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| Religious leaders in India - home to half world's slaves - vow to end slavery | |  By Nita Bhalla NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Indian religious leaders vowed on Thursday to use their influence to end modern slavery, saying the exploitation, abuse and confinement of millions of men, women and children around the world was a "crime against God". Hindu, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Jain and Baha'i leaders and representatives signed a declaration, organised by the Australia-based Global Freedom Network, pledging to help eradicate slavery and human trafficking by 2020. Some 16 million slaves - nearly half the global total of around 36 million - live in India, according to a survey by the Walk Free Foundation, a sister organisation of the Network.
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| Ex-soccer official from Panama among new FIFA defendants - sources | | | U.S. prosecutors are charging ex-soccer official Ariel Alvarado of Panama in the next stage of their sweeping criminal case over allegations of corruption in the sport, sources familiar with the matter said. Alvarado led Panama's soccer federation from 2000 to 2011 and served on the executive committee of CONCACAF, which administers soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean. U.S. authorities will name 16 new defendants in an indictment set to be unveiled on Thursday by the U.S. Department of Justice, a law enforcement source said. |
| Leaving behind baby and bombs, couple sows panic in California | |  By Tim Reid and Dan Whitcomb SAN BERNARDINO, Calif./NEW YORK (Reuters) - On Wednesday morning, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, dropped off their six-month-old baby with Farook's mother, saying they were going to a doctor's appointment. By noon, the couple had donned assault clothing, armed themselves with rifles and stormed a holiday party attended by San Bernardino County employees, killing 14 people and wounding 17 others. Syed Farook, born in the United States, worked as an environmental health specialist for San Bernardino County, inspecting restaurants for health violations, according to authorities and a website that tracks public employees.
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| Authorities seek motive for couple's California rampage that killed 14 | |  By Tim Reid SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Authorities on Thursday worked to determine why a man and a woman opened fire at a holiday party of his co-workers in Southern California, killing 14 people and wounding 17 in what appeared to be a planned attack. Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and Tashfeen Malik, 27, who had a 6-month-old daughter together, were killed in a shootout with police after Wednesday's mass shooting at the Inland Regional Center in the city of San Bernardino, a social services agency where Farook worked as an inspector. Officials from San Bernardino Police Chief Jarrod Burguan to President Barack Obama said the attack may have been an act of terrorism but that a motive had not yet been determined.
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| Obama says motive for California shooting not yet clear | |  By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday that investigators do not yet know why two suspects killed 14 people and wounded 17 others in a mass shooting in Southern California, but vowed that the FBI and law enforcement would "get to the bottom of this." "It is possible that this was terrorist-related. It is also possible that this was workplace-related," said Obama, who ordered flags flown at half-staff after the tragedy. The San Bernardino shooting is the latest in a long series of U.S. mass shootings during Obama's seven years in office, and is the deadliest since the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, which he has said was his toughest day as president.
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| Saudi execution of poet would be unlawful - U.N. experts | | | Saudi Arabia must not put Palestinian poet Ashraf Fayadh to death for apostasy this month as it would be "an arbitrary and thus unlawful execution" based on unreliable evidence, U.N. human rights experts said on Thursday. Saudi Arabia's justice system is based on Sharia Islamic law. In the Wahhabi interpretation of Sharia, religious crimes including blasphemy and apostasy, abandoning the Muslim faith, incur the death penalty. |
| Two Americas soccer bosses arrested as FIFA corruption scandal deepens | |  By Joshua Franklin and David Ingram ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Swiss police arrested the two top soccer bosses in the Americas on Thursday on suspicion of taking millions of dollars in bribes linked to television rights, widening a graft probe into world soccer's governing body. Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) named the men as Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, acting president of the CONCACAF region and a FIFA vice president, and Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay, head of the South American soccer federation CONMEBOL. CONCACAF administers soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean.
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| New U.S. indictment in FIFA probe will name 16 people - source | |  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities will name 16 new defendants in an indictment set to be unveiled on Thursday by the U.S. Department of Justice, a law enforcement source said. The source said the individuals were mainly from the Western Hemisphere and that the indictment deals in part with allegations of corruption in the award of broadcast rights for soccer. (Reporting by Mark Hosenball and Mica Rosenberg; editing by Grant McCool)
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| The hunt for the Paris attackers | |  France and Belgium are hunting suspects after the shootings and bombings on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people and injured hundreds at a concert hall, soccer stadium, bars and restaurants across Paris. Investigations are centred on fugitive Salah Abdeslam, who police think may be an assailant referred to in an Islamic State statement claiming responsibility for the attacks. Seven assailants died during the attacks: three at the Bataclan concert hall, three outside the Stade de France stadium and one of three gunmen involved in the cafe shootings.
