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| 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. |
| UK says change in FIFA leadership "very badly needed" after arrests | | | World soccer's governing body FIFA badly 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, speaking a day after the game was plunged into turmoil following the arrest of senior officials on U.S. corruption charges, also called on sponsors to reconsider their links to the body. |
| 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 London needed a meaty deal if it was 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 referendum by the end of 2017. "The advice we're getting is that we will need Treaty change," said Hammond, saying it was necessary to render any changes that Cameron wins irreversible and safe from legal challenge.
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| Blatter out of sight as FIFA corruption scandal deepens | |  By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA President Sepp Blatter kept out of sight for the second successive day on Thursday when he failed to show up at a medical conference the day after world soccer's governing body was plunged into another corruption scandal. FIFA's chief medical officer, Michel D'Hooghe of Belgium, told the medical officers: "President Blatter apologises for not being able to come today because of the turbulences you have heard about." Those turbulences involved a dawn raid by plainclothes police officers at one of Zurich's most luxurious hotels on Wednesday leaving seven of the most powerful figures in global football in custody overnight and facing extradition to the United States on corruption charges after their arrest.
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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 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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| Malaysia says only one body per grave found at trafficking camps | |  By Andrew R.C. Marshall WANG KELIAN, Malaysia (Reuters) - The 139 graves uncovered near people-smuggling camps in northern Malaysia appear to hold only one body each, Malaysia's deputy home minister said on Thursday, after earlier suspicions that they could contain multiple corpses of trafficked migrants. This is one person, one grave," Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar told reporters at a news conference near the sites, adding that the bodies had been buried with "proper white wrapping" and ceremonial camphor had been used. "The reason for the exhumation is to see whether a crime has been committed, violence was made against those people." Four bodies have so far been recovered since Malaysian police forensic teams began digging this week at abandoned jungle camps along the Malaysia-Thailand border.
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| Britain says "something deeply wrong" at FIFA | |  British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said on Thursday there was something deeply wrong at the heart of world soccer's governing body FIFA and that it needed to be reformed. Speaking a day after the game was plunged into turmoil following the arrest of senior FIFA officials on U.S. corruption charges, Hammond said football fans around the world were being let down and the game was being brought into disrepute "There is something deeply wrong at the heart of FIFA and international football needs to reform, needs to get its act together," Hammond told BBC TV. Britain has long been a critic of FIFA and unsuccessfully bid for the 2018 World Cup which was instead awarded to Russia.
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| New laws mean Latin America's domestic workers fare better than most | | | By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A young, pretty girl from the countryside seeks a better life in the big city as a domestic worker. She falls in love with her boss, or his son, and triumphs against the odds to overcome the class divide and lift herself out of poverty. It's a recurring plot line in Latin American soap operas or telenovelas from Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, watched by tens of millions every day across the region. ... |
| Britain's tied visa rules fuel abuse of live-in maids, nannies | | | By Katie Nguyen LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Susi, a single mother from the Philippines, left for a job in Qatar, she convinced herself it was a sacrifice worth making for her children at home. For more than a year, Susi's sacrifice involved waking before dawn and working past midnight, cooking, cleaning and looking after a Qatari family. Conditions deteriorated when Susi was brought to Britain by her boss. |
| Time for Blatter to go, says Australian former FIFA official | |  Australian Les Murray, a former member of FIFA's Ethics Committee, says it is time for Sepp Blatter's long reign as president of soccer's governing body to come to an end, even if there is no evidence the Swiss is personally corrupt. FIFA was plunged into crisis on Wednesday, two days before Blatter stands for re-election for a fifth term, when Swiss police arrested seven officials in Zurich at the request of United States authorities for alleged corruption. Australia has a particular grievance surrounding the controversial awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar, which is now the subject of a Swiss Attorney General probe into corruption, after its government-funded bid won only one vote.
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| Linchpin of Brazil soccer business central to FIFA corruption sweep | |  By Brad Haynes SAO PAULO (Reuters) - To help bring corruption charges against some of the most powerful men in world soccer, prosecutors in the United States convinced a Brazilian sports mogul to confess to a life at the nexus of money, soccer and graft. José Hawilla, 71, the founder of sports marketing company Traffic, has spent decades connecting soccer officials with surging revenues from broadcast and advertising rights, while dodging investigations from Brazilian lawmakers and prosecutors. Through connections at the top of the Brazilian game, Hawilla has negotiated TV deals for South America's biggest tournaments since 1991, along with nearly half a billion dollars of sponsorships including Nike Inc and the Coca-Cola Co. His hefty commissions were divvied up as kickbacks for soccer officials in Brazil and throughout the Americas, Hawilla told U.S. investigators as part of plea deal in which he also agreed to forfeit over $151 million.
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