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| Boxer Pacquiao prays with Philippine death row inmate in Indonesia | |  YOGYAKARTA/JAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) - Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao on Friday held a prayer session in an Indonesian prison with a Philippine woman on death row for drug trafficking, in hopes of drawing attention to her plight and getting her sentence commuted. Mary Jane Veloso won a last-minute reprieve from execution in April, after officials in Manila asked Indonesian President Joko Widodo to let her give evidence in an investigation into the network accused of recruiting her. Pacquiao, one of many celebrities campaigning to save Veloso, prayed with her in the Yogyakarta prison where she has been jailed while testifying against a couple alleged to have recruited her to smuggle 2.6 kg of heroin into Indonesia.
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| Exclusive - Miami company described in U.S. soccer case as agreeing to pay bribe-sources | | | By Mica Rosenberg and David Ingram NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Miami-based affiliate of Spanish media giant Imagina group is one of the unidentified sports marketing companies alleged in a U.S. indictment to have agreed to pay a bribe in a global soccer corruption scandal, sources told Reuters. The company is Media World, a subsidiary of Imagina US, according to two sources familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The indictment does not say that the company - identified only as "Sports Marketing Company C" - paid a bribe, but says it had agreed to do so and was looking for a way to make the payment to a high-ranking soccer official in the Americas. Media World, which buys and sells the media rights to soccer leagues and has operated TV channels aimed at the U.S. Hispanic market, has not been charged with wrongdoing. |
| PM Modi chooses silence as opposition attacks | |  By Frank Jack Daniel NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi is a skilled orator and prolific on social media, so his studied silence about allegations of corruption and influence trafficking affecting his party has set other tongues wagging. At rowdy election rallies last year, Modi used Hindi to deride his reserved predecessor Manmohan Singh as Maun-mohan, or Silent-mohan, when the then leader slipped from the public eye as his government was engulfed by scandal.
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| Warner case adjourned with no extradition writ from U.S yet | |  By Linda Hutchinson-Jafar PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) - The United States has yet to issue a formal writ of extradition for former FIFA vice president Jack Warner, whose case was adjourned on Thursday until July 27, lawyers in the case said on Thursday. Warner, wanted in the U.S. on corruption charges, could apply for discharge from the local court if the United States does not send the writ to the Trinidad and Tobago government by July 26. Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar, presiding at the Port of Spain Magistrate's court, adjourned the case for 18 days after hearing submissions from lawyers appearing for the State and Warner.
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| Bolivia's Morales doubtful of full diplomatic ties with U.S. soon | |  By Sarah Marsh and Diego Oré SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales said on Thursday he wanted to restore full diplomatic relations with the United States but doubted this would happen soon, even after the recent rapprochement between Washington and former Cold War enemy Cuba. Morales, a prominent member of South America's leftist bloc and one of the region's most popular leaders, told Reuters in an interview he had sought a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama but had not received a response. Relations between the two countries disintegrated in 2008 when the Bolivian leader expelled Washington's ambassador, accusing the United States of conspiring to overthrow his government, and kicked out the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
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| Excerpts from Pope Francis speech attacking global economic order | |  Pope Francis made a sweeping speech on Thursday during his Latin American tour criticizing the global economic order and asking for forgiveness from indigenous peoples for crimes committed by the Church in the past. There was sin and an abundant amount of it." ON "NEW COLONIALISM" "The new colonialism takes on different faces.
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