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| Carrard appointment shows FIFA serious about reform - IOC | |  Swiss Francois Carrard is the right man to head scandal-plagued FIFA's reform task force and his appointment shows football's ruling body is serious about changing, the International Olympic Committee said on Wednesday. The 77-year-old, who was the IOC's director general for 14 years until 2003 and led the organisation through its own crisis following the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics vote scandal, was named head of FIFA's reform committee on Tuesday. "The appointment ... is a strong signal that FIFA is serious about adopting far-reaching reforms," IOC director general Christophe De Kepper told Reuters in an e-mail.
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| Former Trinidad & Tobago player Nakhid to stand for FIFA presidency | | | ZURICH (Reuters) - Former Trinidad and Tobago international midfielder David Nakhid is the latest to say he will stand in February's election to replace the outgoing Sepp Blatter as president of FIFA. Nakhid, who is based in Lebanon where he runs a football academy, has returned to the Caribbean seeking support from local officials. "I have put my hat in the ring and we are looking forward to the challenge," he said on Wednesday by telephone from Grenada, adding that he was "optimistic" of getting the five nominations he needs to press ahead. (Editing by Martyn Herman) |
| Riot-torn Ferguson, Missouri to remain in state of emergency - officials | |  By Scott Malone FERGUSON, Mo. (Reuters) - The St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, Missouri, the site of a year of occasionally violent protests over the police killing of an unarmed black teen, will remain under a state of emergency for at least another night, county officials said on Wednesday. The state of emergency, which gives county police oversight of security in the city of 21,000 people, was declared following a shooting incident at a protest Sunday night to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown on Aug. 9, 2014. The decision came after two nights of relatively peaceful protests, with the St. Louis Country police reporting no arrests or reports of injuries during a small demonstration by several dozen people Tuesday night into Wednesday morning.
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| Islamic State's Egyptian ally says it beheads Croat - SITE | | | By Omar Fahmy and Igor Ilic CAIRO/ZAGREB (Reuters) - An Egyptian group allied to Islamic State has published a photograph it says showed the beheaded body of a Croatian hostage it threatened to kill last week, the SITE monitoring service said on Wednesday. Reuters could not independently verify the authenticity of the picture, which carried a caption that said: "killing of the Croatian hostage, due to his country's participation in the war against Islamic State, after the deadline expired." Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said authorities were examining the image. "I don't know if we will be able to do it in the coming days, but what we see does not look good ... I'm afraid that for the first time, what has happened to the citizens of other countries has happened to a Croatian citizen." The photograph, circulating on Twitter accounts of Sinai Province supporters, shows a man's severed head placed on his body, with a knife driven into sand next to it and the black Islamic State flag in the background. |
| Sweden, Ecuador aim to break deadlock in Assange case | |  Sweden and Ecuador have agreed to hold talks to break a deadlock over questioning Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, but investigations into three of four cases against him are likely to be dropped in the coming days due to statutes of limitation. Assange, 44, has been holed up inside Ecuador's London embassy since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden to answer allegations of sexual assault and rape. The Australian, who denies any wrongdoing, fears Sweden may extradite him to the United States, where he could face trial over Wikileaks' publication of huge amounts of leaked government documents including classified U.S. military and diplomatic documents in one of the largest leaks in the country's history.
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| India hits Nestle with $99 million lawsuit after Maggi scare | |  Nestle, the first foreign firm in India to face such a damages claim, is suffering its worst public relations crisis in the country to date, after a regulator in Uttar Pradesh found monosodium glutamate (MSG) and excess lead in a sample of its hugely popular noodles. The government's lawsuit, citing unfair trade practices, the sale of defective goods and the sale of a product without approval, has been filed in the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, a quasi-judicial body whose rulings are legally binding. "The department took exception (given) that Maggi was largely consumed by children and Nestle's advertisements aimed at popularising Maggi among children," said a government official at the food ministry.
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