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- FIFA ethics committee bans Valcke for 12 years
- Student tortured and killed in Egypt given funeral at home in Italy
- Three Iraqi presidential guards kidnapped near northern town - sources
- Indian children trafficked to United States is a reality, says U.S. diplomat
- Two shot at Arizona high school, police say
- If ribs visible, you were candidate for crematorium, Auschwitz survivor tells Nazi trial
- Moscow court rejects lawsuit against Putin from Kremlin critic Navalny - RIA
- Factbox - Athletes risk stiff jail terms, large fines under draft Kenyan anti-doping bill
- EXCLUSIVE - Kenyan anti-doping law to impose stiff jail terms, heavy fines
- Entertainer Rolf Harris to face further sex crime charges
- New app helps young Iranians avoid "morality police"
- Britain says missing Hong Kong bookseller "involuntarily removed" to China
- Pachauri expected to be charged over sexual harassment, court hears
- Suspected militants kill 3 in mortar attack on U.N. base in Mali
- Pakistan says no "organised presence" of Islamic State, despite intelligence chief's warning
- Supreme Court says Gandhis need to face trial in graft case
- Three dead, 30 wounded in Islamist attack on U.N. base in Mali
- In Myanmar, political mood sours as transition talks hit a snag
| FIFA ethics committee bans Valcke for 12 years | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Former FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke became the latest high-profile soccer official to be kicked out of the sport when he was banned for 12 years on Friday after causing "considerable financial damage" to it's scandal-plagued governing body. Valcke was found guilty by FIFA ethics judge Hans-Joachim Eckert of misconduct over the sale of World Cup tickets, abuse of travel expenses, attempting to sell TV rights below their market value and destruction of evidence. "Valcke acted against FIFA's best interests and caused considerable financial damage to FIFA, while his private and personal interests detracted him from his ability to properly perform his duties as the Secretary General of FIFA," said FIFA's ethics committee in a statement.
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| Student tortured and killed in Egypt given funeral at home in Italy | | | An Italian student who was tortured and found dead in Egypt last week was given a funeral in his hometown on Friday and Italy's prime minister once again insisted that those responsible be caught and punished. Crowds of mourners attended the funeral in Fiumicello, northern Italy, for Giulio Regeni, 28, whose body was found half-naked by a road in Cairo. The service was held in a municipal gym after Regeni's family declined a state funeral, Italian media said. |
| Three Iraqi presidential guards kidnapped near northern town - sources | | | Three members of Iraq's presidential guard were kidnapped on Friday near a checkpoint run by Shi'ite militiamen close to the northern district of Tuz Khurmatu, police and a local official said. Four other people, including a government employee, were killed in separate incidents, the police said, in and around the district - about 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad - where violence has flared in recent months. Kurdish and Shi'ite Turkmen paramilitary forces have been uncomfortable allies against Islamic State since driving the ultra-hardline Sunni militants out of towns and villages in the area in 2014 with the support of U.S.-led airstrikes. |
| Indian children trafficked to United States is a reality, says U.S. diplomat | | | By Nita Bhalla SILIGURI, India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Cases of Indian children being smuggled to the United States are a reality, a U.S. diplomat said on Friday, reacting to a media report that police had busted an international child trafficking racket operating in the southern city of Bengaluru. Police on Tuesday said they had arrested 16 members of a gang suspected of sending at least 25 children from the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat illegally to the United States using fake documents in order to acquire visas. Craig L. Hall, U.S. Consul General in Kolkata, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation he was not aware of this case as the visas had reportedly been acquired from the U.S. consulate in Chennai but said there had been similar cases in the past. |
| Two shot at Arizona high school, police say | | | Two people were shot at a high school in Glendale, Arizona, a police officer said on Friday, and a media report said one person had died. The police officer declined to provide further details on the incident at Independence High School and a spokeswoman for the police department in a Phoenix suburb could not immediately be reached for comment. Phoenix television station ABC15 reported at least one person had died in the shooting, citing unnamed sources. |
| If ribs visible, you were candidate for crematorium, Auschwitz survivor tells Nazi trial | |  By Elke Ahlswede DETMOLD, Germany (Reuters) - Three survivors spoke on Friday of the smell of burnt bodies and piles of the dead at Nazi Germany's Auschwitz death camp, one of whose former guards stands accused of helping in the murder of at least 170,000 people. "If your ribs were visible, you were a candidate for the crematorium," said Leon Schwarzbaum, a 94-year-old survivor who lost 35 family members during the Holocaust. Hanning, sounding weak, was heard only once in court when asked how he was doing by judge Anke Grudda.
