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| Smarting South Africa minister defends "Mandela's" World Cup | |  By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's sports minister jumped to defend the nation's reputation on Thursday following U.S. allegations that the government was involved in bribery to secure the 2010 World Cup, the crowning achievement of the post-apartheid state. The minister, Fikile Mbalula, was adamant the government had done no wrong in securing the event that South Africans associate with their first democratic president, Nelson Mandela, saying outside auditors had given a clean bill of health to all financial accounts relating to the soccer spectacular.
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| Blatter defies calls to quit as FIFA scandal widens | |  By Mike Collett and Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - The corruption charges engulfing soccer's governing body have heaped shame and humiliation on the game, FIFA President Sepp Blatter said on Thursday, although he flatly rejected calls to resign over the scandal. With FIFA facing the worst crisis in its 111-year history, Michel Platini, who heads Europe's soccer confederation UEFA, said he had told Blatter to go "with tears in my eyes", but the 79-year-old had refused. "I said, 'I'm asking you to leave, FIFA's image is terrible.' He said that he couldn't leave all of a sudden," Platini, a former French international, told reporters.
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| 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. (http://lat.ms/1HwP0wz) Seven leading soccer officials were arrested on corruption charges by U.S. ... |
| Swiss authorities say all seven in FIFA probe fighting U.S. extradition | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss authorities said that all seven individuals arrested on corruption charges in a probe linked to soccer's governing body, FIFA, will contest their extradition to the United States. On Wednesday, one individual had indicated he would not fight extradition, paving the way for Swiss officials to hand him over to U.S. authorities immediately. Ingrid Ryser, a spokeswoman for Switzerland's federal office of justice declined to name the person, or elaborate on the reason for reversing his view on extradition. (Reporting by Paul Arnold, Writing by Katharina Bart) |
| Goldman Sachs tried to lure Libor trader with $3 mln bonus, court hears | |  By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) - Tom Hayes, a former trader charged with conspiring to rig benchmark interest rates, had become such a powerful player in 2008 that Goldman Sachs tried to hire him with a $3 million signing-on bonus, a London court was told on Thursday. Hayes, who worked for Swiss-based bank UBS at the time, is the first person to face a jury trial over alleged manipulation of the London interbank offered rate (Libor) after a global investigation that led to banks and brokerages paying around $9 billion in fines. Mukul Chawla, prosecuting for Britain's Serious Fraud Office (SFO), alleged that Hayes, who joined UBS in Tokyo in 2006, was taking larger and larger trading positions and had become an "increasingly dominant force" in the market in 2008.
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| Hungary Cannes sensation may help country face dark past | |  By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The makers of the award-winning Hungarian film "Son of Saul" said on Thursday they want as many Hungarians as possible to see it in a country that has been plagued by anti-Semitism and xenophobia. The film -- the tale of a Jewish "Sonderkommando" death camp worker who finds a corpse he believes is his son's and sets his mind to burying him amid the horrors -- won the jury's Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival this month. Director and screenwriter Laszlo Nemes told reporters that his first feature film was partly a testament to hundreds of thousands of Hungarian Jews killed during World War Two after Hungarians cooperated with the Nazis in their deportation.
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| Actress Lindsay Lohan taken off probation in driving case, prosecutor says | |  Actress Lindsay Lohan has completed her community service in a 2012 reckless driving case, a judge found on Thursday, allowing her to leave probation for the first time since 2007, a prosecutor said. The 28-year-old "Mean Girls" star was required to finish more than 100 hours of community service in the case in addition to rehabilitation and therapy. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Young found Lohan had completed that obligation and ended her probation, Santa Monica chief deputy attorney Terry White said in an email.
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| African migrants risk all in Sahara to reach Europe | |  By Daniel Flynn AGADEZ, Niger (Reuters) - In a sandy compound in the Niger desert town of Agadez, a white-turbaned imam blesses a circle of African migrants, some of them little more than boys, to protect them on the journey across the Sahara toward Europe. A smuggler then gives a signal and the migrants scramble onto a white Toyota Hilux, jostling for a place on the 1,200-km journey to Sabha in southern Libya - a route plagued by bandits and the pitiless desert sun. Nineteen men pack into the truck for the three-day ride. Many will pass through smugglers compounds known as "ghettos". "It's a bit frightening but I have to deal with it because in life you have to be brave," said migrant Fousseni Ismael, 16, wearing a blue headscarf to protect him from the sun as he waits to board a truck. As night falls, the pickup rolls out of the metal gates of the compound and snakes through the sandy backstreets of Agadez, passing groups of Muslim men knelt in the evening prayer.
