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| FIFA reform committee strong on platitudes, short on detail | |  By Brian Homewood BERNE (Reuters) - FIFA's latest reform committee produced plenty of platitudes and precious little concrete detail after completing its first meeting in the Swiss capital on Thursday. Chairman Francois Carrard said the committee had enjoyed two days of "intense and fruitful" discussions but failed to provide any insight as to what proposals had been discussed. The meeting added to the sense that the whole process to clean up soccer's governing body has become bogged down in a plethora of committees and task forces and that reform fatigue is starting to creep in.
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| Tamil named as Sri Lankan opposition leader for first time since 1983 | |  Sri Lanka's parliament on Thursday named an ethnic minority Tamil politician as the main opposition leader for the first time in 32 years, a sign of growing reconciliation after a prolonged civil war. The minority Tamils have alleged persecution by the government since the uprising of Tamil Tiger separatists three decades ago.Rajavarothiam Sampanthan, 83, the head of Tamil National Alliance, is the first ethnic minority opposition leader since 1983, when Tamil legislators resigned en masse to protest against a law that compelled them to denounce separatism.Parliament's speaker accepted Sampanthan as the main opposition leader after loyalists to former president Mahinda Rajapaksa were divided on whether they should support the government or go into opposition."We will oppose the government on all issues, where it is in the national interest to do so," Sampanthan told parliament in his debut speech as opposition leader.
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| Hungary police prise migrants from train tracks; dead boy's image shocks Europe | |  By Marton Dunai and Ece Toksabay BICSKE, Hungary/MUGLA, Turkey (Reuters) - Migrants forced from a train threw themselves onto railway lines and scuffled with helmeted riot police in Hungary on Thursday as politicians across Europe struggled to respond to public opinion appalled by images of a drowned 3-year-old boy. France said European countries must be required to accept their share of refugees, proposing what would potentially be the biggest change to the continent's asylum rules since World War Two. Europe's worst refugee crisis since the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s has strained the European Union's asylum system to breaking point, dividing its 28 nations and feeding the rise of right-wing populists.
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| Guatemala's president quits, faces charges in graft scandal | |  By Alexandra Alper and Sofia Menchu GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Guatemalan President Otto Perez has resigned amid a corruption scandal that gutted his government and plunged Guatemala into chaos days before a national election, and turned himself into a court on Thursday to face charges. Perez, a 64-year-old retired general, quit on Wednesday evening and Congress was due to hold an emergency session to hand power to the vice president later on Thursday. "I have submitted to (judicial) processes so that Guatemala can move on and so that there is no violence or bloodshed," Perez said in a local radio interview on Thursday.
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| Pakistan court rejects bid to have deaf-mute Indian woman sent home | |  By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani court on Thursday rejected a petition to send back to India a deaf-mute woman who lost her family when she wandered over one of the world's most militarised borders as a child, saying the two nations should resolve the issue diplomatically. Geeta, a Hindu woman now in her early 20s, was around 11 years old when she inadvertently crossed the border from India to Pakistan. In August, an Indian lawyer filed an application with a Pakistani provincial court through local lawyers, asking that the court invoke a law that allows a judge "to compel restoration of abducted females".
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| Congo militia chief Ntaganda says protected civilians | | | By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Militia leader Bosco Ntaganda, on trial in The Hague on charges of orchestrating rape and murder in a conflict in northeast Congo in the early 2000s, said he was a "revolutionary rebel" trying to restore peace in the province. Accounts of rape and massacres during the fighting have dominated the first two days of his trial, with prosecutors saying Ntaganda gathered a guerrilla army to strengthen his allies and corner the region's mineral resources for himself. "I am not a criminal." Earlier, a lawyer for victims had described how girls as young as 12 were forced to serve as "wives" to senior officers in the UPC or were forced to be sexually available to soldiers. |
| About 10 dead, 100 wounded in twin blasts in northern Cameroon | | | About 10 people were killed and 100 wounded on Thursday when a bomb went off near an army camp in northern Cameroon, where soldiers are battling Boko Haram fighters from Nigeria, army and police sources said. The attacks targeted Kerawa, a town in the Far North region that was the scene of clashes between Boko Haram militants and government soldiers in February. A police official in town told Reuters the same figure, while a local government official gave a provisional toll of six dead and 87 wounded. |
| Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kill 5 villagers in northern Nigeria | | | Gunmen killed at least five villagers in a raid in northern Nigeria's Borno state on Wednesday before being repelled by government troops, military sources said, an attack that bore the hallmarks of Islamist Boko Haram militants. Boko Haram has killed thousands of people and displaced 1.5 million in a six-year-old insurgency to create an Islamic State in Nigeria's northeast. A military source said gunshots rang out in the village of Mainari on Wednesday evening as suspected Boko Haram militants stormed the community. |
| Two Vice News reporters released in southeast Turkey | | | Two Vice News journalists arrested in southeast Turkey on charges of having links to a terrorist organisation have been released, their lawyer and a Turkish government source said on Thursday. A Turkish court freed the two British journalists but ruled to keep their fixer, an Iraqi national, in custody pending investigation after assessing an appeal request from the trio's lawyers. The arrest of the journalists on Monday caused an uproar from rights groups and raised concerns about Ankara's record on press freedoms at a time when Turkey is taking on a bigger role in the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State in Syria and cracking down on Kurdish militants at home. |
| Bomb attacks across Baghdad kill 12 - sources | | | At least 12 people were killed on Thursday in bomb attacks in commercial and residential neighbourhoods across Baghdad, police and medical sources said. Two others were killed and seven wounded in Zaafraniya in southern Baghdad, while a blast in the northern area of Suleikh killed two more. An attack in Baghdad's southern neighbourhood of al-Doura left two others dead and eight wounded. |
| Don't come to "fearful" Europe, Hungary's PM tells migrants | |  By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Refugees should not risk their children's lives trying to reach Europe, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Thursday as he defended his tough approach to border control in a country on the front line of Europe's migration crisis. Asked about an image of a drowned Syrian child on a Turkish beach which has grabbed world attention this week, Orban said on a visit to Brussels that this was not a moral argument for opening Europe's doors. The moral, human thing is to make clear: Please don't come," Orban said.
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| Migrants lay on train tracks in Hungary, seeking passage to west | |  By Marton Dunai BICSKE, Hungary (Reuters) - Migrants threw themselves onto train tracks and fled from police trying to take them to a reception centre in Hungary on Thursday as authorities sought to end a standoff that has become symbolic of a European asylum system brought to breaking point. With the government promising to close the country off to migrants by Sept. 15, chaos broke out after a train bound for Hungary's border with Austria was stopped some 35 kilometres (22 miles) outside of Budapest in the town of Bicske, where Hungary has a migrant reception centre. Riot police ordered them off, but many migrants resisted, laying on the railway line or fleeing.
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