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| Pope courts indigenous Mexicans as Catholic fervour fades | |  By Philip Pullella and Joanna Zuckerman Bernstein SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico (Reuters) - Pope Francis embraced the people of Mexico's poor indigenous south on Monday, denouncing their "systemic" exclusion from society and encouraging the use of native languages in Catholic worship in a bid to stem a tide of Protestant conversions. Preaching to a packed crowd at a sports ground in the southern state of Chiapas, the pope quoted the Popol Vuh, a sacred Maya text, and drew comparisons between Catholic and indigenous values. "You have much to teach us," he said, lauding Mexico's native peoples while denouncing "the systemic and organised way your people have been misunderstood and excluded from society." He said the Mass before a Hollywood-style stage set replica of the facade of the colonial-era city's main cathedral.
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| Egyptian investigator in Italian's death has prior conviction linked to torture - security, judicial sources | |  By Haitham Ahmed and Ahmed Mohammed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) - A senior Egyptian police officer investigating the death of Italian student Giulio Regeni has a prior conviction in connection with the torture and killing of a detainee, according to judicial and security sources and a court document shared by rights groups. Regeni, 28, disappeared on Jan. 25, the fifth anniversary of the 2011 uprising that ended President Hosni Mubarak's 30-year rule. Khaled Shalaby, now head of Criminal Investigations in Giza, and three others were charged in 2000 with torturing and killing a detainee inside a police station in Alexandria, according to the sources and the court document.
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| Platini says hopes to be back at UEFA for Euro 2016 | |  By Cecile Mantovani and and Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Banned UEFA president Michel Platini said he hoped to clear his name in time for the 2016 European Championship football tournament in June after attending a hearing on Monday to appeal against his suspension. Platini was banned for eight years in December along with FIFA president Sepp Blatter over a payment of two million Swiss francs ($2.03 million) made to the Frenchman in 2011 by FIFA with Blatter's approval for work done a decade earlier. "It's been a very good hearing, very well conducted, with people who have been sincere," Platini said after the hearing by FIFA's Appeal Committee.
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| Hollande tells Cameron still work to be done on EU deal | |  By Elizabeth Pineau and Kylie MacLellan PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande reckons there is work still to be done to secure a deal at a European Union summit this week to help keep Britain in the EU, a presidency source said after a visit by British Prime Minister David Cameron. On a final push to rally support in Europe before Thursday's summit in Brussels, which could sway Britons voting in a referendum to stay or leave the EU, Cameron met Hollande for an hour and will meet members of a wary European Parliament on Tuesday. "There's a political will to conclude in Brussels," the French presidency source said.
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| Four U.S. journalists detained in Bahrain - journalists group | |  DUBAI/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. journalist and three members of her camera crew were detained in Bahrain on Sunday, Reporters Without Borders said on Monday, urging Bahrain to release the four American citizens "rapidly and without harm." In a statement, the group described Anna Day and her three colleagues as experienced journalists, who had most recently worked on virtual reality documentaries in Egypt and Gaza. Bahrain's interior ministry said in a statement the four were "suspected of offences including entering Bahrain illegally having submitted false information to border staff, and participating in an unlawful gathering." The U.S. State Department said it was aware of reports that U.S. citizens had been arrested but declined further comment.
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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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