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| Boston bomber to face victims when death sentence handed down in June | |  Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev late next month will confront people who lost limbs and loved ones in the deadly 2013 attack when he is scheduled to be formally sentenced to death for his crimes, a judge said on Thursday. The same federal jury that found Tsarnaev, 21, guilty of killing three people and injuring 264 in one of the highest-profile attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, last month voted to sentence him to death. Tsarnaev's trial evoked memories of the darkest days in recent memory in Boston as victims testified of being hurled through the air by the twin pressure-cooker bombs, struggling to save the lives of those who had lost limbs amid screams of pain and fears that additional explosions would follow.
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| U.S. charges fifteen Chinese nationals in SAT fraud scheme | | | By Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fifteen Chinese nationals living in the United States have been charged with developing a fraud scheme in which imposters took college entrance exams including the SAT, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Conspirators used counterfeit Chinese passports to trick test administrators into thinking they were the person who would benefit from the test score, a federal grand jury charged. Between 2011 and 2015, mainly in western Pennsylvania, the test takers recorded scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), the Test of English as a Foreign (TOEFL) and the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), which were used to gain entrance to graduate school under false names, according to the Justice Department statement. |
| Fugitive ex-Chinese official, investigated for graft, detained in U.S. | |  A former senior Chinese official, who went into hiding after being sought by anti-corruption investigators in China, has been detained in the United States, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said on Thursday. Yang Xiuzhu, a senior official who oversaw construction projects in the booming eastern province of Zhejiang, is in U.S. custody pending her removal to China, Luis Martinez, a spokesman for the U.S. immigration agency, said in a statement. Chinese authorities could not be immediately reached for comment.
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| Sahara denies report of it bidding for Grosvenor House | |  Troubled conglomerate Sahara, the founder of which has been held in a jail for more than a year, has dismissed media reports saying it is participating in an auction of the Grosvenor House hotel in London as "incorrect and speculative". Sahara bought the Grosvenor in 2010 but the hotel was placed in administration and put up for sale in March after Bank of China's loan on the 494-room property, operated by Marriott International, was declared in default. The media this week cited unnamed sources as saying that Sahara, through one of its units, Aamby Valley City Mauritius, was bidding to buy back the hotel.
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| Angolan gets suspended sentence for "Blood Diamond" book | |  An Angolan journalist was given a six-month suspended sentence on Thursday after he was convicted of slander for accusing generals of human rights abuses at diamond mines, concluding a high-profile trial in one of Africa's most repressive states. Rafael Marques de Morais' 2012 book "Blood Diamonds: Corruption and Torture in Angola" detailed more than 100 alleged killings and torture of civilians and workers at diamond mines owned by senior army officers. The generals then turned to the courts in Angola, where rights groups say the ruling party, in power since independence in 1975, pays scant regard to freedom of expression.
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| One of longest shots, Republican Pataki announces White House bid | |  By Ted Siefer EXETER, N.H. (Reuters) - Former New York Governor George Pataki announced on Thursday he will run for the White House in 2016, becoming one of the longest shots in a crowded Republican presidential nomination contest. The three-term governor has not held office since 2006 and barely registers in opinion polls on more than a dozen Republican presidential hopefuls. Announcing his candidacy in the town of Exeter, New Hampshire, Pataki took a swipe at Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton for charging high speaking fees.
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| Blatter says scandal brought shame and humiliation to football | |  Embattled FIFA President Sepp Blatter said on Thursday the corruption scandal surrounding the world soccer body had brought shame and humiliation to football. In a defiant speech at the opening of a FIFA Congress in Zurich at which he expects to be re-elected president for a fifth term, Blatter said there could be no place for corruption of any kind in the game. Seeking to distance himself from the scandal in which seven senior FIFA figures have been arrested in Switzerland on U.S. corruption charges, he said: "I cannot monitor everyone all the time.
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| World's policeman wins rare applause for FIFA crackdown | |  By Noah Barkin BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States has infuriated some of its closest allies in recent years by fining their banks and spying on their citizens. Following news on Wednesday that the U.S. Justice Department, supported by FBI investigators, was charging nine current and former FIFA officials with illegal payments, kickbacks and bribes, the Twittersphere was flooded with rare cheers of approval for the "world's policeman". Fans of the "beautiful game" - the world's most popular sport but outside the sporting mainstream in the United States - also questioned why countries with a richer soccer tradition had turned a blind eye to suspicions of corruption for so long.
