Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has a mixed history with women, with crude remarks mixed with efforts to foster the career of female employees, The New York Times reported.
	The thrice-married Trump, 69, cultivated an image as a womaniser ever since he was in an all-male military school in the 1960s, where he was dubbed a "ladies' man," the Times reported yesterday.
	Critics portray Trump as a misogynist, seeing proof in incidents such as his feud with actress Rosie O'Donnell -- whom he disparaged as a "fat pig" -- and his suggestions that former presidential rival Carly Fiorina's face made her unelectable.
	But the Times, in more than 50 interviews with women associated with Trump over the past four decades, shows a more complex and contradictory image.
	There were unwelcome advances on women and plenty of crude commentary on female bodies, the Times reported.
	But Trump also nurtured the careers of several women within his business organisation.
	Trump has long been in .

Trump has a mixed history with women: report

PTI Automatic

A suicide bomber killed at least 25 Yemeni police recruits in the southeastern port city of Mukalla today, medics said, the second attack this week claimed by the Islamic State group.
	The bomber detonated an explosives belt as he joined a line of men at a police recruitment centre in the city that government forces recaptured last month after a year of Al-Qaeda rule, a provincial official said.
	Sixty people were also wounded in the attack, a medical source said.

Suicide bombing claimed by IS kills 25 Yemen police recruits

Suicide bombing claimed by IS kills 25 Yemen police

Big European banks remain reluctant to work in Iran, four months after the lifting of international sanctions under a landmark nuclear deal with world powers, an Iranian official said today.
	"Major European banks have not yet started their interactions with Iranian banks, but some medium- and small-sized financial institutions have established relations, including opening letters of credit," deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi told state broadcaster IRIB.
	He accused "extremist lobbies" in the US, Israel and Saudi Arabia of stirring up animosity towards Iran to prevent it from reaping the benefits of the landmark nuclear deal signed last July.
	When the agreement came into effect in January, Washington lifted sanctions directly related to Tehran's nuclear programme but it maintained others imposed over its ballistic missile programme and its alleged support of "terror" groups.
	Several European banks have received massive fines in the United States in the past after being found ...

Iran says European banks still wary of US sanctions threat

Communist guerrillas killed three Philippine soldiers in the first fatal clash since a newly-elected president offered to restart stalled peace talks, the military said today.
	The soldiers were on the central island of Negros yesterday investigating reports that New People's Army guerrillas were extorting money from villagers when they clashed with about ten rebels, leaving three soldiers dead and two wounded, a military report said.
	The violence comes just days after President-elect Rodrigo Duterte said he was open to resuming peace talks aimed at ending a decades-old insurgency that has claimed tens of thousands of lives.
	After his May 9 election victory, Duterte's spokesman said the firebrand politician may release jailed communist rebels in an effort to reopen peace talks.
	Incumbent leader Benigno Aquino ended talks with the Communist Party of the Philippines in 2013 over the rebels' demand for the unconditional release of their detained comrades, which his government was ...

Philippine communist rebels kill 3 soldiers: military

Ukrainian singer Jamala snatched victory from arch-rival Russia to win the Eurovision song contest, adding a touch of political drama to the annual kitsch extravaganza.
	After a tense vote count, during which it seemed Australia was going to run away with the crown until the audience votes came in, Jamala was declared the winner in Stockholm after a heart-felt performance of "1944", a song about the deportations of Crimean Tatars during World War II.
	Jamala's entry - which stirred controversy over perceived veiled criticism of Russia's recent annexation of Crimea - scored 534 points, closely followed by Australia's Dami Im with 511 points, the juries' favourite.
	The hotly tipped former Russian child star Sergey Lazarev came in third with 491 points.
	Germany was the worst performer of the evening, with Jamie-Lee Kriewitz's "Ghost" scoring just 11 points, followed by the Czech Republic with 41 points.
	In Moscow, public TV channel Rossiya 1's commentators congratulated Jamala on her .

