants for 63. |
| South Carolina governor calls for Confederate flag's removal | |  By Harriet McLeod, Luciana Lopez and Alana Wise CHARLESTON/COLUMBIA, S.C. (Reuters) - South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley on Monday called on lawmakers to take down the Confederate battle flag at the state capitol grounds, a week after a white gunman allegedly shot dead nine black worshipers at a historic church. The flag that has flown at the State House grounds in Columbia for a half century became a fresh focus of criticism after the Charleston church massacre. Federal authorities are investigating the attack as a hate crime and an act of terrorism by accused gunman Dylann Roof, 21, who posed with the flag in photos posted online.
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| Rapper Sean Combs arrested for assault with deadly weapon at UCLA | |  Rapper Sean "P. Diddy" Combs was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon at the University of California Los Angeles on Monday, college law enforcement authorities said. Combs, 45, was booked in to the jail on the west Los Angeles college campus after an incident involving a kettleball, a weight with a handle, which was deemed a deadly weapon, UCLA's campus police UCPD said in a statement. Celebrity website TMZ.com, citing unidentified sources, said Combs was involved in an argument with a football team coach at the campus' athletic facility.
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| Qatar group to push sports integrity in US even as World Cup award faces probes | | | By Mica Rosenberg and Mark Hosenball NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - FIFA's granting of rights to Qatar to host the World Cup in 2022 is a focus of U.S. and Swiss probes into alleged corruption at soccer's governing body, but that isn't stopping a group financed by the tiny nation from coming to Washington this week to talk about cleaning up sports. The Doha-based International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), which is largely funded by the Qatari government, will talk about its efforts to boost transparency in bidding processes for major sporting events and combat financial malpractice in professional sport at an event it is holding at the National Press Club on Wednesday. The group, which is headed by two former officials from Qatar's military, includes FIFA's former head of security as an executive director and Interpol's former president as a member of its advisory board. The event comes on the heels of the indictment by U.S. authorities of nine current or former FIFA officials and five executives in sports marketing or broadcasting on May 27. |
| Israel, Palestinians may have committed war crimes in Gaza - U.N. report | |  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. investigators said on Monday that Israel and Palestinian militant groups committed grave abuses of international humanitarian law during the 2014 Gaza conflict that may amount to war crimes. "The most that we can hope for out of this long and arduous process of inquiry is that we will push the ball of justice a little further down the field," Mary McGowan Davis, chairwoman of the U.N. commission of inquiry, said at a news conference. A ceasefire last August ended 50 days of fighting between Gaza militants and Israel, in which health officials said more than 2,100 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were killed.
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| Mali hostages, held since late 2011, plead for release in video | | | Two hostages kidnapped by al Qaeda militants in north Mali more than three years ago asked their governments to help secure their release in a rare video of them seen by Reuters on Monday. The two men, from Sweden and South Africa, were seized in the desert city of Timbuktu in November 2011, weeks before secular and Islamist rebels took over Mali's north. The nearly 19-minute video, entitled "A trip to interview two prisoners," could not be independently verified by Reuters, although it bore the stamp of al-Andalus, which claims to be the media arm of al Qaeda in north Africa (AQMI). |
| U.N. police accused of Mali deaths to face home country court - source | | | By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Several U.N. police peacekeepers who used "unauthorized and excessive force" that killed three people during a protest in Mali have been arrested and will face justice in their home country, a diplomatic source at the United Nations said on Monday. A United Nations inquiry found police peacekeepers shot the protesters during a demonstration on Jan. 27 in the northern Mali town of Gao as the U.N. tried to broker peace between armed groups in the area. |
| Obama, in podcast, uses N-word to make point on racism | |  By Julia Edwards and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday ignited a storm of social media debate when he used a racial epithet in an interview posted online that discussed race relations following the recent killings of nine black churchgoers. It's not just a matter of overt discrimination," Obama, the first black U.S. president, told Mark Maron, host of the "WTF" podcast, in an hour-long chat. The word has a long U.S. history and is almost never used in public remarks, particularly by politicians, and Obama's use of it comes amid a fresh round of soul-searching by many Americans over the country's long struggle with racism.
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| Three men convicted in parachute jump from New York's 1 World Trade Center | | | By Sebastien Malo NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three men who jumped with parachutes from the top of One World Trade Center were convicted of criminal charges on Monday in their plunge from America's tallest building. A jury in state Supreme Court in Manhattan deliberated over the course of four days before reaching a verdict in the trial of James Brady, 33, Andrew Rossig, 34, and Marko Markovich, 28, who live in the New York City suburbs. |
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