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| Dozens of cell phone towers in Kashmir shut down after attacks | | | By Fayaz Bukhari SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Dozens of communications towers have been shut down in an area of Jammu & Kashmir after a string of attacks and threats by militants, who say cell phone services are being used to target their members. Militants have also threatened local people, and in the past five days shot dead one man who was working at a mobile phone shop in the Sopore area and another man who had a cell phone tower installed on his property, police said. "The cellular services are down and we are trying to restore them in a couple of days," SJM Gillani, police chief for the Kashmir region, told Reuters. |
| UK PM Cameron says strong case to change FIFA leadership - spokesman | |  British Prime Minister David Cameron believes there is a strong case for a change of leadership at soccer's world governing body FIFA after the arrest of several senior officials on U.S. corruption charges, his spokesman said on Thursday. "He (Cameron) does think there's a very - in diplomatic speak - a very very strong case for a change of leadership," the spokesman told reporters. Pressure has risen on FIFA President Sepp Blatter as the corruption scandal engulfing the organisation drew warnings from major sponsors and criticism from senior Western politicians.
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| No foul play in death of Chilean poet Neruda, researchers say | |  By Erik Lopez SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Spanish researchers investigating the early '70s death of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda to determine if he was poisoned, have found no conclusive evidence of foul play, according to an initial report handed to the investigating judge. The Chilean government reopened the investigation into his death in January, with new tests designed to look for protein damage caused by chemical agents, suggesting poisoning. Forensic experts at the Universidad de Murcia found three types of protein in the remains of Neruda, a Nobel laureate, two of which could be explained by advanced prostrate cancer, said the report seen by Reuters on Thursday.
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| Tripura strips army of shoot-to-kill powers | |  By Biswajyoti Das GUWAHATI (Reuters) - Lawmakers in the northeastern state of Tripura on Thursday revoked a controversial law that had given the military shoot-to-kill powers and shielded soldiers from prosecution for 18 years. The withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) was hailed by human rights groups, who say it could pave the way for other states to roll back special powers used by the army to contain separatist, leftist and tribal rebels. "The council of ministers decided to withdraw the AFSPA from the state because of significant decrease of militancy," Manik Sarkar said in capital Agartala.
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| UEFA members to back Jordan's Prince Ali as FIFA president | |  A majority of UEFA's member associations will vote for Jordan's Prince Ali bin Al Hussein to succeed Sepp Blatter as the next FIFA president, UEFA President Michel Platini said on Thursday. "A large majority of the European associations will all vote for Prince Ali," Platini told a news conference in Zurich, a day after several senior FIFA officials were arrested on U.S. corruption charges.
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| Asia's migrant crisis meeting unlikely to yield solutions | |  By Amy Sawitta Lefevre and Simon Webb BANGKOK (Reuters) - A meeting in Bangkok aimed at addressing Southeast Asia's migrant crisis is unlikely to produce a binding agreement or plan of action to save thousands of people believed stranded on boats in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, participants said. Friday's meeting will bring together 17 countries from across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and elsewhere in Asia, along with the United States, Switzerland and international organisations like UNHCR, the UN refugee agency. According to the Thai ministry of foreign affairs, at least three of the countries central to the crisis will not be sending government ministers to the meeting: Myanmar, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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| IOC's own bitter lessons could prove useful for FIFA | |  By Karolos Grohmann BERLIN (Reuters) - FIFA could learn from the lessons of the International Olympic Committee's own bribery affair as it battles to survive the biggest corruption scandal world soccer has ever seen. U.S. prosecutors issued an indictment on Wednesday accusing nine FIFA officials, including two vice presidents, and five sports media and promotions executives of bribes involving more than $150 million over 24 years. The IOC had to tackle its own corruption scandal in 1998 when allegations of bribes in return for votes to get the 2002 winter Olympics to Salt Lake City triggered an avalanche of change for the Olympic movement.
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| Visa threatens to ditch FIFA as sponsor dismay mounts | |  By Anjali Athavaley and Emma Thomasson NEW YORK/BERLIN (Reuters) - Visa Inc has told FIFA it could end its sponsorship if soccer's governing body does not act fast to restore the reputation of the game after senior officials were arrested on corruption charges. The statement from Visa was the strongest so far as sponsors lined up to express concern about the scandal engulfing the world's most popular sport and their customers took to social media to threaten a boycott of brands associated with FIFA. "Our disappointment and concern with FIFA in light of today's developments is profound.
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