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| Lebanon's Hariri upbeat about end to presidential crisis | |  Leading Lebanese politician Saad al-Hariri said on Thursday there was "great hope" for ending the country's 18-month presidential vacuum after he proposed a power-sharing deal that would give the post to a political rival. The proposal, widely discussed by politicians in Lebanon but yet to be announced formally, would make Maronite Christian politician Suleiman Franjieh president and Hariri, a Sunni Muslim, prime minister. Speaking in France after a meeting with President Francois Hollande, Hariri said there was "great hope" for ending the paralysis that arose from the failure of rival politicians to agree on who should fill the presidency.
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| Factbox: The latest soccer officials charged in FIFA probe | |  Swiss police on Thursday arrested two more FIFA officials on suspicion of taking millions of dollars in bribes linked to television rights, widening a graft probe into world soccer's governing body. The two men, arrested at the behest of U.S. authorities, join 14 other officials and sports marketing executives already charged by the U.S. Department of Justice with paying and taking bribes. * Alfredo Hawit is the acting president of CONCACAF, the regional body that oversees soccer in North and Central America and the Caribbean.
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| Britain joins Syria air war; Putin vows more sanctions on Turkey | |  By Guy Faulconbridge and Andrew Osborn LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Britain joined air strikes on Syria on Thursday in a show of European solidarity against Islamic State, but Vladimir Putin issued bitter new denunciations of Turkey for shooting down a Russian plane, demonstrating the world's lack of unity. British Tornado jets took off from the Royal Air Force base at Akrotiri in Cyprus before dawn on Thursday, hours after the British parliament voted 397-223 to support Prime Minister David Cameron's plan to extend air strikes from Iraq to Syria.
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| Belgium holds two on suspicion of links to Paris attacks | |  Belgium is holding two suspects on suspicion of participating in terrorist activities, prosecutors said on Thursday, bringing the number of people it has charged over links to the Paris attacks to eight. The federal prosecutor's office said in a statement that French national Samir Z., born in 1995, had been detained at Brussels airport on Sunday as he was boarding a plane bound for Morocco. Prosecutors said he is suspected of having attempted to go to Syria at least twice in 2015 and is considered to be part of the entourage of Bilal Hadfi, one of the Paris suicide bombers who had been living in Belgium.
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| FIFA says executive board unanimously approves reforms | |  ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA said on Thursday its executive committee had unanimously approved reforms to improve the global soccer body's governance structure. Among the proposals are term limits for senior officials including the president and a separation of political and management functions. The crisis surrounding scandal-plagued FIFA deepened on Thursday when Swiss police arrested on U.S. warrants two more FIFA officials suspected of taking bribes. (Reporting by Joshua Franklin; Editing by Michael Shields)
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| Three jailed for murdering young woman in case that shocked Turkey | |  The murder of 20-year-old Ozgecan Aslan last February shocked Turkey, drawing public protests and prompting President Tayyip Erdogan to describe violence against women as the nation's "bleeding wound". A lawyer for Aslan's family, Efkan Bolac, said the ruling should serve as a precedent in a country where courts are often accused by rights groups of being too soft on men who kill women. Media reports say more than 300 women have been killed in Turkey this year alone, usually by their husbands, boyfriends, or other family members.
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| Air strikes alone won't defeat Islamic State, Kerry warns | |  By Arshad Mohammed BELGRADE (Reuters) - Syrian and Arab ground forces must be found to take on Islamic State, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday, warning the militant group would not be defeated by air strikes alone. Kerry was speaking hours after Britain launched bombing raids against Islamic State targets in Syria, joining forces with France and the United States nearly three weeks after the jihadist group killed 130 people in attacks across Paris. British Prime Minister David Cameron says there are as many as 70,000 moderate opposition fighters in Syria ready to take on Islamic State with the help of foreign air strikes, an assertion opponents of the bombing campaign have questioned.
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| Swiss name CONCACAF's Hawit, CONMEBOL's Napout as arrested FIFA officials | |  Switzerland's Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) named Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, acting president of CONCACAF, and Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay, the head of CONMEBOL, as the two FIFA officials arrested in Zurich on Thursday. "The two FIFA officials arrested in Zurich on the instructions of the Federal Office of Justice were today also given hearings by the Zurich cantonal police on the U.S. arrest requests," the FOJ said in a statement.
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