Ukraine stuns Russia to win politically-charged Eurovision

Fatma Samoura, FIFA's first-ever female secretary general, may be an outsider in the football world but she is hoping her two decades of experience as a UN diplomat will help her restore the sport's "tarnished image".
     "My goal is to support the programme of president Gianni (Infantino) and to help football restore its tarnished image," the Senegalese UN diplomat, named Friday as the second-in-command of football's ruling body, told AFP.
     "And to those who speak of my lack of experience, I say give me the time to prove myself," she said in a telephone interview Saturday from Nigeria's Abuja, where she was representing the United Nations Development Programme at a summit to discuss efforts to defeat Boko Haram Islamists.
     FIFA's new second-in-command is no stranger to the kind of power struggles that brought FIFA to the brink, having served as the representative of the UN Development Programme in post-coup Madagascar from 2010 to 2015 before moving to Nigeria.
     "FIFA is 

FIFA's first woman secretary general is used to crises

In little under two years with Barcelona, Luis Suarez has won six trophies, silenced his critics with almost impeccable on-field behaviour and now, most remarkably of all, left Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in his shadow.
     Suarez fittingly scored a hat-trick as Barca retained their La Liga title on Saturday with a 3-0 win at Granada to take his tally for the season to a remarkable 59 allied to 26 assists.
     Of those 59, 40 came in La Liga, making him the first man to depose Messi and Ronaldo and win the Pichichi award for Spain's top scorer in seven years.
     Moreover, it is the most prolific season anyone other than Messi and Ronaldo has produced in the history of the Spanish top flight.
     The Pichichi and golden boot for Europe's top goalscorer are individual awards where all that matters are the numbers and Suarez can't be discredited.
     He was sidelined as Neymar joined Messi and Ronaldo in FIFA's top three at the Ballon d'Or to crown the world's best player ...

Suarez outguns Messi, Ronaldo to fire Barca to title

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri believes Chelsea will be a revitalised force under his fellow Italian boss Antonio Conte.
     Former Chelsea manager Ranieri takes his current side to Stamford Bridge on Sunday, with Leicester having dethroned the Stamford Bridge club as Premier League champions, having once been 5000/1 colossal outsiders for the title.
     Chelsea will kick-off against Leicester a huge 31 points behind the new champions.
     It has been a season of upheaval for the west London club, who sacked former manager Jose Mourinho in December and then brought in Guus Hiddink for the Dutchman's second spell in caretaker charge.
     Sunday's match will mark the end of Hiddink's current Chelsea stint, with Italy manager Conte arriving at Stamford Bridge once his country's Euro 2016 campaign in France is finished.
     Chelsea are an unusually low ninth in the table but Ranieri believes it won't be long before they are challenging for the title again, with Conte having ..

Ranieri reckons Conte will succeed at Chelsea

Pep Guardiola signed off his three years in the Bundesliga with a 'beer shower' on Saturday as Bayern Munich lifted a fourth straight German league title after Saturday's 3-1 win over bottom-side Hanover.
     Bayern's 28th win in 34 league games triggered party scenes at the Allianz Arena as the Bavarians celebrated their 26th German league title.
     This was Guardiola's 20th trophy as a coach after 14 in four years with Barcelona and now six in three years in Munich before leaving to coach Manchester City next season.
     It was only a matter of minutes after the final whistle before he was soaked in beer as his players emptied over-sized glasses over the Spaniard in the traditional title celebrations.
     "It's cold, it stinks, but it was nice," was Guardiola's verdict following his 'beer shower' after Manuel Neuer, David Alaba and Douglas Costa all emptied their 3-litre glasses of beer over their coach.
     "Of course, it's been a great day," added Guardiola.
     "Normally ..

Guardiola signs off at Bayern with German league title

Barcelona defender Gerard Pique hailed the winning mentality of what he described as a "unique generation" of players after the Catalans sealed a sixth La Liga title in eight years with a 3-0 win at Granada on Saturday.
     Fittingly, Luis Suarez was the Barca hero with a hat-trick to take his tally for the season to 59, including 14 in his last five games, as Luis Enrique's men recovered from an alarming April slump to win their last five matches by a combined score of 24-0.
     Barca lost three consecutive league games for the first time in 13 years last month and Pique said they had to win the title twice over after nearly blowing a 12-point lead over Real Madrid.
     "For the circumstances we have had to win it two times. When we were nine or 10 points ahead we had it won and then with the dip there was a moment when it seemed like we had lost it, despite the fact it was still in our own hands," Pique told Movistar+.
     "There is the sensation that 20 or 25 years ago this ...

