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| Exclusive: CONCACAF lawyers warn of serious risks if reforms fail | | | By Simon Evans MIAMI (Reuters) - CONCACAF, the corruption-plagued football organisation for North and Central America and the Caribbean, could face dramatic consequences, including being disbanded, if it fails to reform, the organisation's lawyers have told its members. Miami-based CONCACAF, one of the six confederations within FIFA, has been at the centre of the FIFA scandal which has seen 41 individual and entities indicted by the U.S. Department of Justice. The last three presidents of CONCACAF are among those who have been indicted along with former general secretary, American Chuck Blazer. |
| For veteran Turkish smuggler, only an army could stop migrant flow | |  By Dasha Afanasieva IZMIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Demand has never been higher for the services of Turkish smuggler Dursun, who has taken migrants to Europe for more than decade, and he says nothing short of an army could stamp out his illicit trade. The EU is counting on Ankara to stem the flow of migrants to Europe after more than a million arrived last year, mainly illegally by sea from Turkey, in the continent's worst migration crisis since World War Two. NATO sent ships to the Aegean on Thursday to help Turkey and Greece stop criminal networks smuggling migrants.
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| Italy sends more troops to Naples after jump in killings | | | The Italian government sent 250 more troops to Naples on Monday to help fight an upsurge of violence in the crime-plagued city. Local police are struggling to bring order to the Naples area, where 12 people have been killed this year in murders linked to a mob turf war. "From today, 250 soldiers will take part in high-impact operations in Naples," Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said in a statement. |
| U.N. alarmed at attacks on Syria hospitals, schools; nearly 50 dead | |  UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday voiced alarm at reports of deadly attacks on Syrian schools and hospitals, including a medical center run by the humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders (MSF), a U.N. spokesman said. "The secretary-general is deeply concerned by reports of missile attacks on at least five medical facilities and two schools in Aleppo and in Idlib, which killed close to 50 civilians, including children, and injuring many," said U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq. "Such attacks are a blatant violation of international laws," he added. ...
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| Province in Muslim Pakistan passes landmark Hindu marriage bill | |  By Syed Raza Hassan KARACHI, Pakistan(Reuters) - Pakistan's southern province of Sindh on Monday became the country's first region to give its small Hindu minority the right to register their marriages officially. Non-Muslims make up only about three percent of the 190 million population of Pakistan, which was founded as a haven for the sub-continent's Muslims on independence from the British in 1947 with a promise of religious freedom to minorities. Christians, the other main religious minority, have a British law dating back to 1870 regulating their marriages.
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| Turkey, Israel close to deal on compensation over Mavi Marmara - Turkish official | |  Turkey and Israel are close to signing an agreement on compensation for the killing of 10 Turkish activists by Israeli commandos in 2010, a Turkish ruling party official said on Monday. The former allies have stepped up efforts in recent months to restore a relationship that was severely damaged following the Israeli raid on a Turkish boat, the Mavi Marmara, which had been trying to breach a blockade on the Gaza Strip. Turkey has insisted there can be no normalisation in ties with Israel unless its conditions for ending the Gaza blockade and compensation for the deaths of the activists are met.
