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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 on Friday about 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. The 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 U.N. refugee agency. According to the Thai Foreign Ministry, at least three of the countries central to the crisis will not be sending ministers: Myanmar, Indonesia and Malaysia.
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| FIFA arrests spur Brazil to probe soccer corruption | |  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian police began investigating allegations of corruption in its soccer industry on Thursday, prompted by the arrests of top officials at world soccer body FIFA in a U.S. bribery probe. Justice Minister José Eduardo Cardozo ordered federal police to investigate whether the alleged corruption at Zurich-based FIFA was practiced in Brazil, his office said in a statement.
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| Questions arise about banks' role in FIFA bribery case | | | 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. "It's too early to say if there is any problematic behavior, but it will be part of our investigation," he said. |
| Corrected: Questions arise about banks' role in FIFA bribery case | | | By 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. "It's too early to say if there is any problematic behavior, but it will be part of our investigation," he said. On Wednesday, seven of the officials were arrested in an expensive hotel in Zurich, and are facing extradition for their role in the alleged 24-year bribery scheme. |
| UK takes hard line on EU reform as Cameron starts European tour | |  By Andrew Osborn and Ingrid Melander LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said Britain's relationship with the European Union was "not good enough" after his foreign minister warned the bloc had to change its founding treaties and give London a meaty reform deal to keep it as a member. Speaking in Paris on the first day of a whirlwind European tour to try to drum up support for EU reform, Cameron said he was confident he could get a settlement, something he has promised to secure before giving Britons an EU membership in-out referendum by the end of 2017. "My priority is to reform the European Union to make it more competitive and address the concerns of the British people about our membership.
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| U.S. think tank urges continued human rights pressure on Sri Lanka | |  There is little hope of post-war reconciliation in Sri Lanka unless the new government acts to end the oppression of minority Tamils and ensure reconciliation, a U.S. think tank said on Thursday, urging continued pressure on the country. President Maithripala Sirisena's government was elected earlier this year with promises of reconciliation, and secured the delay of a United Nations report due in March after the U.N. human rights chief praised its willingness to open the country up to scrutiny.
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| Emotional Platini says Blatter must go for good of FIFA | |  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - UEFA president Michel Platini delivered one of his most emotional and animated performances since his playing days when he said it was time for Sepp Blatter to quit as president of FIFA with world soccer's body facing yet another corruption crisis. Platini suggested UEFA could withdraw from FIFA if huge changes are not brought in to world soccer's embattled governing body, but also admitted he faces something of a crisis of his own.
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| IOC president tells FIFA it's time to clean up its act | |  By Mike Collett ZURICH (Reuters) - FIFA needs to learn from the Olympic movement's experience and become more transparent if it is to regain its credibility, the president of the International Olympic Committee Thomas Bach told delegates at the opening of the FIFA Congress on Thursday. Bach spoke after FIFA president Sepp Blatter addressed delegates at a ceremony ahead of the main business on the agenda which begins on Friday morning. Blatter, himself a member of the IOC, introduced Bach as "The Boss" and admitted that FIFA was ashamed and humiliated following the arrest of several leading football officials on Wednesday, and Bach echoed the gravity of the situation in his speech.
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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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