Barca had to win La Liga twice over: Pique

Five young men face life behind bars after they were charged with counter-terrorism offences over a plan to sail to Indonesia to join jihadist groups in Syria, Australian police said.
	The men, aged in their twenties and early thirties and whose passports had been cancelled, included notorious Australian Islamic preacher Musa Cerantonio, who was detained in the Philippines in 2014 and deported for reportedly urging people to join jihad in Iraq and Syria, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
	The men, who were arrested on Tuesday, bought a seven-metre (23-foot) boat and drove it 2,840 kilometres (1,765 miles) from Melbourne north to Queensland state where they planned to set sail to Indonesia, the Australian Federal Police said yesterday.
	"The men... Were each charged with one count of making preparations for incursions into foreign countries for the purpose of engaging in hostile activities," the Australian Federal Police said in a statement.
	"The maximum penalty for ...

Five face terror charges over Australia-Syria boat plan

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has announced a sweeping crackdown under a new emergency decree, ordering authorities to seize factories "paralysed by the bourgeoisie," and to arrest their owners.
	He also ordered military exercises to "prepare for any scenario," a day after declaring a state of emergency to fight what he called "foreign aggression" that he blamed for an economic crisis that has pushed the country to the brink of collapse.
	The embattled South American president is struggling to contain a paralysing recession that has led to food shortages, soaring prices, riots, looting and vigilante justice.
	An elected socialist, Maduro accused the United States on Friday of destabilising the country at the behest of the "fascist Venezuelan right," prompting him to declare a state of emergency.
	Addressing his supporters in Caracas yesterday, Maduro detailed the extent of the new decree.
	"We must take all measures to recover productive capacity, which is being paralysed by the 

Maduro in crackdown under Venezuela emergency decree

Mexico convicted and sentenced 10 government officials to prison for up to 29 years over a 2009 day care fire that killed 49 children, court sources said.
	The convictions ranged from 20-29 years for negligent homicide and negligent personal harm against 38 of the 49 children plus five adults, a Sonora state court said.
	The fire spread to the ABC day care centre when 141 children were inside, with the only two emergency exit doors closed, killing 49 of them and injuring another 70. The preschool was under the authority of the Mexican Social Security Institute.
	Local authorities said it was a tragic accident.
	The official investigation concluded that the fire started when the air conditioning overheated in an adjacent paper-filled warehouse in Hermosillo, the capital of northwestern Sonora state.
	But after grieving parents discovered several new pieces of contradictory evidence, the families alleged that the blaze was intentional.
	They said the fire was set in the warehouse rented 

Mexico convicts 10 officials in deadly day care fire

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said that Greece will return to the bond markets in 2017, seven years after losing access to the markets due to its debt crisis.
	"We will return to the markets in 2017," Tsipras said in an interview with the Realnews weekly newspaper yesterday.
	While the eurozone country has continued to raise funds through short-term, low-risk, bonds, Greece has not had access to the medium- and long-term bond markets since 2010, when Athens sought the first of three multi-billion euro (dollar) bailouts from the EU and the International Monetary Fund.
	Since then Greece has made just two brief returns to the medium-term market, in 2014, during a period of slight growth.
	Last year Athens agreed on its third EU-IMF bailout loan and is awaiting the green light from a meeting of eurozone finance ministers, in May 24, for the latest tranche of this money to be handed over.
	The bailouts have required the Greek government to impose tough austerity measures that have ...

Greece will return to bond markets next year: PM

Three Mexican soldiers accused of taking part in a massacre of 22 gang suspects in 2014 have been freed by a judge for lack of evidence, officials said.
	The soldiers -- the last of seven initially charged -- were accused of killing eight of the suspected gang members in cold blood in a warehouse in the central municipality of Tlatlaya on June 30, 2014.
	The army initially said the 22 suspects were killed in a shootout.
	But a woman who survived said many of those killed, including her 15-year-old daughter, were executed by the soldiers after surrendering.
	Four of the arrested soldiers had already been released last October for lack of evidence.
	Ruling in the case against the remaining three soldiers, the judge found the state had again failed to prove its case, the prosecutor's office said on Friday in a statement.
	The seven soldiers, including a commanding officer, were also acquitted by a military court, though it sentenced the officer to a year in prison for disobeying orders ..

