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| Swiss approve extradition of ex-Costa Rican soccer chief | |  Swiss authorities have approved a U.S. extradition request for ex-Costa Rican Football Federation President Eduardo Li, the fourth official due to be sent to the United States in connection with a corruption scandal that has engulfed FIFA. The U.S. Department of Justice issued an arrest warrant in May for Li, accusing him of taking bribes in connection with the sale of marketing rights for World Cup 2018 qualifying games. Li, a Costa Rican citizen, was one of seven officials from world soccer's governing body taken into custody in a dawn raid on a luxury Zurich hotel on May 27.
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| Study finds increase in foreign fighters heading for Syria, Iraq | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 30,000 people, including more than 250 Americans, have left their countries to join militant Islamists fighting in Syria and Iraq, many with the Islamic State, according to a congressional study of the issue released on Tuesday. Thirty thousand doubles the total estimated number of such fighters a year ago, when authorities also said about 100 Americans had joined, or tried to join the fighting in Syria and Iraq.
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| Sri Lanka war crimes resolution softened before U.N. debate | |  By Shihar Aneez COLOMBO (Reuters) - A U.S.-backed resolution at the United Nations that seeks justice for victims of Sri Lanka's 26-year civil war has been softened to keep its government on board and allay the concerns of powerful neighbour India, sources say. The latest draft, expected to be adopted in Geneva on Thursday, fails to specify the powers and role of foreign prosecutors and judges in trying war crimes suspects - a major shortcoming, in the eyes of human rights groups. "Everything now depends on implementation - the text was worded in a very ambiguous way," said Alan Keenan, Sri Lanka analyst at the International Crisis Group.
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| Families divided, residents flee from Afghan city under siege | |  Just before dawn on Monday, the residents of the northern Afghan city of Kunduz awoke to the crack of gunfire, as Taliban fighters fought their way into the city from three sides. Others still mourned relatives killed in the Taliban's most audacious offensive on a city centre since the Islamist militant movement was ousted from power in 2001. "My mother-in-law peeked from behind a wall to see what was going on and was shot in the head and died," said a Reuters eyewitness who was in his home in Kunduz when the fighting erupted at around 3 a.m. "It was mayhem and people did not know what to do." Normal life was suspended as most shops remained shuttered, government officials fled to the airport and dozens of United Nations staff were evacuated from close to the city centre.
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| Envoys in Bangladesh limit movements after Islamic State claims attack | | | By Ruma Paul DHAKA (Reuters) - Western embassies in Bangladesh have restricted their diplomats' movements amid concern more foreigners would be targeted after an Italian was shot dead in the first attack in the country claimed by Islamic State. Police in the Bangladeshi capital arrested two suspected recruiters for Islamic State this year. Attacks on foreigners are rare in Bangladesh, despite a rising tide of Islamist violence over the past year that has seen four online critics of religious militancy hacked to death, among them a U.S. citizen of Bangladesh origin. |
| Former FIFA powerbroker Warner banned for life | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Trinidadian Jack Warner, once one of the most powerful men in world soccer, has been banned from all football-related activities for life, the ethics committee of the global governing body FIFA said on Tuesday. Warner, 72, was one of 14 soccer officials and sports marketing executives indicted in the United States on May 27 on bribery, money laundering and wire fraud charges involving more than $150 million in payments. In the latest twist in the corruption scandal, Swiss authorities said last week they were investigating FIFA President Sepp Blatter on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and misappropriation of funds.
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| "This speeds up procedure" - how Hungary expels migrants | |  By Krisztina Than SZEGED, Hungary (Reuters) - WThe court in the southern Hungarian town of Szeged has shelved other criminal cases and is handing down fast-track verdicts punishing migrants for unlawfully crossing a razor-wire fence that lines the border with Serbia. In the ten days since Sept. 15, when tough new legislation took effect, the Szeged court ruled in 176 cases, sentencing migrants mostly from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq to expulsion from Hungary for crossing the fence. The new law is part of a clamp-down by Prime Minister Viktor Orban's right-wing government aimed at stopping the influx of migrants into Hungary, the first European Union member state in the Schengen zone of passport-free travel.
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