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| Champagne says FIFA rival Infantino's plans are financially "dangerous" | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne has criticised the plans of rival Gianni Infantino as being financially "dangerous" for global soccer's beleaguered ruling body. In a letter to FIFA's 209 member national associations (FAs), who each hold one vote in the election, Champagne suggested that Infantino's plans could add an extra $900 million to FIFA's expenditure over the next four years. FIFA is engulfed by a graft scandal that has led to the indictment of several dozen leading soccer officials in the United States and is under enormous pressure to reform.
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| Uganda's Museveni wins election; opposition cries foul | |  By Edith Honan and Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni extended his 30-year rule on Saturday, winning an election that international observers said lacked transparency and his main opponent, under house arrest, denounced as a sham. One of Africa's longest-serving leaders, Museveni won 60.8 percent of the vote, while opposition candidate Kizza Besigye secured 35.4 percent, according to the electoral commission. "We have just witnessed what must be the most fraudulent electoral process in Uganda," Besigye said in a statement, calling for an independent audit of the results.
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| Two soldiers, one civilian dead in Kashmir militant attack | | | Militants attacked a paramilitary convoy and a government building in India's disputed Kashmir region on Saturday, killing at least two soldiers and a civilian, police said. The militants attacked the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel near Srinagar, Kashmir's capital, before invading the premises of the Entrepreneurship Development Institute, where about 100 people were undergoing a training programme. Thirteen CRPF personnel were injured in the attack, said Syed Javed Mujtaba Geelani, inspector general of police. |
| Factbox - Highlights of EU deal with Britain | |  By Alastair Macdonald BRUSSELS (Reuters) - These are key sections of the deal struck by European Union leaders with David Cameron, on which the prime minister announced he will campaign to maintain British membership of the bloc in a referendum on June 23. INTERNATIONAL TREATY "The Heads of State or Government of the 28 Member States ... whose Governments are signatories of the Treaties on which the Union is founded, desiring to settle, in conformity with the Treaties, certain issues raised by the United Kingdom ... Have agreed on the following Decision:..." This preamble to the four parts of the agreement sets out that it is a binding international treaty among the 28 states, not requiring ratification by referendums and not needing immediate amendments to EU treaties -- something that would also in some states require lengthy and uncertain plebiscites.
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| Three police killed in Pakistan attack, Islamic State suspected | | | Three police officers were killed by unknown assailants in the Pakistani city of Faisalabad on Friday, police said on Saturday, in an incident that is being investigated as a possible attack by Islamic State. The three attackers, who escaped the scene, dropped copies of a pamphlet addressed to security officials which said a regional chapter of the Middle East-based militant group claimed responsibility for "recent attacks on security forces," a senior police official said. "The role of Islamic State cannot be ruled out, though they don't have any known presence in Faisalabad," police chief Afzaal Kausar told Reuters. |
| FIFA rejects demand for transparent voting booths at election | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA has rejected a demand from a presidential candidate to use transparent voting booths at next week's election to ensure delegates do not photograph their ballot papers when they choose the head of soccer's world ruling body. The request came from Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, who said he would take his case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), sport's highest tribunal. Prince Ali wanted to ensure that transparent booths were used at the Feb. 26 election "to safeguard the full transparency of the electoral proceedings", he said in a statement released by his French-based lawyer.
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| Leaders of Nepal and India mend fences after friction | |  The leaders of Nepal and India have overcome mutual misgivings, India's foreign secretary said on Saturday, after talks to ease tensions over Nepal's recently-adopted constitution. Prime Minister K.P. Oli visited New Delhi for talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi after a months-long freeze in relations triggered by the grievances of plains dwellers in southern Nepal who have close historical ties to India. Nepal, which moved from absolute to constitutional monarchy in 1990, made changes to its constitution to ensure greater participation of the Madhesi community in parliament.
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| Two abducted Serbs killed in U.S. Libya raids on Islamic State | | | By Aleksandar Vasovic and Ahmed Elumami BELGRADE/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Two Serbian Embassy staff members abducted in Libya in November were among nearly 50 people killed on Friday in U.S. air strikes on a suspected Islamic State training camp, Serbia's prime minister said. U.S. officials said the site targeted in the strikes in Sabratha, western Libya, was a camp used by up to 60 militants, including Tunisian Noureddine Chouchane, blamed for two attacks on tourists in Tunisia last year in which dozens were killed. Sladjana Stankovic, a Serbian communications officer, and Jovica Stepic, a driver, were taken hostage on Nov. 8 after their diplomatic convoy, including the ambassador, came under fire near Sabratha, a coastal city. |
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