Mexico court clears 3 soldiers in 2014 gang suspect massacre

Campaigners for a minimum income in Switzerland set a Guinness Record for the world's largest poster today, as they sought support for the controversial proposal ahead of a referendum next month.
	The record-breaking 8,115 square-metre (87,350 square-feet) poster consisted of a series of massive black plastic sheets, with the words "What would you do if your income was taken care of" in gold lettering.
	It was set up in a large diamond-shaped open space in central Geneva called La Plaine de Plainpalais.
	The group behind the installation, Basic Income Switzerland, wants all adults in the wealthy alpine federation to receive an income of at least 2,500 Swiss francs (USD 2,500, 2,265 euros) per month.
	The minimum income proposal will be put to popular vote on June 5, one of a series of measures up for approval during the country's three-monthly referenda.
	In October, campaigners submitted more than the 100,000 signatures needed to call a referendum.
	A minimum income is different from 

Swiss min income campaigners set 'Guinness' record with poster

Brazil's new justice minister pledged his "full support" for an explosive corruption investigation that has a host of top politicians in its sights, including several of his colleagues.
	Opponents of the new government installed by acting president Michel Temer have accused it of seeking to smother the anti-graft probe known as "Operation Car Wash," which has uncovered a multi-billion-dollar embezzlement and bribery scheme centered on state oil company Petrobras.
	But Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes said he would protect the probe's independence and even increase its funding if necessary.
	"There isn't the slightest possibility of interference," said Moraes, who was previously security secretary for the state of Sao Paulo.
	"Fighting corruption is the most important thing in the country, now and always," he told TV network Globo in an interview broadcast on Friday.
	Temer, the former vice president, took power on Thursday from his suspended boss-turned-nemesis, Dilma Rousseff, ...

Brazil's new government vows support for graft probe

A fake terror attack panicked guests at the French Riviera hideaway of several Hollywood stars at the Cannes film festival, police said today.
	The publicity stunt, by a French internet company aimed at the super rich, saw a speedboat full of men in helmets and military style uniforms attempt to storm the dock of the five- star Hotel du Cap just around the bay from Cannes.
	Guests said the men were dressed as an "ISIS-like" militia group, referring to the Islamic State group which killed 130 people in a night of attacks on Paris six months ago.
	Their inflatable speedboat also flew a black flag similar to the one used by IS.
	Chillingly, the stunt happened on Friday, the first Friday the 13th since the bloodshed in Paris last November.
	American publicist J.R. Savet, who was dining on the terrace with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter when the boat approached, said guests were shocked.
	"Someone screamed and people jumped out of their chairs and started moving quickly to the swimming .

Fake Friday the 13th terror attack on Cannes film stars' hotel

Venezuela braced for protests today after President Nicolas Maduro declared a state of emergency to combat the "foreign aggression" he blamed for an economic crisis that has pushed the country to the brink of collapse.
	The opposition called on protesters to flood an avenue in western Caracas to pressure the authorities to allow a referendum to remove the Socialist leader from power, in line with the constitution.
	Maduro's camp called a rival demonstration in the center of the capital, where he was to announce new measures to address a crippling recession that has led to food shortages, soaring prices, riots, looting and vigilante justice.
	The economic crisis, together with an electricity shortage, has already forced the government to decree daily power cuts across most of the country, close schools on Fridays, and reduce the workweek to two days for government employees.
	The embattled president, who declared a state of "economic emergency" in January, expanded it today to a ...

Protests loom as Venezuela enters state of emergency

Lebanese Shiite militant group Hezbollah today blamed Sunni extremists for killing its top military commander in Syria and vowed to keep fighting to defend President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
	The Islamist State (IS) jihadist group, meanwhile, overran a government-controlled hospital in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, killing 20 members of pro-regime forces and taking medical staff hostage, a monitor said.
	Hezbollah has deployed thousands of fighters in Syria where Mustafa Badreddine had led its intervention in support of Assad's forces, which are also backed by Russia and Iran.
	Badreddine, who was on a US terror sanctions blacklist and wanted by Israel, was killed in a blast on Thursday night near Damascus international airport.
	Hezbollah announced his death yesterday but without immediately apportioning blame, breaking with its usual pattern of accusing arch-foe Israel of responsibility.
	Today, it said a probe had concluded that Sunni Islamist radicals known as "takfiris", who ..

AFP

AFP

Page 1705 - Afp