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| Asia backs embattled Blatter and endorses FIFA election | | Thursday, May 28, 2015 1:27 AM | |
| | The Asian Football Confederation has re-affirmed its support for embattled FIFA boss Sepp Blatter and pushed for Friday's presidential election to go ahead despite the corruption scandal that has rocked soccer's global governing body. The AFC, which represents 47 member nations, has been a steadfast ally of the 79-year-old Swiss and the bloc's support will be vital for his hopes of clinging to the presidency for an fifth term. "The Asian Football Confederation expresses its disappointment and sadness at Wednesday's events in Zurich whilst opposing any delay in the FIFA Presidential elections to take place on Friday May 29 in Zurich," the AFC said in a statement posted on its website (the-afc.com) on Thursday. |
| Questions arise about banks' role in FIFA bribery case | | Thursday, May 28, 2015 1:26 AM | |
| | By Douwe Miedema and Karen Freifeld WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A raft of banks could face tough questions in the sweeping U.S. crackdown on alleged corruption in global soccer as prosecutors review how much they knew about millions of dollars in bribes flowing through the U.S. banking system to accounts around the world. More than a dozen banks are named in the U.S. Department of Justice's indictment of nine officials at FIFA, the game's powerful governing body, and five sports media and promotion executives, over charges involving more than $150 million in bribes. "Part of our investigation will look at the conduct of the financial institutions to see whether they were cognizant of the fact they were helping launder these bribe payments," Kelly T. Currie, acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said at a news conference. |
| Costa Rica opens probes into arrested FIFA official Eduardo Li | | Thursday, May 28, 2015 12:44 AM | |
|  By Enrique Pretel SAN JOSE (Reuters) - Costa Rica has opened investigations into the president of the country's soccer federation who was among seven FIFA executives arrested in Switzerland on Wednesday on corruption charges brought by prosecutors in the United States. The news caused concern in the Central American country, where federation chief Eduardo Li was named 2014 person of the year by newspaper La Nacion for his role in the national team's unexpected run to the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Brazil. Nine FIFA officials and five corporate executives were indicted on corruption, bribery and money laundering charges, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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| Rights groups say Gambia has detained relatives of coup plotters | | Thursday, May 28, 2015 12:29 AM | |
| | (Reuters) - Gambian authorities have detained, and in some cases have "disappeared," friends and relatives of alleged suspects of a failed coup, including elderly women and a child, two international rights organisations said on Wednesday. Most were arrested in the days following the attempted coup on Dec. 30. Some have not been heard from or seen since they were taken away in early January, Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International said in a statement. |
| U.N. council urges end to impunity for attacks on journalists | | | The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday condemned the frequent attacks against journalists worldwide and demanded an end to the impunity enjoyed by those guilty of violent crimes against members of the press. The appeal came in the form of a unanimously adopted resolution that also called for the release of all media professionals "who have been kidnapped or taken as hostages, in situations of armed conflict." The resolution was drafted by this month's Security Council president, Lithuania, whose Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius presided over the meeting. Mariane Pearl, a journalist and widow of Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was beheaded by Pakistani militants in 2002, told the 15-nation council that it was "a troubled time for our profession." "In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 percent and the remaining 4 percent obtained only partial justice," she said. |
| South Carolina policeman indicted in shooting death of unarmed black man | | | By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C (Reuters) - A grand jury in South Carolina indicted a white police officer on Wednesday on a felony charge of firing his weapon into a vehicle while it was occupied, killing an unarmed black man. Justin Gregory Craven, 24, an officer in North Augusta, South Carolina, chased the unarmed motorist for 13 miles (21 km) before stopping him on a dirt road behind his home in February 2014, according to a prosecutor. Craven then got out of his car and approached the motorist, Earnest Satterwhite, 68, and fired at him several times through his car window, killing him, authorities said. |
| Heightened Islamic State threat requires surveillance action - U.S. official | | | By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The threat of Islamic State to the national security of the United States has heightened in the last two weeks, making it critical for Congress to renew surveillance authority, a senior U.S. administration official said on Wednesday. The law authorizing the U.S. government to conduct domestic surveillance searches through a court approval process is due to expire if Congress does not pass an extension by Sunday. The Senate so far has been unable to pass legislation despite overwhelming support in the House of Representatives for a bill that amends the current programme with much more limited powers to collect information. |
| Britons to be asked in referendum to vote "Yes" to stay in EU | |  By Kylie MacLellan and William James LONDON (Reuters) - Britons will be asked to vote "yes" if they want to stay in the European Union when a referendum is held in the next two years, the government said on Thursday. The question they will be asked on the ballot paper will be: "Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union?" The wording is seen as significant because the "in" campaign will be able to brand itself as the "yes" campaign -- perhaps casting itself in a more positive light than its opponents. The government made the disclosure as it prepared to publish a law guaranteeing the referendum will be held before the end of 2017 and as Prime Minister David Cameron embarked on a two-day tour of European capitals to win support for his EU reform drive.
