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| FBI probe includes 2018, 2022 World Cup host awards - U.S. official | |  (Reuters) - The FBI's investigation of soccer governing body FIFA includes scrutiny of how the organization awarded the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 competition to Qatar, a U.S. law enforcement official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters that the review of the awards to host the tournament would be part of a probe that is looking beyond the allegations in an indictment announced a week ago of officials of world soccer's governing body. Among issues the FBI is examining is the stewardship of FIFA by its longtime president Sepp Blatter, who on Tuesday unexpectedly announced his plan to resign.
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| "No way" Qatar will lose 2022 World Cup - foreign minister | |  Qatar's Foreign Minister Khaled al-Attiyah said on Wednesday that there was "no way" Qatar would be stripped of its right to host the 2022 World Cup because it deserved to win and had the best bid. "I believe it is because of prejudice and racism that we have this bashing campaign against Qatar," he added. When asked if they could lose the right to host the tournament, Al-Attiyah said: "No way Qatar can be stripped (of it).
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| Germans cheer Blatter exit, warn against wasting reform chances | |  By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel, who celebrated Germany's fourth World Cup win with the players in Brazil last year, welcomed the departure of FIFA President Sepp Blatter as an opportunity to boost standards within soccer's world governing body. Germany's Football Association (FA), with 6.8 million members the largest in the world, had campaigned against Blatter but its president Wolfgang Niersbach was opposed to more radical ideas, such as the England's FA, to boycott FIFA World Cups.
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| New Delhi rejects licence applications of taxi firms Uber, Ola | |  New Delhi's transport authority on Wednesday rejected the licence applications of U.S.-based taxi company Uber and its local rival Ola, citing violation of ban orders imposed by the government last year. India asked unregistered web-based taxi services to halt operations in December after a driver contracted with Uber was accused of rape. Both Uber and Ola applied for licences in New Delhi but kept operating while approvals were pending.
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| How to cancel a World Cup | |  By Tom Bergin and Mike Collett LONDON (Reuters) - It has never been done before and no defined procedure for doing it exists but, in theory, withdrawing the right to host a World Cup from a host nation should be an easy thing to do. Football has been in turmoil since a series of arrests last week of officials from the world governing body FIFA on U.S. Department of Justice allegations of bribery. Swiss prosecutors have also announced their own criminal investigation into the award of the 2018 World Cup to Russia and the 2022 tournament to Qatar.
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| Interpol puts two ex-FIFA officials on "red notice" wanted list | |  By Katharina Bart ZURICH (Reuters) - Interpol put two top former FIFA officials on its "red notice" wanted list at the request of U.S. authorities on Wednesday as their investigation into corruption at soccer's governing body gathered pace. South Africa confirmed it had given $10 million meant to help pay for the 2010 World Cup to a soccer official indicted last week in the United States, but said the payment was not a bribe as U.S. prosecutors allege. The latest developments in the scandal engulfing FIFA came a day after Sepp Blatter stunned international soccer by resigning as the world body's president shortly before it emerged that he too was under investigation by U.S. law enforcement.
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| EU ready to help after "complete loss of trust" in FIFA | |  The European Union said on Wednesday there was a "complete loss of trust" in world soccer's governing body and pledged to support "fundamental change" following FIFA chairman Sepp Blatter's resignation in the wake of a criminal probe. "We owe it to the millions of fans in Europe and beyond, who love sport and who deserve so much better," Tibor Navracsics, the European commissioner for sport, said in a statement. Navracsics, a Hungarian, said the EU executive respected the autonomy of sporting federations but that FIFA's failure to reform in the past meant the Commission was considering what role it could play in solving the problems in world soccer.
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| Man arrested in Boston terrorism probe due in court | | | A Massachusetts man arrested late Tuesday as part of a terrorism investigation will face charges in federal court on Wednesday, hours after another suspect in the probe was shot dead, according to prosecutors. The man, named as David Wright by a spokeswoman for U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Carmen Ortiz, was arrested by police in Everett, outside Boston. Officers working with the Joint Terrorism Task Force had earlier shot Usaamah Abdullah Rahim, who had been under 24-hour surveillance, after police contend he confronted them with a knife. |
| Jailed Myanmar writer is courageous, should be freed - U.N. | | | Myanmar should unconditionally release a writer jailed for insulting Buddhism or risk creating a new generation of political prisoners, the U.N. human rights office said in a statement on Wednesday. Htin Lin Oo, a former official with Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy party, was sentenced to two years of jail and hard labour on Tuesday for comments made in a speech he said was meant to discourage Buddhist extremism. The U.N. statement said Htin Lin Oo had courageously spoken out against the use of Buddhism as a tool for extremism, which it said was in stark contrast to the treatment of those inciting violence against Myanmar's minority Rohingya population. |
| Masked Serbian schoolchildren, armed with plastic knife, steal grade book | | | Police in Serbia have arrested two schoolboys they accuse of having stormed a Belgrade classroom masked and armed with a plastic pistol and making off with their teacher's grade book. School crime and violence have soared in Serbia since the war years of the 1990s when societies across old socialist Yugoslavia frayed under the pressure of gangsterism, corruption and nationalism. Authorities in Serbia have responded by installing video surveillance and deploying constables at some schools. |
| Myanmar lands 700 migrants, U.S. says Rohingya should be citizens | |  By Randy Fabi and Aubrey Belford JAKARTA/MAUNGDAW, Myanmar (Reuters) - Myanmar brought ashore more than 700 "boat people" it had kept at sea for days aboard a seized vessel, as the United States on Wednesday called on the country to help solve a migrant crisis by recognising the rights of its Muslim Rohingya minority. U.S. President Barack Obama has sought to make Myanmar's transition to democracy a legacy of his presidency, and Washington is stepping up pressure on the Southeast Asian nation to tackle what it sees as the root causes of an exodus of migrants across the Bay of Bengal that the region has struggled to cope with. Myanmar's navy brought the vessel to the coast of western Rakhine state, where they disembarked on Wednesday.
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| Kashmir battles to restore mobile services after militant attacks | |  By Fayaz Bukhari and Nivedita Bhattacharjee SRINAGAR, India/MUMBAI (Reuters) - Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir battled on Wednesday to restore mobile phone coverage paralysed after a series of attacks by a previously unknown militant outfit on people who cooperated with service providers. Networks have crashed across the region of seven million people, which has long suffered a separatist insurgency and been fought over repeatedly by India and Pakistan since independence and partition. "We expect the problem to be resolved in the next few days, and normalcy to return to telecom services in the area by the end of the week," said Rajan S. Mathews, head of the Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI).
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