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| Ex-FIFA official Rocha agrees to extradition to Nicaragua | | | By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Former FIFA development officer Julio Rocha, among seven officials arrested in Zurich in May in a corruption scandal that has rocked world football's governing body, has agreed to be extradited to his native Nicaragua, Swiss authorities said. The United States, which has indicted Rocha and 13 other football officials and sports marketing executives on graft charges, has also requested his extradition. The Swiss Federal Office of Justice (FoJ) said it may have to decide which country gets priority. |
| Four Turkish soldiers killed, six wounded, in clashes with Kurds - security sources | | | DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Four Turkish soldiers were killed and six more were wounded in a clash with Kurdish militants in the southeasterly Hakkari province on Friday, security sources told Reuters. The violence is the latest in a wave of fighting between Turkish security forces and the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) after Ankara last month launched a military crackdown on both the PKK and the Islamic State militant group. (Reporting by Seyhmus Cakan in Diyarbakir and Ece Toksabay and Yesim Dikmen in Istanbul; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Kevin Liffey) |
| Turkey nationalists reject minority government in blow to Erdogan | |  By Orhan Coskun and Ercan Gurses ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's nationalist opposition made clear on Friday it would not roll over and back a minority government, making President Tayyip Erdogan's aim of taking the country to a snap election with the ruling party in control look increasingly difficult. Talks on forming a grand coalition between the AK Party and the main opposition CHP broke down on Thursday, making an autumn election almost inevitable and leaving the ruling party having to turn to the nationalist MHP for support. The AKP failed to hold its majority in a general election on June 7, leaving it unable to govern alone for the first time since it came to power in 2002 and plunging Turkey into uncertainty not seen since the fragile coalitions of the 1990s.
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| Suspect in shooting of New York firefighter is dead after standoff | | | By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) - The man who shot and wounded a firefighter after setting his home ablaze in a standoff with New York authorities is dead, police said on Friday. Fire lieutenant Jim Hayes, 53, a 31-year veteran of the department, was shot twice and wounded by the man, who used an assault rifle, police and fire officials said Police Commissioner Bill Bratton identified the suspect as Tyree Garland, 38, but he was identified in court records as Garland Tyree, also known as "S.I." On Facebook, a man named Garland Tyree from Staten Island wrote "Today I die" on his profile early Friday morning. |
| New York becomes most populous U.S. state to ban powdered alcohol | | | By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York on Friday became the most populous U.S. state to ban the sale of powdered alcohol, a controversial just-add-water beverage that opponents say will lead to a rise in underage drinking and abuses. "For every substance or drug that has been abused by people in our communities, we often look back and ask ourselves if there is anything we could have done differently to prevent a wave of addiction from reaching the point of no return," said state Senator Joseph Griffo, who sponsored the New York legislation. Arizona-based Lipsmark LLC, the company approved by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau to sell the drink, called Palcohol, argues that its product is safer than liquid alcohol. |
| Man sentenced to life without parole in deadly Indiana home blast | | | St. Joseph Superior Court Judge John Marnocha handed down the sentence to Mark Leonard, 46, who was found guilty in July of all 53 charges against him, the Indianapolis Star newspaper reported. In addition to the two deaths, dozens of people were injured in the explosion, which destroyed a house and severely damaged nearby homes in the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Indianapolis on Nov. 10, 2012. Leonard's former girlfriend, Monserrate Shirley, agreed to plead guilty, while three other men were charged in the case. |
| Three Africans found critically ill in car's hidden compartments - Spain | | | Three young African men who squeezed into hidden compartments in a car to enter a Spanish territory in North Africa were found in critical condition by border police, the Spanish government said on Friday. Photos released by the Interior Ministry showed one of the migrants curled up in the spare wheel well of the vehicle, which had been turned into a hidden compartment. The three - two from Guinea and one from Ivory Coast, aged from 18 to 25 - were found on Wednesday when border police at a crossing between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla grew suspicious and searched the car. |
| BNP Paribas to pay $115 mln to settle currency-rigging lawsuit - source | | | By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - BNP Paribas SA has agreed to pay $115 million to settle U.S. investor lawsuits accusing 16 major banks of rigging prices in the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. The Paris-based bank is among nine that lawyers for the plaintiffs disclosed on Thursday had reached agreements totaling more than $2 billion in class action litigation pending in New York. ... |
| Brazil police raid World Cup arena, Odebrecht offices in fraud probe | | | Police raided a stadium in the northeastern city of Recife and other offices around Brazil on Friday as part of an investigation into fraud in contracting for the arena, which was built for the 2014 FIFA World Cup soccer tournament. In a statement, federal police said contracts for the Arena Pernambuco, built and operated by a consortium led by contractor Odebrecht SA [ODBES.UL], were overpriced by as much as 42.8 million reais ($12.26 million) in 2010, when the project was being developed. Odebrecht also enjoyed more time to prepare its bid for the project than other competitors who sought to take part, investigators said. |
| Congo charges 34 with genocide in inter-ethnic fighting | | | A prosecutor in Democratic Republic of Congo said on Friday he had charged 34 people with genocide and crimes against humanity in inter-ethnic violence in the country's southeast. The charges against members of the Luba, a Bantu ethnic group, and Twa, a Pygmy people who inhabit Africa's Great Lakes region, mark the first civilian prosecutions for such crimes in Congo. A law enacted in 2013 authorised civilian courts to try cases of genocide and crimes against humanity, he said. |
| Pakistan protests to India after Swami Aseemanand freed | |  By Katharine Houreld ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan lodged a diplomatic protest with India on Friday over its decision to release a man jailed over a 2007 train bombing that killed 68 people, most Pakistanis. The protest to the Indian Deputy High Commissioner, made as Pakistan celebrated the anniversary of its separation from India and independence from Britain, comes as the two nuclear-armed rivals prepare for a high-level meeting on Aug. 23-24. "The Government of Pakistan expects India to take steps to bring to justice all those involved in the heinous act of terrorism on the Samjhauta Express, in which 42 Pakistani innocent citizens lost their lives," it said in a statement.
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| U.S. says hopeful more FIFA defendants will be extradited soon | | | U.S. authorities are hopeful that more of the former FIFA officials and marketing executives who were indicted in May on bribery and corruption charges could soon be extradited to face the charges in New York, a prosecutor said on Friday. Prosecutor Evan Norris said during a hearing in Brooklyn federal court that discussions were ongoing with lawyers for "a number of other defendants overseas" regarding their possible extradition. |
| Trident-toting "god woman" Radhe Ma questioned by police | |  By Nivedita Bhattacharjee MUMBAI (Reuters) - A trident-toting Indian "god woman" worshipped as a miracle worker was questioned by police on Friday over accusations that she tried to extort dowry money from brides, the latest in a long line of popular gurus to run into legal problems. Named after Hindu god Lord Krishna's consort, Radhe Ma, 50, is one of modern India's many self-styled "god people" who command legions of followers including politicians and Bollywood personalities. Radhe Ma arrived at the police station carrying a small golden trident - a symbol of the goddess Durga, from whom some of her followers believe she is reincarnated.
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