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| Moscow court rejects lawsuit against Putin from Kremlin critic Navalny - RIA | |  A Moscow court has rejected a lawsuit filed against Russian President Vladimir Putin by opposition leader Alexei Navalny, the RIA news agency quoted a spokeswoman for the court as saying on Friday. The suit cited a Reuters investigation which reported that Kirill Shamalov, Putin's son-in-law, is a major shareholder in petrochemicals producer Sibur, which received the funding from Russia's National Wealth Fund at an unusually low interest rate last year. When asked about Navalny's legal action, Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday the Russian leader was unaware of the suit.
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| Factbox - Athletes risk stiff jail terms, large fines under draft Kenyan anti-doping bill | |  Kenyan athletes, sports officials and medics face up to three years in jail or heavy fines if convicting of doping offences under a draft law to be submitted to parliament, according to the official who has overseen the bill. Follows are its main points:- * Anyone found in possession of, stocking or distributing prohibited substances will be liable for a fine of at least 1 million shillings ($9,832.84) or three years in jail. * Anyone who defies a summons, refuses to comply with orders of the anti-doping agency or gives false information to it will be liable for a fine of at least 3 million shillings or at least three years, or both, and forfeiture of their trading licence.
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| EXCLUSIVE - Kenyan anti-doping law to impose stiff jail terms, heavy fines | |  Kenyans convicted of doping offences will face at least three years in prison and heavy fines under a draft law to be submitted to parliament, the chairman of a government-backed anti-doping task force told Reuters. Under the bill, anyone caught possessing, stockpiling or distributing banned substances could instead be fined up to 1 million shillings ($9,830), more than seven times average per capita income in Kenya. "All sports bodies were taken through it and their comments noted," Moni Wekesa, who chairs the National Task Force of Anti-Doping, told Reuters.
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| Entertainer Rolf Harris to face further sex crime charges | |  Veteran entertainer Rolf Harris, currently serving a six-year jail term for child sex crimes, is to be charged with seven more indecent assault offences dating back 45 years, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Friday. Harris, a household name in his native Australia and adopted home Britain, was jailed in 2014 for repeatedly abusing young girls over decades when he was a popular host on children's television. The CPS said they had decided to take further action after police had gathered more evidence.
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| New app helps young Iranians avoid "morality police" | |  By Sam Wilkin DUBAI (Reuters) - A new smartphone application that helps Iranians dodge the Islamic Republic's "morality police" is proving popular with the young, tech-savvy population but has quickly fallen foul of the authorities. The Gershad app allows users who spot checkpoints set up by the morality police, who enforce Islamic dress and behaviour codes, to tag their location on a Google map with an icon of a bearded man, enabling others to steer clear of them. The app was blocked by the authorities soon after it was released for Android devices on Monday but many Iranians bypass Internet restrictions by using a Virtual Private Network.
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| Britain says missing Hong Kong bookseller "involuntarily removed" to China | |  By James Pomfret HONG KONG (Reuters) - Britain said on Friday a missing Hong Kong seller of gossipy books on China's leaders had likely been "involuntarily removed" to China from Hong Kong, constituting a "serious breach" of a longstanding bilateral treaty between the U.K. and China. China's Foreign Ministry condemned the British report as "gesticulation", although it made no direct mention of the missing bookseller. In a six-monthly report to parliament on the state of freedoms in the former British colony, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond wrote that Lee Bo, a British passport holder who disappeared from Hong Kong in late December, was probably taken to China against his will.