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| Protesters invade Liberia palm oil plantation, injure official | | | Armed protesters entered a palm oil plantation in southeastern Liberia, taking several people hostage and injuring a senior government official, police officials and the company that owns the project said on Wednesday. The violent demonstrations first broke out on Tuesday at a plantation in Sinoe County run by Golden Veroleum Liberia (GVL), whose lead investor is Singapore-listed Golden Agri-Resources . "The demonstrators, armed with cutlasses and other deadly instruments, attacked the GVL mess hall and looted several items causing other company workers to flee into nearby bushes for safety," Liberian police said in a statement. |
| Sirius XM to face class action in Turtles copyright suit | | | By Andrew Chung NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge in California allowed a class action lawsuit to proceed on Wednesday against satellite-radio company Sirius XM Holdings Inc over the payment of royalties for songs produced before 1972, in a case that is being closely watched for its implications for digital media. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez marks another win for members of the 1960s band the Turtles, known for the hit "Happy Together," and means the company could face claims from a broader group of artists. "Sirius XM treats every single owner of a pre-1972 song the same, namely it doesn't pay them, so it was appropriate for this court to grant class certification," said Henry Gradstein, attorney for Flo & Eddie Inc, a company controlled by founding Turtles members Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman. |
| U.S. judge puts GM ignition-switch suits on ice, for now | | | By Jessica Dye NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Wednesday put on hold dozens of lawsuits accusing General Motors Co of concealing an ignition-switch defect while the plaintiffs in those cases appeal an earlier ruling that found their cases were barred. GM had argued that claims for vehicles predating its 2009 exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy should be dismissed, following U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Gerber's April 15 ruling that the company was shielded from those claims by the terms of its bankruptcy. Plaintiffs said the cases should be stayed pending a resolution of their appeal. |
| Former FIFA VP Jack Warner surrenders - LA Times | |  (Reuters) - Former FIFA vice president Jack Warner surrendered after being accused on corruption charges, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing a spokeswoman for the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service. Warner, who is among the nine FIFA officials and five corporate executives who were accused in New York, said he has never been questioned by the FBI. "I reiterate that I am innocent of any charges. I have walked away from the politics of world football," the paper quoted Warner as saying. Seven leading soccer officials were arrested on corruption charges by U.S. ...
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| Islamic State sympathizers may have made airline threats - U.S. officials | | | Islamic State sympathizers may have been behind more than a dozen threats in the last two days to international flights using U.S. airports or flying over American airspace, U.S. law enforcement and security officials said on Wednesday. The officials said that after 11 threats were received by U.S. law enforcement officers on Monday, at least four more were phoned in late on Tuesday. |
| Soccer sponsors dismayed by corruption allegations at FIFA | | | By Anjali Athavaley NEW YORK (Reuters) - World Cup sponsor Nike Inc said on Wednesday it was cooperating with authorities after bribery and corruption charges against senior FIFA officials were announced by U.S. prosecutors and arrests were made in Switzerland. The indictment said the company had agreed to financial terms not in the initial contract, which included paying an additional $40 million to an affiliate of the team's marketing agent with a Swiss bank account and referring to the amount as "marketing fees." U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch was asked at a news conference if there was any liability for companies that had won marketing rights and if they were being investigated. Lynch said she could not comment on specifics of who else was a target or subject of the investigation "except to say that the investigation is continuing and covers all aspects." She declined to comment when asked if one of the companies was Nike. |
| Rap mogul 'Suge' Knight refuses to attend L.A. court hearing | |  Rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight refused to leave his jail cell to attend a court hearing on robbery charges on Wednesday, saying he was ill, and a judge vowed to have him forcibly extracted if he did so again, a court spokeswoman said. The Los Angeles Superior Court hearing for Knight, 50, was postponed until Friday because of his failure to appear in court, the spokeswoman said. Knight, the co-founder of influential hip hop label Death Row Records, is charged with robbery and making a terroristic threat in connection with the September theft of a camera in Beverly Hills.
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| World soccer rocked by U.S., Swiss arrests of officials for graft | |  By Mike Collett, Brian Homewood and Nate Raymond ZURICH/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's most popular sport was plunged into turmoil on Wednesday as seven senior soccer officials were arrested on U.S. corruption charges and faced extradition from Switzerland, whose authorities also announced a criminal investigation into the awarding of the next two World Cups. The arrests in a dawn raid at a five-star Zurich hotel mark an unprecedented blow against soccer's governing body FIFA, which for years has been dogged by allegations of corruption but always escaped major criminal cases. U.S. prosecutors said they aimed to make more arrests but would not be drawn on whether FIFA President Sepp Blatter, for long the most powerful man in the sport, was a target of the probe.
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| U.S. seeks seven years in prison for friend of Boston bomber | | | By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors asked a judge on Wednesday to sentence a friend of the convicted Boston Marathon bomber to seven years in prison for obstructing the investigation into the deadly 2013 attack. Kazakhstan national Dias Kadyrbayev is one of three friends of convicted bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev due to be sentenced next week for interfering with the investigation into the bombing that killed three people and injured 264. Kadyrbayev, who was in the United States as an exchange student, pleaded guilty in August to obstruction of justice after his roommate and fellow Kazakh exchange student Azamat Tazhayakov was found guilty by a jury of obstructing justice by removing a backpack containing empty fireworks shells from Tsarnaev's dorm room three days after the April 15, 2013, bombing. |
| D.C. subway system to decide on advocacy group's ad depicting Prophet Mohammad | | | By John Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's transit system is weighing whether to allow a subway ad featuring a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad that won first prize at an event in Texas this month that was attacked by two gunmen. The Washington Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a standard review of an ad submitted by the American Freedom Defense Initiative, Metro spokesman Mike Tolbert said on Wednesday. The advertisement calls for Americans to support free speech, and features a cartoon of a bearded, turban-wearing Mohammad waving a sword and shouting: "You can't draw me!" In reply, a cartoon bubble portrays the artist, his hand grasping a pencil, saying: "That's why I draw you." Depictions of the prophet of Islam are considered offensive by many Muslims. |
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