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A day after FIFA tried to signal a new era with the naming of its first female Secretary General, the world football body was rocked by the resignation of the man tasked with spearheading many of its reform efforts.  It's the last thing FIFA needed.  Domenico Scala, the embattled organization's auditing and compliance chief, quit over new rules allowing he FIFA council to hire and fire people on its committees, including those in charge of ethics and finance.  Mr. Scala has played a key role in pushing through reforms after the scandals that prompted the departures of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Uefa counterpart Michel Platini - and he says the loss of that independence will endanger the reforms.

Five Melbourne men will be in court on Monday after being arrested for allegedly plotting to travel to Syria and join the fighting.  Islamic preacher Robert "Musa" Cerantonio, Shayden Thorne, Kadir Kaya and two others were arrested as they towed a boat from Melbourne all the way north to Cape York, where they planned to set sail for Indonesia.  Readers may recall Mr. Cerantonio was kicked out of the Philippines two years ago, where he urged his social media followers to go fight in the Middle East (while he sat it out in a flat in Cebu).  This time, Cerantonio and his pals face life in prison if convicted.

Multinational troops arrested five Boko Haram leaders and freed dozens of women and children being held captive by the terrorist army.  The raid took place earlier this month in the northern Madawaya forest of Cameroon, which is adjacent to Boko Haram's stronghold in northeastern Nigeria.  Officials say Boko Haram had been training captive young girls and women as suicide bombers.  This comes as French President Francoise Hollande attended a West African regional security summit in Abuja, Nigeria, where leaders discussed the fight and how to deal with the two million refugees who've fled Boko Haram.

The latest victim of a suspect Islamist extremist hacking murder in Bangladesh is a 75-year old Buddhist monk.  Police said Maung Shue U Chak appeared to have been attacked by at least four people at the temple in Baishari.  More than 20 people - including secular bloggers and academics, gay activists, and a Hindu priest - have been murdered in this way in the past three years.

UNICEF says Israeli forces killed 25 Palestinian children during just three months at the end of 2015.  1,300 Palestinian children were also wounded during October through December of last year.  This happened against the static of paranoia caused by a series of random stabbing attacks carried out by Palestinians against Israelis.  One particularly troubling case involves Israeli Defense Force (IDF) troops who detained a 17-year old girl for a search, and killed her with five shots - the IDF says she tried to stab a cop, an eyewitness said she had no weapon and repeatedly tried to tell them so.

Rival groups brawled in the sprawling Khovanskoye cemetery on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, killing at least three people and injuring two dozen more.  Local media describe a free for all with guns, shovels, axe handles, and baseball bats used as weapons.  The three were killed when some of the brawlers tried to flee in a car and ran over them.  The combatants all come from former SSRs in Central Asia and the Caucuses.

A Swiss town where things like this don't happen is in shock after a youth football coach was arrested for and reportedly confessed to murdering four people last December.  Prosecutors say the suspect - identified as 33-year old "Thomas N." because of confidentiality laws - tricked his way into a home, forced a 48-year old woman to bind and gag her two sons and one of the sons' girlfriend, and then forced the woman to withdraw US$11,000 from her bank account.  They returned to the house where the suspect molested the youngest son, murdered all four by slitting their throats, and set fire to the home.  The suspect and the victims had no prior contact before the crime.

A fugitive former Roman Catholic priest wanted for sexually assaulting children in London, UK during the 1990s has been found in Kosovo.  Police say Lawrence Soper went by the pseudonym "Andrew" in the town of Kec in Kosovo's west.  Extradition proceedings are underway.

IDAHO, the International Day Against Homophobia is this week on 17 May.  Cuba got things going early with a giant rally in Havana, led by Mariela Castro, daughter of President Raul Castro.  (Wait, you ask, didn't Cuba used to be known for repressing LGBT people?  Yes, in the 1960s.  And Fidel Castro has said that the anti-Gay purges is the greatest regret of his life, and renounces homophobia.)