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| Brazil police sweep targets Rousseff's campaigner, Globo says | | | SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian police on Monday launched a new round of arrests and seizures targeting both the manager of President Dilma Rousseff's successful election campaigns and the country's largest engineering group in the latest stage of nation's worst corruption probe, Globo TV reported. More than 300 officers are conducting searches and arrests in the cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Salvador, the police said in a statement, without elaborating. Globo TV's news morning program said Monday's raids included an arrest warrant for Jõao Santana, Rousseff's campaign manager and who was currently out of the country. |
| Former FIFA official banned for failing to respect earlier ban | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Former FIFA executive committee member Worawi Makudi was banned again on Monday for failing to respect an earlier suspension imposed during an investigation over alleged misconduct, soccer's governing body said. Worawi, who was on the committee in December 2010 when it awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar, has been suspended by FIFA's ethics committee since last October while it conducts the investigation. The ethics committee has not given details of his alleged misconduct and Worawi, the former head of the Football Association of Thailand (FAT), has denied any wrongdoing.
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| Make video testimonies part of India, Bangladesh efforts to curb trafficking - activists | | | By Rina Chandran MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The video testimony of a Bangladeshi trafficking victim rescued from an Indian brothel will help convict her alleged trafficker, and such depositions should become a part of efforts by both countries to curb trafficking, activists and lawyers say. The 24-year-old woman, who was trafficked by her husband and rescued from a Mumbai brothel in 2014, gave her deposition last week by video link from Dhaka. It is probably the first time this was done in a cross-border trafficking case, said lawyer Kalpana Heere in Mumbai. |
| Indian forces kill all militants in Kashmir after 3-day gunbattle | |  A three-day gunbattle in the disputed region of Kashmir ended on Monday when Indian security forces killed two more militants who stormed a government building, a senior police official said. All three militants have been killed," Deputy Inspector General of Police Ghulam Hassan Bhat said. Muslim separatists have been fighting Indian forces in the Indian portion of Kashmir since 1989.
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| Jat protesters keep up blockade; Delhi water restored | |  By Rupam Jain and Douglas Busvine BAHADURGARH, India/DELHI (Reuters) - Rural protesters paralysed Haryana on Monday despite a deal giving them more government jobs, but there was relief for New Delhi's 20 million residents as the army retook control of their main water source. Thousands of troops have been deployed to quell protests, which flared again on Monday near Sonipat as protesters set fire to a freight train. In neighbouring Rajasthan, Jats attacked and burned buses.
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| German government condemns anti-migrant protests in Saxony | |  The German government on Monday denounced anti-refugee protests that took place in eastern Germany, calling the events in which a group of people hindered asylum seekers from getting off a bus to enter a shelter "deeply shameful". "How cold-hearted, how coward one has to be to plant oneself in front of a refugee bus, to swear and to roar in order to scare the people sitting inside, among them several women and children," government spokesman Steffen Seibert said during a regular news conference. On Thursday night a group of about 100 people blocked the entry to a refugee shelter in Clausnitz, a small town in Germany's eastern state Saxony.
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| Ukraine's Eurovision song mourns Moscow purge of Crimean Tatars | |  By Matthias Williams KIEV (Reuters) - A Crimean Tatar who sings about Joseph Stalin's deportation of hundreds of thousands of people from her Black Sea homeland will represent Ukraine at the Eurovision song contest, two years after Russia annexed the territory. After she finished her song "1944" - the year of the mass deportation of Tatars from the Crimean peninsula - Jamala and one of the judges on the panel struggled to hold back tears as they talked about Russia's annexation of Crimea 70 years later.
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