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| Six bodies found in Jharkhand | | | Ranchi, March 18 (IANS) Six bodies were recovered from two places in Jharkhand Tuesday, police said. According to police, three beheaded bodies were found near Jambera jungle in the Seraikela-Kharsawan district, about 110 km from state capital Ranchi. In another incident, three bodies including those of a woman and a child were found near Babuni jungle in Giridih district, about 160 km from Ranchi. |
| Qatar 2022 World Cup committee denies wrongdoing | |  By Matt Smith DUBAI (Reuters) - Qatar's 2022 World Cup organising committee has denied being aware of any alleged payments by the disgraced former head of the country's soccer association to an ex-vice president of FIFA. Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported on Tuesday that a company under the control of Mohamed Bin Hammam paid $1.2 million to Jack Warner, the former president of North American soccer's governing body CONCACAF and a member of the FIFA committee which chose the 2022 World Cup hosts. One of Warner's companies requested that payment in December 2010, the Telegraph said, two weeks after a FIFA vote selected Qatar to stage the 2022 tournament ahead of rival bidders the United States, Australia, Japan and South Korea.
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| Egyptian court jails policeman linked to Islamist deaths | | | By Michael Georgy CAIRO (Reuters) - A Cairo court sentenced a police officer to 10 years in prison with labour on Tuesday in connection with the deaths of 37 Islamists last year, judicial sources said, one of the most controversial incidents since an army takeover last July. The Interior Ministry said at the time that the Islamists, Muslim Brotherhood members and their supporters, had died during an attempted prison break after being suffocated by tear gas in the incident last August. The government has launched a widespread crackdown on the Brotherhood since the army toppled Islamist president Mohamed Mursi last July after mass protests against his rule. The government has denied the allegations and declared the Brotherhood a terrorist group which poses a grave security threat to the most populous Arab nation. |
| Notorious wildlife poacher Sansar Chand dead | | | Jaipur, March 18 (IANS) Notorious wildlife poacher Sansar Chand died of cancer at a hospital here Tuesday, a doctor said. Sansar Chand, who was undergoing trial on charges of killing several tigers in Rajasthan's Sariska Tiger Reserve, was admitted to the Sawai Man Singh Hospital here few days ago, a doctor told IANS. Sansar Chand was undergoing trial in connection with poaching of tigers at Sariska in Alwar district, some 150 km from Jaipur. |
| Fear rules in Damascus as Syria's revolt enters fourth year | |  During a recent meeting of Damascene merchants, talk turned to the case of a colleague detained by Syria's powerful and dreaded state security apparatus. The man in question, it seemed, had overheard someone cursing President Bashar al-Assad, but failed to turn them in. For some time after the uprising erupted in the southern city of Deraa on March 18, 2011, it looked like the revolt would shatter the barriers of fear that long defined the relationship between Syria's police state and its citizens.
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| China's Xi urges officials to "sweat" corruption out of system | |  Chinese President Xi Jinping urged rural officials on Tuesday to make "spicy" efforts to "sweat" corruption out of their systems, state news agency Xinhua reported, as he pressed on with his campaign to crack down on deep-rooted graft. "The weapons of criticism and self-criticism should be well-wielded, with some spice to make every party official blush and sweat a little," Xi said during a visit to a rural area in central China's Henan province called Lankao, Xinhua said. Each member of the ruling Communist Party's elite inner core, the Politburo Standing Committee, has been allocated a county where they oversee anti-graft efforts, and Xi has been given Lankao, Xinhua said. "Party officials are required to check and report their own problems and mistakes while summarizing the flaws of their colleagues to disciplinary supervisors," Xinhua said.
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| Goa Police hunting for conman in Uttar Pradesh | | | Panaji, March 18 (IANS) Police are on the lookout for a conman in Uttar Pradesh who is believed to have lured four women from Goa promising them jobs in Germany and then robbing them of Rs.5 lakh. William Mathew allegedly called the victims to Shahajanpur in Uttar Pradesh, checked them into a hotel, drugged their refreshments and later tortured them into revealing their ATM password before withdrawing the money and fleeing for good, police said. "We were promised jobs as house-keepers and maids in Germany by Mathew who had published an ad in a local English newspaper," said one of the victims. |
| Australian sports need access to police intelligence - Speed | |  By Ian Ransom MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Australia is closing legislative loopholes to fight sports-related corruption but needs to allow police to share more information with sports administrators, former International Cricket Council boss Malcolm Speed has said. Speed, ICC chief executive from 2001-08, now heads the Coalition of Major Professional and Participation Sports (COMPPS), an advocacy group representing the governing bodies of top Australian sports including cricket, rugby and soccer. Australia has been on the front foot drafting legislation to fight betting-related corruption, and convicted two British footballers in Victoria state in December using new legislative powers. World soccer's governing body FIFA extended a lifetime ban globally on the players on Monday after they were banned in Australia for seeking to corrupt outcomes in Victoria's state-level competition.
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