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| CAF opposes postponement of FIFA Congress and election | | | By Mark Gleeson JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The Confederation of African Football is opposed to any postponement of Friday's FIFA Congress and presidential election in Zurich and reiterated its support for Sepp Blatter's candidacy, a statement said on Thursday. CAF said a meeting of its members, held in the Swiss city on Wednesday, continued to back the under fire FIFA president, who is seeking re-election in a two-man race against Jordan's Prince Ali bin Al Hussein on Friday. "CAF is following with particular attention the events that are occurring at this time in the football family," the statement said in a reference to the dramatic arrest in Switzerland on Wednesday of seven FIFA officials on U.S. corruption charges. |
| Blatter chairs emergency FIFA meeting as scandal grows | |  FIFA President Sepp Blatter chaired an emergency meeting with representatives from FIFA's six confederations on Thursday following the wave of arrests of football officials including two FIFA vice-presidents in Zurich on Wednesday. The FIFA emergency committee rarely meets and two of its nominated members Jeffrey Webb, the president of CONCACAF and Eugenio Figueredo of Uruguay, the South American confederation president, were not present as they were among those detained on Wednesday. A FIFA representative said: "There was a meeting today with the president and the representatives from the confederations to discuss the current situation." The rare meeting of the emergency committee comes one day before FIFA's Congress is due to elect a new president and Blatter, seeking a fifth term of office is resisting calls from European soccer governing body UEFA to postpone the election for six months.
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| Western women who join Islamic State defy "jihadi bride" stereotype - report | | | By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) - Western women joining Islamic State are increasingly from comfortable backgrounds and often well educated with romantic notions of adventure often quickly dispelled by the harshness of life as a "Jihadi bride", according to a British research report. Some 550 women from Western countries have left their homelands to join Islamic State, which has captured swathes of Syria and Iraq, said the report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue and the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation at King's College, London. |
| Pressure mounts on Blatter as FIFA scandal widens | |  By Mike Collett and Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Pressure mounted on FIFA President Sepp Blatter on Thursday as the corruption scandal engulfing world soccer's governing body deepened, with warnings from big sponsors and growing criticism from senior Western politicians. Despite FIFA statements that it was business as usual following the arrest of seven senior figures on U.S. corruption charges, Blatter kept out of sight on Thursday when he failed to show up at a medical conference. The embattled 79-year-old Swiss national, who rarely misses a FIFA-related event and usually stops to speak to the media, was also conspicuous by his absence on Wednesday when he failed to attend a meeting of African soccer delegates, assembled in Zurich ahead of Friday's FIFA Congress.
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| One of worst days in FIFA history, says Figo | |  By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - The date of May 27 will go down as one of the worst days in the history of world soccer's governing body FIFA, former presidential candidate Luis Figo said on Thursday. The 42-year-old former World Footballer of the Year withdrew his presidential candidacy last week and threw his support behind Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, who is challenging embattled president Sepp Blatter for soccer's top job in Friday's election at the FIFA Congress. The Congress and the election are both expected to go ahead as scheduled despite Wednesday's dramatic twin-pronged assault by the United States Department of Justice and the Swiss Attorney general's office which saw the arrest and detention of senior FIFA officials on a multitude of corruption charges.
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| UK takes hard line on EU reform as Cameron starts European tour | |  By Andrew Osborn LONDON (Reuters) - The European Union must amend its founding treaties to accommodate Britain's renegotiation drive, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Thursday, warning that London needed a meaty deal to persuade voters to stay in the bloc. Hammond spoke as Prime Minister David Cameron started a two-day European tour to try to charm other EU leaders into backing his reform drive, something he has promised to complete before giving Britons an EU membership in-out referendum by the end of 2017. "The advice we're getting is that we will need treaty change," said Hammond, explaining it was necessary to render changes that Cameron wants irreversible and safe from legal challenge.
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| S.Africa denies paying bribes to secure 2010 FIFA World Cup | | | All 2010 Soccer World Cup funds were accounted for and audited, South Africa's sports minister said on Thursday, and the government was yet to receive an indictment from U.S. prosecutors involving South Africans. "Our financial records and books for the 2010/2011 financial year and those before and after the World Cup have been audited by the Auditor General of South Africa and no such amount has been found," Minister of Sport Fikile Mbalula told journalists. |
| UK says change in FIFA leadership "very badly needed" after arrests | | | World soccer's governing body FIFA urgently needs a change of leadership, Britain's Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport said on Thursday, speaking after the arrest of several senior FIFA officials. "A change in leadership of FIFA is very badly needed," John Whittingdale told parliament in response to an urgent question on the issue. "Anyone who has spent any time looking at FIFA ... will know that this is merely the latest sorry episode which suggests that FIFA is a deeply flawed and corrupt organisation." Whittingdale was speaking a day after the game was plunged into turmoil following the arrest of senior officials - although not FIFA President Sepp Blatter - on U.S. corruption charges. |
| Germany drops war crimes case against former SS soldier due to dementia | | | Germany will not prosecute a former Nazi SS soldier who allegedly helped kill more than 300 people in Italy during World War Two because he has dementia and is unfit to stand trial, prosecutors said on Thursday. Hamburg state prosecutors have ended their investigation into the unnamed 93-year-old former company commander in the 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division, their office said in a statement. The man is alleged to have been involved in a massacre in northern Italy on Aug. 12, 1944. |
| 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 of soccer's world governing body if it does not act fast to restore the reputation of the game after senior officials were arrested on bribery and corruption charges. The statement from Visa, which became a FIFA partner in 2007 and recently extended the relationship until 2022, was the strongest so far as sponsors lined up to express concern about the scandal engulfing the world's most popular sport. "Our disappointment and concern with FIFA in light of today's developments is profound.
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