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| Pachauri expected to be charged over sexual harassment, court hears | |  By Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Police are expected to charge renowned climate scientist Rajendra K. Pachauri with crimes related to sexual harassment within the next two weeks after a year-long investigation into the case, a Delhi court heard. The former chief of a United Nations climate panel was accused last February of sexual harassment by a 29-year-old researcher working at the Delhi-based think-tank The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) where Pachauri was Director General. Police told the Delhi High Court - which was hearing a plea on Thursday by the woman's lawyer against granting Pachauri anticipatory bail - that their investigation was near completion and they would present a charge sheet within the next 15 days.
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| Suspected militants kill 3 in mortar attack on U.N. base in Mali | | | By Tiemoko Diallo and Adama Diarra BAMAKO (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist militants attacked a U.N. base in the northern Mali town of Kidal with mortars and machine guns on Friday, killing three peacekeepers and wounding 30, United Nations and separatist sources said. The attack is a fresh sign of instability in the desert region that is home to Islamist groups including al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb who have staged increasingly bold raids in recent months and have targeted the U.N. base several times. "At about 7 a.m. (0700 GMT) the MINUSMA base in Kidal was the target of a complex attack which, according to provisional figures, caused the death of three blue helmets and around 30 wounded," Mahamat Saleh Annadif, the Mali representative of the U.N. secretary general, said in a statement. |
| Pakistan says no "organised presence" of Islamic State, despite intelligence chief's warning | |  Different officials in Pakistan's government have taken seemingly contradictory stands on Islamic State's influence in the country, after a rare warning by an intelligence chief that the Middle East-based militant group posed a domestic threat. Reports of stepped-up recruitment by Islamic State and a bloody attack linked to the group last year have stoked fears the movement is gaining momentum in Pakistan, despite the government rejecting its formal presence. The government reasserted its view on Thursday, a day after Intelligence Bureau director general Aftab Sultan told a parliamentary panel that Islamic State was coordinating with militant groups and that hundreds of people had left Pakistan to join its fight in Syria, media reports say.
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| Supreme Court says Gandhis need to face trial in graft case | |  India's Supreme Court said on Friday that opposition leaders Sonia Gandhi and her son, Rahul, will have to face trial in a case involving the alleged misuse of party funds, but exempted them from appearing in court. The two members of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty had approached the top court to throw out the case which their Congress party says is a vendetta carried out by a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling group. Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party are bitterly opposed to the Congress party, leading to a gridlock in parliament where key legislation such as simplifying state taxes is stuck.
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| Three dead, 30 wounded in Islamist attack on U.N. base in Mali | | | BAMAKO (Reuters) - Three U.N. peacekeepers were killed on Friday and 30 others were wounded when a U.N. base in the northern Mali town of Kidal was attacked, Mahamat Saleh Annadif, the Mali representative of the U.N. secretary general, said in a statement. The attack by Islamist militants involved mortar and machine gun fire, a spokesman for a separatist group in northern Mali said earlier. (Reporting by Adama Diarra; Writing by Matthew Mpoke Bigg; Editing by Kevin Liffey) |
| In Myanmar, political mood sours as transition talks hit a snag | |  By Hnin Yadana Zaw NAYPYITAW (Reuters) - The mood of goodwill evident in early talks between Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar's military over the country's transition to democratic government has soured, as tensions rise over how to divide up power and deal with the legacy of junta rule. The apparent stalemate has forced Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) to push back the election by parliament of a new president to March 17, cutting close to the April 1 deadline when the new government is supposed to start its term. The appointment of ex-general Shwe Mann, now a key Suu Kyi ally, to a powerful advisory panel has also stoked mistrust, some say, because his insider knowledge could enable Myanmar's new rulers to delve into the actions of the outgoing government.
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