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| Sexwale "open to negotiations and alliances" in FIFA presidential vote | |  By Mark Gleeson CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - South African FIFA presidential candidate Tokyo Sexwale said on Monday he is a realist who is "open to negotiations and alliances" ahead of Friday's vote in Zurich. Sexwale, whose campaign has failed to gain traction, is the first candidate in the process to suggest he could be interested in striking a deal. The millionaire businessman is up against Asian Football Confederation president Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, former FIFA deputy general secretary Jerome Champagne, Jordanian Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein and UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino in the race to lead world soccer's governing body.
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| Syria government, IS commit crimes against humanity - U.N.-backed inquiry | |  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - War crimes in Syria's five-year-old conflict are widespread and Syrian government forces and Islamic State militants continue to commit crimes against humanity in the face of inaction by the international community, a U.N.-backed panel said on Monday. "Flagrant violations of human rights and international humanitarian law continue unabated, aggravated by blatant impunity," the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry said in its latest report. "Crimes against humanity continue to be committed by government forces and by ISIS (Islamic State).
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| On the border, Austria takes migrant fingerprints, then discards them | |  By Shadia Nasralla and Gabriela Baczynska SPIELFELD, Austria/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - On the Austrian-Slovenia border, one of the last stops on the migrant route to Germany, a policeman explains that after his 12-hour shift taking new arrivals' fingerprints, most are lost minutes after they are taken. "We are not allowed to save the fingerprints," the Austrian policeman, who wanted to remain anonymous, said as he sat in a tent at the Spielfeld border crossing. "We do what we're asked to do." Austria, which saw 700,000 migrants crossing its borders last year, says it is not legally allowed to save and share with other European states more than 90 percent of the fingerprint data it takes of migrants fleeing war and poverty, a potential security problem at a major migrant hub.
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| Notorious Canada serial killer pens book, sparks outrage | | | One of Canada's most infamous serial killers, Robert Pickton, who was convicted in 2007 of killing drug addicts and prostitutes and butchering their remains at his pig farm, has released a book proclaiming his innocence. The book, published on January 29 and available through the online retailer Amazon.com Inc, is listed as a personal memoir by Pickton, 66, who is serving a life sentence at a prison in the Canadian province of British Columbia. Calling himself "the fall guy" on the book's jacket, Pickton notes he is accused of murdering "between 6 and 49 women" and is finally telling his story. |
| UK's Cameron tries to sell EU deal after London mayor backs Brexit | |  By Michael Holden and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron will try to sell his case for Britain staying in the European Union to parliament on Monday facing hostility from his own lawmakers and a plunging pound after London's mayor threw his support behind the exit campaign. Boris Johnson, one of Britain's most popular politicians, announced on Sunday he supported leaving the bloc, dealing a blow to Cameron who vowed to campaign to stay in after striking a deal to reform Britain's ties with the EU last week.
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| Iranian film-maker loses appeal amid pre-vote crackdown | | | By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin DUBAI (Reuters) - An Iranian film-maker convicted of insulting the Islamic Republic has lost his appeal and now faces jail and lashing, a source said on Monday, as an apparent crackdown on artists and writers intensified ahead of elections this week. Keywan Karimi, 30, was found guilty last year of "insulting the sacred and spreading propaganda" in a documentary about political graffiti in Tehran called "Writing On The City". An appeals court this week confirmed Karimi's six-year sentence, suspending five of them, and condemned him to 223 lashes and a fine for "shaking hands with women and drinking alcoholic drinks," a source close to the issue said. |
| German government condemns anti-migrant protests in Saxony | |  By Tina Bellon BERLIN (Reuters) - 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". On Thursday night about 100 people blocked entry to a refugee shelter in Clausnitz, a small town in Germany's eastern state of Saxony, with a tractor and two cars, police said. "How cold-hearted, how cowardly 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.
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| Jury selection starts in Erin Andrews' $75 mln stalking lawsuit | |  By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Jury selection began on Monday for a $75 million civil lawsuit by Fox Sports reporter Erin Andrews, who has accused a Nashville hotel of negligence for allowing a stalker to take nude videos of her in her room. Andrews filed the lawsuit in Davidson County Circuit Court after a 2008 incident at the Marriott Nashville at Vanderbilt University in which a man in a neighboring room, David Barrett, rigged peep holes and made videos of Andrews changing clothes. Andrews, who also has appeared on the "Dancing With the Stars" television show, was staying at the hotel while covering a Vanderbilt football game when she worked for ESPN.
