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| United States asks Swiss to extradite 7 in FIFA inquiry | |  By Joshua Franklin and Stephanie Nebehay ZURICH/GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States has asked Switzerland to extradite seven FIFA officials arrested in an investigation into a global bribery scandal at soccer's governing body, the Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) said on Thursday. The move marks the start of a legal process expected to last several months during which the officials, who have been in jail since being detained on U.S. arrest warrants in May, will either keep fighting extradition to the United States or agree to go.
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| Trump's Miss USA pageant finds new broadcaster after NBC drops show | | | The independent U.S. cable network REELZ will telecast the Miss USA pageant on July 12, the company announced on Thursday, stepping in after NBC dropped plans to broadcast the show because of inflammatory remarks about Mexican immigrants made by co-owner and U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump. "The decision on the part of REELZ to acquire the rights to the MISS USA Pageant was based on our belief that this special event, and the women who compete in it, are an integral part of American tradition," CEO Stan Hubbard said in a statement. The fate of the pageant's English-language broadcast had come into question after Comcast Corp-owned NBC announced on Monday it would no longer air the event "due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants" the company said in a press statement Several judges and guests have also scrapped plans to take part in the event. |
| British woman charged with being member of Islamic State | | | British police said on Thursday they had charged a 26-year-old woman with being a member of Islamic State and inciting terrorism on social media. The woman, from Burton upon Trent in central England who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested by counter-terrorism officers at London's Heathrow Airport in February after arriving on a flight from Turkey. West Midlands Police said she had been charged with publishing messages on Twitter in October last year which encouraged people to commit or prepare acts of terrorism, and being a member of the banned organisation Islamic State (IS). |
| Insight: Islamic State weaves web of support in Gulf Arab states | |  By Angus McDowall and William Maclean KUWAIT/DUBAI (Reuters) - When a Saudi Arabian man flew to Kuwait in the early hours of Friday to carry out the country's worst militant attack, a bomb vest, Kuwaiti-style Arab robes, a place to prepare, and a car and driver to take him to his target were all lined up for him. The vest had been ferried across from Saudi Arabia a few days before in a complex operation suggesting Islamic State now commands a capable network of militants, propagandists and sympathisers on the Arabian peninsula, a security source said. Among those Fahd Suliman Abdul-Muhsen al-Qabaa contacted when his overnight flight via Bahrain landed, one had a family tie to Islamic State and another links to al Qaeda attacks in Kuwait a decade earlier, a security source and Kuwaiti media have reported.
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| Corrected - Final British death toll in Tunisia attack rises to 30 - Hammond | | | (Corrects weekdays) VIENNA (Reuters) - The final number of Britons confirmed killed by an Islamist gunman in Tunisia a week ago is 30 and all victims have been identified, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Thursday. "We now have all 30 British victims positively identified and we can say with a high degree of confidence that is the final death toll," Hammond told reporters on arrival in the Austrian capital for nuclear talks between Iran and major powers. The death toll has risen several times, from 22 to 27, and again then to 29 on Wednesday. |
| Appeal court clears inspectors in French breast implants case | | | AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France (Reuters) - A French appeal court on Thursday overturned a negligence conviction against certification agency TUV Rheinland for its role in approving faulty breast implants produced with counterfeit silicone by manufacturer PIP until its 2010 closure. In a statement the Aix-en-Provence appeal court said the German agency had "respected the obligations incumbent upon it as a certifying organisation". |
| Bangladesh arrests 12 suspected al Qaeda militants, weapons found | | | Bangladesh security forces have arrested 12 suspected militants, including the chief of the al Qaeda in Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), which claimed responsibility for two killings this year of bloggers critical of religious extremism. Mainul Islam, the AQIS chief coordinator in Bangladesh, and his top adviser, Zafar Amin, were among the 12. AQIS is an Al Qaeda affiliate for militant activities in South Asia. |
| China military spending probe finds "long-standing abuses" | | | A probe into military spending over the past 18 months has found "long-standing abuses", including illegally held bank accounts, embezzlement, tax fraud and padded expenses, state media said on Thursday, in an ongoing campaign against corruption. China's armed forces, the world's largest, have become a focus of President Xi Jinping's battle to root out deeply ingrained graft including bribery, which often takes the form of lavish gifts to officials or extravagant spending of government funds. The investigation into spending "earnestly exposed the contradictions and long-standing abuses which existed", the official Xinhua news agency said, in a story also carried on the Defence Ministry's website. |
| Tunisia hunts for Libya-trained suspects after hotel attack | |  Tunisian authorities have arrested 12 people they suspect are linked to the Sousse beach hotel attack on foreign tourists, and are hunting for two men who trained in a Libyan jihadist camp with the Sousse attacker, an official said. "This is a group who were trained in Libya, and who had the same objective. Two attacked the Bardo and one attacked Sousse," Lazhar Akremi, minister for parliamentary relations, told reporters late on Wednesday.
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