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| Amnesty Int'l declares Cuba graffiti artist a prisoner of conscience | |  By Daniel Trotta HAVANA (Reuters) - Amnesty International on Tuesday declared a Cuban graffiti artist as the country's only prisoner of conscience, demanding the release of a man held for "disrespect of the leaders of the revolution" over a satire of Fidel and Raul Castro. Danilo Maldonado, 32 and known as "El Sexto," has been held since December for painting "Fidel" and "Raul" on the backs of a pair of pigs in apparent reference to former leader Fidel Castro and his brother and current president, Raul Castro, Amnesty said in a statement.
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| U.S. whistleblower Snowden draws crowd with Twitter debut | |  By Bill Trott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Edward Snowden has come in from the cold - on Twitter. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor who leaked details about the U.S. government's massive surveillance programs, started a Twitter account on Tuesday from exile in Russia with a simple handle - @snowden.
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| UEFA chief Platini says FIFA could not pay him on time | | | UEFA president Michel Platini says the nine-year delay in him receiving a two million Swiss francs payment, which is at the centre of a Swiss prosecutor's investigation, was due to FIFA not being able to pay him on time. The prosecutor said Blatter was suspected of a "disloyal payment" of 2 million Swiss francs ($2.05 million) to Platini in 2011 at the expense of FIFA, allegedly made for work performed between January 1999 and June 2002. "I was employed by FIFA as a special advisor to President Sepp Blatter, working on various matters related to football, such as the international football calendar. |
| Tables turned as Platini pushed onto the defensive | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Favourite to win February's FIFA presidential election until the end of last week, Michel Platini is suddenly facing the same doubts and criticism which he has himself cast upon incumbent Sepp Blatter. Platini, head of European soccer's governing body UEFA, has been forced onto the back foot after his name was involved in a transaction which led to Swiss authorities opening criminal proceedings against Blatter on Friday. Although Platini was only interviewed as a witness in the case, he has been criticised over his response while other aspects of his career and personality, which had previously escaped scrutiny, have been brought into the open.
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| Burkina army enters presidential guard camp, coup leader gone | | | By Mathieu Bonkoungou and Nadoun Coulibaly OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso soldiers met little resistance on Tuesday as they entered a presidential guard camp in the capital where members of the elite unit were holding out after a coup, an army officer said. Residents of the Ouaga 2000 district in the capital Ouagadougou said they heard bursts of gunfire in the late afternoon as troops, who had surrounded the base for most of the day, moved in. |
| French court orders seizure of properties tied to Congo president's family | |  French judges have ordered the seizure of properties tied to the family of Republic of Congo's President Denis Sassou Nguesso in an investigation over suspected ill-gotten wealth, a source at the prosecutor's office said on Tuesday. Congo's long-ruling leader Sassou Nguesso, is among a number of African leaders targeted by a long-running French investigation into suspected ill-gotten wealth in France. "The seizures were carried out after a thorough financial investigation that established a direct link with several members of Sassou Nguesso's family," the source told Reuters.
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| U.N. chief demands South Sudan leaders correct 'grave mistakes' | |  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - South Sudan's president and a rebel leader accused each other on Tuesday of violating a ceasefire brokered to end a 21-month conflict in the world's newest state as United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon appealed to them "not to betray and disappoint us." Ban told President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar that now was the time to correct their "grave mistakes." A political dispute between the pair spiralled into a war that has killed thousands and forced two million people to flee. "We are all here to help you, I hope you will not betray and disappoint us," Ban told a meeting on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly in support of a peace deal signed last month. Kiir has been president since independence from Sudan in 2011, and Machar was his deputy until he was dismissed in 2013.
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| Platini 'in between witness and accused person' - Swiss prosecutor | |  By Joshua Franklin ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss authorities are treating UEFA head Michel Platini as somewhere "between a witness and an accused person" in a football corruption probe that was widened last week to include FIFA President Sepp Blatter, Switzerland's attorney general said. Michael Lauber told reporters he did not rule out searching the headquarters of UEFA, the governing body of European football, as part of the investigation. Swiss prosecutors said on Friday they had opened a criminal investigation into Blatter, the long-time head of world football's governing body FIFA, on suspicion of criminal mismanagement and misappropriation of funds.
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| Blatter does not rule out staying beyond February, says confidant | |  By Simon Evans ZURICH (Reuters) - Sepp Blatter has not ruled out trying to stay on as FIFA's president beyond February's scheduled election, despite facing a criminal investigation and a possible internal ethics probe, a close confidant told Reuters on Tuesday. The scenario where Blatter would try to stay on appears far-fetched, and an ethics investigation could lead to his suspension from the game before the election even begins. The Swiss attorney general's office (OAG) opened criminal proceedings against Blatter on Friday, saying he was suspected of making a "disloyal payment" of 2 million Swiss francs ($2.04 million) to Michael Platini.
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| U.S. fails to stop flow of foreign fighters to Islamic State: study | |  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nearly 30,000 foreigners, including more than 250 Americans, have joined Islamic State and other militant groups to fight in Syria and Iraq, double the number a year ago, a congressional study released on Tuesday showed. The United States is doing too little to stop the flow of fighters, according to the six-month study by Republicans and Democrats on the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee. The report called urgently for a nationwide strategy for combating the threat from such fighters, with better information sharing within the United states and internationally.
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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 might 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 from soccer 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. In the biggest corruption scandal to hit the sport, Warner and 13 other soccer officials and sports marketing executives were indicted in the United States on May 27 on bribery, money laundering and wire fraud charges involving more than $150 million in payments. Warner was found to have committed "many and various acts of misconduct continuously and repeatedly during his time as an official in different high-ranking and influential positions at FIFA and CONCACAF," the ethics committee said.
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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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