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| Lawyer for alleged Cosby victims to ask wife about relationship | |  A lawyer for seven women who have accused Bill Cosby of sexual assault said on Monday he planned to ask the comedian's wife about the couple's relationship in a deposition for his clients' defamation lawsuit. The deposition of Camille Cosby, who has been married to the entertainer for 52 years and manages his business, was set to go forward at a Marriott hotel in Springfield, Massachusetts, despite a last-minute plea by the couple's lawyers to spare her from answering questions in the closed-door session. Plaintiff's lawyer Joseph Cammarata told reporters he intended to "vindicate our clients' interests" after a morning hearing at U.S. District Court in Springfield, where a judge ruled that the deposition would go ahead.
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| U.S. businessman jailed in Iran breaks hunger strike - mother | |  An American businessman jailed in Iran since October has broken his hunger strike, his mother wrote on social media on Monday. Siamak Namazi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen, was detained in Iran in October while visiting family. Namazi's mother, Effie Namazi, wrote in a Facebook post from Iran on Saturday that she had been unable to meet with her son for some time and had heard through his cellmate's family that he had undertaken a hunger strike.
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| Wenger labels coin-throwing fans a disgrace | |  Arsene Wenger said some English soccer fans feel they can get away with anything inside stadiums when asked for his thoughts on recent coin-throwing incidents on Monday. Last weekend's FA Cup ties at Reading and Chelsea were marred by coins being thrown at players, scenes that Wenger described as disgraceful. "For years, people in the stands feel they can get away with everything," Wenger told reporters at a news conference ahead of the first leg of Tuesday's Champions League last-16 tie with Barcelona.
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| People-smuggling gangs net 6 billion euros in migrant traffic to Europe - Europol | |  People-smuggling gangs netted up to 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) last year, most of it from the traffic of migrants into Europe, the European Union's police agency Europol said in a report issued on Monday. Labelling people-smuggling as the "fastest growing criminal market in Europe", the report said: "This turnover (of 6 billion euros) is set to double or triple if the scale of the current migration crisis persists in the upcoming year." Europol and police forces in countries in Europe and beyond have identified more than 12,000 suspects active in gangs involved in smuggling in migrants since 2015.
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| Ugandan opposition leader arrested as election outcry grows | |  Police arrested Uganda's main opposition leader, Kizza Besigye, for the fourth time in eight days on Monday, after an election that the United States and European Union have criticised and the opposition reject as fraudulent. Police also stormed Besigye's Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party headquarters and arrested eight people, one member said, two days after President Yoweri Museveni, 71 and in power for 30 years, was declared the winner of the Feb. 18 vote. The EU observer mission said the vote had been conducted in an "intimidating" atmosphere and United States has voiced concerns about the frequent arrests of Besigye.
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| Jats call off protests after winning jobs promise | |  By Rupam Jain and Douglas Busvine BAHADURGARH, India/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Leaders of the Jat community reached a deal late on Monday to end protests that paralysed Haryana and cut water supplies to Delhi's 20 million residents, after winning a pledge of more government jobs. Days of rioting and looting across Haryana by the Jat community had challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi's promise of better days for Indians who elected him in 2014 with the largest majority in three decades. A Jat leader said protesters had reached a deal with state and central government leaders to end their mobilisation, in which 16 people have been killed and more than 150 injured.
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| Brexit would make UK counter-terrorism job harder - Europol | |  By Thomas Escritt THE HAGUE (Reuters) - British police would find it harder to protect citizens from militant attacks and organised crime if it left the European Union, the head of Europol said on Monday, countering a claim to the contrary by a leading British eurosceptic. Intelligence sharing capacity would need to be replaced if Britons voted to leave in a June referendum, Rob Wainwright, director of the EU-wide police body, said. "If you take that infrastructure that they (British police) have helped to design over the past 40 years, it would make the United Kingdom's job harder to protect citizens from terror," he said.
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| Assange ask Swedish court to overturn arrest warrant | |  Lawyers for Julian Assange have asked a Swedish court to overturn an arrest warrant for the Wikileaks founder following a ruling by a U.N. panel that his stay in Ecuador's London embassy amounts to arbitrary detention. Assange, 44, took refuge at the embassy in June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations, which he denies, that he committed rape in 2010. "We consider that there have arisen a number of new circumstances which mean there is reason to review the earlier decision," Thomas Olsson, one of Assange's lawyers, said on Monday.
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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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