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| Pakistani university reopens after attack; teachers allowed guns | |  The university in northwest Pakistan where Taliban gunmen killed at least 20 people last month reopened for classes on Monday with teachers - but not students - allowed to carry weapons. Pakistani Taliban militants have threatened more assaults on schools and universities since the Jan. 20 attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, fueling a growing sense of insecurity in the country. The attack had reminded Pakistanis of the horrors that took place a little over a year earlier, when militants massacred 134 pupils at an army school just 19 miles (31 km) away, in Peshawar, the main city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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| U.N. experts condemn trial of foreign nationals in the UAE, call for release | | | U.N. human rights experts urged the United Arab Emirates on Monday to release several foreign nationals whom they said had been detained arbitrarily, tortured and forced to sign confessions. "The arbitrary nature of their detention was confirmed by the UN Working Group on Arbitrary detention in a recent decision and we called on the Emirati authorities to release them without delay," human rights expert Seong-Phil Hong, who heads the panel, said in the statement. UAE authorities could not be contacted for comment. |
| Cameron seeks French, EU help on deal, avoids Farage | |  By Elizabeth Pineau and Kylie MacLellan PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - David Cameron embarks on a final push for support in Europe for a deal to help keep Britain in the EU when he meets French President Francois Hollande on Monday and then leaders of a wary European Parliament in Brussels. Two weeks after a draft accord won initial backing from fellow national leaders who will try to iron out remaining differences with the British prime minister at a summit on Thursday, Tuesday's meeting with EU lawmakers highlights some of the risks of political turbulence before a British referendum. Not only was a plan to meet leaders of all the European Parliament's party blocs cancelled -- allowing Cameron to avoid a confrontation with his eurosceptic arch critic Nigel Farage -- but the need for the assembly's approval of key elements raised questions about how binding any summit agreement will be.
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| Turkmenistan drafts new constitution extending presidential term | |  A commission led by Turkmen President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has drafted a new constitution which extends the presidential term to seven years from five and removes the upper age limit on candidates for presidency. The move solidifies Berdymukhamedov's already sweeping powers at a time when the gas-rich Central Asian nation is suffering from a sharp drop in export revenues. Turkmenistan's rubber stamp parliament may pass the new constitution, published by main state newspaper Neutral Turkmenistan on Monday for national discussion, later this year.
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| Investigator asks U.N. to notify N.Korea's Kim of possible probe for crimes against humanity | |  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - A U.N. expert on human rights in North Korea has asked the United Nations to officially notify North Korean leader Kim Jong Un that he may be investigated for crimes against humanity. A landmark 2014 report on North Korean human rights, co-authored by Marzuki Darusman, concluded that North Korean security chiefs and possibly Kim himself should face justice for overseeing a system of Nazi-style atrocities.
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| Several wounded in clashes between Ugandan police and opposition - Reuters witness | | | Several people were wounded in battles between police and supporters of Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye in the capital Kampala on Monday, a witness and an opposition official said. A Reuters photographer saw police fire bullets and teargas while opposition supporters hurled rocks and erected barricades in the streets around the Wandegeya suburb. "I have seen many people on the road bleeding profusely, the situation is still very tense," added Ingrid Turinawe, a senior official from Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party. |
| Samarra's Sunnis fear displacement a decade after Iraq shrine attack | |  By Stephen Kalin and Kareem Raheem SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Sunlight once again glints off the golden dome of one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines, almost fully restored 10 years after suspected al Qaeda militants blew it up in northern Iraq. The shrine's destruction on February 22, 2006 sparked a wave of revenge attacks that killed tens of thousand of people and plunged Iraq into a sectarian civil war. In the attack, gunmen in police uniforms burst into the shrine, tied up guards and planted explosives that brought down its 100-year-old dome, one of the Muslim world's biggest and best known.
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| Bulgaria charges three Syrians with trying to join Islamic State | | | Bulgarian prosecutors have charged three Syrians with attempting to join Islamic State militant group after border patrols arrested them as they tried to enter Turkey from Bulgaria, the interior ministry said on Monday. The three Syrians, who had refugee status from Germany, had already made one unsuccessful attempt to enter Turkey through Greece earlier this year, the ministry said. "During operational activities their affiliation to Islamic State has been established, as well as their intention to join the terrorist group," the ministry said in a statement. |
| Pope heads to Mexico's indigenous south as Catholic fervor fades | |  By Philip Pullella and Joanna Zuckerman Bernstein SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (Reuters) - Pope Francis travels on Monday to Mexico's poor, indigenous south, which has fallen far behind wealthier parts of the country and where he will authorize the use of native languages for Mass in a bid to stem a tide of Protestant conversions. Mired in poverty and plagued by rising insecurity, the state of Chiapas was the scene of the Zapatista uprising of Maya rebels in the 1990s. It is now the frontline of a government crackdown on illegal immigration to the United States from Central America.
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