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| ESPN in TV debate invite to FIFA candidates - spokesman | | | U.S. sports television network ESPN has invited the five candidates in the FIFA presidential election to participate in a televised debate over the future of the crisis-hit governing body for world football. "ESPN has invited all five candidates vying for the FIFA presidency to participate in a debate," a network spokesman told Reuters via email on Tuesday. |
| France calls for EU crackdown on fake Syrian passports | | | France has asked the European Union to improve the detection of fake Syrian passports used by people trying to get into Europe after two of the suicide bombers in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks were found carrying such passports. In a letter to the European Commission, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve called on the EU to tighten security by improving the quality of equipment used to check travel documents at external borders, notably in Greece and Italy. |
| Thai military expands its powers with Bangkok 'black site' | |  By Aubrey Belford and Patpicha Tanakasempipat BANGKOK (Reuters) - When Bangkok lawyer Winyat Chatmontree was allowed to meet his client in detention at a Bangkok army base, Pratin Chankate shuffled in blindfolded and shackled by military guards. At their second meeting Pratin, a former police officer charged with plotting to attack senior government officials who was officially in civilian custody, was taken away after five minutes by soldiers, Winyat said. Pratin is detained in a new facility established by the Thai junta to hold people deemed threats to national security, in what lawyers and rights groups say is an unprecedented expansion of the military's control over the criminal justice system.
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| Exclusive - Islamic State ruling aims to settle who can have sex with female slaves | |  By Jonathan Landay, Warren Strobel and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Islamic State theologians have issued an extremely detailed ruling on when "owners" of women enslaved by the extremist group can have sex with them, in an apparent bid to curb what they called violations in the treatment of captured females. The ruling or fatwa has the force of law and appears to go beyond the Islamic State's previous known utterances on slavery, a leading Islamic State scholar said. It sheds new light on how the group is trying to reinterpret centuries-old teachings to justify the rape of women in the swaths of Syria and Iraq it controls.
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| 'Glee' star arrested on suspicion of possessing child porn | |  Actor Mark Salling, star of the hit television show "Glee," was arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of possessing child pornography, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Salling, 33, who played brash high school football player Noah "Puck" Puckerman on the Fox network series about an unlikely school choir, was taken into custody in the Sunland neighbourhood north of Los Angeles, LAPD spokeswoman Liliana Preciado said. Salling was arrested by officers serving search warrants for Internet possession of child pornography, according to the spokeswoman.
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| Texas 'affluenza' teen to be returned to US from Mexico after capture | |  By Marice Richter and Veronica Gomez FORT WORTH, Texas/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A wealthy Texas teen who fled with his mother to Mexico to avoid possible jail time for breaking his probation in a fatal drunken-driving crash was captured by Mexican authorities and was likely to be returned to the United States later on Tuesday. Ethan Couch became known in the United States as the "affluenza" teen during his trial in juvenile court over the deaths of four people in the 2013 crash. Couch has been serving 10 years drug-and-alcohol-free probation for intoxication manslaughter - a sentence that sparked outrage among critics who said he had been lightly punished because of his privilege.
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| Iraq's Abadi plants flag in Ramadi to mark Islamic State defeat | |  By Ahmed Rasheed and Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi planted the national flag in Ramadi on Tuesday after the army retook the city centre from Islamic State a day earlier, a victory that could help vindicate his strategy for rebuilding the military after stunning defeats. If the Anbar provincial capital can be fully secured and re-populated, it would be the first major success for the U.S.-trained force that fled 18 months ago as jihadist Islamic State militants surged through northern and western Iraq. Three mortar rounds landed about 500 meters (0.3 miles) from Abadi's location during his visit, three security sources said.
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| Barclays in $13.75 million U.S. settlement over mutual funds | |  Barclays Plc will pay more than $13.75 million to settle U.S. regulatory charges that it let retail brokerage customers make unsuitable mutual fund transactions, including more than 6,100 fund switches, over a five-year period. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority on Tuesday said the London-based bank's Barclays Capital Inc unit will pay more than $10 million in restitution, including interest, to affected customers, and was fined $3.75 million. Barclays did not admit or deny wrongdoing in agreeing to the settlement, which includes a censure.
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| Swiss police find no explosives at shopping centre after bomb threat | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - No explosives were found at a Swiss shopping centre near the northern city of Basel after a bomb threat, police said on Tuesday evening. The centre in Pratteln, Basel-Landschaft, was evacuated after an anonymous caller threatened to detonate a bomb in an underground garage. The caller sounded male and spoke broken German, police official Roland Walter said. Much of Europe has been on heightened alert since the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed more than 100 people. (Reporting by Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi and Ruben Sprich; Editing by Ruth Pitchford) |
| British couple convicted of preparing London attack | | | A British couple were convicted on Tuesday of plotting an attack in London after the husband sent out tweets asking for advice on which targets he should hit, alerting police to a stockpile of chemicals at their home. Mohammed Rehman, 25, and Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, were found guilty by a jury at the Central Criminal Court of engaging in the preparation of terrorist acts, with a view to hitting either a large shopping centre in the capital or the London underground network. Any advice would be appreciated greatly," Rehman said on Twitter, under the name "Silent Bomber". |
| Russia names Boris Nemtsov murder mastermind, allies see cover-up | |  By Andrew Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian police named a Chechen man as the alleged mastermind behind the high-profile murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, but the dead politician's supporters said he was only a low-level figure and that a cover-up was underway. Nemtsov, one of President Vladimir Putin's most vocal critics, was shot dead on Feb 27 as he walked across a bridge near the Kremlin. Police investigators said on Tuesday they planned to charge five men with his contract killing including the suspected trigger man, Zaur Dadayev, a former soldier in Chechnya, who initially confessed to the murder before recanting, saying he had been put under pressure.
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| Burkina Faso's first new leader in decades sworn in | |  By Mathieu Bonkoungou OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Burkina Faso's constitutional court swore in Roch Marc Kabore as president on Tuesday, making the former prime minister the country's first new leader in almost 30 years following his election last month. The ceremony at an indoor stadium in the capital marks a pivotal moment in a democratic transition in the West African country after veteran leader Blaise Compaore was overthrown in a popular uprising in October 2014. Most of the country's leaders since independence from France in 1960 have come to power through coups, including Compaore in 1987 and his predecessor Thomas Sankara four years earlier.
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