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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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| U.S. attorney general declines to comment on FIFA probe, Blatter | |  U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch declined to comment at a press conference on Wednesday on whether FIFA President Sepp Blatter is under investigation as part of a probe by U.S. authorities into the soccer organisation. "With respect to the FIFA investigation as was announced last week we are not able to comment further on the nature of other individuals who may or may not be under investigation," she said in the capital of Latvia. "This is an ongoing matter, it is an open case, and so we will now be speaking through the courts." Blatter said on Tuesday he would step down as FIFA president in the wake of a corruption investigation.
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| Russia presses on with 2018 World Cup preparations | | | Russia is pressing ahead with preparations to host the 2018 World Cup finals following Sepp Blatter's resignation as FIFA president and does not expect any boycotts of the tournament, Russian officials said on Wednesday. The Kremlin said it was surprised by Blatter's decision, announced on Tuesday, but signalled it was business as usual between Moscow and soccer's world governing body. "We have no information on what the reason was for this resignation," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. |
| Bangladesh academics get death threats from extremist group | | | Death threats to academics in Bangladesh, including the junior home minister, are fuelling a climate of fear following the killings this year of three online critics of religious nationalism in the Muslim-majority nation. Militants have targeted secularist writers in Bangladesh in recent years, as the government has tried to crack down on hardline Islamist groups that seek to make the South Asian nation of 160 million a sharia-based state. Police are investigating threats received by more than a dozen academics, ranging from the vice-chancellor of the capital's Dhaka University to a former chief of the university grants commission, the minister, Asaduzzman Khan, told Reuters. |
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