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| Migrant boat still being held off Myanmar coast - government | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw YANGON (Reuters) - More than 700 migrants found packed aboard an overcrowded boat in the Andaman Sea were still being held offshore by Myanmar's navy on Monday, more than three days after the converted fishing vessel was intercepted off the country's coast. "The government is checking their identity, asking what they want to do and where they want to go," government spokesman Ye Htut told Reuters, without providing further details of the boat's location. "Usually, most of them want to go back to Bangladesh, so we will arrange according to their wishes." Government officials have been tight-lipped about the identities of 727 migrants on the overcrowded boat, found drifting and taking on water early Friday, as well as their eventual destination.
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| Thai general suspended after warrant issued for human trafficking | | | Thailand's military suspended a three-star general on Monday after police ordered his arrest on suspicion of human trafficking as pressure mounts on Bangkok to block the illicit trade. Lieutenant General Manus Kongpan will be questioned by the military and could be expelled if found to have breached its code of conduct, prior to facing a criminal trial, Thai army chief General Udomdej Sitabutr told reporters. Southern Thailand has been a major base for smugglers and traffickers taking people by boat from Myanmar and Bangladesh to Southeast Asia in a trade that activists say has flourished for years. |
| 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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